Wolfgang Riechmann started his musical career in 1966. After playing in a school band with Michael Rother and Wolfgang Flür, later famous with Kraftwerk and Neu, he then became member of an other Düsseldorf (Germany) located band called "Streetmark" . It was end of 1977 when Riechmann started working on his solo career. The result was the LP "Wunderbar" which was released on SKY Records. Unfortunately he did not experience the release. Riechmann was killed - without any reason - by two drunk guys, who stabbed him to death...
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3 Teens Kill 4 (3TK4) were a New York City (East Village) band from the early 80's.
Members included Hattie Hathaway and the late David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz (1954 - 1992) was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, musician, performance artist, and political activist in many different arenas, including LBGT rights & issues, AIDS, and Free Speech politics. He was internationally prominent in the New York City art world and active in the performance art, poetry, and underground/experimental music scene between 1978 and 1992, and continues to receive more and more posthumous recognition for his artistic and literary output.
Great No Wave/Minimal Art Synth sound.
This was one of my first purchases during my 1st week working over at Tower Records 4th & Broadway...
Pas de Deux was a project of Walter Verdin, an art-student who already had a history in music with Specimen & The Rizikoos and as a solo-artist.
PDD represented Belgium for the 1983 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.. The band ended third from last. Nonetheless 'Rendez-Vous' became a big summer hit in Belgium that year. Pas De Deux released one mini-album and a couple of singles.
They recorded from 1981 to 1985 and issued three incredibly rare demo tapes. “A Better Spider” compiles the best tracks from those tapes, bringing you some of the best electropop/electrowave music ever coming out of Italy. If you like flexipop style sounds with from time to time some moody synth tunes in between this is for you...
Marzio Vincenzi lead and background vocalist originary from Bologna, Italy. Always fascinated by disco music, Marzio Vincenzi, convinced his friend Mauro Malavasi to produce, in 1978, his first record "I'm A Man". The title track, a remake of a Steve Winwoood's piece, had an immediate, favorable outcome. Subsequently, with the advent of what is identified by many like 'rosco music', an hybrid between rock and disco, Macho succeeded to place, in 1980, the album "Roll", containing pieces like "Mother Love (Mama Mia)" and "You Got Me Running", beyond "Roll" itself. |Discogs|
Come get some ulta sleezy overly kitchy rockin Rosco masterpieces..
Died, age 52, on 23rd of May 2009 in a Brussels hospital from complications after surgery and a long history of health problems.
Snowy Red was the one-man electronic band of the former Chainsaw guitarist, Micky Mike. With the "Vision" LP and some tracks on the "The Beat Is Over" LP, Snowy Red was, for a brief moment only, a band. After the Belgian New Beat boom, Snowy Red called it quits and Micky Mike disappeared, only for the band to resurface again in 2004 as a duo (with a guitarist) at the Belgian Independent Music festival.
He gave us the classic synth jam Euroshima.
Sorry for the silly vid, but it is sometimes mesmerising.
Mark Shreeve is a British pioneer of melodic electronic music. He debuted is music on cassettes of complex electronics redolent of early 80's Tangerine Dream coupled with a melodic pop sensibility..
He also wrote many of Samantha Fox's mid-80s hits!
Part of the intensity of this music is found in tunes like Flagg and The Stand which show that Shreeve was reading horror writer Steven King which no doubt added a bit of darkness and force to the presentation. Another interesting note is that one song, Icon is co-written by Chris Franke who also plays on the song. During that time Franke was still a member of the legendary German band, Tangerine Dream.
Hipnosis were a Italo trio in the early '80s, born in Parma and founded by Stefano Cundari. The line-up included Ugo Solenghi and Pauls Sears (that later joined Kirlian Camera). Particularly popular in Germany, thanks to the Vangelis cover of Pulstar.
Awesome Spacey Italo!
Hypnosis Pulstar / End Title (Blade Runner) 12" - 1983 - Germany
Hipnosis - Hipnosis Lp-1984 - Germany
Hipnosis - Droid / Automatic Piano CD - 1987/1993 - Germany
Coming together in 1981 in Croydon, London, England under the name of 400 Blows, this versatile ensemble combined funk, reggae, African music and disco. Their obvious influences, in addition to various ethnic styles, included 23 Skidoo and Throbbing Gristle. This electrofunk duo recorded a handful of uptight electronic/industrial jams.
This was probably the first over $20.00 CD I purchased back in 1989. Who cares!
The Elephant Table Album: a compilation of difficult music was a 1983 Compilation album, released on Xtract Records. The Double album was compiled by music journalist Dave Henderson following a series of articles by him in Sounds, the British music paper. It was reissued on CD by the same label in 1989, but with the tracks sourced from the vinyl release rather than the master tape,[1] and the number of tracks reduced from 21 to 17.[2] The tracks consisted of a selection by lesser-known experimental, industrial and electronic artists of the period... Wikipedia
Featuring obscure electronic industrial jams by Chris and Cosey, Coil, Bourbonese Qualk, Nurse With Wound, 400 Blows, and many more.
Various - The Elephant Table Album Lp/CD - 1983/1989 - UK
During the 1980s, he founded a record label, Private Music, specializing in instrumental music in a style popularly referred to as New Age. Artists signed to the label included Yanni, Patrick O'Hearn, Jerry Goodman, Suzanne Ciani, and former bandmates Tangerine Dream. The label was eventually sold to Windham Hill Records' parent company, BMG, who continue to distribute some of the back catalogue of its more successful artists. Baumann has since kept a low profile from the music business. YAWN!
Come check out this Synth pop post Disco Prog gem.
The result is an haunted, mysterious travel through an unknown synthscape..
Peter Baumann - Repeat Repeat CD - 1981/1990 - Germany
These are some early steps of 3 people from Frankfurt/Germany who some years later will be considered as tremendous influence for the German Dance Scene. Luca Anzilotti & Michael Münzing will collect platinum records as the Producers behind Snap! And Sven Väth, as we all know, becomes Germany's DJ Guru..
Extreme Nu Beat sound, the precursor to German trance? Yaa..
You know who he is.. I don't know why I chose to post this...
Lets not mention that song!
Michael Sembello was born in Philadelphia in 1954. A talented songwriter, guitar player and vocalist, he started his career joining Stevie Wonder's band in the first seventies. Later on a became a well known session player for the likes of Sergio mendes, the Jackson 5, Stephen Bishop, Randy Crawford, David Sanborn and many others.
So hop on your electronic Yacht, and and whip out the Vienna sausages, cause Sembello turned out the electro jams that mom would have approved.
Enjoy!
Michael Sembello - Bossa Nova Hotel Lp - 1983 - US
The name "First Futurologischer Congress" is the title of a book by the celebrated science Fiction writer Stanislaw Lem (author of such works as "Solaris") whom the band were lucky enough to meet during his residence in Berlin.
"There are musical parallels with the Human League, Simple Minds, OMD, neo funk and new romanticism with nods to Wire and Pere Ubu from the constant use of electronics. Lyricially the direction lies somewhere between early Fehlfarben, Abwärts and DAF veering towards Ideal...what emerges is outstandingly produced pop music, And not for the 1st FC well travelled road to damnation in the manner of Einstürzende Neubauten," Musikexpress 8/´82
1. Futurologischer Congress - Schützt Die Verliebten - Lp - 1982 - Germany
I was recently trolling my vinyl section that never seems to get any attention, when I came across this NRG catastophre. I was totally clueless to what this interesting chunk of vinyl was... Until I put it on.. Oh man!! What was I thinking? It brought back memories of sneaking in a flask of booze to the downstairs lounge at The Monster in NYC, and dancing like Al Pacino in the movie Crusing with dirty old men.. a couple of days after high school graduation. That was the sound, and I was sucked in.. Deep down DIRTTY Hi-NRG.. I can smell the Amyl nitrite..
Signed to Elton John's Rocket Records in 1981, this ultra Glam, Synth, New Wave, Industrial-ish masterpiece will sure stun you up... This Lp was built around material Warman first premiered live with his band Three Minutes. Check out "Screaming Jets," a masterful, electronics-driven slab of wartorn paranoia whose edginess was only amplified by the presence of Peter Gabriel on effectively keening backing vocals (very Shock the Monkey)..
Here is the CD release from 2002 with bonus songs.
Johnny Warman - Walking Into Mirrors CD - 1981/2002
This comp was the thing in 1985. If you owned it you were soo downtown chic..
Check out this Leftfield, Alternative, Spoken Word, Experimental comp from hell, with memorable moments by Cabaret Voltaire, Sonic Youth, Diamanda Galas, and COIL.
Released through Giorno Poetry Systems label (run by a poet John Giorno), artwork for the compilation was created by New York artist Keith Harring..
Various - A Diamond Hidden In The Mouth Of A Corpse Lp - 1985 - USA
As a student of Leeds Polytechnic Fine Arts University, renaissance man Ball experimented with electronic sounds and sleeze..
He met fellow student Marc Almond, who, taken with Ball's unique take on avant-garde electronic soundscapes, asked him to help in developing music to complement his performance art pieces. The two cut a 4-track EP, funded by Ball, entitled Mutant Moments, and were soon signed to the small label Some Bizarre Records. Working alongside Almond, who by this time had taken on the role of lead singer and lyricist at Ball's suggestion, the band achieved massive success with their cover of Gloria Jones's Tainted Love, which reached #1 in seventeen different countries and #8 in the U.S., where it stayed on the charts for 43 weeks, holding a then Guinness World Record for the longest such stay and becoming the biggest-selling UK single of 1981.
Ball then went on to release a solo album entitled In Strict Tempo, featuring Gavin Friday of The Virgin Prunes, and Genesis P Orridge of Throbbing Gristle. He then went on to produce electronic dance music records alongside producer Ingo Vauk and collaborator Richard Norris. Ball eventually teamed with Norris to form the techno group The Grid, and regrouped with Almond for a Soft Cell tour..
Come get this awesome chunk of left field dubby electronic sleeze..
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