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Oppenheimer Analysis
Artist: Oppenheimer Analysis
Year: 1980
Genre: England
"Electronic music for the electronic generation"
Oppenheimer Analysis is Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd. In 1982 they recorded twelve songs, released on the 'New Mexico' cassette compilation. During the next two years they played a series of gigs in London and Brighton. Copies of the cassettes were sold at shows and by mail order.
In 2008 their songs are still played at clubs and on the radio. Andy and Martin are now recording again, and hope that their new music will soon be coming to a dancefloor or a station near you.
A twelve-inch four-track EP of early material, including "Cold War" and "The Devil's Dancers", was the first release on the New York-based Minimal Wave label. This has been available via the label's website since 7 December 2005, where it has now sold out. Copies may still be obtainable at Clone Records and Vulcanoid. A second edition of 500 numbered copies has been re-pressed and will be available from Minimal Wave from October 2007.
A CD-R collection of the remaining 1982 recordings, "Songs from the Atomic Age", and a CD-R EP of new songs, "Der Weissenschaftler", are available from Andy and Martin at Los Alamos Records.
The club mix of the recent track "Under Surveillance" is included on the compilation CD The Finest Underground Tunes Vol.1 issued by Dancefloor Tragedy.
On Friday 24 March 2006 Andy and Martin performed live as Oppenheimer Analysis for the first time in 22 years. They played at the Neon-Welt Systems of Romance party at Zwischenfall, Bochum, near Dortmund in Germany - a John Foxx-Ultravox night, hosted by DJ Plastikmann.
SOURCE: Oppenheimer Analysis.com
Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd met at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton, England. They quickly became good friends, sharing an interest in the work of David Bowie, electronic music and early synthesizer bands such as the Human League and Soft Cell. They also shared a love of old science fiction movies, 1950s graphics and comic book imagery and a fascination with post-World War II propaganda, the politics and aesthetics of the Cold War, and the social impact of the atomic bomb.
Over the next few years Andy and Martin frequented the growing club scene, including Studio 21 in Oxford Street, and became involved in the developing Futurist and New Romantic style sub-cultures. During this period Martin recorded as Analysis, both alone and with David Rome of Drinking Electricity. They released their first single, "Surface Tension/Connections" on David's Survival label in 1981. Meanwhile Andy held his own occasional club nights and continued to work as a science writer and editor, later becoming a nuclear expert.
In 1982 Andy and Martin began writing and recording together at Feedback Studio in Battersea, and performed several times as Oppenheimer Analysis at The Bell, Islington, the 1983 World David Bowie Convention in Hammersmith, the Starzone Birthday Party at Camden Palace, the 1984 European Science Fiction Convention in Brighton and other live venues. Their first demo tape and the later twelve-track “New Mexico” cassette were sold at gigs and by mail-order, and were reviewed in Melody Maker, Sounds and Soundmaker.
Andy subsequently recorded and performed with Chris Ransome as Oppenheimer Ransom, supporting Bronski Beat at the 1984 Miners’ Benefit at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, Erasure at The Bell, and other gigs such as the Shaw Theatre, London.
Although they have been musically inactive during the last twenty years, Andy and Martin have stayed in touch. They are now recording again following the recent revival of interest in early electronic minimalism and Cold Wave music.
SOURCE: Minimal Wave.org
The Devils Dancers
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Cold War [chilled version]
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