RAMPAGE! I'm in love with this stuff. Thick guitar basslines, tweaked synths, angsty vocals, drums, actual germans... 

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German EBM (Electronic Body Music) pioneers, Liaisons Dangereuses are goin' for it full throttle on this track. This particular live version was filmed in Manchester in 1982. Acid synthlines abound, making this track a landmark Chicago/Detroit precursor. iSpy my favorite synth duo the Korg MS-20 and MS-50. 

Synth goddess and band co-founder Beate Bartel was also one of the original members of the avant-garde band Einstürzende Neubauten. This next live version was filmed at a music festival in Düsseldorf. Check out pink hair at 1:21!!

For comparison purposes, I've also included a still frame video for the 12" version.

OK. So, pretend for a minute that lead singer Francis Foss DOESN'T look and sound like Dana Carvey taking the piss out of no wave bands. In that hot minute, you will surely discover how rad this song is because you, after all, love les minijupes (miniskirts) as much as I do. And Korg MS-20s.

Starter - Minijupe 7" (1981)

Starter - Starter LP (1981)

Starter - Band Photos

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Italian film composer and experimental synth maestro Giombini put up this track sometime in the early 1980s as a promo for the Commodore 64. I wonder if this video somehow inspired the seminal film, Weird Science?

SCHEMATIC: Cuts from Giombini's landmark 1981 LP Astromusic Synthesizer...

This EP/12" gets me all wound up with some serious non-goth electro industrial madness! Crash Course in Science was formed in 1979 while the three members were attending art school in Philadelphia.Flying Turns is off their 12" Signals from Pier Thirteen originally published on Press Records in 1981.

SCHEMATICS: More videos and MP3s from the 12"...

Clean, first pressings sell for upwards of $100, with second pressings from 1986 on LD Records fetching only slightly less.

Cardboard Lamb (2:41)

Crashing Song (2:35)

[audio:http://www.innernerd.de/audio/CrashCourse/Crash Course Crashing Song.mp3|titles=Crashing Song|artists=Crash Course in Science]

Factory Forehead (2:56)

[audio:http://www.innernerd.de/audio/CrashCourse/Crash Course Factory Forehead.mp3|titles=Factory Forehead|artists=Crash Course in Science]