The Buggles 1980 | zh

The Buggles were a UK electropop / new wave group that formed in 1977, consisting of Trevor Horn (bass guitar, guitar, percussion, and vocals) with Geoff Downes (percussion and keyboards). The Buggles' sound was characterised by a deliberately synthetic quality in keeping with the technological subject matter of their songs. The group had a smash hit with the first single from their debut album, 'The Age of Plastic'. Song "Video Killed The Radio star" famously provided the 1st music video ever played on MTV (on August 1, 1981). The novelty value of their most popular song has led to the...

French instrumental jazz metal quartet . After a first experimental project including Armand, Pablo (guitars), and Mathieu (drums), the band reborns in 2003 and takes its actual form with Ben's joining (bass) and a fresh synthetisers use. They start composing and working on what they freely name "Brutal Jazz" : instrumental music build on the duality between free-minded approach from Jazz, mixed to brutal sounds and constructions from modern Metal . It results a unique music sounding like Meshuggah and Weather Report, with dramatic influence from Angelo Badalamenti . They rename the band 1980 after the first album's recording sessions,...