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5CD set containing remastered 84 tracks 52 tracks are on CD for the first time of which 22 tracks are previously unreleased.Beautifully packaged in a highquality clamshell box containing the 5 individual CDs in card wallet sleeves.Featuring expanded versions of the bands first three albums plus two additional discs containing their first two EPs, tracks by Landscape III and a comprehensive selection of 7 edits, 12 extended versions, remixes, Bsides, instrumentals and live tracks.With a fully illustrated 52page perfect bound book containing brand new sleevenotes, lyrics, biographies, archive photos, original artwork, press cuttings and more.All tracks were mastered from highresolution digitisations of the original analogue master tapes. The previously released tracks from the analogue stereo two tracks, the remixes and instrumentals from digitisations of the original analogue multitracks, and the live tracks were mastered from edited digitisations of the original analogue stereo live recordings.Released with the full involvement of all the original band members.The first 500 copies will come with an exclusive art print signed by all the members of the band.Landscape ndash Richard James Burgess, Chris Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John L. Walters ndash is best known for the groundbreaking electropop of Einstein a GoGo and Norman Bates, which were made into memorable and influential videos. Formed in London, the band toured the UK constantly during the midtolate1970s, playing jazz, punk and rock venues and releasing instrumental EPs on its indie label Event Horizon before signing to major label RCA Records. The group used electronic processing, synthesizers, electronic drums, and music computers, and from the late 1970s focused on making records in the emerging genre of synthpop. After signing to RCA, they released their debut album Landscape in 1979. Their next album in 1981, From the TeaRooms of Mars…to the HellHoles of Uranus, included the Top 5 UK hit Einstein a GoGo and Norman Bates . Their third album was 1982s Manhattan BoogieWoogie. After release of this album, Heaton and Thoms left the band and they became a trio, composed of Burgess, Pask, and Walters.Renaming the band Landscape III, the members went on to release the singles So Good, So Pure, So Kind and You Know How to Hurt Me.In 1984 the trio went their separate ways.All five members of the band went on to work in multiple areas of the music business, academia and publishing. Landscape Boxset is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £38 +P&P