The Human League : The Dignity of Labour
Five months after a backstage visit by David Bowie who would then tell the NME he'd seen the future of music, The Human League released their first EP, The Dignity of Labour Pts 1-4 in April of 1979. This isn't The Human League of "Don't You Want Me", this is a band made up of 70s experimental sci fi buffs who'd offered the world "Being Boiled" a summer earlier. That was kind of the big bang of synth pop.
This is a strange follow-up: four instrumentals inspired by the Soviet space program. That's cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to ever enter space, on the cover. It all sounds like Kraftwerk junior to these ears. Best as a music bed for "Techno 2000" DJ's.
The clip below also contains the flexidisc with the band arguing about the cover.
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