Newclear Waves - Where The Sea Stands Still (Demo)

Where The Sea Stands Still (Demo) by Newclear Waves

Trick 17 - Spiegelbilder LP 1983

Here's the cult NDW full lenght from Trick 17, already a classic for the minimal synth lovers!

Tracklisting

A1 Jede Frage Ohne Antwort
A2 Lieben + Leben
A3 Liebe Oder Hass
A4 Träumen Von Haiti
A5 Romanzen
A6 Der Lauf Der Dinge
A7 City-Nacht
A8 13 Tage Ohne Dich
A9 Sonntags Im Park
A10 Hey! Komm Schlaf Mit Mir
B1 Wasserball
B2 Wer Steckt Dahinter ?
B3 Kommandeur
B4 Jetzt Oder Nie
B5 Falling Days
B6 50 Km/h In Geschlossenen Ortschaften
B7 Mir Ist Kalt
B8 Fabrikmauern
B9 Wenn Die Russen Kommen

Label: Not On Label, EMI Electrola GmbH
Catalog#: SIGNAL 002A, F 668.574

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Krisma - Iceberg LP 1986

Do Christina and Maurizio really need a presentation? Here ripped their mid 80s LP 'Iceberg', deeply influenced by the italo disco and synth pop, though are not missing some weird experimental tracks.

More credits info here


Tracklisting

1 Skyline
2 Meltin Ice Garden
3 Fritz Cavallo
4 Eyes Gymnastic
5 Crystal Lover
6 Iceberg
7 Igloo Architecture
8 Be-Bop
9 Eskimo In Distress
10 Signorina
11 Hotta Choccolata
12 Be-Bop Reprise

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The Metronomes reissue on Mannequin OUT NOW!!! FACT MAG free download track

Fact Mag free download track of 'A Circuit Like Me' from The Metronomes

We’ve written at length in these pages before about our love of Mannequin Mailorder.

The Italian label has brought us some extraordinary reissues culled from the margins of 80s synth wave, goth, post-punk and electro-pop, as well as treating us to new releases from modern day standard-bearers like Frank (Just Frank) and Led Er Est.

Their latest offering is a lavish reissue of hard-to-find music by The Metronomes, who formed in Melbourne in 1979. Comprising members Al Webb, Andrew Picouleau and Ash Wednesday, the latter these days a member of Einsturzende Neubauten, The ‘Nomes recorded two classic minimal synth albums, Multiple Choice (1980) and Regular Guys (1985); both these albums feature in Mannequin’s lavish new triple-vinyl collection. The albums are pressed across two 12″s and housed in a gatefold cover with rare pictures and an insert with notes by Al Webb. As if that weren’t enough, a 7″ featuring tracks from the band’s ‘Saturday Night’/'Sunday Morning’ and ‘A Circuit Like Me’ singles is thrown into the bargain.

We’ll let Mannequin tell you more about the music and its provenance:

“Their first 7’’ single “Saturday Night’/'Sunday Morning’ came out in 1980, and featured a real metronome as rhythm section with instrumentals layered over. The second, ‘A Circuit Like Me’/'Closed Circuit’ from 1980, is more experimental in terms of drum machines and rhythm sections. Both sides were recorded using a borrowed Roland CR 78. It was the first time that they had used a vocal in their compositions, courtesy of a lady called Talking Judy.

“The first full-length, Multiple Choice, was recorded in the winter of 1980, using Roland Strings, a mini-Korg, some ARP synthesizers and a Boss DR-55, a drum machine that was intensivly used by many minimal synth bands during the 80s and by legendary bands like Sisters of Mercy or New Order in their first songs.

“The second album Regular Guys, published in 1985, was recorded after a break in which all the members’ various lives and careers took left and right hand turns. It was surely more premeditated, as most of the songs arrived in studio already written. Each writer had creative control over their respective songs, a long-standing Metronomes road rule; only one track had what you might call a spontaneous birth. The LP featured the next wave of synth toys like the Oberheim synth, Oberheim drum machine and Prophet 5. Once the programming was set up, the instrument tracks were bounced via a PCM box direct to video tape, a pioneering process which almost entirely eliminated tape hiss.”

Mannequin’s exquisite package is entitled The Ballad Of The Metronomes, and is being released in a hand-numbered, limited edition of 500. The first 100 copies will also include a self-explanatory bonus CD-R, The Metronomes Play Their Favourites. Find more information and pre-order the collection here, and download ‘A Circuit Like Me’ below.

The Metronomes - A Circuit Like Me by factmag

Art Boulevard S/T Demo Tape 1986

Art Boulevard, born in 1985 in Bergamo (northern Italy), immediately stood out from the pack for their aesthetic and existential attraction to post-punk combined with a musical vision that was straight out of the late sixties: “rock as art” and not merely as an urgent expression of adolescent rebellion.

Here's their self-titled demo tape from 1986.

Music & Lyrics by Art Boulevard
Production A.B. and Kiccobeni
Recorded at Suono Vivo studio (Bergamo, IT)

Enrico Colombo - voice + guitars
Roberto Mazzola - keyboards
Marco Azzerboni - bass
Alfredo Cucchi - drums

Tracklisting

A1 Destroyed
A2 Return Journey

B1 Dawn Is Death
B2 Take The Gun

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The Metronomes - A Circuit Like Me (from Mannequin MNQ 015)

Mannequin is more than enthusiastic to announce the re-release of both the LPs (“Multiple Choice” from 1980 and “Regular Guys” from 1985) plus the 2 singles seven inches “Saturday Night / Sunday Morning” and “A Circuit Like Me” from this legendary minimal synth band from Australia.

The group was an integral part of the early electronic music scene in Australia and their releases have become a collector’s item in Europe, as they are mostly impossibile to find.

The Metronomes first appeared in Melbourne in 1979, initial members were rock journo-synth player Al Webb, the bass player Andrew Picouleau (Secret Police, Sacred Cowboys) and the synth-pioneer Ash Wednesday, nowdays a live tour member of Einsturzende Neubauten. Al himself will admit later that Ash’s ingenuity in creating something out of very little was the key to the Metronomes sounding as ‘produced’ as they did.

This track is an extract from their second single ‘A Circuit Like Me / Closed Circuit’ from 1980, addice more to experimentation with drum machines, in fact the rhytm sections for both sides were recorded using a borrowed Roland CR 78. It was the first time in their compositions that a vocal had been used, courtesy of a lady called Talking Judy.

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Kleist - Mains Mannequins 7'' 1982

French New Wave band, not so cold..but well :-)

Tracklist

A Mains Mannequins
B Mannikin

Disc'Az AZ/1 951

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