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

byJoe Silva
May 12, 2022

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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Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)

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In the early 1980s, robots were everywhere.

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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"

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Bel Canto ‘White-Out Conditions’

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We’ve followed the secret map of electronic music past and found a hidden chest of lost gems. This month, we’re pulling out and polishing Bel Canto’s ‘White-Out Conditions’

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Nick Nicely ‘Psychotropia’ (Tenth Planet, 2003)

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Born on a transatlantic flight layover in 1959, from the moment he took his first breath there was always going to be something a little different about Nick Nicely.

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One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)

byNeil Mason

The trio of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven released a solitary album. There was apparently a second, but it never saw the light.

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The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

byDavid Pollock

The first time I saw the Magnificents live, in the small, sweaty Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College of Art almost two decades ago, it was an initiation in both electronic music, and the power of discovering a group that felt like they were truly your own – or at least, shared only with the 50 or so fiercely devoted fellow travellers in the room.

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

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Joe Silva

Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)

I Start Counting ‘My Translucent Hands’ (Mute, 1986)

Bel Canto ‘White-Out Conditions’

Nick Nicely ‘Psychotropia’ (Tenth Planet, 2003)

One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)

The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

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Bob James Trio

Keith Seatman: Trip Advisor

Zombie Zombie: Monster Mash

Shackleton: Most Haunted

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

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