{"product_id":"various-nightlands","title":"Various – Nightlands","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Final Image – FIB 5\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Compilation\u003cbr\u003eCountry: UK\u003cbr\u003eReleased: May 1988\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho's afraid of the dark?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA blurry, grainy, out-of-focus photograph of a generic British roadway, the orange sodium-vapour street lights greyscaled out like Daido Moriyama photograph.  Nothing sets the scene better for what is undoubtably the best encapsulated survey of the fertile DIY industrial \/ ambient scene happening in the late 80s UK.  Final Image was a disproportionally short-lived yet hugely influential label ran (mostly) by Andrew Hulme, best known for his activities with ‘dirty ambient’ group O Yuki Conjugate, alongside a number of other fleeting projects - Mute Calm, Gush - which both feature here.  Grown right out of the helpless urban ennui of late 80s Britain under Thatcher, Nightlands yokes together a mysterious group of loosely connected artists operating way out on the fringe of independent experimental music, somehow connected (pre-internet) in documenting the increasing urban decay and disillusion.  This is atmospheric music for nocturnal nomads, the after-after hours sounds of post-industrial Britain where the emergent sounds of rave music have fully dissolved into a serotonin-depleted soundscape of lonely contemplation.  Many of the artists involved - Muslimgauze, Pump, Bourbonese Qualk, Biting Tongues, O Yuki Conjugate - blossomed into household name for experimental music followers, but Nightlands stands alone as a perfectly realised whole.  An imaginary soundtrack to the urban after dark.  (NM\/VG+ - tiny split in top).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA1    Muslimgauze–    Green Is The Colour Of The Prophet\u003cbr\u003eA2    Pump (4)–    Do This\u003cbr\u003eA3    Biting Tongues–    Half Deepmen\u003cbr\u003eA4    Gush–    New York, 1940\u003cbr\u003eA5    Bourbonese Qualk–    Lullaby\u003cbr\u003eB1    John Avery–    That Marilyn Walk\u003cbr\u003eB2    Tim Story–    The Moors\u003cbr\u003eB3    Mute Calm–    Zone\u003cbr\u003eB4    Human Flesh–    First Soundtrack\u003cbr\u003eB5    O Yuki Conjugate–    Another Journey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Evbtpc0bGWI?si=481aGKimvJPyt_fh\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57653248655742,"sku":null,"price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/IMG_2296.jpg?v=1783432091","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/various-nightlands","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}