Back to the USA, we meet this time Geneva Garvin, alias Geneva Jacuzzi, a bright star from L.A. She has released three albums, full of different, obscure (and fresh at the same time) minimal synth gems. Do I Sad?, with those cute 80's synths, could even be considered a nu-disco song. Difficult to classify her work. Easy to appreciate it.
It´s
been a while since we visited Brazil for the last time. RPM (the acronym for Revoluções
por Minuto) was the first Brazilian band that managed to sell more than 2
million copies of one of their albums. They were strongly influenced by European
synthpop in their first songs, and the lyrics were full of political and
literary references. A genuine rare bird in Brazil.
We haven't yet travelled to China, a huge country with few -or very hidden- electronic bands. Huan was written by Miss Melody, 27-year old singer born in Mongolia but who soon managed to obtain Chinese nationality, and UK producer Mobidextrous, after they met in a bar in Beijing and started a collaboration. It is difficult to classify their music, with a style close to downtempo, post-dubstep and trip hop, and sung in the exotic Mandarin Chinese language. Huan is like a haunting poem, a melancholic and ethereal song talking about the difficulties of living in big cities, such as Beijing.
My first selected country for this exciting
blog was Croatia, and I think it´s time to go back there. Lollobrigida (also
known as Lollobrigida Girls or VIS Lollobrigida) is a electro-pop duo from Zagreb
with three albums and thirteen singles to their credit. This track was their
first single and it is a crazy delight.
Back to Poland, Kapitan Nemo is probably one of the most respected Polish 80's synthpop bands. With a very classic style, Twoja Lorelei immediately catches our attention. It shows a simple tune, with those analog synthesizers, I agree. And that traditional drum machine! For some, it surely sounds old-fashioned. But, anyway, for me it is so... damned good! 
We
make a new visit to Slovenia. Born in Ljubljana and educated in classical and
jazz music, Torul released his first EP in 1995, showing his interest in
electronic sounds. Since that year, dozens of EPs and some albums have followed
that first reference. From the last one, released in 2011, we have drawn this
track, which reminds me of classic electropop.