Name: Prophecy and Progress: UK Electronics 1978 - 1990
Brand: Various Artists

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pm24

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Discogs ID

[r12111986]

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Format detail

Limited to 500 copies with printed inner-sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-07-20

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Signed copies: No

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Kudos

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various Artists

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

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Peripheral Minimal

Eclectic mix of acts that were experimenting with newly available technology at a time when the punk scene had imploded and the music press was busy coining new genres as an attempt to continue its legacy (Although synth-pop in part arose from punk rock, it abandoned punk's emphasis on authenticity and often pursued a deliberate artificiality, drawing on the critically derided forms such as disco and glam rock. 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, at a time when the Tories came back into power and utterly altered the political landscape, and produced a generation of, 'Thatcher's Children' (selfish, arrogant and materialistic). 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. We've 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'. It features Clock DVA, Vice Versa, Colin Potter, V-Sor X, Naked Lunch, Attrition etc.

Prophecy and Progress: UK Electronics 1978 - 1990

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