Music:
ALMOST THREE DECADES OF FAV. SOUNDS......The New Wave/Romantic movement emerged in the UK in the early 80s as a direct backlash against the austerity of the Punk scene. At various times it became a catch-all term for quite disparate bands working within the pop world. Where Punk railed against life, the New Romantics celebrated glamour, primping and covering with ostentatious clothes. Hedonism was at its peak...
The use of video as a promotional tool was important to the development of the New Wave/Romantic movement as were the creative haircuts, the puffy shirts and the fact that men could be seen wearing mascara. Guitars, though present, were subordinate to synthesizers...
The early years..
...The term "Gothic" for music was hovering around in 1979, and there were signs of an emerging musical movement by early 1981, when Abbo from UKDecay inadvertently tagged it "gothic", but goth as an identifiable movement in terms of both music and fashion didn't really appear till 1982. In July of that same year, Batcave opened: not only was this a major rallying-point for the London scene, but it attracted a lot of media attention, which in turn spread the idea of a new subculture around the UK. In the wake of the Batcave, similar clubs opened around the country, and the Batcave itself went "on tour", giving goths outside London somewhere to gather...
The early 80s were the most original moments of EBM. Although constantly overshadowed by DM and other acts, EBM sound grew in strength and eventually gathered its own followers. Front 242 led the movement, influencing and creating a whole new era and school of Electronics: Frontline Assembly, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Nitzer Ebb.
The NDW was born...again
A... Assemblage 23, ABC, Ausgang, Apoptygma Berzerk, Adam and the Ants, Alphaville, Agonoize, Analogue Brain, Asche, Associates, Aviador Dro, Absurd Minds, Athamay, Angels & Agony, Anne Clark, A Split Second, Alien Sex Fiend, Angina Pectoris, Allied Vision, Angelic Upstarts, Arts and Decay, Arcana Obscura, Aiboforcen, A Flock of Seagulls, Acid Horse, Active Media Disease, All About Eve, Angel Theory, Attrition. B... Billy Idol, Behind the Scenes, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, B52s, Blut Engel, Black Flag, Blondie, Bauhaus, Beyond the Infinite, Bloc Party, Big Electric Cat, Blaine L. Reininger, Blitzkrieg, Blood & Roses, Boytronic, Book of Love, Black Atmosphere, BFG, B Movie, Blancmange, Blessing in Disguise, Bone Orchard, Bill Nelson. C... Covenant, Cephalgy, Classix Nouveaux, Chameleons UK, Combo Audio, Children on Stun, Cabaret Voltaire, CombiChrist, Early Cruxshadows, Cenobita, 1st Cinema Strange, Coldplay (2), Converter, Condition One, City Limits, Christabelle's Children, Corpus Delicti, Collapsing New People, Chassalla, Cold Meat Industry, Cetu Javu, Camouflage, Cardiacs, Christian Death, Ctrl, Clan of Xymox. D... Deine Lakaien, Die Form, Das Ich, Danse Society, Deathstars, Darker Days Tomorrow, Dance or Die, Dark Illumination, Dioxyde, Death in June, Dorsetshire, Dead Kennedys, Diary of Dreams, Decoded Feedback, Devo, David Bowie, Den Harrow, Dimmu Borgir, Dust of Basement, early Duran Duran, Drunkness, Digital Factor, Dead or Alive, early Depeche Mode, Dreadful Shadows, Danielle Dax, Die my Darling, Diorama, Death Cult. E... E-Craft, English Evenings, Einsturzende Neubauten, Ex-Voto, Evils Toy, Edvard Grieg, Eyes of the Nightmare Jungle, Electric Six. F...Frontline Assembly, Fortification 55, Front 242, Feindflug, Funker Vogt, For Against, Feu ma Mere, F.G.T.H., Filter, Faithful Dawn, Ferro Concrete, Fields of the Nephilim, Frozen Autumn, Fiction Factory, Forsumknown, Force.is.Machine.
Goth Dark Wave New Wave/Romantic Synthpop Playlist Dec 2006
..G...Girls Under Glass, Gary Numan, Gowan, General Public, Grin, Grendel, Generation X, GBH, Ghosting, God Module, Gravity 401, Gridlock. H...Human League, Helium Vola, Hipsway, Haujobb, Hocico, Holy Grail, Hooters, Human Decay.
I...INXS, Icehouse, Ichor, Icon of Coil, Ikon, In Strict Confidence, Iggy Pop, IC 434, Illuminate, Image Transmission, Imminent Starvation, Iris, In my Rosary, In the Nursery, Individual Industry, Iamx, Indochine, Informatik, Information Society, Inkubus Sukkubus, Invincible Spirit, Invisible Limits. J...Japan, Joy Division, Juno Reactor, Jack of all Trades, Janus, Joachim Witt. K...Killing Joke, Klinik, Kraftwerk, K19, Kissing the Pink, Kate Bush, Kiss the Blade, Kommunity FK. L...Lords of the New Church, Laibach, Little Nemo, London after Midnight, Love is Colder than Death, Lush. M...Men without Hats, Mission, Morte de la Maison, Mantus, Malaria, Marionettes, Mechanical Cabaret, Mesh, Ministry, Malaise, Martha and the Muffins, Mentallo and the Fixer, Melotron, Midge Ure, Mindless faith, Mona Mur, Murder at the Registry, Morthem Vlade Art, My Dying Bride.
N... NIN, Neuroactive, National Razor, Norma Loy, Nightwish, Numb.
O...Oingo Boingo, O.M.D., Oomph!, Oliver Dean. P...Peter Schilling, P.I.L., Process, Propaganda, Plimsouls, Plan 24, Paradise Lost, Project Pitchfork, Pete Shelley, Phillip Boa and the Voodoo Club, Plastic Noise Experience, Play Dead, Poesie Noire, P.W.E.I., Psyche, Psychedelic Furs, Pygmy Children.
Electro Industrial EBM Playlist Dec 2006
Q...Q Feel R...Rosetta Stone, Razed in Black, Rotor X19, Regenerator, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Rammstein, Rise and Fall of a Decade, Raymonde, Radio Futura, Remain in Silence, Robert Hazard, Romeo Discharge, Rheingold. S...Sisters of Mercy, Solitary Experiments, Skinny Puppy, Sleepwalk, Stromkern, Suspiria, Skeletal Family, Shriekback, Snake Corps, Spoons, Suicide Commando, Second Layer, Stiff Kittens, Seigmen, Spandau Ballet, Seraphim Shock, Subterfuge, S.I.T.D., Sleeping Dogs Wake, Soft Cell, Siouxsie and the Banshees, SPF1000, Secret Discovery, S.P.O.C.K., Severed Heads, Simple Minds, Shock Therapy, 1st Star Industry, Screams for Tina, Specimen, Screaming Dead, Sex Pistols, Split Enz, Seelenkrank, Secession, Sex Gang Children, Stabbing Westward, Sleep Chamber, Sad Lovers & Giants. T...Type O Negative, The Strange, The House of Usher, The Merry Thoughts, The Eternal Afflict, The Arch, Tears for Fears, Translator, The Invincible Spirit, The Mighty Sphincter, The Cure, The Tourists, The Damned, The Teardrop Explodes, The Birthday Massacre, This Vale of Tears, The Neon Judgement, The Retrosic, The Human League, ThouShaltNot, Twice a Man, The Fair Sex, The Tenth Stage, Tankt, Terminal Choice, The Cult, Tors of Dartmoor, The March Violets, The The, This Mortal Coil, The Mission UK, 13 Candles, Tin Tin, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Trisomie 21, Tuxedomoon, The Fixx, The Psychedelic Furs, Toy Dolls, Talla 2XLC, The Jam, Test Dept., The Wake (80's), The Wake (90's), The Church, The Mood. U...Unit 187, Ultravox, Unheilig, early U2, Under Two Flags, UV Pop, UK Decay. V...Visage, Venus in Furs, Vortex Analogy, VNV Nation, Vitamin Z, Vis a Vis. W...Within Temptation, Wall of Voodoo, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, Witching Hour. X...XPQ21, Xotox, Xmal Deutschland, X-Ray Spex. Y...Yelworc, Young Gods, Yaz, Yello. Z...Zynote, Zeromancer, Zoon Politicon.............and that's enough!!
And to non creative, arrogant self proclaimed "DJs"/people that steal others sets/ideas because they are just bastards without a doggy house and should not be spinning/breathing in the first place...
THEIR HEADS MUST BE CHOPPED!