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v/a - prophecy + progress: uk electronics 1978 - 1990 - peripheral minimal - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Experimental / Avant garde

1. Clock DVA - Lomticks of Time
2. Vice Versa - Idol
3. Colin Potter - Number 5
4. Konstruktivists - Vision Speed
5. Naked Lunch - Rabies
6. Five Times of Dust - Automation
7. Schleimer K - Women
8. V-Sor X - Conversation With
9. Attrition - Beast of Burden (2006 Remaster)
10. David Harrow & Peter Hope - Too Hot
11. John Costello - Total Shutdown
12. T.A.G.C. - Further and Evident Meanings
13. John Avery - 12am and Looking Down

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.

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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'.