Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop [CD] (ONLINE ORDER ONLY)

Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop [CD] (ONLINE ORDER ONLY)

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A repackaged clamshell edition of Cherry Red's popular 4CD / 80-track set exploring the independent side of the UK's post-punk synth-pop boom. From household names and scene legends to underground outsiders and bedroom experimenters. Key tracks and hidden gems from Mute Records, Rough Trade, 4AD, Survival Records, Cherry Red and a host of essential independent players. Produced by the team behind the critically acclaimed 'Close To The Noise Floor' series and a number of other essential box sets. The year - 1978. The mood - revolution. The latest addition to the musician's sound palette - the synthesiser. And so a new sound was born, and one which would free pop music from it's guitar dominated tradition into something with a bright new future which would write itself. Almost overnight, via a handful of key single releases, the big bang of punk produced something the kids called 'synth-pop'. The clue was very much in the name. A broad church from the outset, this synth-pop movement wasted no time in embracing players from all corners of the musical dressing up box. From guitar groups drafting in a keyboard playing friend and the progressive rockers using their expensive banks of electronics in new ways to the modernists and the Thatcherists, full of unabashed aspiration, and the punks - arguably the purest punks of them all - who discarded the guitar and the drum kit overnight in their pursuit of something fresh that their generation could truly call their own. All were welcome, and all contributed to the many different directions synth- pop would mutate in over the coming five or six years.

Tracklist:

  1. Windpower - Thomas Dolby
  2. Science Fiction - Alan Burnham
  3. Warm Leatherette - The Normal
  4. Stay With Me Tonight - Alex Fergusson
  5. Tarantula - Colourbox
  6. Fantasy - 100% Manmade Fibre
  7. Bandwagon Tango - Testcard F
  8. Electrical Language - Be-Bop Deluxe
  9. The World - Dalek I
  10. Honour Among Thieves - Chain Of Command
  11. Red Frame/White Light - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  12. Red Castles - The Legendary Pink Dots
  13. Lifes Illusion - Ice The Falling Rain
  14. The Human Factor - Music For Pleasure
  15. She's An Image - Poeme Electronique
  16. I'm Thinking Of You Now - Box Of Toys
  17. The Planet Doesn't Mind - New Musik
  18. Hope Deep Inside - Schleimer K
  19. The Distance From Köln - Native Europe
  20. Technical Miracle - Voice Of Authority
  21. Circus Of Death - The Human League
  22. Xoyo - The Passage
  23. Crowds - A Popular History Of Signs
  24. October (Love Song) - Chris And Cosey
  25. Feel So Young - Laugh Clown Laugh
  26. Croatia - Basking Sharks
  27. Mr Nobody - Thomas Leer
  28. Ricky's Hand - Fad Gadget
  29. Hypnotic Rhythm - Local Boy Makes Good
  30. Drowning In Berlin - The Mobiles
  31. Even Now - Edward Ka-Spel
  32. Lying Next To You - Passion Polka
  33. Rabies - Naked Lunch
  34. Do It - The Limit
  35. Work Song - Robert Calvert
  36. Baby Won't Phone - Quadrascope
  37. It Happened Then - Electronic Ensemble
  38. In The Morning - Jeanett
  39. Nightlife - Those Attractive Magnets
  40. My Coo Ca Choo - Beasts In Cages
  41. Your Love Is Like A Slug - The Bodhi-Beat Poets
  42. Veil Like Calm - Eyeless In Gaza
  43. Destitution - Camera Obscura
  44. Good Times - Drinking Electricity
  45. Happy Families - Zoo Boutique
  46. Feels Like Winter Again - Fiat Lux
  47. Falling Downstairs - Colin Potter
  48. Our Little Girl - David Harrow
  49. It Never Rains In Outer Space -Futurhythm
  50. Zennor - Goat
  51. Videomatic - Final Program
  52. Taddy Up - Pink Industry
  53. You Don't Look The Same - Play
  54. Children Of The Revolution - The Fast Set
  55. Trace Of Red - Two
  56. Lying Here - Shox
  57. Daytime Assassins - The Builders
  58. Beating Heart (12" Version) - Section 25
  59. Absent Friends - Joe Crow
  60. Jamaica Day - Faction
  61. Generator (Laserbeam) - Tim Blake
  62. Touch - Lori And The Chameleons
  63. The Secret Affair - Jupiter Red
  64. I'm Your Man - Blue Zoo
  65. Even Roses Have Thorns - Jesus Couldn't Drum
  66. Paint It Black - Techno Pop
  67. Chase The Dragon - Kevin Harrison
  68. Other Passengers - Thirteen At Midnight
  69. Your Voice - Freeze Frame
  70. Stay With You - Time In Motion
  71. Live Wires Kill - The Toy Shop
  72. Surface Tension - Analysis
  73. Time - Paul Haig
  74. Contemplation - Solid Space
  75. Committed To Vinyl - Martin O'cuthbert
  76. Look Don't Touch - Science
  77. The Wishing Tree (Megatree Mix) -Charlie's Brother
  78. Working Model - The Quarks
  79. There's Someone Following Me - Eddie ; Sunshine
  80. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Hybrid Kids

UPC: 5013929107793
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 10.24.25
Format: CD

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