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As referenced in my previous post, here is the first collaborative album by Martin "Youth" Glover and Ben "Juno Reactor" Watkins,
The Empty Quarter. Released in 1983, it is an all-instrumental affair, and a more abstract album than their next one,
Delirium, as befits its status as a soundtrack (for the play
Street Captives by Jonathan Moore). It does have some of the more "foreground" musical elements that would play a greater part on
Delirium, though. "Incompressible Megalasaurians" highlight's Youth's funk bass playing (which was also a staple of
Brilliant's sound at the time), and "Repulsion" sounds more than a little like a Goblin soundtrack piece. Playing cello on the album is Adam Peters, who would subsequently team up with Watkins as
The Flowerpot Men (later
Sunsonic); "Three Go Down To Brighton" sounds like an early draft of the Flowerpots' B-side track "UG". Full performance credits are:
Youth: bass, percussion, keyboard
Ben Watkins: keyboards, drums, guitars
Adam Peters: cello
Kate St. John: oboe
Steve Irwin: percussion
Get it
here or
here.