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REDUX: Scarcity vs. Ubiquity: The Rise And Fall Of Synthpop [part 5]
By 1981, with The Human League transitioning to a completely different type of synthpop band, the UK charts began to get crowded with synthesizers as the goldrush to capitalize on the beachhead that Gary Numan established in 1979 led to … Continue reading
REDUX: Scarcity vs. Ubiquity: The Rise And Fall Of Synthpop [part 4]
July 7, 2015 The Human League entered 1981 with a handicap. Manager Bob Last had engineered a split between the actual musical portions of the group [who went on to form the British Electric Foundation and Heaven 17] and its … Continue reading
REDUX: Scarcity vs. Ubiquity: The Rise And Fall Of Synthpop [part 3]
July 1, 2015 With UK technopop experiencing a meteoric rise in the years 1979-80, the next year was a watershed for the sound. Big changes were underfoot. OMD dropped their third album and it was filled with experimental elements like … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Designed By Peter Saville, Uncategorized
Tagged 1978, 1981, Kraftwerk, OMD, Ultravox
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Record Review: Logic System – Logic JPN CD
Logic System: Logic – JPN – CD [2008] Intro Unit Domino Dance 天変地異 (Convulsion Of Nature) X? Talk Back Clash (Chinjyu Of Sun) Person To Person Logic Recently, I got around to making a CD of Masami Tsuchiya’s “Rice Music” … Continue reading
An Interview With Gleaming Spires’ David Kendrick [part 1]
When I was contracted last month by the PR agent promoting Omnivore’s CD reissue program for the works of Gleaming Spires, it was like having my wish granted by a genie. When they offered an interview with Spire David Kendrick, … Continue reading
Posted in Interview
Tagged 1978, 1981, 1983, DEVO, Gleaming Spires, Kim Fowley, Rodney Bingenheimer, Stephen Hague
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Record Review: Gleaming Spires “Songs of The Spires” US DLX RM CD
This week we delve into the vivid canon of Gleaming Spires; the Los Angeles band that began life as the Power Pop band Bates Motel in the late 70s to become Sparks backing band for their fertile 1981-1985 period that … Continue reading
Breaking The Ice With Bette Bright…43 Years Later
I never heard Deaf School until sometime in the early 90s when a friend have me the US 2xLP compilation of “2nd Honeymoon/Don’t Stop The World” and I finally got to hear the fascinating group. Sure, I’d heard the name … Continue reading
Posted in Assorted Images, Want List
Tagged 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, Bette Bright, Clanger/Winstanley, Deaf School
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