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The already quite slanted version of Money knows each of the 80 was big and with this song and. The associated album from 1979 has to be the Flying Lizards adopters also on the early and are co-founders of the synth / Wave-Pop, but as well on the early Human League albums is here plenty of experimental stuff on it that takes a while before it convinces.

The opener Mandelay song sounds like a sloping piece of Japanese pops and annoying because of the high-pitched singing a little, but already Her story has a great groove and sounds like the opening pitch to such albums My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Brian Eno & David Byrne 1981) or Remain in Light (Talking Heads, 1980) - The same applies to Russia. Funky beats, enriched with strange sounds, are the.

Minimalist and robotically then the cover of Summertime already acting very experimental and with the same slant Chanting comes as the subsequent Money. Marked by a frenetic beat and jazzy sprinklings are the instrumentals The Flood, Trouble u. Events During The Flood, the bulky pieces of this panel, you can well imagine as the soundtrack to a psychological thriller for its ominous atmosphere. The Closer The Window is then provided with poppy and vocals, but also quite oblique.

The mastermind and the Kernitglied the group was at that time the Irish producer David Cunningham, who was also a couple of times for Michael Nyman's soundtrack work on Peter Greenaway films worked and showing a very avant-garde, artistic approach. So it is surprising then also little that on the follow-up album, among others just Nyman u. Robert Fripp went to work as a guest musician.

The Flying Lizards is today anyway rightly considered classics of the genre u. To discover electronic music in all its different varieties, which will find it here in any case.