The Twins ‘A Wild Romance’ (Hansa International, 1983)

byImogen Bebb
January 18, 2024

The Twins were a synthpop group formed in Berlin in 1980, and unlike the twins of the Thompson variety, there were just two of them. Rather disappointingly though, they weren’t actually twins.

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The Endless House Foundation ‘Endless House’ (Dramatic, 2011)

byJoe Silva

You might have wished you were at Glasto 94. Or The Screen On The Green in 77. Or Hyde Park in 69 for that matter.

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Parliament-Funkadelic. Underground Resistance. Wu-Tang. When you’re thinking about the great musical collectives of the past 50 years, your mind may not jump to the Japanese outfit Geinoh Yamashirogumi.

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Vidéo Aventures

byDavid Stubbs

They were called Vidéo Aventures. They were French, they had links to the extreme Rock In Opposition movement, and in 1981 they released ‘Musique Pour Garçons Et Filles’, a superb example of underground electropop weirdosity

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Vic Twenty ‘Electrostalinist’ (Lucky Pierre, 2005)

byNeil Mason

I first came upon Vic Twenty when they supported Erasure at Leicester’s De Montford Hall in 2003 and I was prepared to be disappointed.....Of course, I was wrong.

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The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

byDavid Pollock

The first time I saw the Magnificents live, in the small, sweaty Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College of Art almost two decades ago, it was an initiation in both electronic music, and the power of discovering a group that felt like they were truly your own – or at least, shared only with the 50 or so fiercely devoted fellow travellers in the room.

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