All The Young Droids Junkshop Synth Pop 1978 1985/Limited Mirror Board/Crystal Clear Vinyl/Bonus Poster

Description

Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 is a new compilation that goes behind the scenes of the defining sound of the synthesizer era in 80s popular music. Compiled by Philip King (previously seen compiling All The Young Droogs, Glitterbest, and Boobs – The Junkshop Glam Discotheque), the music here connects the dots between DIY synth enthusiasts grappling with cheap new synthesizers at the tail end of punk, and amateur songwriters enthusiastic about the new music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, and Daniel Miller's Mute Records. Featuring rare cuts of progressive self-taught pop music, proto-techno punk, chart flops that aim for the stars and land in the gutter, and heralded underground synthesized classics, School Daze paints a portrait of a beautiful failure. Accompanied by detailed liner notes written by King and previously unseen images, the 24 tracks have been remastered by RPM’s in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master tapes. The story told on All The Young Droids is one of the nascent opportunity presented by both the market emergence of cheaper analogue synthesizers and the independent distribution networks and labels that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976.