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   digitalgeist
   

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   I loved this short-lived British "retro electro" act. Anybody else here get into them? They broke up in 2003 or so. This was a band that I saw their CD in the electronic section of a mall's CD store and bought on a whim... I just found three of their CDs in a cardboard box and I haven't listened to them in YEARS.

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   I actually was lucky enough to see them perform live in Toronto in 2001 and it was really wild! About as punk rock as a show like that could get honestly. It was amazing how much this band rocked my world when I was listening to straight up VNV and Apop at the time - they came on with "Brothel Charge" and it was like being at a Black Flag concert with a theremin being waved into the crowd.

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   The Barry 7 compilations (Barry 7's Connectors #1 and #2) are great too. I wonder whatever happened to these guys after they broke up.

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   The Other Sumez
   

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   Discovered them just about the time when they broke up, thanks to the track "Plug it in" that you linked above. I could be wrong, but it sounds like an obvious homage to Gary Numan? (whom I was also digging a lot at that time)

   Here's one of my favourite tracks by them:
   

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   Sounds like Juno Reactor meeting Massive Attack, not a bad mix.

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   Posted 3 months ago #
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   Man, I LOVED Add N to (X). The first time I heard Black Regent [On The Wires of our Nerves] I was just floored. I found the LP at Best Buy, the cover art was blacked out as explicit. I thought, this HAS to be the cool new shit. The cover turned out to be some people stuffing a monosynth into a girls guts. Awesome.

   Avante Hard was also a great album.

   I read that when they broke up they went on to do other projects and start a couple record labels. No idea what they are doing now.

   `michael

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   AirCrashBureau
   

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   @ Soilodge

   The cover is actually portraying a caesarian. The birth of the Moog Rogue. ;-)

   But Add N To X were brilliant. Vero Electronics is a great album. Still need to get some of their singles.

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   soillodge
   

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   AH! That makes more sense. Back then I was just like "gore and synths"! Hellz yes!

   `michael

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   The Other Sumez
   

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   I wonder if Add N to X is one of those bands no one dislikes.

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