Various Artists – "U.K. Electronics Vol 1" (Mindscan Tapes) 1988

Back in the idiot dancing heights of the 1988 Acid House luvved up nonsense,no-one listened to electronic music unless it carried a floor to the foreskin goosestepping back beat, and squelchy filter knob twiddling from products that no-one had previously wanted.

Yet deep in the fusty bedrooms,garden sheds and attics of Incel's all over the UK, festered music you couldn't dance to made by people who couldn't dance. The refinements of these DIY land Tangerine Wet Dreams, grafted onto the roots and branches of the old Industrial scene, which had since emigrated to Europe, had moved underground,communicating by cassette,avidly shunning human contact.

Yes, there's an individual on here called,proudly(?), 'Cock' (real name John Yardley Jones...which explains a lot),hinting strongly towards the involuntarily celibate nature of the UK Electronic underground noise that had begun with such labels as Integrated Circuit Records (ICR) in the earlier part of the decade.

This series of compilation tapes showcased many of these pale young men,and believe me they are ALL men....women would never make testosterone damaged noise like this,..music to take your mind off wanking by.....nothing wrong with that of course.We need situations like this frustration stifling aural bromide to make great art.Do you think Van Gogh would have painted Sun Flowers if he got laid once in a blue moon?....Nah 'course not!....same applies here.Music that doesn't quite make you wanna slice your ears off.

So,here's to involuntary celibacy, and all who sail in the poor cow.

Er....compiled by Robert Maycock....as if you had to ask!?

Tracklist:

A1	Richard Leake–	Candles & Prayers	3:11
A2	Pessary–	Untitled 15 - 17	5:29
A3	Cutter –	Echopraxia	4:23
A4	Discipline –	Nineteen	5:32
A5	Richard Leake–	Homelands	3:47
A6	Birth/Birth–	We Must Keep The Kaled Race Pure	4:17
A7	factor X–	Untitled	2:03
B1	The Headmen –	Below Ground	3:41
B2	Cock–	Thatcher (Devil Incarnate)	3:48
B3	Pessary–	Untitled 4 - 6	3:49
B4	Cock–	Fountain Of Life 1 & 2	2:47
B5	Discipline–	The First Light	4:52
B6	Discipline–	The Tensing	1:43
B7	From Nursery To Misery–	Kill Your Dancing Dreams	4:58
B8	The Headmen –	Listening Force	4:02

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Paul Kelday – "Centuries" (Music For Midgets – M.F.M.12) 1982

As one received a rare comment on a previous Paul Kelday post bemoaning the fact that as cosmic Paul's soul has now joined Sun Ra's orbiting one of the gas giants beyond the asteroid belt......no jokes about the gases of Uranus pleeze!....that most of his vast catalog of recordings will now never see the light again, or will be compacted into liquid hydrogen at Saturn's core rained on by regular showers of naturally occurring diamonds. And indeed Paul was a diamond,who spent the latter years of his life hiding away from society in general, and indeed giving up music altogether,leaving us with the disturbing suggestion that he may have binned all his tapes.

So,here's one that he didn't bin,and,more importantly, one I haven't posted before,called "Centuries",which surfaced on both Music For Midgets, and Integrated Circuit Records around the cusp of 1981/82.

Klassic Kelday,doing classic early Tangerine Dream meets the BBC Radiophonic Workshop....all captured on a Philips Ultra ferro C-60 bottom of the shelf cassette.

Tracklist:

A1 Legopolis (Nov. 81)
A2 Shadows In The Recesses Of The Subconscious (Dec. 81)
A3 Necessitarianism (Feb. 82)
A4 In The Air (Feb. 82)
B Centuries (Dec. 81)

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Various ‎– "Flowmotion(An Album of Contemporary Electronic Music)" (ICR ‎– ICR 003) 1982

Well, as this compilation is over 35 years old, it can no longer claim to be an album of Contemporary anything, but it does have some electronic music on it ,by some of the bigger names of the UK's electronic underground of the early eighties. And I note that none of this lot have yet to retire.
A few of these tracks one would hesitate at calling them strictly 'Electronic'.Experimental pop with incidental electronics is good enough for Eyeless In Gaza,and Those Little Aliens hark back to the time when magnetic Tape manipulation was called 'Electronic' Music.I suppose anything made with machines that one plugs into the mains is technically 'Electronic' so there you are!?

Tracklist:

A1 –Chris & Cosey-Devil God
A2 –Those Little Aliens-Ismalia
A3 –Eyeless In Gaza-Dusky Ruth
A4 –Eyeless In Gaza-Through Eastfields
A5 –David Jackman-Do The Dog
A6 –Ian Boddy-Follow
A7 –The Legendary Pink Dots-Hanging Gardens
B1 –Ian Boddy-Skylights
B2 –Paul Nagle-A Journey In The Dark
B3 –Carl Matthews-As Above, So Below
B4 –Colin Potter-Rooftops

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Paul Kelday ‎– "Eschatus" (Integrated Circuit Records) 1982

More electronic noises from downtown Bognor Regis that sound, variously, like amplified dentist drills and braking subway trains fed through a plethora of tape echos and plate reverbs units.
The bastard child of Bebe and Louis Barron ('Forbidden Planet') and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Colin Potter ‎– "See" (ICR ‎– ICR 028) 1990

A journey into ambient drone territory for the wizard of DIY underground electronica, Colin Potter; long before Harry Potter became the most famous Potter, overtaking Beatrix quite comfortably.
ICR(or Integrated Circuit Records) was probably the 'Hogwarts' of experimental keyboard-ism for the whole of the 80's, and C.Potter was its Dumbledore.
Here , Dumbledore goes Drone, before it became fashionable for every Wire magazine reader to have an experimental Drone project on the go. It's a genre that should be attempted once,preferably by one person only, never to be repeated and I'm quite comfortable with that 'one person' to be Colin Potter.
A 'Drone' album can be written produced and played in real time in one take without any musical expertise required whatsoever,and is basically not really for listening to.Its a kind of aural water to fill up your flotation tank to the brim, to assist you to cut yourself off from this cruel world and confront your inner id without influence from the ego.
I don't sense that Colin has any ego whatsoever,and as one of the instigators of the DIY movement and cassette culture he deserves massive respect;but I can't say I've listened to anything he's done since this outing in 1990, which I'm shocked to find out was 27 years ago!!!!....or is that 27 years ego?

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Tracks:

1-A Drift (23:57)
2-Tide (23:36)
3-Untitled (15:50)

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Rick Crane ‎– "Fuji" (ICR ‎– ICR 15) 1983

Rick Crane's second cassette on ICR is the usual pleasant melodic electronica in the DIY Berlin School style as championed by Dave Jones, Carl Matthews and the like.
Its the kind of proto-new age music that is perfect for your landscape video's, or as background music in a Florists.
 Gentle, inoffensive stuff......if that sounds like an insult it's unintentional. There's definitely a talent to making  minimal melodic electronic music for ignoring.

Tracklist:

A1 Rising Eastwards
A2 Fuji:Pillowbook Of Dreams
A3 Moondrawn
A4 Inner Struggle
B1 Fisher Of Souls
B2 Of Robots, Men And Zen
B3 The Shrine Of Harai

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Dave Jones ‎– "Second Attempt" (ICR ‎– ICR007) 1982

Not everyone took the Kraftwerk approach to the synthesiser you know? A plethora of medium length thinning haired bedroom nerds wanted to be Tangerine Dream.Which was now possible by 1980, as the price and size of the necessary equipment was rapidly reducing,and within range of your average 26 year old kosmiche musick fans and their warehouse job wage packets.
This stuff was far easier to make than it was for The Human League to produce 'Being Boiled'; a meandering structure using 'too many notes' rather than  using a carefully selected three note boot to the crotch.
Colin Potters Integrated Circuit Records was the natural home for this new wave of meandering fingers and knob twiddling.If Post Punk was the rebirth of Prog, this stuff displayed the grim reality that original prog had never really gone away, and Ironic that the DIY approach of Punk provided the very music that the 'punks' professed to despise with a vehicle for further existence.
This new lot of Klaus Schulz's never had the same interesting names as their Germanic forebears either.Rick Crane,Carl Matthews, George Garside, and Dave Jones, didn't have the same exotic allure of an Edgar Froese or a Dieter Moebius;but the music was a lo-fi and utterly homemade replication of those Krautrock legends.
So here's Dave Jones' second cassette release from 1982,and could easily have been used in Blade Runner or Chariots of Fire instead of Vangelis......again, it was the name that did for it.Who are you gonna choose, Vangelis or ....er...Dave Jones?

Tracklist:
A1 Black Mikado
A2 The Jade Temple
A3 Ro
A4 Necropolis
B1 Oh Prodigy
B2 G.F.I.
B3 Voyager
B4 Excerpt
B5 End Play

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George Garside – "Oasis" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR16) 1984

The instructions on how to listen to this cassette use the immortal phrase, “….best listened to on headphones.”Betraying a barely concealed,or controlled ‘prog’ tendency. This is a good thing, because despite all the ‘Punk propaganda’ that has seared itself into the brains of even the most enlightened townies; Prog was the real anti-rock movement of the seventies. It had its rebirth in 1978, and rechristened itself ‘Post-Punk’, and it still perseveres to this day.
This bedroom based one man Tangerine Dream, conjures up an alternative soundtrack to ‘Blade Runner’ for us. If only he had a more exotic name, instead of salt of the earth George Garside from Leeds; if he called himself Dimitrius Dingleberry from the Maldives, for example,he’d have been making horrific albums with Jon Anderson from Yes, instead of these lush analogue soundscapes for Integrated Circuit Records.
all considering, this is a pretty good prog album that would have gone down a storm in 1974. Ten years too late George!

Track Listing:

A1		Journey To Oasis	17:59
A2		Landscapes	13:12
B1		Gates Of Oasis	5:40
B2		Oasis	5:09
B3		The Traveller	4:06
B4		Trapezium	5:57
B5		Riverside Dub	3:22

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Various Artists - "We Couldn't Agree On A Title" - (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 001) 1981

Many "big" names from the DIY cassette scene on here. The debut vinyl release on Colin Potter's Integrated Circuit Record/tape Label.
You get the usual muffled third generation overdubbing sound from the Instant Automatons. Colin Potter provides the electronics, and sounds like it could have recorded today.Digital Dinosaurs, give us some amateur song craft,and sound like Donovan fed through a ring modulator; but what do you expect from some hippies who live in Coventry?
Phillip Johnson sounds like a really fucked mono cassette player recording of a bus depot being played at the end of 200 miles of piping.This is good.Magnificent songs,DIY/minimal synth masterpieces here!

Tracklisting:

Colin Potter - Behind You
Colin Potter - We Are So Glad
Missing Persons - Buried Alive
Missing Persons - Mama
Missing Persons - Electrical Storm
The Instant Automatons - Routine Habit
The Instant Automatons - Invertebrates
The Walking Floors - If I Could Turn The Clock Back
The Victims Of Romance - 9 AM
The Digital Dinosaurs - Organs
The Digital Dinosaurs - Hole
Robert Lawrence - Heart Finds A Home
Those Little Aliens - Sentimental
Those Little Aliens - Low Point X
Mic Woods - Why
The 012 - Blabber 'n' Smoke
Philip Johnson - The Bridewell
Philip Johnson - Anaesthetic (changed version


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