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  - Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds too late (1980, UK, electronic/new wave)
    11/29/06
    Everything you always wanted to know about Cabaret Voltaire.
    
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  - Eric Swan - Jingle Encore (FR, electronic/library music)
    11/27/06
    Once you arrive at library music you are lost.
    Library music is produced to be used in radio and television shows that cannot afford their own composer. It came out on lp's and was never available for the public. The lp's were bought by broadcast companies and stood in the library, wa
  - Tuxedomoon - Scream with a view (1979, US, new wave/electronic)
    11/26/06
    I always liked this second 12" (and 4th release) from Tuxedomoon and it gets a 6 on the White Noise Scale. I saw Tuxedomoon again last year and they were exactly the same as 25 years ago, including the (nowadays) lame light show. No fun anymore.
    
    a1 Nervous Guy [4:00]
  - Minimoog
    11/26/06
    
    Found on Japanese blog (which means "Music priest's chamber description" according to Babel Fish).
  - Soft Cell - Memorabilia (1981, UK, electronic/new wave)
    11/24/06
    Not the first single from Soft Cell as I thought, but the third as you can read on the Marc Almond site. Anyway the first 12" and a good one. About the neurotic side of travelling and a consumer nightmare. Musically well expressed. A 7 on the White Noise Scale.
    
    Produced b
  - The Scientific Americans - Beyond Fiscal Distress (1980, US, new wave/dub)
    11/23/06
    A 'Killing Joke - Nervous System' like concept. A 9" flexi-disk in a kind of envelope with a lot of artwork. All included in this post.
    The music has a dub like Jah Wobble and a hysteria voice like Devo.
    Here is a web page about the band. Made by one of its members.
  - Killing Joke - Nervous System (1979, UK, new wave/gothic)
    11/22/06
    The first, double B-sided, 10" of Killing Joke. Less 'heavy' than their later work, more dub-like.
    It was not packed in a proper sleeve, just the front on a sheet of paper and some cards where included.
    
    1 Nervous System [4:19]
    2 Turn to Red [4:02]
  - Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's dead (1979, UK, new wave/gothic)
    11/21/06
    First 12" from Bauhaus where the echo machine defines the sound.
    
    1 Bela Lugosi's Dead [9:31]
    2 Boys [3:07]
    3 Dark Entries demo [1:21] (not mentioned on the label)
    
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  - The Human League - The Dignity of Labour (1979, UK, electronic)
    11/20/06
    Second release: a 12".
    Instrumental, minimalistic synthesizer work.
    They didn't carry on in this direction.
    
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  - BZN - 14 Gouwe ouwe (1968-1976, NL, rock/pop)
    11/19/06
    I can imagine that some people frown their eyebrows when they see this. But this is different from what BZN produces nowadays. It's a kind of rock in Status Quo / Susie Quatro style (no offence).
    I bought this album mainly for Barber's Rock, a rock version of The Barber of Seville (F
  - Group 1850 - Mother Nohead (1967, NL, psychedelic)
    11/18/06
    This is a copy of 1975 with a different b-side: Fire, a kind of Jimi Hendrix hard rock. You can see a television appearance in another post.
    
    The title is a dim joke on the Dutch name of the song Brother John: Vader Jacob. Vader means Father. And if you split Jacob in Ja Kop, t
  - Dick Raaijmakers Documentaire
    11/17/06
    Op het Festival November Music 2006 in Den Bosch (internationaal festival voor actuele muziek) wordt in het documentaireprogramma voor de zoveelste keer ‘Op zoek naar een vergeten toepassing - een portret van Dick Raaijmakers’ vertoond.
    
    Er kan niet genoeg aandacht voor het werk van Dick R
  - Tuxedomoon - What use (1980, US, new wave)
    11/16/06
    What I can see on www.berlinwerk.de the 5th release of Tuxedomoon. 'What use?' is taken from their album 'Half mute'. 'Crash' is beautiful music to watch beltways by and recorded with a little help from members of The Sleepers.
    
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  - We need Rock 'n' Roll!
    11/15/06
    You can say that!
    I mentioned in my post of Chris and Cosey that I played in the basement of Paradiso.
    Some recordings are made, and you can listen to them on YouTube at your own risk.
    If you think my web radio is vague, try this.
    
    It was a 'headphone concer
  - Gil Trythall - Nashville Gold (1972, US, electronic/country)
    11/14/06
    The second lp of Trythall with electronic country music from 1972.
    Pay special attention to 'Nashville Moog', which is a kind of manual how to use a Moog in country music.
    See also my post of Country Moog.
    
    Side one:
    1 Wichita Lineman
    2 Martha Whit
  - Vanavond! / Tonight!
    11/14/06
    
    The Bauer Melody of 2006, cd release party (14th nov.) at the Paradiso Amsterdam!
    
    The concert is recorded and you can watch it on http://www.fabchannel.com/bauer
    
    Please also visit:
    http://www.bauer-plaza.com
    http://www.myspace.com/popduobauer
  - Hey June (1970, NL, pop/rock/psychedelic)
    11/13/06
    This is a sampler with Dutch bands who where not so well known, except for Brainbox. But there are musicians that became widely known in other formations.
    Jan Akkerman plays with Ritmo Natural. He just had left Brainbox and after this recording he formed Focus.
    Hans Dulfer (father of Can
  - Supersister - Last Picture Show (2006, NL, psychedelic/canterbury)
    11/12/06
    Supersister did some reunion concerts in 2000.
    Now they released a 2 DVD set with the complete registration of the Paradiso concert and a documentary of the rehearsals for and concert at the ProgFest in L.A. Included on the DVD is a slideshow of old pictures of Supersister (including some of th
  - Claude Denjean - Moog! (1971, FR/CA, popular electronic)
    11/11/06
    Space versions of popular tunes, mostly moog, some guitar, bass and drums. In my search from which country Claude Denjean actually is coming, I stumbled on a page of Nationaal Pop Institute (NL, now 'Beeld en Geluid') where it states that he arranged three lp's with songs of Annie M.G
  - Greetings from Marseille
    11/09/06
    
    I have wi-fi now and then near the door of my hotel room.
  - New Bauer video at YouTube (2006, NL, Canterbury)
    11/07/06
    In case you wonder: this is not about Frans Bauer, but the Amsterdam pop duo Bauer.
    
    And remember: Bauer live November 14th in Amsterdam, 18th in Den Bosch.
    I'll be there all three times.
  - No posts this week
    11/05/06
    I'm in Marseille now (yes, I have a live).
    
    Next week I start off with Claude Denjean - Moog!
    Thanks to Gio.
  - Goblin - Profondo Rosso (1975, IT, electronic/prog rock)
    11/04/06
    Goblin made a big hit with the soundtrack for Profondo Rosso.
    
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  - Rexy - Running out of time (1981, UK, electronic/new wave)
    11/03/06
    As promissed, the lp of Rexy
    
    Side one:
    1 Perfect day [2:47]
    2 Heartbreak hotel [2:28]
    3 In the force [3:11]
    4 Funky butt [3:01]
    5 Nervoso [4:18]
    
    Side two:
    1 Johnny B Goode [2:52]
    2 Send in the clones [4:07]
    3 Running out of ti
  - Dutch Pop Giants (1969, NL, pop/rock/blues)
    11/02/06
    This is my first lp. I got it with my first record player.
    It was a mono player, but we discovered that Philips mounted a ceramic stereo cartridge in it.
    So we soldered two extra wires on the cartridge and led them to the auxiliary input of my transistor radio and we had stereo!
    We
  - The Human League - Being Boiled (1978, UK, electronic/new wave)
    11/01/06
    How come the first record of a band always is the best?
    
    You can see them playing this song live on Granada TV 1978.
    
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