The Serfs and John Bender Performance
January 17, 2024
Presented with Conveyor Belt Books.
The Serfs and analog synth pioneer John Bender perform in The Carnegie galleries with Art by ION HAZE.
The Serfs are a Cincinnati synth-punk group known for their gritty and hallucinatory genre-bending music. Somewhere between dance-punk, industrial, and coldwave, the trio draw influence from 1970s Post Punk and New Wave, when synthesizers and “analog minimalism” began to dominate the musical landscape.
John Bender, a pioneer of analog minimalism, or analog synth, is a Cincinnati native. His experimental music was self-published via cassettes that eventually reached mythic levels of acclaim. The debut LP, I Don’t Remember Now/I Don’t Want to Talk About It was featured a cover of Faust‘s “It’s a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl”, was released on his own Record Sluts label in 1980.