Prophecy + Progress: UK Electronics 1978-1990 Volumes I+II

This double CD contains all the original tracks from Volume I and a further 13-tracks for Volume II. Both discs also contain a bonus track. This compilation represents the burgeoning Electronic music scene in the UK. An eclectic mix of acts that were experimenting with newly available technology during the years 1978-1990. Although electronic experimentation had been explored in the decades before, a myriad of experimenters were recording 'alien, eerie, sterile, austere and vaguely menacing' music in Industrial cities like Sheffield or post-war London.

The antidote to the Thatcher government at the time seemed to be a quiet rebellion in the shape of dark and alienating soundscapes by acts that are now considered pioneers, or have achieved cult status. 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'. CD1 features: Clock DVA, Vice Versa (pre-ABC), Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound, Monos), Konstruktivists, Naked Lunch, Five Times Of Dust, Schleimer K, V-Sor X, Attrition, Peter Hope + David Harrow, John Costello (Engram), T.A.G.C., John Avery (Hula), plus Peter Hope & Russ Deluxe. CD2 features: The Future (Adi Newton of Clock DVA / The Anti Group, Ian Craig Marsh, and Martyn Ware of The Human League / Heaven 17, B.E.F.), Neu Electrikk, Colin Potter + Steve Parry, Eric Random, Illustration, Final Program, Ian Boddy (ARC), Malcolm Brown, Stress, Red Fetish, UVPØP, Hula, Bourbonese Qualk, and Steve Parry. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel double digipak with 8-page photographic booklet of UK Brutalist buildings

Tracklist

1-1 Clock DVA– Lomticks Of Time 3:38
1-2 Vice Versa – Idol 3:00
1-3 Colin Potter– Number Five 4:02
1-4 Konstruktivists– Vision Speed 5:37
1-5 Naked Lunch– Rabies 4:53
1-6 Five Times Of Dust– Automation 3:45
1-7 Schleimer K– Women 2:59
1-8 V-Sor, X– Conversation With 4:25
1-9 Attrition– Beast Of Burden (2006 Remaster) 3:06
1-10 Peter Hope + David Harrow– Too Hot 4:21
1-11 John Costello– Total Shutdown 3:07
1-12 T.A.G.C. (CLOCK DVA) – Further And Evident Meanings 4:08
1-13 John Avery– 12am And Looking Down 3:12
1-14 P.Hope_ R.Deluxe – Primarily 4:21
2-1 The Future – DAZ 3:40
2-2 Neu Electrikk– Practically Isolate 2:45
2-3 Colin Potter + Steve Parry– Womb 4:14
2-4 Eric Random– 23 Skidoo 3:17
2-5 Illustration– Dimensions Of Design 5:01
2-6 Final Program– Phase One 2:38
2-7 Ian Boddy– Follow 2:58
2-8 Malcolm Brown – Jaws Of The Living 1:56
2-9 Stress – Second Sight 3:43
2-10 Red Fetish– Saved 3:30
2-11 UVPØP – No Songs Tomorrow 3:32
2-12 Hula – Invisible (Live) 5:16
2-13 Bourbonese Qualk– Shutdown 4:09
2-14 Steve Parry– Island Of Real 3:26