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ShareThe full version of ‘Synth Britannia’ posted yesterday has been removed, but we were to locate eight of the nine segments of the documentary via YouTube. You can watch them all after the jump. Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop [...]

Share In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. Gary Numan’s 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention [...]