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Celebrated new wave compilation from Japan reissued for the first time on Glossy Mistakes A much cherished gem from the 1980s underground Japanese music scene returns as Soft Selection 84 is reissued by Glossy Mistakes for its 40th anniversary Originally released on DIY label Soft the compilation sees 13 tracks...
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A post modern mixtape of 12 micro genres created by The Numero Group Bending the rules of the compilation with a selection of songs bound by their soaring spirit and adventurous approach REACH is inspirational living for algorithmic times Available as a limited edition LP with broadsheet liner notes...
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nbsp Dark Entries flashes back to the grimy streets of New York City circa 1982 to bring us an unreleased album from cult outfit Ike Yard Comprised of Stuart Argabright Michael Diekmann Kenneth Compton and Fred Szymanski Ike Yard sits between the sinewy proto body music of the Neue Deutsche...
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Wewantsounds presents this reissue of Brion Gysin s cult avant funk album produced by Ramuntcho Matta in the early 80s The hugely influential Gysin who with his friend William Burroughs was revered by the likes of David Bowie Brian Jones Laurie Anderson and Genesis P Orridge is accompanied here by...
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Platform 23 Records meandering and sporadic journey continues digging up archival treasures of known and unknown music sonics The label s close association with Paris based ethno industrialists Vox Populi continues here returning to their most heralded and possibly cohesive album in Half Dead Ganga Music The beautifully apt title...
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Desire shares Escape their new album written and recorded in Los Angeles and Palm Springs California Inspired by the ultra vivid world of 1970 s giallo films they wrote the soundtrack of their dreams using their favorite musical instruments Minikorg Jupiter 8 909 Mellotron Simmons Rhythm Modules String Machine a...
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A career retrospective of the experimental composer an exploration into many inner worlds and dreamscapes an analogue mirage of avant garde gems...
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A trailblazing amalgam of elevator friendly R amp B and synth forward smooth jazz Tony Palkovic s 1986 debut goes down easy as a huff of dentist issued nitrous Born With A Desire s silky grooves and bursts of drum machine 1 0 endure as an 80s vision of future...
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Danielle Boutet s Pièces is a mysterious artifact of Quebecois marginalia self released in 1985 Moving from languid ennui to high drama Pièces is a dreamy gestalt an album that borders Chanson spoken word jazz noir and minimalism conjured from the chasm between acoustic and electronic realms Pièces allows us...
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Platform 23 returns to where it began working the Vox Man Records to bring their compelling and unique archive to light going beyond the hugely successful Alternative Funk compilations that launched the label to again create a compilation from their cult cassette releases in...
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Rev initially explored free jazz and similarly free forms of musical expression before discovering the magnetic attraction of electronic production and instrumentation enabling him to create music in a wholly independent and autonomous environment Using the most rudimentary equipment he grafted the roots of rock n roll into the process...
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nbsp Nervous Gender Äôs legendary synthpunk LP Music From Hell burbles up from infernal depths to resurface on Dark Entries Confrontational unhinged and unabashedly queer Music from Hell is an unholy grail for fans of the strangest underbellies of post punk minimal synth and early industrial music and is presented...
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Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post punk group The Sound but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo creating these intense and engaging songs as...
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Cititrax is delighted to announce two new releases by Cosmetics a Vancouver based synth wave duo formed by Nic Emm and Aja Emma in 2008 Cosmetics reappeared in 2022 after having been relatively quiet since its very memorable releases on Captured Tracks in 2010 In 2023 the band returns with...
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The original 1987 studio album by the highly lauded Martin Dupont often referred to as a masterpiece Thus far this remastered version of the album has only been available as part of The Complete Collection 1980 1988 5 LP Box Set <iframe title= YouTube video player src= https www youtube...
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Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up again to release another volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco based musician and producer Patrick Cowley Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the canon of disco music Cowley created his own brand of Hi NRG...
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What s good comes fast Two years after Ad van Meurs met Frank van den Nieuwenhof in the famous Happy End in Eindhoven the first album of the World According To W A T was released The foundation for Defreeze a six track mini album was laid in the living...
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While she was still a member of Nasmak one of the leading bands of the Dutch ultra movement Truus de Groot started Plus Instruments in 1978 with herself as the sole member When the project evolved she found a wide range of rotating collaborators like Michel Waisvisz Lee Ranaldo and...
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Woo the project of brothers Mark and Clive Ives return to Palto Flats for the reissue of Into The Heart Of Love originally released on cassette in 1990 Formed in the seventies in South London the duo developed a cult following over the years with renewed interest in their catalog...
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Hatıralar was Anadol s second album originally composed between Berlin and Istanbul around 2012 and released years later only in digital form on the Istanbul based label Inverted Spectrum The title Hatıralar Memories turns out to be a self fulfilling prophecy Anadol recalled and revisited the music in 2023 gently...
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New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare destitute dirty and dangerous As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma Armed only with amplified AC current Suicide s Alan Vega and Marty Rev set out to save...
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Welsh post punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then like their vanishing portraits on the album s cover disappeared Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock n roll history relegated to...
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Sony Legacy is reissuing the catalog of the utterly unique New Wave standout Klaus Nomi in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his untimely death with four albums now on streaming services and new CD and vinyl reissues to follow next month The label is reissuing Nomi s two studio...
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Sony Legacy is reissuing the catalog of the utterly unique New Wave standout Klaus Nomi in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his untimely death with four albums now on streaming services and new CD and vinyl reissues to follow next month The label is reissuing Nomi s two studio...
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Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti s remastered limited edition vinyl series continues with Pagan Tango originally released in 1991 Available on vinyl for the first time since original release The series has seen many of Chris amp Cosey s influential albums available on vinyl for the first time giving...
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Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti s remastered limited edition vinyl series continues with Trust originally released in 1989 Available on vinyl for the first time since original release The series has seen many of Chris amp Cosey s influential albums available on vinyl for the first time giving listeners...
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Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti s remastered limited edition vinyl series continues with Technø Primitiv originally released in 1985 Available on vinyl for the first time since original release The series has seen many of Chris amp Cosey s influential albums available on vinyl for the first time giving...
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That A side taps into the same iridescent feels as classic LFO pre Junglist Gerald Accelerator era FSOL 808 State all about those pads and strings pure emotional meltdown if you re of a certain disposition On the flip it s a couple of years later spiritual comedown midnight at...
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Mute reissues Our Likeness by the renowned avant garde artist Originally released in 1992 Our Likeness was Phew s second solo album following her self titled debut This long out of print album saw Phew collaborate with the legendary and peerless Alexander Hacke hackedepicciotto Einstruzende Neubauten Jaki Liebezeit CAN and...
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LP version In 1986 Arthur Russell was diagnosed with HIV that same year he released his career defining masterpiece World of Echo the first and only solo album issued during his lifetime Arthur had found his voice and a fresh direction with a set of new transformative material unlike anything...
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First time vinyl reissue Originally released in 1982 The seminal EP In Rhythm is the sole 1982 release by post punk mutant disco wizards Scream And Dance A necessary addition to the influential Bristol scene dominated by Rip Rig and Panic Pop Group and the likes Originally recorded and released...
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Formed in Stratford near New Plymouth New Zealand in 1981 Nocturnal Projections was the explosive project of legendary and prolific brothers Graeme and Peter Jefferies who would later form This Kind of Punishment before launching their solo careers who along with friends Brett Jones and Gordon Rutherford created some of...
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Founded in Cologne Germany in 1985 Pink Turns Blue s blend of atmospheric dark pop informed by European post punk contemporaries and buzzing punk dissonance of Hüsker Dü the band is named after the Zen Arcade song immediately tapped into a new canon of sound that was foundational to the...
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Recorded on the heels of their debut album If Two World Kiss reissued in tandem by Dais Records and informed by the band s oscillating live synergy and bolstered by a boon of new equipment and texture Pink Turns Blue s sophomore 1988 album Meta was a conceptual leap predicated...
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2023 repress Pablo s Eye is the science of studio pressure when engineer becomes artist Appropriating left and right as well as front and back Pablo s Eye uses the mixing desk to examine and exhaust the possibilities of moments Pablo s Eye is a record of that examination and...
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Deep into lockdown Frank Harris pulled out Bernie Grundman s original 24 track masters of the In a Minor Mode EP digitizing and exploring the original multi track recordings Inspired by newly rediscovered parts recovered from the editing floor what followed was a faithful but full blown reimagining of Loveroom...
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Wewantsounds announce the vinyl reissue of Ramuntcho Matta s rare first self titled album from 1985 mixing funk no wave and ambient soundscapes The album released on tiny French label Mosquito was conceived as the soundtrack for French choreographer Régine Chopinot s play VIA with costumes by fashion rising star...
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Prinz amp Prinz is one of the most mysterious bands from 1980s Austria It remains unknown who the two of them actually were Their music has never been sold in shops either It only appeared on one of the obscure Youngers of Vienna compilations which were the outcome of a...
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Platform 23 again explores to the dense voids this time with a touch of the funk with a reissue of Dutch experimentalists De Fabriek and two tracks from their Music For cassette series this time calling all Hippies Featuring both original and reinterpretations from modern day heads Dunkeltier and Khidja...
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Self titled debut album from Sergeant released via the Belgian label Stroom It features nine tracks of experimental art pop complete with sombre vocals and intricate lyrics the overall atmosphere wouldn t have been out of place on Factory Benelux during the post...
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During the years he spent living in Amsterdam when his DJ career seemed to become an unstoppable juggernaut Tom Trago was a regular visitor to Deco Sauna a local institution that helped him decompress and de toxify his body Eventually a more extended period of decompression was needed with Trago...
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Kübler Ross is a minimal synth wave industrial three piece from Glasgow Scotland featuring Craig Clark Katie Shannon and veteran electronic producer and remixer producer Dave Clark best known for his Sparky moniker and as one half of the production remix team Optimo Espacio First emerging in 2015 with a...
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This is the new edition of Soul Jazz Records long out of print first New York Noise collection Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978 82 This new 2016 edition features classic New York post punk punk funk and no wave tracks...
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Reissue originally released in 1985 The Lo Yo Yo s only album from 1985 for the first time reissued on vinyl Featuring Mick Hobbs The Work Half Japanese and Alig Fodder Family Fodder produced by Charles Bullen This Heat The Lo Yo Yo was founded in 1984 by Family Fodder...
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Becoming Peter Ivers tells the story of the late Peter Ivers a virtuosic songwriter and musician whose antics bridged not just 60s counterculture and New Wave music but also film theater and music television Written and recorded in Los Angeles in the mid to late 1970s Becoming Peter Ivers raises...
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After the re issue of Ghia s Don t Leave Me Alone we continue the Austrian collaboration with Ghia s only known album release to date Originally from 1988 this album features 9 tracks that further deepen the aesthetic direction strongly established by the now digger delight single released the...
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The original Crammed band returns with a brand new opus entitled Figures a double album containing 22 tracks it took no less than that to accommodate the flow of ideas which arose after such a long gap Drawing again from the multiple sources which have always inspired the band from...
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Les Disques du Crepuscule present a new remastered vinyl edition of East amp West the bittersweet debut album by American singer songwriter Anna Domino originally released by the label in 1984 East amp West was recorded in Brussels in 1983 with guest contributions from Virginia Astley Blaine L Reininger of...
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