Further Perspectives & Distortion / Various Further Perspectives & Distortion / Various CD

Three CDs. A year in the making, Further Perspectives And Distortion presents a snapshot of the UK's experimental and avant-garde music scene, observed through the paradigm-shifting lens of the post punk revolution and bringing together disparate names from across the experimental spectrum. This is a long-overdue look at the 'other side' of the freedom offered by the tectonic shifts in the musical landscape in 1976 & 1977. For all of the upheaval of that mid-late '70s demolition of musical boundaries, the guitar and the search for a saleable melody continued to dominate. But for the willing the opportunity also arose to operate free of such commercial concessions, and in tandem with the explosion of angular guitar music and electronic pop (and often alongside those sounds on the same album or EP) came a wealth of exploratory and experimental material which, for the first time, demanded an audience beyond the culture set and the art world. From speed-fueled kids bursting with raw talent and homemade electronic gizmos to trained composers and writers with a new, fresh audience to explore, herein lay the flipside - literally, in many of these recordings' cases - of the independent explosion and the newfound ability to find homes (and stockists) for even the most unruly of sounds. By design, Further Perspectives And Distortion seeks to comfort, challenge and question in equal measure.

1. Trail Of Traps - Alterations 2. The Force Is Blind - Alternative Tv 3. Convergence û Amm Iii 4. Hang Ten û àAnd The Native Hipsters 5. Rats And Monkeys û Art Bears 6. Intellectual Stance û A Tent 7. Overspreading Art Genius û Blancmange 8. Positive Paranoia/The City In The Sea - Bodhi Beat Poets 9. After Mendelssohn (137 Years) - Gavin Bryars 10. Lmc 1979 û Paul Burwell And David Toop 11. The Giant's Feet û Chris And Cosey 12. Exercise In Magnetic Tape No 4 û Clock Dva 13. Refreshment Break û Bob Cobbing 14. General Strike û Lindsay Cooper 15. Vase û Lol Coxhill And Morgan Fisher 16. Error System (Bagfgab) û David Cunningham 17. Her Master's Voice- Deux Filles 18. Brighton, Pt. 1 û Doof 19. John Of Patmos û Eyeless In Gaza 20. Burning Feet û Faction 21. Think - Five Or Six 22. Miniature û Robert Fripp 23. The Boy Beats The Rams (Kluk Tluce Berany) û Fred Frith 24. Blades Spin Notions û Ron Geesin 25. Mzui (Extract) ûBcgilbert, Glewis And Russellmills 26. Night By The Sea û Bill Gilonis And Tim Hodgkinson 27. Procession (Ft Nico) - Martin Hannett And Steve Hopkins 28. Wooden Heartthrob Of Peking û Kevin Harrison 29. Industry - Henry Cow 30. Music For The Hanging Of A Minister û Het 31. Junshi û Hula 32. Sounds That Saved My Life (Homage To K.S.) û George Melly 33. (Extract From) The Compassion And Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher ûNo Artist 34. Down The Sink û Nocturnal Emissions 35. I Was No Longer His Dominant (Alternate Version) ûNurse With Wound 36. Death Looks Down û Mark Perry 37. In The Nursery - Psychic Tv 38. Paralysis û Robert Rental 39. Japanese Headset û Second Layer 40. Scene X - Will Sergeant 41. Scattered Strategies/Oblique References û Nigel Simpkins 42. Kayoo û Soft Machine 43. Opus - Stinky Winkles 44. Robot Factory û Swell Maps 45. Wwbc - Test Dept 46. Nostradamus û The Door And The Window 47. Changez Les Blockeurs (Extract) - The New Blockaders 48. Amnesty International Report û The Pop Group 49. Crossover û The Wildings 50. Brickyard û The Work 51. 24 Track Loop û This Heat 52. Zyklon B Zombie û Throbbing Gristle 53. Banishing - 23 Skidoo 54. Pale Yellow û Two 55. Drinking And Hooting Machine? û John White 56. Musical Box û Trevor Wishart 57. Rangers In The Night û Robert Wyatt 58. Baptism Of Fire û Zos Kia