Atomic Flash De Luxe

Bottom/ "Rocket" is a synthpop song by the English duo Goldfrapp from their fifth studio album, Head First (Mute, 2010). Barry Nicolson from the NME described it as "a sleek, synth-powered ballistic missile that's high on Pat Benatar's hairspray and in possesion [sic] of a chorus so cheesy and ebullient." BBC Music's Ian Wade felt that the song "couldn't be more 80s if it arrived sweaty from a Jane Fonda workout, dressed in neon leg warmers and a fashionably ripped Van Halen t-shirt." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said that the song "carries the influence of Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra's Xanadu. The kind of euphoric we've-just-won-the-World-Cup synthesizer fanfares that power both Van Halen's "Jump" and PhD's "I Won't Let You Down" abound, there's the occasional hint of Tango in the Night-era Fleetwood Mac, and you're never that far from a conjunction of wobbling electronics and anthemic chorus that recalls Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder's "Together in Electric Dreams"."
Top/ Head First received mostly positive reviews, with most critics noting its heavy influence of 1980s music. Heather Phares of Allmusic stated that the duo "explore the über-glossy productions, staccato melodies, and dramatic key shifts that were the hallmarks of anthems that some might not want to admit they liked decades later".

Ticker-Tape Of The Unconscious

Bottom/ The cover of Strange Cargo Hinterland (N-Gram Records, 1995) by English electronic artist William Orbit shows the Enneagram of Personality figure emerging from the waters. Best known for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light, Orbit also produced a version of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" featured on his album Pieces in a Modern Style which was a compilation of classical re-workings. Middle/ Risotto (Astralwerks) is the sixth album by British electronica group Fluke, first released in September 1997. Many of the tracks that brought Fluke to a larger audience feature on this album, including Atom Bomb, used on the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack, and Absurd, used in many films/trailers, including Sin City in 2005. The band's conception was influenced by the members interest in the burgeoning acid house music scene and particularly the work of Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder. Top/ "The Bell" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield. It features a restructured, shorter version of the finale of section one of Oldfield's Tubular Bells II (Warner Bros., 1992), and features a Master of Ceremonies, who introduces the instruments. The instruments introduced, in order are; grand piano, pipe organ, glockenspiel, bass guitar, vocal chords, "two slightly sampled electric guitars", "the Venetian effect", "digital sound processing" and tubular bells.

V2 Sur Mes Souvenirs

Taxi Girl were a French New Wave band, adopting the New Romantic aesthetics of the time, such as clashing red and black clothing, synthesizer-led songs, and taking influence from mythology and literature. The group existed between 1978 and 1986, producing 5 mini-LPs, and one full-length album, Seppuku. Their early success is attributed to two singles, "Mannequin" in 1979 and "Cherchez le garçon" in 1980. Their music was said to capture the energy of The Stooges, mixed with the retro-futuristic soundscapes of Kraftwerk. Their most successful album was Seppuku, produced by Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers. After disagreements about how the band should develop musically, Laurent Sinclair left the group in 1983, to pursue a solo career. Daniel Darc and guitarist Mirwais continued under the Taxi Girl name, releasing singles such as "Paris" and "Aussi belle qu'une balle", until 1986 when they disbanded. Since then, Daniel Darc has released several solo albums under his own name. Mirwais was re-discovered by Madonna in the late 1990s when he submitted a demo to her then-record label Maverick Records. He then produced her albums Music and American Life. In 1999 Mirwais signed to French indie label Naïve Records and released the single "Disco Science", which appeared in the soundtrack for the Guy Ritchie movie Snatch. In August 2000 he released the full-length studio album Production which includes the single "Paradise (Not For Me)" made in collaboration with Madonna. It also includes the two club hits "Disco Science" and "Naive Song". Mirwais also co-produced two tracks on Fischerspooner's second studio album Odyssey, released in 2005. He has recently been working on a project called Y.A.S. with singer and composer Yasmine Hamdan (one half of Lebanon electro-duo Soapkills). Y.A.S.' album Arabology was released in April/May 2009. After remixing "Pop the Glock", Mirwais has become one of the producers of Uffie's upcoming album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans.

Dancing Behind Your Eyelids

Top/ "Otherworldly pop songs, both magnificently ambitious and engagingly intimate. Breathtaking panoramas of sound with few clear antecedents. This is music with no boundaries": Magic Chairs is the third studio album from Danish indie pop-rock group Efterklang. The album is the band's first release on their new label 4AD, and was released on February 22, 2010 and a day later in North America. The name Efterklang comes from the Danish word for "remembrance" or "reverberation." Formed in Copenhagen, its four core members are: Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer, Thomas Husmer, and Rasmus Stolberg. Efterklang released their first album Tripper to warm critical acclaim in autumn 2004. Their second album Parades, released in October 2007, was released to widespread critical acclaim. Bottom/ In September 2008, Efterklang and The Danish National Chamber Orchestra performed Parades in its entirety at the Copenhagen Concert Hall; the performance was documented on a limited edition LP/DVD set entitled Performing Parades. Nan Na Hvass from Hvass&Hannibal is the mastermind behind the critically-acclaimed artwork for Efterklang's One-Sided LP, Under Giant Trees, Parades and the "Mirador" music video, and Magic Chair.

Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think

#1 Record is the debut album by the American power pop group Big Star. It was released in 1972 by Memphis-based Ardent Records. Though many critics praised the album's elegant vocal harmonies and refined songcraft (frequently drawing comparisons to the British Invasion groups of the 1960s, including The Beatles and The Kinks, as well as The Byrds, The Beach Boys, and other U.S. acts), #1 Record fared quite dismally in terms of commercial success. To the resulting power pop, Big Star added dark, nihilistic themes, and produced a style that foreshadowed the alternative rock of the 1980s and 1990s. However, like Big Star's follow-up albums Radio City and Third/Sister Lovers, #1 Record has more recently attracted wider attention. R.E.M.'s Peter Buck admitted, "We've sort of flirted with greatness, but we've yet to make a record as good as Revolver or Highway 61 Revisited or Exile on Main Street or Big Star's Third." Parke Putterbaugh of Rolling Stone described Third/Sister Lovers as "extraordinary". It is, he wrote, "Chilton's untidy masterpiece. [...] beautiful and disturbing"; "vehemently original"; of "haunting brilliance". In addition to R.E.M., artists including Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements, Primal Scream and the Posies cite Big Star as an inspiration. In 1998, #1 Record's "In the Street" was used as the theme song for the sitcom That '70s Show. Big Star was formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974, but reorganized with a new line-up nearly 20 years later. Before it broke up, Big Star created a "seminal body of work that never stopped inspiring succeeding generations" in the words of Rolling Stone, earning recognition decades later, according to Allmusic, as the "quintessential American power pop band" and "one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll". Chilton died on 17 March 2010, after being admitted to hospital with heart problems. Performing as lead singer with blue-eyed soul group The Box Tops from 1967 to 1970 earned him the #1 hit "The Letter" at the age of sixteen.

On The Wires Of Our Nerves

Bottom/Avant Hard (Mute, 1999) is the third album by Add N To (X). Add N to (X) were a three-piece British band specializing in electronic music performed on analogue synthesizers, formed in London in 1994. After several releases on small labels, they turned down offers from major labels and signed to large independent label Mute Records in 1998, and achieved a modest commercial success before splitting in 2003. Second album On the Wires of Our Nerves was described as "like Stereolab/Suicide with a rocket shoved up their rectum". The album was played heavily by BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Ann Hobbs on her show, The Breezeblock. The group performed live regularly, often augmenting their core three-piece line up with either one or two acoustic drummers, and sometimes additional musicians playing extra synths and/or electric guitar. Other albums by the band include Add Insult to Injury and Loud Like Nature. Top/ Cover pic for "Plug Me In" (Mute, 2000) was borrowed from Curious Magazine circa 1972. Add N to (X) often utilized distinctive artwork for the videos and record sleeves, a fetishistic collage of sexual imagery with analogue electronic equipment, based in part on the movie and book Demon Seed. Most of the group's songs and video clips have been adult/sex-related; the video for "Metal Fingers in My Body" is an animated short where a female is having sex with a robot, and their video for "Plug Me In" is famous for featuring porn actresses playing with sex toys.

Tickets To What You Need

Top/ Following the success of his early EPs, Damon Gough (stage name Badly Drawn Boy)'s debut album, The Hour of Bewilderbeast (XL Recordings/Twisted Nerve Records), was released in June 2000, accompanied by four singles. The album featured members of Alfie and Doves as backing musicians. In 2002, Gough returned to score the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy. His third album, Have You Fed the Fish?, introduced more guitars and an increasingly mainstream pop sound which was not welcomed by all critics. The album is a play on Gough's minor celebrity status and namechecks fellow musicians such as Madonna and John Lennon. Another three singles, including "All Possibilities" (Twisted Nerve, 2003) and "Born Again" accompanied the album. Badly Drawn Boy is a Mercury Prize-winning rock singer/songwriter. He was born on October 2, 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. A supporter of Manchester City Football Club, Gough is a Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Buckley and Pixies fan. He is parodied in the adult comic Viz as "Badly Overdrawn Boy", a pop singer who fails to sell any records and resorts to busking outside his local bank. Bottom/ Killer soundtrack for the 1996 action-comedy-horror film, From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The album (Sony, 1996) is predominantly Texas blues, featuring such artists as ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan. The Chicano rock band Tito & Tarantula, who portrayed the band in the Titty Twister bar, appears on the soundtrack as well.

Keep An Eye On The Sky

Frances the Mute (Gold Standard Laboratories, 2005) is the second studio album by progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Though not as commercially successful as De-loused in the Comatorium, it received considerable critical praise and is widely seen as their Magnum opus. The album displays a deep jazz influence while infusing Latin flavor into many songs, as well as utilizing many of the dub, ambient and electronica influences and techniques experimented with in De Facto and Omar Rodríguez-López's solo projects in order to create one cohesive composition divided into many tracks. The Mars Volta is an American rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001 and currently based out of Mexico. Founded by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the band incorporates various influences including progressive rock, krautrock, jazz fusion, post-punk, hard rock, post-hardcore and Latin American music into their sound. They are known for their energetic and improvisational live shows, as well as their concept-based studio albums. The roots of The Mars Volta are found in the band At the Drive-In.

The Ecstatic Static

Bottom/ Valerie is a self-claimed "retrofuturistic electro-disco" collective founded in 2007 in the Nantes area in France by David Grellier (a.k.a College) and friends The Outrunners, Minitel Rose, Anoraak, Maethelvin and Russ Chimes. The collective draws inspiration from vintage scores for film and TV series from the 1980s, such as the soundtrack album by the German band Tangerine Dream for the film Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise. Major releases include Secret Diary (Futur, 2008) and the Teenage Color EP (Believe Digital, 2008). Middle/ Released six years after Risotto, Puppy (One Little Indian, 2003) is the seventh studio album from the English electronic music group Fluke. The name of the album was inspired by Jeff Koons' fifty foot sculpture of a puppy that stands outside the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. This album proved to be similar to the earlier Risotto tracks in tempo and mood, but with the introduction of some new ideas, such as the inclusion of a blues track, "Blue Sky" and the addition of a very dark techno orientated bonus track, "Pulse". Top/ I Love You (Downtown Records, 2009) is the debut album by the Philadelphia-based rapper and singer Amanda Blank. Billboard described the album as "guiltless fun, just like any proper quickie." "A Love Song" contains interpolations of LL Cool J's "I Need Love" and Santigold's "I'm a Lady". Amanda Mallory (a.k.a. Amanda Blank) is an American rapper and singer and member of the performance art band Sweatheart based in Philadelphia. She is also a collaborator with the rap group Spank Rock. Her songs have appeared in HBO's Life Support and CSI: NY Episode "Buzzkill."

Ballroom Blitz

Bottom/ Sawdust (Island, 2007) is a compilation of re-recorded B-sides, rarities, covers and remixes by the Las Vegas rock band The Killers. The Killers were inspired by B-sides collections such as Oasis' The Masterplan, The Smiths' Hatful of Hollow, Smashing Pumpkins' Pisces Iscariot and Nirvana's Incesticide. Part of the post-punk revival movement, The Killers draw influence from music styles of the 1980s and 1990s. The band's first two albums, Hot Fuss (2004) and Sam's Town (2006), have sold in excess of 12 million copies worldwide combined. Middle/ Destroy Rock & Roll is the first album by Scottish electronic musician Mylo, released in 2004 on the Breastfed Recordings label, which he co-owns. Destroy Rock & Roll was created on a second hand iMac, with "a few software thingys" in Mylo's own bedroom. Mylo has provided remixes for the likes of Scissor Sisters, Amy Winehouse, The Knife, and The Killers. The video that went with the single "Muscle Car" courted controversy as it featured American president George W. Bush shown involved in a drug-and-alcohol-fueled threesome with two prostitutes. Top/ I Created Disco (Sony Columbia, 2007) is the debut album from Scottish-born electronica musician Calvin Harris. The album contained uptempo electroclash songs that were influenced by music from the 1980s, including the singles "Acceptable in the 80s", a tribute to the style and culture of the decade, "Merrymaking at My Place" and "The Girls".

When The Machines Rock

Bottom/ Odyssey (EMI, 2005) by electroclash duo and performance troupe Fischerspooner includes guests David Byrne and Mirwais. Spiking extremely retro electropop tendencies (recalling Kraftwerk, early Depeche Mode, and Gary Numan) with a modern approach to programming, Fischerspooner produces a quirky, robotic, and strangely subdued kind of dance music. Middle/ Tubeway Army (1977–1979) was a London-based punk and new wave band led by Gary Numan. It was the first band of the post-punk era to have an electronic hit, with the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and its parent album, Replicas (Beggars Banquet), topping the UK Album Charts in mid 1979. Replicas was the first album of what Numan later termed the "machine" phase of his career, preceding The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, a collection linked by common themes of a dystopian science fiction future and transmutation of man/machine, coupled with an androgynous image and ground-breaking synthetic rock sound. Something of a concept album, Replicas was based on a book Numan hoped to complete someday, set in a not-too-distant future metropolis where Machmen (androids with cloned human skin) and other machines keep the general public cowed on orders from the Grey Men (shadowy officials). Whilst the album’s setting and lyrics were directly inspired by the science fiction of Philip K. Dick, particularly his seminal work Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the title was, surprisingly, not. Musically Numan’s chief influences were the as-yet commercially-unsuccessful Ultravox who pioneered the integration of synthesizers with conventional rock instruments; David Bowie’s Low, especially tracks like "Speed of Life" and "Breaking Glass", and general air of disaffection; and Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine, in particular the long and wistful "Neon Lights". Replicas' fat synthesizer sound and occasionally nihilistic lyrics had a major impact on the industrial acts that came to prominence in the mid-nineties such as Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. Top/ "Genetic Engineering" is a single from Dazzle Ships (Virgin, 1983), the fourth album by English synthpop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD). The album was the follow-up release to the band's hugely successful Architecture and Morality.

Wipeout Beat

Suicide (Red Star Records) is the influential first studio album by American No Wave band Suicide, released in 1977. It is often cited as one of the first synth pop albums, although it has a harsher, more industrial leaning than many well-known albums of the genre. The album is regarded a classic. One critic writes: "'Che', 'Ghost Rider'—these eerie, sturdy, proto-punk anthems rank among the most visionary, melodic experiments the rock realm has yet produced. Suicide is an American synthpunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate writes that Suicide "would prove as influential as The Clash. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002, it's all so obvious: the synthpop, techno, and industrial dance with a reputation for their sounds of the '80s and '90s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album." Suicide emerged alongside the early punk scene in New York City with a reputation for their live shows; Vega stated "We started getting booed as soon as we came onstage. Just from the way we looked they started giving us hell already." Vega and Rev both dressed like arty street thugs, and Vega was notorious for brandishing a length of motorcycle drive chain onstage. This sort of audience confrontation was inspired by Vega's witnessing of a Stooges concert in the early '70s, which he later described as "great art". Suicide's albums and performances in the 1970s and early 1980s are regarded as some of the most influential recordings of their time and helped shape the direction of indie rock, industrial music and dance music. Among others, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division/New Order, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Spiritualized, Ric Ocasek of The Cars, R.E.M. and The Kills have all listed Suicide as an influence. In September 2009, the group performed their debut LP live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. It will be played again in London in May 2010 when the band support The Stooges performances of Raw Power.

The In Sound From Way Out!

Bottom/ Fourth album Come With Us (Astralwerks, 2002) by the UK-based Grammy Award winning electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers includes "It Began In Afrika". Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim and The Crystal Method, as well as other lesser-known acts, they were pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre, and are known for high-quality live sets. The album features Richard Ashcroft and Beth Orton as guest vocalists. Top/ We Are The Night (Freestyle Dust, 2007) is the sixth studio album by The Chemical Brothers, and includes "The Pills Won't Help You Now". Used throughout the album is the nostalgic technique of sampling old sounds The Chemical Brothers used on other albums. For example the song "We Are the Night" uses a direct sample from "The Sunshine Underground" from Surrender.

Slicing Straight To The Heart

Bottom/ Santi White (born 1976) is an American songwriter, producer, and singer. She is best known by her stage name, Santogold. Her eponymous debut album, Santogold (Downtown Records) was released in 2008. Santogold's goal of the album was to "help break down boundaries and genre classifications" who wasn't "a black woman singing R&B or hip hop." White's style has been compared often to that of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and M.I.A.. Some of Santogold's material has been compared to that of the Pixies, whom Santogold herself has cited as an influence. White also stated her liking for New Wave and critics named Siouxsie to describe "My Superman". The singer also cites Blondie, Grace Jones, Devo, Fela Kuti, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and reggae music as influences. Top/ New York punk rock icon Debbie Harry was dreamed by Swiss artist H.R. Giger for the front cover of her debut solo album KooKoo (Chrysalis, 1981). The album was released while Harry was still a member of the group Blondie. Hans Ruedi Giger is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer. Giger's painting Necronom IV, along with its similar companion piece Necronom V, are widely recognized as the direct inspiration for the Alien creature which Giger developed for Ridley Scott's seminal 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien. The impact of the Koo Koo visuals was so strong that it threatened to overshadow the actual musical progression of the project, especially that of Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of Chic and their early fusion of funk, soul and rock.

Patterns Of Fairytales

Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop, 2008) is the debut album of the Seattle-based band Fleet Foxes. The album has been one of the most highly acclaimed records of 2008 and reviewers often noted their use of refined lyrics and vocal harmonies. Fleet Foxes received four stars from Rolling Stone, who compared it to the likes of the Beach Boys, Animal Collective, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. The Guardian was particularly complementary, awarding the album five stars and declaring it "a landmark in American music, an instant classic." Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band signed to the labels Sub Pop and Bella Union. Principal songwriter Robin Pecknold decided upon the name "Fleet Foxes", suggesting that it was "evocative of some weird English activity like fox hunting". The cover art for Fleet Foxes is the 1559 painting Netherlandish Proverbs (also called The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The quintet describe their music as "baroque harmonic pop jams".

Blips Drips and Strips

Top/ "Army of Me" (One Little Indian, 1995) is the first, and leading, single from Björk's third solo album Post. It is a grinding, industrial tune, punctuated by numerous samples of explosions and lyrics which are encouraging the listener to stop complaining and get on with life — or else. The song also appeared, later in the same year, on the soundtrack of Tank Girl. The bizarre, dream-like music video — featuring a huge truck driven by Björk, a dentist gorilla, and a bomb in an art gallery awaking a dead boyfriend as an exhibit — was directed by Michel Gondry. Middle/ Mars Audiac Quintet (Duophonic) is an album by the post-rock band Stereolab, released in August 1994. During the recording of the album, guitarist Sean O'Hagan left as a full-time member to form his own group, while keyboardist Katharine Gifford was added. Bottom/ A 1975 album from intricate keyboard player Cyrille Verdeaux (who records under the nom de plume Clearlight), Forever Blowing Bubbles (Virgin Records) is the French prog-rock band's follow-up to their breakthrough debut Clearlight Symphony. It covers many contrasting genres including psychedelic, new age, folk, rock and jazz fusion jamming, and the closing track of abstract electronic music experimentation. On the cover of Forever Blowing Bubbles, a cable comes over the horizon, and ends in a disconnected DIN plug lying in the grass, blowing bubbles.

The Garden Of Mirrors

Bottom/ Rasa is a musical collaboration between German cellist and multi-instrumentalist Hans Christian, and American singer Kim Waters. The duo draws heavily on Indian devotional music such as Bhajan and Western classical music. They have released five full-length albums focusing on various themes in classical Hindu religion and mythology, including Devotion (Hearts of Space, 2000), Union (2001), Shelter (2003) and Saffron Blue (2007). Top/ A Midwinter Night's Dream (Quinland Road, 2008) is an album of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. The album, recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, is an extended version of A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season (1995). Loreena McKennitt is most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic music and Middle Eastern themes. Her first album, Elemental, was released in 1985 and attracted global attention with subsequent releases of self-produced work, including To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987), Parallel Dreams (1989), The Visit (1991), The Mask and Mirror (1994) and The Book of Secrets (1997). McKennitt is often compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations. An Ancient Muse, her first full-length studio album in nine years, was released in 2006.

Remember The Future

Top/ Requiem for an Almost Lady (Smells Like Records) is a 1971 album by musician Lee Hazlewood. It is considered to be one of his best albums. Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties. Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous resonance to his music. Hazlewood's collaborations with Nancy Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "Cowboy Psychedelia" or "Saccharine Underground". Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./U.K. #1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine". He also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'" and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is "Some Velvet Morning", a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. In the 1970s Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he wrote and produced the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with friend and director Torbjörn Axelman, which also later emerged as an album. Hazlewood was semi-retired from the music business during the 1970s and '80s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Vanilla Fudge, Lydia Lunch, Einstürzende Neubauten, Primal Scream, Nick Cave, Beck and Slowdive. Bottom/ The Magician's Birthday (Mercury, 1972) is the fifth album by British rock band Uriah Heep. The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front of which was designed by English artist, designer and architect Roger Dean. Dean is best known for his work on album covers for bands including the progressive rock band Yes, which he began painting in the late 1960s. The covers usually feature exotic, fantastic landscapes. His "retreat pod" chair design was featured in the film A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick.