Back in 1983, Cabaret Voltaire upgraded their studio with a nice advance from Virgin Records. The resulting album sported a Neville Brody sleeve, sleek production and some of the...
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Proto-techno synth pioneers Liaisons Dangereuses are best known for a song about the kids who hang around in the park, smoking and intimidating passers-by. This link is to their...
Secession were one of Scotland’s finest electronic bands. Seen here lip-syncing to their minor hit, Touch, their story ended badly: the singer developed a reputation as poor as that...
When Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Thomas Dolby got together in 1985, pooling their Atari computers, the result was a sparking piece of synthpop called Field Work....
One of the risks of taking your name from an Anthony Burgess novel is that others have the same idea. There were several Heaven 17s, for example, and at...
Three young guys from a small city in Canada got together in the early 1980s, inspired by their love of Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, The Normal and Fad Gadget, to...