I have been following ongoing discussions on UK collectors and the no 1 minimal synth country and I therefor thought I’d drop a list of UK acts that I enjoy.
The list ranges from more commercial synth pop to the true minimal outburst towards the industrial.
This list is not by far complete and it’s based on bands that are part of my 7” collection. Some obvious acts, like Transparent Illusion, is not listed simply because I still not have that 7”.
OK, here goes, surely with mistakes and errors, but anyway:
100% Manmade Fibre
100th Monkey Effect
13th and 14th
1-Syntax-1
Aaah…!
Absolute
Airfields // Revox Cadets
AK-47
Analysis
Art Interface
Art Of Noise
Assembly
Aupheus
Basking Sharks
Beasts in Cages
Bendall’s Box
Black Fantasy
Blancmange
Blockwart
Blood Donor
B-Movie
Buggles
Cabaret Voltaire
Calendar Crowd
Camera Obscura
Caplo Banaal
Chaney, Allen
Circuit 7
Classified Info
Crowd
Daemion
D’ancey, Graham Philip
Das Kabinette
Data
Decades by Night
Depeche Mode
Disco Volante
Dolby, Thomas
Drinking Electricity
D-Void
Eirin Peryglus
Electronic Circus
Electronic Ensemble
Exit Visa
Fad Gadget
Fallout Club
Fast Set
Fenton, David
Fergusson, Alex
Fialka, Karel
Filmcast
Final Academy
Final Discipline
Final Program
Flying Lizards
Fox in Socks
Foxx, John
Fragments
Fred
Futurhythm
Gah-Ga
Games
Gee mr. Tracy
Genocide
Ha Ha Mono
Halloween Love Affair
Hard Corps
Harte, Ciaran
Hewson, Peter
Horrey, Andrew (V/A)
Human League
I Start Counting
Ice Nine
Ice The Falling Rain
Incadescent Luminaire
Indians In Moscow
Inertia
Interface
Invogue
Johnson Engineering Company
KAD
Kissing The Pink
Kym Amps
Last Man In Europe
Lewie, Jona
Log 10
Magits
Magness, Ron
Marlow, Robert
Marvin The Paranoid Android
Messengers
Metropolis
Microbes
Mobiles
Mr Burns
My Pierrot Dolls
Mycrom
Naked in Paris
Naked Lunch
Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor
Neon
Neon Tetra
Neural Circus
Nicely, Nick
Normal
O’Cuthbert, Martin
OMD
Padden, Bernard
Panorama
Passing Strangers
Plain Characters
Plant Bach Ofnus
Play School
Poeme Electronique
Portion Control
President President
Propaganda
Pursuit of Colour
Qruux Adu Xa
Reducers
Remote Start
Rental, Robert
Ronny
Sensible Shoes
Shazam
Shock
Shout Aloud
Shox
Silicon Teens
Soft Cell
Some of my best friends are Canadian
Split Level
Stage 2
Strange Cargo
Stranger Station
Sub Muris
Sun Yama
Suuka
Synthetics
Tac Tic
Terminal Beach
Testcard F
Thamby
This Perfect day
Those Attractive Magnets
Thrilling Wonder Stories
Tomorrow
Toy Shop
Troika Voices
Tubeway Army
Turqouise Days
Twilight
Two
U-Bahn X
UV Pop
V~Sor, X
Vandike, Greg
Way, Darryl
Vey, Rod
VHF
White Door
Vice Versa
Visage
Vital Signs
Woodhead Monroe
Yazoo