Editing Radio-Activity (section)

== Reception ==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/radio-activity-mw0000462593|title=Radio-Activity – Kraftwerk|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=6 March 2019}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Drowned in Sound]]'' 
| rev2score = 8/10<ref name="Drowned in Sound">{{cite web|last=Power|first=Chris|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14729/reviews/4138105|title=Album Review: Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity: Remastered|work=[[Drowned in Sound]]|date=12 October 2009|access-date=6 March 2019|archive-date=6 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306234904/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14729/reviews/4138105|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Sweeting|first=Adam|author-link=Adam Sweeting|title=CDs of the week: Kraftwerk reissues|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=14 April 1995|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Irish Times]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Clayton-Lea|first=Tony|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/album-reviews/reissue-1.763924|title=Kraftwerk: Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978) (Mute/EMI)|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|location=Dublin|date=30 October 2009|access-date=18 March 2017|issn=0791-5144}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' 
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Mojo">{{cite magazine|last=Snow|first=Mat|author-link=Mat Snow|title=Gut Vibrations|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|location=London|issue=192|date=November 2009|page=110|issn=1351-0193}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Q">{{cite magazine|title=Kraftwerk: Radio-Activity|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|location=London|page=116|quote=[A] conceptual piece that diverted Kraftwerk's music into monochrome retro-futurism...|issn=0955-4955}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Coleman|first1=Mark|last2=Randall|first2=Mac|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|chapter=Kraftwerk|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/468 468–69]}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev8score = 4/5<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Harrison|first=Andrew|title=Kraftwerk: Radio Activity / Man Machine / Computer World / The Mix|magazine=[[Select (magazine)|Select]]|location=London|issue=60|date=June 1995|issn=0959-8367}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev9score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Reynolds|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-link=Eric Weisbard|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|chapter=Kraftwerk|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=215–16}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' 
| rev10score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Uncut">{{cite magazine|last=Cavanagh|first=David|author-link=David Cavanagh|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/kraftwerk/reviews/13709|title=Uncut reviews: Kraftwerk – Reissues|magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|location=London|date=16 October 2009|access-date=22 October 2009|issn=1368-0722|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205031308/http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/kraftwerk/reviews/13709|archive-date=5 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}
''Radio-Activity'' was released to mixed reviews, with ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' criticizing the album: "...{{nbsp}}no cut on the album comes near the melodic/harmonic sense that pervaded ''[[Autobahn (album)|Autobahn]]'' or the creative use of electronics on the much earlier album ''[[Ralf und Florian|Ralf and Florian]]''".<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{cite magazine|last=Ward|first=Ed|author-link=Ed Ward (writer)|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/radio-aktivitat-19760212|title=Radio-Aktivitat|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=New York|date=12 February 1976|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0035-791X}}</ref> ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' wrote regarding their 2009 remaster that it "begins like a heartbeat in the void, accelerating into the pulse that will form the spine of the title-song, an eerie tribute to the intangibles (music, disintegrating atoms) that linger in the atmosphere." It consider that "has a musty scent of Old Europe, which proved a hit with the synth groups of 1980-81 (eg, [[Ultravox]] and [[Visage (band)|Visage]]), and it retains a blood-chilling, [[Wagnerian]] quality even now, thanks to Kraftwerk's use of the Vako Orchestron, a choir-like relative of the [[Mellotron]]."<ref name="Uncut" /> 

Chris Power from ''[[Drowned in Sound]]'' praised it for the experimental feeling in 2009: "A bridge between electronic experimentalism and the powerful, groundbreaking unification of [[avant-garde]] form and catchy, commercial function that was just around the corner, ''Radio-Activity'' is the sound of Kraftwerk finding their way in a strange new landscape that they were in the very process of creating".<ref name="Drowned in Sound"/> In a retrospective review, Jason Ankeny from [[AllMusic]] called the album "a pivotal record in the group's continuing development" and stated that it "marked Kraftwerk's return to more obtuse territory, extensively utilizing static, [[Oscillation|oscillators]], and even [[John Cage|Cage]]-like moments of silence".<ref name="AllMusic"/>