Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

byNeil Mason
February 10, 2022

‘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.

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Neil Mason

Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)

byRichard Skinner

I heard rumours of this album’s existence – originally released privately as ‘Canaxis 5’ in 1969 and credited to Technical Space Composer’s Crew – in the days before the internet.

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The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

byJeremy Allen

Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station

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Nick Nicely ‘Psychotropia’ (Tenth Planet, 2003)

byImogen Bebb

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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TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

byJoe Silva

Since you can’t peel back the YouTube algorithm, there’s no telling how we wound up staring at western Canada circa the mid-80s.

BBuried Treasure

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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.

BBuried Treasure

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WIN

byNeil Mason

A proper best-kept secret, 1980s Edinburgh outfit WIN are the greatest band most people have never heard of

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

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Neil Mason

Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)

The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

Nick Nicely ‘Psychotropia’ (Tenth Planet, 2003)

TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

WIN

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Laurie Anderson ‘O Superman’

Carl Cox

Alexander Robotnick: I, Robotnick

Simple Minds: Natural High

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Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

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