SR2 (Synthesizers Rules 1978-1983) - Various Artists

Here is the second SR compilation. It's focused on English speaking vocals.

SR2
1. The Human Factor/Music For Pleasure
2. No Turning Back/Shox
3. Digital Dance/Anti Matter
4. What Good's A Hit Song/Tone Set
5. Nowhere/Snowy Red
6. Elevator/Iko
7. 10th Planet/Solid Space
8. Personal Surrender/Andrew Horrey
9. Science Fiction/Alan Burnham
10. Justice Not Vengeance/A Popular History of Signs
11. Riot Squad/Vice Versa
12. Love Is Strange/Ciaran Harte
13. Bizarre Disco/Interior
14. The Cabinet/Das Kabinette
15. The Future Now/Psychic Youth
16. A.G.N.E.S./1000 Ohm
17. Destitution/Camera Obscura
18. Unfamiliar Room/Testcard F
19. See No Reason/Metropolis
20. In Ultra Violet/Cinema 90
21. Do Not/Instant Music
22. Computer/The Microbes
23. Direct Lines/The Electronic Circus
24. Justification/The Metronomes
25. Big Man/Plus Instruments


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SR1 (Synthesizers Rules 1978-1983) - Various Artists

This is what I've been doing lately. Listening to old synth stuff. It started this summer after I made the shoegazer compilations. I wanted to do a playlist for myself with new wave post-punk synth like Tuxedomoon, Cabaret Voltaire and so on. Soon I found myself in a sea of minimal wave, flexipop compilations, french new wave, and rare synth singles. It was wonderful! Anyway it's a jungle out there and here is the best (I think) of what I found. If you want to know and hear more you should visit blogs like Viva flexipop, Mutant Sounds, Soundhead, Saltyka, Minimal Wave, Old Punks Analog Cyberpunk Page, Phoenix Hairpins to name a few. It's alot good stuff out there. I'm a sucker for pop so it tends to lean on the popier side. So without further a do. Here's the first of the SR (Synthesizer Rules) compilations. Enjoy!

SR 1
1. New Machine/Tuxedomoon
2. TVOD/The Normal
3. Something Came Over Me/Throbbing Gristle
4. Kick That Habit Man/Monte Cazazza
5. Private Plane/Thomas Leer
6. Day Breaks, Night Heals/Thomas Leer and Robert Rental
7. Double Heart/Robert Rental
8. Back To Nature/Fad Gadget
9. Definition Of Honour/Second Layer
10. Blank Clocks/The Future
11. The Dignity of Labour (part 1)/The Human League
12. Stay With Me Tonight/Alex Fergusson
13. I Think I Think Too Much/Ed Sirrs
14. Living In A Vacuum/Higher Primates
15. Love By Number/Ash Wednesday
16. Memphis, Tennessee/Silicon Teens
17. Mekano/SPK
18. Nag Nag Nag/Cabaret Voltaire
19. Digital Stimulation/The Units
20. King of the Rumbling Spires/The Fast Set
21. Sleep Don't Talk/UV Pop
22. Sleep/Voice Farm
23. Keep Your Dreams/Suicide
24. Heartbeat/Chris & Cosey
25. Underpass/John Foxx

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Moderne - "Moderne" (Arabella 1980)

Hello again! A long time no see. I've been moving and stuff and had have too little time. Anyway, during the summer I've been listen to a lot of old synthpop/ minimalwave stuff from the early eighties so I'll be back soon with a compilation of old syntheziser goodies. Meantime listen to this french LP from 1980. It's from the french group Moderne. Moderne got together in 1979 in Tours, south of Paris. They released two albums and a couple of singles in the early eighties. This record was actually mixed in a studio in Düsseldorf where Kraftwerk recorded their first two albums (there some trivia for you).


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Skywave - "Synthstatic" (Blisscent 2003)

When I was making the shoegazer compilations I run into this little somewhat forgotten noisegem from 2003. Skywave split up after this LP and the members can now be found in the bands Ceremony and A Place To Bury Strangers (also included on the shoegazer compilations)

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Cheepskates - " It Wings Above" (Music Maniac 1988)

This powerpop favourite of mine from 1988 is listed as #49 of all time power pop albums by John M. Borack in his book Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide It's even better than that!

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12 Reasons -08 Mix-tape

Usually I post old stuff here but today as a homeage to the buzzcock-bootleg "Twelve Reasons" I made this mix-tape of 12 favourites of 2008 releases. There all awesome so check 'em out!