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Silicon Teens were a one-off electropop project by synth whiz Daniel Miller, who is best known as the founder and owner of highly influential independent record label Mute Records. The “group” was publicised as a quartet named Darryl, Jacki, Paul and Diane, but in reality these individuals did not exist and for media interviews their parts were played by actors.

Their singer called Darryl was played by fellow Mute act Frank Tovey aka Fad Gadget. The project was launched in 1980 with a sole album called “Music for Parties”.

When people realised that the group didn’t exist, Miller decided to find a real teen pop synth-playing group - this led to the signing of Depeche Mode.

Miller also recorded the single “

Warm Leatherette” (1978) under the name The Normal. Daniel Miller is a prolific producer for Mute artists, producing such acts as Depeche Mode, Wire, Fad Gadget and Yazoo.

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tangerman wrote:
yesterday morning

Daniel Miller and Frank Tovey :-)

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boringhuman wrote:
18 days ago

TELL ME... DO YOU LOVE ME... NOW THAT I CAN DANCE! <3

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Empathy82 wrote:
25 days ago

Great!

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oldfolkshome wrote:
last month

THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL.

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Last_August wrote:
last month

electro rock'n'roll

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cotton_fever wrote:
September 2009

love this shyte

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mydesperateicon wrote:
July 2009

This is just great!!

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stevo120665 wrote:
May 2009

It took me back to 1979/80. I was amazed that I could it on I Tunes.

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ermade wrote:
April 2009

you gotta love this! I remember how I really enjoyed dancing to Silicon Teens when I was like... 5 years old :D

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alekboyt wrote:
April 2009

Life-changing ;_;

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retardedcore wrote:
January 2009

This might be the greatest thing ive heard since Suicide.

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dasNeonlicht wrote:
September 2008

Keep a sharp watch for used copies on Amazon.com. That's where I found mine this Spring.

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jcornn wrote:
August 2008

I wish iTunes US would stock this because, short of flying to the UK to either get this record or a UK iTunes card, I will never be able to get this.

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ehafh wrote:
March 2008

you can see in the video for memphis tennessee that he used an arp 2600 and an edp wasp. would be lucky to even find a working wasp nowadays :P

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toggle1975 wrote:
January 2008

Great stuff!

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MushroomCap wrote:
November 2007

Why walk on the moon, if you can fly to the sun. All you need is a rocket ship and you'll always be warm... come to the sun.

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ermade wrote:
August 2007

woooh :D:D:D

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tusks wrote:
July 2007

friends, would anyone be willing to trade some silicon teens to me? xo

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HaloModeD wrote:
February 2007

Cute music. I love T.V. Playtime.

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