Various – Musik Music Musique 2.0 (1981 | The Rise Of Synth Pop)
Label: | Cherry Red – CRCDBOX115 |
|---|---|
Series: | Musik Music Musique – 2.0 |
Format: | Box Set, Compilation |
Country: | UK |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop, Stage & Screen |
Style: | New Wave, Synth-pop, Disco, Electro, Experimental, Minimal, Synthwave, No Wave, Downtempo, Dance-pop, Jazz-Funk, Vocal, Space Rock, Noise, Theme, Abstract, Pop Rock, Art Rock, Leftfield, Post-Punk, Dub, Punk |
Tracklist
| 1-1 | Heaven 17– | (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang | 4:23 |
| 1-2 | Soft Cell– | Frustration | 4:15 |
| 1-3 | Devo– | Through Being Cool | 3:16 |
| 1-4 | Dramatis– | Lady DJ | 3:54 |
| 1-5 | Aneka– | Japanese Boy | 3:59 |
| 1-6 | Richard Bone– | Alien Girl | 3:06 |
| 1-7 | New Musik– | Twelfth House | 4:38 |
| 1-8 | A Flock Of Seagulls– | Talking | 4:39 |
| 1-9 | Virna Lindt– | Young And Hip | 3:34 |
| 1-10 | The Passage– | Taboos | 5:39 |
| 1-11 | Toyah (3)– | Thunder In The Mountains | 3:52 |
| 1-12 | Duran Duran– | Khanada | 3:30 |
| 1-13 | Second Layer– | In Bits | 3:10 |
| 1-14 | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark– | Souvenir | 3:40 |
| 1-15 | The Fallout Club– | Wonderlust | 4:08 |
| 1-16 | Analysis (2)– | Surface Tension | 3:16 |
| 2-1 | Yellow Magic Orchestra– | Cue | 4:36 |
| 2-2 | Gina X Performance– | No G.D.M. (Dedicated To Quentin Crisp) | 6:01 |
| 2-3 | Drinking Electricity– | Random Particles | 3:27 |
| 2-4 | Hazel O'Connor– | (Cover Plus) We're All Grown Up | 3:44 |
| 2-5 | Rod Vey– | Brave New Modern World | 3:04 |
| 2-6 | Those French Girls– | Close-Up | 3:42 |
| 2-7 | Kim Wilde– | Cambodia | 3:59 |
| 2-8 | Thomas Leer– | West End | 4:33 |
| 2-9 | Voice Farm– | Sleep | 2:54 |
| 2-10 | Tears For Fears– | Suffer The Children | 3:46 |
| 2-11 | Johnny Warman– | Will You Dance With Me | 3:21 |
| 2-12 | Visage– | Visage | 3:51 |
| 2-13 | Spandau Ballet– | Reformation | 4:57 |
| 2-14 | Beasts In Cages– | Sandcastles | 4:41 |
| 2-15 | Peter Baumann– | Repeat Repeat | 3:48 |
| 2-16 | Japan– | The Art Of Parties | 4:14 |
| 2-17 | Fashiøn*– | Move Øn | 3:56 |
| 2-18 | Natasha*– | I Can't Hold On (Original Mix) | 2:52 |
| 3-1 | Chris & Cosey– | This Is Me | 2:59 |
| 3-2 | Schleimer K– | Nevermore | 4:36 |
| 3-3 | Yello– | Bostich | 4:38 |
| 3-4 | Naked Lunch– | Slipping Again | 3:59 |
| 3-5 | AK-47– | Stop! Dance! | 3:19 |
| 3-6 | Zeus*– | Cowboy On The Beach | 3:44 |
| 3-7 | Blue Zoo– | Love Moves In Strange Ways | 4:08 |
| 3-8 | Mystery Plane– | Something To Prove | 3:31 |
| 3-9 | John Foxx– | You Were There | 3:53 |
| 3-10 | Portion Control– | Brix | 2:54 |
| 3-11 | B-Movie– | Nowhere Girl | 4:44 |
| 3-12 | Ultravox– | I Remember (Death In The Afternoon) | 5:00 |
| 3-13 | The Limit (3)– | OK Go | 3:03 |
| 3-14 | Erogenous Zones (3)– | Say It's Not So | 3:30 |
| 3-15 | Faction (6)– | Wrong Again | 3:47 |
| 3-16 | Alan Burnham– | Science Fiction | 3:52 |
| 3-17 | Eyeless In Gaza– | The Eyes Of Beautiful Losers | 5:17 |
Companies, etc.
- Copyright © – Cherry Red Records Ltd.
- Copyright © – Cherry Red Records (2)
- Made By – Key Production
- Glass Mastered At – TAKT – 2100010073945
- Glass Mastered At – TAKT – 2100010073976
- Glass Mastered At – TAKT – 2100010074003
Credits
- Design, Layout – Lora Findlay
- Mastered By [Prepared For Disc By] – Oli Hemingway
- Sleeve Notes [Sleevenotes courtesy of] – Mat Smith
Notes
UK edition 3 CD compilation supplied in three cardboard sleeves, with clamshell box, subtitled, 1981 | The Rise Of Synth Pop, with a 22-page booklet with exclusive notes about each artist.
[CDs]:
SEE WALLET FOR TRACK DETAILS
THIS COMPILATION © 2021
CHERRY RED RECORDS LTD
WWW.CHERRYRED.CO.UK
CRCDBOX115 - 1
CRCDBOX115 - 2
CRCDBOX115 - 3
[CLAMSHELL BOX]:
℗ see inside for details.
This compilation © 2021
Cherry Red Records
London W4.
www.cherryred.co.uk
cherry red
records [logo]
CRCDBOX115
5 013929 111592
[ERRATUM]:
Track 1-4: Lady D.J. printed as Lady DJ
Track 1-9: Young & Hip printed as Young And Hip
All tracks are from 1981 except
Track 2-5: ℗ 1980 released initially 1980-12 on the album ROD VEY - Can You Hear Me Mother?
Track 3-11: ℗ 1980 released initially 1980-12 on the single B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
Track 3-8: ℗ 1981 recorded in 1981 but first released in 2016 on Mystery Plane - Still Life
Track durations are not printed on the release.
Total durations 63:00 + 71:27 + 66:52
[CDs]:
SEE WALLET FOR TRACK DETAILS
THIS COMPILATION © 2021
CHERRY RED RECORDS LTD
WWW.CHERRYRED.CO.UK
CRCDBOX115 - 1
CRCDBOX115 - 2
CRCDBOX115 - 3
[CLAMSHELL BOX]:
℗ see inside for details.
This compilation © 2021
Cherry Red Records
London W4.
www.cherryred.co.uk
cherry red
records [logo]
CRCDBOX115
5 013929 111592
[ERRATUM]:
Track 1-4: Lady D.J. printed as Lady DJ
Track 1-9: Young & Hip printed as Young And Hip
All tracks are from 1981 except
Track 2-5: ℗ 1980 released initially 1980-12 on the album ROD VEY - Can You Hear Me Mother?
Track 3-11: ℗ 1980 released initially 1980-12 on the single B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
Track 3-8: ℗ 1981 recorded in 1981 but first released in 2016 on Mystery Plane - Still Life
Track durations are not printed on the release.
Total durations 63:00 + 71:27 + 66:52
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 5 013929 111592
- Barcode (Scanned): 5013929111592
- Other (CD 1 catalogue #): CRCDBOX115 - 1
- Other (CD 2 catalogue #): CRCDBOX115 - 2
- Other (CD 3 catalogue #): CRCDBOX115 - 3
- Matrix / Runout (CD 1): 2100010073945 www.keyproduction.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD 1): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD 1): IFPI AEW46
- Matrix / Runout (CD 2): 2100010073976 www.keyproduction.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD 2): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD 2): IFPI AEW52
- Matrix / Runout (CD 3): 2100010074003 www.keyproduction.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD 3): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD 3): IFPI AEW46
Other Versions (1)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Musik Music Musique 2.0 (1981 | The Rise Of Synth Pop) (ミュージック・ミュージック・ミュージック ２．０：ザ・ライズ・オブ・シンセ・ポップ) (Box Set, Compilation, 3×CD, Compilation) | Solid Records (6), Cherry Red | CDSOL-71118, CRCDBOX115 | Japan | 2022 |
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Reviews
- I hoped against hope that they would use a different master of Alan Burnham's song. All the previous ones used by Cherry Red have the main synth line horribly distorted - while on the original version it sounds perfectly clear. And what a line it is! One of my favourite synth riffs ever! But of course no. It's like they only have that one master and simply duplicate it endlessly. But why did they use the obviously faulty version is beyond me. Especially seeing (hearing) how the B-side of that single, "Science fiction", is mastered greatly, clear as a bell. What's that? Do they have no proof-hearing?
Other than that - again, hmmm, an interesting release that is compiled like a mish-mash with no real purpose, with random songs chosen for no reason whatsoever. And some truly odd choices - Aneka, Toyah, Hazel O'Connor and Natasha presented as "synth-pop"? Kamooooon! Why that song exactly by Voice Farm? They had much more "synth-pop" ones, like the perfect "Modern things".
Japan's "The art of parties" and John Foxx's "You were there" feature such prominent guitar sound they have very little to nothing to do with synthpop. But that seems to be the main thread of this volume - to choose song from even the very synth-oriented artists that use as much traditional instrumentation as possible. OK then, but why pass such compilation as synthpop? Pop-rock with electronic lacing would've been a much better description. It's like they are afraid to use songs with too much of those devilish synths :)
On the other hand, some truly inspired choices: Johnny Warman (his 1981 album is perfection and this song is a criminally ignored synthpop should've been classic), Beasts in Cages (pre-Hard Corps) finally with their own (very cool) song, AK-47 (!!!), The Limit (yeah!), Rod Vey (how on Earth did they find him?!). Worth having after all. 
whoever compiled this needs to go to Category School. Aneka's Japanese Boy? Toyah? Terrible compilation, with an awful muddy sound to most of the tracks. And they are charging premium prices for this tripe.
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