Nearly 40 years ago, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark started out as an attempt to capture the sound of the future.

As the rest of the UK moshed to punk and danced to Boney M, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys were pulling components out of old radios to see what kind of sounds they could make in their parents' back rooms.

By 1980, Smash Hits was calling them "the acceptable face of synthesizers"; a British variant on Kraftwerk's cerebral machine music.

"We were fascinated by ......
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