'the garden' by john fox.
he was originally with...ultravox, i think.
Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/24/2000 09:13:53 PM
To: 313@hyperreal.org
cc: Mxyzptlk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: James Bucknell/Magazines/Hearst)
Subject: Re: [313] Classic Kraftwerk Find/New Wave suggestions
The Steps by Visage is a classic, slow and dark synth mood peace.
Frank
Mxyzptlk wrote:
Can you narrow the category a bit?
Sure, I am looking for stuff along the lines of In a Lonely Place by New
Order and Ghosts by Japan. I am looking for moody, slow records with
deep synth
er...that would be piece...heh, more for the spelling list, I guess...
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Frank Smith wrote:
The Steps by Visage is a classic, slow and dark synth mood peace.
^
Sure, I am looking for stuff along the lines of In a Lonely Place by New
Order and Ghosts by Japan. I am looking for moody, slow records with
deep synth sounds, something that would have been an outgrowth of Here
Are The Young Men by Joy Division.
Propaganda are for you - try their tracks Dream
... along the lines
of Lexicon Of Love by ABC ...
... found a very clean 'n' loudly pressed test pressing of this this Thursday
past ...
along with a rahdio station suggested cuts stickered equally slick copy of
Martha and the Muffins' Metro Music ... the pair of 'em for a fiver!
Be Here Now,
My favourites in that New Wave era (now obviously Oldwave) which had distinct
synths - Talking Heads, Talk Talk, Gary Numan, Cabaret Voltaire, Human League
and...the first album by Howard Jones - Human Lib around '83 which really got
me kickstarted into electronic music at a tender young age.
Can you narrow the category a bit? I was in a buying frenzy during the whole
punk/postpunk/new wave (etc) periods, but without a long laundry list which may
be
hit or miss it'd be tough to post some ideas you may be after. Are we talking
Ultravox, XTC, Tones on Tail... (just some broad categories
Intermodal wrote:
While we are on the subject of classic finds, does anyone have any good
recommendations for obscure but good new wave records?
Absolutely anything by Propaganda.
For starters, the obvious material is the Japan stuff (Quiet Life, Gentlemen
Take
Polaroids, Tin Drum). You might want to dig up some old YMO members' solo lps
(and
the YMO stuff is pretty special, too) and the earlier Bill Nelson (post Be Bop
Deluxe, pre-ambient/experimenta stage...like the
