The Dream Machine, by X Ray Pop

The Dream Machine

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1.	La machine á rêver 02:20	buy track
2.	L´Eurosienne 02:16	buy track
3.	Alcool 02:34	buy track
4.	Amazone 02:46	buy track
5.	DS 02:50	buy track
6.	El Gato 02:45	buy track
7.	Playgirl 01:51	buy track
8.	Mina 02:34	buy track
9.	Analphabelfe 01:48	buy track
10.	Contakt 02:02	buy track
11.	Louphoque 01:54	buy track
12.	Madison Fraise 02:50	buy track
13.	Bobby Bonbeck 02:19	buy track
14.	Revers 02:31	buy track

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X RAY POP are the synth-pop duo of Doc Pilot and Zouka Dzaza from Tours, France. They got their start in the no wave art group Bocal 5 in 1981 and split off in 1984 to focus on their own brand of quirky synthesized electronics. Influenced by Erik Satie, Brigitte Bardot, Suicide and Young Marble Giants, they call their music “minimum naive new wave.” Armed with a Casio PT-20 keyboard and a rudimentary Yamaha MR10 drum machine they recorded their demo cassette and first 7″ “Eurasienne”/ “La Machine à Rêver” in 1984. Upgrading their synthesizers and adding some saxophone and guitar, they recorded the “Alcool”/ “Amazone” 7″ in 1985 and the “DS”/” El Gato” 7″ in 1986.
“The Dream Machine” collects X RAY POP’s first three 7″ singles plus 8 songs from their demo cassette, never released on vinyl before. Their songs are short, concise and well structured; richly textured, moving at a quick speed with hardly a pause. The demos show a sense of humor, vitality and carefree playfulness. Zouka’s pouting, tongue-in-cheek vocals (sung in French) come together for a catchy, sensuous, danceable, eccentric psychedelic ride. Reminiscent of the Mo-dettes, early OMD or Algebra Suicide, X RAY POP could be the missing link to Stereolab.
All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley directly from the original master tapes.

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released September 17, 2018

Eurasienne/ Machine à rêver: MR10 and Casio PT20
recorded by Jean François Jacquemin at Scéne de Nuit

Alcool/ Amazone: Korg 770, MR10, Prophet Pro one
Marc Balzer on saxo,
recorded by Jean François Jacquemin at Scène de Nuit

Ds El Gato: Casio PT20, MR10, Prophet Pro one, Korg 770...
with Didier Laget on Spécial Fender Statocaster,
Recorded by Jean Francois Jacquemin at Scène de Nuit

and the instruments on the first 11 songs from March 1984
Casio PT20, MR10 .... recorded at Elysée Sound by Doc Pilot

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