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Guyer's Connection
12+ albums
minimal synthminimal wavenew waveelectronicminimal electronic
about
In 1982, Tibor Csebits and Philippe Alioth, 14 and 15 years old then, decided to leave their new-wave-rock band „curtzschluss“ (a typical, great pre-gymnasium band) and started making electronic music. They had 2 synths, a drummachine and a 4-track tape recorder… and plenty of ideas, phantasms and weird convictions. Most of their friends were convinced that this “beep –boomboom-blip-bloup-boing” music would not interest anyone… (which was true, in 1983, by the way). But Tibor and Philippe were sure they were on the right track… they released a self-produced album (portrait) in 1983, which is one of the most wanted old-electro releases nowadays. In 1984, Christoph M. (Philippe’s best friend back in 1984, today the producer of “gotan project) and Monique M., a french-speaking friend of the guys with a very nice singing-voice) joined the band, and some months later, in november 1984, another french speaking girl, “nin’s”, took over the microphone. They changed the band’s name to “les Aigre-Doux”. They did not release any records, but won several international contests for young musicians. In 1986, when Tibor, Monique and Nin’s definitely left the band, Philippe and Christoph changed their name again… from then on they were “touch el arab”, a band that is still known today, after having a huge European top-ten hit with “muhammar” in 1987. In 1988, Philippe could not stand it anymore to be “famous”; he left the band and founded “SPARTAK”, while Christoph and the new guitar-play
