Musik Music Musique 3.0 1982 Synth Pop On The Air

好評エレ・ポップ・コンピ・シリーズ「ムジーク・ミュージック・ムジーク」第3弾!

前作1981年に続いて、今回は1982年にリリースされた曲を収録。ウルトラヴォックス、トーマス・ドルビー、O.M.D.、ニューオーダー、トークトーク、ブランマンジェ、ソフト・セル、ヘブン17、イエロー、ファド・ガジェット、ヒューマン・リーグ、キム・ワイルド、ティアーズ・フォー・フィアーズ、ザ・パッセージ、ジャパンなどなど、ポストパンクからメインストリームまで幅広く収録。チャートを席巻したヒット曲、ダンスフロアで今も愛されるアンセム、ほとんど知られることがなかったレア曲など、シンセポップの到来、そしてニューウェイヴの幕開けを探る大ヴォリューム3CDコンピとなっています。是非カーステで爆音でお楽しみください。

With the Musik Music Musique series, Cherry Red examines the development of synth pop year by year, presenting an illuminating time capsule in which charting singles and unearthed obscurities are given equal attention. Musik Music Musique 3.0 is subtitled 1982: Synth Pop on the Air, with the premise that this was the year the style had fully infiltrated radio playlists and pop music had changed its course for good. The set does include some of the eras defining acts, but usually not their biggest hits, and in the case of songs like Tears for Fears "Pale Shelter" and New Orders "Temptation," the original single versions are featured, not the more well-known later re-recordings. The liner notes make mention of how established rock acts like Peter Gabriel and Dire Straits had incorporated synthesizers into their sound by that point, yet theyre absent from the track listing. Instead, the set delves into album cuts by psych legend Arthur Brown (whose LP Speak No Tech was recorded with Suicide producer Craig Leon) and cult blues-rocker Kevin Coyne, and these tracks match the oddness and invention of the music produced by the artists younger contemporaries. Each disc manages to include one sex-positive classic: the Passages John Peel fave "XOYO" (apparently an attempt to incorporate John Cages method of aleatoric composition into a pop song), Soft Cells notorious "Sex Dwarf," and Berlins equally sleazy "Sex (Im a...)." While rarities such as a previously unreleased Dead or Alive demo and B-sides by the Human League and Ultravox are neat inclusions, part of the major fun of these comps is uncovering tracks by total unknowns who have been lost to time, some of whom barely released a single or two, maybe an album. Highlights of this sort include Poeme Electroniques effervescent "V.O.I.C.E.," Sergeant Frogs cruising instrumental "Profile Dance," and Aerial FXs giddy "Instant Feeling." A few other excellent tracks, such as Drinking Electricitys minimal wave gem "Good Times" and Zoo Boutiques bitterly satirical "Happy Families," have already been included on previous Cherry Red synth pop comps, but theres no harm in giving them another shot for those who havent heard them yet. Sort of an alternate history of synth pop, Musik Music Musique 3.0, like the other volumes of the series, is a must for anyone interested in digging deeper into the genres origins. ~ Paul Simpson