Simon Park - "Coaster" (2:37)
Wozo - "Rippling Reeds" (3:06)
Sam Spence - "Leaving" (2:18)
John Cameron - "Northern Lights" (1) (2:07)
Peter Reno - "Spaghetti Junction" (2:57)
Rubba - "Space Walk" (2:35)
Paul Hart - "Prospect" (3:09)
Geoff Bastow - "Tomorrow's Fashions" (5:12)
Brian Wade - "Blue Movies" (2:45)
Trevor Bastow - "Videodisc" (2:39)
Astral Sounds - "Interface" (1:54)
Brian Chatton - "Starways" (2:13)
Wozo - "Atomic Station" (1:40)
Adrian Baker - "Future Prospect" (2:12)
Warren Bennett - "Planned Production" (4:43)
Anthony Hobson Aka Tektron - "Future Perspectives" (3:20)
Chameleon - "Waterfall" (2:57)
James Asher - "Telecom" (3:40)
Soul City Orchestra - "Eagle" (1:58)
Alan Hawkshaw - "Astral Plain" (4:00)
Paul Williams - "Drifting In Time" (1:22)
Brian Bennett - "Earth Born" (3:29)
Harry Forbes - "Soft Waves" (1:13)
Astral Sounds - "Topaz" (1:56)
Alan Hawkshaw - "Eternity" (4:18)
John Cameron - "Infinity" (2:03)
Andy Grossart & Paul Williams - "Morning Dew" (2:01)
Review: Nothing was as new and exciting as a synthesiser in the 70s and 80s. For forward-thinking adverts in particular, electronic sounds were essential. TV producers and advertisers sought to use music akin to "Tubular Bells," Tomita, and Jean Michel Jarre and so music libraries like De Wolfe, Bruton, Parry, and Chappell quickly adapted. Compiled by Bob Stanley, new album 'Tomorrow's Fashions' features advertising jingles, TV themes, and space exploration tracks with beatless ambience from that very era. Despite being 40-50 years old, the music feels fresh and finds jazz veterans like Brian Bennett and John Cameron embracing synthesizers. This electronica predated new age and ambient music, and also influenced pop, early Human League, and Warp Records as well as being sampled by MF Doom and Kendrick Lamar.
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