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Label: Black Melody Catalog#: MELCD 4 Format: CD, Album, Compilation Country: UK Released: 2002 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial, Electro, Synth-pop, Experimental Credits: Artwork By - Bob Last , Martyn Ware , Michael Clark , Sean Turner Other [Liner Notes] - Sean Turner Written-By - Newton* (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7 to 9, 18) , Marsh* (tracks: 1 to 11, 14, 16 to 18, 20) , Ware* (tracks: 1 to 11, 14, 16 to 18, 20) , Oakey* (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 10 to 12, 14, 16, 17, 20) Notes: A collection of early cassette demos Rating:   4.4/5 (29 votes) Rate It Submitted by: djrez1

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Crijevo, Jan 31, 2003

It really doesn't matter whether you are technically improved these days to make music that will satisfy a selective ear. In case of the Human League, their early incarnations give a certain proof that all this glitch-crap of today lays fingers deep on their experimental beginnings. This is the perfect and by all the means a very rare and ultimate experience to face the Human League when they WERE the Human League - also more to refer to Ian C Marsh and Martyn Ware in their collaboration with later-Clock DVA's Adi Newton as The Future. isn't it strange how all of a sudden all these master tapes appeared from a dusty corner of 1976-77 period when Punk just hit the UK and when all these characters popped out and started twitching with three-chord cliches to become another Sex Pistols. Unlike the rest of the UK where more-less everyone carried on the Sex Pistols fame, The Human League and their fellow-Sheffieldeans had a much more diverse background which generated itself through Kraftwerk and Disco influences amongst other things... The Human League just like their peers respected the Punk ethic for most of its preachings but in the end failed just like the rest because they transformed their electronic experiment into commodity and instead of updating electronic-pop with finesses, they crushed on it along the way. 'The Golden Hour of the Future' is a powerful testimony of the group' awareness of the times they grew up with all this massive grey environment where culturally THEY established the new background. Due to rarities, it seems that every 'phase one' counts with positiveness - endless enthusiasm and believing what they did back then that it would change the world. And it did. Nevermind the side effects afterwards.

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