Description
DESCRIPTION
2019 four CD set that explores the independent side of the UK's post-punk synth-pop boom. From household names and scene legends to underground outsiders and bedroom experimenters. Hardback book format includes over 12,000 words of sleevenotes (including artist-written pieces), introductory essay by Dave Henderson and period imagery. Key tracks and hidden gems from Mute Records, Rough Trade, 4AD, Survival Records, Cherry Red and a host of essential independent players. The year - 1978. The mood - revolution. The latest addition to the musician's sound palette - the synthesizer. And so a new sound was born, and one which would free pop music from it's guitar dominated tradition into something with a bright new future which would write itself. Almost overnight, via a handful of key single releases, the big bang of punk produced something the kids called 'synth-pop'. The clue was very much in the name. A broad church from the outset, this synth-pop movement wasted no time in embracing players from all corners of the musical dressing up box. From guitar groups drafting in a keyboard playing friend and the progressive rockers using their expensive banks of electronics in new ways to the modernists and the Thatcherists, full of unabashed aspiration, and the punks - arguably the purest punks of them all - who discarded the guitar and the drum kit overnight in their pursuit of something fresh that their generation could truly call their own. All were welcome, and all contributed to the many different directions synth-pop would mutate in over the coming five or six years. Electrical Language captures this time and place in microscopic detail.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Windpower - Thomas Dolby
2 Science Fiction - Alan Burnham
3 Warm Leatherette - the Normal
4 Stay with Me Tonight - Alex Fergusson
5 Tarantula - Colourbox
6 Fantasy - 100% Manmade Fibre
7 Bandwagon Tango - Testcard F
8 Electrical Language - Be-Bop Deluxe
9 The World - Dalek I
10 Honour Among Thieves
11 Chain of Command
12 Red Frame/White Light - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
13 Red Castles - the Legendary Pink Dots
14 Lifes Illusion - Ice the Falling Rain
15 The Human Factor - Music for Pleasure
16 She's An Image - Poeme Electronique
17 I'm Thinking of You Now - Box of Toys
18 The Planet Doesn't Mind - New Musik
19 Hope Deep Inside - Schleimer K
20 The Distance from KÖLN -Native Europe
21 Technical Miracle - Voice of Authority
- Disc 2 -
1 Circus of Death - the Human League
2 Xoyo - the Passage
3 Crowds - a Popular History of Signs
4 October (Love Song) - Chris and Cosey
5 Feel So Young - Laugh Clown Laugh
6 Croatia - Basking Sharks
7 Mr Nobody - Thomas Leer
8 Ricky's Hand - Fad Gadget
9 Hypnotic Rhythm
10 Local Boy Makes Good
11 Drowning in Berlin - the Mobiles
12 Even Now - Edward Ka-Spel
13 Lying Next to You - Passion Polka
14 Rabies - Naked Lunch
15 Do It - the Limit
16 Work Song - Robert Calvert
17 Baby Won't Phone - Quadrascope
18 It Happened Then - Electronic Ensemble
19 In the Morning - Jeanette
20 Nightlife - Those Attractive Magnets
21 My Coo Ca Choo - Beasts in Cages
- Disc 3 -
1 Your Love Is Like a Slug-The Bodhi-Beat Poets
2 Veil Like Calm - Eyeless in Gaza
3 Destitution - Camera Obscura
4 Good Times - Drinking Electricity
5 Happy Families - Zoo Boutique
6 Feels Like Winter Again - Fiat Lux
7 Falling Downstairs - Colin Potter
8 Our Little Girl - David Harrow
9 It Never Rains in Outer Space
10 Futurhythm
11 Zennor - Goat
12 Videomatic - Final Program
13 Taddy Up - Pink Industry
14 You Don't Look the Same - Play
15 Children of the Revolution
16 The Fast Set
17 Trace of Red - Two
18 Lying Here - Shox
19 Daytime Assassins - the Builders
20 Beating Heart (12" Version) -Section 25
21 Absent Friends - Joe Crow
22 Jamaica Day - Faction
- Disc 4 -
1 Generator (Laserbeam) - Tim Blake
2 Touch - Lori and the Chameleons
3 The Secret Affair - Jupiter Red
4 I'm Your Man - Blue Zoo
5 Even Roses Have Thorns
6 Jesus Couldn't Drum
7 Paint It Black - Techno Pop
8 Chase the Dragon - Kevin Harrison
9 Other Passengers - Thirteen at Midnight
10 Your Voice - Freeze Frame
11 Stay with You - Time in Motion
12 Live Wires Kill - the Toy Shop
13 Surface Tension - Analysis
14 Time - Paul Haig
15 Contemplation - Solid Space
16 Committed to Vinyl - Martin O'Cuthbert
17 Look Don't Touch - Science
18 The Wishing Tree (Megatree Mix) - Charlie's Brother
19 Working Model - the Quarks
20 There's Someone Following Me
21 Eddie & Sunshine-Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Hybrid Kids
