Every side an A-side!
I don’t often see it noted just what was happening with early hip-hop and English and European synthpop in and from the post-punk era. Hip-hop histories gloss over it, and the reconstructed histories of techno somehow jump straight from about 1988 back to Kraftwerk, as if all that stuff from 1978 to 1984 never happened.
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So I use the Bandcamp new arrivals as a radio, so what, so should you. Jangly guitar indie, goth-industrial dance and some straight-up vaporwave.
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Scurvy recording trickery, scurvier buzzword-compliant scams and Dépèche Mode so too has the accents in.
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Angular post-punk, synthpop and witch house with songs.
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Andrew Hickey reminisces on “Jaded” by The National Pep, from the EP Love Punks Want To Make You Cry.
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One of the finest conspiracy theories in popular culture is the claim that Theodor Adorno, a main figure in the Frankfurt School of “cultural Marxism” fame, secretly wrote all the Beatles’ songs.
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Soundscapes with songs, indie pop with synth and guitar, and industrial gone synthpop. Three excellent finds today.
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Spray’s first album Living In Neon from 2002, with a disc of new tracks, additional remixes, alternate versions and compilation appearances. What Abba would have done had they been just that bit crankier.
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The trouble with the Beatles is not that they aren’t mindbogglingly important (they are) or indeed actually good (they are), it’s that you can’t get away from them even in 2016. They are actually so famous and so important that it’s almost impossible in the present day to understand how and why.
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Synthwave with vocals, English synthpop scene and the darkwave end.
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Industrial mellows out to EBM, and synthpop goes the other way.
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The Beatles’ Live At The Hollywood Bowl recovered, Prince Buster obituary, Freddie Mercury aged 12, Nietzsche the composer.
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Post-hardcore indie rock, punk pop, power punk pop and jangle punk.
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Post-punk via yéyé, shoegaze and new wave revival.
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Electronic indie delights, with guitar.
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Ambitious but endearing synthpop, catchy new wave pop and authentically recreated mid-’80s UK indie rock.
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It’s been a good weekend in the Bandcamp salt mines. Here’s some more: demo synthpop, early ’80s-style indie, trollclash and a young pop talent.
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Shouty electropunk, indie pop and cinematic folk.
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Industrial-tangential trance, cinematic pop and vocal synthpop from Russian label SkyQode.
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Futurepop, impassioned grunge and some new wave power pop. All with good tunes and a beat.
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Political indie pop, goth rock with tunes and perfect synthpop.
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Post-punk synth, futurepop and synthpop.
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Paul Morley interviews Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 in 2010 on the joys of having been a pop band for over thirty years, and how to appreciate pop now we’re all old. It’s thirteen minutes that’s well worth watching.
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Three stone winners today. A pleasing selection.
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Spray are a couple of old goths doing semi-novelty synthpop straight out of The Manual. They do a brilliant job of it and you should listen to everything they have ever recorded.
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Two industrial, one post-punk, one synthpop, one indiest indie.
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I named my old fanzine Party Fears after the hit single by the Associates, so I’ve always had a soft spot for them.
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A wonderful 2010 documentary from BBC Four, covering the late ’70s synthesizer bands. Interviews with the (original) Human League, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres, Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, New Order and the Pet Shop Boys.
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Yasutaka Nakata, of the band Capsule, is a Japanese pop producer. Connoiseurs of producer disco need to hit the Nakata. He’s all but unknown outside Japan, and that’s just wrong. See also Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Perfume.
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