Horology 2, covering the years 1977-1978, can viewed as a prequel to the 2012 Horology boxset which scanned Adi Newton and Clock DVA‘s pioneering Sheffield electronics circa 1978-1980.
The first LP features recordings by The Future – a.k.a. Newton, Martyn Ware, and Ian Craig Marsh – prior to the trio bifurcating into The Human League and Clock DVA. It includes nine songs ranging from industrial synth-pop to pulsating proto-techno and essentially covers one of the earliest and most interesting chapters in Sheffield’s hugely influential electronic pop scene. However, the other 4 discs are by Newton solo and broach a very different section of his archive. They’re abstract, amorphous recordings, scaled in length between 3 and thirteen minutes, and inspired by a spectra of esoteric…
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…elements, from psychoacoustics to early acousmatics, the occult, and infrasound. They’re arguably the darkest creations you’ll find from Sheffield during this era.
The Future
A1 Blank Clocks 3:20
A2 Looking For The Black Haired Girl 3:38
A3 Pulse Lovers 3:59
A4 Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex 5:49
B1 Almost Medieval (Future Version) 3:30
B2 DAZ 3:38
B3 Dancevision (Future Version) 3:33
B4 Future Religion 3:40
B5 Cairo 3:09
Radiophonic Dvations 1
C1 Zone 10:27
C2 Montage 6:11
C3 Textures 6:54
D1 Interference 14:17
D2 Ambivalence 10:02
Radiophonic Dvations 2
E1 Psychoactive Magnetic Fields 5:45
E2 After The Future 4:56
E3 Kontour 5:34
E4 The Aether 6:34
F1 Subliminal Suggestion 9:38
F2 Simulation 3:46
F3 Excercise In Magnetic Tape No 4 5:14
F4 Simulacra 4:47
Radiophonic Dvations 3
G1 The Hour 7:21
G2 Nue Decade 5:08
G3 Symptoms 4:24
G4 New Time 7:18
H1 Windscale 9:48
H2 Electromagnetic Ganzfeld 13:55
Radiophonic Dvations 4
I1 Opening Sequence 3:33
I2 Coil 8:10
I3 Ouedipus Rex Complex 6:37
I4 Time 6:07
J1 Sick Tone 7:58
J2 Psychotronic Variation 9:14
J3 Quatermass Psychotronic Variation 5:42
