Landscape. Richard, Chris, Andy, Peter and John. European men. The 84-track 5CD box set Landscape A Go-Go came out in 2023 July to great critical acclaim, and is still available from the Landscape shop. Landscape is best known for the 1981 hits ‘Einstein a Go-Go’ and ‘Norman Bates’, which were made into memorable and influential videos. Formed in London, the band toured the UK constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing jazz, punk and rock venues and releasing instrumental EPs on its indie label Event Horizon. 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.
 Landscape comprises Richard James Burgess (drums, programming, synths, vocals), Christopher Heaton (keyboard synthesizers, piano, vocals), Andy Pask (basses, vocals), Peter Thoms (trombone, electric trombone, vocals), and John L. Walters (lyricon, soprano sax, flutes, programming, synths, vocals). The band built a live following and released two EPs, U2XME1X2MUCH (1977) and Workers’ Playtime (1978). After signing to RCA they released Landscape in 1979, and appeared on BBC TV’s Tomorrow’s World. Their first release with vocals, ‘European Man’ (1980), was catalogued EDM 1, the first citation of ‘Electronic Dance Music’. From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … to the Hell-Holes of Uranus (1981), included the Top 5 UK hit ‘Einstein a Go-Go’. Landscape’s third album was Manhattan Boogie-Woogie (1982).