Synth Brittania
On BBC4 just now and again in a couple of hours plus next week. Try and check it out sometime. Pretty interesting for the most part but not enough Throbbing Gristle and a bit too much on Depeche Mode/Yazoo.
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yeah was great
made me want to listen to bronski beat.
I caught a bit of this earlier.
What I saw was really great, I'll probably watch the rest on iplayer at some point. Having never heard them before, Throbbing Gristle sounded pretty great. Anyone recommend a good place to start?
'20 Jazz Funk Greats' probably.
But also check out 'DOA (the third and final report...)' which has Hamburger Lady which is great.
Cheers.
I've just picked up both of them on amazon for £7. Sweet.
T.G., etc
All 4 of T.G.'s major LPs are very good & very different (to one another I mean). Heathen Earth is my personal fav I reckon...
Synth Britannia started out OK but, yep, WAY too much emphasis on D.Mode & the like. Good to see Chris Carter on screen for a change though...
t.g. did sound amazing,
great show.
coh with cosey fanni tutti was one of my favourite live things this year and i didn't know 'til after that cosey was in t.g. super visuals by chris carter too.
bit disturbed by the report of sleazy's paedophile boasting in the wire a couple of issues back.
dont think there was way too much emphasis on anyone...
who didnt earn it (literally)
there was emphasis on the bands who did well, which makes absolute sense as it was a doc on how it altered the musical "landscape" and pop or whatever. they were hardly gonna show 12 minutes of throbbing gristle making noise in a basement playing to 23 people. was quite balanced I thought.
really worth checking out. iplayer it up people.
Well said
Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire got more coverage than I expected really, not that I wasn't interested and pleased to hear from them, but the nature of their music meant they never had more than a fairly limited appeal. They certainly worked well as a counterpoint to the Human League etc in the documentary though.
As always, a great BBC4 music documentary and thoroughly worth iplayering if missed.
The first 2 albums
by Human League are some of the best and most interesting stuff to come out of the post-punk synth based groups though.
Don't get me wrong
I wasn't knocking them at all, I just meant that they along with Numan, OMD, Depeche Mode etc had a very different aesthetic to TG and CV. I wouldn't have immediately associated as part of the same 'scene' before, but it worked well having them compared I thought.
It was great
I'm loving this electronic season on there, especially Electric Dreams and Micro Men.
For those of you that don't know/might be interested
Next week on BBC4:
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf10k
followed by Kraftwerk's Minimum Maximum concert film, fantastic.
I think the Human League don't just act as a counterpoint
to the likes of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, but also work as band crossed the chasm between early British electro's more esoteric sounds and those which fitted more neatly alongside New Pop/New Romanticism etc.
All in all I thought it was a pretty decent documentary and was particularly glad to see Simon Reynolds involved. Although I'm not big on krautrock in general I'll probably tune in BBC 4 this friday if only to see Maximum Minimum.
Thought the Krautrock doc was way superior tbh (&, erm, haven't the BBC broadcast this stuff in the wrong order?), though Synth Britannia was definitely better than nowt. 3 seconds (& no audio!) of Fad Gadget was a bit of a missed opportunity though &, yep, T.G. & Cabs might've played to 23 people in a basement in 1978 but both were drawing sizeable crowds (& touring America!) by 1980. The fact that T.G. records still get played in techno clubs nowadays is some indication as to their ongoing relevance I think?
Re: Sleazy. Yeah, that stuff in The Wire upset me a bit too, perhaps that was the point though?
I probably
I have that issue of the Wire (which was it?), but what did Sleazy say??
pop a vid in
http://vimeo.com/7570136
someone taped it of the telly