Cleopatra / MVD Visual Conny Plank and his circle were, as record producer David M Allen says: “The hippies who fell in love with machines”. * Much has been said about how the youth of Germany needed to reinvent themselves – and their art – at the end of the Second World War. Distancing themselves as quickly as they could from their parents’ generation, some found inspiration in […]
Monthly archives: March 2019
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Tenement George McFall‘s first release under his own name, after stepping out from behind his Clean George IV pseudonym, has quite an intense edge with an arch and literate drive that stands it out from a lot of the synth-based music of the moment.
Rocket Girl I have fond memories of corresponding with head Rocket Girl Vinita back in the 1990s, those heady days of hand-folded seven-inch singles and US imports being posted out from their East London lair for the equivalent cost of a second class stamp in today’s over-inflated mail costs. That the little notes nearly always came from her and would also include suggestions of bands to whom she […]