Eastern European and Asian NW/Synthpop

[InvisibleMan]

so what do people know or like? Not sure if there's been a topic here before.

here is a clip of Soviet/Russian Alternative Rock band Kino (singer Victor Tsoy) from 1989. Not sure how New Wave, you decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpy6PQJpXE

and here is a Hungarian Depeche Mode copy called Bonanza Banzai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRmhSZuHjYQ

what else has anyone heard? Anything interesting?

[InvisibleMan]

one more addition, this time Russian DM copy from around 1991, band called Technologia (Technology)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOreeUCEmOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQ_48dKpsg

here is Bonanza Banzai in English, Ladies From That House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8P6xSI3r3M

[Frau_Blucher]

I'd call Kino new wave. A great novelty from behind the iron curtain.

[Frank_Chickens]

Marek Bilinski from Poland, love his stuff:

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[TragicMagic]

I like the one what goes: noo nee noo noo nee noo-noo-noo-ne-noo. noo-noo-noo, noo-noo-noo, noo-ne-noo-ne-noo. noo-ne-noo-nenoone-ne-noo-ne-noo-no-nee-no-nee-noo, noo-ne-noo-ne-noo-nnnoooooeeeeee

I invented plastic. Come see my special parts.

[crystal]

from Czechoslovakia - Oceán... unfortunately singer Petr Muk took his life earlier this year - great anthemic popsong: 'Ráchel', they even supported Erasure on their Wild tour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL0MS2TLX2Y

[glokstadt]

And of course this one, least we forget... [;)]

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