radioactivity (album)

align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Radio-Activity
lign="center" colspan="3"\|
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|LP by Kraftwerk
lign="left" valign="top"\|Released	colspan="2" valign="top"\| 1975
lign="left" valign="top"\|Recorded	colspan="2" valign="top"\|???
lign="left" valign="top"\|Genre	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Electronic
lign="left" valign="top"\|Length	colspan="2" valign="top"\|37 min 38 sec
lign="left" valign="top"\|Record label	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Capitol/EMI
lign="left" valign="top"\|Producer	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Emil Schult, Ralf Htter and Florian Schneider
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"\|Allmusic.com	valign="top"\|3 stars out of 5	valign="top"\|link
lign="left" valign="top"\|Q	valign="top"\|3 stars out of 5	valign="top"\|March 1995
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Kraftwerk Chronology
align="top"\|Autobahn (1974)	valign="top"\|Radio-Activity (1975)	valign="top"\|Trans-Europe Express (1977)

Radio-Activity is a 1975 album by Kraftwerk. It was released in German as Radio-Aktivitt. Unlike later albums, which featured different lyrics, only the titles differ between the English and German editions. The hyphenated album title displays Kraftwerk's typical deadpan humour, being a pun on the twin themes of the songs, half being about radioactivity, the other half about radio. This was the first Kraftwerk album to be entirely self-produced by the Htter & Schneider in their Kling Klang studio, and the first one to be performed by the 'classic' Htter/Schneider/Bartos/Flr line-up. All the music was written by Htter/Schneider, with Emil Schult collaborating on lyrics, and designing the artwork. This was the first Kraftwerk album to feature use of the distinctive Vako Orchestron keyboard (choir, string and organ sounds), which they had purchased on their recent US Autobahn tour. The band's custom-built electronic percussion also features heavily in the sound, and extensive use is made of the vocoder. The usual synthesizers are of course also present (including miniMoog and ARP Odyssey), and Ralf's Farfisa electronic piano makes a return on Transistor. For the first time, no flute, violin or guitars are used at all.

Track Listing

English release

"Geiger Counter" - 1:04
"Radioactivity" - 6:44
"Radioland" - 5:53
"Airwaves" - 4:53
"Intermission" - :15
"News" - 1:13
"The Voice of Energy" - :54
"Antenna" - 3:45
"Radio Stars" - 3:38
"Uranium" - 1:24
"Transistor" - 2:15
"Ohm Sweet Ohm" - 5:40

German release

"Geigerzhler" - 1:07
"Radioaktivitt" - 6:42
"Radioland" - 5:53
"therwellen" - 4:55
"Sendepause" - 0:14
"Nachrichten" - 1:31
"Die Stimme Der Energie" - 0:55
"Antenne" - 3:43
"Radio Sterne" - 3:33
"Uran" - 1:28
"Transistor" - 2:15
"Ohm Sweet Ohm" - 5:38

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