| Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 | |
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| Compilation album by
Various artists
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| Released | 26 April 2016 (2016-04-26) |
| Genre | Electronic |
| Length | 4:15:03 |
| Label | Cherry Red |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 90/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 is a compilation album featuring electronica bands from 1975 to 1984. It was released on Cherry Red Records in April 2016.
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Computer Bank" | Five Times of Dust | 5:15 |
| 2. | "R.A.M." | The Klingons | 5:32 |
| 3. | "Re-Education Through Labour" | Chris & Cosey | 7:10 |
| 4. | "Sedation Strokes" | Malcolm Brown | 4:07 |
| 5. | "Little Bob Minor" | Storm Bugs | 3:33 |
| 6. | "Tight as a Drum" | Thomas Leer | 4:39 |
| 7. | "Holiday Camp" | Blancmange | 3:09 |
| 8. | "Fractured Smile" | Inner City Static | 4:26 |
| 9. | "Sexuality" | We Be Echo | 2:55 |
| 10. | "God with Us" | Bourbonese Qualk | 5:53 |
| 11. | "Faith" | Nagamatzu | 6:55 |
| 12. | "Disco Song" | O Yuki Conjugate | 4:14 |
| 13. | "The Optimum Chant" | British Electric Foundation | 4:11 |
| 14. | "All Night Long" | Kevin Harrison | 1:34 |
| 15. | "Stopping and Starting" | Voice of Authority | 5:58 |
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "I Am Your Shadow" | Colin Potter | 2:45 |
| 2. | "D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?" | British Standard Unit | 2:25 |
| 3. | "The Single Off the Album" | Five Times of Dust | 3:27 |
| 4. | "Back to the Beginning" | Spoon Fazer | 2:38 |
| 5. | "Gerry and the Holograms" | Gerry And The Holograms | 4:07 |
| 6. | "Drugface" | The Passage | 3:48 |
| 7. | "A New Kind of Man" | John Foxx | 4:32 |
| 8. | "Green for Go" | 100% Manmade Fibre | 3:02 |
| 9. | "Sentimental" | Those Little Aliens | 1:59 |
| 10. | "Protect and Survive" | Final Program | 2:26 |
| 11. | "Being Boiled" | The Human League | 3:39 |
| 12. | "New Muzak" | Instant Automatons | 1:50 |
| 13. | "Materialistic Man" | Cultural Amnesia | 3:38 |
| 14. | "(Leaving Me) Now" | Worldbackwards | 2:53 |
| 15. | "Music to Save the World By" | Alan Burnham | 3:49 |
| 16. | "Almost" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | 3:42 |
| 17. | "Kodak Ghosts Run Amok" | Eyeless in Gaza | 2:27 |
| 18. | "Broken Vein" | Schleimer K | 4:22 |
| 19. | "The Distance from Köln" | Native Europe | 2:28 |
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim, Pt. 1)" | Zorch | 5:12 |
| 2. | "Robot Dance" | Sea of Wires | 2:33 |
| 3. | "Sea of Tranquility" | Ron Berry | 5:57 |
| 4. | "Mistral" | MFH | 2:26 |
| 5. | "Joe Goes to New York" | Adrian Smith | 6:52 |
| 6. | "Embryo (Extract)" | Mark Shreeve | 6:13 |
| 7. | "Triptych" | E.g Oblique Graph) | 6:36 |
| 8. | "Encounter" | Carl Matthews | 6:43 |
| 9. | "Ynys Scaith" | Paul Nagle | 4:18 |
| 10. | "Sedation" | O Yuki Conjugate | 3:36 |
| 11. | "Western Vein" | Konstruktivits | 3:46 |
| 12. | "Dead of Night (Excerpt)" | Attrition | 6:01 |
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "What a Day" | Throbbing Gristle | 4:38 |
| 2. | "No Way of Knowing" | A Tent | 3:29 |
| 3. | "Go for the Throat" | Portion Control | 2:11 |
| 4. | "Eco Beat" | DC3 | 6:48 |
| 5. | "Dying Inside" | Renaldo and the Loaf | 5:13 |
| 6. | "In the Army" | Blah Blah Blah | 4:42 |
| 7. | "God Speed" | The Legendary Pink Dots | 4:02 |
| 8. | "Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer" | Muslimgauze | 6:16 |
| 9. | "Live at Longborne" | Les Suisse | 5:39 |
| 10. | "Menial Disorders, Extract B2" | Alien Brains | 3:35 |
| 11. | "Himeal (And She Blew)" | Storm Bugs | 4:52 |
| 12. | "In the Room" | Third Door From the Left | 2:59 |
| 13. | "Dignity of Labour" | Al Robertson | 5:25 |
| 14. | "Mzui (Extract)" | B.C. Gilbert / Graham Lewis / Russell Mills | 5:33 |
