youtube thread of synthpop/minimal synth/dark wave classics

the future "dance like a star"

Crutis!!!!!!
I found this thread again at last!!!
Robert Gorl "Mit Dir"! A good friend of mind just sent me that recently, lovely stuff.

I'm sorry that I don't know how to make the dots (UMLAUT) over the "o" in this name, sorry.

Come on, people. Let this thread live a little.

Gary Numan 'Metal'

No More - suicide commando

Fad Gadget - back to nature

...if it counts:
The Neon Judgement - chinese black

Liaisons dangereuses - Los niños del parque

started a thread on this but might as well post it here too

propaganda art-pop perfection

Propaganda performing Frozen faces and Jewel in The Tube, january 21st, 1986.

Human League - being boiled

Paul Haig - the only truth

YMO - cue

Earthling - you go on natural

Stahlnetz - vor all den jahren

Kas Product - never come back

couldnt find...
Hard Corps - metal & flesh

Deux - Paris Orly

Flight of the Conchords - Fashion is Danger (pretty amazing)

seriously.

The girl in that "Paris Orly" video seems like such an unlikely minimal muse.

fashion is danger is not as amusing as this:

hell yes

This thread makes my computer cry but here is a 1983 12" from some Italian dudes who as far as I know never released anything else:

Victrola - Maritime Tatami / A Game of Despair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHXgX6l48A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JTIk6StAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvj0RHcF62o

^^^ Hoffnung & Psyche - Das Auto

minimal man - to hold you (not the 90s techno guys, a SF-based bedroom-minimal dude who passed away in 2003 - lyrics are ripped str8 outta 'song to the siren')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDR1sfieuZg

stanton miranda - wheels over indian trails (singer from thick pigeon - strange but kinda awesome video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OopTRAFY14

^^^ Hoffnung & Psyche - Das Auto

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:12 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*expanding thread title to youtube thread of NDW/synthpop/minimal/dark wave classics*

names, names.... we already had Die Doraus & Die Marinas and Palais Schaumburg.

although, to be fair, i do think of a different vibe with what i think of as 'minimal synth'.

Stanton Miranda = in that case also equals Steve and Gillian of New Order w/ John Robie remix.

some weird connections just made...looking up Wheels Over Indian Trails I see that the name is taken from a peace of public art in Queens from a guy named John Fekner. Searching amazon for books on him I find mostly mp3s of all this crazy hip-hop he made through the 80s with graffiti artists and NY teenagers. I recognize the song Rocksteady from an old Porkchop mix. Porkchop's been performing freaked out acid house music as SPSS at gigs with lots of the NY minimal synth scenesters.

maybe one of the dudes from Excepter?

Porkchop is in Excepter.

Does anyone know of any more stuff like the Robert Gorl "mit dir" song that kicked off this thread? I've listened to it 5 times in the past 2 days. It reminds me of Goodbye Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ltlLZkFlE and I love that song.

I guess I'm looking for stuff with a little more space in the recording -- like maybe just a kick and snare, a bass synth, a tiny melody and singing. A lot of this stuff on this thread has a little bit too much going on in it for me (I like it very minimal I guess). That said the Die Doraus and Die Marinas song posted is a new favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjCUmTbf9Xs

daf were basically a bass synth and drums. i really like their songs that lean further into this threads territory, this really spaced out, sometimes melancholy, minimal synth pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcwumIBcOo

uh "this thread's" i mean

best example of this is "geheimnis" on fur immer, but youtube doesn't have it

but you know it's a good daf song if it has xylophone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZmPyCE7II

Der Raeuber und der Prinz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDQPVXUegPs

Duotronic Synterror - 190 Stunden (1980-82, Andi Arroganti)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB5byMiNL5U

Slava Tsukerman/Liquid Sky anyone

dave ball "sincerity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jka_JPrAF2Y

this song is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muNNu-Dni6Y

more Smersh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FMw0Ifr_bw

good interview with terre thaemlitz about omd and first wave uk synth pop

http://de-bug.de/musik/5921.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DebugAllInOne+(debugcombined)

silicon teens "memphis tenessee"

^^^ all time

picked this up at a flea market in france last week:
http://musiconvinyl.blogspot.com/2009/07/voyage-voyage-desireless.html

supposedly the a-side was a massive hit in europe but i've never heard of it, and to be honest, it doesn't do much for me. the instrumental b-side 'Destin Fragile' has the grandiose corniness down pat though.

this was the biggest song in the 80s in France

i'd never heard of it, but then i grew up in rural Alberta. i dig the b-side anyway.

massive summer holiday hit in the uk.

Huge hit in Québec too. Was actually a hit again here a couple of years ago when it was covered by Kate Ryan (Belgian girl who does trance-pop covers of French 80's hits).

loving this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzyCHSc_PE8

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lollllllllll whoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahn3lKjU1no