Vanity Records  were not always a fine early source of nineties style glitchy electronica and proto rave trance outs. In 1978 they w...

A letter wot i found on da internet! A strange beast indeed from that strange Japanese beast,Jap music critic, Yuzuru Agi's, Van...

Normal (Brain) service has been resumed, after that admittedly wonderful new years day post, we return to some Japanese nascent electroni...

As the first post of 2016, I figured it should feature the original inspiration behind this blog and a thousand other cassett...

Japanese cassette only proto-rave electronica from the year zero of 'popular' synth music. This could easily have been recorded y...

Surprisingly thin on the ground,even more so that in the USA, is decent Japanese Minimal Synth music from the cusp o'the eighties. Th...

A Minimal Synth classic that is almost fit enough to shine the shoes of 'Metamatic','Computer World' or 'The Pleas...

You can't get more minimal synth than this homemade ,very, minimal synth classic tape from the now missing in action John Bender.15 t...

From the "Metal Benders" of Dark Day , to fellow electronic contemporary Bender, of the John variety(what a segue!). A more ha...

The Gary Numan of Manhattan's first Dark Day LP is from the time when electronic acts still used real drummers and guitars like The N...

As the technology era progresses to the point where we all carry around our brains, now renamed as 'Smart hand Held devices' or ...

Not all American Synth Pop was clueless of course,although I'm not too great a fan of the first dark Day LP,the second, 'Windo...

Shifting along the vast Sound Of Pig roster from the certified intellectualism of Joseph Nechvatal, to the intellectual Synth Pop o...

So you thought that Negativland were a bunch of Smart-arses eh? Well here's a bona-fide smart arse, with qualifications-a-plenty in s...

Yes these fuckers are a bunch of smart arses, but their records are pretty good.This 1981 effort, showcases their trademark sound c...