Punk/New Wave band formed in late 1979 in Athens/Greece by Theodore Vlahakis (drums), George Skarlatos (bass) and Alex Kyriakakis (voice). Their first live appearance was in September 1980 at 'Rock Club Tiffany's' (Plaka/Athens) along with 'Dalton's Family'. They released their debut EP on Happening Records in 1982 and this record is a pure killer!!! You can download it here and after listen to this record it was reason enough for me to post this album. The EP is an awesome kbd punk smasher and I think these are their only punk songs. The band moved then more into a darker wave sound with no fuzzy guitars at all and they make it good. Much keyboards and a gloomy atmosphere accompany the whole album, slighty dreamy and simply charmin' and I hear the platter now for the fourth time in a row. Their first records are in english but after 1993 they chose greek lyrics for their songs. Magic De Spell is described as one of the most known greek rock (inspired punk!) band and they're still active. In 2011 released the greek label Geheimnis Records a limited to 320 hand-numbered copies LP called Nightmare (30th Anniversary Edition) with unreleased and live material of the bands first songs from 1981-1982, highly recommended!!!!
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