Kraftwerk + something on-topic

[Brett Duggan]

Actually, I don't think there's any hype to it at all.  From what I can 
tell, the last time Kraftwerk did a gig ANYWHERE in the US before this 
upcoming tour was 1981.  You guys who live in or near cities where they 
are playing are extremely lucky.

Speaking of Kraftwerk, perhaps someone hear might be able to shed light 
on this for me.  On the Radioactivity album that Kraftwerk released in 
1975, there is a track called Uranium that sounds like it is being done 
by a very primitive form of speech synthesis (not a vocoded human 
voice).  I thought that speech synthesis did not come about until 
sometime in the late 70's (i.e. sometime after 1975).  Does anyone have 
any idea what they used to pull this off back in 1975?

Thanks,
Brett D

> ...at the Hammerstein Ballroom. According to the flyer this is "The
> first time in 17 years with a full-on production." - sounds like hype to
> me, but I'm going anyway :). Tickets are still available through
> ticket-master (212)307-7171