tanzmusik musik musik

I don't know anything about Deutscher Kaiser and the internet isn't helping, but look how rad:



+ download The Halli-Galli Tanzmusik EP from 1981 here

love is a wonderful color

CD reiusse of The Associates' third album, Sulk, 1982. Trouserpress pans it for all sorts of reasons (tinny production, self-consciousness, dramatic posing), but there's nothing wrong with pretentiousness or over-the-topness for me. Or tinny production, as long as the melodies are this strange and interesting. Billy Mackenzie's vocal flailing and histrionics are grrrreeat.


Associates - It's Better This Way
Associates - Party Fears Two

+ download the thing here

life in la

Ariel Pink & Haunted Graffiti at the Echoplex tonight. Yesss.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Life in L.A.

Things sounded good when they played on our roof a few months ago, although you can hardly tell from this crappy/amazing video of them warming up with Foilly Foibles Gold:

dull forms in light

Moderne's Moderne from 1980. Minimal synth from France, innocent and sweet and sad melodies dripping down my insides like sap.

Moderne - Vers l'Est
Moderne - Histoire Ordinaire

+ download the thing here

those fucking eyes

I've listened to this John Maus track on repeat 26 times today and counting.

John Maus - Bennington

Also on repeat:



My brain is rotting from ecstatic repetition.

The track is from the Beaterblocker Compilation, interesting story behind it here.

never finished

Arthur Russell / Calling Out of Context / 2004

Arthur Russell - Arm Around You
Arthur Russell - That's Us / Wild Combination

+download the thing here

TRACKS REMOVED AT REQUEST OF RIGHTS OWNER

WILD COMBINATION - A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL plays in LA for the first time at outfest on July 15. YEAH. there is an afterparty for the screening at WILDNESS.

Die Doraus

This is nearly as good as a thing can be, besides maybe Leoncie. Die Doraus und Die Marinas / Blumen und Narzissen / 1981. Andreas Dorau was only like 16 when this album was made, and the group of schoolgirls billed as Die Marinas were even younger. "Fred Vom Jupiter" is silly and rad and was a hit in Germany at the time, that's how great 1981 was.

Die Doraus und Die Marinas - Einkauf
Die Doraus und Die Marinas - Ich hab das Gluck

+ download the thing here
+ "Fred Vom Jupiter" video:



Thanks to Rob for sending.

zed

The Associates' first album Affectionate Punch from 1980.

The Associates - Amused as Always
The Associates - Transport to Central

+ download the thing here

Marica

Something from La Movida-era Spain in honor of all the kids at Disco Martin's who dance to imported fag pop late late on Thursday nights.

2 Aviador Dro Singles from 1982:

Aviador Dro - Programa en Espiral
Aviador Dro - Nuclear Sí

+ download the things here

La Perle

just got back from paris, stockholm, barcelona, and london. going to post old lost stuff from all those places. here's paris - Les Visiteurs Du Soir by Mathematiques Modernes (1981)



Mathematiques Modernes - A + B = C
Mathematiques Modernes - Disco Rough

+ download the thing here

food and shelter

Early 80s minimal synth/pop/tape collage group from LA. I think they were from Marina Del Rey, or at least their label was?

The album Square Dance (1984) came in a rad metal sleeve. "I Like Smog" comes from the Radio Tokyo Tapes vol. 2 compilation.

Food and Shelter - What is the Problem
Food and Shelter - Changing my mind
Food and Shelter - Nun With a Gun
Food and Shelter - I Like Smog

just because

tonight she will come back to show the world her special powers

Rebbie Jackson - Centipede


Rebbie Jackson - Centipede

visage

First album from Visage, 1980. The whole thing is grrrreeeeeeeaaaaaat. get it get it get it get it fade to grey

some tracks:

Visage - Blocks on Blocks
Visage - Moon Over Moscow

+ download the thing here

dance program

move your body this weekend to more rad early 80s german stuff



Die Doraus Und Die Marinas - Tulpen und Narzissen
Der Plan - Hey Baby Hop

Take Away / The Lure of Salvage

Andy Partridge made this really interesting collage dub album in 1980 with scraps from XTC's Drums and Wires (1979). I bought this a while ago and have been meaning to rip it to MP3 to share but Mutant Sounds already did it. Go get it over there.

on top

Guyer's Connection, minimal synth from Switzerland, 1985.

Guyer's Connection - He Sabine
Guyer's Connection - Les Loupes

+ download full album here

about time

Passage About Time EP from 1979. 3 songs about time.

Passage - Taking My Time

+ Click here to download the thing

in celebration

Lucas Trouble - Miss Syphilis
Ultravox - Quiet Men

BECAUSE

John Maus is playing at Tiny Creatures tomorrow night

and there is a god

John Maus - This Is The Beat

null and void

Very european sounding minimal synth / new wave stuff from Orange County, 1980. Un Sedatif Ce Soir starts with prison fetish queerness - "I saw a guard in a gay bar, drinking water and gin, I saw him dancing with my boyfriend, he drove a volkswagon" - before turning into a faux-french darkwave dance track that is really really good.

From the Happiness and Contempt 12":

Null and Void - All The Old Humans
Null and Void - Un Sedatif Ce Soir

IN LUST

From The Dance's first album, In Lust, 1981. Eugenie Diserio's vocals on the first track remind me of Janet from Softboiled Eggies and vocals on the second song sound a lot like the B-52 girls.

The Dance - Breakout
The Dance - In Lust