Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

byJoe Silva
April 11, 2024

There wasn’t much room on the dancefloor for the version of Fingerprintz that released their ‘Distinguishing Marks’ LP in 1980...

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Joe Silva

Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

byNeil Mason

Prince said we should party like it was 1999, and, as far as we know, he hadn’t even heard the debut album by Middlesbrough’s Space Raiders.

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Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

byJoe Silva

Not long after Wendy Carlos officially ‘Switched-On’ the world, Bob Moog and a collection of electronic music pioneers gathered in the gardens of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to stage the first live performance of the Moog synthesiser

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Paddy Mcaloon

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In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

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Beaumont Hannant ‘Texturology’ (GPR)

byMark Roland

'The first music I encountered by this spectacularly named artist was ‘Utuba’ on Warp’s ‘Artificial Intelligence II’ compilation in 1994"

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Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

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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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Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)

byJoe Silva

Imagine a time when, as a concession to your audience, you’d show them cartoons while you were busy repatching your synthesisers between songs.

Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

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Joe Silva

Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

Paddy Mcaloon

Beaumont Hannant ‘Texturology’ (GPR)

Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)

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Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

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