Subscribe to updatesNext week: Continental Synth-Pop (or dark wave, or cold wave, or no wave - or whatever ‘wave’ you’re comfortable with, just so we don’t use that dirty ‘pop’ word).
This week? Something not totally different or at odds with the above.
Until then, check out the following found post. I will likely play this, along with some other recent finds on next week’s show.
Gina X Performance - No G.D.M. 12” (1979)
Originally released in Germany and France in ‘79, “No G.D.M.” essentially pin points the origin of electroclash, decadently combining cold-wave electro, New York no wave, sleazy disco and the gender-bending performance aesthetics that would come to dominate the Berlin and NYC club scenes in the early 1980s. Gina X Performance was formed in Cologne, Germany by writer, producer, and musician Zeus B. Held and art school vocalist Gina Kikoine, whose detached, masculine lyrics were mostly often about her ideals of androgynous beauty and her desire to be a homosexual man rather than a lesbian. The lyrics of “No G.D.M.” are a musical response to celebrated writer and “stately homo” Quentin Crisp, who frequently spoke of a “great dark man” who was utterly beyond his reach. « notes from brainwashed.com »
