Description:	2008 Remastered CD on Black Melody
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronic, Electropop/Synthpop
	Label:	Black Melody
	Price:	£10.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 25 September 2008.

Way back in 2002 my girlfriend bought me a CD for my birthday (a request) and it was the most exciting thing for me at the time to get some previously unreleased early material from The Future and The Human League. Being a huge fan of their early master works 'The Dignity Of Labour' etc. It appeared in my best albums of the last 10 years chart which I submitted to Norman Records back when I was merely a humble customer. .The CD has been out of print for a while but has now been remastered and re-released at a decent price. What you get for your hard earned are 20 tracks, everyone of them astonishing to me. I love a lot of analog synth stuff and Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware's stuff has always had a special place in my heart. They took their inspiration from Kraftwerk and their surroundings of their home city of Sheffield and constructed their own visionary futurism.. There are so many thrilling analog synth sounds on here that I'm driven to the point of ecstacy listening to them. Also there is some very dark material as well as light hearted cheeky home recordings and gorgeous primitive electro pop like 'Blank Clocks' . There are cracking covers including Ennio Morricone's Once Upon A Time In The West. There are some abstract moments that recall some of the Cabs experiments as well as some spine melting proto techno. 30 years later and this still sounds like the Future to me. What's in a name? Well they got it bang on there. I reckon this shits on 95% of electronic music that comes out these days. I cannot recommend this enough. It's absolutely bloody essential!!!!!!!

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Sound clips for The Golden Hour of the Future by The Future and The Human League: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Black Melody, MELCD5 , £10.29.

What their label says...

 Remastered for 2008 ,"The Golden Hour Of The Future", is a treasure trove of tracks from The Human League and their earlier incarnation, The Future, dating back to their early musical experiments in 1977.

*  Predating the "Reproduction" era League, there’s a wealth of synthesizer instrumentals, abstract soundscapes and embryonic pop from the boys who launched a thousand imitators and whose influence is still heard today.

*  Since the limited release on Richard X’s Black Melody label in 2003 remastering technology has advanced allowing for better quality recordings to be recovered from the original master (cassette) tapes.

*  A podcast commentary by original band member Martyn Ware is available soon

*  Tracklist:
1. Dance Like A Star - Human League 2. Looking For The Black Haired Girls - Future 3. 4JG - Human League 4. Blank Clocks - Future 5. Cairo - Future 6. Dominion Advertisement - Human League 7. Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex - Future 8. Daz - Future 9. Future Religion - Future 10. Disco Disaster - Human League 11. Interface - Human League 12. Circus Of Dr Lao - Oakey, Philip 13. Reach Out (I’ll Be There) - Oakey, Philip 14. New Pink Floyd - Human League 15. Once Upon A Time In The West - Human League 16. Overkill Disaster Crash - Human League 17. Year Of The Jet Packs - Human League 18. Pulse Lovers - Future 19. King Of Kings - Human League 20. Last Man On Earth - Human League