Tag: Gina X

  • Music For New Romantics – Cherry Red Records

    I learnt more about the spirit of The Blitz and the people who inhibited that world from Kevin Hegge’s brilliant film, Tramps: The Death Of Punk, New Romantics, The Art Of Survival than I did from almost any other source. Tracing the lineage between early 1970’s Glam and its disparate offshoots, charting a course through…

  • Curses Presents: Next Wave Acid Punx – Eskimo Recordings

    Luca Venezia aka Curses three chapter story linking the cause and effect between the riotous intersection of dangerous electronic and radical noise, from America all the way through to Europe and beyond, proves exceptional to the rules as if electricity got tripped-out, hot-wired in another direction. Like the altogether more unruly cousin of disco and…

  • Musik Music Musique – 1980: The Dawn Of Synth Pop – Cherry Red Records

    Memories maketh the music… I was going to begin by saying I never cared for the term Synth Pop, though I had forgotten just how brilliant Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages was/ is, containing those perfect opening bars which almost come to define the pleasure of these three discs. Also because the word…