Double LP compilation set from Manchester electronic music pioneer Eric Random . Best known for his early recordings for New Hormones and Les Disques du Crepuscule and collaborations with Pete Shelley Buzzcocks , Cabaret Voltaire and Nicolas an original member of The Tiller Boys with Shelley , Random...

" Taking Snapshots " or " Taking Snapshots Vol.1 " is the debut studio album of Luc van Acke r, self-released in 1982. The album was reissued on CD by Hard Records in 1994 and Fifth Colvmn Records on May 16, 1995. In 2009 the album was reissued for the first time since its release on vinyl record by...

Jason Letkiewicz has always swum against the musical tides, flitting between different solo pseudonyms including Steve Summers , Death Commando and Alan Hurst and collaborative projects most notably Mutant Beat Dance in order to explore different aspects of his leftfield inspirations. With his latest...

"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,...

A Complex Web - The Story of DIVE POSITION and THE SHINING PATH ... began in 1982 when Peter Miller (aka Dr. William S Ray - vocals, tapes, guitar) met Andrew Millar (aka Maurice Spectograph the Nose-y Pieman - program execution) in Gold Coast, Australia. While sharing a similar taste in music, they...

División Avanzada Independiente (D.A.I.) was a collective of musicians that was formed in the early 1980s in Valencia and could compare with similar movements such as the B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) , its Member initial were Jose Luis Macias (Glamour, Tomates Electricos, Europa and Ultima...

In 1983 the musician L.G.Aleman involved in rock bands like Arquitran and Cebras with Domingo Neonada y Atentados y T.V. Sovietica decides to work only with synths in the projects El Guerrillero Rojo , Fluido Vital and H_C , the same year appears the cassette El Guerrillero rojo in the fanzine La Razon...

Breathing Age was formed when Simon Champion (then Lawrence) approached his cousin Paul Seccombe in 1981 to add some lyrics and vocal melodies to some electro pop instrumentals he had recorded at his flat in Worthing, England. This compilation presents a selection of the total recordings made by the...

División Avanzada Independiente (D.A.I.) was a collective of musicians that was formed in the early 1980s in Valencia and could compare with similar movements such as the B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) , its Member initial were Jose Luis Macias (Glamour, Tomates Electricos, Europa and Ultima Emación),...

SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the new project of two key figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona. Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø label and also in the post-punk band Wind Atlas, unveil a new act more oriented towards pop music. SDH is change,...

A mere 18 months after the release of 2017's " Chroma" , Buzz Kull real name Marc Dwyer , has returned with his sophomore album. Traversing EBM, darkwave and goth sounds with ease, " New Kind Of Cross" traverses much darker waters than Dwyers last effort. "New Kind Of Cross" speaks to the rapid change...

If you read the name DAF you probably expect forceful synth bass sounds, snappy rhythms, Gabi Delgado and leather but that was all conspicuously absent when Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft released their debut album in 1979. Later to find global fame as a duo, DAF's 1979 line-up of Robert Görl, Wolfgang...