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    THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC MAGAZINE ISSUE 61 g ws al 19 JANUARY 1980 Hea 2 Ihe uN ar NICOLAS GODIN / NEULAND / MONEY MARK / THEHOME CURRENT / PATRICK MORAZ a csetecrncsnun cat Sunserpion ‘pponleranesnun coat ‘Su Cpt Haus, Welcome to Electronic Sound eto and welcome to 2020, With this new decade, we're entering a golden age of ooking back. The 1980s saw our musical world it ants exis and we're examining the start of hat same shftin this sue of Elactrone Sound The groundwark lai by Buzztocks and ther panesring ‘Spiral Srateh EP in 1877 rally bore rutin 880. The idea tat artists coud release their on records had gathered steam ‘and he ast couple of yoo ofthe 1670shad sean an axplasion of backroom independent labels and indo vinyl shops springing up across the UK The very rstindependent Chart, published ina music industry tede magazine on 19 January 1980, brought this whole new scene togethor. Not only didthe chartactasa hardy ‘shopping list, butt somehow fltke “our” bands ha validity. Nolonger wae their wildest evan serapngint the “ffl” Top 75. They could have properits on thar on terms ‘might ot seem ike much now, but twas a watershed moment 40 years ego. Tha Class ‘hteille UX" was clarion cal for this blossoming inde scene. Itperfecty caughtthe mood of many people wit ts oforence tothe major abe-érivon “smarmy deals ‘with slim als". The seemingly nonsensical ine “When lightning hits small wander t's fast rough factory rade" realy chimed with those who had been keeping up. twas of course, anadta some ofthe colestlabels on the planet the UKregge imprint Lighting, ‘ast London shop/abel Small Wondor, Fast Produtin Edinburgh, west London shoplabel ough Trace, and Factory Manchester. This month's cover feature els the stor of Independence Day and includes an Interview with Siz who held the Numbar Dre spatin the fret indie chat with "Wha Captain Kirk?” We alsa rundown that debut ehartin its enticety and profile some of he current erp of nde labels who are carving the baton fur decades on, sewhere this ise you'lfind Air's Nicolas Goin singing about architecture, former Tangerine Dreamers Peter Baumann ond Paul Hasinger discussing ther Nouland project, ‘Money Mack ndhisnew invention, and The Home Current taking tim aut rom his ‘eleniess release schedule for achat (urFront sections fll othe lates objacts of desire, and you'llfind lots more action n the Back scton whore out eviows page are fitte bursting, whichis mighty unusual or January. Guess’ going tobe another bumper year for elatronie music, Allofwhich stleavesustowish ou al happy and itl 2020, Electronically Yours Push & Mark ical yu ew betajey ts mae coractstnoiegenent Alisermanistlawestob caret, a ia 3 “| HE RO) peters contntn otto, Hello Gershon Kingsley 28 October 1922 - 10 December 2019 Gershon Kingsley, frst-wave Moog ‘enthusiast and electronic muse pioneer, deg in Dacember 2018. He wae 7 While his 1968 tune Pop Cornish mast \wol-krowa offering iisn'tis only significant contrition tothe world af electronic msi. He puttogether the First Moog Quartet who became the first ensemble ta play ‘lectronie music atte prestigious Carmogie Hal while asrippetothisand Jean-Jacques Perry's symthinarsienor earworm’ Baroque Hoedown’ was used by The Beatles on their 1968 fanclub Christmas recor. I's also been emusic at tha Disneyland Main St octal Parade snes 1972. The original version at‘Pop Cora appeared on Kingsley 1969 album, ‘Music To Moog Bye callaction afjeunty elctranie cover versions of the The Beats (Nowhere ‘Man’ and Paperback Writer folk runes and ‘couple a orginal, all designed to ash n ‘onthe post‘Switchad-On Bach’ fashion for Moog records. The song became a monster bitin 1972 thanks toa vrsionolased by Hot Butter, a stuia band formes by Stan Free, who was Aamomber the FistMoog Quartet. The Hot Butter version sold over we milion copies ndiestll one ofthe most widalyrecopnieed ectranic tunes in th wor Kingsley was born Goetz GustavKsinslin Germany in 1922.nd grew up in Bari. n 188, he led Germany joining soma 250,000 Jews who headed for Palestine to escape the Nasi Fegime, “We were free and te Naas were far tay" ho ead “Iwas lik an sis, tas a \wondertultine In 1946, he relocated tothe Unite States, changed is nme, stuied fora degree atthe Los Angeles Conservatory of Musi and, inthe 1950s, embarked ona successful career asa ‘musical director on Broadway. InNow York, he was introducedto the ruts and bolts of elastronic music by Robert ‘Moos and fellow European émie6 Jean Jacques Perey. Kingsoy and Perrey were kindred spirits, sharing a taste for cartoonish ightheartd electronic music. Thay made ‘wo albums together, The In Sound From Way ut in 1966 hase labels fetured the word ‘Streolb" tor nabbed by Tim Gane fois band) and’Kaledoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight (On The Moog’ (1867), which had Baroque Hoedown’ on bert, Theoughouthislif, he continued composing for telovsion and fin, and his opera, "Rau, about Raoul Wallanbers, Swedish arhitect whe saved housends of Jewish ves during the holoceust,promiored 2008, Ho was stluploading mie this SoundCloud page asrecently a 2018, 2 Weleame 4 ‘The Opening Shot 8 Reader Otter The Front 1 Borgsonia 2 DUFood 13 dangly Mark 15 dack Dangers 7 LieMice 21 PaulWaller 28 Pack Moree 28 MarkRadelite 3 _Needs Must Features 52 Independence Day a0 Spier 48 The UKindependent Chars S01 —Indie2020 38 Nleolas Godin 62 The HomeCurront 6 Money Merk 70 Newland The Back 14 Squaropusher 76 Brunhld Ferra &Jim O'Rourke, Gereth Davie & Ssanner, Boatree Dion Gevilin Rayna Russom 17 FieldLines Cartographer, ‘Aki Yano, Georgie, 00100 78 Uh,Pop 128 Snutmunrik, Drone 73 Boerd, The Utmate Escape Project, Blanemange, Col 80 Stephen Shi Tino Conor, Ross Goldstein Hackadepcclato 81 NOCHEXX, a White & Wong 82 Steve Roach, Lina_Raiefre, Retest, Pulse Enter 83 —_‘NigelMulaney, Nigel Has, 2 Meciniga lises BlineL Roininger, Rupert aly 85 Pod Bot, David Helin Deutsche Ashram 88 Utramarino, Arms And Slepars, Okay Kaya owl 88 CharlteGainsbovr, visible invibe 89 Woriedabouteatan, Ostox Twins, Andres s0°——HolyFuc, lxagon Wire 31 MaxRichter Lavender Sweep 82 TheSoulersParty 88 Klaus, Ayusp, PK 9% EdgerFroese, Cerrone 8% Stockists 88 Fatfolna N Nh Jsokon Penguin Donkey Ug, 40 Reader Offer 0 8 SFIZZENERGI Where's Captain Kirk? This month's limited edition seven-inch is @ reissue of Spizzenergi’s 1980 hit, ‘Where's Captain Kirk?’, the official Independent Chart's first Number One single. Spizz talks us through the making of the best sci-fi tribute song ever... “Where's Captain Kirk strteg out as song calle Nobody's Who which had been writen by Mark Coalfield, Spizzenegi's keyboard payor. There wore just the of us inthe band at this point-m, Mark andi Solar on bass ~ and ‘wo used ta rehearse avery weckin Mark’ lving rom. He had hs keyboard ‘and alte amp setupnthere. Anyway, Mark playec us this new songhe'é ‘wettenandithad a really catchy tun, but dink th is much. did't ‘know hate was going on about, bathe tune was great “As usual, hada coupe of shandis after the rehearsal andthen | eaughtthe bus home. As |was sitting onthe bus, the tune to this song and tiny phrase fom the yicskapt going round in my head ~"Oh, bu ts rus ‘nd thon all hos other words that wore about’ Stat Tek’ suddenly stated coming to me. was 2g StarTrek fen loved the photo novels that were around athe tine, which had sills from the TV show andthe bits ofthe seriptin speech bubbles. And before | knew witton tha first chorus — ‘Oh buti'stue/ As we want warp factor two / And I mat alo! the exe “4id’thave a pen ar paper with me, sol thought, "Right mustn’tforget this and then as Iwas thinking that, | started coming withthe fist verse ‘When was grat, but was stil along way rom my stop, sol was eaing in ‘abitofapanicaboutit. And then ofcourse, starting coming up withthe second verse, wes wiling the bus to gofaste lhe time and when my stop eventually came I rushed aut ofthe door an ran down the street to my house, grabbing the rst scrap of paper I could find sol cou seribble this stuff devin streight away. And then as Idi that, he third varse poppedinto my head too “Isang my now yrcs ta Mark and Jim atthe rehearsal the next wook ‘nd thoy both burst aut laughing when thoy heard. They thought twas brian We dda hit ofa rearranging onthe sic and that was about it ‘When we started paying itive, people went nuts when thy heart ‘We'd obviously strucka chord, owe kept everythin simple when we recorded it. Wo basically treated avery rack ike wo were doing a John Peel session, bashingit down inane day and trying ta keep everything 1s live as we could. There was very tie overduing on any of our stut That sd, we did give abit mare ove than usual to ‘Captain Kirk’ and also ‘Amnesia’ onthe B-side ven did some vocal hermanos on ‘Amnesi’. 'rénever done harmonies bore thet, “When "Where's Captain Kirk? was Number Oneinthe fist independent Char, twas very exciting. Espacially when it stayed at Numbar One for savon weoks. But when thik about tit sort of glditsel in tho sameway thatit sort of wroteitsalt.Itwas ust ane of thase rare moments in music history. You know that story sbout Pou MeCartney writing Yesterday'in dream, then waking up the next morning and worrying thatitwas a song ‘hat ad aay boen writin because eame thin 0 easily? I's the same wth this. I don't suppose Where's Captain Kirk and Yesterday" have muchos in common though.” Green Noise Flare's fully recyclable speaker Wile you might requir a mil lttrywinto kit ‘utyourhome outwith the “welds fistpremiom ‘0 speakers” Being long-time adnicer ofthe sound Flere Auto ek tof their growing range of auio products, on thing's for sure, you wont be disappointed you did shal ou, Fiar's new Zoro spank range i 3 modular sot up available ina variety afmodelsthat can be usedindvidvaly on fl store conigrations. 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The label tlsohave an expanded edition of he siissue graphic novel series The Delaware Road" inthe works. I'l come with onus material and photos fromallthee liv inarnations ofthe story, + Castles In Space have been going fom strenght strength andthey lage a ramestered vinyl version of Clocola's excellent 2012, cassette nly album It’s Mot Too Early For Esch Other'in April/May Thoy havea packed schedule lined up featuring releases trom Kiss), Keith Sestman, Correlations, Coneretim and Polypores, among athers + February s06545 Live release thir fist acid seven-inch with Finish producer Type 303, which sa departure for them and a pet project fr label head and designer Pate saac, who has lovingly pod homage tothe old Desir sleeves withthe artwork + lan Holloway rom The British Space Groups starting a abel, Wyrd Britain andthe fistreleaee willbe his awn The Lay Of Tha Land 4 30-minute ambient peee that comes an like a lta-night journey thraugh the Betis ses. * The Futur Sound OF Londons psychedelic ater ego, The Amorphous Androgynous, release both an album, ‘Listening Beyond The Head Chakra ‘and sbum- length single, ‘We Persuade Ourselves Tht We Are Immortal’ in2020, They've amped up the prog elements with Petar Hamil Van Der raat Generator] on vocals, and Paul Weller pops up eo. +The new wave of eft-feldturntablism that coalesced in 2019 with artists like Shiva Feshareki and Greham Dunning has thrown vp many weird and wonderful artists and finally prompted moto realise @muli-armed turntable project thatl'vebaen dreaming about for years. I'm ooking forward tothe possiblities thatthis presents and mare evens ik the 25-tuntablo onsembleIteokpartin lt last year fr Psyché Tropos’ launch party fr Seulptre’s Projected Muse’ release, + The crystal so tells me wel be ooking Back as more anniversaries us r-evaluate a fow milestones. The Opkinatics projection campany is. working ona book of thor projection wheels and history with a publisher.’Pac-Man is 4 this your di you know that Ken Ishi has| \wettn the oficial 4th anniversary theme song, ‘in The Pac? Ninja “une turns 30 and are currently formulating plans to celebrate. There shouldbe a release fam label funders Codcutin the shape of tha Jamm Promusic-makingepp as they move further inta the music tech sector after thet recent Zen Deny FX ped mai 50 in May and 'm not sre how Ife bout thet! + Finally inthe spring there's an intriguing exibition about electronic ‘muse at Londons Design Maseum featuring Kraftwerk, Jet Mil Elen ‘Alien, Jean-Michel Jarre and the BBC Ralohonie Workshop among others. After Bata and Pink Floyd athe VA and acid house at the Saati, an this be the point where electronica finaly starts getting its uein contomporary galeries? 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Penta Omi rents SO Coa ere ee eT home from a érunken soirée in an unfair house by er een ec ec ee ee roy Renner ce ene te ee ee ey ere et eee eens en eee Coed ON eee ee B ‘Save Our Sounds It’s Sensitive To The Touch No.39 The BBC Voices project i} Nl IY | | | The British Library's Save Our Sounds project sims to sve the rs recorded sounds trom extinction. Curator OF Popular Music, ‘Andy Linehan, continues his journey through the achive's calese audio teasures ‘The Voices project was an intative launched in 2005 bythe ‘BBC to colebrat and invostigate the language accents and dalects inthe UK. Recordings ware maée in over 300ocations ‘wth ustunder 1300 participants over @ six-month period Using a natwork of BBC journalists onthe corportin's Socal and atonal ado stations. The aim was a capture how the population ofthe UK speaks ssting people total abou the languages, words and accants they use Participants were organised in groupe wher they knew ‘eachother, came from the same area andhad similar sca backgrounds and interests, Te session took pace in surroundings tht were familia tothe grou, such as ther loca ub, workplace or ames. Conversations ware led by he journalists and fllawed the same lose structure, with series ofkey questions designed

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