A minimal/synth wave experimental band formed in 1982. In 1988 released their first album "Tin Invaders". The band is still active. From
Chapter 24 myspace page "Co-established in 1982 by Antonis Livieratos (keyboards) and Vagelis Boulouhtsis (bass) in Ioannina, Greece, the nowadays highly respected yet still unclassifiable "Chapter 24", ("Kefalaio 24" in Greek), were named after Syd Barrett’s song. Their first album (following a short series of independent home-produced cassettes), "Tin Invaders" in 1988 features lyrics in English and despite the avant-garde reputation of the band, is definitely pop- oriented."
The band SYNTHETIKI was created in 1985, in Piraeus (Greece), consisting of 3 members - Apostolis Loverdos (lyrics, music, guitar) Dionysis Avgerinos (lyrics, music, keyboards) Dimosthenis Tsanetoglou ( technician) Their LP "SYNTHETIKI" was recorded in 1990 and only 500 copies of this album were circulated at the time. In 1993 the band broke up.
Formed in early 80s in thessaloniki. Their name doesn't mean anything. In 1983 the label "music box" released their only Lp. The band disbanded when their members went to army
This blog is dedicated to '80s greek post punk / new wave scene. It is a small effort to make the scene more known outside greece.
A very good introduction to greek post punk/new wave scene is "Return of the Creeps-The singles". Creep records was the one of the two independent post punk labels which released the majority of the post punk records, singles in greece. The other one was Smash records. You can download this compilation here.
In greekpostpunk.blogspot you can hear a song from each band. Scroll down to use yahoo babel fish to translate this blog to the language you want
