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Hard Corps
12+ albums
synthpopminimal waveminimal synthnew waveelectronic
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Hard Corps were an early/mid-80s synth-pop / band, from UK. Hard Corps members were Regine Fetet, Hugh Ashton, Rob Doran and Clive Pearce. Hard Corps were not French, they were actually from Brixton, South London. Hugh Ashton, Robert Doran and Clive Pierce, were introduced to chanteuse Regine Fetet, who although having never sung before, had an enigmatic, fragile, human voice which brought alive the cold, pounding machined music the three British sound engineers were creating. With influences as far and wide as Mozart and Kraftwerk working in unison with a heavily accentuated French vocal, the result was magnificent and unique. A 12" white label containing the hammering rhythmic attack of Dirty and the softer, melodic, Kraftwerkian pulse of Respirer (To Breathe) was circulated around London's dancefloors. In no time a wave of attention hit them. Their ill-fated dealings with major label giants Polydor which followed, gave the band a chance to work with a couple of their most most favoured and respected producers, Martin Rushent and Mute supremo, Daniel Miller. These sessions provided the public with just one single due to the labels non-promotion, Je Suis Passée, a sweeping arrangement of breathtaking beauty, combining pumping sequences and sheer power of emotion of Regine's voice, emerged in an array of major league formats; seven and twelve inch extended mix and elongated beats and pieces of the Hard Mix. Oddly enough it was the French Vocal version on Rushent's own Immac
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albums
Metal & Flesh (Remastered)
Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt
Rarities
The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume Two
Metal & Flesh
The Minimal Wave Tapes, Vol. 2
The Best Of Funky Alternatives
The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2
Radio Sessions
Metal and Flesh
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The Minimal Waves Tape Volume 2
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TREVOR JACKSON presents METAL DANCE Industrial / Post-Punk / EBM : Classics & Rarities '80 - '88