After paying tribute to the musical work of Death In June and then to that of The Sisters Of Mercy, the third part of our HONORIS Tribute series is this time dedicated to the legendary British band BAUHAUS! Pioneers of post-punk and the goth-wave despite themselves. Haunted by the tutelary shadow of David Bowie and Brian Eno, truly post-punk with a touch of glam, lovers of German expressionism and European symbolism, the sound of Bauhaus knew how to combine dub basses, and acid guitars, sepulchral voices and hypnotic rhythms.
On the initiative of Unknown Pleasures Records, and the consequent adhesion to this project by Industrial Complexx & Oráculo Records, we pay tribute with covers by different bands to The Sisters of Mercy, the band that many of us identify as the most important of the gothic rock and dark post-punk that derived in the first wave of English punk. Here is the last volume of the Electronic Manifesto Compilation curated by Pedro HIV+ and released on M- Tronic records in 2010. The theme for the bands to compose their Epitath! The result is just splendid, this compilation is a flow of emotions but also contains some real dancefloor hits. Digital Album [free download] This compilation contains reinterpretations and remixes of classic new wave / cold wave / synthpop / minimal synth hits by contemporary artists including Blind Delon, HIV+, Adan & Isle and Les Modules Étranges, just to name a few. Digital Album [free download] After the success of the first double CD compilation “Electronic Manifesto” (published in 1000 copies in Spain by Caustic Records in February 2007) I was super motivated to continue this work as curator, so I continued to select exclusive tracks, rare and unpublished remixes, and I contacted the artists present on this second volume (produced by me in September 2007 for the Marseille label Divine Comedy Records). Small anecdote, I financed the totality of the pressing (1000 copies) but the owner of the label who had to take care of the administrative part “forgot” to declare at the time the cover of Grauzone to Sacem, consequently he had to pay a fine and this is the reason why I left this label in 2007, arguing with him for good following this incident. Despite this episode, this compilation received great reviews and still sounds “modern” 13 years after its release. An electronic masterpiece that bears witness to the Minimal Wave of the first decade. Digital Album [free download] |