RADIOACTIVITY (UK, 1991)
EMI TCEM 201 2045524
Long time since we had a cassette single in here! And the supply is running out too, so unless I find one of those extremely elusive ones that haven't been featured before, it will be all albums on here henceforth. -But we shall hope for the best!
Radioactivity came out in October 1991, a fair while after The Mix, which was released that June. The band were on tour though, doing some Scandinavian and German dates in October before continuing across Europe in November, so it made sense to have a new single in the shops I guess? It marks another landmark for Kraftwerk though, in that the single versions were all made by other people! Francois Kevorkian was involved in mixing both the Electric Cafe album and the single versions of The Telephone Call, which was four years or two singles ago at this point, and he has an agreeable tweak on this single version, which is the a-side of 7" and cassette singles. The b-side of the single was remixed by William Orbit, and they also did the 12" versions. (I expect Ralf had both approval and would suggest edits etc on these of course, as I know he did for later remixes).
Anyway, Radioactivity only came out on cassette in the UK and France, the latter being very very rare and not in my collection at present. The UK version is more common, although the UK edition of The Robots is easier to find, and the two UK cassettes share format details - the cassette comes in a narrow card slipcase, which opens top and bottom, and the cassettes are tinted clear shells with on-body white print. Lovely!
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