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#newwave

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#NowPlaying The Chameleons - Arctic Moon 🎶 Their first new album in a bazillion years. One of the leading UK bands in a movement when they dropped their debut album in 1983. If you're not aware of them and you like Joy Division/New Order/Bauhaus/Echo & The Bunnymen/The Cure etc then there should be something here for you or definitely on their earlier albums. This means @alicemcalicepants should definitely check them out. #postpunk #newwave

GARY NUMAN
The Pleasure Principle
1979 Canada pressing

Saturday morning breakfast spin.

This album is endlessly playable, and informed everything that came after it in one way or another.
Without Gary, there is no Nine Inch Nails, none of that Waxtrax stuff, none of it.
Just an absolute essential album from an artistic visionary.

Gestern kam meine neue Lektüre an: Teil 1 (1956 - 1964) der Kurzgeschichten von JG Ballard.
Dieser Autor steht schon lange auf meiner Wunschliste, da seine phantastischen Geschichten zahlreiche Bands in New Wave und Post-Punk inspiriert hatten. Offensichtlich wird das z.B. bei The Normal, John Foxx, Joy Division, Gary Numan, The Human League. Aber auch der Pop-Song "Video killed the radio star" bezieht sich auf eine dieser Kurzgeschichten.

Mit diesem englischen Buch habe ich zum ersten Mal bei "buch7.de" statt Amazon bestellt. Es war nur wenige Cent teurer, dafür fließt ein Teil des Erlöses aber in soziale Projekte in Deutschland. Die Abwicklung lief auch reibungslos und schnell, so dass ich dort in Zukunft bevorzugt bestellen werde.

Happy #BandCampFriday everybody!

My son has a new music video for the song "cdswcsdasdxz":
youtube.com/watch?v=zOTx5sK66bA

from the album "The Deck of Shattered Hearts," available on BandCamp for FREE to listen to or download (or you could be very generous and send him some money for it, but it's up to you):

rinostar.bandcamp.com/album/th

#FortnightFridayMusic
Sep 05 2025
The prompt is #Imagination

Mr. Meeble, “Cultivation of the Imagination” from “Never Trust The Chinese,” 2008

Mr. Meeble is a mysterious (to me) group from Phoenix who only put out this one album, a maxi-single and a couple of self-released digital-only EPs but all 3 members seem to have stopped putting out music shortly after, and one has since died.

But the music! Most of their stuff is tuneful sort of #Electro-#TripHop but this track is more sparse, reminiscent of synth-fueled #PostPunk before it went #NewWave #synthpop (US) or full-on dance funk (UK) - and it’s pretty cool!

youtube.com/watch?v=YDN7G5JVP4