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Boc soundalike : UNITS - Cowboy (1980!)
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:24 pm
by IanRedpoint
I'd never heard of Units before. Pretty sure that they're a late '70s/early '80s new wave band. A contemporary of Devo I guess. Some of their stuff sounds a lot like LCD Soundsystem (particularly 'High Pressure Days') with some wonderfully raw synths, although some of it has dated really badly.
However, the last track on their Digital Stimulation album is called 'Cowboy' and it sure sounds amazingly like BoC for the first 3 minutes before launching off into a cool krautrock ending. Not bad for 1980!
Not the greatest quality but it is on Youtube...
What do ya think?
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:48 pm
by Distant Nebulus
good song, def. sounds like boc.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:12 pm
by YELLOW
sounds awesome!
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:05 pm
by Saakki
Really nice find! Respect a ton
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:19 am
by Soulthriller
that was beautiful
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:39 am
by dp
nice!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:43 am
by asymmetrical head
High Pressure Days sounds familiar... probably played by Rodney on the Roq back in the day since he used to play obscure stuff on his show. That's probably where I heard it many years ago.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:18 pm
by Joebot Kill
this is fucking amazing.
cheers man. thank you!
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:38 pm
by A_Northern_Soul
Bloody hell! that's lovely. Thanks for posting.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:56 pm
by hexagon son
where is the "like" button here? i want to click it. . .
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:47 pm
by asymmetrical head
BOC sounds like them.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:15 pm
by polar sky
That album sounds fantastic. I would compare them to DEVO more for sure. Look up the rest of their stuff:
It's a great album though.
But yeah, the song you posted is great, BoC's older stuff does sound like it a bit.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:44 pm
by AFX.NL
great song
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:05 pm
by IanRedpoint
polar sky wrote: BoC's older stuff does sound like it a bit.
Of course, given their age and their North American childhood it's quite possible that they heard this record at the time. I guess we might have stumbled upon one of their early influences.
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:59 am
by Xurbatronic
That square wave vibrato oscillation which comes in towards the end is definitely a Casio CZ5000 series! I love those synths and wish I still had mine, it had some wonderful quirks.
Nice track too, thanks for posting it.
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:15 pm
by polar sky
Xurbatronic wrote:That square wave vibrato oscillation which comes in towards the end is definitely a Casio CZ5000 series! I love those synths and wish I still had mine, it had some wonderful quirks.
Nice track too, thanks for posting it.
That's impossible, the song he posted is from 1980, the CZ5000 was first produced in 1985.
Fun synth though. Very wet do to the digitial phase-distortion.
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:12 pm
by mechanismj
LOVE IT
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:37 pm
by 2020k
Thank you for posting this!!!
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:12 am
by Xurbatronic
polar sky wrote:Xurbatronic wrote:That square wave vibrato oscillation which comes in towards the end is definitely a Casio CZ5000 series! I love those synths and wish I still had mine, it had some wonderful quirks.
Nice track too, thanks for posting it.
That's impossible, the song he posted is from 1980, the CZ5000 was first produced in 1985.
Fun synth though. Very wet do to the digitial phase-distortion.
Quite right polar sky, I didn't know the release date of the album when I commented, but it is impossible. It did sound like a CZ though! And massive bonus geek points to you for knowing when the CZ was released - that's one of the reasons I love this forum. Very clued up people!