The Golden Hour of the Future

Infobox Album
Name = The Golden Hour of the Future
Type = studio
Artist = The Future and The Human League


Released = Start date|2002|10|20
Recorded = various studios around Sheffield, UK (1977)
Genre = Electronic music
Length = 76:53
Label = Black Melody Records
Producer = The Future, The Human League
Reviews =
Last album = "Secrets" (2001)
This album = The Golden Hour of the Future (2002)
Next album = "The Very Best of the Human League" (2003)

"The Golden Hour of the Future" is a compilation album of recordings made by the electronic band The Future and early recordings by the original line-up of The Human League.

Material by The Future features Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh and Adi Newton, who recorded around ten songs in the home studio of a recording engineer in 1977. The band compiled a demo tape from those recordings, which they played to record companies on an ill-fated trip to London. The band did not find a recording deal and Newton left the band to form Clock DVA.

Ware and Marsh continued as The Future for a short while before deciding to recruit Ware's friend Philip Oakey as lead vocalist. Now renamed The Human League, the trio recorded in an abandoned Sheffield factory, where they put together their first two singles for the Fast Product label (Being Boiled and The Dignity Of Labour) as well as a number of other recordings before signing to Virgin Records. Most of those other recordings are included on this compilation album, along with many of The Future's recordings - only those songs that were later re-recorded for Virgin were omitted from the compilation, for contractual reasons.

The album was compiled by Richard X and released on his Black Melody label in 2002, with assistance from Human League members past and present and Sean Turner, creator of the [http://www.blindyouth.co.uk Blind Youth website] . The album was preceded by the promotional limited edition EP "Dance Like a Star", which included four Human League recordings not featured on the album. [ [http://www.the-black-hit-of-space.dk/golden_hour_future.htm The Human League ] ]

Personnel and credits

*Produced by The Future and The Human League
*Recorded in Sheffield
*Philip Oakey – Vocals & synthesizer
*Martyn Ware – Vocals & synthesizer
*Ian Craig Marsh – Synthesizer & devices
*Adi Newton – Vocals
*Cover design by Designers Republic

Track listing

#Dance Like A Star 4:48 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Looking For The Black Haired Girls" 3:40 (Ware/Marsh/Newton)
#"4JG" 4:36 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Blank Clocks" 3:20 (Ware/Marsh/Newton)
#"Cairo" 3:08 (Ware/Marsh/Newton)
#"Dominion Advertisement" 0:25 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex" 5:49
#"Daz" 3:40 (Ware/Marsh/Newton)
#"Future Religion" 3:44 (Ware/Marsh/Newton)
#"Disco Disaster" 5:06 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Interface" 2:59 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"The Circus Of Dr Lao" 3:58 (Oakey)
#"Reach Out (I’ll Be There)" 3:55 (Holland/Dozier)
#"New Pink Floyd" 2:14 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Once Upon A Time In The West" 1:53 (Morricone)
#"Overkill Disaster Crash (V.1)" 2:02 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Year Of The Jet Packs" 5:26 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)
#"Pulse Lovers" 4:02 (Ware/Marsh/Newton)
#"King Of Kings" 1:56 (Rozsa)
#"The Last Man On Earth" 10:01 (Ware/Marsh/Oakey)

External links

* [http://www.blindyouth.co.uk Blind Youth - the early work of The Human League]
* [http://www.the-black-hit-of-space.dk/golden_hour_future_review.htm Reviews]

References