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Art Museums’ 7-inch “Shopping”
San Francisco’s Art Museums’ get dreamy and “desert disco” on their new 7-inch Shopping
Mp3: Pikachunes Get Dark On Self-Titled Debut
Auckland’s Pikachunes get dark and beat heavy on their self-titled LP.
Mp3: MINKS New album-Ophelia 7″ & Tour dates
MINKS’ new 7-inch Ophelia and upcoming tour MIGHT just get you through this winter months and…
Mp3: Dancing in Space With The New Division-Starfield mp3 download
L.A.’s The New Division produce high-quality and diverse electronic beat, making you want to dance…
RETRO MP3′S: The Transmitters “Count Your Blessings” (1987-1989)
Transmitters-Radio Studente Transmitters-Epiclectics Download The Transmitters HERE The Transmitters were a British alternative rock band active during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Mixing elements of punk, jazz and psychedelia, the band were critical favourites throughout their lifetime and played support slots for a wide variety of underground and mainstream bands, although this did [...]
GUEST POST: Excepter on the Green Pajamas
The Green Pajamas-Green Pajamas Guest post from John Fell Ryan of Excepter: Despite all the artistic and media triumphs, it’s been a tough year for Excepter. Recession, depression, injury, illness – you name it, we got it in spades. Nostalgia gets a bad rap, but I’ve always found it to be a powerful salve in [...]
Mp3: Synthetic Romance compilation download
Factor 10-Ever Since You Went Away D.H.S.S.-Together Synthetic Romance is chalk full of emerging synth-pop artists from the early 80′s. Dark Entries has digitalized the origianl LP and has made it available for download below. The back cover of the album reads: “Synthetic Romance – for people wanting a collection of modern and futuristic music. [...]
Dark Day: Album sampler ‘Window’ (1982)
Crutchfield’s post DNA outfit Dark Day recorded the incredible Window and released it back in 1982 a very rare release featuring dark minimal synths and aggressive wet timbres. Windows has been compared to the Martin Rev’s first solo album but cleaner sounding, you can download a portion of the album and buy the whole thing [...]
RETRO Mp3: The Tom & Marty Band (1980) Album download
Tom and Marty band-I had a dream The Tom & Marty Band Formed in 1980, and they liked to experiment with early electronic equiptment. They have a rather crude sound infused with spoken word and angry synths. They have described their sound as “Electronic Folk Music” and claim to be inspired by film, love, space, [...]
RETRO: Steaming Coals- A bunch of downloads 84′-88′
Steaming Coils-Lexor Quarter Stemaing Coils were an L.A. experimental underground group that started back in 84′ . Their sound is bizarre and spans many styles and influences. I was searching for the group Vas Deferens Organization and came across Steaming Coils. I was reading a comment on Ariel Pink post claiming that he shouldn’t be [...]
Mp3: The Plutonians:1981-1983 Rare New Wave Downloads
(Open post to download more songs) I recently posted an add on craigslist looking for lost DIY recordings from the 80′s and early 90′s and have had great response with a number of bands sending in their music. Scotty from The Plutonians was the first to respond. There was’nt much info on the net for [...]
Mp3:Lifetones “For a Reason” (1983) album download
Death Wears White Socks brings us another great album download from the early 80′s. Listen to Lifetones rad track “Good Side” and download the whole album below. Lifetones-Goodside Download Lifetones album “For a Reason” here. (make sure to unzip the downloaded file)
Mp3: Artefact – Agit ‘Pop (1981) album download
Artefact-Sex Computer France’s Artefact mixes minimal new wave synth music with a funky twist, download their whole album below courtesy of Death Wears White Socks. Download Artefact – Agit ‘Pop (1981)here
“Memories of the Future” Compilation Download
Les Aventures Sous La Mer-Determined Porpoise Our vintage electronic buddy Mr. Nissness sent info over to us about the new compilation “Memories of the Future” featuring one of his tracks and a bunch of other cool instrumental synth artists. The compilation features 76 minutes of instrumental electronic/chip and is available for download here. (make sure [...]
Rare Bob Chaos Recordings 1984-1986 (22 track download)
Band O Fun-Pi Phi This is for all you weirdos out there who like rare tape recordings from the 80′s. Bob Chaos Records was a cassette-only label out of Indiana. The label had only 15 releases between 1984-1988 which included strange bands ranging from rock to experimental lo-fi. Instead of letting these tapes deteriorate in [...]
Retro: “Tommy Jay’s Tall Tales of Trauma” Dwnld
Tommy Jay’s Tall Tales of Trauma, was released on cassette in 1986. It is such a great album with its psychedelic folk energy mixed with influences from the the Violent Femmes, early Talking Heads and Lou Reed. The songs kind of rotate going from beautiful folk pop songs to wierd 80′s synth pop with drum…..
Retro: Bomis Prendin (2 Free Albums)
Formed in 1978, five post-adolescent artists from Washington DC got together to create Bomis Prendin. Within a few weeks they were experimenting with noise in a living room full of amps, circuit bent toys, various analog effects, an old organ and some guitars. Listening to their music is like digging thru a ton of shit, and then being rewarded by finding a gold nugget.
Retro: Karen Cooper Complex-Shinjuku Birdwalk [1981] Download
The Karen Cooper Complex a six-piece band formed in 1970. Their music was a marriage between rock and free jazz. The group of outsider artists played loosely structured, improvisational rock that found itself in the realm of the avant guarde.
