Various Artists ‎– "Close Circuit Connection II" (Minimal Maximal ‎– MM012) 2013

Of course theres's always gonna be a volume two isn't there?
This one expands beyond the borders of Belgium and includes some electronic acts from North America to the mix.namely Front Line assembly and Numb from Vancouver. Crash Course In science from Philadelphia. Die Form plus Trisomie 21 from France, and Die Krupps from Germany.Then we got Click Clack from the UK, Borghesia from Yugoslavia,Twice A Man of Sweden. Of course there has to be an obligatory Swiss act, from the classically swiss named Carlos Peron.
In fact there are zero Belgians on here, so that kind of defeats the object of this exercise in exploring the Belgian fascination for synth duo's and general cold wave stuff in the early to mid-eighties.
None the less, this is an excellent compilation in the classsic hard electronic Belgian EBM stylee.

Tracklisting:

A1 –Click Click - Nube
A2 –Die Form - Tecknoslaves
A3 –Crash Course In Science - In Your Own Backyard
A4 –Numb - Push It
A5 –Borghesia - Secret Affair No.4
B1 –Front Line Assembly - Resuraction
B2 –Twice A Man - Cloud Sky Damage Version One
B3 –Die Krupps - Tod & Teufel (Live)
B4 –Carlos Perón - A Dirty Song - Long Version
B5 –Trisomie 21 - Youth Called To Edge Remix

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Crash Course In Science ‎– "Crash Course In Science" (Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD67) 1979-81/2009

"Kitchen Motors", as played on the John Peel Show back in '79,was one of those epiphanal moments on the peel show, between the crap reggae and anecdotes about shagging schoolgirls in the sixties, when everything stops, and you think, or even say,"What the Fuck was that?"One of those "What the fuck was that?" moments,that ranked up there with hearing such delights as Blah Blah Blah's "In The Army" for the first time; high praise indeed.
This is electronic avant-pop as it should sound.Starkly minimal futurism without the boiler suits.Raw analogue circuit frying electronic bleeps and clangs,played by hand.Augmented by wired up toy instruments and Kitchen appliances, blending a kind of electronic folk music for an imagined modern age of the near future.It still sounds like the future to these ears;a preferable one to the version we are going to get,where the only drones we will get are the surveillance drones circling your suburban hutch,packed to the rafters with information gathering tech........for your own 'security' of course.
This download includes everything this fine trio recorded,plus vinyl rips of their two official ep's from the groups actual lifetime.So think yourself blessed this is available below,accessed by just one click with your mouse finger. Now that IS technology put to a good use; hopefully it comes to you without any porn links or tempting messages from some charming capitalist.
This is the Future.A Future with mobile phones,smart phones, talking tablet computers,automatic doors(all first seen on Star Trek) and the internet; technological marvels, yes? But what do we do with them? Gossip,buy crap,order Russian Brides, and watch Pornography.
The only other thing that came true fifties and sixties scienec fiction is that we are listening to Crash Course in Science, with their buzzy, boingy,electro fuzz anti-music of the 21st century.The only problem being, that it was made in the 1970's; and only now is it being appreciated.
Oh yes, they came from Philadelphia by the way,and I don't know what their favourite colour was,is,or will be.

Tracklist:

	Signals From Pier Thirteen
A1	Cardboard Lamb
A2	Crashing Song
A3	Flying Turns
A4	Factory Forehead
	Bonus Track
A5	Pompeii Spared (Original Demo Version)
	Bonus Tracks: 1981 Demos
B1	Near Marineland
B2	Second Glance
B3	It Cost's To Be Austere
B4	No More Hollow Doors
B5	Force The Habit
B6	Jump Over Barrels
	Live Recordings
	Opening For Phillip Glass Ensemble, Harrison Auditorium_University Museum, Philadelphia, Pa. November 15, 1980
C1	Crashing Song
C2	Cardboard Lamb
C3	Alarm
C4	Digital Information
C5	Two Panes Of Glass
C6	Pompeii Spared
C7	Pressure Point
C8	Basic Device
C9	Mechanical Breakdown
	FOPPEM Electronic Music Festival, Tucc Cinematheque, Philadelphia, Pa. December 19, 1981
D1	Near Marineland
D2	Someone Reads
D3	Jump Over Barrels
D4	No More Hollow Doors
D5	Sputnik In Orbit
D6	Cardboard Lamb
D7	Second Glance
	Near Marineland
E1	Near Marineland
E2	Second Glance
E3	It Cost's To Be Austere
E4	No More Hollow Doors
E5	Force The Habit
E6	Someone Reads
E7	Jump Over Barrels
F1	Pompeii Spared
F2	Near Marineland Remix
F3	Second Glance Remix
F4	Jump Over Barrels Remix
	Cakes In The Home
G1	Cakes In The Home
G2	Kitchen Motors
G3	Mechanical Breakdown
	Rehearsal Tapes
G4	Streetcar 4 A.M.
H1	Bumpster
H2	Beat Filter_Instro
H3	Wait A Minute

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