Landscape were one of the most hard-working and quietly influential bands of the late 1970s, pioneers in their music-making, use of technology and approach to business. They are still best known for their 1981 hits, Einstein A Go-Go and Norman Bates.
Formed in 1974, they toured constantly during the mid- to late-1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on their own Event Horizon label.
The band began experimenting with computer-programmed music and electronic drums in the late 1970s making records in the emerging genres of electronic dance music and synthpop, using pre-MIDI music computers such as the MC8, electric and electronic drums, modular and keyboard synthesizers and wind synthesizers such as the lyricon.
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Discography
EPs
U2XME1X2MUCH (1977)
Workers Playtime (1978)
[These were issued on 33? rpm 7" vinyl on Landscape's own label Event Horizon, distributed by Rough Trade and Lightning.]
Singles
Japan (1979)
Sonja Henie (1979)
European Man (1980) 7" + 12"
Einstein A Go-Go (1981) 7" + 12"
Norman Bates (1981) 7" + 12"
European Man (again) (1981) 7" + 12"
It's Not My Real Name (1982) 7" + 12"
Eastern Girls (1982) 7" + 12"
So Good, So Pure, So Kind (as Landscape III) (1983) 7" + 12"
You Know How To Hurt Me (as Landscape III) (1983) 7" + 12"
Albums
Thursday the 12th (1975) as John Walters' Landscape
Landscape (1979)
From the Tea-rooms of Mars . . . . to the Hell-holes of Uranus (1981)
Manhattan Boogie-Woogie (1982)
to be continued . . .
