Solex - Laughing Stock Of Indie

Nice revive!

Yeah I've listened to Low Kick hundreds of times, she is so great. I don't remember who wrote about Max Tundra (was it Dominique?) and said that "there is possibly an alternate timeline where Tundra's music became the seminal touchstone for the next decade of electronic music instead of what we got" and I feel the same way about Solex

Honestly it really feels like a whole amorphously defined late 90s-early 2000s stretch of music needs a kind of gentle new appreciation -- nostalgia cycles at work granted but with a distance there's almost an embarrassment of riches evident that got squashed for a variety of reasons (not solely musical of course but the whole tedious Strokeswave and after was such a blight).

I thought that the adjacent-to-electroclash nerds of the time (Blechdom, Tundra, 606, Solex, Cornelius, PTR etc) were kind of landfilled along with electroclash (which itself is imo due for a reassessment)

Yeah, agreed on that point several times over.

Solex always felt sui generis to me. I used to try to play their music alongside a lot of electroclash type sounds but it always felt to me people just weren't really getting down with it. Their loss! It definitely feels (and sounds) overdue for a revive.

Strokeswave was such a tsunami that it managed to flood into the world I was inhabiting at that time which was generally very resistant to any sort of conventional band inteference.

I'd known about her Pavement cover, but never knew about her cover of "The Cutter" until today. :O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaFSvrHFDD4

Takako Minekawa is another similarly-under appreciated artist of the era that I vaguely associate with Solex.

Dawning realisation that the most clattery bits of Fetch the Bolt Cutters share a lot of DNA with Solex vs the Hitmeister

Ooh yeah