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Listening to the Music the Machines Make - Inventing Electronic Pop 1978 to 1983: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983

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Listening To The Music The Machines Make’ would have been a great read if it had only listed the achievements of the inventors and creators, but Evans has combined his authoritative reseach with his genuine passion for the records themselves.

It might seem that there is nothing new to say about the UK electronic pop music scene in the late ’70s and early ’80s. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Record covers were similarly embracing the DIY ethos with letrasets and freehand drawn record covers being de rigeur. NEW MUSIK have been popping up on these Cherry Red boxed set collections and its obvious now with the passage of time that they were pretty good! Because of what I do in my working life, I am very fortunate in that I have access to a lot of people who were the original protagonists in this story.And the author provides almost no conclusion, with the narrative simply coming to a fairly abrupt end.

Listening to the Music The Machines Make covers a defined time period and focuses on electronic pop in the UK. They went in to be wilfully uncommercial and yet they always had that commercial edge, they stated their intent to be a combination of disco and KRAFTWERK. Mind you, most of the reviews now read as such drivel, condescending and pretentious, for the critics re-reading them now , it must be like reading your teenage diaries or undergraduate essays. You’re right, it was like a stage of life, you need time to reconnect with the person you used to be.

With this book, you opted to reference archive material rather than talk to the stars of the period in the present day? I am the oldest of my siblings so I didn’t have anyone playing stuff in their room that I could hear. I put together a proposal document for the book which I showed to a friend who works in publishing, and she introduced me to a literary agent who liked the idea of the proposal and agreed to to show it to some publishers. One reason for this can be a good book that you can pick up and read in front of the fireplace without a feeling guilty. Richard Evans runs the Erasure Information Service and was the former curator of ‘Remember the 80s’ and produced a book of the same title.

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