UNITS ‘Digital Stimulation’ (415, 1980)

byWill Stokes
October 13, 2022

Generally speaking, listening to a self-aggrandising peer saying, “You like [influential band]? Well, you should really listen to [obscure band]” tends more towards an act of generosity and patience than an educational experience.

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DARREN PRICE ‘Under The Flightpath’ (NovaMute, 1997)

byNeil Mason

As Darren Price’s ‘Under the Flightpath’ landed on my desk, I was about to fly away.

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4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)

byJames Thornhill

“You have to play this album,” says Vincent, a fellow record dealer in Lincoln where my secondhand vinyl store lives.

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Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

byMat Smith

Aside from its troubling “what if?” premise, two things stayed with me about the 1998 film ‘Sliding Doors’, and neither of these were Gwyneth Paltrow’s British accent.

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Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

byClaire Francis

Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer

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Vidéo Aventures

byDavid Stubbs

They were called Vidéo Aventures. They were French, they had links to the extreme Rock In Opposition movement, and in 1981 they released ‘Musique Pour Garçons Et Filles’, a superb example of underground electropop weirdosity

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Tod Dockstader ‘Eight Electronic Pieces’ (Folkways, 1961)

byRobin Rimbaud

It all began with a black and white photo, chanced upon in a book on the history of 20th century music.

UNITS ‘Digital Stimulation’ (415, 1980)

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Will Stokes

DARREN PRICE ‘Under The Flightpath’ (NovaMute, 1997)

4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)

Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

Vidéo Aventures

Tod Dockstader ‘Eight Electronic Pieces’ (Folkways, 1961)

Kevin Godley ‘Cry’

Marvin Gaye ‘Sexual Healing’

Baxter Dury

Dot Allison: Branching Out

‘Seven Songs’

Xeno & Oaklander: In A Different League

Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man

Alex H Duncan: Rub Of The Green

UNITS ‘Digital Stimulation’ (415, 1980)

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