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VA - Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic Music of the '70s & '80s, Vol.1 (2017)

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VA - Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic Music of the '70s & '80s, Vol.1 (2017)

VA - Closed Circuits: Australian Alternative Electronic Music of the '70s & '80s, Vol.1 (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 502 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | 01:19:25
Electronic, New Wave, Synthpop, Post-Punk | Label: Festival Records

Compiled by noted Australian music writer and historian David Nichols, ‘Closed Circuits’ looks at what happened in Australia when the machines started taking over in the wake of punk in the late 70s.

"Synthesisers and other new technology accompanied a new DIY mentality and very quickly made their presence felt right across the pop spectrum. The collection looks at some of the underground innovators – the likes of Whirlywirld, Essendon Airport, Voigt/465 and Scattered Order – and also some of those who wedded the new sounds with more commercial instincts and created new styles of pop music, like The Dugites, Models, The Reels and The Machinations[/artist]. It is a range of music that is sometimes fun, sometimes intensely serious, and always innovative.

Nichols puts it like this in his liner notes: "This collection brings together a wide range of recordings really only united by one thing: people using technology to produce something fresh. These were not necessarily artists wedded to the idea of the ‘new wave’ or even hoping to wipe out old rock music; but what these tracks do represent is forward-thinking, inventive, progress… Most (not all) of the people on this collection were in their early-to-mid 20s; their reference points growing up in the 70s might have been Bowie’s Berlin period albums, or Roxy Music – particularly the Eno years – or Brian Eno’s own solo material; perhaps groups like Suicide. Many tracks sound like their creators spent their formative years immersed in the fun experimental side of progressive rock (though few seem to remember that experience). Others were more into the shock element of the new wave/ post punk world – or the DIY nature of synthesisers and other new technology. It didn’t hurt that between the late 70s and early 80s the hardware got cheaper, fast – though five or six hundred dollars for a synthesizer was still a major investment."

‘Closed Circuits’ provides a unique and invaluable look at the specifically Australian beginnings of key elements of the music of the 80s: music that is more popular and examined more seriously now than at any time since it was originally made."

In many ways this is a really valuable companion product to the UK Cherry Red compilation Close To The Noise Floor, itself a tying up of the formative years of early synth experiments this side of the pond. What is interesting though is that if anything, the quality of music production here is higher than many of its UK counterparts, especially from a vocal point of view.
Tracklist:
1. The Metronomes – A Circuit Like Me (03:52)
2. The Reels – Shout And Deliver (02:43)
3. Informatics – Great X-1 (04:42)
4. Jules – Rock Rock Daddy (03:45)
5. Bring Philip – Fire Truck (04:42)
6. Anne Cessna & Essendon Airport – Talking To Cleopatra (03:45)
7. German Humour – A Young Man's Old Girlfriend (04:11)
8. Models – On (Original 7” Mix) (02:46)
9. And An A – Ambition (07:13)
10. Voigt/465 – Imprint (03:10)
11. Whirlywirld – Window To The World (03:39)
12. Ya Ya Choral – Waiting Time (03:19)
13. The Dugites – Waiting (05:17)
14. Karen Marks – Cold Cafe (03:05)
15. The Limp – Outer Space Moth (02:30)
16. Asphixiation – L'Acrostique D'Amour (03:24)
17. Machinations – Average Inadequacy (Original Version) (04:06)
18. Scattered Order – A Few Little Shocks (03:46)
19. Primitive Calculators – Pumping Ugly Muscle (1987 Sydney Disco Mix) (04:06)
20. Distant Locust – I Feel Love (05:24)

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