Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

byJeremy Allen
September 10, 2020

When Pete Shelley died in December 2018, a universal acknowledgement of just how much we’d lost soon followed.

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

Already a premium member? Log in here

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.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘Charlotte For Ever’ (Philips, 1986)

byJeremy Allen

Serge Gainsbourg wrote music for lots of people.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

WIN

byNeil Mason

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

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

byNeil Mason

Prince said we should party like it was 1999, and, as far as we know, he hadn’t even heard the debut album by Middlesbrough’s Space Raiders.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

They were called Vidéo Aventures. They were French, they had links to the extreme Rock In Opposition movement, and in 1981 they released ‘Musique Pour Garçons Et Filles’, a superb example of underground electropop weirdosity

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Cujo ‘Adventures In Foam’ (Ninebar, 1996)

byRichard Skinner

"My introduction to Cujo, the name under which Amon Adonai Santos De Araújo Tobin made his earliest recordings..."

Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

Jeremy Allen

Seefeel ‘Quique’ (Too Pure, 1993)

Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘Charlotte For Ever’ (Philips, 1986)

WIN

Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)

Vidéo Aventures

Cujo ‘Adventures In Foam’ (Ninebar, 1996)

Tristram Cary

Emma-Jean Thackray

Studio Electrophonique

Dualist Inquiry: Double Vision

Kim Gordon: Only Connect

Belbury Poly: The Fairy Hikers

Scritti Politti: The Beez Knees

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: 10 Selected Works

Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

You May Also Like