All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 [2LP Colored Vinyl]

Various Artists - All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 [2LP Colored Vinyl]

All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth pop 1978-1985 is a new Double Vinyl / Double CD compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music. Compiled by curator Phil King, the music here connects the dots between DIY synth enthusiasts grappling with new, cheap synthesisers at the tail-end of punk and wannabe, jobbing songwriters enthral to the new music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller's Mute Records. Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failure. Complete with extensive sleeve notes written by King and never before seen imagery, all 24 tracks were remastered by RPM in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master tapes. The story told on All The Young Droids is one of the dawning opportunity presented by both the emergence to the market of cheaper analog synthesisers and the distribution networks plus indie labels that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976. While the music that sprouted out all over the globe in the wake of these factors was decried as fake, plastic, a refutation of punk's guitar-led revolution, it's telling that much of the music on All The Young Droids.. was created in bedrooms, ramshackle studios and home-made set ups with often borrowed equipment. In the era of record labels jumping to capitalise on the success of The Sex Pistols, The Clash (both on major labels, of course) these artists struggled to stand out from a new gold-rush with next to no budget or PR team. With radio and labels desperate for the new Yahoo, what resulted was a testament to necessity being the mother of invention

 
Tracks

1 1, Design - Premonition
2 2. Vision - Lucifer's Friend
3 3. Richard Bone - Alien Girl
4 4. John Howard - I Tune Into You
5 5. Ian North - We're Not Lonely
6 6. Selwin Image - the Unknown
7 7. Harry Kakoulli - I'm on a Rocket
8 8. Rich Wilde - the Lady Wants to Be Alone
9 9. Billy London - Woman
10 10. Alan Burnham - Science Fiction
11 11. the Microbes - Computer
12 12. the Goo-Q - I'm a Computer
13 13. Gerry & the Holograms - Gerry & the Holograms
14 14. the Warlord - the Ultimate Warlord
15 15. Die Marinas - Fred from Jupiter
16 16. Dee Jay Bert & Eagle - I Am Your Master
17 17. Peta Lily & Michael Process - I Am a Time Bomb
18 18. Sole Sister - It's Not What You Are But How
19 19. Alasdair Riddell - Do You Read Me?
20 20. Karel Fialka - Armband (The Mystery Song)
21 21. John Springate - My Life
22 22. Incandescent Luminaire - Famous Names
23 23. Disco Volante - No Motion
24 24. Dream Unit - a Drop in the Ocean