Since the development of the affordable music synthesiser through the early 1970's the opportunity to provide an alternative to guitar-based pop has been the most exciting strand in commercial music.
Its heroes are those who choose to challenge people to embrace novel sounds and techniques instead of anaesthetising people with the comfort of more skilfully produced versions of stuff they already know. I might not have heard of the Op;l Bastards but for their shocking, scary and great remix of one of our more obscure singles. Read more on Last.fm