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Here are a few sites you might want to check out:
John Foxx - www.metamatic.com
John Foxx, teamed up with various musicians from Louis Gordon to Harold Budd and Steve Jansen (formerly of Japan),
is still making the best electronic pop music the world has to offer. One of the very few artists that really
inspire me these days.
Legowelt - www.xs4all.nl/~awolfe
I discovered this band on Napster while browsing for electro music.
Danny Wolfe describes his music as "...a hybrid form of slam
jack The Hague electronix combined with deep chicago trax, obscure
ghetto technofunk, EuroHorror Soundtracks and lots-a-more!"
Err...yeah...well...his music is, without a doubt, some of the best
electro the world has to offer. Or at least The Netherlands.
Multimode - www.multimodemusic.com
Beautiful analog synthpop using analog and digital synths to full effect and utilizing male and female vocals.
I really like the minimal use of synths and the really lush synthetic textures. Excellent song-writing too!
From their site: "We are not pretentious.
We aren't trying to be tough, cool, chic, hip, shocking, or cutting-edge. We aren't trying to get rich or famous.
We just want to make the kind of music we like (and if you like it too, we're happy to oblige!)."
Rockets - www.rocketsland.com
This band originated in France but a couple members were from
Italy. Somehow their work passed me by in the 70's and 80's until
I discovered them by accident while browsing Napster a few years
back. I've since bought 6 of their CD's (still available in Russia)
and intend to buy more! They recently regrouped and released
a new album which I have yet to pick up. Their mid-70's material
sounds a lot like space disco meets progressive rock with Moog synths and Sennheiser
vocoders, turning more into synth-pop on their later works. By 1982 they
were using the latest technology - Linn LM-1 Drum Computers and
PPG Waves - on the excellent Atomic
album. Highly recommended! I would have loved to have seen these guys
live back in the 70's. They were shaving their heads and wearing silver face paint
before the Blue Man Group were out of their diapers.
Sista Mannen På Jorden - www.smpj.tk
Eddie Bengtsson is the
synth pop genius that heads this excellent electro-pop band out of Sweden. For those who don't know,
Eddie was the songwriter behind Sweden's S.P.O.C.K. (as Captain
Eddie B. Kirk), the main vocalist and songwriter behind PAGE, and with Mats Wiberg formed the duo, Sista Mannen På Jorden (Last Man On Earth).
Some people have called him the Swedish Vince Clarke. From what I have heard, they're not far off.
Although the vocals are entirely in Swedish, the music really shines through and all of the
sounds are created using vintage analogue synths.
He's also in another project called This Fish Needs a Bike (see entry below). In February 2007
I SATELLITE began working on a remix of the song "Det Har Ar Gront", from a forthcoming SMPJ release.
SolitudeFX - www.solitude-fx.de
This is the Web site of another friend, electro artist Marc Partick Schaffer of the band
Solitude FX. He knows how to keep things minimal, clean, and simple! Free live MP3s are available for download on his website.
Check them out! I SATELLITE is currently working on a Solitude FX track for a compilation due out later this year.
This Fish Needs A Bike - www.tfnab.tk
Yet another Eddie Bengtsson project, this one with English vocals. This Fish Needs A Bike
will be releasing a full-length CD this spring and also contributed an awesome rendition of Bubbleboy
for the Bubbleboy Remixed 12" that came out We Rock Like Crazy in Spring 2005.
Check out the MP3's at www.tfnab.tk.
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