EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTS - PROTOTYPE

Experimental Products were a two-man minimal wave project who formed in Delaware in 1982. By the time the group disbanded in 1987, they had expanded to four members and had released one full length LP and a handful of 12'' records. Mark Wilde and Michael Gross remained the core members of the band until their demise.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Modern Living
2. Sweet Rejection
3. New Project
4. Feeling Left Out
5. Nightmares I
6. The Addict
7. Anesthetic
8. Streetwalk
9. Clear Image
10. Nightmares II

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BIPPP BIPPP (FRENCH SYNTH WAVE 1979-85)

Happy Halloween to everybody.Here's another french compilation full of minimal synth acts.This is the evidence theat the 80's french scene was pulsing and solid.There are several good tune sin this compilation so it worths a liste. Enjoy and post your comments!

TRACKLISTING:

1. Contagion - A Trois dans les WC

2. Ping Pong - Act A Fool, Act

3. Je T'Ecris d'Un Pays - Les Visiteurs du Soir

4. Terroriste - Vox Dei

5. Touche Pas Mon Sexe - Comix, Comix

6. Partie 1 - TGV

7. 20H25 - CKC

8. Pretty Day - Marie Möör,

9. Game and Performance - Deux

10. Polaroïd/Roman/Photo - Ruth

11. Aller Simple - Vitor Hublot

12. Jour Se Leve - Visible

13. Viol Af Dis - Casino Music

14. Rainbow Man - Busy P

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VA - SO YOUNG BUT SO COLD (UNDERGROUND FRENCH MUSIC 77-83)

This well-constructed compilation, is significant not only for opening up these sounds to a larger audience but also for putting a definite perspective on a music scene that was all too short.
It is the late Seventies in Europe. The political tensions of the Sixties are now manifest in the extremes of hedonism and direct action. Youth feels alienated once again, this time its worse with constant violence on the television and industrial upheavals at home.

Urban decimation and Postmodernism at its height, further isolating people from their surroundings. European identity has been eradicated in shame and frustration. But something is happening. Punk Rock in the United Kingdom has shown kids all over the world that its easy for them to release music on independent labels. Current technological trends make access to new electronic instruments (ARP and MS10 among others) easy. In France a new youth culture is born. So Young But So Cold illustrates that trend brilliantly.
It begins with the most poppy tunes and gradually goes back in time, as more instruments are added to each song and the experts (mostly influenced by and creating progressive rock) take over. The first half of the disc the instrumentation is sparse, consisting of drum machine or keyboard and vocals primarily. By the end of the disc the tracks get more (analog) synthesizer oriented and denser in construction.

TRACKLISTING:

1 - Suis-Je Normale – Nini Raviolette 00:04:03
2 - Euroman – J.J. Burnel 00:03:29
3 - Roman Photo – Ruth 00:05:02
4 - Disco Rough  – Mathematiques Modernes 00:04:00
5 - Carnival – Metal Boys 00:01:45
6 - Person To Person – The (Hypothetical) Prophets 00:06:09
7 - Wallenberg – The (Hypothetical) Prophets 00:06:18
8 - So Young But So Cold – Kas Product 00:03:00
9 - Synchro – Charles De Goal 00:04:00
10 - MAE – Artefact 00:03:18
11 - Switch On Bach – Moderne 00:03:08
12 - Triangle – Jacno 00:03:29
13 - Lighthouse – Tim Blake 00:06:47
14 - The Force (Part I) – Droids 00:03:26
15 - Welcome (To Death Row) – Bernard Szajner 00:06:14
16 - Iceland – Richard Pinhas 00:09:38

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A POPULAR HISTORY OF SIGNS - TASTE

Led by singer/bassist/keyboardist Andrew Jarman (vocally something of a David Byrne student), this London quartet drifts between arty synth-dance and lightly played mood music. Using dinky electronic percussion rather than a drummer in the early days, the enigmatic group's records alternately wax chilly, funky, humorless and clever.Ministry's Al Jourgensen remixed "Ladder Jack" and "House" for the eponymous American 12-inch, a four-song sampling of the band's pre-Comrades 45s. Both of those remixes also appear on 'Taste', a 1980-'87 singles compilation that presents an absurdly bloodless trashing of Lou Reed's "Rock&Roll" and adds two previously unreleased items, including an awfully strange cover of John Fogerty's "Run Through the Jungle."Fielding a solid five-man lineup, APHOS comes out of the woods on the obviously commercial England in the Rain. Unlike its previous unpredictable self-indulgences, the band now reveals a clear-cut focus: the half-dozen peppy songs are all standard stylish modern dance rock that compares favorably to Wang Chung and that whole post-Ultravox ilk. If Jarman weren't such a duff singer, these attractively produced tracks might be really appealing.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Crowds

2. Justice Not Vengeance

3. Dancing With Ideas

4. Stigma

5. Art Of Persuasion

6. If She Was A Car

7. Ladder Jack

8. Trapped

9. Body And Soul

10. House

11. Rock & Roll (Velvet Underground cover)

12. Run Through The Jungle (John Fogerty cover)

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BRUCE HAACK - ELECTRIC LUCIFER

Electric Lucifer is an early electronic album by Bruce Haack noted for its originality and innovative use of acid rock and electronic sounds. AllMusic.com describes it as "a psychedelic, anti-war song cycle about the battle between heaven and hell." Haack used a Moog synthesizer and his own home-built electronics, including an early prototype vocoder. It was originally released on LP in 1970 and has been re-mastered and re-released on CD several times since. "Song of the Death Machine" and "Word Game" both feature vocals by Chris Kachulis. The lyrics are also highly original, mentioning concepts such as "powerlove" — a force so strong and good that it will not only save mankind but Lucifer himself. It remains Haack's only album to debut on a major label and was featured heavily in the 2004 documentary Haack: The King of Techno.

TRACKLISTING:


1. "Electric To Me Turn"
2. "The Word (Narration)"
3. "Cherubic Hymn"
4. "Program Me"
5. "War"
6. "National Anthem To The Moon"
7. "Chant Of The Unborn"
8. "Incantation"
9. "Angel Child"
10. "Word Game"
11. "Song Of The Death Machine"
12. "Super Nova"
13. "Requiem"

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BAL PARE - BEST OF

Best of compilation of this minimal wave german band from Hamburg. Founded by Kirsten Klemm,Matthias Schuster and Jan T.Krahn the band started recording in 1981 inicially with the name Jeanette und das Land Z. The first 7" was released in Spring of that same year and it was a cover of a France Gall song, "Poupee de cire,poupee de son". After finishing the first album, the band didn´t come to an agreement with Phonogram, their inicial label, so the band took over the whole Konkurrenz label to start a new and totally independent company. Inspired by an old song of a german chansonette Hildegard Knef, the band manifested their independent status by changing the name to Bal Paré. They still record to this day after the reunion in 2007.

TRACKLISTING:

1.Rien ne va plus

2.Palais d´amour

3.Poupee de cire, poupee de son

4.Die idioten

5.Kriminalitat

6.Nocturne

7.Natalie

8.1-2-3

9.Die hunde sin los

10.Les mots

11.Eine nacht im 9. stockwerk

12.Allez allez

13.Natalie II

14.Tokio - Oklahoma

15.Derrick

16.La chute

17.Raumpatrouille

18.Metamorphose

19.Meilleur du monde

20.Bal paré

21.Stummfilm

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