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Crash Course In Science - ‘Cardboard Lamb’

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More from Philadelphia, this is a real treat. Crash Course In Science were a wry art school band who made this proto new wave synth-punk track in 1981. The follow up to their debut 7” in 1979, this record featured homemade instruments that make sinister clunking noises. There’s a percussive hiss that echoes The Normal and is echoed in LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Losing My Edge’, and the mechanical industriousness sounds like a kind of proto-techno.

They also made an iconic video which was a hit at the Danceteria nightclub in New York that year…behold:

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