Help remembering Band that sounded like a John Carpenter Sountrack

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I heard a couple of tracks of an album by a band whose name I can't remember - Think it was a one word name.

Sounded like a John Carpenter soundtrack , nice dark synth washes,a few beats, don't remember any vocals, the tracks were both about 6-7 minutes long, maybe longer.

Its a recent album, and I heard it in Rough Trade a couple of months back.

I know its not much to go on, but can anyone help, I'll know the name when I hear it

― actionjackson, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

boards of canada - music has the right to children

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

dopplereffekt - linear accelerator?
7 hurtz - audiophiliac?

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i bet it's totally dopplereffekt, probably thinking of the tracks "z-boson" and "higgs mechanism".

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure you're thinking about the Eternals... You should check their Astropioneers lp, and especially the main them.

― snowballing from paris, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

You are definitely not talking about MX-80 Sound, but you should check them out anyway, since they used to COVER John Carpenter music.

― chuck, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Goblin?
Zombi?

― tony bleach, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

monoton?

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

dopplereffekt - linear accelerator

Magic - Thanks very much Vahid, its been annoying me ever since I heard it and forgot to make a note of it - I must admit I didn't think it sounded much like the 7 Hurtz album though
Its now on my record list and I'll investigate the other suggestions as well, cheers all

― actionjackson, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, it's got to be FANTOMAS 'the director's cut'or GOBLIN...

― st tremaine, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i very much recommend the first 7 hurtz album although it's john carpenter in the tough electro mode of "Assault on Precinct 13" rather than the sort of wintry arpeggios of Halloween or Escape from New York. it also has very up-front beats and basslines which sometimes dominate the synths.

oh and the new 7 hurtz album isn't very good at all.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

>boards of canada - music has the right to children

if it had been staring me in the face, it'd have bit me. gygax hyper-OTM.

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Gabriel - Security
?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt it's this but "Megablast" by Bomb the Bass sounds like the stuff off of John Carpenter's Assualt on Precinct 13.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

somebody ask me if i like goblin

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

do you like knobgobblin'?

― elasticman, Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

apropos nothing, Unit Black Flight: Infiltration & Extraction is a pretty awesome homage to carpenter, especially the aop13 and efny soundtracks

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

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