Artist	Song
satisfact	escapism for the future
the faint	posed to death
the need	whitewash cannonball
luxo champ	a + b
ladytron	he took her to a movie
fischerspooner	emerge
stereo total	tokyo mon amour
prima donnas	skin of another man
the faint	worked up so sexual
le tigre	let's run
peaches	lovertits
chicks on speed	this nation is a rave nation / euro-trash girl
fischerspooner	the 15th
adult	hand to phone
tracy + the plastics	plastics got the fashion
the weird lovemakers	pool hopping
ladytron	jet age
le tigre	tgif
chicks on speed	26 / pana rip-off
prima donnas	nance music manifesto
adult	dispassionate furniture
tracy + the plastics	city
chicks on speed	song for a future generation / alex testing

Comment:

a very fun mix based on a vague inside joke among some friends of mine. the term "new waver" has always had a snide little negative connotation to it among my peers (not Punk Rock enough and all that blah blah), so i kinda missed out on stuff like this the first time around. but some relatively recent bands have reclaimed synthesizers and somehow made them feel new and exciting (again). it's like giving in to the dark side or something: fun and decadent! so it's all here: the cheesy synth, the ironic, tongue-in-cheek kitsch, the monotone vocals, the arty pretense, the skinny ties. i avoided a ton of otherwise worthy instrumentals because i didn't want to get bogged down in differentiating dance/club music or idm or whatever from the goofy vibe i was trying to capture. the result is very square pegs, very devo/seagulls archipelago. title is one half chilly gonzales song, one half dr. strangelove. everyone ready for electroclash?

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