I wore out Wireless back in the day and have gotten more into his stuff in the last couple years. There is something unique about how the Brits approach synth/electronic music.
I saw an interview with John Foxx (ex-Ultravox for those who don’t know of him) that said something like the Euros were not strapped with the legacy of the Blues/R&R as much as America and so their approach to music developed along a different path.
Makes sense in a lot of ways. But whatever, it works ;)
Gary Numan is another guy with a hell of a back catalog of interesting music. His later anti-christian stuff, well, I can do without the lyrical content, but the ‘sounds’ are awesome.
Some of the bands in HS that we wrote on our folders:
Thomas Dolby
Men Without Hats
Eurythmics
Depeche Mode
New Order
Yaz
Blancmange
Thompson Twins
Duran Duran
Heaven 17
Human League
The Cure
A Flock Of Seagulls
The Fixx
INXS
Devo
Howard Jones
Newer versions of this type of music has been tough to find (Dolby's "Evil Twin brother" is awesome) but I do like some stuff from 009 Soundsystem. Give a listen to Speak to Angels and Trinity