Label: Cherry Red

Released 2019

UK Import

Four CD set. The third in our Close To The Noise Floor early electronica series - this time exploring the USA and Canada. Includes legendary artists Suicide, The Residents (a previously unreleased track), Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Patrick Cowley, NON, Laurie Spiegel, Chrome, Ministry, Moev and dozens more. Journey into the origins of electronica in North America - from early techno and electro to synth-pop, industrial music, ambient soundscapes and noise experiments. 60 tracks in a 48pp hard-back book format. Over 10,000 words of artists' sleeve notes and introductory essay by Dave Henderson (Sounds/Wild Planet/MOJO). Packed with previously unreleased tracks, lost gems and underground classics from lesser known artists, experimenters, innovators and outsiders. Part primitive rave, part synthesiser porn, part history lesson. A year in the making, Third Noise Principle reaches out to North America, taking in tracks from key figures on the early US and Canadian electronica underground, alongside releases by ground-breaking innovators, seminal composers and countless lesser known artists. Enthralled by the mysterious synthesizer and inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, a quiet musical revolution took place across the western world in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Inspired by the microchip and affordable electronics, artists for whom guitars, drums and bass had become old hat began to spread their wings and breach the boundaries of sonic experimentation. Some wanted to dance, some to relax and others to confuse and confront - all are represented here. Third Noise Principle explores every corner of this chapter in American musical history via over four hours of futurist, modern and sometimes challenging music. And who better to tell this story than the artists themselves - this lavish hard-backed package features first-hand sleeve notes from artists and their biographers, unseen photographs and an introductory essay by Sounds and Wild Planet legend Dave Henderson.

Track listing:

1. The Devil Makes the Loudest Noise - Tone Set
   
2. Creators - Data-Bank-A
   
3. Mambopolis - Richard Bone
   
4. Logarithms - Geoffrey Landers
   
5. Current Slaughter - Rhythm and Noise
   
6. The Metal Benders - Dark Day
   
7. Push Me, Pull You (PT 2) - Futurisk
   
8. Dancing Hairpiece Wears Two Left Shoes - Smegma
   
9. Rocket USA - Suicide
   
10. Intermission: "Pop" - Lon C. Diehl
    
11. First Mutation - Kevin Lazar
    
12. Am City - Voice Farm
    
13. Donkeys Bearing Cups - Craig Leon
    
14. I Adore You - German Shepherds
    
15. Slabyard - Psyclones
    
16. 99 Space Music - the Residents
    
17. Hands Across the Sea (PT 2) - K7SS
    
18. Archie's Dub - K Leimer
    
19. Simulation/Stimulation - Hunting Lodge
    
20. Hello Grieg - Short-Term Memory
    
21. Be Good - Blackhouse
    
22. Ange Des Orages - Philip Glass
    
23. Primordial Landscape - Patrick Cowley
    
24. Mind Over Matter (Demo) - Psyche
    
25. Lowdown - Galen Herod
    
26. Max Pale Red - Cyrnai
    
27. Mode of Infection - Non
    
28. Oleo Strut - Marc Barreca
    
29. Electric Piece - F/I
    
30. Drums - Laurie Spiegel
    
31. Across the Lake of the Ancient Word - Terry Riley
    
32. Unwinding - Michael William Gilbert
    
33. Mrs Laura - If, Bwana
    
34. Inacontact - Chrome
    
35. Slimy Stew and Pussy Gruel (Extract) - Dog As Master
    
36. Evening Thoughts - Anode
    
37. XX Committee - Damarc
    
38. Cat Vomit Punk House - Girls on Fire
    
39. United We Fall - Problemist
    
40. 1981-83 Source Mix - Mystery Hearsay
    
41. What the Peeper Saw - Smersh
    
42. Catalyze (Subjection to Catalyst) - Boy Dirt Car
    
43. Ao 01 'Reagent' - Architects Office
    
44. Sad Horror Film - Mental Anguish
    
45. Untitled #3 - Controlled Bleeding
    
46. Geomancy - Joel Graham
    
47. Executive Slacks - Thirty Years
    
48. Madness - Lou Champagne System
    
49. Nite and Day (Homage À Cole Porter) - Tuxedomoon
    
50. Anemone Housing - Factrix
    
51. Womble - Nash the Slash
    
52. Police Story - Sequencer People
    
53. Dancing on the Berlin Wall (Demo) - Rational Youth
    
54. Untitled - F/I and Boy Dirt Car
    
55. Possibly Winston - Isosceles
    
56. Worlds - Steve Roach
    
57. Ice Floe - Young Scientist
    
58. 36A3 - John Bender
    
59. Work for Love (Dub) - Ministry
    
60. Clerk Charade - Moev