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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Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

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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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Ron Geesin ‘Electrosound’ (KPM, 1972)

byBob Fischer

The track titles alone sound like long-lost episodes of early 1970s ‘Doctor Who’.

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Mountaineers ‘Messy Century’ (Mute, 2003)

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Given the world we live in now, you might think an album called ‘Messy Century’ would be a prescient political statement.

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Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

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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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Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)

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1979 saw the Shah of Iran on the run, the beginning of digital recording and the end of Sid Vicious...

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Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

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‘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.

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

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Joe Silva

Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

Ron Geesin ‘Electrosound’ (KPM, 1972)

Mountaineers ‘Messy Century’ (Mute, 2003)

Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

Chris and Cosey ‘October (Love Song)’

Alison Moyet

Howard Jones ‘New Song’

Tunng: Out Of This World

Tim Hecker: Ice Breaker

Emma Anderson: Out Of Her Shell

Roberto Gerhard

John Carpenter: Feel The Fear

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

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