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Rating: Kraftwerk ergo “How To Build Your Own Automaton”.
Chapter V: Altera the vain prophecy.
An abyss.
An abyss of space filled via electromagnetic radiation.
An abyss of time filled via listening to recorded sounds.
Recorded sounds that indicate a future only imagined, that neither ever was nor ever will be.
A future that never existed, which is now for us an unattainable past.
An abyss of time and space.
A silence.
From silence to total immersion.
Repetition of a signal; internal recapture.
Cosmic recapture: pulsars and quasars.
Emissions irradiating from the eternal rotation around an axis.
Eternity — circularity — repetition.
Patterns of a timeless time.
The dynamics of propagation: inversion of magnetic poles, inverse proportionality ratio between wavelength and frequency.
All of this, in a two-dimensional radio: tangible image and trompe-l’œil.
In other words:
The cold death of a future that will never be.
The altera and vain prophecy of those who have sung a time devoid of time.
The fascination, retro (for us), futuristic (for them), of imagining a future without a future.
CHAPTER 6: https://www.debaser.it/kraftwerk/trans-europe-express/recensione-123asterisco
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Radioactivity (06:42)
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie
Radioactivity
Tune in to the melody
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Morse:
Radioactivity is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity discovered by madame curie
Radioactivity tune in to the ... Kraftwerk
Radio Aktivitaet
Fuer dich und mich in All entsteht
(=For you and me in Space comes into being)
Radio Aktivitaet
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgeraet
(=Sends waves to the receiver)
Radio Aktivitaet
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht
(=When its about our future)
Morse:
Radioactivity is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity discovered by madame curie
Radioactivity tune in to the ... Kraftwerk
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie
Radioactivity
Tune in to the melody
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
03 Radioland (05:51)
Turn the dials with your hand
Till you find the short wave band
Electronic music sounds from Radioland
We are turning dials of the Radio
We are hearing the sound of transmission
By pressing a button fast
We reach the short wave band
After fine tuning by hand
We are listening to the Morse band
Electronic sound from Radioland
04 Airwaves (04:40)
When airwaves swing
Distant voices sing
Wenn Wellen schwingen
Ferne Stimmen singen
06 News (01:17)
Hier ist der Westdeutsche Rundfunk mit den Nachrichten
Fünfzig Atomkraftwerke sollen in der Bundesrepublik
In den nächsten zehn Jahren errichtet werden
Jedes einzelne kann eine Millionenstadt mit Strom versorgen
(English Translation)
Here is the West German Broadcasting Station with the news
Fifty nuclear power stations will be built in the West German Republic
In the next ten years
Each one can supply a city of millions with power
07 The Voice of Energy (00:55)
This is the Voice of Energy
I am a giant electrical generator
I supply you with light and power
And I enable you to receive Speech,
Music and Image through the Ether
I am your servant and lord at the same time
Therefore guard me well
Me, the genius of Energy
08 Antenna (03:42)
I'm the Antenna
Catching vibration
You're the transmitter
Give information!
Wir richten Antennen ins Firmament
Empfaengen die Tone die Niemand kennt
I'm the transmitter
I give information
You're the antenna
Catching vibration
Es Strahlen die Sender Bild Ton und Wort
Elektromagnetisch an jeden Ort
I'm the Antenna
Catching vibration
You're the transmitter
Give information!
Radio Sender und Hoerer sind wir
Spielen im Aether das Wellenklavier
[repeat to fade]
I'm the antenna catching vibration
You're the transmitter give information
I'm the transmitter I give information
You're the antenna catching vibration
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By Solomon
I lose myself in the soothing placidity of the non-space, external dimension, in the dense void of the monotonous notes of a Geiger Counter.
I travel aimlessly in the infinite Radioland, a non-place where I can hover breathlessly, letting neurons roam free and fill with elegant ecstasy.
