„I gave myself permission to make really bad electronic music on my computer.”

Caroline Polachek (from the American synth pop duo Chairlift) has made a solo album during her band’s tour last year. It was written and recorded in hotel room closets, airport terminals and airplane bathrooms alone. 80’s new wave synth pop with a little sacral attitude.

Ramona Lisa – ‘Arcadia’ album by Terrible (US)
Pannonica (EU/JP), Mistletone (AUS/NZ)

She is a very special woman. „Cicadas are my favorite bug because they’re underground for seven years, and when they come out, they’re only out for the tiniest amount of time. They’re such romantic creatures.”

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Total Punk Record‘s singles in March. Lumpy & The Dumpers from St. Louis („Best sax solo I have ever heard”) and Manatees from Memphis. Mud trash

You can buy here Lumpy     Manatees

Küss Mich presents

one of the main figures of the Brooklyn’s analogue techno scene

Shawn O’Sullivan (from Led Er Est)

Budapest  03 07  22:30  Toldi

+ Saint Leidal the 2nd + The Stanley Maneuver

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5crap5 doesn’t hesitate to wear her obsession with 80s synth rock on her sleeve, citing The Human League, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Flock of Seaguls, OMD, Gary Numan and Devo as influences. I didn’t want to believe that she’s also an Aussie.

digital album

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2 British grunge punk bands, Bloody Knees and Birdskull

split 7″ by Art is Hard

There’re two great American bands, The Hussy is a midwestern trashy garage rock duo, Digital Leather is synth-pop-punk band of Shawn Foree with different line-ups. Split 12″ with 6 love songs by Digital Leather, and Shawn also plays on 4 Hussy songs, among those is a DL cover.

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Two German brothers played jazz with their father, then have formed The Notwist as hardcore-metal band in 1989. Then they turned into grunge, later indie rock and electro pop.

Close To The Glass LP by City Slang (UK), Sub Pop (US) and Spunk Records (Aus)

Euro tour March-Apr

Nice French synth pop punk a la 80s

Superets -’ 160 caracteres pour te dire adieu’ 10″ EP or digital by Les Disques Entreprise

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„The sound will be simple and strange” was thought by Mr. Horrell, who founded the Moving Fingers in Memphis. Great primitive lo-fi punk with trumpet and delay pedal on the snare drum

7″ by Goner Records

22: Küss Mich Party > XENO & OAKLANDER (USA)

The minimal synth duo on way back from Moscow lands in Budapest on Jan 22 at Toldi Klub. There’re no more Euro dates!

+ BULK (H – at the request of Sean McBride from X&O) + GHOST & SCHOLARS (H)

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23: ÚJ LÁTÁSMÓD FÚZIÓ

matinée on Jan 23 at Bem Mozi. Special guest: Csermanek Csabi . Start strictly at 20:30!

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24: 98th RNR666 Party

OvO – minimal extreme metal from Italy

OvO in Budapest at RNR666 Party in 2007

+ MOMBU (I) – tribal jazz metal + PARANOIZ (H) – noise
on Jan 24 at Müszi.

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OvO + Mombu play in Szeged at Jazz Kocsma on Jan 23!

OvO + Mombu Euro Dates

Laura Hill, alias Scraps play weird minimal synth pop under influence of style of the 80s.
I didn’t want to believe that she is also an Aussie. Blessed land. Electric Ocean

from her debut LP by Fire Records in March

6th of June in 1944 was the D-Day. Its aim was Berlin. Some decades later almost same allies dropped bombs on Belgrade.

Sixth June is a Berlin based („Here, you’d think about where to go out,”) Serbian („in Serbia you have to think about making a place to go out to first. Art is one of the last things there, still. Nobody thinks it’s important.”) duo of Laszlo Antal and Lidija Andonov. 80s style cold minimal synth pop

Pleasure EP by Mannequin Records

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La Secte du Futur is a French garage rock band with the members of Catholic Spray, JC Satán, Black Bug and more.

Greetings From Youth LP by XVIII Recdords

Popular Culture is Henry Mowgli Gillespie. His debut album was recorded after two years of on and off sessions with producer Kyle Ellison (Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Pariah) and Paul Barker (Ministry) in Texas. He plays self proclaimed „Dark Pop”. Some names which came to my mind during the listening: Jesus & MC, New Order, Digital Leather, Jonnie Common.

Episode LP by Sparrowsongs. One of the best debut albums this year. You can listen to it totally under both links.

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„Cretin Girl is new band from Gainesville, Florida. If you like !!!Punk/ Killed By Death/ Raw/Wave!!! you need this!!!”

S/T Tape by Goodbye Boozy and W.I.T.S Records, limited edition 69 copies

Two girls with their friends play easy minimal punk in Brooklyn

Household – Elaines EP by Dull Knife

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Sapphire Slows is a Japanese girl. She makes experimental house-techno-disco with dream-pop and shoegaze influences mainly with 80s Casio keys and ableton in her bedroom, where she records her songs with a laptop. Debut full-length

Allegoria LP by Not Not Fun Records

Geneva Jacuzzi (USA)

electronic music styles that range from darkwave goth-lounge to tropicalia

„My only friend was an older woman that I met at a job.
She was an old Pum-Pum from the Tutu tribe.
But she moved eventually and left me with a big Yamaha.
She stole the keyboard from a Bumba Clot.
It was my first keyboard. Things got weird after that.”

„I get the 80’s reference a lot, which I love because 80’s music is so good.”

+ An:idea (D)

eccentric emotronic euphony

Budapest  Oct 15  at Toldi

At the time, back in the early seventies the Vietnam war was still raging, Susan Dietrich and her husband Joel and their tiny daughter were political exiles living like refugees in the States, terrified that Joel would be imprisoned for having resisted the draft. For nine years they had subsisted on spare change and meager sales of their artwork on the streets. Finding a dilapidated, old accordion in a junk store was the major cause in turning her life around.  And „the Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, she invested in a then-new Casio keyboard…” and plays minimal prog lo-fi space pop. Two songs of her early street sets:

 7″ by Night School. The Best of Space Lady LP is coming soon.

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Hunters. A great punk band. Sometimes such as the Ministry with Lydia Lunch, sometimes just like the Fugazi or Sonic Youth.

S/T LP by Mom+Pop