The Human League and the Sheffield Electro Scene
Book description
Sheffield in the late-1970s was isolated from what was happening in London in the same way that Liverpool had been in 1963. A unique generation of electro-experimental groupings evolved in the former Steel City around Cabaret Voltaire and The Future. The Future split into two factions, Clock DVA and The…
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Darlington vividly evokes the industrial city of Sheffield, England, where an extraordinary musical movement flowered in the 70s against a backdrop of urban decay and steel foundries.
Groups of young people were so eager to create music that they spurned the time-consuming labor of learning to play guitars, instead opting for easy-to-play synthesizers. They spawned a new breed of strange music and groups with strange names: Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Clock DVA.
Darlington delivers a satisfyingly detailed forensic examination of these experimental synth bands and their songs. The book captures a time when Sheffield, a city near where I live,…
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