Thursday, September 16, 2010

Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground

New book recommendation comes from the author Charles Neal who set about interviewing the major protagonists working in sound, word and image. Concentrating on the most challenging and confrontational, he deliberately chose those individuals and groups most at odds with the mainstream. His aim to produce a collection that reflected the cutting edge of the Eighties underground.
With only his tape recorder as defence, he solicited hundreds of hours of interview material, as well as photos, original writing and illustrations. His findings were as intriguing and diverse as the artists included. Often encompassing the taboo and perverse, the opinions of Nick Cave, Genesis P.Orridge and Michael Gira now read like lone voices against the tide of creeping commerciality that abounded in the Eighties music scene.

Contributors to Tape Delay include: Marc Almond - Dave Ball - Cabaret Voltaire - Nick Cave - Chris & Cosey - Coil - Einsturzende Neubauten - The Fall - Diamanda Galas - Genesis P. Orridge - Michael Gira - The Hafler Trio - Matt Johnson (The The) - Laibach - Lydia Lunch - New Order - Psychic TV - Boyd Rice - Henry Rollins - Clint Ruin - Sonic Youth - Stevo - Mark Stewart - Swans - Test Dept. - David Tibet (Current 93)



Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Buggles unite with OMD for a good cause

Trevor Horn and ZTT Records is proud to announce the return of The Buggles, live on stage for their first ever full live gig... a mere 30 years after their international #1 hit single "Video Killed The Radio Star" kick-started a generation of electronic pop. Trevor will reconvene the original Buggles line-up, including Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley to preform their ground-breaking début album "The Age of Plastic" in full. The band will be supported by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark who will perform a special support set in a rare appearance in their original two-piece formation.
This unique event is being put together to raise funds for London's Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Active since 1854, the hospital has a simple but very important mission: to add years to life and life to years.

www.trevorhorn.com/news

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Alphaville- Catching Rays on Giant- New Album

Marian Gold is back with his synth-pop outfit Alphaville will release a new album this autumn. The album is called 'Catching Rays On Giant' and will be out on November 22, 2010. The single "I Die For You Today" will be released on October 8, 2010 and is already spinning on the German radio stations. Both the album and the single will be available at all regular German music stores, online stores and download platforms. Pre-ordering has just started at amazon.de and it will also be available at amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Beside the CD, there will also be a limited Deluxe Release which contains a DVD. More info to be announced!

www.alphaville.de

Friday, September 10, 2010

Instant Hit: Pulp- My Lighthouse

Pulp, one of the best 90's bands, really struggled to gain prominence in the early 80's with the release of their debut album It. Most of the songs on this album were acoustic, romantic pop songs influenced by Leonard Cohen. The debut single "My Lighthouse" is the perfect example for it. It was released in 1983 though the Red Rhino Records.


Gary Numan and John Foxx on Back To The Phuture

Mark Jones' 'Back To The Phuture' is to host a special live event on Friday 3rd December 2010 which will see the UK's two synthesizer godfathers Gary Numan and John Foxx share the same bill as live performers for the very first time. With mutual admiration on both sides for a number of years, this show is a development of the professional kinship that began earlier this year when Gary Numan contributed a DJ set with Ade Fention for John Foxx's Short Circuit 2010 event at The Roundhouse. Also featuring will be a live set from Motor plus DJ sets from Mark Jones himself and Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire. Additional special guests are to be announced.

www.electricity-club.co.uk

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Pet Shop Boys- Being Boring

Continuing our Nude Wave: 80's music video nudity series.
The video for the song "Being Boring which was the second single release from the album 'Behaviour was directed by fashion-photographer Bruce Weber, totally in black and white, shows a house party and begins with a nude swimmer getting out of the swimming pool and jumping on a trampoline.


Monday, September 6, 2010

Hurts- Happiness

'Happiness' is the debut studio album by British synthpop duo Hurts released today, September 6, 2010 in the United Kingdom. It was preceded by two singles "Better Than Love" and "Wonderful Life" which were released during this year. The song "Devotion" is a duet with Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. To promote the release of the album the band released the non-album song "Happiness" as a free download via Amazon.co.uk on 1 August 2010.


Sunday, September 5, 2010

Figures on the Beach

Figures on a Beach was a musical band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in the early 80's out of the ashes of the dada-ist electronic art band Razor 1922. The group was formed by the vocalist Anthony Kaczynski and guitarist John Rolski and the group's line up was almost completed after keyboardist Christopher Ewen, bassist Perry Tell and drummer, multimedia designer, animator, and illustrator Michael "Smitty" Smith joined the group.


From the beginning, Figures On A Beach played in an artistic New Romantic/angular techno-pop style that belied their Detroit roots, and stood out from the thriving and predominantly guitar-driven local punk/underground scene at the time. Their first record, an obscure four track EP release titled 'Swimming', was released through the Metro-America label in 1983. Then a year later in 1984, FOTB released their debut single "Breathless" which brought new styles into New wave marking the beginning of Detroit house and techno. Soon after, bassist/guitarist Perry Tell completed the line-up, and the band recorded the double A-sided EP 'Paradise/In Camera Obscura' in early 1985.


In the late 1985, Figures on the Beach moved to Boston and they were signed by Seymour Stein of Sire Records. They released their first full length LP 'Standing on Ceremony' in 1987 with the emphasis track and video for "No Stars", but the group’s sound was a little late for the 80’s party and a radio campaign & tour to support the record weren’t very rewarding. The self-titled LP & CD 'Figures On A Beach' followed in 1989. It contained the popular club-scene hit "Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria)" and a tongue-in-cheek cover of Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", which became a minor radio hit. The band continued to play live, write and record new material, but disbanded in 1991 before completing a third album.


Today, Figures on a Beach are available for download. Every song and album recorded on the Sire/Warner record label is now available for download at iTunes. They are currently building a thorough and comprehensive web site to help inform you of all things Figures on a Beach. Check out the link for additional information.

http://www.figuresonabeach.com/intro.htm

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dali's Car- The Second Album

Former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy has announced via Facebook that he will be reuniting with ailing ex-Japan bassist Mick Karn to record a second Dali's Car album, the follow up to their 1984 debut "The Waking Hour".
“It’ll be the first time that we’ve seen each other since ‘83, and it’s going to be a pleasure. We’ve been talking and it’s been great.”
Earlier in this year in June Mick Karn official announced that the singer was diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer. Visit the www.mickkarn.net/index to donate money to the Mick Karn appeal.

http://burningflameblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/japan-and-self-existence.html

http://burningflameblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/dalis-car.html

Monday, August 30, 2010

Martin L.Gore News

Great news for all Matin L. Gore fans. He will team up with his former band mate Vince Clark to record and produce a 'techno-ish track' called "Zaat" as it is reported. The track will be included on the forthcoming Erasure album. Martin will also be appearing as DJ at an after show DM/Recoil party at the Recoil's event at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA on 24th October.Gore will be spinning a collection of his favourite tracks. Last but not least, the song "Milakia" which he has produced in collaboration with Bomb The Bass is out today. The song is available on the recent Bomb The Bass album 'Back to Light'.

http://www.side-line.com/

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