Author: John Chivers via YouTube
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Cover version of the original track by Kraftwerk, written by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, and released on the 1975 album Kraftwerk album Radio-Aktivität/Radio-Activity.
I did think I was done with the Kraftwerk tracks, but this is another with too good a melody to resist.
On this occasion, I could conceive a soft, warm arrangement of what is a track which has classical overtones to my ears.
I also added a carillon version of "Merck toch hoe sterck" to the start of the track, giving a nod to a childhood memory of my dad’s fondness for listening to short wave radio and between the crackles and static sound, I remember the repeating carillon call tune of Radio Hilversum and the strange, exotic voices which emanated from his beloved transistor radio.
Recorded in Cubase, triggering multiple VST instrument plug-ins… including the carillon. It’s not a recording of Hilversum.
Photo by Grok.