New album from Thermostatic
After the debut album Joy-Toy the brandnew CD Humanizer is the 2nd album of the swedisch band Thermostatic.
Thermostatic celebrates the 80s home computer sound (Sidstation at work) and combines it with the charismatic voice of singer “Vox”, along with Kraftwerk-like vocoder harmonics and those amazingly catchy melodies – Thermostatic is playful synthpop in sweetest perfection.
Listen to the song The Box and watch the preview video in an endless loop, you’ll either get hooked or get headaches :o)
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Nostalgia – Indochine, the first ever synthpop record I've bought
Started playing some old vinyls of mine and it caught me that this record was the first ever synthpop album I’ve ever bought – the start of an era 
I am not claiming it to be the best ever conceived but clearly something still worth listening to. Of course I had already explored some Depeche and Kraftwerk stuff on the radio, but this record was really something. I remember that you could buy the vinyl in different colors and that this extended single had a couple of nice bonus tracks. I never continued to listen to Indochine after that but I at least wanted to share with you a moment of truth – that kicked off my career in the electro space.
Cheers and have a great weekend
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Denki Groove – Japanese guys back from the caves
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Denki Groove, have resurfaced after a long stop in releasing new songs.
Their first new single in eight years, a catchy crowdpleaser called “Shonen Young”, is accompanied by a fabulous and decidedly 80:s-flavoured video available on You Tube. The album “J-pop” is a feast of classic synthesizer sounds and beats and is already out in Japan.
Denki Groove celebrate their 20th anniversary next year.
About section from Wiki:
Denki Groove (Japanese: 電気グルーヴ, denki gurūvu, lit. “electric groove”) is a Japanese techno–pop group influenced by Kraftwerk and YMO, founded in 1989. It is a part of Sony Music Japan‘s Ki/oon Records sublabel. Current members are Fumitoshi Ishino (Takkyu Ishino) and Masanori Taki (Pierre Taki). Former members are Yoshinori Sunahara and Jun Kitagawa.
Its works are particularly popular in Germany, where a handful of singles as well as solo releases from Ishino have been published, and Denki Groove is regularly booked for live performances and DJ sets for the Mayday festival. The duo performed in front of 15,000 people dancing in the rain on the Green Stage (mainstage) at the 2006 Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba, Niigata.
Early works have a focus more on pop sensibilities. With later releases the style evolved through several types of electronic dance music, though often with many asides in unrelated genres. Recent work has largely been composed of German-style techno. The group’s lyrics are often tongue-in-cheek and sometimes quite bizarre. They did the opening theme, “Mononoke Dance” (モノノケダンス/Mononoke Dansu) for Hakaba Kitaroh, the new version of GeGeGe no Kitaro.
Their popularity and recognition of their work increased significantly after 2006, when one of their songs was selected as the ending song for the award-winning anime, Eureka Seven. The song, “Rainbow”, is one of several reasons why the anime has gained a cult following throughout the world, and is featured on the official soundtrack for the show.
Oxygene – alive and kicking – Jarre concert report
Live in Stockholm – Release Magazine report
Now this is something that I never would have expected to see. Jean Michel Jarre, the undisputed king of grandiose stage shows on a tour of small venues, where everything is performed live without computers. The reason for this unusual move is the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking “Oxygene” album. Jarre decided that is was time for a new master recording in high definition audio, but at the same time he also performed the whole album live, together with three musicians. This was recorded and released as a DVD; “Oxygene – Live in Your Living Room” and it’s this performance that is now taken out on the road.
John Foxx tour dates announced
Live shows in Australia during 2008…
John and Louis are going to be embarking on a tour of Australia in May. The shows at selected venues will be augmented with performances of Tiny Colour Movies. Below are the dates which have so far been confirmed…
For those of you who don´t know who John Foxx is, one should at least know that he is a former Ultravox member and that he has released a number of nice albums past those days. Read more here >>
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My new EBM bass favourite VST :-D
Also used by Nitzer Ebb this VST really does the job
EGOkILLER uses a double-dose Phase Distortion Oscillator in place of the standard oscillator/filter set-up. It is a very powerful form of synthesis first seen in Casio’s CZ synths in the ’80’s. The PD Oscillators have a very full sound that gives this synth great character. It is designed for EBM/Industrial music but is versatile enough to be used anywhere.
EGOkILLERversion2 is the first of the Version 2 synths. Like the original it is based on a single Phase Distortion Oscillator. The new version features a dual High Pass – Low Pass filter set-up with resonance, as well as graphical envelopes for both modulation and VCA. The LFO is new and extra flexibility has been added to modulation routings. It also includes really fat Unison and an enhanced overdrive.
And make sure to look out for the new one, scheduled to be released soon
GODkILLERversion2 is a versatile V/A synth, laid out in a similar manner to EGOkILLERv2. It improves on the original with two oscillators with sync and Hard Sync. The mixable Low-pass and Band Reject Filters are carried over from the original. It also has two graphical ADSR envelopes and a comprehensive LFO featuring 16 different waveforms. Overdrive and LFO destinations can be controlled by a Modulation Wheel on a MIDI keyboard controller.
More on EGOkILLER and FREE download >>
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.
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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:
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80's nostalgia…
…remeber these old chaps
Yes it’s Freur, performing Doot Doot LOL
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Yazoo on tour again
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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.
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