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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Claire Francis

Charlie Tate ‘Alta Plana’ (OM, 2005)

byRichard Skinner

Without any announcement at all, Alta Plana appeared in 2005 as a digital-only release and promptly disappeared.

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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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Robyn Miller ‘Myst Soundtrack’ (Cyan, 1995)

byJoe Silva

It’s the mid-1990s and my daughter and I are sitting with our noses practically rammed up against the screen of our Power Mac 5200

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Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)

byJames Thornhill

The artists that live on the fringes, the forward (or sideways) thinkers, have always drawn me in. This fascination really kicked in at university when, in the early 2000s, I presented a radio show with Erotic Volvo of Birmingham wrong-pop band Misty’s Big Adventure. As a kind of musicologist of the weird, his selections were never predictable and often a revelation.

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Hailu Mergia ‘Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye’ (Kaifa, 1985 / Awesome Tapes FROM Africa, 2013)

byLippy Kid

When searching for pioneers of electronic futurism, how many of us would consider the golden age of Ethiopian jazz-funk to be an obvious port of call?

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Seefeel ‘Quique’ (Too Pure, 1993)

byIan Abraham

As a fledgling fanzine writer, it seemed implausible that anyone would send anything resembling decent music to an outpost on the Wirral.

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

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Claire Francis

Charlie Tate ‘Alta Plana’ (OM, 2005)

Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

Robyn Miller ‘Myst Soundtrack’ (Cyan, 1995)

Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)

Hailu Mergia ‘Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye’ (Kaifa, 1985 / Awesome Tapes FROM Africa, 2013)

Seefeel ‘Quique’ (Too Pure, 1993)

Newcleus ‘Jam On Revenge’

Léon Theremin

The Flying Lizards ‘Money’

Heavenly Sunday Social Club: Chemical Reaction

xPropaganda: Duel Purpose

Stephen Mallinder: Maladjusted

Working Men’s Club: Working Wonders

DJ Kampire: Happy Kampire

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

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