|
Radio-Activity | 
| Artist: Kraftwerk
Label: Emd Int'l
Category: Music
Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 6485
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766485001771
EAN: 0077774647427
ASIN: B00000DQT0
Release Date: September 26, 1995
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Geiger Counter - Kraftwerk, Hutter, R | | • | Radioactivity - Kraftwerk, Hutter, Ralf | | • | Radioland | | • | Airwaves | | • | Intermission | | • | News | | • | The Voice of Energy | | • | Antenna - Kraftwerk, Hutter, Ralf | | • | Radio Stars | | • | Uranium | | • | Transistor | | • | Ohm Sweet Ohm |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Kraftwerk built upon the international success of Autobahn by expanding their conceptual conceits to an album-length exploration of radio waves (and the band's other favorite wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum). Musically, the album represents a quantum leap of pop sensibility; though still distinctly a "prog" soundscape, its brilliant melodic hooks (best represented by the title track and "Airwaves") are organized in more traditional--read shorter--form. In tracks such as the minimalist audio-verite "News," Kraftwerk pay homage to another of their musical influences, the great modern composer/theorist Karlheinz Stockhausen. "Antenna" foreshadows the techno-gods they became, with its electronic washes and clever less-is-too-much lyrics, which read, in total: "I'm the antenna catching vibrations; you're the transmitter, give information!" Radio-Activity is an underrated masterpiece waiting to be rediscovered. --Jerry McCulley
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn December 17, 2008
Jo day
This is a appreciation of Pink Floyds Piper, and therefore Syd Barrett as the pioneer of Electronica. I mean it serious. Listen to the synth-riff of Radio-Activity. I'm sure.
Fascinating !!! December 1, 2008
David Black (Texas)
Hi, I am an amateur "ham" radio enthusiast, station callsign KD5EKU. I love this CD. I can't speak for anyone else but the music and electronic sounds take my mind to a place of radios, antennas, protons and electrons, perhaps "talking" uranium, and, probably just for me, mental images of the VLA! It is perhaps one of the most imaginative concept albums I have run across in a very long time, facinating to listen to all the way through from start to finish. Highly recomended!
Great service from Amazon, here's review: April 6, 2008
F. Woods
I ordered a CD update of old LP music from the 70's by the German guys, "Kraftwerk", (Radio Activity), Amazon got me my copy and the ones I had sent to my brothers in Michigan quick and in good condition!
It is a pleasant wavelength December 15, 2007
Stalwart Kreinblaster (Xanadu)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kraftwerk's radio-activity, my first Kraftwerk album, is I guess one of their more underappreciated works.. Yet after hearing about the band and how great they were from friends for years it wasn't until I heard the song radio-activity in a couple of films by Fassbinder that I realized I should give their music a listen...
Radio-Activity is a great experiment in pop music and I find it to be among the most pleasant and thouroughly enjoyable experiences in 'electronic' music.. Clearly ahead of their time Kraftwerk seemed nevertheless to have a very classic understanding of how to contsruct a piece of music.. By the end of the electronic radio excursion we feel we have been to an interesting place that we would like to return to in the future...
|
|
|
 
| |
