Whenever I start to feel like my nerdy infatuation with post-punk is dying down, I come across some tracks that remind me just how much influence the period of roughly '77-'83 has had on pop music, and it gets me all worked up again. The first track tonight is by Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) pioneers Liaisons Dangereuses. Their only album was scrapped together from a couple of cassettes recorded by bandmembers Beate Bartel (of Einstürzende Neubauten), Chrislo Haas (of D.A.F.) and singer Krishna Goineau in 1981. The whole album is fascinating, like a kind of This Heat meets Talking Heads meets Chicago house and Detroit techno hybrid. It's danceable(many DJs have indeed cited "Los Ninos del parque" as a huge influence), experimental and ominous but also highly idiosyncratic-- its goofy lyrics in French and Spanish are bizarre, to say the least. Here's one of the albums many slappers, "Los Ninos del parque."
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Next up is "I'm In Love With a German Film Star" by British one hit wonders The Passions. I'm sure this song will be getting all kinds of hype again when British artists Sam Taylor-Wood releases her cover of it on Kompakt later this month, but for now enjoy the ethereal original. Listening to it makes me feel like I'm in some kind of heroined-out dream encounter with a singer in a David Lynch movie. Wooh.
Buy Liasions Dangereuses' self-titled album at Amazon.
Buy The Passions' 30000 Feet Over China at Amazon.
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