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Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dead at 73
- mturmon 6y agoI've enjoyed their music for so many years. I got to see them live at Disney Hall in LA about 10 years ago - I don't think Florian was playing on this tour - and the A/V show was amazing. The Fukushima disaster had just happened, and they played parts of Radio-Activity, which came across as prophetic.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoRadio-Activity is one of the most chilling (in good and bad ways) pieces of music I know. The juxtoposition between radioactivity as a health menace and radioactivity as the transmission mechanism for music, and the ambiguity in it. One of the most genius things in the song thatis how the urgent percussive beeping tones in the beginning and end of the song spell out: "R-A-D-I-O-A-C-T-I-V-I-T-Y" and "I-S I-N T-H-E A-I-R F-O-R Y-O-U A-N-D M-E" in Morse code.
- quantified 6y agoI saw them live in Montreal about 16 years ago now (I think, +/-) and Radioactivity was much more vibrant than on the album. I still replay it in my head once in a while. They put circuitry to such good use.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoYeah I saw them on the same tour in Toronto. It was good.
- tareqak 6y agoSame news posted earlier here, but sourced from the BBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092630 .