5013929102491

Close To The Noise Floor - Formative Uk Electronica 1975 - 1984

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: CRCDBOX24

Release Date:  19 November 2021

Label:  Cherry Red Records / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929102491

Genres:  Electronic  

  • Description

    Two years in the making, Close To The Noise Floor is a 4CD, 61-track set exploring the origins of electronica in the UK.

    Featuring tracks from key figures on the cassette label underground alongside early releases by future stars of the movement, this is part primitive rave, part synthesiser porn & part history lesson. Enthralled by the mysterious electronics of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Gong & German Kosmische artists such as Tangerine Dream, Harmonia & Cluster, & inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, a quiet revolution took place across the UK in the late 70s & early 80s.

    The rise of the microchip & the advent of affordable synthesisers enabled countless artists for whom guitars, drums & bass had become old hat, & in grubby bedsits, unremarkable living rooms & art school halls across the British Isles, UK electronica was born.

    Exploring every corner of this fascinating & often overlooked chapter in musical history. For proto synth-pop look no further than 100% Manmade Fibre & Spoon Fazer, whilst British Standard Unit & Five Times Of Dust lay out techno templates which wouldn't take full form until many years later. Elsewhere, the synthesiser laden ambient music of Zorch & the found sound collages of A Tent sit comfortably alongside early forays by familiar names - Blancmange, The Human League, OMD & Throbbing Gristle - in over four hours of futurist, entirely modern music.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Computer Bank - FIVE TIMES OF DUST
      • 2. R.a.M. - THE KLINGONS
      • 3. Re-Education Through Labour - CHRIS AND COSEY
      • 4. Sedation Strokes - MALCOLM BROWN
      • 5. Little Bob Minor - STORM BUGS
      • 6. Tight As a Drum - THOMAS LEER
      • 7. Holiday Camp - BLANCMANGE
      • 8. Fractured Smile - INNER CITY STATIC
      • 9. Sexuality - WE BE ECHO
      • 10. God With Us - BOURBONESE QUALK
      • 11. Faith - NAGAMATZU
      • 12. Disco Song - O YUKI CONJUGATE
      • 13. Optimum Chant - BRITISH ELECTRIC FOUNDATION
      • 14. All Night Long - KEVIN HARRISON
      • 15. Stopping and Starting - VOICE OF AUTHORITY

      Disc 2

      • 1. I Am Your Shadow - COLIN POTTER
      • 2. D'ya Think I'm Sexy - BRITISH STANDARD UNIT
      • 3. The Single Off the Album - FIVE TIMES OF DUST
      • 4. Back to Beginning - SPOON FAZER
      • 5. Gerry and the Holograms - GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS
      • 6. Drugface - THE PASSAGE
      • 7. A New Kind of Man - JOHN FOXX
      • 8. Green for Go - 100% MANMADE FIBRE
      • 9. Sentimental - THOSE LITTLE ALIENS
      • 10. Protect and Survive - FINAL PROGRAM
      • 11. Being Boiled - HUMAN LEAGUE
      • 12. New Muzak - INSTANT AUTOMATIONS
      • 13. Materialistic Man - CULTURAL AMNESIA
      • 14. (Leaving Me) Now - WORLDBACKWARDS
      • 15. Music to Save the World By - ALAN BURNHAM
      • 16. Almost - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
      • 17. Kodak Ghosts Run Amok - EYELESS IN GAZA
      • 18. Broken Vein - SCHLEIMER K
      • 19. The Distance from Koln - NATIVE EUROPE

      Disc 3

      • 1. Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim Pt 1) - ZORCH
      • 2. Robot Dance - SEA OF WIRES
      • 3. Sea of Tranquility - RON BERRY
      • 4. Mistral - MFH
      • 5. Joe Goes to New York - ADRIAN SMITH
      • 6. Embryo (Extract) - MARK SHREEVE
      • 7. Tripych - EG OBLIQUE GRAPH
      • 8. Encounter - CARL MATHEWS
      • 9. Ynys Scaith - PAUL NAGLE
      • 10. Sedation - O YUKI CONJUGATE
      • 11. Western Vein - KONSTRUKTIVIST
      • 12. Dead of Night (Excerpt) - ATTRITION

      Disc 4

      • 1. What a Day - THROBBING GRISTLE
      • 2. No Way of Knowing - A TENT
      • 3. Go for the Throat - PORTION CONTROL
      • 4. Eco Beat - DC3
      • 5. Dying Inside - RENALDO AND THE LOAF
      • 6. In the Army - BLAH BLAH BLAH
      • 7. God Speed - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
      • 8. Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer - MUSLIMGAUZE
      • 9. Live at Longborne - SUISSE
      • 10. Menial Disorders, Extract B2 - ALIEN BRAINS
      • 11. Himeal (and She Blew) - STORM BUGS
      • 12. In the Room - THIRD DOOR FROM THE LEFT
      • 13. Dignity of Labour - AL ROBERTSON
      • 14. Mzui (Extract) - BCGILBERT, GLEWIS, RUSSELL MILLS