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Popular Tyre is collaboration between two musical stalwarts that have risen from the dark days of the cold war, 20 years of Tory Britain, Top Of The Pops, and Adrian Blunt. They are a new wave of songwriters, DJs and producers that shake a stick at anything formatted, pigeon holed and generic. Popular Tyre love everyone, and everyone loves them. They are loved for their unpretentious melody and their lyrical genius, their surreal outlook on life, and their way of constructing a vision, a feeling, a performance that can only be described as similar to being happy-slapped by a gang...

1) Mecanica Popular was founded in 1980, by Luis Delgado and Eugenio Munoz. They were both sound technicians and worked together at RCA Studios in Madrid back in the days. The album ''Baku: 1922'' which was originally released in 1987 was a great follow up to their debut release Que Sucede Con El Tiempo? from 1984. It contains revised versions of the previous released tracks La Edad Del Bronze and Daguerrotipo. The album title refers to the monumental concert from 1922 in the capital of Azerbaijan. Baku: 1922 is a legendary industrial record from these two spanish electronic experimentalists. Great...

Initially called Aditie Populaire, Populär was a Hungarian synthpop band formed in 1989. The original lineup consisted of four members, each brought together by their love of Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk. It took seven years to mold their 1995 debut album, Új Arcok A Feszületen (New Faces On The Crucifix). The album was also overshadowed by fellow synthpop compatriots Bonanza Banzai. Nevertheless, it was highly successful at the time of its release, almost reaching gold status. With little financial and promotional support from their record label, however, the band were unable to break new ground. Csaba left the band by...