Vangelis and Neuronium live session at the Nemo Studios in 1982.
Last week we posted on Vangelis and now more material are showing up, restored from old VHS tapes I guess, enjoy
“Vangelis and Neuronium perform together in a live session at the Nemo Studios in 1982.
Poor VHS images restored a little on contrast, sharpness and colour. Sound remastered for better clearity and stereo imaging.
Detail:
Neuronium released this live performance years later on a cd; the complete track is available on iTunes if you search on their name.
Enjoy! – Nimanty -“
YMO synth jam
A slowed-down ambient-ish cover of Rydeen (ライディーン) by Yellow Magic Orchestra, written by Yukihiro Takahashi. Played on a Roland Juno-6 with a Korg Microkorg providing the ‘percussion
Du bist DAF
Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) will release a self produced one-track-single on September 1st. The track and the titel of the single will be simply “Du Bist DAF”. Strangely enough the single will be limited to 2010 copies and the band will not make it available via digital format. The single is yours for 10 EURO plus shipping. For 1 track that is.
Order at deutschamerikanischefreundschaft.de if you can spare the money, no other retailer will carry this product.
Here’s a short snippet:
The new OMD single is out
No mistake it is OMD 
The first album after the OMD reunion, “The History of Modern”
The sleeve is designed by Peter Saville, the inhouse designer from old Factory Records.
The first album after the OMD reunion, “The History of Modern”, is scheduled for a September 20 release on 100% Records.
– The title felt appropriate, says Andy McCluskey When we started we were very conscious of trying to be modern in the future. But that was over thirty years ago. You were trying to do something that was modern and then the world changes and what you did use to do somehow has become historical.
Its seems to be a metaphor for the band, Andy thinks.
– Also, currently electronic music is very much in fashion. But again, a huge percentage of it to me is really a pastiche of something from thirty years ago. They are not really doing anything new. They’ve just bought a lot of old records and copied them. So it is just this idea of perception of what is modern and what the future is.
The first single and video pick will be “If You Want It” (September 6), released in a limited edition yellow 7″ vinyl with the B-side “Idea 1” and as digital download with another B-side, “Alone”.
There will be an album listening and launch party at Club 24 in London on the day of the single release (September 6), featuring a 30 minute performance by Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey. London is where Paul lives with his partner Claudia Brücken (ex-Propaganda). Andy has remained in Merseyside near Liverpool.
The new tour starts in Liverpool on October 2 where OMD will perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. UK, Germany, BeNeLux and France are the countries in question for the tour so far. Mirrors is the support act.
Video Killed The Radio Star
Trevor Horn and ZTT Records have announced the return of The Buggles, on stage for their first ever full live gig, 30 years after their international #1 hit single Video Killed The Radio Star.
Trevor will reconvene the original Buggles line-up, including Geoff Downes (Yes, Asia) and Bruce Woolley (Camera Club, Grace Jones), to preform their début album, The Age of Plastic, in full.
No tour is planned, no DVD or live CD will be released. The Buggles, along with some guest artists, will perform live on stage for one night only, on 28 September 2010 at a West London venue.
This event is being put together to raise funds for London’s Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Active since 1854, the hospital has a simple but very important mission: to add years to life and life to years.
Further details – including surprise guests, support acts, and pre-show exclusives – will be announced soon. You can register for more info at Horn’s site.
“Klaus Schulze and his EMS AKS1
DieHard featuring Gary Numan performing his classic song “Cars”
“Syyn Labs, the folks who created the Rube Goldberg machine for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” video, recently did a commercial for DieHard featuring Gary Numan performing his classic song “Cars” on actual cars (their tuned horns), playing them like a piano, all powered by a single DieHard battery. We were intrigued and asked them to tell us how they did it. They sent us this behind the scenes video. The commercial is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YsMV… You can read an article about the making of the commercial and the tech they used here:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010…”
Rebirth of Propaganda
Propaganda will release a deluxe edition of their “A Secret Wish” album on August 2nd to mark the 25th anniversary of the original release. The new 2CD edition, to be released via ZTT, will feature the original album alongside various remixes that were formerly only available on cassette and vinyl. The second disc will hold bonus material including the complete 20-minute cassette mix of “Duel”, Trevor Horn’s previously unreleased “Dr. Mabuse (Thousand Eyes…)” remix, a work-in-progress version of “The Chase” and ten-minute 12′ mixes of “Frozen Faces” and “p:Machinery”.
Propaganda is a German synthpop group, formed in 1982 by Ralf Doerper (a member of the German industrial band Die Krupps) soon joined by Andreas Thein and vocalist Susanne Freytag. They were one of the initial roster of acts signed to Trevor Horn’s ZTT label, between 1984 and 1986, during which they released the critically acclaimed album “A Secret Wish”.
New material from Deine Lakainen
On Septembr 17, the German wave electro act Deine Lakaien will release their newest album “Indicator” on their own label Chrom Records again. Ernst Horn and Alexander Veljanov will collaborate with the Berlin label Ministry Of Sound in a distribution by Warner. This first studio album from the band in 5 years will be released both as a normal and limited edition with various bonus tracks. A single will be released on September 3. The release of the album will be followed by a tour.
DATAMASKIN
