Kraftwerk to Reissue 'Radio-Activity' for 50th Anniversary with Dolby Atmos Mix

Kraftwerk have announced a special 50th-anniversary reissue of their groundbreaking album ‘Radio-Activity’.

The record, the pioneering German band’s fifth studio LP, originally released in 1975, is a concept album exploring themes of radioactive decay and radio communication.

To celebrate five decades, the band will release new editions using the original 16-track master tapes. Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter has collaborated with Fritz Hilpert to create a new Dolby Atmos Mix, promising "vivid new shading, forensic detail, and richly layered cinematic depth."

Scheduled for release on May 15th, the reissue includes a Blu-ray audio disc featuring Dolby Atmos, 5.1, and stereo mixes, along with an exclusive anniversary booklet. A special edition 12” vinyl picture disc of the 2009 remaster will also be available, and the full Dolby Atmos mix will be released on streaming platforms.

You can pre-order your copy of the ‘Radio-Activity’ 50th anniversary re-release here.

Kraftwerk is also preparing for a new UK and Ireland leg of their ‘Multimedia’ tour, which has been extended due to exceptional demand.

Hütter and company will kick off the shows at Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre on May 17th, before heading to Belfast, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Glasgow, Stockton, Sheffield, Brighton, Bristol and Bournemouth.

They will then play three huge shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on June 4 and 5, before rounding off the tour with gigs in Liverpool, Nottingham and finally Edinburgh’s Playhouse on June 9.

See the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets for the tour here.

The shows will make up Kraftwerk’s first UK tour since 2017, although they did play a one-off show at Milton Keynes’ Forever Now Festival in June.

The ‘Multimedia’ tour first began in 2012 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and is described as “part performance, part digital installation”. The 3D shows see the band playing music from across their career, including from the classic albums ‘Autobahn’ (1974), ‘Trans Europe Express’ (1977) and ‘Computer World’ (1981).

In other news, some of the band’s late co-founder Florian Schneider’s instruments went up for auction in November, including his suitcase synthesiser, flute and several vocoders.

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