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)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 21 November 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, agreed on that point several times over.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 November 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 21 November 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 November 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Takako Minekawa is another similarly-under appreciated artist of the era that I vaguely associate with Solex.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 21 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
Dawning realisation that the most clattery bits of Fetch the Bolt Cutters share a lot of DNA with Solex vs the Hitmeister
― technopolis, Monday, 7 December 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
Ooh yeah
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 December 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link