Chris Carter- member of COUM and Throbbing Gristle, half of Chris And Cosey and Carter Tutti and a solo artist (and for good measure a man who designed and built his own electronic instruments, The Dirty Carter Experimental Sound Generating Instrument and The Gristleizer) is somebody who should be much more widely known than he is. His solo work from the 80s through to 2018's CCCL Vol. 1 is forward thinking, innovative, synth- led, electronic music, covering the whole gamut from industrial to electro- pop, from minimal new wave to EBM. His 1985 album Mondo Beat is a case in point, in parts accessible and in parts experimental. The opening track is Moonlight, a synth and drum machine classic- it starts out with noise and distortion but soon becomes more friendly, synth toplines and a chugging bassline, melodies winding and unwinding and propulsive, warm, mechanical rhythms. There are five more tracks on Mondo Beat, darker in places than Moonlight. Worth checking out. This being a Chris and Cosey enterprise the cover art features a close up of Cosey's rubber knickers.
Moonlight
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