Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)

byMark Roland
December 9, 2021

In 1997, R&S Records’ UK head honcho, Bob Fisher, persuaded me to check out a new band from Japan at a small venue in Camden.

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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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Mike Batt ‘Zero Zero’ (Epic, 1982)

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“Long, long ago, far into the distant future and after the seventh war, there is a civilisation called System 605. Where the diseases of love and emotion no longer exist to complicate our busy lives…”

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Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)

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Back in April 2012, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, my two young daughters – then aged four and five – were watching the Electrical Water Pageant float past. Transfixed by its colourful show of lights, they genuinely believed it to be the work of pure magic.

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Tanning Salon ‘Dream Castle’ (PrismCorp, 2011)

bySpenser Tomson

Tumbling into YouTube holes can be a risky business. One minute you’re learning about dark matter or the Italian Futurists, the next you’re watching a pseudo Professor Denzil Dexter explain how the moon is, in fact, hollow and made out of toilet roll tubes

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Edgar Froese ‘Kamikaze 1989’ (Virgin Schallplatten, 1982)

byJeremy Allen

Tangerine Dream have released a lot of albums. The German electronic pioneers were so prolific that nobody quite knows how many LPs there are, though it’s thought to be around 160, all told.

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The French ‘Local Information’ (Too Pure, 2003)

byMark Brend

Though Hefner survive in the collective consciousness as the exemplar of an indie guitar outfit, the band deployed vintage synths and drum machines on later recordings. Which means that this, The French’s ‘Local Information’, isn’t quite the without-precedent one-off it might first appear.

Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)

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Mark Roland

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

Mike Batt ‘Zero Zero’ (Epic, 1982)

Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)

Tanning Salon ‘Dream Castle’ (PrismCorp, 2011)

Edgar Froese ‘Kamikaze 1989’ (Virgin Schallplatten, 1982)

The French ‘Local Information’ (Too Pure, 2003)

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Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)

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