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Nureference update and new look

05/9/26

Lewis over at nureference.co.uk has clearly been hard at work, and the results show — the site looks absolutely fantastic. If you haven’t visited in a while, now’s the perfect moment to pop over, take a look, and show your support for all the effort that’s gone into keeping this archive alive and thriving.

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Classic Album: Gary Numan’s Telekon

05/9/26

An in-depth look at the final LP in the ‘Machine’ trilogy

The final album in the ‘Machine’ trilogy, Gary Numan’s Telekon returned to guitars and added strings to the palette, soundtracking a record of bleak beauty…It wasn’t in the plan for Gary Numan to be a popstar.

It wasn’t in his vocabulary or on a to-do list. He was the least likely pin-up imaginable, and finding himself thrust into the flight path of mainstream success in 1979 saw him with not only a wealth of admirers, there were, too, many detractors and haters.

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Gary Numan Santa Monica - The 1980 Broadcast (clear Vinyl 2lp)

02/9/26

Gary Numan Santa Monica - The 1980 Broadcast (clear Vinyl 2lp) Vinyl Double Album

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GARY NUMAN
SANTA MONICA - THE 1980 BROADCAST (CLEAR VINYL 2LP)
Vinyl Double Album

Item no. :BAU030LP Barcode :0803341641754 Artist :GARY NUMAN Product type :Vinyl Double Album Label :THE BAUHAUS LABEL Release Date :16 October 2026

Step back into the dawn of synth-pop with Gary Numan's electrifying 1980 Santa Monica broadcast — now pressed on pristine clear double vinyl. Experience the icy rhythms, towering analog synthesizers, and iconic robotic cool that defined a futuristic era, captured live and unedited at the height of his powers!

Captured live during the peak of his commercial and creative zenith, Santa Monica: The 1980 Broadcast preserves Gary Numan's iconic performance at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in March 1980. Fresh off the monumental success of The Pleasure Principle and previewing the stark, guitar-heavy textures of the incoming Telekon era, this classic broadcast showcases Numan at his most icy, futuristic, and mesmerizing. Pressed on striking clear vinyl across two LPs, this release serves as an essential artifact for synth-pop historians and dedicated Numanoids alike.

SIDE A:
1. Airline 3:12
2. Me! I Disconnect From You 3:01
3. Praying To The Aliens 3:57
4. M.E. 4:30
Total side length – 14:40

SIDE B:
5. Films 3:47
6. We Are So Fragile 2:42
7. Are Friends Electric? 5:33
Total side length – 12:02

SIDE C:
8. Conversation 7:39
9. Metal 3:27
Total side length – 11:06

SIDE D:
10. Cars 3:34
11. I Die: You Die 3:31
12. Down In The Park 5:19
Total side length – 12:24

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