The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

byJeremy Allen
July 11, 2024

Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

Already a premium member? Log in here

Single Gun Theory ‘Millions, Like Stars In My Hands, Daggers In My Heart, Wage War’ (NETTWERK, 1991)

byClaire Francis

In retrospect, the films we watched growing up as kids in Australia in the early 1990s were extremely weird

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

The late 1990s and early 2000s threw up a slew of Air-style ambient masterpieces – but Fragile State’s 2004 classic ‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’ was criminally overlooked. It may just well be the UK’s ‘Premiers Symptômes’ of the era

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Bo Hansson ‘Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings’ (Silence, 1970) (Charisma, 1972)

byPush

Since the huge commercial success of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ movies, it’s been easy to forget the significance of the JRR Tolkien novel to the 1960s counterculture hippies.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

byClaire Francis

"Where I grew up, in rural Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, the radio served up a fairly standard menu of meat-and-potatoes rock ’n’ roll..."

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Carl Crack ‘Black Ark’ (DHR Limited, 1998)

byBen Willmott

"Berlin’s Digital Hardcore Recordings produced a whole host of amazing bands with one aim – to reimagine the anarchic, angry spirit of punk through electronica"

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)

byJames Thornhill

Few music discovery anecdotes start with “I was rugby tackled by a man in a cinema because he liked my T-shirt”, but discovering Lancashire oddballs Element starts like that for me.

The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

Jeremy Allen

Single Gun Theory ‘Millions, Like Stars In My Hands, Daggers In My Heart, Wage War’ (NETTWERK, 1991)

‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’

Bo Hansson ‘Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings’ (Silence, 1970) (Charisma, 1972)

Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

Carl Crack ‘Black Ark’ (DHR Limited, 1998)

Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)

Anna Domino ‘Lake’

The Beatmasters ‘Rok Da House’

Classix Nouveaux ‘Is It A Dream’

The First Electronic Demo Record In The World

Simon Reynolds: Tomorrow’s World

Cold War Electronica: Wired For War

Penelope Trappes: Heaven Up Here

Barry Adamson: Talking Pictures

The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

You May Also Like