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This is the Age of Chance

Published Tuesday, October 06, 2009 by Sonic Avenger | E-mail this post

Listening to: Age of Chance - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Noise

The musical part of my previous existence is now available to buy pop-kids, as EMI have digitally re-issued the entire Age of Chance back catalogue. Yes indeed, the dayglo-constructivist-lycra-clad underbelly of the 80's is out there and available once more.
While I'm at it, here are some links which the more discerning music-lovers amongst you will find useful:

Age of Chance back-catalogue - Buy here.
Also released are 3 previously unheard tracks from the Playing With Fire sessions:
Definition of a Riot - AOC's wild deconstruction of Flame On and 2 other remixes:
The Longest Day and Midsummer RMX. Y'all need to hear these.

AOC Official website - here.

Of special note with the latter is the sleeve artwork section here. There are some great little hidden eggs in some of the sleeves for your visual delectation. Look carefully.

Great interview: AOC v The Quietus here

AOC Back-Cat reviewed here (click Reviews > Age of Chance)

Age of Chance live onstage - Great photos here

Excellent article on the AOC sleeve-artwork company Designer's Republic with free downloadable and very groovy DesRep Mix - here.

AOC's legendary, super-rare 12" sample-fest Kisspower: Free download here.

There are two items which are not being re-issued - The first two 7" singles Motorcity and Bible of the Beats, on the band's own Riot Bible label. This is because EMI don't own the rights to them, AOC do.
I'm sure they'll make a reappearance at some point in the future, but for now Motorcity is on the accompanying CD to John Robb's current bestseller Death to Trad Rock, an exhaustive study of the 80's Indie/Noise scene, which of course AOC feature significantly in. Available here and all leading book shops. If you can't rush out and buy this one right away, you'll be wanting to place it at the very pinnacle of your Christmas list.
Bible of the Beats, on the other hand, is available on the excellent 2-disc, 48 track CD86 compilation, here.
Make copious notes class, as I'll be asking questions at a later date.