{"id":383,"date":"2010-11-19T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2022-04-01T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:00:06","slug":"the-electronic-circus-direct-lines-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-electronic-circus-direct-lines-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electronic Circus- Direct Lines 7”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a real quick post before I sneak off for the weekened. Uploaded here, by generous donation, we have one of the best minimal synth singles out there, at least in my opinion. The a-side is an absolute romantic synth classic, while the b-side here is a more atmospheric, piano-driven affair, an interesting but pleasant counterpoint to the sheer pop perfection on the flip.<\/p>\n

Fun fact about this one. Main contributor Chris Payne was also in both Visage and the Dramatis (who had a solid hit with Gary Numan on vox). Easy to see why there’s such great mastery on this one! Here’s the info:<\/p>\n

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The Electronic Circus- Direct Lines<\/i> 7”
\n1. Direct Lines
\n2. Le Chorale<\/p>\n

*download link removed* – this 7” was reissued in 2017 by\u00a0Animated Records<\/a> in Chicago, and again in 2021 by Iron Lung Records. Support these labels and the artists and pick up a reissue copy if you can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a real quick post before I sneak off for the weekened. Uploaded here, by generous donation, we have one of the best minimal synth singles out there, at least in my opinion. The a-side is an absolute romantic synth classic, while the b-side here is a more atmospheric, piano-driven affair, an interesting but pleasant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,108,570,573,17,167,183,255,572,571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-108","category-dramatis","category-electronic-circus","category-minimal","category-minimal-synth","category-new-wave","category-synthpop","category-the-electronic-circus","category-visage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}