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The rise of the microchip and the advent of affordable synthesizers enabled countless artists for whom guitars, drums and bass had become old hat, and in grubby bedsits, unremarkable living rooms and art school halls across the British Isles, UK electronica was born. The underground, fueled by cassette exchanges, co-operative vinyl compilations and a thriving mail order network, quickly began to stretch the boundaries of sonic experimentation. Close To The Noise Floor explores every corner of this fascinating and often overlooked chapter in our musical history. For proto synth-pop look no further than 100% Manmade Fibre and Spoon Fazer, whilst British Standard Unit and Five Times Of Dust lay out techno templates which wouldn't take full form until many years later. Elsewhere, the synthesizer laden ambient music of Zorch and the found sound collages of A Tent sit comfortably alongside early forays by familiar names - Blancmange, The Human League, OMD and Throbbing Gristle - in over four hours of futurist, entirely modern music.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComputer Bank - Five Times of Dust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eR.A.M. - the Klingons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRe-Education Through Labour - Chris and Cosey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSedation Strokes - Malcolm Brown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Bob Minor - Storm Bugs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTight As a Drum - Thomas Leer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoliday Camp - Blancmange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFractured Smile - Inner City Static\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSexuality - We Be Echo 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod with Us - Bourbonese Qualk 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFaith - Nagamatzu 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisco Song - O Yuki Conjugate 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOptimum Chant - British Electric Foundation 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Night Long - Kevin Harrison 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStopping and Starting - Voice of Authority 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Am Your Shadow - Colin Potter 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eD'ya Think I'm Sexy - British Standard Unit 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Single Off the Album - Five Times of Dust 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack to Beginning - Spoon Fazer 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGerry and the Holograms - Gerry and the Holograms 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrugface - the Passage 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA New Kind of Man - John Foxx 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreen for Go - 100% Manmade Fibre 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSentimental - Those Little Aliens 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProtect and Survive - Final Program 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeing Boiled - Human League 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Muzak - Instant Automations 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterialistic Man - Cultural Amnesia 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(Leaving Me) Now - Worldbackwards 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic to Save the World By - Alan Burnham 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlmost - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKodak Ghosts Run Amok - Eyeless in Gaza 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroken Vein - Schleimer K 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Distance from Koln - Native Europe 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdrenalin (Return of the Elohim PT 1) - Zorch 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobot Dance - Sea of Wires 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSea of Tranquility - Ron Berry 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMistral - MFH 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoe Goes to New York - Adrian Smith 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmbryo (Extract) - Mark Shreeve 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTripych - Eg Oblique Graph 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncounter - Carl Mathews 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYnys Scaith - Paul Nagle 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSedation - O Yuki Conjugate 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWestern Vein - Konstruktivist 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDead of Night (Excerpt) - Attrition 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat a Day - Throbbing Gristle 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Way of Knowing - a Tent 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGo for the Throat - Portion Control 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEco Beat - DC3 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDying Inside - Renaldo and the Loaf 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Army - Blah Blah Blah 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod Speed - Legendary Pink Dots 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuslin Gauze Muslim Prayer - Muslimgauze 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLive at Longborne - Suisse 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMenial Disorders, Extract B2 - Alien Brains 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHimeal (And She Blew) - Storm Bugs 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Room - Third Door from the Left 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDignity of Labour - Al Robertson 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMzui (Extract) - Bcgilbert, Glewis, Russell Mills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46987133354205,"sku":"5013929102491","price":392.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3291178.jpg?v=1762932230","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/close-to-the-noise-floor-formative-uk-electronica-close-to-the-noise-floor-formative-uk-electronica","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}