The early 80s was a golden age for pop duos: OMD, Soft Cell, Associates, Tears for Fears, Blancmange, Yazoo, Cabaret Voltaire, Wham! With their homoerotic image and Nazi-baiting lyrics, Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl were synth-disco rebels bent on pulverising the rulebook.
DAF (standing for Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, which means German-American Friendship) actually started out in Düsseldorf. Only with their third album, 1981’s Alles Ist Gut, did they cement their identity as an electronic duo.
Soft Cell are back with a brand new song, ‘Northern Lights’, their first in 15 years. The synthpop icons, comprised of Marc Almond and Dave Ball, have released the new track ahead of their farewell show at London’s O2 Arena next month. Almond described the track as “a celebration of our roots in northern soul.” The track’s lyrics also refer the Northern Soul movement – including references to Stoke’s iconic Golden Torch club and Manchester’s Twisted Wheel.
Avui comença la 7na Temporada del programa de música indie més cool del planeta Terra. Divus Julius Bonasera i els seus tornen després d’una pretemporada exòtica a Bali amb més nova música. Repassarem el darrer disc de King Krule. Punxarem els nous discs de Spring King,The Kooks,Still Corners,Wild Nothing o Interpol. A més, us presentarem a Ben Khan,Mild Orange o Hala i estrenarem el retorn de Soft Cell.
. American singer Gloria Jones was the first one to record “Tainted Love,” which was written and produced by Ed Cobb. It was released as the B-side to “My Bad Boy’s Comin’ Home” in 1965, but it wasn’t until the early seventies that the song caught on when a U.K. DJ gave it some love because it fit with the Northern Soul thing happening there. Jones rerecorded “Tainted Love” in 1976 with her boyfriend, Marc Bolan (of T. Rex), producing. She was also driving the car in the accident that killed Bolan on September 16, 1977. . English duo Soft Cell‘s 1981 synthpop version is the one that made this tune famous. It charted numerous times in the early 80s.
Marc Almond, que ha despatxat més de 30 milions de discos i està considerat un dels reis del synthpop al costat de David Ball gràcies al duo Soft Cell, amb el qual va trencar les pistes de mig món amb hits com ‘Tainted love’ torna a Barcelona amb la seva banda per repassar els seus grans èxits i presentar ‘The velvet trail’ (2015), el seu vintè disc en solitari i el primer que publica amb material original des de ‘Varieté’ (2010). Marc Almond és el nostre “classique” d’aquesta setmana i aquesta nit serà a la sala Razzmatazz.
Imelda May, la cantant que va tornar a posar el rockabilly de moda torna a Barcelona per defensar el seu últim i tercer disc ‘Tribal’ (2014). Es tracta d’un àlbum de rock and roll barrejat amb l’esperit de Sun Studios, on el so va néixer a Memphis, Tennesse, però amb un toc del segle XXI d’una noia criada als carrers de Dublín. A aquest toc rockabilly cal sumar-li un esperit rebel de les bandes de punk que Imelda admirava des de jove com The Clash, Undertones, The Buzzcocks i The Cramps. Il Dottore ens presenta avui la versió que Imelda fa de la cançó “Tainted Love”. Aquest tema originalment escrit l’any 1964 per Ted Cobb i interpretat per Gloria Jones fou també versionat els 80 per Soft Cell. Imelda May tocarà avui a la Sala Apolo.
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