Originally posted by Megaprofit
hey,
thanks for sharing. The pictures are very good! What is the pin on Joakim's lapels? is it a "radioactive" sign?
It's a simple hommage to the song that changed my mind forever. I was 8 years old when I first heard it. I still think it's the epitomy of electronic melancholy, retro-futurism and to this day it gives me goose-bumps. It completely caught me in 1978 and it made me want to discover the hidden world of the machinery that could produce such an otherworldly sound. I still think it's the best electronic song ever made.
To me it sounds like an echo from the future, traveling over the icy Lake Baikal, across the taiga of Siberia, over the hills of the Ural, retransmitted by the radio towers of East Germany to the rusting Eiffel Tower, bouncing by Düsseldorf and then faintly vibratring inside my soul; making me feel awake and sedated at the same time.
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Radioactivity video - original version
Naughty bootleg version from last year's world tour, not as good as the original but visually unparallelled