Peter Baumann – Repeat Repeat
This slightly tongue in cheek synth-pop track was the title track of former Tangerine Dream founding member Pete Baumann’s 1981 album ‘Repeat Repeat’. Baumann shared production duties on this record with the suave Robert Palmer, who adds a charismatic sheen and melody to the track. With its detached and slightly [...]
Frightenin’ 45s: A Number Of Names – Sharevari (instrumental)
The sophisticated gentlemen pictured above has nothing to do with this Frightenin’ 45 but I thought it was would be nice to have a picture of a skeleton going out on the town rather than some ‘orrible Halloween picture. Look! He’s got a top hat! Anyway, here’s an oldie but [...]
Single of the Day – Tom Tom Club – L’Elephant
The world famous Tom Tom Club are the provider’s of today’s chirpy SOTD. L’Elephant is one of the many delightful highlights from their seminal self-titled 1981 debut album, and is a surreal tale about an elephant and a hippopotamus who disguise themselves as men and enter a village causing mayhem [...]
Single of the Day – Conrad Schnitzler – Fabrik
Today’s deliciously deranged SOTD is from Teutonic electronic legend Conrad Schnitzler. A former member of Tangerine Dream and Cluster, our very Conny (as I like to call him) is one of the most prolific and innovative electronic producers of all time. On this wonderfully mental track, taken from his 1981 [...]
Single of the Day – Artefact – Mae
Everyone seems to be banging on about “coldwave” and “synthwave” these days, so today’s SOTD is a nice bit of jaded synth-disco from some French post-punk band called Artefact. Created by extreme Right Wing theorist and sci-fi nerd Maurice G. Dantec (no, me neither) in 1977, Artefact were a concept-band [...]
Single of the Day – Holger Czukay – Ode To Perfume
Today’s “getting quite fed up of this bloody weather” SOTD, is from everybody’s favourite member of Can, Holger Czukay. Originally released in 1981, a rare live and extended version of Ode to Perfume was recently released by the Claremont 56 crew. This is however, is the edited version that can [...]
Single of the Day – Northend – Tee’s Happy
Nothing to do with Championship play-off favourites Preston NORTHEND, this 1981 electro/dance classic from an Arthur Baker studio project should perfectly compliment your Pimms and other sunshine related stuff. The B-Side to ‘Happy Days’, ‘Tee’s Happy’ is the instrumental version remixed by the legendary DJ Tee Scott. Impressed with the results, Baker [...]
Single of the Day – Gina X Performance – Kaddish
Not many bands would take creative inspiration from the Jewish Mourners’ Prayer – The Kaddish, but cult avant-garde electro-disco pioneers Gina X Performance did just that with their 1981 song ‘Kaddish’.
Single of the Day- The Stranglers – Meninblack
Taken from The Stranglers’ 1979 album ‘The Raven’, this genuinely strange offering shows off the surprising creative diversity and ingenuity from one of Britain’s most misunderstood and maligned punk/new wave bands. From the accusations of misogyny and pub-rock oafishness to concept albums about aliens and songs about heroin, no one [...]
Single of the Day – Grauzone – Film 2
Formed by brothers Stephen and Martin Eicher in 1978, the Swiss band Grauzone were part of the ‘Neue Deutsche Welle’ (New German Wave) – a collective of European bands who took their inspiration from punk, early electro and the grey decaying urban cities around them. From its early beginnings in 1981 from the underground punk [...]