admin Limited and numbered edition of 1000 in a hand-stamped generic brown sleeve with A4 photocopied insert including press reviews. Pop Surgery was his last and probably my favorite, although my favorite John Bender song is 33A1 from ‘I Don’t Remember Now.’ It was the first song that I heard by him when one of my best buddies Fuji told me to stop talking and lay down to listen to this epic 10 minute composition after a pretty weird night of drinking. Maybe it is the fact that John Bender moved around so much as a kid, living in Germany, America and Japan before finally settling in Cincinnati, that his music features such a strong sense of longing. Plasters Falling, 1981. Internet Explorer is no longer supported on Last.fm. And I happen to like the music he wanted to do. John Bender recorded voraciously between 1978 and 1980 at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pop Surgery, 1982 ‘Plasters Falling’ is his second album, and it was covered in plastic wrap that you had to cut through to get the album. In 2016, First-class Viaduct released standalone reissues of I Don’t Keep in mind Right now/I Don’t Need to speak about It and Plaster Falling.

Coming from a Lutheran home, Bender had embraced the late 60s alternative music scene with gusto spending his teenage days listening to the Velvets debut as well as albums by luminaries such as Captain Beefheart, Robert Wyatt, Robert Ashley and Can. In the early eighties, John Bender did three albums of minimal lo-fi electronics with vocals. Well, maybe not as weird to today’s standards, but it still has a futuristic sounding quality to it.

We should work on another John Bender video. The purchase of an ARP synthesizer and TEAC four track recorder led to Bender recording his own songs. His style was comparable to artists like Pseudo Code or early Minimal Man (the late Patrick M…, 1) There's very little known about the guy. Judd Nelson. ( Log Out /  1950 in Nurnberg 1970s - 1980s Angular Austere Avant-Garde Cerebral Cold Conrad Schnitzler Crash Course in Dark Detached Eccentric Eerie Enigmatic Experimental Electronic Faust Fractured Germany Gloomy Improvisatory Introspection Introspective John Bender Lonely Mechanical Motoric Mysterious Naive Nervous/Jittery Nocturnal Paranoid Playful Pop/Rock Pseudo Code Pulsing Punk/New Wave Rainy Day Reflection Reserved Robert Ashley Scattered Solitude Sparse Synth Pop Tense/Anxious The Creative Side The Velvet. I thought about doing something consistently on the last day of every month where I’ll end the months-worth of downloads of friends’ and associated work with an album I feel has impacted me in some way or has similar approaches to the sounds and productions of DIY culture today. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Perhaps one of the most shadowy, mysterious statistics from the early-’80s experimental music underground, John Bender released 3 LPs and many cassettes of cool, sparse, abstract synth pop music that afterwards became the ultimate goal for aficionados of “minimal synth” or “minimal influx” music.

Released one split 7" with, 1) There's very little known about the guy. These releases however, did not bring Bender himself back into the open: a very private person, he disappeared from the music scene in 1985 only to reappear this year playing his first live show in over 30 years. John Bender. "36A2," for example, was cassette #36 side A, piece #2. haha omg that is really weird and really cool. It was radiating. Anyways nice vid! I found ‘I Don’t Remember Now’ from this site and was overblown by the obscurity of this guy who makes some of the weirdest, most mutated electronic sounds I’ve ever heard. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. Finding one of the thousand copies of this album took me a long correspondence with an American seller of obscure music using the cross-Atlantic postal system. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. ( Log Out /  Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.