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The Metronomes
The Ballad of the Metronomes
Order-Nr.: mnq 015

nur 22.00 EURO
(incl. 19% Mwst.)

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Mannequin / 2LP + 7inch

Re-release of both the
LPs (“Multiple Choice” from 1980 and “Regular Guys” from 1985) plus the 2
singles seven inches “Saturday Night / Sunday Morning” and “A Circuit Like Me”
from this legendary minimal synth band from
Australia.

The group was an
integral part of the early electronic music scene in
Australia and their releases have become a collector’s item
in
Europe, as they are mostly impossibile to find.
The Metronomes first appeared in
Melbourne in 1979, initial members were rock journo-synth player Al Webb, the
bass player Andrew Picouleau (Secret Police, Sacred Cowboys) and the
synth-pioneer Ash Wednesday, nowdays a live tour member of Einsturzende
Neubauten. Al himself will admit later that Ash’s ingenuity in creating
something out of very little was the key to the Metronomes sounding as
‘produced’ as they did.
If their first 7’’ single “Saturday Night / Sunday Morning” came out in 1980,
featuring a real metronome as rhythm
section with instrumentals layered over, instead the second ‘A Circuit Like Me
/ Closed Circuit’ from 1980 is addice more to experimentation with drum
machines, rhytm sections for both sides were recorded using a borrowed Roland
CR 78. It was the first time in their compositions that a vocal had been used,
courtesy of a lady called Talking Judy.
The first full-lenght ‘Multiple Choice’ was recorded in the winter of 1980,
using Roland Strings, a mini-Korg, some Arp synthesizers and a Boss Dr-
55, a drum machine that was intensivly used by many
minimal synth bands during the 80s and by legendary bands like Sisters of Mercy
or New Order in their first songs.
The second album ‘Regular Guys’, published in 1985, was recorded after a break
in which all the members various lives and careers took left and right hand
turns, surely more premeditated, as most of the songs arrived in studio already
written.500 copies