Thursday, August 22, 2013

Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity (1975)


One of my favorite electronic music outfits of all time has to be Kraftwerk. Before I discovered them (sometime in high school), I thought electronic music was a wasteland of pretentious beats, pulsing out terrible kick drum samples to move the drugged out masses with artists entirely incapable of doing anything interesting. How wrong cursory observations can be is astounding (however unsurprising). This album is one of their more challenging records, heavily experimental and groundbreaking. Almost all of the songs revolve around science and engineering topics. The song "Radio Stars" is about pulsars and quasars.

Radio-Aktivität

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

 I = \frac{V}{R} \quad \text{or}\quad V = IR \quad \text{or} \quad R = \frac{V}{I}.

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