My friend Michelle Matzke, from whose blog I lifted this clip from, used to play the hell out of this track when we used to DJ a little new wave/new romantic/electro/weirdo night years called Movement. I equated Shrink’s tenure in the music scene to those of peers Klaus Nomi, Eddie & Sunshine or Tic and Toc — performance artists who in the late 70s/early 80s used that burgeoning scene as a medium for their art. I believe this may have been one of the few, if not only release he did. A bizarre film: a gold plated glam figure with an almost Flash Gordon flair at some posh dinner club — he looks like he might be in agony… or despair…
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