Various Artists - Vorsicht! Digital Themes From The Arcadia Library *Pre-Order


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Release Date Friday 31st January 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

    Featuring waves of neon synths, pristine machine funk, scorched ambient drones, gnarled bass lines, playful radiophonics & industrial percussion, this thrilling selection of obscure 1980's electronica is compiled by Zyklus (Alan Gubby / Revbjelde) and presented on 10" white vinyl.


    "On a teaching placement during the pandemic, I found a dusty cupboard above our college theatre holding 200+ library music CDs. Most of the discs were from the Arcadia Cosmos library, a prolific production house active during the late 1980s and early 1990s.


    I spent the next few weeks working through the discs and found several interesting electronic pieces although, pseudonym or not, I didn't recognise any of the composers involved. Further research kept leading to dead ends with Arcadia's owners having long vacated their last known address and web links either broken or abandoned. So more questions than answers remain about the library's provenance.


    For instance, who was / is the brilliantly named David Beast? Did Kraftwerk engage trans-european lawyers after hearing Endurance Test? Was Sylvia Sommer deliberately channelling vintage 1960's radiophonics by John Baker? What studio gear was used to create the distinctive Arcadia sound? And, for what appears to have been a UK-based company, why are so many of the album titles, tracks and composer names distinctly Germanic? If anyone has the answers please get in touch." Zyklus / Winter 2024

     

    Tracklisting: 

    A1 DANGER by KLAUS BACK + TINI BEIER
     
    A2 ELECTROLYSIS by ERIC STONE 
     
    A3 ENDURANCE TEST by DAVID BEAST 
     
    A4 INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE by PETER HUNT 
     
    A5 INTERFERENCES by KLAUS BACK + TINI BEIER 
     
    A6 KOAN by LOUIS REEDE 
     
    B1 MIDDLE AGES by PETER JANDA + FRITZ KOBERL 
     
    B2 POWERS OF DARKNESS by DAVID BEAST 
     
    B3 RACIAL RIOTS by DAVID BEAST 
     
    B4 RESONANCES by LOUIS REEDE 
     
    B5 SUBMERGED CULTURES by KLAUS BACK + TINI BEIER 
     
    B6 TINGUELY by SILVIA SOMMER

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