Archive for the ‘Spain’ 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: 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…
Robot Rock du Jour: Vocoder – Amor de Robot (1985)
Manchego munching synth-pop group Vocoder emerged from the silicon matrix in the mid-80s to release some quintessential nerd tracks, then disappeared forever back into the ether.
SCHEMATIC: Additional release info, high quality cover art and record scans…
Robot Rock du Jour: Vocoder – ¿Que Sucede Ahora? What Happens Now? (1984)
¿Que Sucede Ahora? (What Happens Now?) was Vocoder’s first single, released as a 12″ on Neon Danza in 1984. I wish I could find a Roland TB-303 in the cereal aisle…