Alterations - "Trail Of Traps"
Alternative TV - "The Force Is Blind"
And The Native Hipsters - "Hang Ten"
Art Bears - "Rats & Monkeys"
A Tent - "Intellectual Stance"
Blancmange - "Overspreading Art Genius"
Bodhi Beat Poets - "Positive Paranoia/The City In The Sea"
Gavin Bryars - "After Mendelssohn (137 Years)"
Paul Burwell & David Toop - "LMC 1979"
Chris & Cosey - "The Giant's Feet"
Clock DVA - "Exercise In Magnetic Tape No 4"
Bob Cobbing - "Refreshment Break"
Lindsay Cooper - "General Strike"
Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher - "Vase"
David Cunningham - "Error System (BAGFGAB)"
Deux Filles - "Her Master's Voice"
Doof - "Brighton" (part 1)
Eyeless In Gaza - "John Of Patmos"
Robert Fripp - "Miniature"
Fred Frith - "The Boy Beats The Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany)"
Ron Geesin - "Blades Spin Notions"
Bcgilbert, Glewis & Russellmills - "Mzui" (Extract)
Bill Gilonis & Tim Hodgkinson - "Night By The Sea"
Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins - "Procession" (feat Nico)
Kevin Harrison - "Wooden Heartthrob Of Peking"
Het - "Music For The Hanging Of A Minister"
George Melly - "Sounds That Saved My Life (Homage To KS)"
(Extract From) The Compassion & Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher
Nocturnal Emissions - "Down The Sink"
Nurse With Wound - "I Was No Longer His Dominant" (alternate version)
Mark Perry - "Death Looks Down"
Psychic TV - "In The Nursery"
Robert Rental - "Paralysis"
Second Layer - "Japanese Headset"
Will Sergeant - "Scene X"
Nigel Simpkins - "Scattered Strategies/Oblique References"
Swell Maps - "Robot Factory"
The Door & The Window - "Nostradamus"
The New Blockaders - "Changez Les Blockeurs" (Extract)
The Pop Group - "Amnesty International Report"
The Wildings - "Crossover"
This Heat - "24 Track Loop"
Throbbing Gristle - "Zyklon B Zombie"
John White - "Drinking & Hooting Machine"
Trevor Wishart - "Musical Box"
Robert Wyatt - "Rangers In The Night"
Zos Kia - "Baptism Of Fire"
Review: As the title suggests, this vast, triple-CD box set from Cherry Red is an attempt to chronicle one of the most productive periods in the history of British experimental and avant-garde music: the years between the rise of punk in 1976 and the unofficial end of the post-punk era in 1984. It does a rather good job of it if truth be told, with the unnamed curators offering a brilliant mixture of guitar-based noise, trippy early electronica, weirdo ambient, dubbed-out jazz, spoken word oddness and clanking industrial music. There are plenty of big names present - Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV, Test Department, Robert Fripp, 23 Skidoo, Clock DVA etc - alongside lesser-celebrated experimental heroes.
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