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Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica Artist: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica Label: Cherry Red Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5013929102491 Genre: Dance Release Date: 2016 05 06 Number of Discs: 4 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM IMPORT 2016 four CD set. Two years in the making, Close To The Noise Floor is a 61 track set exploring the origins of electronica in the UK. Featuring tracks from key figures on the
Title: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK ElectronicaArtist: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica
Label: Cherry Red
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929102491
Genre: Dance
Release Date: 2016-05-06
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
2016 four CD set. Two years in the making, Close To The Noise Floor is a 61-track set exploring the origins of electronica in the UK. Featuring tracks from key figures on the cassette label underground alongside early releases by future stars of the movement, this is part primitive rave, part synthesizer porn and part history lesson. Enthralled by the mysterious electronics of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Gong and German Kosmische artists such as Tangerine Dream, Harmonia and Cluster, and inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, a quiet revolution took place across the UK in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The rise of the microchip and the advent of affordable synthesizers enabled countless artists for whom guitars, drums and bass had become old hat, and in grubby bedsits, unremarkable living rooms and art school halls across the British Isles, UK electronica was born. The underground, fueled by cassette exchanges, co-operative vinyl compilations and a thriving mail order network, quickly began to stretch the boundaries of sonic experimentation. Close To The Noise Floor explores every corner of this fascinating and often overlooked chapter in our musical history. For proto synth-pop look no further than 100% Manmade Fibre and Spoon Fazer, whilst British Standard Unit and Five Times Of Dust lay out techno templates which wouldn't take full form until many years later. Elsewhere, the synthesizer laden ambient music of Zorch and the found sound collages of A Tent sit comfortably alongside early forays by familiar names - Blancmange, The Human League, OMD and Throbbing Gristle - in over four hours of futurist, entirely modern music.
Tracks:
1.1 Computer Bank - Five Times of Dust
1.2 R.A.M. - the Klingons
1.3 Re-Education Through Labour - Chris and Cosey
1.4 Sedation Strokes - Malcolm Brown
1.5 Little Bob Minor - Storm Bugs
1.6 Tight As a Drum - Thomas Leer
1.7 Holiday Camp - Blancmange
1.8 Fractured Smile - Inner City Static
1.9 Sexuality - We Be Echo
1.10 God with Us - Bourbonese Qualk
1.11 Faith - Nagamatzu
1.12 Disco Song - O Yuki Conjugate
1.13 Optimum Chant - British Electric Foundation
1.14 All Night Long - Kevin Harrison
1.15 Stopping and Starting - Voice of Authority
2.1 I Am Your Shadow - Colin Potter
2.2 D'ya Think I'm Sexy - British Standard Unit
2.3 The Single Off the Album - Five Times of Dust
2.4 Back to Beginning - Spoon Fazer
2.5 Gerry and the Holograms - Gerry and the Holograms
2.6 Drugface - the Passage
2.7 A New Kind of Man - John Foxx
2.8 Green for Go - 100% Manmade Fibre
2.9 Sentimental - Those Little Aliens
2.10 Protect and Survive - Final Program
2.11 Being Boiled - Human League
2.12 New Muzak - Instant Automations
2.13 Materialistic Man - Cultural Amnesia
2.14 (Leaving Me) Now - Worldbackwards
2.15 Music to Save the World By - Alan Burnham
2.16 Almost - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
2.17 Kodak Ghosts Run Amok - Eyeless in Gaza
2.18 Broken Vein - Schleimer K
2.19 The Distance from Koln - Native Europe
3.1 Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim PT 1) - Zorch
3.2 Robot Dance - Sea of Wires
3.3 Sea of Tranquility - Ron Berry
3.4 Mistral - MFH
3.5 Joe Goes to New York - Adrian Smith
3.6 Embryo (Extract) - Mark Shreeve
3.7 Tripych - Eg Oblique Graph
3.8 Encounter - Carl Mathews
3.9 Ynys Scaith - Paul Nagle
3.10 Sedation - O Yuki Conjugate
3.11 Western Vein - Konstruktivist
3.12 Dead of Night (Excerpt) - Attrition
4.1 What a Day - Throbbing Gristle
4.2 No Way of Knowing - a Tent
4.3 Go for the Throat - Portion Control
4.4 Eco Beat - DC3
4.5 Dying Inside - Renaldo and the Loaf
4.6 In the Army - Blah Blah Blah
4.7 God Speed - Legendary Pink Dots
4.8 Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer - Muslimgauze
4.9 Live at Longborne - Suisse
4.10 Menial Disorders, Extract B2 - Alien Brains
4.11 Himeal (And She Blew) - Storm Bugs
4.12 In the Room - Third Door from the Left
4.13 Dignity of Labour - Al Robertson
4.14 Mzui (Extract) - Bcgilbert, Glewis, Russell Mills
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★★★★★ 5
wonderful trans sapphic shifter romance
Format: Kindle
When life falls apart, perhaps taking a break is just what is needed. But when Natalie (said trans woman) and Wren (loner alpha wolf) first see each other, it seems that perhaps that there might be something between them, but that just makes everything a lot more complicated. After all, a bond between a human and a wolf isn't a thing, is it?
This was a wonderful read and I absolutely loved this story. Yes, while I may have a strong like of shifter stories, that also means that I also have expectations, and this story most definitely exceeded them.
The trans representation was great. Natalie's struggles for acceptance, both internal and external resonating, and the difficulties that she's been through definitely resonate and are far too common of trans people. She's not a strong confident lead, but a woman who has issues and who does need the help and strength of others. She leans on others for better or for worse, but that makes her more real, and seeing her grow and become more confident as the story progresses is heart warming and wonderful. And the development of the bond - very nice!
Wren is just as much a flawed character, with what's she's been through, and the knowing of the knowledge that she lacks. She starts off strong, as one would expect from a werewolf, but she also grows, becoming more than what she was in the beginning as well.
For all of the angst and mistakes that are made, this is a story of growth and acceptance, of being able to gain what you actually desire, and to be able to embrace the support of others, knowing that you aren't alone in the world.
It is a tale of finding love, of having a bond form, and being able to take it to the next level.
This really is a wonderful sapphic shifter story, and one that I would highly recommend.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2023
★★★★★ 4
Wow!
Format: Kindle
Natalie desperately needs a change to get over her messy breakup. Wren is a lone wolf. She is an Alpha and has no pack to run with. With so many things at stake, will their affair end in disaster or have they found what they’ve been looking for?
I loved this fresh take on shifters with the variety of shapeshifters, the dangerous hunt and the great romance. It made this story a fantastic read and an emotional rollercoaster.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Great shifter story with unique twist
Format: Kindle
The story and characters were great. It was great to finally find a sapphic story with a trans character who was pre-op or in this case just no-op. So many authors don't want to have a trans character unless she's had surgery, like another woman won't want you if you have your original parts. Thank you so much Mrs. Abbott for the trans representation on this front. Nat and Wren are wonderful together, and I love how Wren does her best to make sure Nat doesn't ever feel less than or wrong for being herself. I am curious how being a shifter will effect Nat's transition moving forward. Hopefully there is another book and it touches on it a little.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Couldn’t put it down!
Format: Kindle
I LOVED this book. I was sad when I finished it because every time I took a break, I knew i had something to look forward to. If that makes sense.
Also it needs to be said that I had grown a little tired of werewolf novels until I saw this one had a trans main character. I’m queer + cis and firmly believe even the driest crustiest tropes are fresh and new when they’re given to us by talented and passionate underrepresented voices. This book is a good example of that. It’s just so fun and hammers home the connection so many queer people feel towards monsters, the secret-keeping and the ostracism and the found family. I kept saying, “of course our human protagonist is taking to the werewolf life like a duck to water!“
BEING TRANS is as big a part of this narrative as BEING A WEREWOLF and it’s delivered to us with great skill. it is a fresh, fun, cool, tense, exciting, and sexy read.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023
★★★★★ 4
unconditional love and miscommunication
Format: Kindle
Two women from vastly different backgrounds but equally toxic meet in instant connection. One is an alpha that doesn’t really know anything about being an alpha. The other is a trans woman that is struggling with confidence.
This story is engaging from beginning to end. Well written and the connection and story are very satisfying! The love and acceptance freely given (although often misperceived) is beautiful.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2023