5XOD - "The Dada Computer" (Quick Stab Productions - Prod 13) 1981

This staggeringly otherworldly shadowy cousin to Kraftwerk's 'Computer world', is probably the best computer composed collection of music I have ever had enter my shell-likes.Made by the even shadowy-er figures behind 5ive Ximes of Dust or 5XOD,Mark Phillips and Robert Lawrence.
Unlike Kraftwerk's magnum opus, this actually sounds like a computer, albeit one of those cheap 1980's family computers;- not everyone could afford an IBM in 1981. This is more like computer reality in 1981, and in 2014 it sounds like an alien broadcast from a past future.
There's even a claim to the invention of 'house' in the track 'Computer bank', beating Manuel Gottsching's "E2-E4" to the punch by three years........although Gottsching had recorded that in 1981! Although this is not something to be proud of, it was not then a crime, and not danced to by legions of lagered-up townies/trendies, swinging their white hand bags and stiletto's.
The voices that appear on this tape are convincingly cyborg-like, and provide the most entertaining moment when a slightly effeminate cyborg voice volunteers a fey sounding rendering of the song title to 'Computer Violence'; which repeats softly above a fuzzy rumble of a backing track; very strange indeed.

Track Listing:

A1		Missile Logic T
A2		Automation
A3		Fear Of Programming
A4		Girl With A VDU
A5		Multinational
A6		Computer Bank
B1		Construct Z/45
B2		Module
B3		Punchcard Sex
B4		Production Line (No Human)
B5		The Dadacomputer
B6		Computer Violence

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