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🇬🇧 The Art of Noise with Max Headroom "Paranoimia" – 1986
One of those wonderfully strange records where technology, pop culture and electronic music collide. The precise, fragmented production is given an extra dose of surrealism by the unmistakable voice of Max Headroom...
#theartofnoise #electronicmusic #synthpop #experimental #avantgarde #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 35 years ago:
🇬🇧 Tin Machine – "Tin Machine II" – 1991
Bowie’s band refining the raw, confrontational rock of their debut without losing its edge. Reeves Gabrels’ abrasive guitar work remains central to the album’s character.
For me, it works best when treated simply as a band album free from the expectations surrounding David Bowie’s name...
#TinMachine #DavidBowie #rock #alternativerock #artrock #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 41 years ago:
🇩🇪 Einstürzende Neubauten "Halber Mensch" – 1985
Where EN’s brutal industrial experiments begin to take on a more structured and compositional form. The band still builds its sound from scrap metal, machinery, percussion and noise, but there is a remarkable sense of control beneath the apparent chaos...
#einsturzendeneubauten #industrialmusic #experimental #avantgarde #noise #postpunk #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Sigue Sigue Sputnik "Dancerama" – 1989
SSS in full technicolor excess as a frantic collision of electronic pop, glam attitude, programmed rhythms and outrageous rock’n’roll theatre. The track is playful, provocative and deliberately over the top, with Martin Degville’s delivery perfectly suited to the band’s futuristic trash-glam aesthetic...
#siguesiguesputnik #glamrock #synthpop #electronicmusic #newwave #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 54 years ago:
🇬🇧 David Bowie "John, I'm Only Dancing" – 1972
One of Bowie’s great non-album singles from the Ziggy Stardust era. The lyrics were deliberately provocative for 1972, with their ambiguous sexuality contributing to the song’s reputation. RCA considered it too risqué for an American release at the time. In Britain it reached No. 12 in the singles chart...
#davidbowie #glamrock #rock #70smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 44 years ago:
🇬🇧 Fad Gadget "Under the Flag" – 1982
Fad Gadget moving further into a colder, more mechanical electronic sound using early sampling, creating music that is simultaneously experimental, confrontational and strangely danceable. The album carries a strong sense of unease about the future...
#fadgadget #electronicmusic #industrial #synthpop #newwave #experimental #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Joy Division "The Peel Sessions" – 1986
Recorded at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios on 31 January 1979 for John Peel’s Radio 1 programme, they were broadcast a couple of weeks later months before Unknown Pleasures was released.
These performances are rawer and less polished than the later studio recordings, but with an extraordinary sense of direction...
#joydivision #thepeelsessions #postpunk #newwave #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 45 years ago:
🇺🇸 The Gun Club "Fire of Love" – 1981
Sounds like punk rock being dragged down into the swamp. It's raw and completely possessed by the blues. At the centre is Jeffrey Lee Pierce, whose voice swings between a howl, a whisper and close to possession. Still sounds dangerous more than four decades later...
#thegunclub #jeffreyleepierce #punkblues #bluesrock #rockabilly #alternativerock #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇩🇰 Before "30 Minutes – Supporting New Order, Copenhagen 17.5.1981" – 2024
This is more than just a live album. 30 Minutes documents one of the most legendary nights in the history of the Danish underground.
It was the band’s final performance with Martin Hall on guitar. The performance itself is raw, fierce and uncompromising...
#before #postpunk #punk #livemusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇩🇰 Before "A Wish of Life" – 1982
The sole studio album from Copenhagen’s Before who was a short-lived but highly influential name from the early Danish underground. Fritz Fatal’s extraordinary vocal presence is at the centre of the record that has since acquired almost legendary status among followers of Danish (post) punk...
#before #punk #postpunk #newwave #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇩🇰 Fritz Fatal and the Band of the Mind "FritzenKlass – Rehearsals for Retirement" – 2021
An eccentric and deeply personal album from Fritz Fatal with eight highly individual pieces, shifting between melancholy, absurdity, experimental textures and a distinctly theatrical sense of songwriting. Also features a remake of a track he made with his old band Before...
#fritzfatal #danishmusic #alternative #avantgarde #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 The Cure "Songs of a Lost World" – 2024
The Cure returning to the darkness that has always been at the heart of their music. The album is expansive, mournful and atmospheric, with long, slowly unfolding arrangements that give Robert Smith’s voice an extraordinary emotional weight...
#thecure #shoegaze #alternativerock #postpunk #darkwave #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 The Cure "Pictures of You" – 1989
Robert Smith’s vocal carries the feeling of looking back at a relationship that has already slipped away with nostalgia, regret and longing intertwined. Released as a single in 1990 from Disintegration, it became one of The Cure’s most enduring songs and a defining moment from an extraordinary album...
#thecure #gothrock #alternativerock #postpunk #newwave #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Simple Minds "Theme for Great Cities" – Moby Remix – 2012
Originally released in 1981, Theme for Great Cities was already one of Simple Minds’ most hypnotic and electronic tracks. In Moby’s hands, it is given a new life.
The remix keeps the mechanical pulse and futuristic atmosphere of the original but pushes it further towards the dancefloor...
#simpleminds #moby #electronicmusic #remix #synthpop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Simple Minds "Promised You a Miracle" – 1987
Promised You a Miracle was the moment Simple Minds found a powerful new balance between their atmospheric sound and the emerging electronic dance sensibility of the early 1980s. It became one of the band's defining early songs. It is energetic and melodic which really shows when played live...
#simpleminds #newwave #synthpop #electronicmusic #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 6 years ago:
🇬🇧 David Bowie "ChangesNowBowie" – 2020
Recorded at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in 1996 during rehearsals for his 50th birthday concert, the session presents stripped-back reinterpretations of songs from across his career with a different character, allowing the songwriting to come to the foreground...
#davidbowie #artrock #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 David Bowie "Wild Is the Wind" – 1976
Originally recorded by Johnny Mathis and later made famous by Nina Simone, but Bowie transformed it into something intensely which makes the song feel less like a conventional cover and more like a deeply personal confession...
#davidbowie #artrock #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇩🇰 Sort Sol "As She Weeps" - 1988
Lyrics by Lydia Lunch and music by the band who also performs on this without her but with a horn section. Quite different from the album version. Steen Jørgensen’s distinctive vocal delivery and the dramatic instrumentation create an unsettling atmosphere that feels both intimate and distant.
Etched on side A...
#sortsol #alternativerock #postpunk #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Finally on the shelf:
🇬🇧 Siouxsie and the Banshees "Juju" – 1981
John McGeoch brought a new dimension to the band’s sound, with his inventive guitar work creating a sense of tension and unease throughout the album.
Siouxsie Sioux’s commanding vocals sit perfectly within the music, making this one of the essential albums of the early 1980s...
#siouxsieandthebanshees #postpunk #newwave #alternativerock #darkwave #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Pet Shop Boys "Disco" – 1986
Pet Shop Boys' meticulously crafted pop songs being transformed into extended club experiences. Rather than simply collecting remixes, the album presents a continuous vision of the duo’s early dancefloor sound, with longer arrangements.
"In the Night" And "Paninaro" are highlights... 👍
#petshopboys #synthpop #electronicmusic #dancepop #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇩🇪 Elektric Music "Crosstalk / Intercomix" - Promo – 1992
Crosstalk has that unmistakable early-90s electronic character being melodic and driven by a steady electronic pulse underlining the connection to Kraftwerk through Karl Bartos...
#electronic #crosstalk #kraftwerk #karlbartos #electronicmusic #synthpop #90smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Killing Joke "Live at Lokerse Feesten, 2003" – 2024
By this point, the band had returned to a powerful incarnation and the set draws on material from across their career, balancing the classic early songs with the heavier sound of their later work. There is very little sense of a band simply recreating its past...
#killingjoke #industrialrock #postpunk #industrial #alternativerock #livemusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Massive Attack "Protection" - Promo – 1995
There is something almost weightless about the production and with Tracey Thorn's warm, vulnerable vocal the perfect example of Massive Attack’s ability to turn electronic music into something deeply human, melancholic and quietly powerful.
The Eno Mix is superb... 👍
#massiveattack #triphop #electronicmusic #downtempo #bristol #90smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇩🇪 Kraftwerk "Autobahn" – 1974
It was an important moment in Kraftwerk’s evolution who was still rooted in the experimental German music scene, but now pointing decisively towards the electronic music of the future. The combination of repetition, minimalism and melody is remarkably effective...
#kraftwerk #autobahn #electronicmusic #krautrock #experimental #minimalism #70smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇺🇸 Suicide "Cheree" – 1978 / 2021
Suicide at their most hauntingly minimal. Alan Vega’s fragile, almost whispered vocal sits against Martin Rev’s primitive electronic pulse, creating a strange combination of tenderness and menace...
#suicide #alanvega #martinrev #electronicmusic #minimalwave #noiserock #protoindustrial #avantgarde #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Siouxsie and the Banshees "Once Upon a Time / The Singles" – 1981
A collection of the early singles that helped establish Siouxsie and the Banshees as one of the most distinctive bands to emerge from the late-70s underground...
#siouxsieandthebanshees #postpunk #gothrock #newwave #alternativerock #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Soft Cell "Danceteria" – 2026
Soft Cell at their most nocturnal, decadent and distinctly New York. The song takes its name from the legendary Manhattan club where Marc Almond and Dave Ball spent many nights during the recording of their early albums absorbing the strange collision of disco, punk and experimental music that was happening there...
#softcell #synthpop #electronicmusic #newwave #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇧🇪 Front 242 "Tyranny >For You<" – 1991
Front 242 at their most precise, aggressive and pure evil. The album pushes EBM into a harder, more sophisticated territory, but with a distinctly dystopian edge. One of my all time favourite albums...
#front242 #ebm #industrial #electronicmusic #bodymusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Depeche Mode "The Darkest Star" – 2006
Closes "Playing the Angel" on an appropriately bleak and atmospheric note where the track creates a sense of isolation that grows with every layer. Not an obvious single, but one of the album’s most compelling and haunting moments...
#depechemode #synthpop #electronicmusic #darkwave #alternative #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇬🇧 Erasure "Ship of Fools" – 1988
Released as the first single from The Innocents, it marked another step in Erasure’s evolution from straightforward synth-pop towards something richer and more emotionally expansive. Not a favourite of mine but this remix is decent. The b-side though... 👍
#erasure #synthpop #electronicmusic #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Released today 39 years ago:
🇬🇧 Depeche Mode "Never Let Me Down Again" – 1987
Released as the second single from "Music for the Masses", it marked another step towards the darker, more expansive sound that would define Depeche Mode’s late-80s and early-90s work...
#depechemode #synthpop #electronicmusic #newwave #industrial #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
🇺🇸 Boy Harsher "Lesser Man" – 2014
There is something claustrophobic and seductive about these tracks with their sparse arrangements, repetitive rhythms and an unmistakable sense of tension. A remarkably assured debut from the duo...
#boyharsher #lesserman #darkwave #minimalwave #synthpop #electronicmusic #coldwave #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening