Sparkle Motion - A Friend Called Five

New wave and minimal wave was some of the first music I really latched onto in the 80s and what originally got me into synth music. Thanks to some great minimal wave and cold wave compilations recently I've gotten back into that music and was excited to make a mix of stuff I loved as a kid mixed with stuff that's just being dug up now. If you have ever been into Depeche Mode or Gary Numan, def give this a listen!

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A Friend Called Five

Human League - Being Boiled

Indoor Life - Archaeology

Tom Tom Club - As Above, So Below

Eleven Pond - Watching Trees

Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel

Ausgang Verboten - Consumer

Twilight Ritual - I Never Called You A Dream

Deux - Game & Performance

Turquoise Days - Blurred

Das Kabinette - The Cabinet

Visage - Fade To Grey

Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars

Oppenheimer Analysis - Radiance

Robert Palmer - I Dream Of Wires

Gary Numan - Down In The Park

that is an exemplary cover

looks well good......... and extra props for the cover

will get on this in a few weeks when i can listen to music again.......... you into any coldwave.....? being getting quite heavily into xeno & oaklander and this compilation recently

  On 4/18/2010 at 2:24 AM, Bourbon Surf said:

looks well good......... and extra props for the cover

will get on this in a few weeks when i can listen to music again.......... you into any coldwave.....? being getting quite heavily into xeno & oaklander and this compilation recently

Yeah that comp is awesome, took a couple tracks from it for this mix. That Eleven Pond track is epic.

yeah wtf did you make that cover? so goddam good

  On 4/20/2010 at 10:50 AM, Awepittance said:

yeah wtf did you make that cover? so goddam good

Sadly I'm not responsible for the original tape art. It's from a flickr set I came across a while back, very cool!

same story, i love all your mixes sparkly but isn't it time to bump up the bitrate? 192kbps is so 2006. your work truly deserves better.

i dont care what all the people are saying, i'm going to listen to this anyway.

  On 5/7/2010 at 6:45 PM, Fred McGriff said:

i dont care what all the people are saying, i'm going to listen to this anyway.

Thanks Fred!

just finished. i likey. i really liked the marilyn manson cover at the end by gary numan. i should check him out.

Sweet stuff!