Buried Treasure – Page 5 – Electronic Sound

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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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Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

byMat Smith

Aside from its troubling “what if?” premise, two things stayed with me about the 1998 film ‘Sliding Doors’, and neither of these were Gwyneth Paltrow’s British accent.

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Craig Palmer ‘Industrial – Volume 26’ (Network Production Music, 1983)

byJoe Silva

At some point, the entertainment industry will have to relax its choke-hold on 1980s nostalgia. They’ll finally realise that video arcades aren’t coming back

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Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

byNeil Mason

Norfolk’s answer to The Chemical Brothers, Alistair Cormack and Thomas Albrighton were an ambient dub duo from Norwich.

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Rational Youth ‘Cold War Night Life’ (YUL, 1982)

byMat Smith

The accepted history of electronic pop music that I was spoon-fed, via compilation cassettes and CDs, ran a well-worn patch cable back to 1981.

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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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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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