ElectriXmas 2009 – Review of the acts

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Hi all

Time for a short review of the five different acts at the 2009 ElectriXmas event. VNV was the main act for this years event and they fulfilled their promises and the crowd was cheerful as ever :-). Sorry about the sound quality, filmed with my cell phone

Spark!

Rating: 3+
Impressive performance from a small newcomer duo

Sadman

Rating: 1
Lousy singer and boring Depeche wanna be songs

Aestethic Perfection

Rating: 4+
Great act, best of the show this year

Rotersand

Rating: 3
OK, but boring

VNV Nation

Rating: 3
Good show, but not up to par with what one is used to, perhaps it mattered that they were a bit drunk…

The Swedish synthpop act PAGE reunited

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30 years ago Page was launched as probably the first real synthpop act in Sweden and was very successful during a couple of years in the early 80’s, I remeber myself seeing them live in Malmö :-), sneaking in as being under age at that time

Well now they are back and plans for a new album is all set and I expect to see them live during festivals next year. To read more go here (sorry it is in Swedish) >>

This is a clip from back in 1995:

and another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFKi00eUnE

Suicide Commando to release double-CD

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Great video by the way, make sure to have company when watching

Deine Lakaien – not on synths :-(

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This is what we want

Depeche's new video

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This is the official music video for Depeche Mode’s Fragile Tension.

via dmdotcom:

Depeche Mode – Fragile Tension

Director: Rob Chandler & Barney Steel

Part of the double-A-side “Fragile Tension” / “Hole To Feed”, this is the third single from the album “Sounds Of The Universe”.

Pre-order the 8 track CD single AND the 8 track double vinyl 12″ from Mute Bank now!
http://tinyurl.com/fragiletension-mutebank

For more details on the single, as well as the current Tour Of The Universe, stop by the official web site – http://www.depechemode.com/

The Pain Machinery preview album with new EP

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TPM live at Darkside Electronika Feb 0

And One release concert album and DVD

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Fat interview with Thomas Dolby

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Excerpt from Drowned in Sound

Following the recent reissues of synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby’s classic debut The Golden Age Of Wireless and its mini album successor The Flat Earth, journalist Joseph Stannard – Wire, Terrorizer, Plan B – spoke to Dolby for DiS, and discusses his own relationship with these seminal recordings, which oft reside in the shadow of Dolby’s 1982 hit ‘She Blinded Me With Science’.

I blame my brother. Although he generally viewed his younger sibling with disdain, he occasionally passed down an invaluable fragment of the magic that he was experiencing in his private world, between slinking out of the house to avoid another fight and saving up for white leather trousers he would never wear. One such artifact was a C90 cassette, the inlay of which was hand drawn and featured baffling mathematical etchings. I realise now that these were my brother’s ballpoint ‘n’ compass approximations of the inner sleeve artwork to The Flat Earth, Thomas Dolby‘s second album, which took up the second side of the tape. The first side comprised one version (there were many configurations) of Dolby’s 1982 debut album, The Golden Age Of Wireless, and it was this side that triggered a fascination lasting over 25 years. Appropriately, …Wireless feels like family, an active part of my personal history. Much of my youth was spent travelling from Middlesex, where I lived, to Berkshire, where I would stay with my grandmother during school holidays. Hurtling down the M4, often through sheets of grey drizzle, I would stare out of the car window at the wind-ruffled fields and isolated homesteads which would eventually form an immovable layer of my own internal landscape. I’d listen to my brother’s tape on those journeys, the washed out colours conferred by the brooding clouds matched by the shades of grey and green that emerged from Dolby’s synthesizers. If that makes …Wireless sound depressing, it isn’t. It’s just incredibly honest and all-encompassing in its Britishness. This is even reflected in ‘She Blinded Me With Science’, the song that made Dolby a temporary pop star, an almost cartoonishly English take on electro featuring the interjections of the BBC’s favourite Mad Scientist, the late Magnus Pyke. The thought of kids in the Bronx locking’n’popping to Pyke’s eccentric splutter, which is entirely likely (Dolby would later produce Whodini’s hip-hop classic, ‘Magic’s Wand’), fills my heart with joy. But that track, tacked on to later pressings in the wake of its success as a single, was an interloper on an album overwhelmingly concerned with loss, escape, heritage and war.

Read the full interview here >>

Fancy wallpapers of your favorite synthpop artists?

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Stereoklang has put together a page dedicated to synthpop nostalgica. The page will be filled over time with things like; what synthesizers did Kraftwerk use in this or this video/gig etc.

In the mean time check out some of the uploaded synthpop wallpapers that has been gathered around the web and if you have any of those orginal artists you would like to submit we are more than welcome to upload them as well, e.g. YMO, Logic System, Yazoo, Welle:Erdball, JM Jarre etc

To download page >>

Yet another 30-something event with Gary Numan, Human League…

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Gary Numan and The Human League headline Sinner’s Day fest in Belgium

Sinner’s Day is the name of a one-day festival in Hasselt Ethias Arena, Belgium on All Saints Day, November 1. The line-up looks like this: The Human League, Gary Numan, Front 242, Anne Clark, Psychedlic Furs, The Neon Judgement, Bollock Brothers and Lydia Lunch. Peter Hook (New Order) and DJ Andy Rourke (The Smiths) will DJ and there will be a “Camden Market”.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjQYILB7N7U]

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