Aerie was the (bedroom) studio based project that eventually became The Land of Yrx. Between its formation in 1979 and demise in early 1982 it produced 5 cassette albums and one gig. After it became The Land of Yrx there were a further two retrospective releases, due to a lack of Land of Yrx recording.
The Best of Aerie 1980-1981 BASL1 - C60 - September 1981 The first release. After spending most of 1980 and 1981 jamming together and recording the results Dave & Rob decided to put out a cassette album so that other people could judge whether they were any good or not. Only 10 copies were made, which were given away to friends with a personally addressed envelope containing an A4 information sheet. Amazingly some of those people copied it for friends as Dave was shown a 'bootleg' version several years later!
Dave Gate: Keyboards/Electronics/Voice
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Further Adventures of Aerie BASL2 - C60 - October 1981 Spurred on by the success of their first release Dave & Rob not only managed to release their second album a mere month later, but actually recorded all of it in that month. It's a much more self assured work, being both more experimental and at the same time more melodic. Once again Mark Jenkins helped out with some of the difficult bits.
Dave Gate: Keyboards/Electronics/Voice/Tapes/Banging Things
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In Nominis Patri, Et Filli, Et Spiritu Sancti,
Ego Te Dissolvo BASL3 - C60 - February 1982 Somewhat out of sequence as we had been holding this number for a 'live' album but never got round to doing a gig until January 1982. This is the album of the gig, which took place in Dave's bedroom (aka Land of Yrx Studio 1) before an invited audience. It's quite a good performance except for the audience participation encore.
Dave Gate: Keyboards/Electronics/Tapes/Voice
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Aerie Fairies? Nonsense! BASL4 - C60 - December 1981 Aerie's most surreal release, very low key and containing some extreme silliness along the way.
Dave Gate: Keyboards/Electronics/Guitar/Voice/Arcade Games
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Not Another Fucking Aerie Tape BASL5 - C90 - February 1982 By the start of 1982 Dave & Rob were getting a bit tired of the limitations of Aerie, so at the end of February they decided to give it a rest and do some other things for a bit. This was, therefore, intended to be their final outing. In what was to become typical Land of Yrx fashion they left off most of the best stuff they'd recorded during the two preceding months.
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Intertia Remains Dominant BASL7 - C46 - August 1982 Although Dave & Rob had already regrouped as The Land of Yrx to play live and were both working on solo recordings they had no intention of releasing any new group product for a while. Therefore they decided to do a compilation of the best Aerie material that hadn't been released, plus a couple of favourites from the earlier tapes. With typical luck, as they had changed their project name this album was very successful, and even got a national press review.
Dave Gate: Keyboards/Electronics/Voice
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Black Godzilla Meets The Emmanuel Swappers BASL9 - C46 - December 1982 With no Land of Yrx product in sight, but Intertia Remains Dominant selling it was decided to rob the corpse of aerie one last time.
Dave Gate: Keyboards/Electronics/Guitar/Arcade Games
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