Description
These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.
Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences __ Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image __ this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to New Beat and more besides.
Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor, Dissemblance, VQOA and Celine Gillain from France, De Ambassade from the Netherlands, Moisture from Sweden, Kriedler from Germany and Carcass Identity from Belgium. One exception is FIT Siegel out of Detroit, connecting the electronic pathways of Europe to the Motor City.
All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.
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