Close To The Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984

Released 29th April 2016.

Update April 2017: Cherry Red released a limited edition double vinyl LP of Close To The Noise Floor for Record Store Day 2017.

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Track Listing

Disc One

1. Five Times Of Dust (5XOD) - Computer Bank
2. The Klingons - R.A.M.
3. Chris & Cosey - Re-Education Through Labour
4. Malcolm Brown - Sedation Strokes
5. Storm Bugs - Little Bob Minor
6. Thomas Leer - Tight As A Drum
7. Blancmange - Holiday Camp
8. Inter City Static - Fractured Smile
9. We Be Echo - Sexuality
10. Bourbonese Qualk - God With Us
11. Nagamatzu - Faith
12. O Yuki Conjugate - Disco Song
13. British Electric Foundation (BEF) - Optimum Chant
14. Kevin Harrison - All Night Long
15. Voice Of Authority - Stopping And Starting

Disc Two

1. Colin Potter - I Am Your Shadow
2. British Standard Unit (Morgan Fisher) - D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?
3. Five Times Of Dust (5XOD) - The Single Off The Album
4. Spöön Fazer - Back To The Beginning
5. Gerry And The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
6. The Passage - Drugface
7. John Foxx - A New Kind Of Man (Alt Version)
8. 100% Manmade Fibre - Green For Go
9. Those Little Aliens - Sentimental
10. Final Program - Protect And Survive
11. The Human League - Being Boiled
12. Instant Automatons - New Muzak
13. Cultural Amnesia - Materialistic Man
14. Worldbackwards - (Leaving Me) Now
15. Alan Burnham - Music To Save The World By
16. Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark (OMD) - Almost
17. Eyeless In Gaza - Kodak Ghosts Run Amok
18. Schleimer K - Broken Vein
19. Native Europe - The Distance From Köln

Disc Three

1. Zorch - Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim Pt 1)
2. The Sea Of Wires - Robot Dance
3. Ron Berry - Sea Of Tranquility
4. MFH - Mistral
5. Adrian Smith - Joe Goes To New York
6. Mark Shreeve - Embryo (Extract)
7. E.g Oblique Graph - Triptych
8. Carl Matthews - Encounter
9. Paul Nagle - Ynys Scaith
10. O Yuki Conjugate - Sedation
11. Konstruktivist - Western Vein
12. Attrition - Dead Of Night (Excerpt)

Disc Four

1. Throbbing Gristle - What A Day
2. A Tent - No Way Of Knowing
3. Portion Control - Go For The Throat
4. The D.C.3 - Eco Beat
5. Renaldo And The Loaf - Dying Inside
6. Blah Blah Blah - In The Army
7. The Legendary Pink Dots - God Speed
8. Muslimgauze - Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer
9. Suisse - Live At Longborne
10. Alien Brains - Menial Disorders, Extract B2
11. Storm Bugs - Himeal (And She Blew)
12. Third Door From The Left - In The Room
13. Al Robertson - Dignity Of Labour
14. bcGilbert, gLewis, russell Mills - Mzui (Extract)

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