Shallow electropop and electroclash

IdleRich

IdleRich
My friend and I were talking about Crash Course in Science a minute ago and I really think that bands like that absolutely laid the blueprint for electroclash. I was hoping to think of some other electropop bangers that could be seen as proto-electroclash, any thoughts?


Gimme a minute and I bet I can think of a few.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
And this


I love this kind of stuff, there must be tons of it out there.. tell me something good like this i don't know. Please.
 
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IdleRich

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Kas Product were another one like Crash Course in Science, did electroclash even add anything to this template



This one even says twat!


 

Leo

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And this


I love this kind of stuff, there must be tons of it out there.. tell me something good like this i don't know. Please.

never heard this before, does their other stuff sound like this? I always thought of them as more mainstream, prince protégées.
 

IdleRich

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never heard this before, does their other stuff sound like this? I always thought of them as more mainstream, prince protégées.
They are connected to Prince sure. I don't know them that well but i get the impression from what people say that that one is a bit of an oddity, it's certainly tucked away (as they say) on a b-side. Having said that, whenever I've seen clips of them playing live or whatever on YT that song doesn't seem that different.... look basically I don't know.
 
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IdleRich

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No, I haven't. I heard it said by a friend in London.
It was a little sort of fanzine thing that you used to pick up in the bars and stuff round there. It was really really funny (please no-one show me it now and ruin my memories). I remember going to NY around that time and seeing VIice it was like a big sign saying that this is the difference between glossy, shiny US underground culture (I mean it was Canadian but I dindn't know that) and the crappy, faded, falling apart UK version. But both had their place at that point anyway. Shoreditch Twat was really about that sort of Hoxton Triangle, idiots in fins and mullets and pouting beautiful models pretending they liked Iron Maiden or whatever. You walked around and looked at all stuff and laughed and then you picked up the thing and it took the piss out of them again for you. But you felt like you were inside it enough to get the jokes or whatever.

I'm trying to remember how things were. There was a club called The 333 which was that number on Old St and it was formerly the London Apprentice I believe and it was owned by Freddy Mercury's boyfriend or something. And it had several bits, upstairs was the Mother Bar, and it was sort of the centre of this Old St/Shoreditch Scene and there was a Dj called Shoreditch Twat who played at 333 or Mother and there was that magazine which I think was related to him, or maybe I just assumed that, I dunno, it's all a bit hazy of course.
 

bassbeyondreason

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Proto-Electroclash I reckon (also on the GTA: Vice City soundtrack which I reckon was a response to and factor in 2000s 80s-aesthetics)

 

martin

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And this


I love this kind of stuff, there must be tons of it out there.. tell me something good like this i don't know. Please.

Surprisingly not. Most of the album's pretty shit - though "Drive Me Wild" is total electroclash before its time.

I still think Felix is brilliant. Liked some of Kittin's CD with the Hacker but her schtick got boring real quick. I even liked Hand To Phone by Adult, but only one of the mixes. I remember seeing a copy of Shoreditch Twat in the Bricklayers', but the person I was drinking with - who had zero interest in zines, or even music full stop - giggled and put it in their bag, so I can't confirm how it's held up, 20+ years on. Who remembers Gobsausage?

I kind of lost interest in it as soon as I heard the Bunker/Viewlexx stuff. Still, was better than all that 'guerilla indie' shit going on in the area at the time.

 
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Surprisingly not. Most of the album's pretty shit - though "Drive Me Wild" is total electroclash before its time.

I still think Felix is brilliant. Liked some of Kittin's CD with the Hacker but her schtick got boring real quick. I even liked Hand To Phone by Adult, but only one of the mixes. I remember seeing a copy of Shoreditch Twat in the Bricklayers', but the person I was drinking with - who had zero interest in zines, or even music full stop - giggled and put it in their bag, so I can't confirm how it's held up, 20+ years on. Who remembers Gobsausage?

I kind of lost interest in it as soon as I heard the Bunker/Viewlexx stuff. Still, was better than all that 'guerilla indie' shit going on in the area at the time.


I was actually gonna mention Gobsausage, got a single of theirs somewhere, I remember two hot girls, one had a t-shirt syaing "I kill everything I fuck" and the other had one that said "I fuck everything I kill" - don't really know what it meant. I have this single for some reason

 

IdleRich

IdleRich
One of my friends was in a band called Ikara Colt, they played with this lot... you gotta love the line "Pushing my pussy all over your face, ball bag flying all over the place"

 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I remember another classic which had the line "I've been into foreskin since puberty" but I forget the song.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
One thing about this sound is that it never dies, it's sort of like a cockroach in that every time you think it's gone you find one crawling around in the corner of the room... people are always "discovering" that it's fun to dress up in pvc and sing songs they think are sexyglamcool over some synths. But I don't think - for better or worse - it ever really evolves. I believe that this one came out last year but it could have been 1984

 

IdleRich

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This one is 1983 apparently, I guess it'is archetypal proto-electroclash



And the cover which I realise now many people heard first and thought was the original

 
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