Pseudo Code - Waiting for Zorro
Belgian industrial-band, active at least from 1979 - 1996.
Their mastermind Alain Neffe is also founder of Insane Music (Trazegnies, Belgium), one of the first great underground tape labels in europe. Guy-Marc Hinan is one of the two guy who made the label “Sub Rosa”. Xavier S have a radio show on the Belgian national radio. The group had been temporarily shelved while Alain Neffe concentrated on his main project Bene Gesserit.
Subject - Rosemary’s Baby Was A Girl
Taken from the Insane Music For Insane People Cassette compilation.
BBC4 Synth Britannia Trailer
In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
Gary Numan’s 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.
Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.
By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay in dance.
Contributors to Synth Britannia include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
Fairlight Keith Emerson
1983 Today Show with Keith Emerson and the Fairlight CMI
GEORGE HARRISON-ELECTRONIC SOUND PART 2…..
Electronic Sound is George Harrison’s second solo album, and the second and final record released on the Beatles’ short-lived Zapple Records (an offshoot of Apple Records), before it was folded at the insistence of The Beatles’ then-manager Allen Klein. Released in May 1969, it features two lengthy pieces - one per side on the original vinyl release - performed on the Moog synthesizer.
Portions of white noise from “No Time or Space” are used throughout “I Remember Jeep”, one of several jams included on Harrison’s third solo album, All Things Must Pass, released in 1970.
The cover of Electronic Sound was painted by Harrison himself. The inside sleeve included minimal notes on the album, and a quote, attributed to an ‘Arthur Wax’: “There are a lot of people around, making a lot of noise; here’s some more.”
Due to its experimental and highly uncommercial nature, Electronic Sound failed to chart in the UK, and barely made the US Billboard album chart, peaking at #191.
Synthesist Bernie Krause later pursued legal action against Harrison, claiming side two of the record was essentially him demonstrating the Moog III to Harrison (as detailed in his book Into A Wild Sanctuary). Krause’s name was originally featured on the front cover just under Harrison’s, but was painted over in silver at Krause’s insistence just before release.
The album was issued on CD for the first time in late 1996.
