oppenheimer analysis - new mexico (1982)

Oppenheimer Analysis - New Mexico (1982)

First release by Oppenheimer Analysis, originally a cassette-only affair but since remastered and re-released. A classic. All sorts of info and interviews available at Minimal Wave.

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Mau Mau

Here is the only full-length release by NDW band Mau Mau, on Polydor.

Mau Mau - Kraft (1982)

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einzelhaft

Falco - Einzelhaft (1982)

You may be tempted to write off Falco's 1982 debut as the album that contains "Der Kommissar," but doing so would make your life tragically devoid of songs like Auf der Flucht and Ganz Wien.




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++ video for the English version of Ganz Wien ("That Scene"):

odds and ends

These have nothing to do with each other except that they were both released in 1982 and they were both uploaded to my Rapidshare account a while ago for some now-forgotten reason.



Iko - '83 (1982)

Minimal synth group from Canada.

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Lilli Berlin - Süss Und Erbarmungslos (1982)

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2 Belgen

2 Belgen - Essential (2007) + Energy (Special DJ Mix) (1986)

A career-spanning collection of 80's musics by 2 Belgians from Belgium + a (mediocre?) mid-80's single. Their early stuff kinda reminds of early Cure or Associates on tracks like Cocaine but then Lena is fullblown italo so like go figure.





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the wake

The Wake - Harmony (1982) + Singles

The Wake, from Glasgow, on Factory Records. I was in Glasgow a few weeks ago, but only long enough to eat a really nasty KFC dinner and play a show at Optimo with WEAVE!

The Wake - Testament
The Wake - On Our Honeymoon

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deckchairs overboard

New Zealand Australian band Deckchairs Overboard, debut EP That's The Way (1982)

Deckchairs Overboard - That's The Way

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partysnäks

neue deutsche welle movie soundtrack for German film "Die Tanzbeinsammler" on Ink Records (1982)

Topolinos - Mustafa

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Midnight Cleaners

Casette-only album by Cleaners of Venus, a project of Martin Newell, 1982. Amazing how much some of this stuff sounds like Ariel Pink.


Cleaners from Venus - Only A Shadow
Cleaners from Venus - Corridor of Dreams

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What's Cooler Than Being Cool

Consummate French coldwavers KaS Product are, well, ice cold.  They sing songs about cold people who are dead on the inside, they have frosty dentine ice breath, they dance in abandoned industrial factories, and they have the coolest hair all the damn time.

At their best, KaS Product sound like what Siouxsie and the Banshees might have if they had been produced by DAF. "So Young But So Cold," from their 1982 debut LP Try Out, has become something of a poster track for coldwave, and was the namesake of Tigersushi's 2004 coldwave compendium So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983.

Kas Product - So Young But So Cold

At their worst (which is kind of the best), singer Mona Soyoc's jazz-background-influenced histrionics overpower everything and land them in the realm of schmaltzy cabaret schtick. The raunchy little role playing bit she has with her, erm, pussy cat in "Pussy X" is exactly what I'm talking about. If you can stand this sort of thing, it's actually really amazing and hilarious.

Kas Product - Pussy X

See the hair in action below in the 1982 video for "Never Come Back." Electroclash kids eat your asymmetrical hearts out.