Kraftwerk - Radio-activity - Vinyl LP

2026

50th anniversary, (12" Picture Disc) Single picture disc vinyl LP in a spined sleeve, with die-cut to front cover, shrinkwrap, marketing sticker. Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter and engineer Fritz Hilpert have created the Dolby Atmos mix from the original 16-track master tapes at their Kling Klang Studio. The stereo album (2009 remaster) pressed as a highly collectible vinyl picture disc.

A concept album exploring themes of broadcast communications, Radio-Activity marked Kraftwerk's return to more obtuse territory, extensively utilizing static, oscillators, and even Cage-like moments of silence to approximate the sense of radio transmission; a pivotal record in the group's continuing development, the title track -- the first they ever recorded in English -- is their most fully realized electro-pop effort to date, while "The Voice of Energy" precipitates the robot voice so crucial to their subsequent work. 

Jason Ankeny