Name: Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop - Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop
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Windpower - Thomas Dolby

Science Fiction - Alan Burnham

Warm Leatherette - The Normal

Stay With Me Tonight - Alex Fergusson

Tarantula - Colourbox

Fantasy - 100% Manmade Fibre

Bandwagon Tango - Testcard F

Electrical Language - Be-Bop Deluxe

The World - Dalek I

Honour Among Thieves - Chain Of Command

Red Frame/White Light - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Red Castles - The Legendary Pink Dots

Lifes Illusion - Ice The Falling Rain

The Human Factor - Music For Pleasure

She's An Image - Poeme Electronique

I'm Thinking Of You Now - Box Of Toys

The Planet Doesn't Mind - New Musik

Hope Deep Inside - Schleimer K

The Distance From KÃ¶ln - Native Europe

Technical Miracle - Voice Of Authority

Circus Of Death - The Human League

Xoyo - The Passage

Crowds - A Popular History Of Signs

October (Love Song) - Chris And Cosey

Feel So Young - Laugh Clown Laugh

Croatia - Basking Sharks

Mr Nobody - Thomas Leer

Ricky's Hand - Fad Gadget

Hypnotic Rhythm - Local Boy Makes Good

Drowning In Berlin - The Mobiles

Even Now - Edward Ka-Spel

Lying Next To You - Passion Polka

Rabies - Naked Lunch

Do It - The Limit

Work Song - Robert Calvert

Baby Won't Phone - Quadrascope

It Happened Then - Electronic Ensemble

In The Morning - Jeanett

Nightlife - Those Attractive Magnets

My Coo Ca Choo - Beasts In Cages

Your Love Is Like A Slug - The Bodhi-Beat Poets

Veil Like Calm - Eyeless In Gaza

Destitution - Camera Obscura

Good Times - Drinking Electricity

Happy Families - Zoo Boutique

Feels Like Winter Again - Fiat Lux

Falling Downstairs - Colin Potter

Our Little Girl - David Harrow

It Never Rains In Outer Space -Futurhythm

Zennor - Goat

Videomatic - Final Program

Taddy Up - Pink Industry

You Don't Look The Same - Play

Children Of The Revolution - The Fast Set

Trace Of Red - Two

Lying Here - Shox

Daytime Assassins - The Builders

Beating Heart (12" Version) - Section 25

Absent Friends - Joe Crow

Jamaica Day - Faction

Generator (Laserbeam) - Tim Blake

Touch - Lori And The Chameleons

The Secret Affair - Jupiter Red

I'm Your Man - Blue Zoo

Even Roses Have Thorns - Jesus Couldn't Drum

Paint It Black - Techno Pop

Chase The Dragon - Kevin Harrison

Other Passengers - Thirteen At Midnight

Your Voice - Freeze Frame

Stay With You - Time In Motion

Live Wires Kill - The Toy Shop

Surface Tension - Analysis

Time - Paul Haig

Contemplation - Solid Space

Committed To Vinyl - Martin O'cuthbert

Look Don't Touch - Science

The Wishing Tree (Megatree Mix) -Charlie's Brother

Working Model - The Quarks

There's Someone Following Me - Eddie ; Sunshine

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Hybrid Kids

Item UPC: 5013929107793

Date First Available: October 24, 2025

Label: CHERRY RED

Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

A repackaged clamshell edition of Cherry Red's popular 4CD / 80-track set exploring the independent side of the UK's post-punk synth-pop boom. From household names and scene legends to underground outsiders and bedroom experimenters. Key tracks and hidden gems from Mute Records, Rough Trade, 4AD, Survival Records, Cherry Red and a host of essential independent players. Produced by the team behind the critically acclaimed 'Close To The Noise Floor' series and a number of other essential box sets. The year - 1978. The mood - revolution. The latest addition to the musician's sound palette - the synthesiser. And so a new sound was born, and one which would free pop music from it's guitar dominated tradition into something with a bright new future which would write itself. Almost overnight, via a handful of key single releases, the big bang of punk produced something the kids called 'synth-pop'. The clue was very much in the name. A broad church from the outset, this synth-pop movement wasted no time in embracing players from all corners of the musical dressing up box. From guitar groups drafting in a keyboard playing friend and the progressive rockers using their expensive banks of electronics in new ways to the modernists and the Thatcherists, full of unabashed aspiration, and the punks - arguably the purest punks of them all - who discarded the guitar and the drum kit overnight in their pursuit of something fresh that their generation could truly call their own. All were welcome, and all contributed to the many different directions synth- pop would mutate in over the coming five or six years.

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