The infamous compilation from the Sheffield area of Great Britain,released during Sheffields golden era as a leading light in forward loo...

As we are on a brief Clock DVA/Sheffield trip,I thought I'd make an abridged version of the Human League/Future compilation,which ine...

One would struggle to imagine what Industrial Music would have done without the aid of the humble Roland Space Echo; and this early DVA c...

Staying in Sheffield,and also following on from the "1980:The First Fifteen Minutes" ep, we are naturally led to Clock DVA, wh...

The first fifteen minutes of 1980 from.....er......1979?.....is a mini compilation of four Sheffield bands from that city...

Vice Versa's vinyl career stretched to two 7 inchers, the minimal synth classic "Music 4" EP, and the hard industrial di...

In 1978 the NME described Sheffield's Vice Versa as"...a bizarro trio who show occasional flashes of promise, but whose prete...

Before Portion Control became a  proto-EBM band,or even worse,'Electropunk(?)', they made some fine DIY minimal synth cassettes. ...

Top marks for packaging goes to Mr Kevin Lazar for this retro-futurist minimal synth cassingle from 1982. There seemed to be a ...

It's 1988 and horrible digital synthesis is everywhere,the cheap secondhand analogue stuff is being snapped up by the financially cha...

Another who collaborated with a former Port Said member(Stefan Tischler) was Tara Cross. On her own she produced some of the tinnies...

One aspect of the digital technology of the eighties that was even more unimaginatively used than FM synthesis, was S-s-s-s-sampling. The...

Keeler, aka  the more exotically named Keith Walsh, was an unfortunate victim of the HIV virus in 1992. He was also in Port Said w...

As mentioned in the "Gorgons and Gargoyles" post, Blair Petrie was in the Synth Punk group The Shriek before his collaborat...