The promising Swedish gothrocker MONUMENT release their debut EP "Teeth & Tails", which offers traditional gothic rock at its best. Female vocals, dominant guitars, coated into the dark atmosphere of an early 80s gothrock release makes today's goth rocker's heart beat faster. The vision of Monument took...

Grab your white laboratory coat, pull out the RadioShack science kit, stick on that vhs copy of Dr Strangelove and enjoy these two beautiful, quintessentially english minimal wave tracks from synth pop duo Oppenheimer Analysis . " Science " and " Washington " are two marvellous and catchy treats that...

Noisy and cavernous post-punk, drawing on the likes of Rudimentary Peni, Amebix, Rikk Agnew's guitar work in Christian Death, and Killing Joke. It's dark and distorted, gothy but aggressive, and the opening salvo in a slew of music we hope to be hearing from these folks.

POEME ELECTRONIQUE oh didnt we all dream of finding their only original 80's vinyl release, The Echoes Fade / VOICE 7 single (Carrere Records, 1982) some day? Well, most of us didnt and probably wont, and finding the members was equally hard, but thanks to J. Langes investigative nature (hey, youre great!),...

Reissue of two exquisite 80s cassettes on "Insane" comprising live and studio outtakes by Pseudo Code. I remember those releases well at the time of release back in 1984 & 1986, surprised to discover how many quality tracks had yet remained unpublished after their demise in 1982. Very proud now to...

Staatsfeinde Dutch synth duo Staatseinde finally releases their debut EP on vinyl after two 7 s on Enfant Terrible they present this 6 track EP stripped down through the years from a band to a duo the sound also changed the songs on this EP are more up-tempo, louder, more beat orientated and also...

This is one of the most essential minimal synth wave projects, originally issued in 1980. After that, Stephan Eicher would form the band Grauzone . As a child, particularly with his little brother Martin , Stephan used a multi-track ("made in Eicher" by connecting several cassette machines together)...

Synths Versus Me is a duo formed by Vanessa Asbert and Nico Cabañas and based in Lloret de Mar (Spain) yep Benidorm style that is. In the past they had several releases out via Oráculo Records and now have moved onto Mecanica to release a fresh 12 vinyl release: 1987 (which can be ordered now). The...

"The Future of Pop Music" THE GAMES were a pioneering three-piece synth-pop outfit, formed in 1980 and consisting of Brendan Coyle (synthesisers, percussion, vocals), Colin Hughes (synthesisers, percussion, organ, vocals) and Steve Knott (synthesisers, guitar, vocals), from Wirral, UK. The same year,...

... an experimental music duo formed in the UK in 1983, when school friends Clive Weston and Steve Lippert bought some very cheap instruments - a Casio SK-1 and a Casio VL-Tone. They also had a TV nearby and a cheap tape recorder. During the next couple of years they created about 10 tunes. Very very...

"Nadanna proudly presents its 4th release, Ultra Arcanum The Silence Inside LP/CD. Ultra Arcanum was formed in November 2013 by Konstandinos Dorlis keyboards and Mark Thirkell vocals . Proof that music transcends physical boundaries - Mark is from the UK and Konstandinos being from Greece, their debut...

The damn "Movida" ... The best that can be said of that phenomenon is that it was the starting point and the trigger of something else, of that movement that garnered not fame but was far more interesting musically and intellectually, although the glow of glamor went to the fatuous flames of superficiality....