Instant Music
Instant Music is the trio of Bernd Schöll (Bass, Vocals, Rhythm), Mike Hauer (Guitar, Synth, Percussion) and Marion Siekmann (Vocals) from Munich, Germany. They formed in 1980 after meeting through mutual friends attending the local art and graphic design school. The trio were dissatisfied with their surrounding musical environment. Inspired by the Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, and Giorgio Moroder, they set out to create their own brand of Neue Deutsche Welle fusing Dada, disco and Krautrock.Ov…
Requiem In The Sun / Re-Musick / Demise Symphonika
This is the first in a series of various compilations to come with a focus on the 80’s japanese Minimal/Synth/Wave and electronica. While Japan is very known for the Japanese Noise (almost as Germany is known for NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) or 70’s Kraut (Progressive).Electronic Music this aspect of the 80’s Japanese Music Culture still seems to be less explored and exposed to the interested listeners. In the early 80’s you had several outstanding labels such as Vanity releasing great artist…
Galen Herod Word & Musics Recordings 1983-88
Galen Herod has always considered himself a “recording artist”. Not in the traditional sense, as in, “recording artist Frank Sinatra!” But as an actual description of what he does. Sometimes the art he records even turn into songs. That’s what this 2 LP set is all about. While creating several cassettes of his homemade modular electronics in 1980/81 he created 3 cassettes of improv/post-rock/synth recordings with Phoenix area compatriots ’Metalmonkey’ and in 1981 he met Greg Horn and the…
Glowing in the Dark
Highly anticipated reissue of the 80's Dance/Synth-Classic "Glowing in the Dark" Originally released on Short Circuit Records (SCR-002) in 1984 it contains the three classic Tracks Glowing in the Dark, Love Changes and The Mannequin. Experimental Products started as a two member synthesizer group in 1982 operating from Philadelphia Pa. Founding members were Mark Wilde and Michael Gross. The band grew to 4 members by 1987. Their self-released Lp 'Prototype' using Analog synthesizers and drum…
Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past
Severed Heads are one of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Garry Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads was…
Operating on specific cues / Early Works 1982-86
LeLu/Lu's were an early to late 80's electronic/synth-based project based around Deni (in the early 80's known as Yo-Yo and nowadays known as Timekode). In 1985 they released a fantastic 12 song tape on Unlikely Records (URT91) called "Operating on Specific Cues" which forms the basis of this 25 track 2 LP compilation release. While the tape is still rather unknown to fans of synth music, the three 7"s released from 1985-87 (on Alain Neffe's Insane Music as well as Possum and R&D Records), with …
Mutant Generation
Kevin Lazar is a minimal-synth, electro-acid-techno-pioneer from Chicago who is still active nowadays in the DJ and Electro-culture today as Vekzar. This Lp-Compilation contains his first and highly sought-after 26 minute-Tape "MUTANT 111" from 1982 (recorded late 1981 to Summer 82) as well as his unreleased 4-Track EP "DARK HEART CABARET" intended for release in 1983 plus 3 more previously unreleased Tracks from 1982 and 83. In 1983, Alex Dougal's CLEM (Contact List of Electronic Music) …
TV Scape
Kuruki was a Belgian minimal synth-pop band project spearheaded by Ghent-based musician Gerry D’Haeyer and Alain Bureau. The band was founded early 1980’s and shortly after it’s conception a first release was recorded. The single “Crocodile tears” immediately hit the charts and became a hit.
Afterwards the band released 12 inches including maxi single “Such a liar”. After intensive touring a new single “Just a cat” was spawned in 1983. As a live band at that time Alan Gevaert, from dEUS, and Chr…
Celestial Joy
Celestial Joy has been recorded by Edmund Xavier at Video West in San Francisco in occasion of Horrid Red first West Coast tour and first ever live appearances. As from the title, Celestial Joy is a step away from the depressive synth punk of their first releases. Instead, there is some sort of light cleaved through this album, though only a weak light can filter to the depth of the dark environment we are moving in. The recording session saw the newly established core trio of Edmund Xavier, Bun…
The M.A.L. Tapes
One side full of great Minimal/Synth-Tracks from his early 80’s Tapes „Chemistry“, „Two Faces“ and „Outlaw“ on labels like Grafika Airline and Insane Music; the other side with two mind-blowing and -opening electric-guitar-tracks from 1971-74 which will definately touch your consciousness for music-history and hopefully help re-writing it. Alain Neffe of Pseudo Code / Bene Gesserit (Insane Music) participated on two of the pieces. M.A.L.'s cassettes have been remastered in superb sound quality b…
When the night is Cruel (1979-1988)
This double album includes two chocked full LPs of 80’s tracks (29 in all) that include rare songs previously not made available on vinyl, never heard and previously unreleased material, as well as classics from that era that have not been available on vinyl for nearly three decades. The two discs will be packaged in one of those 70’s style gatefold covers first popularized buy the progressive bands of that time. It will contain rare Mark Lane photographs of that era, and liner notes that includ…