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Come / Rampton
(Vinyl LP – Susan Lawly)
Very special legacy 180g limited vinyl of Rampton album by Come proudly reissued by Susan Lawly. The year 1980 saw release of this iconoclastic debut LP, first album on the highly collectible Come Organisation label, and first chapter in the long musical career of a then teenage William Bennett after leaving Essential Logic, which subsequently led to the pure electronic Whitehouse and present-day Cut Hands projects. Also notably featuring synthesiser bass performed by The Normal’s Daniel Miller.
‘Rampton’ documents the coolly psychotic origins of a whole wave of noise and experimental rock and electronic music via seven tracks from the short-lived Come, whose various members would go on to define the limits of future music; from Whitehouse’s envelope-pushing power electronics to Mute’s global dominance of synth-pop, new wave, and techno, and JG. Thirlwell’s progressive hybridizing and cinematic sound design. Over 40 years have passed since they first piped up, and they’ve all lead illustrious careers over the interim, making the wickedly crude ‘Rampton’ cuts feels like a series of spotty teenaged portraits (despite the fact that Miller was in his late 20s by this point) by proper outsiders of their time.