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Last Login: 12/14/2009
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| General | New Musik was formed in 1979 after various constellations in London.
The members all came from the same school and area.
The projects and bands were many.
Such as "Reeman Zeegus":
Tony Mansfield,Clive Gates)
"End Of The World" :
(Nick Straker,Tony Hibbert,Tony Mansfield.Phil Towner)Limmie Funk Limited:
(Towner,Straker),Nick Straker Band(same as "End Of The World")
Maggie Britton:(New Musik members as musicians).
Phil Towner also played with The Buggles on a few occasions.
The trio to form New Musik was:
Mansfield,Towner& Hibbert.
Tony contacted his old friend Clive Gates (of the "Reeman Zeegus" days)to be an additional member.
He was soon to be a full member of the band or project (that they liked to call it).
The quartet released two albums:
"From A To B" & "Anywhere"
and some great singles like:
"Living By Numbers", "Straight Lines" "While You Wait" & "Luxury".
The band was hugely influenced by The Beatles.
(in the way the compositions of the songs were made)
Their song "On Islands" was later covered by german synth act "Camouflage".
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Tony Hibbert and Phil Towner left the group during the summer of -81.
Tony M. worked for a while with the legendary Yellow Magic Orchestra.
And also helped out on Yukihiro Takahashi..s album "What Me Worry?" and "Neuromantic".
Mansfield and Gates then teamed up with another friend, a drummer called Cliff Venner.
Soon after they start working on the "Warp" album.
Tony Mansfield developed a brand new trigger technique with digital sampling,sequencers and emulators.
This new technique was followed by bands to come.
So in fact New Musik were pioneers of styles twice!
First with "the electronic beatles sound"
and second, with the new sampling technique!
First single from "Warp" was called "The Planet Doesn..t Mind".
Which was covered by a band called X-Visitors.
The song became a huge dance hit in clubs in San Francisco!
It..s a shame that "Warp" didn..t reached a wider audience.
The album is in fact one of the best synth..electronic albums from the -80..s.
Now it was time for New Musik to cover someone.
Who else than The Beatles?.
A fantastic version of "All You Need Is Love" was released on single.
"Warp" itself was full of great songs like:
"Here Come The People"
"Going Round Again"
"A Train On Twisted Tracks"
"Kingdoms For Horses"
"Hunting"
the 2 versions of "All You Need Is Love"
and the title track "Warp".
The latter to be released on single as well.
Other songs that must be mentioned:
is some B-sides and previously unreleased tracks like:
"Missing Persons"
"And"
"She..s A Magazine"
"Under Attack"
"From The Village" & "Guitars"
Those songs are fantastic.
Sadly New Musik splits up after "Warp" in -82.
But, later that year Tony Mansfield teamed up with his brother Lee and Rob Fisher (Naked Eyes).
They called themselves Planet Ha Ha.
And released a single called "Home".
They did in fact record a new album.
But due to legal issues about the release of the 7", it was left in the archives.
Tony M. went on to produce albums for many artists like: Naked Eyes,Mari Wilson,The B-52s,
After the Fire,Ilene Barnes,Delegation,
Steve Kent, Search Party, President President,
Captain Sensible,The Damned, a-ha,
Sotoma,Phillip Jap, John Dark, Aztec Camera,
Martin Ansell, Wendy Wu, Viscious Pink,
The Cleaners From Venus, Eight Point Five,
Bose, Claude Sabbah, Jean Paul Gaultier,
Thunderclap 2, Mader, Lio, Duke, Mimori Yusa,
The 2, Nice Music, Aska Ryo, Denim, Pulse,
The Rescue, Yip Yip Coyote,Ana Torroja,
Brainstorm. Through all these years Tony was keen on bringing New Musik back to life.
He was in regular contact with the other members.
And new material was written.
Except for Cliff Venner who played drums for a jazz project called Zubop.
And for The Guest Stars on the album "Live In Berlin".
Venner then went into buddhism,
(were he probably sits in a monastry somewhere :-).
New Musik will rise again someday.
Maybe under a different name like New Musik II,
Fun Drum
or perhaps we will see them under Planet Ha Ha?
Tony Mansfield still work as a producer.
His latest was "80..s British Gold " (from march -07).
with various groups from that time.
New Musik is not represented though.
One thing is for sure, we miss you Tony! If there is any news please contact us. Credits to: Jonas Wårstad and Room One.............Best wishes from Ståle :-) | | Movies | This fan space also includes:
different projects and bands from the members of our beloved NEW MUSIK!
We have a friend of honour amongst our friends:
And that is "Phoebz" (Phoebe Hibbert).
Daughter of Tony Hibbert(ex-member of New Musik)!
And to all the other friends:
I am really glad and happy to have you all as friends!!
:-)
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| | Heroes | E-MAIL ME AT:
atrainontwistedtracks@yahoo.uk
or: goblinsclub@hotmail.com
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