Bio's in Yellow are from the band.
As I hear more of these bands I'll add them.
Thanks to Sean Nguyen
(Stranger Thoughts - Synthpop - The Next Generation - get it)
for the inspiration.
In a band making this style of music?
Why not send me a bio
(with the four categories and your net address)
and I'll add you to the page!
"The future has arrived; it's just not evenly distributed".
William Gibson
Is looking for new bands who have put out their
own stuff (or are on small labels) to review.
Contact David Richards for more
info.
Formed - October 1998
Origin - Oulu, Finland
Best Song - The Story Of My Life, The Town
Which Had No Name
Driving Force - Complicating, circulating
New life
Formed - late 1992
Best Song - I think 'Miasma' or 'Good Friday'
Origin - Where we're from? Well John and
I are both Perth boys, but we met and formed in Melbourne
Driving Force - melody!
Formed - 1997
Best Song(s) - Neitzche Baby, Puerto Rican,
Plastic Surgery
Origin - Chicago, USA
Driving Force - ADAM & THE ANTZ is an
historic re-enactment of the original ANTZ in real time (every detail is
enacted exactly 20 years after). This is NOT a cover band, it is a "historic
recreation!" Down to every detail, from the original 1977+ fliers to meticulous
studying of live bootleg recordings, we strive to honestly recreate the original
set-lists on the original dates in the original clothes and in character
as the original band members.
Formed - 1996
Best Song - hmm, that must be..The Silence
(if you ask me)
Origin - Sweden-(Kalmar)
Driving Force - To perform live
Formed - 1990
Best Song - i'd have to say Catch Me If You
Can. It's my personal favorite to perform because of the anger and emotion
that are so evident in the music and lyrics.
Origin - Manti, Utah
Driving Force - well, as far as keeping us
all going... it's pretty much a joint effort there. we all try to encourage
and help each other out all the time. as far as who started it and who keeps
things organized, that's me. i'm the manager and publicist for the band.
and if you were referring to musical influences... hmmm... well when we first
started we were influenced by other bands i guess, like depeche mode, erasure,
alphaville, and gothics like siouxsie & the banshees and the cure, and
of course the great classical composers like mozart, bach, and beethoven
(and many others), but as we've progressed in our music, we've found our inspiration
comes more from our own experiences and emotions. it's like our lives write
the music for us almost. we've always felt that our music has to be inspired,
and when we try to force it, we end up sounding like someone else, or else
we'll end up hating what we wrote, so we always just wait till the music
comes to us and then we write it all down. it has to come from our hearts
and our feelings or else it's not our music. at least that's how we feel
about it! we take it all quite seriously, and we really put alot of ourselves
into each song we do. well, that's a long answer for a short question!
Formed - 1993
Best Song - After Clothes - Check out the
Jim Marcus remix on the After Clothes EP.
Origin - Chicago, IL
Driving Force - Eating powdered jello in
a dark closet.
Formed - 1986
Best Song - World Without Love
Origin - California, USA (from New Jersey)
Driving Force - Some influences are Beatles, joy division (then new order)
kraftwerk, and another tidbit is that their fav. Depeche Mode album is Black
Celebration...
Formed - 1995
Best Song - We love all of them, but the
most successful so far have been 'The Puzzle of Reflection' (#6 on the Brassovia
charts in Lithuania), 'The Rhythm is a Sadist' (Spin magazine PMC cd and
the most overall radio play), and 'God's Little Joke' and 'The King' have
become some of the most requested songs at popular clubs in Atlanta.
Origin - Atlanta, GA
Driving Force - to make pop music that is
meaningful
Aria
Formed - 1997
Best Song - No Desires
Origin - Orlando/Chicago
Driving Force - Aria combines the sounds
of Depeche Mode/Anything Box/ etc... Our driving force is to create synth
music that moves people: makes them cry, laugh, smirk, and feel good. Combining
the sounds of 80's synthpop with a new breed of synthesis that can only
be ARIA
Formed - 1992... prior incarnation Man On
A Stage, 1985
Best Song - The Drowning Season, Purgatory,
Coward
Origin - Philadelphia, PA
Driving Force - Love of electronics and melody
Searching for a new Record Company.
Formed - Summer of 1991
Best Song - Why me (if you mean one of ours)
Origin - Karlshamn (Sweden)
Driving Force - Playing our songs live!
For more live shots of Avant Garde.
Formed - in 1998
Best Song - Life under glass
Origin - Germany
Driving Force - analog sounds which always
sound new and innovative!
Formed - 1998
Best Song(s) - Dictoroboter, Cosmic dream,
???
Origin - Malmo, Sweden
Driving Force - Passion, Technology, Happiness,
Useless pop
Formed - 1989
Best Song - In my dreams
Origin - Gothenburg, Sweden
Driving Force - We want to mix strange soundscapes
with lovely popsongs. This has resulted in some kind of industrial pop, not
far from the most brutal parts of Björk's (Bjork if you remove the
dots above the 'o') Homogenic album. We believe that electronic music always
have to search for new sounds and evolve into new shapes and we hope that
we're a part of the musical evolution.
Formed - 1989, with the name Poetica Grotesque
Best Song - Under the name Poetica Grotesque
we released the song 'Glaedje' (swedish for joy).Under the new name, Blipp,
our best song is probably 'Tvaal' (swedish for Soap').
Origin - Swedish
Driving Force - Our main driving force is
the absence of light-minded, fast and truly electronic bands in Sweden. There
are a great deal of electro/synth-pop bands around here but most of them
make just a bit too gloomy melodies to our taste. No need to mention the
joy of using some 80-s analogue synthesizers?
Formed - 1993
Best Song - One Last Ride
Origin - Champaign/Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Driving Force - original synthpop with smooth
melodies and a strong beat, as well as remixes of classic songs by New Order,
Pet Shop Boys, U2, The Cure, and others.
Formed - 1988(?) I wasn't in it then, I'm
not sure
Best Song - Dust
Origin - Brisbane
Driving Force - Playing with electronic gadgets.
And Substance abuse. :-)
Formed - 1990
Best Song - REGRET
Origin - DETROIT
Driving Force - A LOVE FOR MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY
Formed - early 1997
Best Song - if you mean favorite = "Mary
Ann"
Origin - Brian Canham ( Pseudo Echo ) &
Darren Danielson ( Roxus / Chocolate Starfish )
Driving Force - Passion for music, and the
only way 2 drop outs from Greenwood high school, could ever make any money
!
Formed - 1984
Best Song - Love is a Shield
Origin - Bietigheim, Germany
Driving Force -
Formed - early 1998
Best Song - "Dream Engine" from the album
"We Are Each Other's Baby"
Origin - North Carolina, but more accurately
we originated in a fourth state of consciousness, neither sleeping nor
dreaming nor waking
Driving Force - We are driven by the cycle
of the earth's moon, nearly
always producing new material when it is full.
Formed - 1989
Best Song - You Think You Know Her (#24 Billboard
Hot 100, 1991).
Origin - California
Driving Force - Love of intelligent pop.
For more live shots of Cause and
Effect.
Formed - 1993
Best Song - In my opinion Madness, and Material
Severance
Origin - Nouveau Zelandie
Driving Force - There is the melancholic
atmosphere of gothic music, the violence of industrial, the glam of EBM
and new-wave, and a spacey, eerie ambience. The sound and style cannot be
defined or generalised as one genre. Cavernous' influences have been picked
up over the years from such sources as Depeche Mode, A-Ha, Joy Division,
Gary Numan, David Bowie, and The Cure.
Formed - November, 1997
Best Song - Remember
Origin - San Jose, California USA
Driving Force - To combine elements from
current experimental electronic music with classic pop.
Formed - 1991
Best Song - Collective Minds, Serpent of
life ( according to Joakim Thureby )
Origin - Sweden, Tranas
Driving Force - Music in itself is the driving
force in music-creation. To explore and create new soundscapes can be an
interesting journey into a new strange-sounding world. I guess you can call
it escape of reality. We all love electronic music, and we find it interesting
to be a part of the electronic music-scene.
Formed - Summer 1995
Best Song - "Situation" (or maybe "I Want
A Lover")
Origin - We're from Sarpsborg, Norway
Driving Force - Per Aksel Lundgreen (and
the novelty of doing cover versions!!)
Formed - Brian Hazard began using the name
Color Theory with the release of "Sketches In Grey" in 1994
Best Song - I think the consensus is "Heart
Like A Doll", though my favorite is "September Spoke In Red"
Origin - Huntington Beach, California
Driving Force - to connect
Formed - 1991 as OXYGENE, but we make synthpop
songs since 1993 and since May 1996 as COMMON DREAM.
Best Song -"World Of Your Dreams"('cause
it's our first song released) and personally I think that "We're different"
will be our best song when we finish it.
Origin -Tarnow, Poland.
Driving Force - to play romantic, strong
synthpop songs about love and life...
Formed - Cosmicity is a one-man band. Mark
Nicholas started under the name Cosmicity with his first CD release "The
Vision" in 1994.
Best Song - People will aruge, but the best
Cosmicity song to date is probably "Awake".
Origin - Cosmicity (Mark) resides in a suburb
of Detroit, Michigan.
Driving Force - To take the power of electronic
instruments and change the face of pop music as we know it. (Influenced
by Erasure, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, and most of the phenominal song writers
since the eighties.)
Formed - in 1998 after graduating from dartmouth
college. however, the label Strain Records, my independent "synthpop factory"
has been in operation since 1992. Our influences are broad, yet our sound
most resembles the classic new-wave sounds associated with groups such
as Anything Box, Information Society, and the droning guitar riffs of Neworder.
Best Song - track 1, "world without secrets"
is an undeniable synthpop classic, but my personal favorites are the darker
tracks, number 9: "silently" and a slower ballad-like track 6, "show me
the way", or the pensive track 7,"control". You will find quite a vareity
in mood and style throughout the album.
Origin - Counter Culture was formed when
I (Jonathan Jun) met singer Paul Lim at Dartmouth while singing in the same
acapella group.
Driving force(s) - have always been twofold:
(1) The creation of music that is at once highly energetic and catchy and
also hauntingly beautiful in its texture, ranging from the smooth vocals
to the thumping bass to the sweeping filters (2) to present an emotional
portrait of myself in my struggles, particularly with respect to God, and
my relationship with other people in this journey called life.
Formed - 1995
Best Song - (there are so much ... ) :o))
I would say: "Things We Said"
Origin - Hmmm .... what could it mean ?
Driving Force - also not really cler to me
... can you describe, what you wanna know here ?
Formed - Late 1991
Best Song - Well, It must be "They say".
Origin - Kalmar, Sweden
Driving Force - Playing live & meet the
people who listen to our music.
Formed - formed as an idea in 1992
Best Song - no song is best. i like them
all
Origin - long beach, ca.
Driving Force - a great big mack truck
Formed - Darklight was formed in 1994, but
some of the songs on the debut album are from previous incarnations as far
back as 1987.
Best Song - Our fans and friends think "Everlasting"
is our best, but we feel "Sometimes" or "Look Up" is probably the best.
Origin - Southern California
Driving Force - To be able to "touch" someone
out there listening to our music, and hopefully make a difference in their
life.
Dark Side Cowboys
Formed - 1993
Best Song - oops don't know really... perhaps
"UnfortuNataly"
Origin - Umeö, Sweden
Driving Force - instruments...
Formed - 1994 (formerly
of the band The Innocents)
Best Song -I Could Be
So Fortunate; More Each Day
Origin - San Francisco,
California
Driving Force - To create
great, fun and throught-provoking electronically-created music that's fun
to listen to!
Formed - D.E.O - 1988 Switched to AUTOMATIC
in 1994
Best Song - Depends on who you ask... Me
(Joni) I think DOWN on the new album is the best. But i guess Pete´s
more into REMOTE CONTROL.
Origin - Trollhättan SWEDEN
Driving Force - To make music and have fun
in this crazy world.
Formed - 1994
Best Song - Two songs that we are satisfied
with are Always The Same (mp3) and
The Prophet (mp3)
Origin - Stockholm, Sweden
Driving Force - Conquer the world.... at
least....
The Der Brains
Formed - 1998
Best Song - Most people like "79-81"
Origin - Melbourne, Australia
Driving Force - Bad jokes
Formed - Spring 1992
Best Song - Always hard to decide. But to
mention some: Alibis, All mine, Over, Mirror, G.T., Lost, Gold, Passion,
Death Behind One's Brow
Origin - Karlsruhe (Germany)
Driving Force - Besides the fact that we
are music maniacs since our youth, the main reason for making music is just
the try to reach related souls. Writing a song is just like writing a page
into your diary - with the hope that someone reads and understands it.
Formed - 1998
Best Song(s) - Hmm... it must be "The Truth
Hurts" so far.
Origin - Botkyrka(Southwestern Stockholm),
Sweden.
Driving Force - ï 80's Nostalgia ï
Bruitism ï Classical Music ï Democracy&Justice ï Electronics
ï Feminism ï Fine Arts ï Futurism ï Humanism ï Modernism
ï Monoteism ï Optimism ï Pacifism ï Science ï Sci-Fi
ï Socialism ï Ufologi ï Synthesizers&Samplers&Drummachines
etc..(specially Vintage[Analogue]) ï Underground Music- in particular
Synthmusic(New Romantic/Synthpop/EBM/Industrial) ï Visionism ï
.
Formed - July 1988
Best Song - try to forget
Origin - Germany
Driving Force - Future
Formed - 1991
Best Song - hard to say, we like them all.
Many people seem to prefer "Confession"?
Origin - Germany
Driving Force - Distain! - what else...
Formed - 1996
Best Song - NO FURTURE
Origin - Karlskrona,Sweden
Driving Force - Old Depeche Mode
Formed - about 1993/94 (in todays lineup)
originally 1990
Best Song - you decide (maybe dye, jackson305,
candide, picture, atest2....)
Origin - vienna, austria after being inspiredduring
a trip to Fremont, OH-USA
Driving Force - love for the music, fun,
trying to do something different than everyone else
Formed - 2002, in the summer
Best Song - Frozen
Origin - Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Driving Force - to make good music
that anybody can enjoy
Formed - Summer 1998
Best Song - Lurking in the Balance
Origin - Seattle, Washington
Driving Force - Dyed Emotions is a trio of
musicians from Seattle dedicated to bringing new wave music back to the
mainstream and breaking the cycle of repetitive, cloned punk rock.
Formed - 1991
Best Song - Defend Your Joy
Origin -
Driving Force -
Formed - We Formed in the winter of 1988/89.
Best Song - Our biggest succes is the song
"Process", from the album "Degraded Faces", which reached as high as number
5 on the official Spanish chart. But my own EM favorite songs are: "Restrain",
the B-side on the "Watching You" single and "Blind Man Dreams" from the
latest album "Yesterday Man".
Origin - Helsingborg in the very south of
Sweden.
Driving Force - We are still stuck in the
New Romantic and Synthpop scene, with bands like Yazoo, Human League, Ultravox,
Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Data and Robert Marlow. Our main goal is to keep
this Synthpop scene running.
Formed - Early 1999
Origin - Dublin, Ireland.
Best Song - 'The Hall of mirrors' by Kraftwerk.
Driving Force - Quality songs, created electronically,
and recorded with heart.
Formed - Spring 1993.
Best Song - There are no best song, there
are best songs: Mastermind and Date on Mars. They're getting better all the
time...
Origin - Lulea - North sweden - close to
the arctic circle.
Driving Force - Great fun.
Formed - 1989
Best Song - TV 2 , featured on our new demo
"Shaggy Road"
Origin - Uppsala, Sweden
Driving Force - candy, computer games, robots
and razors
Formed - 1993
Best Song - every song is our best song!
but i think that people always like "searing eyes"
Origin - saarbruecken, germany
Driving Force - to play live, to play what
we want, to use synthesizers, to
have fun!
Formed - 1998
Best Song - Not done yet
Origin - Tallinn, Estonia
Driving Force - Powerful sounds,driving melody,old
analog synths(soviet production)
Formed - April 1994
Best Song - Antitesis, I think
Origin - Madrid, Spain
Driving Force - Hooking melodies and concerts
Formed - 199
Best Song - (Currently) Dancing In Vai
Origin - California
Driving Force - To write meaningful songs-
songs drawn from our experience that hopefully people can relate to.
Formed - 1996
Best songs - Reckon you're right
Origin - Kalmar, Sweden
Driving Force - Good motivation
Formed - Summer 1998, Croydon, South London
Best songs - End Of The World, Too Much Attention,
Scum Of The Earth (check out the cover of The Human League's "The Black Hit
Of Space" too)
Origin - BowiePSBDuranManicsLeagueSuedeAbbaBolanJapanSpectorTubewayBrutusChicAntsBlurWalkerKraftwerk....for
starters
Driving Force - Lights, action, pop music!
Formed - While I was living in England (sometime
between 1989-90,.. I believe?)
Best Song - It's a little on the subjective
side. But my personal favourite songs are: "Denial"(Shades of Blue"), "Evil
Twin Sister" (on the New album due out in May!)
Origin - Origin of what?:-)
Driving Force - Many things really. It really
makes my day when people will write in or tell us that "Faith Assembly's"
music moves them or makes their life a little better. It's VERY touching
and inspiring!! It also allows me an outlet. A form of expression and communication
that words alone sometimes aren't quite good enough for.
Film Noir Allies
Formed - 1995
Best Song - "New democracy", "American express"
Origin - Tel-Aviv, Israel
Driving Force - greed. and of course the
urge to form some sort of EBM scene in Israel.
Formed - Unofficially: 1989, Officially,
under current name: 1995
Best Song - "Someway, somehow" (see 'Rising:
Synthpop vs the World')
Origin - Richmond, California, USA
Driving Force - The fact that we CAN'T DO
ANYTHING ELSE. In 1998, however, we can also say that we need to keep going
because a vast majority of music on the radio is really, really bad. Our
three biggest influences at this point are probably Depeche Mode, Nine Inch
Nails, and Garbage.
Formed - 1995
Best Song - Hello Hello (Strange)
Origin - Located Melbourne Australia; members
from Australia, Thailand, Greece, Italy/Romania
Driving Force - To bring interesting, creative
electronic based music to everyone who likes the dance and pop genre. To
promote multiculturalism and collaboration between different ethnic groups,
as achieved by the four diverse members of the band and our working partners
(additional live members and studio producers, DJs, dancers etc).
Formed - 1997
Best Song - impossible to choose
Origin - California, USA
Driving Force - classic analog electro-pop
Formed - October, 1986
Best Song - Foreign Calling, Alibi
Origin - Columbia, Maryland USA
Driving Force - Ultravox, Visage, B-Movie,
IceHouse, tunes that move the skin . . .
Formed - October 1995 originally as a shoegazer
band
Best Song - I think probably Memoir, from
our latest EP, other people swear on Her Ghost from our first LP.
Origin - Columbus, Ohio
Driving Force - To create a truly unique
form of expression. We don't fall neatly into any one genre, but delve into
as many as we can, whether it's new wave, gothic, industrial, ethereal,
or whatever. Our influences range from The Cure to the Cocteau Twins, Berlin
to Joy Division, Pink Floyd and the Church. And more than one of us have
quite a few Cult albums lying about.
Gu Qin
Formed - 1997
Best Song - Today it's "Otherworld", tomorrow
probably "Sweet"....
Origin - Lund, Sweden
Driving Force - Joy.
Hardly Mechanical
Working on an Internet site but nothing finished so far.....
Formed - Originaly in 1986, been through
a lot of different incarnations and slowly dying. Reborn in 1996 again. We
have members of our group living in New York, Luxembourg and Stockholm.
Best Song - "Stranger in my House" so far
but watch out for our new CD in 1998
Origin - Stockholm, Sweden
Driving Force - The feelings and power in
the music made in the 80's. A good song needs a strong melody, something
too often lacking in todays music. A lot of influence from Pet Shop Boys and
Depeche. Melody with melancholy and lyrics with something else than only "Oh
baby I love you". Music with strong beat and powerful sounds.
Formed - September 1995
Best Song - reality-TV
Origin - Southwest of Germany
Driving Force - We are often compared to
the PetShopBoys or even New Order (heaven knows why...).
But in fact we just want to do our own thing, which is (synth) pop-music
for the future. Good music. Danceable music.
Formed - January 1st, 2000
Origin - Earth
Best Song - Automat
Driving Force - Autodrone
Formed - A.D 2000, the dawn of the new millenium
Best Song - 16 Feet of Broken Glass
Origin - San Francisco, Ca
Driving Force - synthesizers will save us all
Formed - July 1997
Best Song - as of this entry, it has yet
to be written!
Origin - New York City
Driving Force - Catchy melodies and smooth
vocals add up to a killer synthpop combination -- once you've heard us live,
I think you'll agree that this is inspiration enough!
infini-D
Formed - 1997
Best Song - Infatuated Mind
Origin - Wales. UK Down the slab (you'll
get it one day)
Driving Force - To be in the next New Wave
forefront, just as the Strange, Numan,Ure were.The Future of Music, The
80's is coming back, mark my words....................
Formed - 01/82
Best Song - ? What, in my opinion? Empty
3.0, from the new album.
Origin - Minneapolis
Driving Force - Electricity
Formed -
Best Song -
Origin -
Driving Force -
Formed - March 2000
Best Song - Domino Effect, Believe You
Origin - Dallas, TX USA
Driving Force - To find our place in this
world
Formed - 1992
Best Song - Annie Would I Lie Tou You
Origin - Texas
Driving Force - To write and produce good
music.
Formed - we were formed in 1991.
Best Song - our fans say our best song is
"cookie crumbs" but i think it's rather silly, so how about "christmas"?
Origin - berkeley, california, USA!
Driving Force - who is our driving force
or what is it? hmmmm. i'd say it would just be a lot of feelings. the weight
of life. nice little songs. how about that?
Formed - The band called JOYCE was formed
in 1994, but Erik and Thomas had played together in other bands before that.
Best Song - Come With Me is a favourite.
Origin - Erik and Thomas both lived in ÷rebro,
Sweden, until Thomas moved to Gothenburg a few years ago.
Driving Force - The kick you get out of making
great music. That kick beats everything, including good sex!
Formed - 1997
Best Song - i can't think of any
Origin - Stockton Ca
Driving Force - To do what you really want
without REgret :) or The love and passion for
making music. NEver give up , always have a new goal to set, and believe
in your music and selves.
Look for our debut double A side single "A Loss
of touch/Under the moon" and our debut album "In your mind"
Formed - KieTheVez was formed 2/2 1991 when
Jesper Palmqvist joined the band. I (Tomas), Per-Henrik and Jörgen
has played together since 1986
Best Song - The latest one is always the
best song
Origin - All four are from Gothenburg, Sweden
Driving Force - The driving force is the
way towards perfection. We will never find it, and that thing is like a
drug. To always improve is the reward, and to some day make the perfekt
album will be a dream which we will be striving for, but never achive. The
making of the music is the main thing it self.
Formed - 1986
Best Song - At the moment of creation every
song is the greatest ine
Origin - Uppsala/SWEDEN
Driving Force - Bring the past into the future,
and further...
Formed - 1999
Best Song - Alien 99
Origin - Sundsvall, Sweden
Driving Force - we know we are the best and
we're gonna show it!!
Formed - 18th November 1995 as a pure synth/pop
duo. Since 1998 it's a one man band with guest musicians (guitar, bass,
maybe more in the future)
Best Song - Some people say it's Fight The
Sleep, others tend to like Ninety-nine Times or Need You So Bad (available
as a MP3 file) better. In my opinion it has not been written yet. Now I'm
working on a song called Blond Beast and I hope it will be a sure hitsong.
However, all I got so far is just a part of the chorus (Blond beast, stop
ruining my life) ;-))
Origin - Pinko/commies power ! I / we are
from Prague, Czech Republic
Driving Force - Sexual frustration
Formed - 1992
Best Song - Solsting (swedish for "sunstroke")
Origin - Linkˆping, Sweden
Driving Force - All the songs and sounds
that aren't discovered yet.
Formed - 1994, founded while band members
were studying at different universities.
Best Song - Desade's Dance Party or eXcited.
Both of which contain infectious pop hooks, layers of electronic "madness,"
and New Wave imagery mixed with techno-dance fever
Origin - A handful New Order, Pet Shop Boys,
and Shamen singles, a couple of Roland synthesizers, a well too viewed copy
of a Duran Duran live video, a stack of Vogue Magazines and a vision for
the destiny of music
Driving Force - We want music to mean something
again. We miss the "lost boy" imagery of the 80's bands like Alphaville,
New Order, Visage. We try to make music fun, while also having lyrics with
some substance. We're also a band that plays out - we detest sitting in the
studio for months, mulling over remixes. So check us out!!
Formed - May 1995
Best Song - Nations Divided
Origin - Frustration with 90's pop music
Driving Force - Enjoyment of programming
songs, writing songs, and having people tell me they like the songs. Kinda
cool when my close friends will quote lyrics sometimes, too. I guess I just
like the act of getting a document of some event or feeling in my life in
some form where I can look back on it and see how I felt when I wrote the
song. Some people write diaries, some take pictures, videotape, etc.., I
write songs. I hope I never stop.
Formed - Never and forever. The name came
up around '91. The trio is based on a duo. We are the base, but the bass
joined later. So did others ...and disappeared. We are constantly forming.
Best Song - We wonder too.
Origin - Stockholm, Sweden.
Driving Force - Coffee and all the great
beauty in the world.
Formed - (TMG) 1995 through a strange twist
of fate
Best Song - (TMG) Our fans would say "Someone";
we haven't written ours yet : )
Origin - (TMG) Southern California
Driving Force - (TMG) A desire to wring emotion
out of the technology we use and have our art appreciated; to express ourselves
through music and have people singing our songs; to put on the best live
show around...
Formed - 23rd of Mars 1997
Best Song - The truth is out there
Origin - Stockholm, Sweden
Driving Force - X-files
Formed - First demo's 1991
Best Song - Rich "Despised" : Neil "Confined"
: Mark "Last Breath of you"
Origin - Bristol, England, UK
Driving Force - Hearing from people that
listen to our music.
Formed - in 1995 in Moscow
Best song - Blind In Your Purse (#4 in Lelik's
Charts :))
Origin - Moscow, Russia
Driving force - creativity, rain, pain, suffering
Formed - 1997
Best Song - Most probably "Captain, oh I
don't know how" and "Can't touch you now"
Origin - Germany
Driving Force - the 80s, New Wave, NDW, Duran
Duran, Huey Lewis and the News, the fact that we don't like modern music
too much, New Romantic, 80s, 80s, 80s, ...
Formed - 1984
Best Song - "Love to be loves" leads the
voting for best song rightnow!
Origin - Stockholm
Driving Force - Perform live and become famous.
Formed - 1993
Best Song - "Fragile Girl" from the old stuff.
"Thrill" from the new stuff.
Origin - Atlanta, GA, USA
Driving Force - striving to make well-crafted
power pop music like you don't hear anymore
Formed - 1996
Best Song - Acres Of Men (could this be heaven)
Origin - Melbourne, Australia
Driving Force - Bringing our electronic pop
to the live stage no matter where in the world it takes us. Melodies...we
love synthpop music with melodies... there is more to modern electronic
pop than just 'thump, thump, thump'!!!
Formed - 1991
Best Song - Amplified Nothing
Origin - Bjarnum, Sweden
Driving Force - fear
Formed - As "Moulin Rouge" 1987, "Moulin
Noir" since 1992
Best Song - The House of Richard III
Origin - Just relocated to Stockholm, Sweden
Driving Force - Finally some day writing
as song as good as "The Damned Don't Cry"
Formed - in 1998
Best Songs - Of ours? Well right now: Dawning
of Love and Never the Same
Origin - Stockholm / Sweden
Driving Force - To make the music that we
would want to hear ourselves
Mulder's Files
Formed - 1995 or so, but didn't actually
get off our ass and finish a song or play live until 1998
Best Song - Haven't written it yet, I hope.
Of those we have, I'd say "The Alien Song," except we already released that
as an Ice IX song, so maybe "trustno1."
Origin - Spatial: Hollywood, CA, right by
Paramount Studios and the post-club 3am Denny's. Temporal: 1995, as above,
4am. Causal: an "X-Files" marathon, half an episode of "Family Ties," a fifth
of Bacardi light rum, and a fifth of Old Crow bourbon.
Driving Force - the obvious--The X-Files;
Swedish synthpop (especially S.P.O.C.K.); celebrating my geekiness; a desire
to do something outside of Ice IX; the driving need to use the brilliant
pun names "Michael J. Fox Mulder" and "Alex P. Krycek" (well, OK, they were
brilliant at 4am); the almost as driving need to find decent puns related
to Sculley, Skinner, etc.; the mind control waves that the government broadcasts
into my brain when I forget the tinfoil hat; bouncy melodies; silly lyrics;
any drugs which aren't illegal yet in California (still including cigarettes,
at least for this month...); MacOS and BeOS and linux; Roland and Korg and
Moog and Ensoniq and Peavey; and of course, as always, the lessons I learned
from Mr. T's "Be Somebody" video.
My Rubicon Seven
Formed - "My Rubicon Seven" was formed in
April of 1997 by Brandon Thompson, formerly of "Rule Of Faith." It was more
of a name change than anything else...both members of ROF (John Cordes and
Brandon Thompson) are still the primary figures in the new group. As "Rule
Of Faith", Brandon & John made quite an entrance into the Christian
synth scene, but after much consideration they decided to take a more mainstream
route with their music and their message.
Best Song - Absolutely "Don't Let It End
This Way", which will soon be released as the title-track on the upcoming
full-length CD
Origin - The origin of the name "My Rubicon
Seven" is very spiritual. "Rubicon" is often used to denote a point of no
return and the number "7" is often considered the number of perfection or
completion. Well, in keeping with that, "My Rubicon Seven" is the personal
decision or circumstance which eventually makes us complete as humans.
Driving Force - Whew....there's a lot of
driving forces.
1. Being able to quit our day-jobs someday.
2. To be able to walk in an elevator someday and hearing someone hum a
song of ours.
3. To see at least one person smile just a little longer than normal because
of something we wrote.
4. To use the talents that God gave us in whatever way He sees fit.
Formed - January 1998 (formerly The Vanishing
Point)
Origin - Long Island, New York, USA
Best Song - These days we are growing so
much that we think our best song has yet to be written but we are getting
ever so close to reaching it. We believe that people will fall in love with
songs such as The Wanderers, True Believer or Swansong
Driving Force - Three individuals brought
together by the love of electronic music with one goal to take over the planet
and create a widespred musical revolution of the United States and beyond!
Diverse influences include: Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, DM, Joy Division,
The Cure, 2Unlimited, Rush, Duran Duran, Pulp..etc... Come enter The Mystic
Underground
The place to get material by most of the bands here.
It took under a week to get stuff in Australia - as an indication.
Very helpful, friendly and personal service - even half way round the
world.
Includes the bands I don't know.
A more indepth look at Sweden.
A resource for New Wave music and genres it encompasses.
Created: 22/3/97
Modified: 19/3/03
Maintained by: Ashley Fletcher nwc@nerosoft.com
