Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

byNeil Mason

‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, the debut album from Norway’s Kings Of Convenience – Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe – is the gentlest strum and pluck of a record, and the Bergen duo were cast very much from an old school folk tradition.

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Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

byNeil Mason

Lost gems? We got ‘em by the chestful. Glittering musical prizes lost in the mists of time. This month, we clap our ears around Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

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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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Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

byJoE Silva

Say what you will about the rise of algorithms, but on occasion they do get it right.

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Dalek I Love You ‘Dalek I Love You ‘ (Korova, 1983)

byImogen Bebb

I was introduced to the music of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark when I was 15. By the time I was 17, I was besotted with the band and had become the local OMD expert

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New Muzik ‘From A To B’ (GTO, 1980)

byNeil Mason

New Muzik’s ‘From A To B’ is one of those albums you love, but very few other people seem to know about.

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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"

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

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