John Foxx Photo: Ed Fielding
UK label Cherry Red Records has just released Close To the Noise Floor, a four-CD compilation of British electronica during the late 1970s and early ’80s. English music journalist Dave Henderson, the curator behind the project, talks to Trevor Reekie about the formative years of the UK’s electronic underground.
MUSIC DETAILS
Artist: BBC Radiophonic feat. Delia Derbyshire
Song: Dr Who Original theme
Composer: D.Derbyshire
Album: Dr Who @ the BBC Radiophonic
Label: BBC Music
Artist: Cabaret Voltaire
Song: Fourth Shot
Composer: Cabaret Voltaire
Album: Mix Up
Label: Rough Trade
Artist: The Normal
Song: Warm Leatherette
Composer: D.Miller
Album: 7” single
Label: Mute Records
Artist: Konstructivist
Song: Western Vein
Composer: Gl.Wells
Album: Close to the Noise Floor – disc 3
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: Chris and Cosey
Song: Re-education through Labour
Composer: C. Carter, C.Fanni Tutti
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: The Human League
Song: Being Boiled
Composer: Oakey, Ware, Marsh
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: British Standard Unit
Song: Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Composer: Stewart, Hitchings, Appice
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: John Foxx
Song: New Kind of Man
Composer: J.Foxx
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: Attrition
Song: Dead of Night (excert)
Composer: Bowes, Ashley, Niblock, Woodfield
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: Gerry and the Holograms
Song: Gerry and the Holograms
Composer: Lee, Scott
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
Artist: Throbbing Gristle
Song: Discipline
Composer: Genesis P-Orridge, C.Tutti, C.Carter
Album: 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Label: Industrial
Artist: Aan Burnham
Song: Music to Save the World By
Composer: A.Burnham
Album: Close to the Noise Floor
Label: Cherry Red Records
