So on the eve of Hitler’s birthday I’m pulling out old Laibach and Enigma records in horror of the papacy’s return to that old Oberammergau catechism, and I reach for the most seminal goth-rock number of all. It’s on The Yardbirds Great Hits (Epic, 1977, one vinyl disc, liner notes by Ira Robbins), and the album cover’s got reams of ticker-taped That Was the Year That Was headlines, and there the unexpected words were, (accidentally?) next to the title of the ‘Birds Gregorian high-mass stained-glass pagan-pop plaint “Still I’m Sad” (later covered by Boney M): “Pope Paul VI makes a ‘peace pilgrimage’ to Istanbul.” Eerie . . .
ANDROID LUST
Stripped & Stitched
(Projekt darkwave electro-dance album)
Download “Drown” (MP3)
Download “Sin” (MP3)
Download “The Want (Existence/Nonexistence)” (MP3)
DAEDELUS
Exquisite Corpse
(Mush post-hip-hop backpacker art-collage album)
Download “Move On” feat. Sci (MP3)
DEATH IN VEGAS
Satan’s Circus
(Drone post-acid-rock post-acid-house dub-disco techno-drone double album)
DIERDRE One
(Six Degrees trip-hopped darkwave-leaning new-age ethno-dub chantoozie album)
Sample Album
FOETUS
(Not Adam)
(Birdman dance-oriented post-arsequake EP)
GIRLS UNDER GLASS
Zyklus
(Metropolis Teutonic electro-goth darkwave album)
Download “Ohne Dich” (MP3)
Download “Truly Living” (MP3)
THE HUMAN LEAGUE
The Very Best Of
(Caroline ’70s-’80s techno-pop reissue)
Stream “Together In Electric Dreams” (Windows Media)
Stream “Don’t You Want Me” (Windows Media)
Stream “Being Boiled (Fast Label Version)” (Windows Media)
SCRITTI POLITTI
Early
(Rough Trade ’70s-’80s lo-fidelity deconstructionist post-punk semi-funk reissue)
Stream “Bibbly-O-Tek” (Windows Media)
Stream “Messthetics” (Windows Media)
Stream “Skank Bloc Bologna” (Windows Media)
13 & GOD
13 & God
(Anticon/Alien Transistor Kraut-glitched indie-rock undie-rap album)
Stream “Men of Station” (Real Audio)
Stream “Superman on Ice” (Real Audio)
VNVNATION
Matter + Form
(Metropolis darkwave electro-rock album)
Download “Chrome” (MP3)
Download “Entropy” (MP3)
:WUMSPCUT:
Evoke
(Metropolis Teutonic darkwave electro-rock album)
Stream “Churist Churist” (Windows Media)
Stream “Evoke” (Windows Media)
Z-TRIP
Shifting Gears
(Hollywood DJ-with-guest-backpackers hip-hop album)
Sample Album