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5CD set containing remastered 84 tracks; 52 tracks are on CD for the first time of which 22 tracks are previously unreleased. Beautifully packaged in a high-quality clamshell box containing the 5 individual CDs in card wallet sleeves. Featuring expanded versions of the band’s first three albums plus two additional discs containing their first two EPs, tracks by Landscape III and a comprehensive selection of 7” edits, 12” extended versions, remixes, B-sides, instrumentals and live tracks. With a fully illustrated 52-page perfect bound book containing brand new sleevenotes, lyrics, biographies, archive photos, original artwork, press cuttings and more.
All tracks were mastered from high resolution digitisations of the original analogue master tapes. The ‘previously released’ tracks from the analogue stereo two tracks, the ‘remixes’ and ‘instrumentals’ from digitisations of the original analogue multitracks, and the ‘live’ tracks were mastered from edited digitisations of the original analogue stereo live recordings. Released with the full involvement of all the original band members. Landscape – Richard James Burgess, Chris Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John L. Walters – is best known for the ground-breaking electro-pop of ‘Einstein a Go-Go’ and ‘Norman Bates’, which were made into memorable and influential videos.
Formed in London, the band toured the UK constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing jazz, punk and rock venues and releasing instrumental EPs on its indie label Event Horizon before signing to major label RCA Records. The group used electronic processing, synthesizers, electronic drums, and music computers, and from the late 1970s focused on making records in the emerging genre of synthpop. After signing to RCA, they released their debut album ‘Landscape’ in 1979. Their next album in 1981, ‘From the Tea-Rooms of Mars...to the Hell-Holes of Uranus’, included the Top 5 UK hit "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates”. Their third album was 1982's ‘Manhattan Boogie-Woogie’. After release of this album, Heaton and Thoms left the band and they became a trio, composed of Burgess, Pask, and Walters Renaming the band Landscape III, the members went on to release the singles "So Good, So Pure, So Kind" and "You Know How to Hurt Me". In 1984 the trio went their separate ways. All five members of the band went on to work in multiple areas of the music business, academia and publishing.
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