Zynklavier returns from his neon throne for some slightly sombre music

Belgian New Beat – Vincent Kompany has company; Eden is no Hazard – Belgian new beat twisted melons and crocheted cigars.  More thumping tunes than you could wave Nico Claesen at.

Veni, Vidi, Vici. Synklavier dons his MA-1, 501s and Timberlands to bring you an hour of Italian cuts so deep there’s Chianti spilling all over the studio floor.

Minimal Machines – “They’re inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?” 1980s Minimal Synth Man Machine Petrification

‘Das Boot’ Neue Deutsche Welle musik von den 80ern.

Pacific Age: The Elegant March of Progress – The Jackboot Beats, the cold jagged edge of oscillators, curtains for humanity. This is music made in the shadow of the bomb.

Herein we meet Philip Peake Gorey, who gives a master class on appreciation of an instrument that needs no introduction.

A lynchpin of that 80s sound, here is a celebration of reedy emissions, the ethereal seductiveness of that sensual soother, the Saxophone.

Michael Nyman – Time Lapse from ‘Z00’ – 1985

Holly Johnson – S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (1989)