As teenagers, Humphreys and McCluskey were involved in several unsigned Wirral bands, including Equinox, Pegasus, and the short-lived Hitlerz Underpantz. McCluskey would usually sing and play bass guitar, whilst electronics enthusiast Humphreys initially began as a roadie, graduating to keyboards. The pair shared a love of electronic music, particularly Brian Eno and Kraftwerk.
By 1977, McCluskey & Humphreys put together 7-piece (3 singers, 2 guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards!) Wirral 'supergroup' The Id, whose line-up included drummer Malcolm Holmes and McCluskey's girlfriend Julia Kneale on vocals. The group began to gig regularly in the Merseyside area, performing original material (largely written by McCluskey & Humphreys). They had quite a following on the scene, and one of their tracks (Julia's Song) was included on a compilation record of local bands called Street to Street. Meanwhile Humphreys & McCluskey collaborated on a side-project called VCL XI (named after a valve from the diagram on the cover of Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity album), where they pursued their more bizarre electronic experiments, often working with tape collages, home-made kit-built synthesiers, and circuit-bent radios.
In 1978, The Id split due to the traditional musical differences. McCluskey briefly sang with electronic Wirral quartet Dalek I Love You. However, he eventually rejoined Humphreys, and their VCL XI project was rechristened Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. They began to gig regularly as a duo, performing to backing tracks played from a Revox tape-recorder they christened "Winston" (after the antihero of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four). Finding themselves on the cusp of an electronic new wave in British pop-music, they released a one-off single, "Electricity", with celebrated independent label Factory Records (the single sleeve was designed by Peter Saville, whose distinctive graphics provided OMD's public image well into the mid-80s), and were then quickly snapped up by Virgin subsiduary DinDisc.
To celebrate the arrival of Producer Russ to the Fallen team, we're offering a massive 35% discount off all weekday recordings between 10am till 6pm until the end of December !!
Each month I feature unsigned Liverpool Bands on my player - hope you and your friends will come over and listen to the bands on there and show some support by adding them as friends - cheers, Tony
Thanks for your support! check the other iPunk-profile too. your will find more great stuff by using the following link: www.myspace.com/ipunkremix www.facebook.com/ipunk iPunk available@ http://www.beatport.com/ipunk & your local record-store
9 de octubre, 19 h. Foro FNAC-Valencia. Entrada gratuita.
9 de octubre, 22:30 h. Sala WahWah (Valencia) junto a MAR. 5 €
14 de noviembre, 19 h. Foro Fnac-Donostia. Entrada gratuita.
26 de noviembre, 21 h. Zaragoza, con Pedro Marín. Sala Arena
28 de noviembre, 19 h. Foro FNAC-Bilbao. Entrada gratuita.
28 de noviembre, 24 h. Badulake-Bilbao. Entrada gratuita.
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En Zaragoza también está a la venta en Pub Teatro de las Ánimas y Pub Mar de Dios
Hi. A brand new remix of Royksopp's song tricky-tricky is on our spaceplayer and also on soundcloud. http://soundcloud.com/the5thgalaxyorchestra/royksopp-tricky-tricky-5th-g-o-sci-fi-mix I hope you enjoy it.
friday, sept. 18th @ satellite lounge in brooklyn, NY
dj's chuby242 & raymi7 will be spinning music and videos from bands of legendary labels such as: 4AD . Wax Trax . Creation . Cherry Red . cleopatra . Factory . Mute . Statik. Dro and many more! www.paralisisnyc.com Check out our youtube channel. There are a bunch of videos that we play at our parties http://www.youtube.com/user/paralisisnyc
Hey Buddie. Please just take one minute to cut and paste the link below and cast your vote for me anywhere where you think I rank in your fav DJS,i have never asked anyone to vote for me before, i have been in the top 100 in the DJ LIST for 3 years but never in the DJ MAG version so this year with your help i would love to rectify that.
thank you in advance and i hope to see you at a show soon.
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