Music For Stowaways

Description

Music for Stowaways is the debut studio album by the English electronic group British Electric Foundation (B.E.F.), formed by musicians Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh. The album was released in the UK in a limited edition on cassette in March 1981 by Virgin Records, which also released an LP version of the album titled Music for Listening To later that year. B.E.F.'s first "minor project," Music for Stowaways is inspired by Sony's Walkman (then known in the UK as the Sony Stowaway). The album is instrumental and electronic, incorporating styles of synth-pop, ambient, funk, avant-garde, and minimalist music. Largely overlooked upon its release, this album has been praised retrospectively, with critics considering the cassette and LP versions as prophetic of later musical styles.