Saturday, April 5, 2008

7 > 10 > inches of pleasure

How you doing on this awesome NYC spring day?

Today we have a combo treat...

7 > 10 > inches of pleasure!

A 7" from Belgium - Absolute Body Control - Is there an exit? (1981)
Great Minimal Synth stuff.


&

From France we have 10" - Citizen UK - S/T (1981)
A Synth Wave gem.


And last we have from from Germany an whacked out 10" Die Dominas - S/T (1981)
This tasty epic 10'er is extra ripe with crazed casiotone synthworks and seductive female vocals. Programmed By [Uncredited], Recorded By [Uncredited], Mixed By [Uncredited] - Manuel Göttsching!! HELLO! SUPERWARPED!!!


Get all 3 here

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2 comments:

Luis Baptista said...

Thanks, great blog and posts.

Unknown said...

The link is off, but searching for more information I see the following reference in this website http://kraftwerkfaq.hu/related-projects.html:

Were Ralf and Florian behind the group 'Die Dominas'?

No, but Ralf Hütter and Karl Bartos did inspire the 10" mini-LP Ich bin a Domina, for which they wrote two chords and designed the sleeve! Here's part of a magazine interview with Ash Ra Temple's Manuel Gottsching (taken from 'Dreams World', issue 11).

" 'Die Dominas' were two old friends of mine. They are my long time friend Rosi, who also performed on some Ash Ra Tempel records (...) and Claudia Skoda for whose fashion shows I have been composing and performing most of the music since 1976. They knew KW from Düsseldorf because they often went there together for fashion fairs. Ralf H. and Karl B. wrote down two special chords for them on a piece of paper: the 'sub Domina' and the 'Domina seven' (Domina = dominant) chords. Later in Berlin they were asking me to show them how these chords sounded. So, one evening when we were doing a nice long session together in my studio, I played them these chords. I explained a little about the instruments in the studio, and they started experimenting with them, without knowing that I was already recording the session! It was really a hilarious session, and the voices sounded like we were having a party. The next day, I started re-mixing the material, and finally got three titles out of it! Claudia and Rosi were so impressed with the result they played it to Ralf and Karl. They were so taken by the recording they offered to make the cover for the album. It turned out to be a very nice cover that looked like a silhouette in black and yellow. "