Test Dept – Compulsion
Way back in the early 1980s, a trend arose for smashing pieces of metal and organising the resulting sound into ambient urban soundscapes or dance tracks. Berlin’s Einstürzende Neubauten arguably…
Way back in the early 1980s, a trend arose for smashing pieces of metal and organising the resulting sound into ambient urban soundscapes or dance tracks. Berlin’s Einstürzende Neubauten arguably…
The Department haven’t released their own night serum yet, but a light application of their tester does more than firm and tone. On the evidence of this video, it gets…
Malaria! was a girl band from Berlin, who reflected the unsettled post-punk mood of the walled city at the height of the Cold War but also found their way to…
Filmed at a 1984 appearance in the Swedish town of Linköping, this rare clip shows Page performing their hit, “Dansande man” for an appreciative audience. A couple of Pro Ones…
These days, Martha Ladly teaches interactive design at OCAD, but in 1983 she had found herself in England, immersed in the country’s flowering pop scene. Together with fellow Canadian art…
Frank Tovey is sadly no longer with us or we would have to ring to ask about his Prince look in this video gem. Frank was one of the true…
They spotted this first at Slicing Eyeballs, but Simple Minds appearing on German television in 1982 is a gem well worth sharing, lieber freunder! The mix isn’t the best, but…
The talent of John von Ahlen isn’t limited to exceptional songwriting and prolific remixing. As this video shows, his ability to combine visual codes with deft animation hits the senses…
Reykjavik punks Q4U picked up a Roland TR808 in the 80s and became cold wave innovators. The Dark Entries label, which released a retrospective collection of their releases, tells the…
This song was our top pick for 2013, impressed as we were by its synthetic heritage and the emotions pulled from circuitry by veteran synthers Page. The band has now…