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The Telescopes

Beyond the realm of natural vision.

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Of Tomorrow is the 15th album from The Telescopes, the fifth for Tapete. The album was created entirely by Lawrie at his studio in Shropshire. It marks a complete change in dynamics. Here we have the poetry of motion, solid grooves to the fore, leaving crystallised trails across a fluttering undercurrent of uplifting rhythm and hooks.

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Songs Of Love And Revolution is a solar burst of trance inducing rhythms gripped at the helm by a wall of throbbing bass held in place by a swarm of encircling guitars. Lashed to the mast of this whirling dervish, incantations abound to dispel what is bound. This is the 12th album by The Telescopes, music for a four-piece ensemble that will never s...

Taken from The Telescopes second album.
Originally released on Creation Records.

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Originally released in 2002 on Double Agent Records, Third Wave heralded the return of The Telescopes after a 10 year hiatus. With Lawrie’s innovative experimentation of computer technology (contemporary at the time) amongst other influences outside of the formal music studio environment, the consequence is an album exquisitely divergent from its p...

Experimental Health is folk music made with broken toys and cheap synths - mostly Pocket Operators and miniature synths. There are no guitars present on the album, most of the instrumentation costing £50 or less.

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The Telescopes debut single.
Originally released on Cheree Records.

Recorded at Woodhouse MobileRecordings. Leeds.
Produced by Richard Formby & The Telescopes (Stephen Lawrie).

Cover photographed by Ian Hammond.
Artwork layout by Paul May.

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Taken from The Telescopes first album, Taste. Released 1989.

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