Click Click - Yakutska 12''

Click Click

Yakutska 12''

1988

Electro Industrial EBM

England

Tracklist:

A. Yakutska
B. Change of Plan


     Click Click is a British electro-industrial music band.
     Click Click formed in Sheffield, England in 1982 by Adrian Smith, and Derek E. Smith, after the end of their previous rock project "Those Nervous Surgeons" (which formed in 1976 with bassist Tim Wilson). When Wilson bought their first synthesizer, (an EDP Wasp), the direction of the group changed so dramatically, they renamed themselves.
     In 1982, the group acquired guitarist Richard Camp from another band and thus the first experimental synth-rock incarnation of Click Click was born. They cut their first single later that year, but Camp departed over creative issues and formed a blues band.
     Influenced by artists such as Brian Eno, Cabaret Voltaire, The Residents and Frank Zappa, and of course Blade Runner, Clive Barker and "mind-expanding" substances, Click Click continued on with other revolving members down a more electronic path until their eventual break up around 1990. Other members included guitarist Jon Morris, who was replaced by Graham Stronach in 1987, and Pete Hosier who remained with the group until the end.
     After a 7 year hiatus, Adrian and Derek reformed briefly in 1997 to record Shadowblack on the OffBeat label. The album was more EBM than their earlier work and almost completely instrumental. It was greeted with overall positive reviews within the underground music scene. Due to the member's volatile relationship however, the band split again in 1998, with no current plans for another reunion.
     A Click Click vinyl release was issued on NYC-based Sonic Groove Records in 2004, but it is most like that only Adrian was involved, but that is still unclear. Throughout the 2000s, Adrian has been involved with Paperhouse, a darker ambient soundtrack project. Nothing has been released publicly, aside from a few odd compilation appearances, but at least 4 CD-R releases are known to exist: Bug Sun, Sappho, Frey, and Sammlung. In addition, three Click Click CD-Rs surfaced offering odd unreleased and remixed material: Lung Function, Crushed, and Behind Dark Glasses.
     The summer of 2008 brought the news that Click Click's back catalogue would be available again, this time via various download platforms including iTunes. The material will come in remastered versions and will also include the early catalogue. Lung Function, a compilation of remastered singles, was released on iTunes, Amazon digital service and eMusic in 2008.

Clock DVA - Buried Dreams

Clock DVA

Buried Dreams

1989

Industrial Post Punk EBM

England

Tracklist:


A1 Buried Dreams 4:01
A2 Hide        4:30
A3 Sound Mirror 5:43
A4 Velvet Realm 6:44
B1 The Unseen 5:19
B2 The Reign 5:19
B3 The Act        5:22
B4 The Hacker 7:23


     Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange; "dva" is the Russian word for "two". Adi had previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire in a collective called The Studs and with Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware in a band called The Future. Ian and Martyn went on to found The Human League.
     The group was originally known for making a form of experimental electronic music involving treated tape loops and synthesisers. Clock DVA became associated with industrial music with the 1980 release of their album White Souls in Black Suits on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records. The album Thirst, released on Fetish Records, followed in 1981 to a favourable critical reaction, knocking Adam and the Ants' Dirk Wears White Sox from the top of the NME Indie Charts, by which time the band had combined musique concrète techniques with standard rock instrumentation. "4 Hours", the single from "Thirst" was later covered by former Bauhaus bassist David J on his 1985 solo e.p. "Blue moods turning tail".
     The band split up in 1981, with the non original members of the band going on to form The Box.
     In 1983, Newton formed a new version of the band. First releasing the single "High Holy Disco Mass" on the major label Polydor Records under the name DVA, the band then released the album Advantage (with several singles) under the name Clock DVA. After a European tour, however, the band split acrimoniously.
     After the 1983 breakup of Clock DVA, Adi Newton formed The Anti-Group or T.A.G.C. They released several albums continuing in a similar vein to the early Clock DVA, yet more experimental.
     In 1987, Adi Newton reactivated DVA and invited Dean Dennis and Paul Browse back into the fold to aid Newton's use of computer aided sampling techniques which he had been developing in the Anti Group. The album Buried Dreams, an electronic album which received critical acclaim as a pioneering work. Browse left the group in 1989 and was replaced by R E Baker. The album Man-Amplified was the next album to be released, an exploration of cybernetics. Digital Soundtracks, an instrumental album, was the next release. Following Dennis's departure, Newton and Baker produced the album Sign.
     Adi Newton reactivated Clock DVA along with his creative partner Jane Radion Newton in 2008.

Sleep Chamber - Musik For Mannequins (Cassette)

Sleep Chamber

Musik For Mannequins (Cassette)

1984

Experimental EBM

USA

Tracklist:


A1 Victmm
A2 Jungle Disease
A3 The Lantern
A4 A Distant Cry
A5 Conversations In Between Walls
B1 Left Side Of The Tomb
B2 Twenty Three
B3 The Last Fantasy
B4 Rite To Death


     Sleep Chamber is an American Industrial band fronted by John Zewizz. The band is known for using S&M, Bondage and Magick imagery on their art work, during their performances, and within their lyrics. Formed in 1981 by high school friends John Zewizz, Eugine Difrancisco, and Phil Brosseau. Over the years the Sleep Chamber line up has changed many times with John Zewizz being the sole permanent member. Previous members of Sleep Chamber have included, Thomas Thorn, Michael Moynihan, Jonathan Briley and Elaine Walker. Since the beginning John Zewizz has stated that the constant line up change is because Sleep Chamber is not a "band", but rather a "concept".
     From 1982 to 1999 Sleep Chamber put out a considerable volume of music (releasing over 70 recordings, and participating in over 35 various artists releases). After a extended absence, Sleep Chamber returned in 2008 with a new line up, a slew of new releases, and a new name, SLEEPCHAMBER.

Pouppée Fabrikk / Ater Koma – Die Jugend / Depressiva The Voyage 7''

Pouppée Fabrikk / Ater Koma

Die Jugend / Depressiva The Voyage 7''

1989

EBM

Sweden

Tracklist:


A1 - Pouppée Fabrikk - Die Jugend
A2 - Pouppée Fabrikk - Needs
B1 - Ater Koma - Depressiva The Voyage


     Pouppée Fabrikk is a Swedish EBM band, started in 1988 by Henrik Björkk and Leif Holm, who both hail from Karlskoga.
     Initially, the music of Pouppée Fabrikk (PF) borrowed heavily from minimalistic electronic acts such as Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Nitzer Ebb, but with the addition of Jouni Olilla and Jonas Aneheim on guitar PF moved towards a more Die Krupps-style electronic/metal mix. The "Your Pain - Our Gain" CD was meant to be released in 1996, but due to differences in opinion between the band and the record company (Energy Rekords) it was delayed until 1999. In 1996 the band decided to take a break and PF was put on hold and the band members worked on various solo projects.
     In 2000 the band re-united for a gig at the Tinitus Electronic Festival and announced that they were making a comeback and returning to their roots. They released a four track mini CD entitled "Elite Electronics". A year later though, both Jouni and Henrik left the band to concentrate on their respective solo careers. PF disbanded shortly afterwards. After seven years of absence from the scene the band reunits in 2009, Christian R filling the place of former member Jouni Ollila. In October 2010, they once again re-united for a gig; this time at Bodyfest on Fryshuset.

A Split-Second - A Split-Second 12'' (Vinyl)

A Split-Second

A Split-Second

1986

New Beat EBM

Belgium

Tracklist:

01. Burn Out
02. Body Check
03. On Command
04. Flesh



     A Split-Second was a Belgian electronic body music band. The duo — Marc Ickx and Peter Bonne (under the artist name Chrismar Chayell) — were active from their debut in 1986 until they split up in 1991, and A Split-Second continued as an Ickx solo project.

    In 1991, Bonne became involved in a side project, Wasteland, which soon became more important for him than A Split-Second. The duo split up, with Ickx continuing A Split-Second as a solo project. Another album, Vengeance, was released in 1995.
     A Split-Second's debut single "Flesh" is credited with starting the New Beat genre, when DJ Marc Grouls played the 45 rpm single at 33 rpm, in the Boccaccio nightclub in Ghent.
     In 2002, Perfecto Records released a progressive trance remix of "Flesh", produced by Paul Oakenfold.

2nd Communication - Locked in Truth 7''

2nd Communication

Locked in Truth 7''

1989

EBM

Japan

Tracklist:

01. Locked in Truth
02. Break Your Chains



     The project 2nd Communication is formed by Dossa Yun in the programming, samplers and voice; Trast C. Howard in the samplers and Toshiani Ishida in the metallic sounds.
     In 1989 they signed with the company KK Records and they throw their first LP "2nd Communication", in 1990 the single "The Brain That Binds Your Body" and their second LP "My Chromosomal Friend". Their style is located inside the Electronic Body Music taking a mixture of inciting rhythms with abundant samplers and distorted voices.

     This 7" came together with the music magazine "New Life" No. 46

The Weathermen - The Black Album According To The Weathermen

The Weathermen

The Black Album According To The Weathermen

1988

Synthpop EBM

Belgium

Tracklist:


A1 Timebomb Benny   4:12
A2 Barbie And Ken   3:30
A3 Twisting Doorknob 4:00
A4 Tar Pit    3:47
A5 Tuff Times 4:05
B1 Mud (I Would)  3:43
B2 Punishment Park    4:46
B3 1000 Women 2:05
B4 Poison   4:34
B5 Rubbergods 5:03


     The Weathermen are a semi-satirical Belgium-based electronic and pop band.

     The Weathermen began as a joke. A couple of Americano-Belgians recorded some music and then sent it to a local record company via the US under the pretence they were a couple of enigmatic Americans trying to invade the European music scene. It worked and they were signed to Play It Again Sam (PIAS) Records who put out their first 12" "Old Friend Sam" in 1985. They recruited the assistance of Tuxedomoon's visual specialist Bruce Geduldig who adopted the alias of Chuck B, a debauched playboy vocalist. He brought even more humour and satire to the already amused Weathermen.The name "The Weathermen" was inspired from a line in famous folk/rock artist, Bob Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in which a line goes "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
     More singles followed, moving the band away from alternative dancey electronic music into slightly satirical poppy EBM music, but it wasn't until the 1987 that the song "Poison" brought them real attention. With tracks such as "Punishment Park", the Black Album as a whole was like the soundtrack of a dark and tongue-in-cheek movie, something like the Marx Brothers remixing William Gibson. By this time, the group had slimmed down to 'Chuck' and 'Jimmy-Joe Snark III'; who was actually mild-mannered producer and keyboardist Jean-Marc Lederman who had worked with the likes of Fad Gadget, The The and Kid Montana.
     The band continued in the vein of tongue-in-cheek pop, leaving behind their early harder sound, but they failed to repeat the success of "Poison" on a commercial level.

     In 2001, a Best Of album was almost released by PIAS. Due to frustration and demands from the fanbase and a new generation who had discovered their music through research into other renowned Belgian acts such as Front 242 and A Split-Second, Jimmyjoe Snark III decided to reclaim the album from PIAS and publish it via a website. The only demands made on those downloading it being that they leave a comment in the guestbook. This brought a new legion of fans and enough interest for Jimmy-Joe & Chuck to be thawed out of storage for the creation of some new music.
     The album Deeper with The Weathermen was released in 2004, followed by Embedded With The Weathermen in 2006.
     In 2007, PIAS released "The Last Communiqué From The Weathermen (?)", a compilation of their work from 1985 till 2006.
     In 2010, Infacted Recordings released "Ultimate Poison", a 15 tracks MCD loosely based around Poison and all its remixes, plus some unreleased tracks.
   
     Members
Jimmy-Joe Snark III AKA Jean-Marc Lederman - Keyboards, programming, production
Chuck B AKA Bruce Geduldig - Vocals

     Discography

     Singles and 12" EP
Old Friend Sam (1985)
Deep Down South (1985)
This Is The Third Communique (Berlin) (1986)
Take It Off! (1986)
Poison (1987)
Punishment Park (1988)
Bang! (1989)
Heatseeker (1990)
Once for The Living (1990)
Around the World (1992)
Daytime TV (2005)
Ultimate Poison EP (2010)

     Studio albums
Ten Deadly Kisses (1986)
The Black Album According to The Weathermen (1988)
Beyond The Beyond (1990)
Global 851 (1992)
Deeper with The Weathermen (2004)
Embedded With The Weathermen(2006)

     Compilation albums
The Last Communiqué from The Weathermen (2007)