“Record company boss and electronic music enthusiast Mark Jones continues his series exploring synthesised music past and present. On the latest show, Mark talks to 80s keyboard duo Blancmange. Described by Mute Records’ Daniel Miller as the “maiden aunts of electronic music,” Blancmange shot to fame in the early 1980s with a string of top 10 hits including ‘Living On the Ceiling’, ‘Blind Vision’ and ‘Don’t Tell Me’. Having been cited as influences by bands including La Roux and Faithless – who recently collaborated with vocalist Neil Arthur on their album ‘The Dance’ – the band release a new album in March after a 25 year break. The duo join Mark to talk about the music which inspired them to pick up electronic instruments, why they’ve decided to reunite after a quarter of a century apart and what they’ve been up to in the intervening years. In the last half hour of the show, there’s a guest mix from new Brighton-based electro band Mirrors. Having toured Europe with OMD at the tail end of last year, the band play a mix of the ‘synthfluences’ which have informed their debut album ‘Lights And Offerings’, due out in February. Mark also plays an exclusive track from upcoming new Human League album ‘Credo’, due out on his label in March.”
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6 Mix 2011-01-16 Back to the Phuture: Blancmange and Mirrors [Filesonic download]

Tracklist:
Japan — Quiet Life
MNDR — Fade To Black
Blancmange — Living On The Ceiling
Omd — Vcr
Propaganda — Dr Mabuse
The Human League — Never Let Me Go
Mirrors — Into The Heart
Blancmange — Don’t Tell Me
King Crimson — The Devil’s Triangle
Terry Riley — A Rainbow In Curved Air
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band — Moonlight On Vermont
Brian Eno — Baby’s On Fire
Delia Derbyshire — Doctor Who Theme
Pere Ubu — Nonalignment Pact
Young Marble Giants — Brand New Life
Roxy Music — Street Life
The Human League — Being Boiled
Kraftwerk — The Robots
Blancmange — The Western

MIRRORS MIX
Gas — Gas I
Kraftwerk — Radioactivity
Fad Gadget — Sleep (Electro Induced Original)
Drexciya — Temple Of Dos De Agua
Brian Eno & David Byrne — Help Me Somebody
Susumu Yokota — Future Tiger
Michael Bundt — La Chasse Aux Microbes
Tangerine Dream — No Man’s Land
LFO — Nurture
Carl Craig — At Les
Bruce Haack — Mean Ol Devil
David Bowie — Art Decade
Carl Craig — Mind Of A Machine
Aphex Twin — We Are The Music Makers
Basic Channel — Phylyps Track
LFO — Premacy
Pierre Henry — Waves (Vagues)

The Knife — Silent Shout
The Associates — White Car In Germany
Roedelius — Homage A Forst
New Order — Procession
Kraftwerk — Europe Endless
The Human League — Dancevision
Thomas Brinkmann — Walk With Me
Harmonia — Dino
Oneohtrix Point Never — Zones Without People
Oneohtrix Point Never — Russian Mind
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Enola Gay
Severed Heads — Dead Eyes Opened
Chris Carter — Electrodub
The Advisory Circle — Nuclear Substation Pif
Kraftwerk — Endless Endless
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik — GÖtterdÄmmerung
LFO — Nevertheless
Kraftwerk — Metropolis
Moritz Von Oswald Trio — Pattern 4