Archive for the ‘Costumes’ tag
Party Time: Saturday Robot Party @ The Idle Hour (Baltimore, MD)
VIGR is in the house. 4+ hour rare vinyl set. Need I say more? Hope to see you there! I’ll try to keep track of the setlist…
Robot Rock du Jour: La Bionda – I Wanna Be Your Lover (1980)
Back in 1980, these Italian brothers gave Daft Punk a blueprint for combining vocoder-laden electronic music, cosmic story lines and robot animé. Be kind, please rewind.
SCHEMATIC: Candid photos, original cover art and record scans…
Snort: Rémi Gaillard – The Astronaut Golfer
This frenchman is pretty much off his rocker.
Robot Rock du Jour: Aviador Dro (1980 + 1982)
I don’t know why I’m on this jamón synth kick lately, but after you peep these vids, I doubt you’ll blame me!
Madrid-based Aviador Dro recorded some of the most leftfield minimal wave synth punk ever made. The following videos are from their obscure period in the early 1980s. Check those pre-acid synth lines! To top it all off, their penchant for industrially-themed costumes gave the music a whack post-apocalyptic feel. Substantially all their music in the 1980s was published on their own label, DRO. Enjoy!
El Nascimiento de la Industria (1982) off the DRO compilation “Navidades Radiactivas”
SCHEMATIC: Four more videos to up your nerd experience points…
Space Aviation Artifact Auction
Goldberg Coins is holding an auction this Saturday featuring flight manuals, space suits and actual pieces of various space shuttles and rockets. The catalog is available online here. If you’re a collector or looking for an awesome, albeit expensive, costume for halloween, this is your jam.
Apollo 17, Scale Replica A7LB EVA Space Suit (EMU)