Up for your enjoyment is an EBM / Coldwave Mixtape. I have been creating playlists on my devices and when I hit a song that would fit well on a “stylized” mixtape I bookmark it. I have been doing this for years with the intent of throwing together mixtapes. Nothing fancy with this mixtape, just simply an old-school style of putting tracks together for my listening pleasure!
For me the styles of “Coldwave” and “Electronic Body Music” (EBM) are basically the same – cyberpunk. The term started being used in the press during the very late 70’s with Kraftwerk’s sound and led into the darker electronic sounds in the early eighties. I have loved this style of music since I first heard examples of it on the Denver music television show Teletunes in the early/mid 80’s. MTV wasn’t allowed in the small rural town I grew up in, but that was okay because MTV would have never gone this alternative anyway.
Here is the track listing:
- Ortrotasce “At Your Last Breath” (2013)
- Nitzer Ebb “Let Beauty Loose” (1987)
- Kline Coma Xero “Left Behind” (2014)
- Front 242 “Body to Body” (1981)
- A Flock of Seagulls “The Last Flight of Yuri Gagarin” (1983)
- Black Lung “Eugenics” (1994)
- Lassigue Bendthaus “JKTV Otaku (How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Modem)” (1994)
- Chris & Cosey “Just Like You” (1981)
- Cabaret Voltaire “Automotivation” (1985)
- Depeche Mode “Shout” (1981)
- The Normal “Warm Leatherette” (1978)
- Lassigue Bendthaus “Velocity Life” (1991)
- Illustration Sonore “Flying Lights” (2013)
- Ministry “The Angel” (1986)