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What occured on 5th October throughout the years?

Concerts

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Events

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Kraftwerk released Radioactivity 49 years ago in October 1975. Actual day not known. Another concept LP all about the ?activity? of radio. This was Kraftwerk?s first Album to reach number one. In France! The hyphenated title is an example of Kraftwerk?s tongue in cheek humour. The album plays around a pun of the two themes ?Radioactivity? and ?Activity of the radio?. Other puns include ?Ohm Sweet Ohm? and ?Radio Stars? because those who just read the title could think it was to do with Pop Stars, whereas it is about space pulsars. This was the first Kraftwerk Album to be released on their own Kling Klang Verlag music publishing company, giving them much greater financial control of the musical output. The single taken from the record, ?Radioactivity? became a hit in several countries. The Voice of Energy is a track that stands out. It was the first to feature the robotic vocoder that Kraftwerk so successfully utilized to make that sound their own later on in their career. The Voice of Energy is a short track that is simply a robot reading instructions out in monotone, stupid as it sounds, it?s gripping stuff. Some people suggest that there is a strong case for Radioactivity being the first industrial album ever, and in 1975, that was rather good. Kraftwerk were riding high on the crest of Autobahn, but they didn?t rest on their laurels, instead they pushed on further, in a way they never did before or since, crafting a synth pop album around the hectic life and times of work in a nuclear power plant. For more information on this and other LP's head over to the discography &nbsp
The third Kraftwerk LP Ralf and Florian was released in October 1973. Actual day not known. The link between the older works and what would be the ?real? Kraftwerk of later LP?s. This is a much more ?structured LP, containing more structured rhythms and melodies. However, along with the first two albums Ralf and Florian has never been officially re-released on vinyl nor compact disc. In interviews around the time of the remastered The&nbspCatalogue Ralf hinted that the album may be finally released in a remastered format. This has yet to materialise. All tracks like their previous album Kraftwerk&nbsp2 are credited to just Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider with the help in production studios of Conny Plank. The album was the first for the band to use an electronic voice created by an early form of vocoder. More obvious use of synthesisers and again the use of a pre-set from an organ?s beat box. The German version of the album was released with a ?music comic?, a large poster of cartoon like art, by the artist Emil Schult who had been playing with the band on violin. The cartoons represent each track from the LP as well as from the German city of Dusseldorf. Kraftwerk recruited Wolfgang Flur to perform in a TV appearance and later became a member of the band from then on. As earlier mentioned the album points the way to what Kraftwerk would become. It goes back to the past with the use of flutes, guitars and drum kit, but also becomes more melodic and tuneful, a lot more keyboard based. For more information on this and other LP's head over to the discography &nbsp

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