TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

byJoe Silva
March 18, 2021

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.

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Joe Silva

The French ‘Local Information’ (Too Pure, 2003)

byMark Brend

Though Hefner survive in the collective consciousness as the exemplar of an indie guitar outfit, the band deployed vintage synths and drum machines on later recordings. Which means that this, The French’s ‘Local Information’, isn’t quite the without-precedent one-off it might first appear.

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Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

byJeremy Allen

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

BBuried Treasure

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Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

byJoe Silva

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

BBuried Treasure

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Firstborn ‘When It Hits You Feel No Pain’ (Independiente)

byNeil Mason

"Music moves in mysterious ways, as do, I’ve discovered over the years, the people who work in and around it"

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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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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.