The Golden Age of Radio

'Musik Express' magazine interview excerpt, 1976

FS; "This is a homage to the radio, the first existing electronic studio. Back then, people like Stockhausen always played music directly on the radio."

RH; "We always listened to this in earlier times, the programme was called 'Nachtmusik'. This is our background, this is how we were inspired to form a purely electronic group... ...When it was dark and we had to go to bed, we would hear it under the pillow on a transistor radio. We are interested in the 'radio consciousness'."

FS; "...you can hear the pre-defined information as intended when tuning in the station on your radio and you only have to adjust (the dial) a little bit, maybe on the short-wave band at night and you will get the craziest sounds, morse codes, pure sounds, this is crazy; Radio Cairo and so on ... This idea, LP as radio..."

RH; We were always hugely fascinated by this. We always wanted our own ... we saw us, Kraftwerk, in the Kling Klang studio, as a radio station. But this is not legally possible in Germany. In America we met people from our generation who have their own radio station..."

FS; "They have their own radio programmes..."

RH; "And blast their very own thoughts into the ether ... and we see ourselves as a private radio station."

FS = Florian Schneider

RH = Ralf Hütter