Humans always want to reach other realms. With the birth of electronic music and its wholehearted acceptance into 80′s popular culture, humans got closer to otherworldliness. Androgyny reigned and as people summoned their Martian counterparts by way of instruments altering natural sound, they all grew a little closer to the weird and strange, dead, undead, broken, distant, and freakish. With synth pop’s uneasy swells and nuances. Ghosts and the paranormal seem closer than before. Science fiction and narrative become more a part of the look and feel of 80′s music. Waving mind-numbing sounds with electro-light shows, fog, and indiglo face paint took center stage eating up any bit a reminder of the normalcy in the streets outside. ••• Gary Numan, a progenitor of the pop electronic music movement summons alien chic, otherworldliness and captivating escapism with flailing arms and limbs. Electronics have brought us closer to the unknown, just like acid, yet more creepy and straight edge.
