Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity

Kraftwerk — Radio-Activity (50th Anniversary Edition)

Blu-ray Audio Disc includes the entire original album presented in three formats:

• Dolby Atmos Mix

• 5.1 Mix (48/24 — Re-rendered from the Atmos)

• Stereo Mix (48/24) (2009 Remastered Audio)

The 50th anniversary re-release of Radio-Activity (and yes, it's about half a year late-the album was originally released in late 1975) reminds us that it's the first of Kraftwerk's many front-to-back stellar albums built around a thematic, pop-based experience for the listener (this could not be said of 1974's Autobahn, nor the three fascinating albums the band released between 1970 and '73; although the song "Autobahn" certainly told a story, the full LP did not).

"Radio-Activity is an astonishing, weirdly poppy picture of the Cold War-fogged world at the two-thirds point of the 20th century. Sugar-plum pop created under the hovering clouds of annihilation, it's built out of the sounds of number stations, the dot-dash culture of Iron Curtain-coded communication, and the languages of divided Europe." — Flood Magazine

Melodically, the album moves from strength to strength: "Radioland," "Airwaves," and "Ohm Sweet Ohm" are drop-dead irresistible, and the latter is Kraftwerk at their most elegiac. Considering this is Kraftwerk's first album to feature multiple vocal pieces, it's amazing how fully the band absorbed ultra-melodic storytelling into their schemata, and how they effortlessly integrated this into the seamless flow of the album.

Blu-ray Audio Disc Includes the Entire Original Album Presented in 3 Formats:

~Dolby Atmos Mix

~5.1 Mix (48/24 – Re-rendered from the Atmos)

~Stereo Mix (48/24) [2009 Remastered Audio]

1. Geiger Counter

2. Radioactivity

3. Radioland

4. Airwaves

5. Intermission

6. News

7. The Voice of Energy

8. Antenna

9. Radio Stars

10. Uranium

11. Transistor

12. Ohm Sweet Ohm

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