FUTURISK was an electronic synthpunk

Synthpunk

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 group based out of Lighthouse Point

Lighthouse Point, Florida

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 that recorded and performed live in the late 1970s and early 1980s in South Florida

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, and are believed to be the first electropop/synthpunk band in the American South

Southern United States

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They initially had two 7 inch vinyl releases on Clark Humphrey Records; The Sound of Futurism 1980/Army Now (1980) and Player Piano EP (1982), the latter of which was rediscovered in 2002 by LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem was a prominent American dance-punk band from New York City. It was fronted by American singer-songwriter and producer James Murphy, co-founder of record label DFA Records...

 frontman and DFA Records

DFA Records

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 co-founder/producer James Murphy when he happened across it in a NYC record store. Murphy subsequently released a Futurisk track, Push Me Pull You,Part 2 on a DFA mix CD through the Paris fashion-house Colette in 2003, titled Collette #5 , sparking a renewed interest in Futurisk's music.
In 2010 the NYC based label Minimal Wave

Minimal Wave

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 released a 30th anniversary retrospective full length vinyl of Futurisk's works titled Player Piano LP and received positive reviews in the press.
On May 17, 2011, Minimal Wave / Cititrax Records released the Lonely Streets Remixes 12 inch vinyl EP which includes remixes by notable artists such as Chris Carter

Chris Carter (musician)

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 ( a founding member of the bands Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

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 and Chris & Cosey ), Tom Furse ( a founding member of the band The Horrors

The Horrors

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 ), Complexxion and Prince Language (DFA Records).

Futurisk was founded by British ex-patriot Jeremy Kolosine who in 2007 executive produced the notable album 8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk

8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk

8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk was released in 2007 by the group 8-Bit Operators on Kraftwerks US homelabel Astralwerks and EMI Records worldwide. It features cover versions of Kraftwerk songs by several prominent chiptune artists...

 on Kraftwerk's US homelabel Astralwerks

Astralwerks

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 and EMI

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 Records worldwide, for which Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...

 founding member Ralf Hütter

Ralf Hütter

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personally selected the tracks.

Band members

Live performance and recorded members:

• Jeremy Kolosine - Vocals, synthesizer, sequencer, vocoder, guitar-synth, drum-machine, bass guitar, electric mandolin (1979–1984).
• Richard Hess - Synthesizer, drum-machine, sequencer, vocoder (1981–1984).
• Jack Howard - Drums, syndrums (1980–1984).
• Frank Lardino - Synthesizer (1980–1981).

Additional live performance members included:

• Vince Serencko - Synthesizer (1981)
• Jeff Marcus - Bass guitar (1980–1981)
• Vinnie Scrimenti - Drums (1981)