TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

byJoe Silva
March 18, 2021

Since you can’t peel back the YouTube algorithm, there’s no telling how we wound up staring at western Canada circa the mid-80s.

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Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)

byRichard Skinner

I heard rumours of this album’s existence – originally released privately as ‘Canaxis 5’ in 1969 and credited to Technical Space Composer’s Crew – in the days before the internet.

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Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

bySpenser Tomson

As someone who writes about a lot of weird music, I can get desensitised to it. The soundtrack to an imaginary film about school dinners? Meh.

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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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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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I Start Counting ‘My Translucent Hands’ (Mute, 1986)

byImogen Bebb

"Of the various musical guises assumed by David Baker and Simon Leonard, it was arguably their first – I Start Counting – which saw them at their most multifarious"

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Big Yoga Muffin ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ (Echo, 2000)

byNeil Mason

You’d say that Big Yoga Muffin took the biscuit when it came to daft names, but saying that sort of thing only leads to further unnecessary confectionery puns

TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

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Joe Silva

Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)

Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

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

Vidéo Aventures

I Start Counting ‘My Translucent Hands’ (Mute, 1986)

Big Yoga Muffin ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ (Echo, 2000)

Paul Draper

Japan, ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’, (Virgin Records)

Mark Moore ‘Theme From S’express’

Hekla: Holy Wail

Herb Deutsch: Out Of The Ether

Glows: Shining Bright

Maria Uzor: Deep Cuts

Gerald V Casale: Rage Against the Machine

TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

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