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x ray pop - the dream machine - dark entries - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. La Machine I Raver
2. L Eurosienne
3. Alcool
4. Amazone
5. DS
6. El Gato
7. Playgirl
8. Mina
9. Analphabelfe

X Ray Pop are the synth-pop duo of Doc Pilot and Zouka Dzaza from Tours, France. They got their start in the no wave art group Bocal 5 in 1981 and split off in 1984 to focus on their own brand of quirky synthesized electronics. The Dream Machine collects X Ray Pop's first three 7'' singles plus 8 songs from their demo cassette, never released on vinyl before !

nfluenced by Erik Satie, Brigitte Bardot, Suicide and Young Marble Giants, they call their music ''minimum naive new wave''. Armed with a Casio PT-20 keyboard and a rudimentary Yamaha MR10 drum machine they recorded their demo cassette and first 7'' Eurasienne and La Machine à Rêver in 1984. Upgrading their synthesizers and adding some saxophone and guitar, they recorded the Alcoo and Amazone 7'' in 1985 and the DS and El Gato 7'' in 1986.