Esplendor Geometrico S/D

Love this band a ton.

Search: 80's Traks CD (so great), their stuff on the Bruitiste comp 2LP that RRR put out, the aforementioned Tarikat and 80-82.

Destroy: Shitty mini-LP on Ant-Zen, can't remember the same cuz I sold it.

Meh: Mekano-Turbo never did much for me.

Actually I have some great LP from the 80s with a cool B&W cover.

I saw they were back up with a web-site a few years back and got a bunch of something for one of my Japanese customers but the CD they really wanted was OP. Nice guys. Had a great cassette on... all those memory cells were lost in the great pot and speed epidemic of 1982-4.

Can we have a thread devoted to Hunting Lodge now?

That cassette you have might be http://www.discogs.com/release/407897

I can't find that LP though...

please do. 'tribal warning shot' owns.

http://www.discogs.com/release/315215

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-315215-1159091795.jpeg

compiles two of the essential early industrial albums, you can't do better, I listened to this a lot more than SPK. it's all overdriven drum machine workouts, almost no synths to date the music, sounds utterly modern & still better than most recent rock noise, everyone should own this

each of the later EG albums I've heard has at least one or two insane workouts on it, though there's no one of them that I usually make it to the end of. recent compilation has good aim, it has most of the exact favorite tracks I remember liking from the albums I've heard: http://www.discogs.com/release/496482

sheikh aljama

1980 - 1982

and balearic rhythms

i've been really into these guys lately, as well. i got the tip on here, actually, after i said something like, "i can't think of a single Spanish band i give a shit about."

i have the '84 - '86 (?) comp and it's awesome.

are they entirely OOP?

Can anybody tell me about El Aviador Dro? Apparently they were a bit like Devo, but I've struggled to find out much else.

Can anybody tell me about El Aviador Dro?

Aviador were the first great Spanish synthpop band, inspired by Devo and Kraftwerk. They had naive science-fiction lyrics and printed cool socialist/futuristic "manifestos" on the records' liner notes.

Search (compilations):

- "Opera Científica" - 2CD, one with early singles and other with new stuff.

- "Vano Temporal" - Compilation of early demos with the Esplendor guys. Rough sound and very punkish vocals from Arturo Lanz. This is essential stuff if you like "Moscú Está Helado" and probably my favorite Aviador recording.

Search (albums):

- "Alas Sobre el Mundo" (1982) - first album. Recently reissued with bonus tracks and live stuff. Synths and guitar/bass.

- "Sintesis" - second LP, a double album with a poppy, upbeat record and a more experimental one.

Nice tracks to sample: "Nuclear Sí", "Selector de Frecuencias", "Ondina", "Gestalt", "Rosemary", "Obsesión", "Programa en Espiral", "La Ciudad en Movimiento", "Nestor el Cyborg", "La Chica de Plexiglás".

Destroy: everything post-1990.

"Selector de Frecuencias" (1984): http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=W69UxWN0XjM

(and I found one of the cool TC tapes here)

I bought that ¡Eléctrico!, which is that best of CD by El Eviador Dro. Was not disappointed at all. Though they've got little common ground with Esplendor Geometrico they've got a handful of really great synthpop tunes and are definitely worth checking out.

Pulsión is so good

Some of the Aviador Dro stuff has been reissued recently-ish. I've been listening to Sintesis (2nd album) and it is brilliant. Really good mix of new wavey synth pop and more experimental post-punk electronics.

this new-ish live release is incredible

https://esplendorgeometrico.bandcamp.com/album/live-2023

oh my fucking god, crank this up

https://www.rotordiscos.com/catalogo/el-pulso-del-acero-shinkansen/5177/