Electronic Pop | House
Landscape’s highest topping tune is hands down “Einstein A Go Go”. Release in 1981 and reached the number #5 spot on UK singles chart. You can still hear the influence of 70’s toward the middle of this track, but it’s firmly in the synthpop genre. This track is taken from their 1981 full length From the Tea-rooms of Mars ….
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This one was a rather new find since I never heard it till about a month ago, got to love the internet. He is rather well known in Australian, not so much here in the States — at least in regard to this particular track. This track is lifted from his 1983 album, Positive Action. It’s a synthpop track that sounds somewhat like The Cars.
Alastair Riddell – Zero
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Vocals at times sounds like Tears for Fears, and the music is in a transitional period of 80’s synthpop to dance sounds of 90’s house. Makes sense when you consider the date of the release: 1989.
I originally had this as a cassette single, and was quite proud to own it since it came and went quickly from stores shelves. Mostly because the record stores at the time only had a one or two copies on hand.
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Bio:
Hubert Kah is a German synthpop band, led by Hubert Kemmler.
Started as a trio, consisting of Hubert Kemmler (vocals, keyboards), Markus Löhr (guitars, keyboards) and Klaus Hirschburger (bass) at the time of the New German Wave 1982 commercial success with the singles “Rosemarie”, “Sternenhimmel” and “Einmal nur mit Erika… (dieser Welt entfliehn)”, and with the albums “Meine Höhepunkte” and “Ich komme”. During this time, Kemmler caused quite a stir by his TV appearances, wearing a nightdress or straitjacket.As of 1984, the band began working with producer Michael Cretu. After a german album “Goldene Zeiten” (1984), the band recorded the english language albums “Tensongs” (1986) and “Sound of My Heart” (1989), which were partly successful internationally.
Hubert Kemmler fell ill in the later 1980s with depression and withdrew from music completely. After his recovery he appeared with a new version of the band in 1996 with the self-titled Hubert Kah and the singles “C’est La Vie” and “Sailing”. The production with classic elements was not commercially as successful as hoped for by Kemmler. In 1998, a new single “Love Chain” and a Best Of CD were released. Kemmler then became ill again and had to undergo medical treatment.
In 2005, Kemmler began his second comeback with the album “Seelentaucher”. The first single was called “No Rain”. The album featured a mixture of english and german language tracks