Can anyone reccomend some good artists either new or old that would qualify as the genres in the subject line? Here’s what I’ve already checked out:
New-
Miss Kittin
Console
Adult
Chicks on Speed
Fashionist
Tracy and the Plastics
Fischerspooner
Ladytron
Old Stuff-
Kraftwerk [obvious]
Telex
OMD
Human League
Gary Numan
Altered Images
Visage
Ultravox
Classix Nouveaux
Anything else?
Suprised you haven’t check out The Faint or Peaches yet…
Here are some more Synth-Pop bands:
Devision
Mesh(not to be confused with Mesh STL)
State Machine
Anything Box
Soviet
Elegant Machinery
Freezepop
Actually I have, they just didn’t interest me much. Thanks for the other suggestions tho, searching for mp3s now.
Old and new:
Alphaville
Old (and mostly obvious):
Camouflage
Erasure
some Pet Shop Boys
some New Order
Yaz
I haven’t heard of most of the new ones you list, bucket girl; could you describe some of them?
I’d suggest Soft Cell, both their old stuff and their new album. The new one, Cruelty Without Beauty (or maybe it’s vice versa, can’t be sure), is probably the best fusion of old synthpop’s sound and technique brought up to date in a clearly identifiable form. Other older bands have updated their equipment but somehow lost “their sound,” but Soft Cell didn’t fall in to that trap.
Heaven 17 was hit or miss in their first era, and then they came out with an album in the late 90’s which, well, was hit or miss. But the hits on Bigger Than America were good enough to merit checking out the disc. Otherwise a greatest hits compilation isn’t a bad buy.
Other artists I’ve mentioned in other threads that fit here are Add N to (X) and VNV Nation. Oh, and for old synthpop the first A Flock of Seagulls album is actually quite good, but some people tell me I’m in a minority thinking that.