Breathing Problem - (2020) Mattress On The Floor Of A Dirty Mind, XXXtended / Uncut / Remixed 2xCS

Private Release – none

Interior One / Concave/Convex / Breathing Problem - (2019) Examples Of Abductions And Kidnapping In The United States Of America 3xCS

Private Release ‎– none

INTERIOR ONE - 18 Years

CONCAVE/CONVEX - I Built This For You

 

 

BREATHING PROBLEM - Strength And Honor

Charlie Mcalister - (2009) Maimed Spacemen 6'' Lathe

Rah Rah Records ‎– RahRah014

Angel - (2016) 2017 LP

 

 Faro – FARO-01 

It has been a while since we last heard from Adam Stonehouse, the genius behind The Hospitals - one of my favorite bands of the last decade or so. Adam is back with Angel. Synthed-out rock & roll with both pop and experimental sides to it, Angel is the logical (well, as much as Stonehouse and logic go together) next step from The Hospitals - but keep in mind we are talking an 8 year step from Hairdryer Peace to now, so do not expect the fantastic chaos of Hairdryer Peace. Angel is a different kind of weird, one rooted in T-Rex, Throbbing Gristle's Jazz-Funk Greats, Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer, dub, David Essex's Rock On, Bobby Brown, Negativeland, and Suicide's second album. Pretty fantastic.

Lenny And The Squigtones - (1979) Lenny & Squiggy Present Lenny And The Squigtones LP

Casablanca ‎– NBLP 7149

Delroy Edwards - (2014) Slowed Down Funk Vol. 3: Pure Evil CS

  L.A. Club Resource ‎– 011

VA - (2008) Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days 2xCD

The Dust-to-Digital label has compiled several exquisitely packaged anthologies of rare early- to mid-20th century roots and ethnic music, the two-CD (One/ Two) Victrola Favorites being no exception. What exactly the theme of this compilation is, however, is a little hard to ascertain, other than having been drawn from the collections of Robert Millis and Jeffery Taylor. The 48 songs could hardly be more geographically and stylistically widespread, ranging from early American jazz, blues, and folk to indigenous and ritual music from China, India, Turkey, Korea, Japan, Egypt, and the Republic of Congo. There's chanting from Chinese Buddhist nuns, spoken word, oud and bamboo flute solos, West Indian jazz-calypso, a Thai costume drama, and even an "actual recording of Big Ben and traffic noises" from London. Though the images of Victrolas and ancient recording labels and ads in the liner notes might prep you for tracks originating from the 1920s and 1930s, actually the chronological span it covers is wider than that, running from about 1910 to the early '50s (with some of the dates being estimated). There are occasional cuts of U.S. origin that are clearly ancestors of strains of American pop, and even one fairly well-known performer, Blind Boy Fuller, whose rhythmic 1938 blues "Step It Up and Go" isn't far removed from R&B and rock & roll. But these are considerably outnumbered by less conventionally accessible world music recordings. So you'll need to have wide tastes to get the most out of this, though that's something that can be said of several other Dust-to-Digital releases. If you are an adventurous listener with a general liking for world music and vintage folk/ethnic sounds, it's a thoughtfully assembled banquet of material that provides windows into cultures now vanished or nearly vanished, or at least rarely exposed to most 21st century Western listeners.

VA - (2007) People Take Warning! (Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938) 3xCD

This three-disc (One/ Two/ Three), 70-track (30 of them new to the CD era) collection of murder ballads and disaster songs originally released on commercial 78s between 1913 and 1938 is, in spite of the archaic song structures and often crude sonic qualities on display, strangely contemporary in tone and feel, maybe because we've always been drawn to the scene of the accident, and even in this 21st century world of the Internet and all-day, all-night news channels, that's still as true as it ever was. We just don't write songs about such things so much anymore, and since one can just flip on the TV to get up to speed on the latest round of personal, local, and global tragedies, that's probably understandable. A quaint view of why these old songs were so popular back in the day is to say that's how the news traveled back then, but that wouldn't be true. The news media in the early 1900s in America was every bit as dogged and sensational as it is now, and these tragic songs didn't carry the news so much as give it a community focus, good or bad, functioning as street-corner sermons, cautionary tales, or just plain gossip given melody. Some of these songs are straight observational narratives, but some of them have definite agendas.

The Legendary Pink Dots - (2007) ST 5xLP

Vinyl-On-Demand ‎– 048

"Tape recordings from 1980-82 including Kleine Krieg (originally packaged with a model kit of a tank or an aeroplane, intended to be assembled while listening to the music), Chemical Playschool Vols. 1 and 2 (the original cassette edition of which had 24 copies), outtakes, and Live in Cologne 1983."

VA - (2009) The Insane Box 4xLP & 7''

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD59 

Insane Music, run by Alain Neffe, has been one of the greatest and biggest tape labels promoting the international cassette-culture of the '80s. Label-owner Alian Neffe got approached by VOD to compile a 4LP Box with a 7" of his band/projects I Scream, Bene Gesserit, Subject, Human Flesh and Pseudo Code. Alain Neffe looked deeply into his archive and found many obscurities and unreleased material in combination with '80s tape classics and compiled this wonderful box-set. All box-sets will also contain a 2-track EP of newly recorded, mixed and produced songs by Bene Gesserit in the same spirit but with new equipment.

Van Kaye & Ignit - (2011) Anthology 80-85 5xLP & 10''

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD 86 

Great, fantastic minimal synth tracks from legendary Dutch duo Van Kaye + Ignit. Van Kaye aka Ed van Kasteren (studying art history and serving as the singer of Monomen in the late '70s) and Ignit Bekken (performing artist and painter studying to become an art teacher) met in early 1980 and started working and experimenting with synthesizers. The result were the highly sought-after minimal synth classics A Slight Delay (1981) and With a Little Help (1984), which they distributed and published through their own Ding Dong Records and Tapes label. Another ex-Monoman, William Wiusselink ala Wizkopf, joined the project in 1982. Van Kaye + Ignit's Ding Dong label also published beautifully designed releases of independent minimal wave artists such as The Legendary Pink Dots, Bene Gesserit, Anne Gillis, and many more, including the all-time classic must-have compilation Film Noir (1984). This box includes both tapes, A Slight Delay (as eight-track demo and 11-track original release) and With a Little Help, as well as the ultra-rare Picasso on the Wall 7" (1981), 17 compilation-contributions from 1981-'85 (including the tracks from the 1982 Radionome compilation), seven previously unreleased tracks and demos recorded between '80-'85, and a 30-minute live concert held in Rotterdam in 1983.

VA - (2013) Xenophone International Presents Cosmic Overdose / Twice A Man / Lars Falk 1979-1985 3xLP & 7''

 

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– vod113

This lmtd.500 3Lp-Box-Set is compiling the early Stage (1979-85) of the swedish Label Xenophone International founded by Dan Söderqvist and Karl Gasleben in late 70’s and which is well known for their own projects and Tape-releases by Cosmic Overdose (Final Koka, 1980) & Twice a Man (A Goat in a Room, 1983“) as well as the 1983-release „Through“ by the previous Twice a Man-member Lars Falk.

Now, and for the first time on Vinyl, all three of those highly collectable and searched-after Tape-Releases are now presented with additional Bonus-material in one nice 3Lp-Box-Set.

The three Bonus-Tracks on the Cosmic Overdose Lp include 1 previously unreleased Track from 1980 called „Defence“ as well as the two tracks („To Night“ and „Dead“) from their second 7“inch release previously released on Silence Records in 1980.

The Bonus-Tracks on the Lars Falk-Lp include the the two 7“inch-Tracks („TV-Eye“ and „Doors“) from the TV-Eye 7“inch released on Xenophone in 1985 as Xeno4.

VOD-Members will furthermore recieve an additional 3-Track 7“ including two tracks previously unreleased on Vinyl („Japanese letters“ and „Plan F“) and one Demo-Version of „Tribal Ways“ which has never been released before.

Irsol - (2015) First Contact / Half Life LP

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– vod138.8 

 It's late 1981 and Attrition's embryonic Black Prince Studio has set up in band member Ashley Niblock's bedroom in Coventry, England. Analogue synthesisers, drum machines and primitive 4 track recorder with tape echoes and spring reverbs. They would write and rehearse regularly during those early days. On the other days the studio was never idle... Ashley Niblock would moonlight with two of his school friends, Edward Pearson and Richard Woodfield...and IRSOL was born... A very different beast to the anarchic post punk noise and rhythms of the early Attrition, IRSOL was a more polished affair...even then...and far more influenced by the electronics of say Tangerine Dream. By summer 1982 they had produced their first self released tape called ‘First Contact’, gaining broader attention during the coming months and getting on the radar of Alan Rider who re-issued their first tape on his Adventure in Reality label. In 1983 they released their second tape ‘Half Life’ on Adventures in Reality. One side of studio recording and the other side a one-off live show at the old school - founded in 1344 - they all attended. The track ‘Reesoning’ from their first tape was then contributed to Gary Levermore's legendary Third Mind 5-Tape-Compilation ‘Rising from the Red Sand’ “Two wonderful cassette releases and a show at the school that I also went to, and IRSOL were gone... perhaps they weren't as stubborn as me in that way... or maybe I could never find anything better to do... I'm glad they are back...

Experimental Products - (2008) Prototype Plus Garage Tracks 2xLP & 7''

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD 51

"A 12" vinyl, double record set containing the music of EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTS. If you are a long time collector of 80s indie minimal synth looking to fill out your catalog or a novice interested in starting one up, there is no better place to start than with EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTS. A synth duo from Philadelphia/Northern Delaware USA, members Mark Wilde and Michael Gross produced 8-track gear recordings, then had their music pressed to vinyl. In 1984 they released the 3 song 12" EP "Glowing in the Dark," 2000 copies. "Glowing" proved irresistible to DJs and became a 1985 dance club chart breakthrough. Today, many DJs and collectors consider it a "classic" synth record. 2 years before "Glowing" they released a 10 song vinyl LP titled "PROTOTYPE," 300 copies. PROTOTYPE remained an obscure record until minimal synth collectors caught wind of it in the late 90s. PROTOTYPE became a high priced bidding item whenever the rare vinyl showed up on E-Bay. It seems EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTS had again produced what many collectors consider a "classic" 80s minimal synth record. VOD is now pleased to announce the re-issue of PROTOTYPE to high quality vinyl. Re-mastered by VOD from the original 1/4" master tapes, this re-issue has improved sonic quality not found on the original 1982 pressings. Own it now, experience it for yourself. PROTOTYPE will be LP-1 side A+B of the VOD double record set. GARAGE TRACKS, LP-2 of the GARAGE TRACKS side-A contains 5 unreleased songs from 1985, all synth- drum machine, again produced with 8-track gear this time in a band spare bedroom. Anyone familiar with the band can expect more EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTS brilliance. GARAGE TRACKS side-B contains six songs from a 1983 LIVE performance. There are live versions of 4 songs from PROTOTYPE, an unreleased song, and the song Mannequin from the "Glowing" EP."