Gary Flanagan

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Gary Flanagan began to experiment with sounds as a teenager. A series of early recordings, done while he was 17 and still a high school student, showed little indication of the synthpop that he would one day make. "It was mostly just experimental sounscapes back then," says Flanagan, "I had no notion of songcraft or structure. I basically threw together a bunch of sounds through a mixer, recorded it to cassette and called myself TechNoir." (This moniker was inspired by the night club featured in The Terminator.) A few years later, Gary would start to call himself Beatbox 81. It was around this time that he began to cultivate an appreciation for songcraft. Early demos at this time were met by harsh rejection by every record label that Flanagan approached. "In hindsight, this doesn't surprise me at all," says Flanagan, "I think the A+R people probably got a huge laugh out of those terrible songs." This was around 1993. Having started out as an aspiring actor (he almost landed a gig in a beer commercial while living in Toronto), Gary soon turned his back on the acting community. "It just wasn't enjoyable anymore," he says. "I felt that there were so many politics, and at the end of the day, all I had was rejection. Most actors are starved for attention, and will do anything to hog the limelight. That's just not me. I figured that if I pursued a career in music, I may still be surrounded by rejection, but at least I'll still have the music." Gary locked himself in his bedroom

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Future Fashion

The Gold Days of Analouge

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Tech Syth Pop And Nu Electro

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Ninthwave Records Presents Electropop 2012

Doppelhertz

Rhapsody In Black

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Ninthwave Records Free Fall 2011 Sampler

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Electro Nouveau

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State Of Synthpop

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Evolution: The New Breed of Electronic Pop

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United Synthpop Artists 2: Everyone Welcome - A Tribute To Peace

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Dirrrty Electro by DJ Jonny Moirée

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