The cover of album Radioactivity (Radioaktivität) was inspired in a vintage german radio from the 30s. The radio is showed below (front and back), compared to the album. Below there's the first drawing of Emil Schult to Radioaktivität cover, substituted by the actual drawing.
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The computer graphics artwork of "Music Non Stop" video (and also used at Electric Cafe album artcover) were developped on 1985 by the american media artist Rebecca Allen at Computer Graphics Laboratories of New York Institute of Technology. Rebbeca used the photographs of each member to compose tridimensional models (mannequins). Then she works in the development of state-of-the-art facial animation software in order to bring the virtual mannequins to life. This work introduced 3D renderings commercial music videos for the first time, took almost a year to be finalized and was considered a prodigy, considering the technology available in the eighties. The work won several awards: Best Music Video Award - West Germany (1986); Best Special Effects (Nomination) National Academy of Video Arts and Sciences - 5th Annual American Video Awards - USA (1987); Artistic and Technical Excellence Award Nicograph - Tokyo - Japan (1987); Nouvelles Images de Monte Carlo Award (1987); Images du Futur, Art et Nouvelles Technologies - Montreal - Canada (1988). The graphics have been used by Kraftwerk on their concerts since then. You can find more details and images about the development of this work at Rebecca's official website: www.rebeccaallen.com
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In the summer of 1992 (19/06/1992), Kraftwerk played at Manchester, in a serie of 3 concerts at England. Excerpts of this concert ("Radioactivity" and "The Robots") were released in VHS version with the name of "Stop Sellafield - The Concert", an event promoted by Greenpeace, denouncing the environmental contamination through radioactivity emitted by Sellafield, a nuclear plant installed at north weast of England (Lake District). Besides artists like U2, Public Enemy and B.A.D., Kraftwerk helped Greenpeace to promotes a campaign to close the plant. Later, Kraftwerk would create an audio excerpt with lyrics, called "Sellafield", inserted into "Radioactivity" introduction, and played at his concerts since then. Until the present, it's the only register of a Kraftwerk concert released officially in video.
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Sellafield location
Instructions to play the tunes of some Kraftwerk melodies in a Casio calculator. The information was sent by Ralf Hütter to reporters of The Face magazine, after an interview (N° 23 - March 1982). All you will need is a model with musical resources.
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Read the interview of "The Face" at our Magazines section
The concept and artwork for "Tour de France" is from original drawings by cycling enthusiast Ralf Hütter from 1983. The hungarian stamp from 1953 was used for graphic-work and photo-collage on the cover.
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This picture of russian painter El Lissitzky, "013EL" was used by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider at design composition of backcover from "The Man Machine" album. This picture was taken from children's book named "Suprematicheskii skaz pro dva kvadrata v shesti postroikakh" or "Suprematist story of two squares in six constructions" that was made in 1922.
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After the release of "Autobahn" on 1974 and the success of its main track on both sides of Atlantic, it was released on 1975 a quadraphonic version of the album in a 8 track cartridge tape system (labels Vertigo - VQ8-2003 and Mercury - MC8-1-3704). Recently this rare recording version was converted to Quadraphonic DTS (Digital Surround) System and can be found on CD format.
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You can read a review of this recording at Twingo's Kraftwerk website
Another releases of Kraftwerk albuns in 8 track cartridge tape system can be found at
Kraftwerk International Discography
During the video clip of Trans Europe Express, there's a scene on which appears through the window a neon advise with the words "Kraftwerk Union". Coincidence or not, is a curiosity not perceived by most of the fans.
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In 2000, the german producer Integral Films realized a TV movie called "Klassentreffen - Mordfall unter Freunden (Class Reunion - Murder Affair Among Friends)", and this film counts with the appearance of a band (The Wondering Stars - Sputnik Roadhouse) playing the song "Those Were the Days" during about 3 minutes. This band was composed by the following members: Klaus Schulze (organ), F. J. Krueger (guitar), Marian Gold (vocals), Toni Nissl (drums) and a certain "Fred Schnitzel" playing bass. "Fred" is too knowed by the name of "Florian Schneider" when he plays in another group called Kraftwerk. The film is directed by Diethard Kuester, screenplay by Jochen Brunow, and the main cast is: Natalia Woerner, Leslie Malton, Christoph M. Ohrt and Esther Schweins.
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See below a card autographed by all the members and a postcard sent by Ralf & Florian to Klaus Dinger (ex-member of early Kraftwerk), two rarities to fans and collectors
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Store display for Radioactivity released at 70's
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When Kraftwerk went to South America in 1998 Tour, Ralf Hütter talked about your desire to play at Brasília, the futuristic capital of Brasil. This concert don't happens yet, but a seed of Kraftwerk influence is present at Brasília now, with the opening of a Cyber Cafe named "Neon Lights", in May 2003. The Cafe is totally decorated with Kraftwerk themes, and you can see some images of it below. If you want to see more, visit www.neonlights.com.br
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If you buy some product through the Kraftwerk Official site, you will receive the material by post, probably with a label like this
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