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The Women of 80's ELECTRO! Coldwave, Darkwave, Synthpop, Industrial!
As synthesizers got smaller and cheaper through the 70's, 'future music' went from acedemia to the street. Punk, PostPunk, Funk, and HipHop artists brought attitude and new styles into the pop vocabulary throughout the 80's that forged the music of today. Here are many women from the first Electro rock era...
Intro: CLARA ROCKMORE, DELIA DERBYSHIRE, BOB MOOG, KRAFTWERK. //Industrial shocktroops THROBBING GRISTLE (Sheffield '75), which split into CHRIS & COSEY (81), Psychic TV, and Coil; I'M SO HOLLOW, Jane Wilson (Sheffield 78); FLYING LIZARDS, Deborah Evans and Patti Palladin (London 78); HUMAN LEAGUE, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley (Sheffield 77); INDIANS IN MOSCOW, Adele Nozedor (London 82); // NEUE DEUTSCHE WELLE (New German Wave)/ DARKWAVE: Die TODLICHE DORIS, Kathe Kruse and Tabea Blumenschein (Berlin 81); the MALARIA epidemic: Gudrun Gut was in the early EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN (80), then MANIA D with Bettina Koster and Beate Bartel, Bartel formed LIASONS DANGEREUSES while Gut and Koster became MALARIA! (81), then Gut and Bartel did MATADOR; IDEAL, Annette Humpe (80); PROPAGANDA (83); // COLDWAVE, France: KaS PRODUCT, Mona Soyoc (80), MATHEMATIQUES MODERNES, Edwige Braun-Belmore (80); BAROQUE BORDELLO (81), OPERA MULTI STEEL, Catherine Marie (83); EXCES NOCTURNE, Ariane (86); ASYLUM PARTY, Thierry Sobézyk (85); COLDREAMS (86), TANIT, Elsa Drezner (85); DEUX, Cati Tete (81); //synthwave EURYTHMICS, with stellar Annie Lennox (London 81); PostPunk PINK INDUSTRY, Jayne Casey (Liverpool 82); pop chameleon ANNE CLARK (London 82); ambient goth DEAD CAN DANCE, Lisa Gerrard (Melbourne 81); DENIS & DENIS, Marina Perazić and Edi Kraljić (Croatia 84); electro performance artist LAURIE ANDERSON (New York 79); NEW ORDER rechanneling ElectroFunk rechanneling Krautrock, Gillian Gilbert (Manchester 81); dream wave COCTEAU TWINS, Elizabeth Fraser (Scotland 79); darkwave The HONEYMOON KILLERS, Veronique Vincent (Belgium 77); all-female BELABORIS named for Legosi and Karloff (Finland 82); // INDUSTRIAL: BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL, various (US 86); SPK, with many female vocalists (Sydney 78); MARCH VIOLETS, Rosie Garland (Leeds 83); multimedia artist Diana Rogerson was in agit-artists FISTF_CK, Nurse With Wound, and as Chrystal Belle Scrodd (London 80); Indu-rock SISTERS OF MERCY, ubiquitous Patricia Morrison (86); fetish Indu with SLEEP CHAMBER and schlock-shock offshoot WOMEN OF THE SS, varied vocalists; experimental The SWANS, Jarboe (86); Die FORM, Elaine P. (France 77); folk wave SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble of Shadows, Anna-Varney Cantodea (Frankfurt 89); electro dance fetishists LORDS OF ACID, Jade 4 U/ Nikkie Van Lierop (Belgium 88); ATTRITION, Julia Niblock (Coventry 80); and BDSM with The GENITORTURERS, disciplined by Gen (Orlando 90).
These women ushered in KMFDM, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Republica, Portishead, Miranda Sex Garden, Rasputina, Ladytron, Death Ride 69, Le Tigre, Chicks On Speed, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Anna Oxygen, Robots In Disguise, Meg Lee Chin, Autonervous, Women Of Sodom, Kirlian Camera, Nocturne, Collide, Angelspit, and Zombie Girl.
See also:
DELIA DERBYSHIRE- \"The Wizards Laboratory\" (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9AkSI_UbIE
ALICE SHIELDS -\"STUDY FOR VOICE AND TAPE\" (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vTRZPLyKX0
MALARIA!:
http://www.myspace.com/malariaberlin
http://www.myspace.com/ggut
http://www.youtube.com/gudrungut
http://www.myspace.com/bettinakoster
http://www.myspace.com/bartelbeate
http://www.myspace.com/matadorberlin
http://www.myspace.com/autonervous
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tym stevens
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