I really like this song.

The JPS Experience - Flex (5.64 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

I found it on KiwiTapes.

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If you followed my advice, you'll probably be wanting to have a good close look at this as well. It's more awesomeness from early-80s Wellington electro-pop group The Body Electric. (We talked about The Body Electric here, too.) And pretty rare, as well.

The Body Electric - Dreaming In A Life (2.69 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

It's from their 1983 'double-A side' 12" with the almost-as-good Interior Exile as the "AA" side. If Pulsing was the novelty hit in their catalogue, Dreaming In A Life is much more serious. No less catchy, though.

And hurry up, would you -- you've only got until tomorrow.

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This week's Farce (well it's not THAT much of a farce) is this:

The Body Electric - Magic Electronic (3.21 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Yesterday we learnt all about The Body Electric, the early-80s electro-new-wave-synth group from New Zealand, including one or more members who were in (post-)punk groups The Amps and Steroids. I mean kinda -- all I really did was up a track, and much hilarity followed. In the defence of The Body Electric, it's a little unsure whether or not Pulsing was a novelty hit or a serious song -- the rest of their (heh) body of work* is much more moody, serious, and edgy.



According to my sources, Magic Electronic was the A-side of a 7" released in 1984, but no one can be sure that the band that released it was not in fact from Sweden(!). Sounds like it could be the Wellington, New Zealand group, but the release doesn't show in their discography on The Big City (then again, things often don't, so.....). Google isn't much help. So what is the truth, punters?

BTW Mark Thingummy from Club Bizarre rates The Body Electric, too.

* See that, there, how I couldn't resist making a pun? I was going to write ouvre, but why be pretentious when you can make bad punnery instead?

Labels: Friday farce, music, new zealand post-punk, vinyl

If you were me, you would be buying this. Because, like, it's an absolute stone classic of early electro. From Wellington. And pretty rare.

Why aren't I buying it? I don't really need four copies, ok?

The Body Electric - Pulsing (3.41 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

I'm feeling so magnanimous, you can have the "dub" version from the B side, for nothing.

The Body Electric - Pulsing (Dub) (3.06 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Isn't it cute!!!!

Labels: music, new zealand post-punk, props, vinyl