Various ‎– "Flowmotion(An Album of Contemporary Electronic Music)" (ICR ‎– ICR 003) 1982

Well, as this compilation is over 35 years old, it can no longer claim to be an album of Contemporary anything, but it does have some electronic music on it ,by some of the bigger names of the UK's electronic underground of the early eighties. And I note that none of this lot have yet to retire.
A few of these tracks one would hesitate at calling them strictly 'Electronic'.Experimental pop with incidental electronics is good enough for Eyeless In Gaza,and Those Little Aliens hark back to the time when magnetic Tape manipulation was called 'Electronic' Music.I suppose anything made with machines that one plugs into the mains is technically 'Electronic' so there you are!?

Tracklist:

A1 –Chris & Cosey-Devil God
A2 –Those Little Aliens-Ismalia
A3 –Eyeless In Gaza-Dusky Ruth
A4 –Eyeless In Gaza-Through Eastfields
A5 –David Jackman-Do The Dog
A6 –Ian Boddy-Follow
A7 –The Legendary Pink Dots-Hanging Gardens
B1 –Ian Boddy-Skylights
B2 –Paul Nagle-A Journey In The Dark
B3 –Carl Matthews-As Above, So Below
B4 –Colin Potter-Rooftops

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Various Artists ‎– "The Elephant Table Album" (X Tract ‎– XX 001) 1983

Companion album to "Three Minute Symphony" compiled, again, by Dave Henderson ,late of the now defunct Sounds newspaper.Full of great tracks, even the 400 Blows track is fantastic, i think they went downhill fast after this single.
Its not perfect, (which is perfection?), as The Legendary Pink Dots do only a mildly irritating version of their Syd Barrett fans play with casiotone keyboards and pots'n'pans stuff.....still made me wanna punch somebody though!
We also got a minimal Coil track which is virtually a slow TR808 solo; dare to be minimal!
SPK on the cusp of becoming total Shite,the excellent Lustmord, Portion Control transmuting into their nasty vocals phase(which i'm not too enamoured about).
To sum it all up, it has its faults, but  a classic old school Industrial compilation, and a great starting point for the Industrial virgin to catch the 80's underground In flagrante delicto! (I don't really speak Latin by the way!)

Tracklist :

A1	– Portion Control	Chew You To Bits
A2	– Chris And Cosey	Tears Of Blood
A3	– Metamorphosis	Muzak From Hawthorne Court
A4	– Coil	S Is For Sleep
A5	– Nurse With Wound	Nana Or A Thing Of Uncertain Nonsense
B1	– 400 Blows	Beat The Devil
B2	– Konstruktivits	Andropov '84
B3	– Lustmørd	Boning Of Men
B4	– Muslimgauze	Melena Jesenska (Extract)
B5	– David Jackman	Edge Of Nothing
C1	– SPK	Despair
C2	– MFH	Vox Humana
C3	– Nocturnal Emissions	Suffering Stinks
C4	– Attrition	Dream Sleep
C5	– Legendary Pink Dots	Suprise, Suprise
C6	– Paul Kelday	Birth Of Planetesimals (Extract)
D1	– Bourbonese Qualk	Under The City
D2	– Sirius B	Build Your Children
D3	– New 7th Music	New Humanity Switchboard (Extract)
D4	– We Be Echo	Alleycat
D5	– Bushido	Modelwerk

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Chris And Cosey ‎– "Trance" (Rough Trade ‎– ROUGH 44) 1982

Basically an album of the electronic backing tracks that adorned Throbbing Gristle releases , but without that vital performance aspect,now commonly referred to as the 'X' factor by a certain smug showbiz impresario.
Very attractive are the vintage analogue sounds,but its all rather like a bunch of half finished pop songs, waiting for some vocals.
Ironically, of all the TG offshoots, its this pair that seem to have an enduring place in the musical landscape of 2014; now thought of as Minimal Wave pioneers!? Which of course they were, but "...these people are (not) the wreckers of civilization!"....to paraphrase illuminati puppet MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn. He would be very pleased to hear this record, and earlier, superior, effort "Heartbeat".

Tracklist

A1		Cowboys In Cuba	5:36
A2		Lost	3:04
A3		The Giants Feet	6:22
A4		Impulse	2:23
B1		Re-Education Through Labour	7:07
B2		Secret	2:53
B3		Until	5:26
B4		The Gates Of Ancient Cities	4:28

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