Shine On: Beate Bartel
Beate Bartel was born in West Berlin. At the end of the 1970s, when she had just left her teens, punk and new wave influences were making their mark on…
Beate Bartel was born in West Berlin. At the end of the 1970s, when she had just left her teens, punk and new wave influences were making their mark on…
Vive la Fête are one of Belgium’s most exciting bands. Their live shows are blistering, high-energy affairs. This is a recording of their full performance at the 2015 Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival…
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Mike Howlett found himself producing many of the key records of the new wave period, but on paper was an unlikely choice: as the bass player in Gong, from 1973-77,…
The loss of Nash the Slash was a terrible blow to Canadian alternative music. Nash had been one of the first successful electronic artists, first with FM and then in…
Gareth Jones is best known for his work with Depeche Mode, having manned the studio for their so-called Berlin trilogy – Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward and Black Celebration.…
The House of Love chose Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones to go into the studio with them to record “Safe,” which caught their record company stiffs off-guard. The Miller-Jones team…
I Am Snow Angel first came to attention with the release of a self-titled, four-track EP at the beginning of 2014. The debut release for Julie Kathryn’s laid-back electronic project…