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Le Beat Bespoke Presents The Seeds UK debut Featuring original members Daryl Hooper and Don Boomer

Plus the UK premiere of "Pushin' Too Hard" The acclaimed rockumentary. Plus Q&A with director Neil Norman and producer Alec Palao.

Saturday 20th April 2019. The Venue: 229 Great Portland St. London W1W 5PN

Tickets: lebeatbespoke.com
Documentary trailer: youtu.be

During the compiling of the first ten CDs in the “By The Bayou” series, due to the plethora of alternate takes and incorrectly labelled tape boxes both within the J.D. Miller and Eddie Shuler tape vaults a number of mistakes occurred and it is clear to Ace Records, and to me personally, that it is to the benefit of all if these are cleared up. 

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Because Ace doesn’t own all the recordings we release, lots have to be licensed in. Sometimes the licensing arrangements mean we don’t have download rights and so can’t release MP3 version of the albums. We try to release as much as we can but this still only equates to around 25% of the total number of albums available on the Ace website.

The Record Cafe, 45-47 North Parade, Bradford, BD1 3JH www.therecordcafe.co.uk

Friday 28th February at 8 PM – 12 AM

(Free Entry) Tickets via: www.eventbrite.com

DJ Sets from Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Shipley's The Record Club to celebrate the launch of their new LP The Tears of Technology

At the turn of the 80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesisers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the musicians were intentionally creating this music to prove the doubters wrong.

Compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, “The Tears Of Technology” celebrates this brief period when scruffy synth duos from the provinces broke through and took over British pop. Like mellotrons before them, synths could project a strange and deep emotion; listen to OMD’s ‘Sealand’, or the Human League’s ‘WXJL Tonight’, and it was clear that something in the wiring had an inherent melancholy.

In the 60s and 70s, the synthesiser had mostly been regarded as either a novelty or a threat. Tomorrow’s World warned us that the cold, heartless synth would soon make orchestras redundant. But by 1980, Korgs, Moogs and Rolands were becoming affordable for all, and post-punk had created a safe place for new groups to experiment with these new toys.

The influence of Kraftwerk – who had made a landmark appearance on Tomorrow’s World in 1975 – is all over this collection. Big names rub shoulders with obscurities by Turquoise Days, Electronic Circus and Illustration, all highly prized recordings among ‘cold wave’ and ‘minimal synth’ afficionados. There are pioneers like John Foxx and Thomas Leer, alongside unexpected synth sadness from Simple Minds and the Teardrop Explodes.

“The Tears Of Technology” celebrates an era of electronic melancholia, synthesized intimacies and insights – even Tomorrow’s World didn’t see that coming.