Fad Socks
Description: Giant white block letters spell out "OMG I ♥ GLUTEN" with a bold red heart standing in for the word love. Cheeky and carb-positive and built for anyone who thinks bread is the best thing since, well, sliced bread. A fun pick for bakers, sourdough fans, bread lovers, and food science nerds.
Description: Step into the experimental spirit of the early 80s with this Fad Gadget – Under The Flag (1982) design. Featuring the iconic minimalist cover imagery with a distressed vintage effect, this artwork captures the raw, avant-garde edge of one of electronic music’s most influential pioneers. Perfect for fans of post-punk, new wave, and synth-driven soundscapes, it’s a striking tribute to Frank Tovey’s groundbreaking vision. A must-have for collectors of alternative music history and lovers of dark, thought-provoking art.
Description: Adapted from a vintage black and white newspaper ad. For the last year or so the mustache has restaked its claim to the upper lip of the stylish. No longer just for cops, leathermen, English profs, or porn stars. The stache is for all. Be a man, or manish! Grow one by yourself or with a little help. It's a new age. Get with it. Fashion dictates obedience. Brooklyn born but now stylish worldwide.
Description: Under the Flag is the third studio album released on September 1, 1982, by experimental electronic artist Fad Gadget, the stage name for Frank Tovey. Recorded at Blackwing Studios in London, the album largely focused on his fear for the future of the world, in light of having just become a father. He was apparently afraid of the world his daughter was going to grow up in. Sampling was new technology back in the early '80s, is incorporated into the album, and sequencing is also heavily used.
Description: Bal Paré - theband name was based on the song “Es war beim Bal Pare“ from the German chansonette Hildegard Knef, which was a musical influence beside bands like Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazoo, etc. The first Bal Paré LP “Hamburg-Paris-Catania“ was released in 1982 on Konkurrenz Records. The members performed under witty pseudonyms for that record. Since they had a large fanbase in Sweden, the second release (“Metamorphose”) came out in Stockholm on the Krautrock label. Around this time, a new member, Manfred Asmus , joined on keyboards and programming and Jan T. Krahn and Jürgen Weiss had left the band. There were many tracks produced during this time that ended up unreleased.
