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Various Artists – Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
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Artist……………….: Various Artists
Album………………..: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
Genre………………..: Electronic
Date…………………: 2016
Publisher…………….: Cherry Red Records
Codec………………..: MP3 VBR V0
Encoder………………: LAME3.99r
Quality………………: Lossy / 44100 HZ
Accurate Length……….: Yes
ReplayGain information…: Present
Channels……………..: 2 channel(s) / Mode: joint stereo
Tags…………………: ID3V2.3, ID3V1
Disc…………………: 01/4
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Tracklisting
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01 Five Times of Dust – Computer Bank [00:05:16, 304 Kbps]
02 The Klingons – R.A.M. [00:05:32, 277 Kbps]
03 Chris & Cosey – Re-Education Through Labour [00:07:11, 274 Kbps]
04 Malcolm Brown – Sedation Strokes [00:04:08, 271 Kbps]
05 Storm Bugs – Little Bob Minor [00:03:34, 238 Kbps]
06 Thomas Leer – Tight As a Drum [00:04:39, 284 Kbps]
07 Blancmange – Holiday Camp [00:03:10, 203 Kbps]
08 Inter City Static – Fractured Smile [00:04:27, 293 Kbps]
09 We Be Echo – Sexuality [00:02:56, 292 Kbps]
10 Bourbonese Qualk – God with Us [00:05:53, 283 Kbps]
11 Nagamatzu – Faith [00:06:55, 258 Kbps]
12 O Yuki Conjugate – Disco Song [00:04:14, 285 Kbps]
13 British Electric Foundation – Optimum Chant [00:04:12, 273 Kbps]
14 Kevin Harrison – All Night Long [00:01:35, 294 Kbps]
15 Voice of Authority – Stopping & Starting [00:05:59, 280 Kbps]
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Compilation info
Two years in the making, Close To The Noise Floor is the a 4CD (60-track) set exploring the origins of electronica in the UK.
Featuring tracks from key figures on the cassette label underground alongside early releases by future stars of the movement, this is part primitive rave, part synthesiser porn and part history lesson.
Enthralled by the mysterious electronics of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Gong and German Kosmische artists such as Tangerine Dream, Harmonia and Cluster, and inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, a quiet revolution took place across the UK in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The rise of the microchip and the advent of affordable synthesisers enabled countless artists for whom guitars, drums and bass had become old hat, and in grubby bedsits, unremarkable living rooms and art school halls across the British Isles, UK electronica was born. The underground, fuelled by cassette exchanges, co-operative vinyl compilations and a thriving mail order network, quickly began to stretch the boundaries of sonic experimentation.
Close To The Noise Floor explores every corner of this fascinating and often overlooked chapter in our musical history. For proto synth-pop look no further than 100% Manmade Fibre and Spoon Fazer, whilst British Standard Unit and Five Times Of Dust lay out techno templates which wouldn’t take full form until many years later. Elsewhere, the synthesiser laden ambient music of Zorch and the found sound collages of A Tent sit comfortably alongside early forays by familiar names – Blancmange, The Human League, OMD and Throbbing Gristle – in over four hours of futurist, entirely modern music.