KRAFTWERK Radio-Activity Capitol ECS 80418 (JAPAN) NM/NM 1975 1st Press OBI
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KRAFTWERK Radio-Activity
NM/NM Used Vinyl Record
Record Label: Capitol ECS 80418 (Japan)
1975. Original First Press Japanese Issue. Includes Obi, Custom Inner sleeve and double sided insert with lyrics and notes in English & Japanese.
Condition: Record cover shows no wear. Corners are sharp. Spine, top and bottom are solid and show no signs of shelf wear, chipping or splits. Obi is intact and no wear. Insert is like new. There are no spindle marks on the label. Vinyl is clean, shiny and plays like new.
Side One
1. Geiger Counter
2. Radioactivity
3. Radioland
4. Airwaves
5. Intermission
6. News
Side Two
7. The Voice of Energy
8. Antenna
9. Radio Stars
10. Uranium
11. Transistor
12. Ohm Sweet Ohm
Review: Considered by many fans to be the German duo's first classic album, 1975's RADIO-ACTIVITY marked a major change of persona for Kraftwerk. Cutting their hair, shaving their beards and dressing in plain suits, Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider reinvented themselves as ascetic sound engineers as opposed to performers. Taking cues from minimalist composers like Steve Reich or Terry Riley, RADIO-ACTIVITY explores the creative uses of repetition and limitation.
Several songs are built on a single pulsing chord, and other tracks are less songs than they are brief sound pictures. Titles and lyrics pun off of both nuclear energy and radio waves, also helping to give the album a conceptual unity missing from their first few records. "The Voice of Energy" and the title track are among the band's finest works. As with many of Kraftwerk's records, RADIO-ACTIVITY was issued in a German-language version in the band's homeland.
Japanese vinyl releases are premium quality pressings, much sought after by audiophiles and collectors alike. In the 1960s Toshiba pioneered top quality red vinyl pressings using their trademark ‘Ever-Clean’ process this utilised a special ingredient intended to prevent the build-up of static electricity on the vinyl. Japanese pressings are synonymous with quality - the vinyl shines like no other vinyl - everything about their releases feels special.
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