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Synth Britannia (2009)
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the center of the pop stage.
You could plausibly argue that the early 1980s were the last time pop was really innovative. Guitars, bass and drums were suddenly replaced by beeping boxes; blokey quartets were edged aside by gauche, serious duos. The latest film in the rock-solid Britannia strand talks to representatives of all synthpop's pioneers - The Human League, OMD, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Soft Cell, Heaven 17, Yazoo, and the Numanoid himself - to explain how Brits who couldn't play guitar even to punk standards made music with machines. Just a few years after Kraftwerk and the Clockwork Orange soundtrack had inspired it, synthetic pop was subsumed into the mainstream. It was a brief, weird, glorious flash, and it's captured here very well. Synth at the BBC, an hour of archived live performances, follows...
Download Links: 899mb AVI | 1h 27m | rejoin with WINRAR
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/294601246/SBWnA.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294610659/SBWnA.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294620127/SBWnA.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294629336/SBWnA.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294633770/SBWnA.part5.rar
Synth Britannia at the BBC (2009)
With Moogs turned up to 11, a 1970s/80s journey through the BBC's synthpop archives from Roxy Music to New Order.
Synth Britannia at the BBC recalling the bands that helped drive the synthesizer music that dominated the early eighties.
Tracklist
Roxy Music — Do the Strand || Tubeway Army — Are 'Friends' Electric? || Sparks — Beat the Clock || The Human League — The Path of Least Resistance || Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Messages || Ultravox — Vienna | Depeche Mode — New Life || New Order — Temptation || Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye || Japan — Ghosts | Yazoo — Don't Go || Tears for Fears — Mad World || Eurythmics — Love is a Stranger | Heaven 17 — Temptation || Howard Jones — What Is Love? || Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities
Download Links: 375mb AVI | 58m | rejoin with WINRAR
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/294585674/SBATBS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294592833/SBATBS.part2.rar
download links if ya missed it:
Synth Britannia (2009)
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the center of the pop stage.
You could plausibly argue that the early 1980s were the last time pop was really innovative. Guitars, bass and drums were suddenly replaced by beeping boxes; blokey quartets were edged aside by gauche, serious duos. The latest film in the rock-solid Britannia strand talks to representatives of all synthpop's pioneers - The Human League, OMD, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Soft Cell, Heaven 17, Yazoo, and the Numanoid himself - to explain how Brits who couldn't play guitar even to punk standards made music with machines. Just a few years after Kraftwerk and the Clockwork Orange soundtrack had inspired it, synthetic pop was subsumed into the mainstream. It was a brief, weird, glorious flash, and it's captured here very well. Synth at the BBC, an hour of archived live performances, follows...
Download Links: 899mb AVI | 1h 27m | rejoin with WINRAR
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/294601246/SBWnA.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294610659/SBWnA.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294620127/SBWnA.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294629336/SBWnA.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294633770/SBWnA.part5.rar
Synth Britannia at the BBC (2009)
With Moogs turned up to 11, a 1970s/80s journey through the BBC's synthpop archives from Roxy Music to New Order.
Synth Britannia at the BBC recalling the bands that helped drive the synthesizer music that dominated the early eighties.
Tracklist
Roxy Music — Do the Strand || Tubeway Army — Are 'Friends' Electric? || Sparks — Beat the Clock || The Human League — The Path of Least Resistance || Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Messages || Ultravox — Vienna | Depeche Mode — New Life || New Order — Temptation || Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye || Japan — Ghosts | Yazoo — Don't Go || Tears for Fears — Mad World || Eurythmics — Love is a Stranger | Heaven 17 — Temptation || Howard Jones — What Is Love? || Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities
Download Links: 375mb AVI | 58m | rejoin with WINRAR
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/294585674/SBATBS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/294592833/SBATBS.part2.rar
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