The “I Should Have Heard This” Collection

A while back there was a wee discussion between fellow travellers on the merits of Coldwave / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Synth-pop and possibly Drum Machine Goth / Electro / Industrial. I had a look through my insignificant collection and found that I have quite a bit of this massive cross connected, cross pollinated, cross genre of blindingly good music. I therefore thought I should share some of it with the unsuspecting of you out there who just download anything that looks remotely interesting.

I have created 5 distinct folders (that collectively weigh in at 1.35GB) containing 128 choons! No art work could ever contain the awesomeness of these folders, indeed the folders themselves are bursting at the seams with the recently dead bodies and the ancient rotting corpse of bands who quite rightly are long dead, mainly one single and gone, phantoms from the late 70’s and early 80’s. Understanding the impact that Punk and New Wave had on the independently minded young bands of the day, who saw the evolution of the synthesizer from mindless widdling by legendary keyboardists to a Moog Synth as a way to avoid the monotony and mindless numbing of long term unemployment in late 70’s Britain. Add a tinny beat box and droning vocals, mumble something about Buddha and you’re off. It also helped if you lived in Sheffield.

The first collection of MP3’s is filled to the brim with 29 legendary bands such as;

Mekanik Kommando

Red Violet Red

Hohokam

Kalashnikov

Necropolis Of Love

New Law Nightmare

Days Of Sorrow

Thirteen At Midnight

Dip In…you might like it.