CD - Tomorrow's Fashions: Library Electronica 1972-1987

1 CD - Import

Nothing said new or modern or futuristic quite like a synthesiser in the 1970s and 80s. If you were shooting an advert and you wanted your product or your company to appear forward-thinking and ahead of the game, then you would want something electronic, something out of the ordinary.

When TV producers and advertising directors started searching for music that sounded like "Tubular Bells" - and then Tomita, and later Jean Michel Jarre - music libraries such De Wolfe, Bruton, Parry, and Chappell had to have the tracks readily available.

Compiled by Bob Stanley, "Tomorrow's Fashions" varies from advertising jingles and TV themes to space exploration and gorgeous, beatless ambience. The brand of electronica of "Tomorrow's Fashions" anticipated new age and ambient music. It also had both a direct and indirect influence on pop - the early Human League and the future sounds of Warp Records are all over this collection.

Electronic library tracks have been sampled by everyone from MF Doom to Kendrick Lamar. This was music made in the shadows - in Soho's secretive music library studios - that has now become desirable and influential.