Title: Human’s Lib/Dream into Action Label: Cherry Red I’ve been watching a few recorded vintage episodes of Top of the Pops via BBC TV’s BBC Four. The time is the mid-80s…
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Title: Music by Xolotl Label: Wah Wah Born in France, Xolotl moved to California when he was 17 although he offered a rather enigmatic opinion of his home base, “I am…
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Title: To The Land of No Return Label: Wah Wah Originally released on France’s Musical Touch Sound in 1983, Yan Tregger was best known as a creator of library music. As…
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Title: BBC Radiophonic Music Label: Silva Screen Formed in 1956, the BBC’s Radiophonic Music was created to be the in-house music team, creating incidental and title music for a host of…
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Title: Voyage aux fonds de la Mer Label: Wah Wah We’re taking a trip to the bottom of the sea on this outing with Alain Meunier. The LP was originally released…
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Title: In A Wild Sanctuary/Gandharva/All Good Men Label: Righteous Krause was a former manager of the Weavers folk group and producer at Elektra, he teamed up with Beaver who was a…
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Title: Extended Label: Chrysalis I have harboured a secret love for the end of many Ultravox’s songs. An odd revelation, I admit. The reason? Ultravox liked to stop singing near…
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Title: Strange-Eyed Constellations 2 Label: Disco Gecko We’ve had to wait a while since the original passed our senses, 2015 was the launch date of the original. Then again, the contents…
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Title: Evenfall Label: Disco Gecko A low-toned ambient piece that fits snugly into the soundscape genre, this album features six pieces that flow gently in the wind. There’s the solitude of…
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Title: The Complete Recordings 1980-81 Label: Cherry Red A new wave outfit with synths, the Berlin Blondes were not, in fact, from Berlin at all but Glasgow. Yes, that fair city…
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Title: The Fifty Eleven Project Label: Kompakt Bjorke hails from Denmark, first making a name for himself during the 90s disco-house oriented outfit known as Filur. That lasted for four albums…
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Title: Spaciousness Label: Lo Recordings Pay careful attention to this one, you might need time for everything to sink in. This double album focuses on ambient music and invite a host…
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Title: Elemente Label: Bureau B For those not in the know, this is the third incarnation of one of the most prestigious of all krautrock bands, Kluster/Cluster formed by Dieter Moebius,…
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Title: Emotional Detox Label: Bureau B The fourth album from the Berlin-based combo, Camera. The band released one LP as a duo, one as a trio but this one is a…
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Title: Science Fiction Label: Mikrokosmos Bailey was the lead singer with the 80s pop combo, the Thompson Twins yet this is Bailey’s debut solo album. The first since the Thompson Twins’…
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Titles: Magnetic Web/Numbers/Beyond the End…Eternity/Zero Gravity Label: Wah Wah Dedicated, hard core Rolling Stones fans will know Nik Pascal as the guy who played percussion on the 1973 Stones LP, Goats…
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Title: Dance Label: Beggars Arkive His fifth album, released in 1981 on Beggars Banquet, Dance began a transition from the Tubeway Numan. The Numan who had a soft spot for automobiles.…
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Title: Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It’s Fun to Entertain Label: Caroline Liverpool-born China Crisis has always been an interesting band. They take a low key organic band…
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Title: Musique Electronique du Cosmos Label: Wah Wah Perrey loved electronic music but, despite his pioneering status and despite the fact that he has been rather lumped with the more avant-garde…
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Title: Galaxy My Dear Label: Wah Wah Prog fans may be familiar with an Italian band from the early 70s called Biglietto per l’Inferno, who were formed in 1972. They where…
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Title: Māra I / Māra II Label: Bureau B I’m sure that there’s not too many groups out there that have been named after a glacier. This one has, it’s in…
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Title: Particles Label: Invisible Hands This new double album (it’s seen as a ‘cupdisc’ or EP but it runs at LP length) is from the current Tangerine Dream (TD) line-up: Ulrich…
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Title: In Visible Silence Label: Warner Music Some music fans might see Trevor Horn as the Buggle who killed the video star or the struggling Jon Anderson replacement as the cracked…
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Electronica/Electro Review Soul/R&B Review VinylCOLOURBOX: in conjunction with fine arts photographer, Wolfgang Tillmans
Title: Music of the Band (1982-1987) Label: 4AD If you had a casual relationship with the legendary early days of the 4AD label, you may have missed one of the label’s…
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Title: Space Label: 1i2c I wanted to check out this artist, having met him (in a virtual sense) in a Tangerine Dream specialist group on Facebook. So you will be able…
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Title: IKEBANA Label: FMR It stands for Psychology of Perception and you might be forgiven that you are on the receiving end of a sonic experiment. This avant-garde exploration is a…
