Various Artists - Tomorrow’s Achievements: Parry Music Library 1976-86

Various Artists

Tomorrow’s Achievements: Parry Music Library 1976-86

PUBINF006

Release Date: 15th October 2012

25 track LP (Ltd 400 copy pressing) / Download

Album Sampler

This is Tomorrow’s Achievements, an exclusive Public Information foray into the Canadian Library institution, Parry Music. With access granted by founder John Parry we have selected twenty-five of our favourite electronic tracks, an early autumn heat-wave of perfect melody. Parry Music was founded in Toronto, 1974 by John Parry and Chris Stone. John was formerly a manager of revered UK library Chappell Music and Chris was a Canadian music consultant, both brought some familiar musicians to the table.

Johnny Hawksworth, Robin Artus, Paul Kass, Nino Nardini (close allies with Roger Roger) are on board Tomorrow’s Achievements . At the same time we have a little known Canadian Library musician who features heavily, one Harry Forbes. Forbes is the real driving force of our Parry-Love; a master of imminent, hummable melody, sublime synth miniatures baked in sweetness.

Elsewhere we revel with the other players in proto-Balearic house, groovy electronic disco, spooked choral drone, freaked-modular scorch and weird Radiophonic bleep. These are the soundtracks to movie car chases never known, lost kids TV shows never realized, radio-ads never broadcast – music to make your ears sing for more.

A compliation put together piece by piece at Public Information HQ, lovingly re-mastered by Rashad at D&M and artwork by Jack Featherstone.

A1. Dawn Light: Robin Artus

A2. Bio-Rhythm: Paul Kass

A3. Digits: Harry Forbes

A4: New Invention: Nino Nardini

A5 Solar Energy: Russ Walker

A6: Alpha Micro: Robin Artus / Paul Kass

A7: Builders 2: Harry Forbes

A8: Integrator: Hermann Langschwert

A9: Sonic Rhythm: Barry Schleifer

A10: Technomobile No.2: E Grenga / C Lawry / D Stevens

A11: Future Directions: Rick Miller

A12: Turbo Motion: Robin Artus / Paul Kass

A13: Automation: Robin Artus / Paul Kass

A14: Utilities: Harry Forbes

B1: The Beginning: Johnny Hawksworth

B2: Time Lapse: Harry Forbes

B3: Poseidon: Paul Williams

B4: Cuboid: Kerry Beaumont

B5: Remote Control: Harry Forbes

B6: Moving Patterns: Barry Schleifer

B7: Instroscan No.2: Paul Kass

B8: Communications : Harry Forbes

B9: Panorama No.2 : Robin Artus / Paul Kass

B10: Drone No.1: Harry Forbes

B11: Tomorrow's Achievements: Harry Forbes

This sounds great. Will be picking this up for sure. I wonder if they'll do other comps like this. It'd be killer if they dug into the Sonoton, KPM and Bruton libraries.

this is a massive release. i'm literarily drooling over here.

to tauhid: i'm guessing kpm and bruton might be really expensive to license considering how coveted they are amongst diggers (not to mention well known). what i see being more likely is a reissue of one of the more hard to find records from those labels

Yeah you're probably right about those two. I know Bruton is owned by Universal... not sure about KPM. Wishful thinking though.

i can undersand though, and i agree, would love to see more compilations of this kind from public-info peppered around their other original output.

btw: really love that cover art

Indeed. Just pre-ordered it from Bleep (cheapest route).

Listening to this now (download from bleep--looking forward to hearing the physical copy!). So far, it's immediately what I hoped for, given the background description. Very nice!

yeah. public information really knocked this out of the park. imo the best compilation of the year and possibly one of the best library compilations i've ever heard

A great collection for sure. I wish there had been more music featured by Hermann Langschwert - his track is totally 80's fantabulousness. Then at the 2minute mark the track is very reminiscent of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste movie score! If anyone can point me towards more stuff by Langschwert I would be eternally grateful.

  On 10/16/2012 at 12:04 AM, Nebraska said:

yeah. public information really knocked this out of the park. imo the best compilation of the year and possibly one of the best library compilations i've ever heard

This. Just finished listening, and as much as I like that ADR mini-album, this compilation is the shit. It's a shame that some of the tracks don't even hit two minutes.

It's beautiful music, warm analog for cold autumnal days/nights!

I've had the sleeve sat out since it arrived last Saturday (cheers, Bleep)... it's a splendid piece of art at 12x12".

  On 10/16/2012 at 6:58 AM, Tauhid said:

this compilation is the shit. It's a shame that some of the tracks don't even hit two minutes.

Very true, but I often find with library music that tracks seem to be longer than they actually are... I can't explain why, but I'll be listening to a piece that I think has been on for a few minutes, then look at the duration played and It'll only be, let's say 39 seconds of a 57 second track :D

  On 10/16/2012 at 12:32 AM, texan whip said:

I wish there had been more music featured by Hermann Langschwert - his track is totally 80's fantabulousness. Then at the 2minute mark the track is very reminiscent of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste movie score! If anyone can point me towards more stuff by Langschwert I would be eternally grateful.

Integrator? It's a stormer... it's on constant replay over here. Plenty of Langschwert on De Wolfe but that's more for licensing.. still, you get to preview all the tracks, of which there are plenty.

  On 10/16/2012 at 9:30 AM, jasondonervan said:

  On 10/16/2012 at 12:32 AM, texan whip said:

I wish there had been more music featured by Hermann Langschwert - his track is totally 80's fantabulousness. Then at the 2minute mark the track is very reminiscent of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste movie score! If anyone can point me towards more stuff by Langschwert I would be eternally grateful.

Integrator? It's a stormer... it's on constant replay over here. Plenty of Langschwert on De Wolfe but that's more for licensing.. still, you get to preview all the tracks, of which there are plenty.

Yes Integrator! I'm really loving it - so groovy. I think it's a stand out track on an otherwise outstanding collection of music. I think anyone whose familiar with Bad Taste will recognise those violin stabs that come in at the 2minute mark!

Thanks for the De Wolfe heads up. Lot's of interesting stuff over there. I'm familiar with De Wolfe through Romero's Dawn of the Dead movie..The Gonk being an all time classic. Don't know why I've never looked through this overwhelming expanse of stock music before. 252 Langschwert tracks just to start with - looks like I'll be busy for the next few weeks! Thanks again. ;)

80s library mix from Public Information: http://theoriginalouterchurch.tumblr.com/post/33420239615/london-based-label-public-information-concerns