Luke Turner
, May 4th, 2021 10:29
We slip furtively down a dank London alley this week as Dale Cornish comes on the podcast to discuss Soft Cell s finest album
In this month’s Low Culture podcast we remember a time when Soho wasn’t full of over-priced coffee shops and guffawing advertising executives as musician, Croydon evangelist, and saviour of electronic music twitter Dale Cornish joins Luke Turner and guest presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan to discuss Soft Cell’s sleaze pop masterpiece
This Last Night In Sodom. Never mind Tainted Love , this is Marc Almond and Dave Ball s finest moment. As Dale puts it, “this sounds like Soho, everything is slightly too near your face… whatever that might be”.
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Though not intended as such, in some respects Leviathan and its creators represent between them one version of the history of British electronic music. In 1973, the curiosity of a significant chunk of the King Crimson and Roxy Music fan bases, along with an attractive price, propelled Fripp & Eno’s “No Pussyfooting” into many thousands of homes where no such recording had previously registered a single sleeve, much less a gatefold. By the early 80s Dave Ball & Marc Almond’s Soft Cell were at the forefront of a wave of synth based bands who dominated the singles and albums charts.Read More
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Though not intended as such, in some respects Leviathan and its creators represent between them one version of the history of British electronic music. In 1973, the curiosity of a significant chunk of the King Crimson and Roxy Music fan bases, along with an attractive price, propelled Fripp & Eno’s “No Pussyfooting” into many thousands of homes where no such recording had previously registered a single sleeve, much less a gatefold. By the early 80s Dave Ball & Marc Almond’s Soft Cell were at the forefront of a wave of synth based bands who dominated the singles and albums charts. In the 1990s, The Grid – Dave Ball (again) & Richard Norris formed a key act in what was sometimes referred to as Electronica, sometimes herded under the (almost meaningless) “Dance music” category, occasionally (equally inaccurately/narrowly) described as “ambient” music, the struggles of music industry name
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