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Blackie

More than one artist called Blackie: 1) Blackie real name is Peter Black and is guitarist and vocals for Aussie band Hard-Ons which are a punk rock band from Sydney that originally formed in 1981. They have been called Australia's most commercially successful independent band, with over 250,000 total record sales. In late 2010 He released his debut solo album called "Break Bread With The Mono Brows". 2) B L A C K I E german minimal synth/wave project, 1981

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Vocoder

1-New Wave/Synthpop band from Zaragoza, Spain. Founded sometime in the early 80s, they released 2 singles and one LP on Aviador Dro's "Neón Danza" sublabel from 1984 to 1987. 2- Vocoder are an indie band from New Zealand.
3- Vocoder are a dissolved band from Lüneburg, Germany.

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Telex

There are three bands with the name Telex: 1. The Belgian synthpop group Telex was formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "Making something really European, different from rock, without guitar - and the idea was electronic music." (Marc Moulin) Mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic music, they released a stripped-down synthesized cover version of "Twist à St. Tropez" by Les Chats Sauvages.

Komputer

Komputer is the project of two London-based synth-meisters: Simon Leonard and David Baker, releasing on Mute Records. The duo have been writing, mixing and producing together for over 25 years, formerly in I Start Counting & Fortran 5. Their new album is Synthetik. Their sound is rigorously electronic and their tracks deal with such diverse subjects as: Russian cosmonauts, rubbish compactors and mobile phone ringtones. Musical antecedents and influences include Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Syd Barrett and Brian Eno.

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lesser known yet streamable artists

science fiction music

psychodelic

new music

synth rock

world fusion radios unearthed gems

and other electronic music

electronic computer music

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Bad Luck

Bad Luck is a fictional band from the anime Gravitation, by Maki Murakami. Vocals for the band in the anime are done by Kotani Kinya, except for the song "Bird", which is done by Tomokazu Seki. Line-up (names written English style, family name last:
Shuuichi Shindou = vocals
Hiroshi Nakano = electric guitar
Suguru Fujisaki = synthesizer, keyboards

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Grafton Primary

With sound histories in the musical realm, brothers Joshua (voice) and Ben (synths) manifest digital and analogue ideas; one part divine inspiration, one part machine translation. Together they create grand poetic electronica, with its own future echo. On stage drummer Robbie makes his own waves, and the trio is complete.

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electronic underground full tracks

synthpop underground full tracks

post-electro-mellow-idm-techno-jota-18-m-aviles

Apero

electrosynth

Rock Electronico

electro synth newwave nuwave indie

partywithyourmomdotcom

australian electro pop

antipody

aussie-electro

electro sweets

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great 80th synthi-trash revival

shalapai

australian electropop

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The Gist

There are 2 artists known as "The Gist": 1) nom de plume of cardiff-born stuart moxham, former member of young marble giants, for 1983 solo album "embrace the herd", released on rough trade records. 2)Canadian Avant-garde duo, whom write and preform mostly comical songs in a wide variety of genres and styles, provided they are under a minute in length.
www.myspace.com/rethegist

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Scattered Order

A noise making band from Sydney, Australia, who began their post punk assault on listeners in 1979. Releases on the M Squared, Volition, Klanggalerie, Ascension and Rather be Vinyl labels throughout a 30 year sonic journey. Original line-up reformed in 2009 with Mitch Jones and Michael Tee. Released "SO" CDr in September 2009. Released "Adjust the terminology" CD in September 2010 In 2010 Shane Fahey joined. Released "It's behind you" CDr in May 2011

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Velodrome

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Lektroluv Compilation

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Solitary Experiments

Solitary Experiments formed in 1994 as a collaboration between Dennis Schober and Michael Thieleman, who had briefly collaborated before as 'Plague'. The following years saw occasional live shows and the release of a couple of demo tapes before the song 'God, Where Are You?' from the 'New Violent Breed' compilation in 1999, which would become a hit in their native Germany as well as Holland and the USA. Their debut album 'Final Approach' was released on Machinery later that year.

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