This blog is dedicated to the lost world of seven and twelve inches from the 70's/80's, mostly from minimal synth, post punk, dark wave, cold wave, industrial, no wave, experimental area.
Survival Records was the home of such great acts like Drinking Electricity, Richard Bone, Tik & Tok, just to name a few. Back in 1981, the third release was a 7'' from Analysis, in other words half of cult minimal wave duo Oppenheimer Analysis. Martin Lloyd is producing here 2 instrumental electronic dance tracks co-written by David Rome, the boss of the label.
Engineer – M.Kemp Written-By – David Rome and Martin Lloyd Recorded at Spaceward
Vitor Hublot were a minimal synth band from Belgium, i recently found their first 3 releases (PSO 001, 002, 003) during a travel in Antwerp, so im really happy to share with you all.
'Aller Simple' (from the 12'') was included in BIPPP : French Synth-Wave 1979/85 compilation and recently in Belgian Wave & Pop Songs From The 1980's compilation.
Here ripped the 7'' single from 1985, both the songs are an adaptation of traditional French and Walloon songs.
I found this 7'' in a recent travel in Antwerp, i really liked the front cover so i decided to buy. As i found through their Myspace page, Apologies For Innocence were an early 80's indie / new wave band coming out from the Liverpool scene (Formby). I found a lot of analogies with the Gang of Four sound since the first guitar riffs....i was more than surprised to hear a 'Goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye' on the B Side 'Days Alone'....so my suspects were more than confirmed.
Produced by A.F.I. and Mike - All songs by Lodge / Jackson Artwork Lynne - Layout Mike
Mannequin is seriously proud to release on 45 rotations-per- minute seven inch single a nearly forgotten collaboration dredged and now seeing the light of day.
Played entirely live in one ago and using only vintage analogue synthesizers and sequencers, Martial Canterel and Tobias Bernstrup four-hands / two voices put our minds in another dimension, in an hypotetical night-time “outside”, where shadows and confusion are leading the way, creating simply a milestone for all the minimal electronics music lovers.
Martial Canterel is definitely one of the most talented artist in electronic underground music of our time, beeing the pioneer and instigator of what has now become a new movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States. With several albums on his back and deeply related to Wierd Records, Sean McBride is also the vintage controlled mind of Xeno & Oaklander.
Tobias Bernstrup is a swedish contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live performances and electronic music, mixing electro pop, italo disco and some darker synth moments. Several of his songs from videos and performances have been released by museums, galleries art institutions on CD or vinyl.
01 Martin Hall - Synthesis 02 Duet Emmo - The First Person 03 The Enter - The Contract 04 Autumn - Reach You From Behind My Walls 05 LASS Crime - I’ll Merry Go Round 06 Overlords - Secrets of the Universe 07 //TENSE// - Body Conscious 08 Ghibli - I’m Looking For You 09 Xeno & Oaklander - The Staircase (Live) 10 Sixth June - Come Closer 11 Octavius - Of Mask and Money 12 Frio - Someone Else
Mannequin is so happy to release under its wings one of the best talents in the minimal synth new scene that you better don’t miss.
We are talking about the serbian duo Sixth June – Laslo Antal and Lidija Andonov – who are rising from the mostly unknown music scene in Belgrade but nowdays re-based in the analog paradise called Berlin.
Sixth June started their musical adventure back in 2007 and in their tracks you can let your heart listen their deep influence for everything that has a synthesizer sound and found its origin in the Eighties; the duo represents perfectly the two sides of the same coin, in fact while Laslo is producing obscure but expressive, powerful and danceable textures, on the back side the voice of Lidija is living the shape to a wobbling atmosphere you won’t escape from.
Their debut album “Everything” released on Genetic Music’s side label No EBM Blanc had got an enormous positive feedback from the Minimal Electronics-fans worldwidethey were playing live at BIM Belgian Fest 2010 in December 2010 togheter with Absolute Body Control, Portion Control, Twice A Man and many other amazing bands.
Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies.
Tracklist:
A1 – Back For A Day A2 – Today A3 – Come Closer B1 – Inside B2 – 82
