Tag Archives: Zeus B. Held

Fashiøn “Fabrique De Luxe” Ultrabox Hits The Streets [part 5]

Posted on March 22, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] There are occasions where songs can’t be bothered with small talk. “Do You Wanna Make Love” is one such time! A complex rhythm loop faded up as Dave Harris asked the music question of the moment … Continue reading →

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Fashiøn “Fabrique De Luxe” Ultrabox Hits The Streets [part 4]

Posted on March 19, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] It was time for a change in the program. The pensive mood of “You Only Left Your Picture” was established by sequenced synth loops and distant explosions of synthetic percussion at random intervals; coalescing into a … Continue reading →

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Fashiøn “Fabrique De Luxe” Ultrabox Hits The Streets [part 3]

Posted on March 18, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from this post] The quintessential précis of the Fashiøn sound come down to a single track…”Streetplayer-Mechanik.”Sustained bass notes lasting a bar over a 4/4 Simmons pad beat with a two note synth ostinato set the stage with a taut … Continue reading →

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Fashiøn “Fabrique De Luxe” Ultrabox Hits The Streets [part 2]

Posted on March 16, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Fashiøn: Fabrique [remastered] UK – CD [2021] Move On Love Shadow Steetplayer-Mechanik Dressed To Kill You Only Left Your Picture Something In Your Picture It’s Alright White Stuff [short cut] Do You Wanna Make Love Slow Blue This album was … Continue reading →

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Fashiøn “Fabrique De Luxe” Ultrabox Hits The Streets [part 1]

Posted on March 15, 2021 by postpunkmonk

We’ve been hearing about this for a few years now. The epochal second album by Birmingham’s Fashiøn from 1982, “Fabrique” had been a bolt from the blue that took the high tech production acumen of Zeus B. Held [famed for … Continue reading →

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Want List: Fashiøn – “Fabrique Deluxe” Ultrabox Coming…Finally!

Posted on December 2, 2020 by postpunkmonk

I’ve watched from afar the slow, stately process of vocalist Dave Harris and Zeus B. Held compiling and remastering all of the tracks surrounding the 1982 “Fabrique” album from Fashiøn. Word has bubbled under in the Fashiøn fan community for … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Pete Wylie – Sinful US CD

Posted on September 28, 2020 by postpunkmonk

Peter Wylie: Sinful – US – CD [1987] Sinful Shoulder To Shoulder Break Out The Banners Fourelevenfourtyfour If I Love You Train To Piranhaville We Can Rule The World All The Love I’d read a bit about Pete Wylie in … Continue reading →

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