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Paul Simonon, London , UK , 1978 .

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The Florists - Hold It Together

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Born on this day: post-punk No Wave chanteuse Cristina (Cristina Monet Palaci, 17 January 1956 – 1 April 2020) who made precisely two barbed, weird and distinctive albums - released by the cutting edge Ze label - that flopped commercially and then retired from music. Cristina’s trademark is setting scathing observations to perky music, and she mostly sings and writes within the persona of a jaded party girl or gold digger (a tradition that dates to Mae West and Eartha Kitt). Self-titled debut Cristina (1980) (reissued in 2004 as Doll in the Box) is her mutant disco album. Lushly produced by Kid Creole, it’s campy fun with Latin rhythm in its hips (if you like cowbell, this is the album for you!), but I prefer the 1984 follow-up, the tougher, darker and more cutting New Wave pop of Sleep It Off. Cristina’s venomous, spikily funny lyrics work as wry poetry already, but then she enunciates them in an alienated, deadpan can't-be-bothered snarl (she has “resting bitch voice”, occasionally punctuated with a Johnny Rotten sneer). Here’s a sampling of her wit and wisdom: “My life is in a turmoil / My thighs are black and blue / My sheets are stained, so is my brain / What's a girl to do?” from What’s a Girl to Do? is as lacerating as anything found on Lydia Lunch’s 1980 magnum opus Queen of Siam. “Don't tell me that I'm frigid / Don't try to make me think / I'll do just fine without you / Don’t mutilate my mink” from her punk masterpiece “Don’t Mutilate My Mink”. (In their obituary for her, The Guardian describes it as sounding like Audrey Hepburn fronting the Sex Pistols). See also: her icy Christmas classic “Things Fall Apart.” Like many abrasive early eighties New York punk funk musicians (see also: James Chance of The Contortions), she may initially work best in small doses and for many may be an acquired taste. But think of Cristina as analogous to Campari – once you acquire that taste, you wondered how you ever lived without it. 

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Initial Attack live at Love Club in Philly, NYE 1984

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Probably would have been a decent show.

from Austin Punk Archive

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from Sample Credits Don’t Pay Our Bills

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ESG live in 1982.

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Not the funkiest punk band ever, but it’s in there with all the other klang and scrape.

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Malcolm X (Kieth Le‎Blanc) – No Sell Out

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Malcolm X (Keith Le‎Blanc) – No Sell Out 12″

Electro / Electro-Funk Day

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Black Merda ‎– Prophet / Cynthy-Ruth 7″

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Black Devil – Disco Club LP

May the 4th is coming and i was doing a litttle digital crate digging to help spice up this years cosmic offerings. But while trolling through Discogs I came across this album*, It is a weird little piece of leftfield electronic disco that I immediatly fell in love with. Check it out!

Get it from my Google Drive HERE

Yes I know postpunkindustrial is supposed to be sad noisy spooky angry and such. I will get back to it soon I promise.