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Hot damn!! Check out Wormser at 0:54 and 1:16!!! Between the acid synth lines and vocoders, this cut coulda been a contender. Unfortunately, the right hook is just a bit weak. The video, however, is GENIUS!
Found this one on MATRIXSYNTH-C.
Pain chaud! I'm not sure what the hell is going on in this video...but I like it. It's a damned time capsule from 1984 Paris wrapped in a warm baguette synth line. Paris features a very young Mirwais (!!) and Daniel Darc walking around town and ragging on their home city.
SCHEMATIC: Videos for Mannequin, Cherchez le Garçon, an early band portrait and Paris album cover art...
Mannequin was Taxi Girl's very first 12" pressing in 1979.
Cherchez le Garçon was the band's second single, released in 1980.
Synthpunk Elvis? People just didn't make this kind of music in 1977. Yet here it is. While France and Québéc were making space disco, NY was outputting high concept industrial synthpunk blues. Legends Alan Vega and Martin Rev, tearing it up...
SCHEMATIC: Another live version and a brief documentary excerpt...
If Robert De Niro were a robot and went on a rampage, this is the song that would be playing in the background. Hyperactive, aggro-nerd breakdance music at its finest. The Fashion Party is some hard-rocking Electronic Body Music from Belgium off the Cockerill-Sombre 12". Love that post-punk guitar around 2:50!
SCHEMATICS: Videos for TV Treated and Tomorrow in the Papers...
Where NIN came from...
This video was an integral part of my nerdlinghood. Visually rich to the nth degree: Besides the sweet sidecar motorcycle and lunatic scientists, you have the superhot lab assistant, Ms. Sakamoto, who doubles as a cello. Classic nerd track. BTW, Dolby has been the Musical Director of the TED conferences since 2001.
SCHEMATICS: Album artwork and other gems from Dolby...
The beginning of this track always makes me think of The Bestie Boys. Great video.
Taken from Beta tapes, which is really cool. This version is much more in the vein of The Talking Heads.
