BIPPP french synth wave 1979-85 (vinyl)

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We are at the beginning of the 80s, and No Future is now struggling to mobilize these disillusioned young people, hungry for experimentation and modernity. In short, punk is bogged down and wearing thin. In 79, the release of JACNO’s hit “Rectangle”, a punk defector, opened the way and finally convinced the most hesitant. The furious riffs of Rickenbacker and Fender guitars gradually gave way to the cold, robotic beep-beeps of Casio analog keyboards, Korg MS 10 and other ARP Omni. Poses növö, retro-futurism, elegance and arrogance of a youth that found in the synth a deliberate coldness, and in the electric guitar, the Cubass of their generation. Sometimes clumsy, but always sincere, the tinkering and sonic wanderings of these bands are as many proposals and attempts at answers to the musical morass of the early 80s. BIPPP thus offers an immersion and a didactic testimony to this period that foreshadows the emergence of home studios and the explosion of electronic music to come. Bon voyage to the land of the TGV, the BX, the Minitel..and cheap synths! Having moved on from a primitive Punk whose nihilistic and jubilant energy had run out of steam, a certain youth in search of aesthetics and modernism no longer found itself in the noisy and muddled manifestations of this regressive movement.