Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)

byCarl Griffin
October 9, 2025

The North in the late 1980s and early 90s was not a bad place to be if you were into left-field music and dancing...

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One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)

byNeil Mason

The trio of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven released a solitary album. There was apparently a second, but it never saw the light.

BBuried Treasure

3 minute read

In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

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

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

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

2 minute read

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

byNeil Mason

‘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.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Robert Marlow ‘The Peter Pan Effect’ (Energy, 1983)

byBob Fischer

The Gods of Pop work in decidedly mysterious ways.

Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)

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Carl Griffin

One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)

Paddy Mcaloon

Leslie Winer/© ‘Witch’ (Transglobal)

Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

Robert Marlow ‘The Peter Pan Effect’ (Energy, 1983)

Mike Oldfield ‘Blue Peter’

Stephen Mallinder

Janine Rainforth ‘Stretch’

Julia-Sophie: Soul Inside

Tangerine Dream: Dream Ticket

Robin Vincent: My Modular Journey

William Doyle: High Hopes

Barry Gray: Stand By for Action!

Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)

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