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

byNeil Mason
September 9, 2021

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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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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Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

byJoe Silva

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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Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

byClaire Francis

If, like me, you were a teenager in Australia in the early 2000s, the album everyone was listening to at house parties, on the radio, and on swapped burned CDs was the debut record by The Avalanches.

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Eyeless In Gaza ‘Photographs As Memories’ (Cherry Red, 1981)

byImogen Bebb

Eyeless In Gaza were formed in Nuneaton in 1980 by hospital worker Martyn Bates and lab assistant Pete Becker.

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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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Synergy ‘Sequencer’

byMark Roland

X marks the spot when it comes to unearthing lost gems from the hidden chest of electronic music past. This month, we dig up ‘Sequencer’, Synergy’s seminal late 1970s album

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

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Neil Mason

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

Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

Eyeless In Gaza ‘Photographs As Memories’ (Cherry Red, 1981)

Vidéo Aventures

Synergy ‘Sequencer’

M, ‘Pop Muzik’ (MCA Records, 1979)

Laibach

Humanoid ‘Stakker Humanoid’

The Best of Bergen (Via Tromsø)

Krautrock: 10 Definitive Albums

Gerald V Casale: Rage Against the Machine

The Residents: The Eyes Have It

William Doyle: High Hopes

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

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