rfi: psychedelic synthpop/electro

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a friend's after examples of the above - I'm not too sure where to point them - john foxx's metamatic? or towards poppy industrial (throbbing gristle's "united")? help plz.

― etc, Saturday, 21 August 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

john foxx's metamatic

a little too stark and minimal to be psychedelic/trippy.

throbbing gristle

psychic-tv is prob. more in yer league if yer looking for genesis p-orridge in psychedelic synthpop/electro mode.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 August 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

how about me?
http://www.postunder.com/onlinereleases/puMpE001.php

probably not.. but my album cover is psychedelic.. rite?

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 21 August 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm...stereolab circa _Dots and loops_?

― steeve mcqueen (steeve mcqueen), Saturday, 21 August 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

section 25 - "looking from a hilltop"

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 21 August 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

xinlisupreme - "tomorrow never comes"

― voredomsssss, Saturday, 21 August 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

chemical bros.??

― steeve mcqueen (steeve mcqueen), Saturday, 21 August 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

said it before...

International by Thomas Leer from the Private Plane/International single. It has a drum machine guitar organ synth breakdown straight out of See Emily Play.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 21 August 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Nicely. Available on CD at last, apparently.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 21 August 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Legendary Pink Dots' 'Any Day Now' may qualify? Also, perhaps, Ed Ka-Spel's other project, Tear Garden?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 21 August 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You need Nick Nicely
(fits the description of THomas Leer a few posts back)

― heroes + villains, Saturday, 21 August 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Polyrock

― mucho, Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire "Safety Zone"
New Order "Your Silent Face"

― neil tacus (tacit), Saturday, 21 August 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Revive!

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle certainly aren't synthpop/electro, and I would even say John Foxx is stretching it a bit.

The synthpop album generally performing best in "Best Albums Of All Time" polls is "Dare" by Human League, so whoever wants to check out synthpop as a genre should start with that one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

early Trisomie 21 sounds like psychedelic Joy Division. Passions Divisées, Les Repos Des Enfants Heureux. compiled as First Songs, IIRC.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle-Hot on the Heels of Love, United are Synth Pop.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Few of the acts mentioned in this thread are synthpop at all. Synth, yes. Pop, no.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yr missing the "psychedelic" in the title Geir.

How about OMD's "VCL XI"? It actually reminds me of "Hot on the Heels of Love", but is - nominally - a pop song to boot.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Psychedelic synthpop? You mean synthpop with sitars, mellotrons, drums and guitars recorded backwards, twee melodies and weird lyrics about pink elephants flying through tangerine skies?

I don't think those records exist....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Coil's album "Love's Secret Domain" (LSD, geddit?) owns this thread- the music is mostly realized electronically, but the lyrics center on psychedelic drug experiences, including a song about Windowpane acid tabs, and the vocal processing techniques (lots of rhythmically sequenced gates to produce a shivering / stuttering / fragmented approach) are super duper psychedelic. There are samples of dialogue from "Performance" on it for gods sake!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

I would also add that The Glove's "Blue Sunshine" lp might be relevant here.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Psychedelic synthpop? You mean synthpop with sitars, mellotrons, drums and guitars recorded backwards, twee melodies and weird lyrics about pink elephants flying through tangerine skies?

I don't think those records exist....

Nick Nicely. already mentioned but pretty much, yeah, exactly that.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

I guess "Let's Go To Bed" and "The Walk" by The Cure (with their belonging b-sides) fit in here somewhat.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't think those records exist...."

duh, yeah they do. cabs, coil, tg, severed heads, the list is endless.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on your definition on psychedelia. I prefer to keep mine rather narrow, which means it has to sound like "Sgt. Pepper" to qualify.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

oh.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

synthpop with sitars, and weird effects over guitars = blancmange

― mark e (mark e), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

arse. i came here to say "blancmange" and i see mark beat me to it by 13 minutes.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

it wont happen again sir. honest. my shift is now over.

― mark e (mark e), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

kissing the pink first two albums like pepper on meatpies chant death drum & bugle 2nd best synthedelia trib to romero's vampire boy all aswirl carasoul caramel soprano concept bubble bummer rush of the new eye of newt

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

The Clean

― spectra (spectra), Saturday, 18 November 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://991.com/newgallery/The-Associates-Sulk-166124.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 18 November 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Those "sitars" in the music of Blancmange were, strictly speaking, synths. But, still, very much OTM.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

And, btw, calling it synthpop would be stretching it a bit, but if there were two prime examples of 60s psychedelia updated with a typical synth-based 80s sound, then Prince's "Paisley Park" and "Raspberry Beret" are possibly the two greatest examples.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

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