Their sound and look were so different from anything you could hear at that time: The disco of Gloria Gaynor, the atmospheric music of Pink Floyd and Genesis, the glam rock sound of Slade. The intro of the "Radioactivity" track with its tap, tap, tap, ... the morse code sound, the binary bip, bip followed by the slush sound of 2 wired sticks on a metal plate ushered me into a New Musical Age that I have been following ever since.
Here is a video (one of the first ones by the way) of the original version of the Radioactivity song. Kraftwerk indeed made an updated version in 1991 following a anti-nuclear theme.
