All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 is a new compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser 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 new, cheap synthesisers at the tail-end of punk and wannabe, jobbing songwriters enthral to the new music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller’s Mute Records.
Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failure.
Complete with extensive sleeve notes written by King and never before seen imagery, all 24 tracks were remastered by RPM in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master.

Compiled by Philip King “And then came the rise of synth pop : blokes with dodgy haircuts hunched over keyboard-operated machines stuffed with wires and do-it-yourself tone oscillators making sounds like a brood of geese.

(2LP Black Vinyl w/8pg 12” book)
Label
Night School
Genre
Pop & Rock 2LP
Design - Premonition
Vision - Lucifers Friend
Richard Bone - Alien Girl
John Howard - I Tune Into You
Ian North - Were Not Lonely
Selwin Image - The Unknown
Harry Kakoulli - Im On A Rocket
Rich Wilde - The Lady Wants To Be Alone
Billy London - Woman
Alan Burnham - Science Fiction
The Microbes - Computer
The Goo-Q - Im A Computer
Gerry & The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
The Warlord - The Ultimate Warlord
Die Marinas - Fred From Jupiter
Dee Jay Bert & Eagle - I Am Your Master
Peta Lily & Michael Process - I Am A Time Bomb
Sole Sister - Its Not What You Are But How
Alasdair Riddell - Do You Read Me?
Karel Fialka - Armband (The Mystery Song)
John Springate - My Life
Incandescent Luminaire - Famous Names
Disco Volante - No Motion
Dream Unit - A Drop In The Ocean

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