Sigue Sigue Sputnik

"The grotesque embodiment of the vices of the capitalist system, a distorted mirror reflecting all the perverse values of modern Western youth," - this is how Soviet propaganda recommended the thunderous band Sigue Sigue Sputnik to the Komsomol in the mid-80s. "Sputnik" are the progenitors of synth-pop, cosmic bad boys, a genetic mix of clones of Ziggy, Iggy, Elvis, and a computer. Disco-electro-punk-rock on the scale of an unrestrained glam masquerade, where kitsch is on the brink of madness. In music culture at the turn of the century, the work of SSS is "extraterrestrial electro-rock-n-roll, which features a robot drummer."