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I thought the Shoegaze thread would go nowhere in here, how wrong can you be? So I wonder if there's fans of other genres
Being a teenager in the early 80's, my first musical infatuation was electro. For me it sounded like the future yet borrowed heavily from bands like Kraftwerk,Can & lots of the funk era. It would probably not have happened at all without the Roland TR808 but it did & unleashed a vibrant yet fairly short lived scene before morphing into a harder sound & sprouting hip hop.
Back then, it was barely on the radio & your options outside of London & the pirate radio scene were really Our Price & the Streetsounds compilations but it still left us with classics like Planet Rock, Al Naafyish & 2-3 break. Still feel a frisson when I hear that stuff. Anyone else?
Being a teenager in the early 80's, my first musical infatuation was electro. For me it sounded like the future yet borrowed heavily from bands like Kraftwerk,Can & lots of the funk era. It would probably not have happened at all without the Roland TR808 but it did & unleashed a vibrant yet fairly short lived scene before morphing into a harder sound & sprouting hip hop.
Back then, it was barely on the radio & your options outside of London & the pirate radio scene were really Our Price & the Streetsounds compilations but it still left us with classics like Planet Rock, Al Naafyish & 2-3 break. Still feel a frisson when I hear that stuff. Anyone else?
Edited by President Merkin on Thursday 11th April 09:45
President Merkin said:
I thought the Shoegaze thread would go nowhere in here, how wrong can you be? So I wonder if there's fans of other genres
Being a teenager in the early 80's, my first musical infatuation was electro. For me it sounded like the future yet borrowed heavily from bands like Kraftwerk,Can & lots of the funk era. It would probably not have happened at all without the Roland TR808 but it did & unleashed a vibrant yet fairly short lived scene before morphing into a harder sound & sprouting hip hop.
Back then, it was barely on the radio & your options outside of London & the pirate radio scene were really Our Price & the Streetsounds compilations but it still left us with classics like Planet Rock, Al Naafyish & 2-3 break. Still feel a frisson when I hear that stuff. Anyone else?
The halcyon days of on a Saturday going up to Groove Records in Soho, then down to Chequers in the Lee High Road, Lewisham.Being a teenager in the early 80's, my first musical infatuation was electro. For me it sounded like the future yet borrowed heavily from bands like Kraftwerk,Can & lots of the funk era. It would probably not have happened at all without the Roland TR808 but it did & unleashed a vibrant yet fairly short lived scene before morphing into a harder sound & sprouting hip hop.
Back then, it was barely on the radio & your options outside of London & the pirate radio scene were really Our Price & the Streetsounds compilations but it still left us with classics like Planet Rock, Al Naafyish & 2-3 break. Still feel a frisson when I hear that stuff. Anyone else?
Edited by President Merkin on Thursday 11th April 09:45
Man Parrish also spawned Two Sisters. They worked in the record company and were put on the cover and given a 'band name'. They didn't do anything, it was all him.
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