Welcome back, music lovers. After an extended three week sampler of Brian Eno’s work as a composer, collaborator, and producer, it is time to turn my attentions elsewhere. In many respects I am a product of the 1970s and more specifically the end of the 1970s, which always struck me as an era in which vast swaths of humanity stared into the abyss, not unlike our current moment. Some of the best of the experimental music among “pop” performers really captured the paranoia and oppressiveness of that time. After all, this was an era which saw the rise of Ronnie the Raygun and Maggie Thatcher, in which fringe extremists left and right were throwing bombs, and The Summer of Love had long ago been abandoned and replaced with the Summer of Sam (a movie reference some might get). A lot of artist caught that moment well, among them Cabaret Voltaire:
Still on a tight schedule. Will throw a few more vids at you all as time permits. This time, think, industrial music and minimal techno.
