The new single from Elegant Machinery…
…a real summer synthpop hit 
Listen and enjoy – and make sure to purchase it, when released, so that we encourage these pioneers to continue delivering good music.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzktzZtWPc]
elegant MACHINERY returns with the hit single “Feel the Silence”
Available at Out Of Line Mailorder:
www.outoflineshop.de
OUT OF LINE Music
Friedrichstr. 200 , 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 
+49-30-5655353-0
Fax: +49-30-5655353-10
C=iao
New DVD out with Gary Numan
Finally, Gary Numan’s stunning 1984 Berserker tour comes to life in this full length concert DVD entitled ‘Cold Warning’.
This is the complete and uninterrupted version of this classic 1984 Berserker tour concert, seen for the first time ever as an official release including the previously unseen Berserker concert intro.
The concert, shot at the Hammersmith Apollo, features all of Gary’s worldwide hits and classic album tracks from his massively successful previous 5 years at the top.
Other updated features include a stunning unseen photo gallery and a 2007 updated Gary Numan interview.
The track listing is as follows:
Intro
Berserker
Metal
Me, I Disconnect From You
Remind Me To Smile
Sister Surprise
Music For Chameleons
The Iceman Comes
Cold Warning
Down In The Park
This Prison Moon
I Die:You Die
My Dying Machine
Cars
We Take Mystery (To Bed)
We Are Glass
This Is New Love
My Shadow In Vain
Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
And of course a weekend treat from the good old days:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzvWHwmoVs]
New single with Welle:Erdball due in February
Rumors has it that it will be released on Feb 23rd and it is called “Ich bin aus Plastik”. You can see the cover of the upcoming single here and if you are strong in german, feel free to follow the text and links below
Zwar gibt es leider noch kein offizielles Releasedatum für die neue Welle: Erdball – Single “Ich bin aus Plastik” (ausser das es irgendwann im Februar diesen Jahres sein wird), dafür aber schon folgende Infos über die enthaltenen Gimmicks: Eine Spühschablone, eine Autogrammkarte und ein 3D-Wackelbild. Die limitierte Vinylversion wird zudem in rosa Farbe(!) erscheinen.
Erste Eindrücke des fertigen Coverartworks könnt Ihr hier bewundern: http://www.welle-erdball.de/plastik/
Jean Michel Jarre on tour in Scandinavia…
…and best of all, he will not go with his more recent ambient electro stuff, but rather make a show covering the gross part of the Oxygene album :-). Which in my mind is one of his best, after Zoolook I stopped purchasing his later stuff, which I believe was noteven close to his previous work.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYQiJJ3mJ8k]
The tour dates (in swedish, sorry):
Tillsammans med tre musiker och femtio synthesizers kommer franske Jean Michel Jarre till Sverige för en konsert. Den legendariske pionjären inom den elektroniska musiken ska framföra hela repertoaren från albumet “Oxygene” på Cirkus i Stockholm den 4 april.
Jean Michel Jarre är just nu aktuell med en nyinspelning av albumet som har 30 år på nacken och sålt i drygt 12 miljoner exemplar sedan det kom ut 1977. Fransmannen började sin musikkarriär på 1970-talet och hans första fullängsalbum “Deserted Palace” kom ut 1972.
Han är känd för sina stora utomhuskonserter och hans senaste spelningar i Sverige hölls 1997.
Den 4 februari släpps biljetterna till Cirkuskonserten.
80's nostalgia…
…remeber these old chaps
Yes it’s Freur, performing Doot Doot LOL
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaeNiiizxo]
New release of Chipmusic from Kittenrock – free download
Good sounding chipmusic/video game music from Kittenrock
Btw this is good site for finding more of the same >>
Free downloads (Radiowaves is btw my favorite :-))
SILent REQuiem – Pokket Nastie
(zip file – right click save target as or whatever for mac users)
This month SILent REQuiem brings us 9 tracks of some of the most terrifying Game Boy techno out there.
Get ready to be scared!
Originally released January 2008
RADIO WAVES GOODBYE – LASER BEAM
(zip file – right click save target as or whatever for mac users)
Radio Waves Goodbye blasts us out with a heavy slice of Hi-NRG Game Boy techno.
Originally released December 2007
Yazoo on tour again
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_kzhvYZtQc]
Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke will perform live together as Yazoo for the first time in 25 years. The seminal electro duo will play a five venue tour called Yazoo Reconnected in June 2008. As well as their classic hits of Only You and Don’t Go, Yazoo will perform tracks from the album You and Me Both for the first time. They will perform together for five gigs:
June 4 Glasgow, 7 Manchester, 12 Wolverhanpton, 15 Brighton and 18 London.
Exclusive ticket pre-sale available on January 25 at alisonmoyet.com.
– It’s been really good going back to these songs after such a long while. Many of them have never been played live. I’m looking forward to performing them with Alison for all the fans who’ve enjoyed our music through the years but never had a chance to see Yazoo in concert, Clarke says.
10.000 mark reached last night
Last night this blog reached, at least in my mind, an amazing 10.000 level – meaning that this blog, since its start last spring, now has had more than 10.000 unique visitors.
Thanks for your great support and let us continue to inspire the electro community with good stuff during this year.
Shout!!
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Have a great weekend!!
Synthmusic in commercials?
Synth music has a tendency to stick in the sub-cultures of the music scene, but once i a while you find some indications that things might ne changing, although I am still scepticle that it will ever be so. Remember the old synth pioneers Devo, well these guys arguably has done some work to put synth music on the map and recently saw this add where IT-giants Dell actually uses Devo for one of their commercials – although you have to watch the video for some time before you actually understands what the video is all about, LOL
DEVO wrote this song called “Watch Us Work It” and recorded it in Los Angeles, CA, and produced by Sweden’s famous Teddy Bears. DELL heard it because Paul Malmstrom and Linus Karlsson at the Mother agency in NYC played it for them as a possibility for a song for their TV campaign featuring a newly developed, high-end laptop computer. DELL liked it, and now you can of course enjoy it here too. I do not claim to give you some brand, hot news directly out of the press, the video is about 6 months old, but still…
Enjoy!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtgw-tOj-o]
Want to know more about what is going on with Devo >>
In rememberance…
…of a great synth pop pioneer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA_8nNNZqD4]
Have a great weekend
DATAMASKIN
