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The Land Speed Record Department

The Land Speed Record Department explore the sounds of 1983 in radio shows, edits, DJ sets and live performances.

Their live set melts oddball synth, dub-laced post-punk and the throbbing pulse of Italo disco into spiritually charged techno.

01/15/2026

Greetings and welcome to 2026, aka 1983, from your friends at the Land Speed Record Department. Business in the Department will continue as usual, extending our research into ever deeper corners of the year of our Purple Lord and delivering heartfelt presentations on our findings via our monthly show on . Broadcasting begins next week with the first volume of a big fat getdown session we have named Party Speed. In the mean time, please consult our biolink for the extensive archive of studies in 1983, ranging from folk to jazz, post punk to hardcore, disco to electro and onwards.

This is The Land Speed Record Department. 🏎️🏜️

04/21/2025

Greetings and welcome to another edition of The Land Speed Record Department. This month’s show finds Department researchers Nevada Nate and Beta Motive turning their attention to the phenomenon of early DIY synthesiser music, named retrospectively as minimal wave. This particular quirk of early 1980s music took influence from punk’s democratisation of music making and applied to the first wave of commercially available synthesisers and drum machines. A thriving independent cassette tape culture allowed this music to be easily documented and distributed outside of the mainstream music industry. It has been the mission of electronic music historians to comb through flea markets and Discogs deep dives to piece together the bigger picture of these strange, macabre recordings from a forgotten era. Respect must go out to - a leading pioneer in the research of minimal wave music. We hope the Department’s findings may add to your understanding of this mysterious corner of underground electronic music.

This is the Land Speed Record Department, presenting Minimal Speed, on - broadcasting from 14:00 GMT

1. An Bene & Pierre Lambow - Primitive Hunt
2. Michel D - P8
3. Din A Testbild - Going Tutu
4. Y Create - Green 7
5. Atom Cristal - Boulevard Circulaire
6. Muzak - La Canción Del Metrónomo (Téléfono Rojo)
7. Arthur Berkhoff - Foltergerät Part Two
8. Tommy De Chirico - Vuh-Ya
9. Ende Shneafliet - Session Zeitgeist
10. T - Wood-blood
11. Vidéo-Aventures - Anyhow For Tennis
12. Pankow - Senza Titolo
13. Philippe Laurent - Et Hop
14. Sizkie - Don’t Stop!
15. Short-Term Memory -Hysteria
16. Blair Petrie - Pamela
17. Tone Set - Out Out
18. Geoffrey Landers - Excerpts From “Ground Zero”
19. Daily Fauli - Bird
20. Stratis - Birds In A Cage
21. Pas De Deux - Lits Jumeaux
22. Arthur Berkhoff - Foltergerät Part One
23. Bahasa – Geography (Extended)
24. Troy Tate - Love Is (Special Dance Remix)
25. Konstruktivits - In Kabal

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03/17/2025

Greetings and welcome to another new exploration into 1983 from your friends at the Department. This month we're diving deep into the broad spectrum of folk music from the year of our musical lord 💜

From US and UK trad folk to Irish harps, Turkish and Portuguese string magicians to Hawaiian dreams, layered, edited and arranged with that distinctive Department twist.

Join us from 2pm GMT on

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03/04/2025

Fresh digs in the Department, finally landed via reissue on

Unbelievable treasure from the year with all the pleasure. Expect to hear this all over research findings from your friends at the Department.

Regards,

LSRD x

02/17/2025

🔮 Welcome The New Age 🔮

This month on the show, department member Nevada Nate returns with the second installment of New Age Navigations, diving deeper into meditative drones and cosmic ambient mutations.

Tune in to Noods Radio today at 14:00.

Sit back, tune in, and drift away. 🌈☔️

12/18/2024

Seasons greetings from your friends at the Department. Our 1983 winter special is now up for your convenience to stream wherever you find yourself frostbitten in the northern hemisphere. To our friends in the southern hemisphere, the sonics contained within will also work just fine on a beach.

Head to our bio to find the SoundCloud link and enjoy this seasonal sojourn. This is The Land Speed Record Department.

Thanks as ever to for providing a platform for our investigations, to the festivals who booked us for our debut live shows, our listeners for enjoying the research and our close allies for tolerating the obsession for yet another year. Research is ongoing, you will only hear more about 83 from us in 25.

Tracks featured this month:

XTC - Frost Circus
Toy Division - Melbourne Winter
Two - Waiting For Winter
Shinsuke Honda - Winter Space
Gil Scott-Heron and his Amnesia Express - Winter In America (Live in Bremen, 1983)
Weekend feat. Keith Tippett - Winter Moon
Atila - Russian Psycedelic Winter
Roberto Musci - Lidia After The Snow
La Valse - Winter
Ice T - The Coldest Wind (Instrumental)
The RAH Band - Winter Love
Pascal Comelade - Winter Rain
Thomson Twins - Frozen In Time
Bernard Szainer - Snow Prints

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12/16/2024

This afternoon, The Land Speed Record Department return to with an hour-long excursion into all things wintery. Primarily, this is based around tracks referencing themes of ice, snow and so forth in the titles, but also selections from Vangelis' hypnotic soundtrack to the 1983 Japanese film, Antarctica. Seasonal sounds to suit short days.

Thank you for listening to another year of explorations into the sound of 1983. Join us again in January as we turn the clock back to 1983, again and again and again. This is The Land Speed Record Department.

#1983

10/29/2024

♥️ when friends of the department send neon gold, thanks ⚡️

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10/22/2024

🎨 Cover Art 🖌️

While preparing this month’s Japanese show for Noods, we came across a treasure trove of incredible cover art. This one, in particular, really caught our eye – what’s not to love? 🇯🇵♥️

Cover Design: Shigenari Ohnishi

Album: Yuko Kawai - Insomnia Syndrome
Label: Epic
Style: Synth Pop
Country: Japan
Date: 1983

“Get Digging“🎷

10/21/2024

🇯🇵 Japan Special Vol.1 ♥️

This month your friends at the Department are turning their attention to the sound of Japan in 1983. From synth-pop to minimal wave, new age to environmental ambience, the country’s contributions to early 80s electronics moved in line with the breakthroughs in technology being pioneered by the synth manufacturers. Take an hour-long deep dive into the visionary sonics of Japan in 1983, courtesy of The Land Speed Record Department.

Noods - 21/10/24 - 14:00 GMT

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