Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984

Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 is a compilation album featuring electronica bands from 1975 to 1984. It was released on Cherry Red Records in April 2016.

Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
Compilation album by
Various artists
Released26 April 2016 (2016-04-26)
GenreElectronic
Length4:15:03
LabelCherry Red
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic90/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Track listing edit

Disc One
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Computer Bank"Five Times of Dust5:15
2."R.A.M."The Klingons5:32
3."Re-Education Through Labour"Chris & Cosey7:10
4."Sedation Strokes"Malcolm Brown4:07
5."Little Bob Minor"Storm Bugs3:33
6."Tight as a Drum"Thomas Leer4:39
7."Holiday Camp"Blancmange3:09
8."Fractured Smile"Inner City Static4:26
9."Sexuality"We Be Echo2:55
10."God with Us"Bourbonese Qualk5:53
11."Faith"Nagamatzu6:55
12."Disco Song"O Yuki Conjugate4:14
13."The Optimum Chant"British Electric Foundation4:11
14."All Night Long"Kevin Harrison1:34
15."Stopping and Starting"Voice of Authority5:58
Disc Two
No.TitleArtistLength
1."I Am Your Shadow"Colin Potter2:45
2."D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?"British Standard Unit2:25
3."The Single Off the Album"Five Times of Dust3:27
4."Back to the Beginning"Spoon Fazer2:38
5."Gerry and the Holograms"Gerry And The Holograms4:07
6."Drugface"The Passage3:48
7."A New Kind of Man"John Foxx4:32
8."Green for Go"100% Manmade Fibre3:02
9."Sentimental"Those Little Aliens1:59
10."Protect and Survive"Final Program2:26
11."Being Boiled"The Human League3:39
12."New Muzak"Instant Automatons1:50
13."Materialistic Man"Cultural Amnesia3:38
14."(Leaving Me) Now"Worldbackwards2:53
15."Music to Save the World By"Alan Burnham3:49
16."Almost"Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark3:42
17."Kodak Ghosts Run Amok"Eyeless in Gaza2:27
18."Broken Vein"Schleimer K4:22
19."The Distance from Köln"Native Europe2:28
Disc Three
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim, Pt. 1)"Zorch5:12
2."Robot Dance"Sea of Wires2:33
3."Sea of Tranquility"Ron Berry5:57
4."Mistral"MFH2:26
5."Joe Goes to New York"Adrian Smith6:52
6."Embryo (Extract)"Mark Shreeve6:13
7."Triptych"E.g Oblique Graph)6:36
8."Encounter"Carl Matthews6:43
9."Ynys Scaith"Paul Nagle4:18
10."Sedation"O Yuki Conjugate3:36
11."Western Vein"Konstruktivits3:46
12."Dead of Night (Excerpt)"Attrition6:01
Disc Four
No.TitleArtistLength
1."What a Day"Throbbing Gristle4:38
2."No Way of Knowing"A Tent3:29
3."Go for the Throat"Portion Control2:11
4."Eco Beat"DC36:48
5."Dying Inside"Renaldo and the Loaf5:13
6."In the Army"Blah Blah Blah4:42
7."God Speed"The Legendary Pink Dots4:02
8."Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer"Muslimgauze6:16
9."Live at Longborne"Les Suisse5:39
10."Menial Disorders, Extract B2"Alien Brains3:35
11."Himeal (And She Blew)"Storm Bugs4:52
12."In the Room"Third Door From the Left2:59
13."Dignity of Labour"Al Robertson5:25
14."Mzui (Extract)"B.C. Gilbert / Graham Lewis / Russell Mills5:33

References edit

  1. ^ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  2. ^ Kellman, Andy. "Allmusic Review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.