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(by John Foxx) 

 

Zithromax Over The Counter, Interesting one, this. An overlooked piece of electronic DNA.

 

When I was very young, I heard The Shadows music on the radio. The dark name and sinister song titles grabbed my imagination immediately - Frightened City, Man of Mystery, FBI, The Stranger. It all appeared moody, mean, modern and sinister. Fascinating, I thought, Zithromax Over The Counter. This is the future.

 

Later, zithromax syphillis, it was all a disappointment. In succession, I came across the twee dance steps, the religion, the family friendly image …and Cliff.

 

I’d just dreamt into them what I wanted to see – something much more interesting – dark, futuristic and sharp – and yet . . .

 

Zithromax Over The Counter, The Shadows used American electric guitars – streamline profiles and paint jobs transposed from automobiles such as Cadillac, Chrysler, Lincoln, Mercury, Chevy. Even the model name ‘Stratocaster’ is redolent of futuristic power and sci-fi optimism. They looked like ray guns from a teenage movie.

(Electric guitars are among the very first electronic instruments. Zithromax medical a href, They sound unlike an acoustic guitar because they have no resonance chambers, so they can be almost any shape – their bodies are solid - deliberately acoustically unresponsive)*.

 

The Shadows were popular in Europe – particularly in Germany and France, and their sound greatly affected European popular music of the 50s 60s and 70s.

 

When I hitchhiked through Italy, France and Germany in the mid 1960s, I heard many variations on that original Shadows / Meek sound from jukeboxes in bars and cafes. It was everywhere, Zithromax Over The Counter. ‘Wonderful Land’ and ‘Telstar’ had become the ubiquitous template of much European pop.

 

(This very sound, (but leaning more toward Meek) was - much later - continued by OMD, in the later era of Brit. synthpop. OMD were early apostles of Kraftwerk, zithromax powder price, and the natural connection and affiliation between Kraftwerk and the Meek/Shadows axis is illustrated by their choice of mode and sound.

 

Even Michel Jarre uses a similar sonic approach in his Oxygene 4 Euro hit from 1977. Zithromax Over The Counter, That particular influence was confirmed when, in 1988, Hank Marvin collaborated with Jean Michel Jarre on the track "London Kid", which appeared on Jarre's "Revolutions" album and took a guest role in the Frenchman's giant Destination Docklands concert at the Royal Victoria Dock.

 

Jarre stated that the Shadows' success had a huge influence on him and his decision to devote his career to instrumental music).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meek

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3k6p3_tornados-telstar_music

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66A0hEe1AUo&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kiQyByUTg&feature=player_embedded

 

 

My point here is this - If you can possibly remove their image from the accrual of later religious conversions, twee stage moves and family friendly image - If you can then just reposition that band for a moment – same suits, Zithromax opinion review, instruments, haircuts, and dark song titles - another, alternative band begins to emerge – a darker, sharper entity, allowing us to hear that their music is actually as defined, stylized and retrofuturistic as Kraftwerk.

 

Get hold of The Shadows Greatest Hits - Hold that image of shiny modern suits and shiny hair. Sharp, slim guys playing instrumentals with evocative titles – Frightened City, Jet Black, Slaughter on 10^th Avenue, FBI, The Savage, The Stranger, Man of Mystery – and listen again to the music.

 

They effectively preceded and predicted Kraftwerk’s sound, sonic layout and content by a decade. And they played technological, echoing **New European melodies, Zithromax Over The Counter.

 

They were a band so stylized and perfect in their early retrofuture image that they can fairly claim to be the unrecognized godfathers, the precursors, a significant part the DNA of Euro-Synthetic popular music. Zithromax price,

 

And what is equally impressive, one whose sound (and re-positioned image) would currently fit seamlessly into the schematic of a moviemaker as recent and as relevant as a Tarantino, a Lynch, or an Aronofsky.

 

 

 

KRAFTWERK AND THE SHADOWS

 

There seems to be considerable overlap between Kraftwerk and The Shadows. The stance of both bands is firmly technological. There are some significant examples of influence from The Shadows on early members of Kraftwerk.

 

Zithromax Over The Counter, The Shadows appeared via cathode rays and radio plays - and neon jukeboxes. They played clean, echoing, undistorted, non-Blues melodies. The European music industries of the time paraphrased this sound and used as the standard template for Euro Pop.

 

Kraftwerk were in central Europe and had daily exposure to all this. Consciously or unconsciously they remade these clean, echoing, electronic sounds and miniature melodies - using synthesizers instead of Stratocaster guitars. http://thequietus.com/articles/03128-michael-rother-of-neu-and-kraftwerk-interview

 

The sound Kraftwerk make - its emotional tone, melodic content and layout – resembles The Shadows more than any other band.

 

All elements of the Shadows recordings are perfected and separated, Zithromax Over The Counter. The drums and rhythm parts are clear and metronomic, Zithromax no prescription, the tone is echoic, lonely and romantic, occasionally lush and often sparse.

 

The activities it connects with are driving through a modern city, meeting in coffee bars, walking in neon lit streets at night, entering huge mirrored cinema foyers. Its location is urban. So the initial blueprint is theirs. ‘Wonderful Land’ would happily segue into ‘Neon Lights’.

 

Zithromax Over The Counter, At its other edge, German electronic music of the late 1960s connected strongly with George Martin’s avant-garde experiments with Beatles psychedelia. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ and The Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of The Moon’ coupled with the presence of Stockhausen, informed the Dusseldorf and Cologne scenes of Can, Cluster, Tangerine Dream and Neu, zithromax pack. - from which Kraftwerk had emerged.

 

To the dismay of many Germans - even including Conny Planck, their previous collaborator and producer - Kraftwerk began to define themselves in direct opposition to this bohemian, hippy experimentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conny_Plank

 

They also consciously embraced Pan European folk and classical melodic modes inherent in that Shadows oriented 1960s template, rejecting the largely American foundation of newly prevalent British pop.

 

These modes were far more appropriate to German culture and experience than the pseudo-American stance commonly adopted by pop bands in the late 1960s, none of who had never actually driven down route 66 or even visited the USA, Zithromax Over The Counter.

 

Instead, Kraftwerk adopted pre-war haircuts, Zithromax breastfeeding, suits, and a corporate manner. Their music moved away from improvisation and experiment into tightly disciplined, lightly melodic, musical formats. In this way, they became far closer to the Shadows in dress and style, as well as in musical form, than any of their contemporaries.

 

Of course, much of this newly adopted style was intended to be ironic and dryly humorous. Zithromax Over The Counter, Their songs also reflect this – ‘Showroom Dummies’ and ‘The Model’, for instance, epitomise that deadpan humour and image, and are carried off with suitably Warholian blank expressions. They also maintained conceptual art credentials through a kind of musical Gilbert and George conceptualism - and by isolation, exclusivity, zithromax antibiotic for nasal staph, and story creations such as the Stockhausen/LSD legend.

 

The Shadows, on the other hand, had no such dimensions and were seldom the composers of the music they played, in an era that was coming to expect this.

 

So Kraftwerk, composing shiny, new, technological music for modern clubs – the successor of teenage dance halls – and playing a music that has become the template for many forms of popular music, Zithromax 2008 warnings, became the Shadows natural successors, inhabiting and enlarging that previously narrow cultural space.

 

They are a seemingly more complex entity, fully appropriate to our contemporary media universe, they have come to occupy a broadly equivalent position.

  

Interview excerpts

From Michael Rother interview in The Quietus :-

 

“What music inspired you when you first picked up a guitar? … “I remember when my brother visited us in Pakistan, he brought along new singles and one of them was a track called “Apache”. It was also played by The Shadows but he brought a different version by a Danish guitar player called Jørgen Ingmann. It really appealed to me”… http://thequietus.com/articles/03128-michael-rother-of-neu-and-kraftwerk-interview

 

 

From Wikipedia re NEU!

“Musical style

Probably the most cherished element of the Neu, Zithromax Over The Counter. oeuvre is what is often called the "Motorik" beat (a portmanteau combining the German words 'Motor' and 'Musik') - although the band themselves did not use this term, Dinger himself later referred to it as the "Apache beat". At least one third of their recorded output is in the Motorik form. Here they deconstruct the traditional rock song format, with its verses and choruses, intros and changes, stripping it down to a single minimalist 4/4 beat, which Dinger repeats continuously throughout the entire track”.

Motorik From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

“Motorik is a term coined by music journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by "Krautrock" bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk (promoting the official CD release of Neu!'s back-catalogue, Klaus Dinger stated he called it the "Apache-beat").[1] The word "Motorik" means "motor skill" in German.

The name perhaps derives from the repetitive yet forward-flowing feel of the rhythm, which has been compared to the experience of motorway driving -- indeed, the motorik beat is utilized in one section of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn", a song designed to celebrate exactly this experience. While The Velvet Underground's influence on Krautrock is often mentioned, Mo Tucker's drumming has specifically been characterized as "proto-motorik."[2]

The motorik beat is in 4/4 time and of moderate pace. Zithromax Over The Counter, The pattern is repeated each bar throughout the song. A splash or crash cymbal is often hit at the beginning bar of a verse or chorus.

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  ^ Klaus Dinger (2002). Interview with UK music magazine The Wire.

  
  


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  ^ Chris Jones (21 June 2007). Review of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" for the BBC. Retrieved 20 October 2007.

  
  

Categories: Krautrock | German styles of music | Rhythm”

 

 

 

 

*This is the point in its evolution where the guitar becomes simply a source signal generator.Tthe electronic signal is then subjected to a chain of electronic treatments, from which its real sound is derived - via electronic pick up into tremolo, equalization, tape echo*, buy online azithromycin zithromax, plate and spring reverberation, distortion and amplification. And that’s just the live sound, Zithromax Over The Counter. The recording studio goes even further.

So the guitar is now another electronic instrument.

*The echo effects were Italian - Meomazzi Echomatic - which gave that spacious echoing rhythm. The guitars - American Fender Stratocasters then British Burns. The amplifiers were British – Vox – the now legendary electronic valve amplifiers, still used by producers and guitarists as a classic sonic tool.

 

**Europe and London’s Soho in the 1950’s

A fascinating and rich mix of European musical cultures became available to the British music world in the 1950’s. Zithromax Over The Counter, Two World Wars, the advent of Communism and a variety of economic and social upheavals across Central and Eastern Europe had caused much population displacement. British and American music benefitted immensely from this. London was just becoming a European city. New York already was.

London’s Soho was where all those influences became most highly focussed. Italian barber shops, coffee bars, restaurants, and music shops, Zithromax Over The Counter. Italian and Jewish showbiz tailors, Greek restaurants and clubs - and Denmark Street became the centre of the British music industry. It had very active recording studios, music publishers and management and agents. Many of the composers and writers who worked freelance here were of European descent, as were many of the managers, producers and agents.

This unique variety of cultural influences enriched and enlivened British popular music at that time, since these composers naturally drew from their heritages of folk melodies and classical and indigenous musics of all kinds. This was a set of writers who were not naturally au fait with American Rock’n Roll – they had to learn it. Zithromax Over The Counter, They were much more at home with more melodic British and Eurocentric forms, and these were grafted onto the more dynamic rhythmic elements and production values coming from America.

The Shadows became a composite, then the epitome of this Eurocentric internationalism – British teenagers wearing sharp Italian suits, shoes and haircuts. They used German and British recording equipment, Italian echo effects, American and British guitars, British/ European composers arrangers and record producers.

All these elements came together to evolve for the first time a new form of Pan European, electronically produced, technological popular music.

 

One of the most successful arranger/composers was Norrie Paramor (who was incidentally, a composer/ producer who used the wordless vocal – a principle the Cocteau Twins and I have used, and which originated in part from the popularity of an earlier era’s use of the Theramin’s resemblance to a female human voice- a clear connection to later – and earlier electronic music). http://www.spaceagepop.com/lpwordle.htm

Bunny Lewis who composed the theme of Frightened City (incidentally one of Sean Connery’s early movie roles). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frightened_City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Lewis

A significant part of this ecology was Larry Parnes, manager and Svengali to most early British Rockers from Mickie Most to Billy Fury. http://www.rocknrollbritain.com/Larry%20Parnes.htm

Jerry Lourdan wrote many of the Shadows early records Here is the most informative piece I’ve found describing his indispensible and as yet overlooked contributions to British and European music http://www.btinternet.com/~shadows_archive/shadows/Lordan/Default.htm – (with even a connection to Quatermass - and through writing one of Anthony Newley’s songs - a connection also to David Bowie – and to me - via The Strange World of Gurney Slade – one of the most delightful tv series of the time for young people ready for the next era). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGZe3j1oJqs&feature=player_embedded

Ultravox recorded their initial demos at Regent Sound on Denmark Street - where the Rolling Stones recorded their first album attended by Gene Pitney and Phil Spector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_Street

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