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THE DOWNLOADS
If you’re a Music Club member, you’ll also get access to a number of special downloads sourced just for you.
These might be unusual electronic gems unearthed by the Electronic Sound team, or perhaps tracks from
well-known artists. Our first two downloads are albums by GLOBO and GIRL v1...

GLOBO –
‘MID-CENTURY
MODERN’
(MUSIC CLUB
EXCLUSIVE)

Globo released their first album, ‘Pro-War’, in 1995. They
wrote the theme tune for Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s
BBC TV show ‘Fist Of Fun’ before landing in hot water with
a record called ’13’, which sampled a real police interview
tape of a murder suspect. The trio released two more albums,
‘This Time It’s Globo’ and ‘This Is London 1966’, followed by a
hiatus of several years before they returned with a seven-inch
cover of Devo’s ‘Whip It’ and a reworking of The Fall’s entire
‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’ album. ‘Mid-Century Modern’ is
the first album from this reclusive outfit since 2008 and this
Electronic Sound Music Club release is the pre-mastered and
“unadulterated” version as the band want it to be heard, before
it goes to their record label and “gets all the mess removed”.

GIRL V1 –
‘GIRL V1’
(DEMOS FOR
UNRELEASED
ALBUM)

Vikki Osborn and Natalie Ann Williams formed Girl v.1 in 2011
and spent a year writing songs together and demoing. They
were working towards an electronic pop with psychedelic
overtones, echoing the likes of Stereolab as well as classic
English synthpop of The Human League. They came to
attention of Sam Duckworth of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, who
was enthusiastic about the duo, and he produced some more
demos with them, but the project fell apart in 2013 when
Natalie became ill and couldn’t continue. These recordings
were put together as a potential demo for what might have
been their debut album, and have never been publicly rel