The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.
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Tag: section 25
A selection of early ’80s mopey post-punk aesthetic.
Selections from the early post-punk record collection. A Certain Ratio, C Cat Trance, Crispy Ambulance, Magazine, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire. The aesthetic.
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Hip-hop and post-punk synthpop: Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.
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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