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Junkyard Synths
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metafilter_feedAll The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 is "a compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music."
The anthology is out on the relatively new and utterly tasteful Night School Records - home to Molly Nilson (whose Un-American Activities comes personally recommended) and the gothic stylings of Tristwch Y Fenywod (their eponymous debut briefly mentioned previously). It features "rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics" and "the story told ... is one of the dawning opportunity presented by both the emergence to the market of cheaper analog synthesisers and the distribution networks plus indie labels that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976." It is available on CD and vinyl via Bandcamp (where the extensive quotes above come from as part of a long and useful introduction and where a selection of tracks can be streamed). You can stream it on Spotify (but don't stream things on Spotify). Someone appears to have uploaded a decent chunk of it to YouTube. Do you need primitive synthpop songs with vocoder voices claiming to be sexy robots or holograms? Like, lots of primitive synthpop songs with vocoder voices claiming to be sexy robots or holograms? The step right up, All The Young Droids has you covered with plenty of that and more!
The anthology is out on the relatively new and utterly tasteful Night School Records - home to Molly Nilson (whose Un-American Activities comes personally recommended) and the gothic stylings of Tristwch Y Fenywod (their eponymous debut briefly mentioned previously). It features "rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics" and "the story told ... is one of the dawning opportunity presented by both the emergence to the market of cheaper analog synthesisers and the distribution networks plus indie labels that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976." It is available on CD and vinyl via Bandcamp (where the extensive quotes above come from as part of a long and useful introduction and where a selection of tracks can be streamed). You can stream it on Spotify (but don't stream things on Spotify). Someone appears to have uploaded a decent chunk of it to YouTube. Do you need primitive synthpop songs with vocoder voices claiming to be sexy robots or holograms? Like, lots of primitive synthpop songs with vocoder voices claiming to be sexy robots or holograms? The step right up, All The Young Droids has you covered with plenty of that and more!
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