Four disc box explores early electronica
Guest SDE reviewer Nico Pleimling reviews Cherry Red’s recent 4CD set.
The origins of electronic music go as far back as the end of the 19th century, when the first electronic devices for performing music were developed. It took a few more decades before the first compositions for electronic instruments were composed during the 1920s and 1930s.
However, it wasn’t until the 1970s that electronic music began to have a significant influence on popular music, with the adoption of polyphonic synthesisers, electronic drums and drum machines. The recently released Cherry Red four-CD compilation Close to the Noise Floor – Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 (subtitle: Excursions in proto-synth pop, DIY techno and ambient exploration) explores the wealth of electronic music emerging and developing in the UK from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
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