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Franck Vigroux and Matthew Bourne - Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited

Review by Jon Falcone

This project was worth attempting but the results are a shame»

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'Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited' is a stunning reimagining of Kraftwerk's seminal album, created to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The perfect Christmas gift for discerning fans of cutting edge analogue electronica. And Kraftwerk! Radioland was initially devised as a breathtaking audio-visual live experience by the Anglo-French trio of Matthew Bourne (synthesisers, voice), Franck Vigroux (electronics) and visual artist Antoine Schmitt. The original music has been transformed with hurricanes of modulated electronics, earth-shattering bass frequencies, vocoders ebbing and throbbing and the occasional drop into periods of eerie near-silence. Using a variety of vintage analogue synthesisers and electronics, they have recreated the futuristic, industrial world of ominous darkness and dazzling light imagined by Kraftwerk in 1975 and reconstructed in this bold new manifestation for 2015. The album is mastered by Denis Blackham, who mastered Kraftwerk's classic 1974 album 'Autobahn'.
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