Kraftwerk - Uranium

[saloei]

i had this album. on tape!

[lacerdatech]

First dark ambient music style

[redbull101991]

The best piece from this album is Radiaktiv :3

[Someguyfrom1973]

ok, I am going to sound really dumb here, but I have loved Blue Monday for over 2 decades now, but have just learned (thanks Wikipedia!) that this is where this "aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh" sample is from

[mharris802000]

@Someguyfrom1973 Don't feel bad, man. I just found out last year. I'd always assumed it was from one of the Emulator disks, as that's where Depeche Mode got the "Enjoy the Silence" choir from.

[VozDRazon]

Like Professor501, I do imagine a robot dying of radiation poisoning, and before it dies, it sends a radio transmission ("Antenna") and warns everybody of the dangers of uranium.

[MultiGanton]

The hyphenated album title displays Kraftwerk's typical deadpan humour, being a pun on the twin themes of the songs, half being about radioactivity and the other half about activity on the radio. More word plays are evident in the track listing: "Ohm Sweet Ohm", and "Radio Stars", which as a title could refer to pop stars, but upon listening is revealed to be about quasars and pulsars.

[danielgch2]

the first few seconds are like the start of robots by kraftwerk

[jctoad]

New Order was the first to sample Kraftwerk's music.

[Tritium5678]

Through constant decay

Uranium creates the radioactive rays

Durch stetigen zerfall

Entstehen radioakive

Strahlen aus dem urankristall

[playa3232]

The begining is the same as the "We are the robots" song.

What is this guy whispering about?

I like Oktoberfest beer. :-)

[deisenberger]

Simply perfect!

[DJCowboyX]

Thank you for making this song Kraftwerk so we could have New Orders wonderful Blue Monday =) Kraftwerk the fathers of Techno and Modern Dance Musika.....

[srfgtr63]

Anyone think New Order lifted the "Ahh" section?

[newstvnz]

@srfgtr63 They did

[blueshifter]

also sampled by Underworld in "Dark + Long (Dark Train)"

[leomon951]

Q MIERDA ES ESTO?

[diazepam30]

@leomon951 jajajajjjaja es simplemente kraftwerk!!

[FissionNonStop]

Love this, reminds me of a humanities first space ship traveling outside of the solar system, and heading straight into the void; blackness, silent and vacuous in every direction.

I hope I can be on that ship.....Oh what peace it would bring me, no feeling that I have ever felt would be felt when I pass 90377 Sedna....

[ElectronicMusicUK]

@FissionNonStop Space ship? You're backward. There's a new kind of technology, involving time travel, when we finally discover it,we'll be like happy frogs hopping around the galaxy in no time! Rocket fuel, solar energy etc is really backward technology.

[lepumpernic1]

Sampled by NEW ORDER - BLUE MONDAY (the chorus sound).

[Kunibuler]

When I listen to this, I have pictures of the devastated landscape after a nuclear explosion in my mind.

[professor501]

@Kunibuler

As do I. A place like Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes to mind. When I listen to this, I've always pictured in my mind a robot dying (or perhaps I should say a system failure) of radiation poisoning, speaking its final words.

[ElectronicMusicUK]

@professor501 A robot dying? where r u from? Sirius planet 7? we don't have such robots in 2012.

[AgeofMachines]

@Kunibuler

Yeah I feel the same way. Other times it reminds me of seeing something shocking and I can't process the enormity of what I just saw, heard or learned. It's a song where you know from this moment on, you are never the same, your past is worthless or gone and the your future is unknown. I see myself standing silently waiting for it but not overconfident - feeling like I'm ready to give it all I've got - win or lose - live or die,

[romeropablo]

Analog Senheizer vocoder connected with keyboard. "Orchestron" keyboard to make the chorus that New Order sampled in 1983 for "Blue Monday". Pure experimentation.

[MarinoXDesun]

Brilliant.

[zoooooopopo]

if i was a dj id start my set with this

[dinesor]

@zoooooopopo

Lol, thought the same :)

[PiccoloNamek]

I always thought this was actually kind of creepy...

[mexcaline]

genious!

I love you kraftwerk!

[Kraftwerkification]

THROUGH CONSTANT DECAY URANIUM CREATES THE RADIOACTIVE RAY. Absolutely priceless!

[UNGIDOGIL]

hay hay mee vengoooo!!! kraftwerk es lo mas chingon no mames!!!

[robotik4]

Best vocoder in 70th

[ALXXMaXX]

@VoiceEncoder Actually, it's a Votrax VS6 speech chip.

[VoiceEncoder]

@ALXXMaXX My bad. I just checked.

[kielce14]

scary!