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Cherry Red's Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 78-84 is worth a listen too. I'd say 50% of it makes me want to skip to the next track but the other 50% is gold.
it also made me fall in love with this all over again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSAm2StYymQ
― stirmonster, Sunday, 24 November 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
I listened to De Ambassade as a result of this thread. Really hitting the spot, in a way it reminds me of Studio. Not so much in the way it sounds, but in the way it could be a lost classic that should be more widely known.
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 24 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Are the Europe/American ones also called "Close to the Noise Floor"? My search so far is just picking up the UK one.
The European one is worth the price for this early instrumental of Ruth's 'Polaroid/Roman/Photo' alone.
ooh, didn't know this existed, love Polaroïd/Roman/Photo but the voice is... an acquired taste
Meant to pick up the UK one, didn't get round to it, so thanks for the reminder to stick it on my xmas list if it's still available - haven't made it past the tracklisting for disc 1 yet and there's a lot of names I don't know (which is good!) but I think I'm up for anything with Kevin Harrison on, plus Blancmange and Bourbonese Qualk on the same CD...
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 24 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
three months pass...
one year passes...
Soul Jazz have a new comp out next month that's looking good
'Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s.
This is the first release of Soul Jazz Records’ new Cold Wave overview and a second volume will be released just four weeks later.
This first edition of Cold Wave comes in two vinyl editions – a one-off pressing orange coloured vinyl edition and a black vinyl edition. Both come as heavyweight double vinyl housed in bespoke individual inner sleeves and the limited edition first pressing of this album comes with its own free pull-out fanzine on the groups featured. The CD edition comes with artist booklet/fanzine and slipcase. All editions are printed in special dayglo colour finish.
These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.
Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences –Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image – this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to New Beat and more besides.
Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor, Dissemblance and VQOA from France, De Ambassade from the Netherlands, Moisture from Sweden, Kriedler from Germany, Céline Gillain and Carcass Identity from Belgium. One exception is FIT Siegel out of Detroit, connecting the electronic pathways of Europe to the Motor City.
All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.'
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/cold-wave
― paolo, Saturday, 22 May 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link