Stress
1981 - Synthie - Electro
Pete Chambers has a good article about them, here from Backbeat - Coventry Telegraph.
Backbeat: Soaking up the Stress - 80s style!
"Local electro-duo Stress, got together in 1981, comprised of Alan Rider who was editor of
the Coventry fanzine Adventures In Reality and Phil Clarke, the editor of Nuneaton fanzine Damn Latin.
Many assume the local scene of the early 80s was just about ska, reggae and guitar-based indie bands but, along with those styles, one genre that seemed to strike a chord was the electro-based band.
Artists like Eyeless In Gaza, Kevin Harrison, Attrition and Stress all made their mark, locally and nationally.
It’s no surprise that at least three fanzine editors were part of the above bands. The fanzine helped to galvanise the music scene and proved a perfect platform for the ubiquitous cassette compilation so favoured by the deeper thinkers of the day.
Using often basic equipment, Stress constructed some elaborate sound-scapes and earned themselves a healthy reputation.
Now, over 30 years later, Stress have released a vinyl “best of” entitled Conspiracy Theory.
I met up with Alan and asked him how this album came about.
Alan replied: “The LP came about, funnily enough, because of an earlier article in Backbeat on the book I’m doing on Coventry fanzines.
The boss of a vinyl label in San Francisco, Dark Entries, spotted it on the web and recognised my name. He was a long time Stress fan from 1981, so he got in touch and suggested we do a retrospective LP with his label. It’s a small world!
“We really wanted the LP to look like something that would have been put out in Coventry in the early 80s when there was a thriving indie music scene in the city.
“That meant a black and white cover and labels, a specially created new edition of my fanzine from back then (Adventures in Reality), and a badge, all as part of the package.
“!It’s like a slice of Coventry musical history”.
The album is available from The 2-Tone Village and Vinyl Destination in Coventry Market, and check out the Stress Facebook site.
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Alan Rider has collected all the copies of Adventures in reality together in one book - https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/adventures-in-reality/the-complete-collection
says - "You can get hold of a copy of the new book on Adventures in Reality - a 480 page, A4 sized, bonanza featuring full colour reprints of every issue plus all the spin off zines, an interview, extras on techniques, posters and badges and more, by contacting me at Alanrider1@aol.com to get an autographed copy with a secret bonus, or by dropping in to Just Dropped in in FarGo Village to pick one up."
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Stress - Help Comes Too Late. Label | Adventures In Reality, 1983
Adventures In Reality Recordings
Profile:
U.K. Industrial / Experimental label from Coventry, that developed from the A.I.R. fanzine by Alan Rider and ran from 1981 to 1985.
After the release of the Mini-LP and the split of the duo Stress (2) he was one half of Alan Rider moved on to the band project Dance Naked before resurrecting the label in the early 90's.
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