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01. ANOTHER VIEW - Power Station
02. ANOTHER VIEW - Maximum Contrast
03. ANOTHER VIEW - Dance
04. ANOTHER VIEW - Sitcom
05. ANOTHER VIEW - The Elephant Man
06. ANOTHER VIEW - Pressure
07. ANOTHER VIEW - Stuntman
08. ANOTHER VIEW - Throwaway (Inhale)
09. ANOTHER VIEW - A Career In Dancing
10. ANOTHER VIEW - She Goes To Your Heart
11. ANOTHER VIEW - Urge
12. ANOTHER VIEW - Stay Awake
13. ANOTHER VIEW - Frequently Repeat
14. ANOTHER VIEW - Another View
15. ANOTHER VIEW - Too Much Fiction
01. ANOTHER VIEW - Overture
02. ANOTHER VIEW - Motorway
03. ANOTHER VIEW - La Discotheque
04. ANOTHER VIEW - The March of Time
05. ANOTHER VIEW - Who's Left
06. ANOTHER VIEW - Metal
07. ANOTHER VIEW - Emergency
08. ANOTHER VIEW - Throw It Away
09. ANOTHER VIEW - God For Today
10. ANOTHER VIEW - Make Up
11. ANOTHER VIEW - Heat 87
12. ANOTHER VIEW - Lufthansa
01. ANOTHER VIEW - Amongst the Portraits
02. ANOTHER VIEW - Theme
03. ANOTHER VIEW - 1969
04. ANOTHER VIEW - The Filter Switch
05. ANOTHER VIEW - A Thesis On Falling Down
06. ANOTHER VIEW - Afterflow
07. ANOTHER VIEW - Paper Guns
08. ANOTHER VIEW - Stepping in the Light
09. ANOTHER VIEW - Who Are You
10. ANOTHER VIEW - Few Killer
11. ANOTHER VIEW - Reasons To Be Here
12. ANOTHER VIEW - The Number
01. ANOTHER VIEW - Red China
02. ANOTHER VIEW - The Search
03. ANOTHER VIEW - Silo
04. ANOTHER VIEW - Real Identity
05. ANOTHER VIEW - Look
06. ANOTHER VIEW - The Body Value
07. ANOTHER VIEW - Pop Culture
08. ANOTHER VIEW - Winter
09. ANOTHER VIEW - You Typewriter
10. ANOTHER VIEW - Main End Regret
11. ANOTHER VIEW - The Voice On My Phone
01. ANOTHER VIEW - The Stand
02. ANOTHER VIEW - Buildings and People
03. ANOTHER VIEW - The Midnight Cowboy
04. ANOTHER VIEW - Brother Riff
05. ANOTHER VIEW - Carbon (Edit)
06. ANOTHER VIEW - Presentation
07. ANOTHER VIEW - For My Friends
08. ANOTHER VIEW - Speaking in Tongues
09. ANOTHER VIEW - Birthday
10. ANOTHER VIEW - The Mental Dance
11. ANOTHER VIEW - The Door
01. ANOTHER VIEW - In Bomb Craters
02. ANOTHER VIEW - Week By Week
03. ANOTHER VIEW - Encounters
04. ANOTHER VIEW - Teasing the Truth
05. ANOTHER VIEW - Early Fantasies
06. ANOTHER VIEW - Sexuality
07. ANOTHER VIEW - Tongues of Man
08. ANOTHER VIEW - Flew With Birds
ARTIST
TITLE
A Career in Dancing - Abstraction Years 1979-81
FORMAT
5LP BOX/10"

LABEL
CATALOG #
VOD 135LP VOD 135LP
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RELEASE DATE
5/12/2015

Highly anticipated box set covering the musical output from 1979 to 1981 by one of the ultimate musical genius and protagonists of British minimal synth and EBM. Multi-talented Luton-based Adrian Smith started his first musical exploration in the field of electronic and experimental music in the mid '70s, self-releasing projects on his Abstractions label, including projects called Underland and Electrodub, the latter of which gained recognition from Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records. During 1979 and 1981, after leading punk-orientated bands with his brother Derek Smith for three years (Those Nervous Surgeons, Nervous Surgeons, Half Nervous), Adrian Smith recorded six tapes, all reissued here for the first time, with almost six hours of atmospheric, powerful minimal synth music from which no listener can escape without experiencing wonderful feelings and emotions. His first two tapes from 1979 (From the Silent Days and Absolutely Safe) were only given to friends (due to a lack of contacts and the absence of what would later become a thriving cassette culture) and therefore remained almost unheard. With the release of A Career in Dancing in the summer of 1980 (a compilation of his early works from those two tapes plus a selection of new material), he increasingly gained appreciation on an international level, winning acclaim from both press and individuals within the developing tape-trader community. Before long people such as Martin Reed of the Mirage label became interested in releasing his works. Members of the press and editors such as Chris Jones of Flowmotion.Mag began reviewing. With the fourth and fifth releases, Look (Mirage, 1980) and The Mental Dance (1981), he managed to get into the Cassette "Obscurist" Charts in Sounds Magazine (run by Paul Platypus, later Paddy Shennan) and finally received attention and recognition. For his sixth tape, Killing Time (1981), Smith started a label called Lung Function, possibly related to the fact that the sound was changing from atmospheric minimal synth to a harsher and rougher sound, which laid the foundation for the typical EBM sound of Click Click, which Smith and his brother started around that time, a sound best experienced on the Behind Dark Glasses tape.