14 minutes, 15 seconds

Gaytron
Man to Man

Plastic Noise Experience's Claus Kruse is gay, and he wants you to dance to his "gay tekkno." Or at least he did back in the early '90s, when this CD single was released. There was an album too, Phase I, and an extremely limited second single, called Toy. (Which I'm still trying to hunt down.) I remember thinking that "Gaytron" was about the stupidest name he could have come up with. But then along came electroclash sensation Ladytron, and, well, that sounded OK. So why not Gaytron?

However, I'm pretty sure the name "Ladytron" was meant to be ironic. Hell, even the band's songs seem to have a knowing wink to them. But Kruse? I don't think he does irony. What he does is deadly serious minimal industrial-dance music, and if he wants to call it "gay tekkno," that's fine. Never mind that by the early '90s, gay men were dancing to techno music that makes this stuff sound like late-'70s electronic doodling.

I don't mean to be unkind. PNE had some great songs, but Gaytron? Not so much, and the fact that Kruse seems to have shut down this side project testifies to that opinion.

Yesterday I thought I'd reach the end of the list by today. Uh, I believe "almost certainly" were the words I chose. Well, I'm an idiot. But loyal readers (that never fails to crack me up) already know that.

Also today:

14:12 Institute for the Criminally Insane, Audiotherapy
14:09 Dubstar, Stars
14:08 Kriegbereit, A Forest
14:07 In Strict Confidence, Exile Paradise (CD 2 of 2)
13:59 Amiina, Seoul
13:59 Lush, Single Girl (CD 2 of 2)
13:39 Lush, 500 (CD 1 of 2)
13:38 Lush, Single Girl (CD 1 of 2)
13:29 Lush, For Love
13:29 Morrissey, November Spawned a Monster
13:02 The Smiths, This Charming Man
12:59 Fin de Siècle, Summertime
12:51 Morrissey, Everyday Is Like Sunday
12:40 Les Berrtas, Metamorphosis
12:39 Lush, Ladykillers (CD 1 of 2)
12:33 The Sundays, Cry