Watch BBC Documentary Synth Britannia Online Now {UPDATED}

ShareThe full version of ‘Synth Britannia’ posted yesterday has been removed, but we were to locate eight of the nine segments of the documentary via YouTube. You can watch them all after the jump. Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop [...]

Depeche Mode On Blank & Jones ‘So ’80s’ 3CD Compilation

ShareFirst official Depeche Mode MaxiMix participation with the 1987 classic single ‘Strangelove’ on Blank & Jones ‘So ’80s’ 3CD compilation. Blank & Jones is a Cologne, Germany based duo, consisting of the members Jan Pieter Blank, known as Piet Blank and René Runge, better known as DJ Jaspa Jones. The album is available now and [...]

Synth Britannia On BBC Four, October 16th

Share 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 [...]