Bippp French Synth Wave 1979/85
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It's the early 1980s, and No Future is now struggling to mobilise these disillusioned young people, eager for experimentation and modernity. In short, punk is becoming bogged down and tiresome. In 1979, the release of the hit single ‘Rectangle’ by JACNO, a punk defector, paves the way and finally convinces the most indecisive. The raging riffs of Rickenbacker and Fender guitars gradually gave way to the cold, robotic beeps of Casio, Korg MS 10 and ARP Omni analogue keyboards. Növö poses, retro-futurism, elegance and arrogance of a youth that found in the synthesiser an assumed coldness, and in the electric guitar, the Cubass of their generation. Sometimes clumsy, but always sincere, the tinkering and sonic wanderings of these bands were as many proposals and attempts at responses to the musical stagnation of the early 1980s. BIPPP thus offers an immersion and an educational testimony to this period, which foreshadowed 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! Returning from a primitive punk era whose nihilistic and jubilant energy had run out of steam, a certain youth in search of aesthetics and modernism no longer found themselves in the noisy and messy manifestations of this regressive movement.
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