Yankee act on Factory, halfway between Throbbing Gristle and Be Music … For an introduction, check the "1980-82 Collected" cd on Acute (ACT008, 2006) which features quite a bit of unreleased work from 1981-1982.
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/New_York_Noise_legends_Ike_Yard_return
http://www.ithacatimesartsblog.com/interview-with-gregg-gillis-of-girl-talk/stuart-argabright-of-ike-yard-talks-to-popcorn-youth/
http://blog.bleep.com/2010/10/21/bleep-interviews-stuart-argabright-ike-yard/
http://everythingischemical.blogspot.com/2011/01/eics10qs-wike-yard.html
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/ike-yard/1980-82-collected.htm
http://desire-records.blogspot.com/2010/07/ike-yard-nord.html
http://www.factmag.com/2010/10/12/ike-yard-return-with-nord/
http://www.phisteria.com/phi020.html
http://cerysmaticfactory.info/ike_yard.html
http://myspace.com/ikeyard

Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day!
http://www.robincrutchfield.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Crutchfield
http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/darkday.html
http://burningflameblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/robin-crutchfield.html
http://ripitupfootnotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/footnotes-5-chapter-4-contort-yourself.html
http://totallywiredbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2009/04/interview-with-robin-crutchfield-of-dna.html

... and the Peel version via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Sessions_1979%E2%80%931983 and the studio version via http://uzine.posterous.com/carol-with-snowy-red-and-a-machine-or-two or http://www.discogs.com/Orchestral-Manoeuvres-In-The-Dark-New-Stone-Age-Bunker-Soldiers/release/2545637 or http://www.omd.uk.com/discography/orchestral_manoeuvres_in_the_dark

Ann Steel was masterminded by Roberto Cacciapaglia. They recorded an untitled lp in 1979 (dedicated to the life and work of Guglielmo Marconi), of which "My time" was pulled as a single … and covered by Telex in 1980, on their "Neurovision" lp (both the English and the French version). Later on they released the disappointing "Media" 7" (1980, not on the original lp, bonus on the way too expensive cd via Recording Arts). Half Machine have reissued the lp (HMR020) on 2011-10-24 … by hipster demand, I'm sure ;-)

It's been some years since a complete Crash Course in Science collection was announced by News … so where is it, or whatever went wrong?
http://crashcourseinscience.com/
http://crashcourseinscience.com/index2.html
http://www.darkentries.be/nl/interviews/?iid=179
http://www.bodybeats.be/?language=en&navid=547
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Course_in_Science
http://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/crash-course-in-science/
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/oct/19/crash-course-post-punk/

Soulmusic.com Records (as distributed by Cherry Red) aren't just releasing expanded editions of albums by George Duke or Harvey Mason - see earlier posts - but also manufacture reissues of fine funky stuff by Barbara Ann aka Bobbi Humphrey, Loose Ends, Mtume, Roy Ayers and many more … "New Face Deli" (1986, here without the tedious intro) features William "Bootsy" Collins (who cowrote the song with James Mtume) while "Home-made jam" (1978) strongly reminds of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "A real mother for ya", no?
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/soul.asp
http://www.soulmusic.com/somure.html
http://soulmusic.com/loenlispexed.html
http://soulmusic.com/loensowharey.html
http://soulmusic.com/mtkithwogose.html
http://soulmusic.com/mtthofmicdsm.html
http://www.soulmusic.com/bohufrexeds5.html

Absolutely wanted to play Carol's "Breakdown" for ya - a track I'd already mentioned in my Snowy Red post, as he's backing her on this one. The track is also on the very excellent "A Man & A Machine III" v/a 2cd. The tracks by the Cabs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Drinking Electricity are presented here in the compilers' original sequence, just to show how well Stéphane Ritzenthaler and Philippe Pierre-Adolphe can create a musical flow, apart from having impeccable taste in eighties wave and avantgarde … Do check their "A Man & A Machine" series, I urge thee!

Wonderful tracks off my fave comp of the year: the "A Man & A Machine III" v/a 2cd (le Son du Maquis cat no. 214, rel. 2011-09-08). I could have picked any track, really, as the third volume is the best yet in the series. (Apparently it's won a Qwartz award for best electronics compilations. Don't think Qwartz or Maquis will win prizes for keeping their sites up to date, though.)