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All The Young Droids - Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985
A1
Design - Premonition
A2
Vision - Lucifer's Friend
A3
Richard Bone - Alien Girl
A4
John Howard - I Tune Into You (I-2NE-IN-2-U)
A5
Ian North - We're Not Lonely
A6
Selwin Image - The Unknown
B1
Harri Kakoulli - I'm On A Rocket
B2
Rich Wilde - The Lady Wants To Be Alone
B3
Billy London - Woman
B4
Alan Burnham - Science Fiction
B5
The Microbes - Computer
B6
The Goo-Q - I'm A Computer
C1
Gerry And The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
C2
The Warlord - The Ultimate Warlord
C3
Die Marinas - Fred From Jupiter
C4
Dee Jay Bert - I Am Your Master
C5
Peta Lily - I Am A Timebomb
C6
Sole Sister - It's Not What You Are But How
D1
Alastair Riddell - Do You Read Me?
D2
Karel Fialka - Armband (The Mystery Song)
D3
John Springate - My Life
D4
Incandescent Luminaire - Famous Names
D5
Disco Volante - No Motion
D6
Dream Unit - A Drop In The Ocean
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 passing gas in a wind tunnel. Whoopee! This is the way the ‘70s ended : not with a blood-curdling bang but with a cheap, synthesized, emasculating whimper.”
NICK KENT, NME.
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... more
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released July 11, 2025
Compiled by Philip King
Art, Design and Layout by Michael Robson
Additional design by Musheto Fernandez
Mastered by Simon Murphy
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