Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

byJoe Silva
April 11, 2024

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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Joe Silva

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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The Twins ‘A Wild Romance’ (Hansa International, 1983)

byImogen Bebb

The Twins were a synthpop group formed in Berlin in 1980, and unlike the twins of the Thompson variety, there were just two of them. Rather disappointingly though, they weren’t actually twins.

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Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

byJoe Silva

Say what you will about the rise of algorithms, but on occasion they do get it right.

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Leslie Winer/© ‘Witch’ (Transglobal)

byMat Smith

The story is surely the stuff of legend: an uncompromising New York model hooks up with Burroughs and Basquiat and reinvents herself as an uncompromising musician and poet

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Synergy ‘Sequencer’

byMark Roland

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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Yagya ‘Rigning’ (Sending Orbs, 2009)

byClaire Francis

Is dub techno having a resurgence? Did it ever really go away?

Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

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Joe Silva

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

The Twins ‘A Wild Romance’ (Hansa International, 1983)

Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

Leslie Winer/© ‘Witch’ (Transglobal)

Synergy ‘Sequencer’

Yagya ‘Rigning’ (Sending Orbs, 2009)

Salman Gita ‘Sussan’

Barry Adamson

Spillers

Howard Jones

John Carpenter: Feel The Fear

Our Hearts Together: Chris & Cosey

Jane Weaver: Pop Goes The Weaver

Everything but the Truth: Lambert

Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)

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