Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

byClaire Francis
May 16, 2024

Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer

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Boyd Rice / Frank Tovey ‘Easy Listening For The Hard Of Hearing’ (Mute, 1984)

byIan Abraham

Originally recorded in 1981 at London’s Blackwing Studio, this brilliant maniacal fusion of weird soundscapes and fucked up noise ideology is one of the records that got away.

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Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)

byBob Fischer

In the early 1980s, robots were everywhere.

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Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)

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Imagine a time when, as a concession to your audience, you’d show them cartoons while you were busy repatching your synthesisers between songs.

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

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As Darren Price’s ‘Under the Flightpath’ landed on my desk, I was about to fly away.

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Synergy ‘Sequencer’

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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

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The Endless House Foundation ‘Endless House’ (Dramatic, 2011)

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You might have wished you were at Glasto 94. Or The Screen On The Green in 77. Or Hyde Park in 69 for that matter.

Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

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Claire Francis

Boyd Rice / Frank Tovey ‘Easy Listening For The Hard Of Hearing’ (Mute, 1984)

Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)

Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)

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

Synergy ‘Sequencer’

The Endless House Foundation ‘Endless House’ (Dramatic, 2011)

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Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

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