Lars Falk joined Swedish legends Twice a Man after guitarist Dan Söderqvist jumped from a window and hurt his hand. A warm-up gig for New Order in London was saved, and the rest is history. This track comes from a solo cassette release.
Track of the Day
Duet Emmo was a collaboration between Daniel Miller of Mute Records and Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert of Dome. One of the most beautiful and haunting tracks ever made, it freezes the feeling of 1982 in 12 inches of vinyl. Lewis and Gilbert’s own post-Wire experimental work was extraordinary in its own right, but when the synthetic expertise and detuned sounds of Miller are added, the result is much more than the sum of its parts.
Formed by some young lads training for a career in kitchens or catering, and named for a device used to scientifically ration out food, Portion Control were one of the electronic world’s true originals. Here, they keep the colonels from power in what they call The Great Divide…
British Columbia’s Moev is a kind of ground zero for electronic music in Canada. While Montrealers Rational Youth were first off the mark with their all-synth album, Cold War Night Life, on the Left Coast they were working to catch up. The first Moev album, Zimmerkampf, came out in 1982, and this catchy, synth-driven ditty was the lead track. The band then spawned Nettwerk Records, home to Skinny Puppy and others.
By all rights, this should be saved up to be a Rare Video of the Week, but it’s such a glorious, classic track that it needs to go up now. If the cross-over between sections is confusing, then just put on a double-breasted shirt, gel your hair and close your eyes to savour this 80s jewel.
William Orbit’s creative touches are all over this track from acclaimed Irish singer, Sarah McGuinness, which is taken from the soundtrack to a documentary on the British comedian, Eddie Izzard. It’s a mixing master-class by Orbit, whose bag of tricks is unmatchable.
Between Two Frequencies wasn’t originally a Ceramic Hello release; rather, it was a 12″ single credited to Brett Wickens and Jah Wobble. This version, from the Vinyl-on-Demand reissue of Ceramic Hello’s limited vinyl output, lacks Wobble’s insanely funky bass-line, but adds atmosphere. What happened, Jah?
Chakk were from Sheffield, like The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire, but started out merging funk with the post-industrial sounds coming from their city. Their path to the dancefloor wasn’t as winding as that of the Cabs, and a major label advance paid for the FON studios, from which house music regularly emerged. Before that happened, they issued this chain-smoking, sequencer-stuttering slab of cool. A lost classic.
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