PROPHECY + PROGRESS: UK ELECTRONICS 1978 - 1990 by V/A

SKU105162
ArtistV/A
TitlePROPHECY + PROGRESS: UK ELECTRONICS 1978 - 1990
LabelPERIPHERAL MINIMAL
Catalog #PM 24
Tag
ReleaseW 30 - 2018
FormatVinyl - UK2LP
 € 22,50 incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

  1. Clock DVA - Lomticks of Time
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/1_clock_dva_-_lomticks_of_time.mp3
  2. Vice Versa - Idol
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/2_vice_versa_-_idol.mp3
  3. Colin Potter - Number 5
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/3_colin_potter_-_number_5.mp3
  4. Konstruktivists - Vision Speed
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/4_konstruktivists_-_vision_speed.mp3
  5. Naked Lunch - Rabies
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/5_naked_lunch_-_rabies.mp3
  6. Five Times of Dust - Automation
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/6_five_times_of_dust_-_automation.mp3
  7. Schleimer K - Women
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/7_schleimer_k_-_women.mp3
  8. V-Sor X - Conversation With
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/8_v-sor_x_-_conversation_with.mp3
  9. Attrition - Beast of Burden (2006 Remaster)
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/9_attrition_-_beast_of_burden_2006_remaster.mp3
  10. David Harrow & Peter Hope - Too Hot
  11. John Costello - Total Shutdown
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/11_john_costello_-_total_shutdown.mp3
  12. T.A.G.C. - Further and Evident Meanings
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/12_t.a.g.c._-_further_and_evident_meanings.mp3
  13. John Avery - 12am and Looking Down
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/105162_prophecy_progress_uk_electronics_1978_-_1990/13_john_avery_-_12am_and_looking_down.mp3

Description

An eclectic mix of acts that were experimenting with newly available technology at a time when the punk scene had imploded. Limited to 500 copies with printed inner-sleeve.Although electronic experimentation had been explored in the decades before, it was still considered 'alien', "eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing", and even downright, 'austere and fascisistic'. It may have taken the likes of Gary Numan or Depeche Mode et al to switch the record buying public to synthesizer music, but bubbling underground were a myriad of experimenters recording in relative secrecy in Industrial cities like Sheffield or post-war London The antidote seemed to be quiet rebellion in the shape of dark and alienating soundscapes by acts that are now considered 'pioneers', or achieving cult status, in a new era of throwaway pop and trite 'new wave' impersonators. Many of the acts herein will be familiar with followers of synth or industrial music, some perhaps lesser known. The compilers have also included slightly 'later' works by artists that were already firmly established in the early 80s as a comparison, and for the pure arrogance of it. It's an attempt to rekindle those heady days of experimentation and to encourage new generations to rebel and forgo the fashionable posturing that comes with anything vaguely 'interesting'.

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