Walking the fine line between clever and stupid, Klaus Manzert’s Silicon Dream was German synthpop with the calorie content of Italo disco. While Kraftwerk envisioned a world overrun by sophisticated robots, computers, and autobahns, Silicon Dream’s universe resembles the set from Zsa Zsa Gabor’s The Queen Of Outerspace and Manzert, looking like David Lochary in Female Trouble, plays Liberace to his boy toy dancers Angelo and Danny. Plan 9 crash lands in Las Vegas.
Here’s two fun tunes from Silicon Dream: “Andromeda” and “Marcello The Mastroianni .”