In the eight­ies Tik and Tok (Tim Dry and Sean Craw­ford) had cameos in the Star Wars movie “Return of the Jedi”. They also worked with Van­ge­lis at his home stu­dio. Two of the biggest accom­plish­ments for them? The song in the sec­ond video is by Shock and called Dream Games. TOP TUNE BTW! Tik and Tok left that band (Shock) and formed their own (robotic) per­for­mance art duo.

Eston­ian syn­th­pop by HU?. Fan video I guess. Dj Crit­i­cal (a.k.a. Bert On Beats) plays key­boards in this band.

Dzei & Posten will be play­ing music today in Helsinki. Today: thurs­day 19th of August 2010. Place: Sil­ta­nen. Time: from 9pm to 2am. Vari­ety of music includ­ing but not lim­ited to: slo mo disco, house, boo­gie, electro-funk, synth pop, and AOR.

Here’s sketchy video inter­pre­ta­tion of Five Stars’s “Sky”. Done by Posten a.k.a. MKRF of Supe­ria United . Check also the HQ mp3 of “Sky” we offered as a down­load last sum­mer: http://www.kynynasty.com/five-star-sky-1986/

Via Shal­low Rave.

Neil Young — Sam­ple And Hold (320k)

OooOooo Canada, what’s left after the olympics? In Fin­land they used to hand out vinyl copies of Neil Young’s “Lucky Thir­teen” album to doc­tors. That was like in the nineties and they = med­i­cine com­pa­nies. Now­days these “gifts” are more like Via­gra mousepads or such (both true stories).

This is not deep knowl­edge or any­thing but Neil Young did have his moments with syn­the­siz­ers and vocoder. “Sam­ple And Hold” is a prime exam­ple of that. Here’s what was pre­vi­ously unre­leased ver­sion of the song from the afore­men­tioned “Lucky Thir­teen” album (1993). Almost three min­utes shorter orig­i­nal ver­sion came out on “Trans” album in 1982.

A detail to be noticed here: drum hits are nicely off­beat from time to time. And no doc­tors in my family.