Glorious Strangers ‎– Why Don't You Join The Army? [7''] (1980, Theoretical Records)

Glorious Strangers were a band started by audio engineer and record producer Wharton Tiers as a vehicle for his own compositions. In addition to Tiers, the group included Jean Seton Shaw on bass, Jan Ewing on keyboards, and lead vocals by Carol Tiers. The group was commonly associated with the no wave movement. [SOURCE: LAST.FM] 

Label: Theoretical Records ‎– TR-03 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single 

Country: US 

Released: 1980 

Style: Art Rock, No Wave, Minimal Wave

Tracklist:

A Why Don't You Join The Army? 2:49 

B Media, Media 3:23 

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The Fluid ‎– Clear Black Paper [LP] (1988, Sub Pop)

It should be pointed out that it was Denver outfit The Fluid that seemed to fire the first shot in the stakes which would later be deemed grunge rock not Seattle (although it came via Sub Pop). Previously there existed a taboo in the underground not to mix 70’s riffs with 80’s hardcore, yet as the 80’s progressed Black Flag seemed to almost lobby to have their name Flag changed Sabbath. The Fluid showed that punk could progress only so far before you had to seek outside influences. Tracks such as "Cold Outside", "It’s My Time", "Left Unsaid" and "Try Try Try" were powering and indicated that The Fluid were an act with enormous potential. Later efforts such as ‘Glue’ and ‘Roadmouth’ gleamed acclaim for The Fluid’s yet their golden moment clearly remained ‘Clear Black Paper’. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: Sub Pop ‎– SP 16 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: US, Canada, Germany

Released: May 1988 

Style: Alternative Rock, Garage Rock, Garage Punk, Grunge

Tracklist:

A1 Cold Outside 

A2 Nick Of Time 

A3 Lonely One 

A4 It's My Time 

A5 Left Unsaid 

B1 Try, Try, Try 

B2 Hall Of Mirrors 

B3 Much Too Much 

B4 Your Kinda Thing 

B5 New Questions 

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Experimental Products ‎– Experiment! [12''] (1987, Connection)

 

Experimental Products were a synth duo from Philadelphia / Northern Delaware. 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'. "Glowing In The Dark" proved irresistible to DJs and became a 1985 dance club chart breakthrough. Today, many DJs and collectors consider it a "classic" synth record. Two years before 'Glowing In The Dark' they released a 10 song vinyl LP titled 'Prototype', that remained an obscure record until minimal synth collectors caught wind of it in the late 90s. [SOURCE: VINYL-ON-DEMAND] 

Label: Connection ‎– R8787 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM 

Country: US 

Released: 1987 

Style: Electro, Synth-pop 

Tracklist:

A Experiment! (Club Mix) 

B1 Experiment! (Radio Edit) 

B2 Who Is Kip Jones? 

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Delta 5 ‎– See The Whirl'.. [LP] (1981, PRE Records)

Something definitely did go wrong here, the greetings of the saxophone on "Innocenti" lead to the problem right away. The production is glossy and cheesy which doesn't work well with cool post-punk music. You can still pull out moments of greatness from these recordings, their roundhouse (call / answer) style of clever vocals are still amusing. Musically they are no slouches either with unusually timed drumming that leads to a funkier edge and of course some cool bass work and jagged guitar lines. This is Delta 5's one and only full album sadly and poor sales broke the band up. Their biggest hit "Mind Your Own Business" isn't even on here, but "Anticipation", "Trail", "Telephone" and "Waiting" are and they are wonderful (even in worse versions). It's too bad that such a fantastic band had such poor treatment, that is probably the only reason they weren't more popular at the time because everything else lines up brilliantly. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: PRE Records ‎– prex 6, PRE Records ‎– PREX 6 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: UK, Netherlands, Italy, Japan

Released: 1981 

Style: New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk

Tracklist:

A1 Innocenti 

A2 Final Scene 

A3 Circuit 

A4 Open Life 

A5 Trail 

A6 Shadow 

A7 Delta 5 

A8 Anticipation 

B1 Journey 

B2 Make Up 

B3 Triangle 

B4 Waiting 

B5 Telephone 

B6 Different Fur 

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Certain General ‎– Holiday Of Love [12''] (1982, Labor)

Certain General is an American post-punk band formed in 1980 by Parker Dulany, Phil Gammage, Marcy Saddy, and Russell Berke. By 1981 and 1982 the band was performing in East Coast venues and colleges from Canada to Texas. Early shows found them sharing the stage with fellow New York and Boston bands such as DNA, Bush Tetras, Liquid Liquid, Mission of Burma, Raybeats, and Swans. Their prominence grew as their presence was increasingly felt within the downtown scene and the band found themselves at various times serving as the house band at both CBGBs and Danceteria, venues that are both now gone, but nonetheless remain legendary for the pivotal role they played in the club scene at the time. Certain General were almost synonymous with that scene, becoming ubiquitous hosts at such other venues as the Mudd Club, the Peppermint Lounge, The Rat, 9:30 Club, and downtown's Hoboken, NJ annex, Maxwell's. They would remain staples of this scene for several years. In 1982, the group signed with the New York independent record label Labor Records and recorded their debut, 'Holiday of Love'. The five-song EP was produced by Peter Holsapple of the The dB's and mixed by Michael Gira of fellow Labor Records label mates Swans. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA] 

Label: Labor ‎– LAB-18 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Mini-Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1982 

Style: Post-Punk, No Wave 

Tracklist:

A1 BC (Take My Head) 2:23 

A2 Back Downtown 1:54 

A3 Holiday Of Love 4:56 

B1 Leader-Out 4:02 

B2 Hello My God 6:49 

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Big Red Stain / La Otra Cara De Un Jardín ‎– Chronicle Of Consumptive Irritation / Brikollage [Cass] (1986, Sound Of Pig)

La Otra Cara De Un Jardín is the pseudonym used by the multidisciplinary artist Francisco Felipe from Madrid. Under this mysterious name, he develops a strong collage of processed sounds that reminds us of the sound experiments of foreign projects such as the French Etant Donnes. In 1986, the split 'Chronicle Of Consumptive Irritation / Brikollage' was released for the Sound of Pig label (U.S. Industrial / Experimental / Electronic / Noise tape label run by Al Margolis in New York), together with Big Red Stain (Karin Flectcher, U.S.A.). [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80] 

Label: Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 48 

Format: Cassette, C60 

Country: US 

Released: 1986 

Style: Industrial, Experimental, Sound Collage, Noise

Tracklist:

A1 – Big Red Stain Intrusion 

A2 – Big Red Stain Séance 

A3 – Big Red Stain Control? 

A4 – Big Red Stain Gravedigger 

A5 – Big Red Stain Absurdity In Heaven 

B1 – La Otra Cara De Un Jardín Insane Musak 

B2 – La Otra Cara De Un Jardín Acedía 

B3 – La Otra Cara De Un Jardín Ahíto De Incertidumbres 

B4 – La Otra Cara De Un Jardín Renuencia 

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Aerial FX ‎– Watching The Dance [LP] (1982, Kamera Records)

'Watching The Dance' presents a tortured form of new-wave and synth-pop, that is at times reminiscent of the ethereal atmospheres of Modern Eon ("Out Of The Window") or early Simple Minds ("Accident"). Aerial FX are also clearly aware of the art-rock of the 70's, particularly the angst of Roxy Music and Van der Graaf Generator, as the 8-minute "Where is Tomorrow" proves. In short, another interesting (and cult) new-wave record. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: Kamera Records ‎– KAM 008 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: UK 

Released: 1982 

Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal, Minimal Wave, Post-Punk, Coldwave, Goth Rock

Tracklist:

Watching The Dance 

A1 Out Of The Window 

A2 Who Is Down There 

A3 Hold Me 

A4 5.15 

A5 Instant Feeling 

Strange Sour In The Seed 

B1 Servitors 

B2 Accident 

B3 Where Is Tomorrow 

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100 Flowers ‎– Drawing Fire [12''] (1984, Happy Squid Records)

Arriving a year after the group's sole full-length album, the five-song EP 'Drawing Fire', 100 Flowers' final release, shows that things were still flying high artistically for the trio. The leadoff track, "Bunkers," uses calm (but by no means sweet) backing vocals and all manner of found sounds to add to the crisp drive of the song. "Long Arm of the Social Sciences" avoids having to come up with lyrics to match the great title by being a chugging instrumental with some fine guitar from Johansen, something he also provides, in a weirdly sweet way, to "Triage." "Contributions" meshes attractive guitar chimes with an uneasy droning buried deep in the mix and extremely disturbing lyrics from Talley-Jones, while "Let's Not" wraps it up with a last little kick of energy and art / thrash. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

Label: Happy Squid Records ‎– HS 012 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Mini-Album

Country: US 

Released: 1984 

Style: Punk, Post-Punk

Tracklist:

A1 Bunkers 

A2 Long Arm Of The Social Sciences 

A3 Triage 

B1 Contributions 

B2 Let's Not 

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Various ‎– The Fight Is On [LP] (1985, L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)

The now-defunct Belgian label L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords started by Marc Monin released early work from several renowned industrial / experimental artists such as Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Laibach. L.A.Y.L.A.H. operated as a sub-label of Les Disques du Crepuscule for manufacturing & distribution but A&R was independent of Crepuscule. This album is a classic industrial compilation. 

Label: L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords ‎– LAY 10 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation 

Country: Belgium 

Released: 1985 

Style: Modern Classical, Industrial, Experimental, Ambient 

Tracklist:

A1 – Coil Sicktone 3:21 

A2 – 93 Current 93 A Visit To Dogland 6:04 

A3 – The Hafler Trio "Blanket" Level Approach 4:17 

B1 – Robert Haigh Music For Piano 3:03 

B2 – Lustmørd Invocation Of Shiva 4:01 

B3 – Lustmørd Dreams Of Dead Names 2:37 

B4 – Nurse With Wound Stick That Chick And You'll Feel My Steel Trough Your Last Meal 5:44 

B5 – Organum Talon 1:22 

B6 – Organum Veil 2:05 

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Ya Ya Choral ‎– What's A Quaver? [12''] (1983, M Squared)

Beginning life as an experimental electronic outfit, Sydney band Ya Ya Choral became a much-admired, if commercially unsuccessful, hard rock outfit over the course of a decade. Ya Ya Choral's first release was the EP 'Such a Dutch Man' on M Squared in 1982, followed by the 'What's a Quaver?' album in July 1983. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

Label: M Squared ‎– M2021 

Format: Vinyl, 12", EP, 45 RPM, Mini-Album 

Country: Australia 

Released: 1983 

Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, Experimental, Minimal Synth

Tracklist:

A1 My Friend The Chocolate Cake 

A2 Gee Lately 

A3 Jolly Work 

B1 Cowboys Are Pt 2 

B2 Complain Your Way To Success 

B3 You Ruined My Fun 

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WeR7 ‎– Rock'n'Roll Is The Most [Cass] (1983, Music For Midgets)

WeR7 formed in London. Members of WeR7 Anthony Clough and Gary Ramon can be found on The Ordinary, The Casual Labourers, The Door And The Window, The Modern Art, New 7th Music and Mystery Plane. "Jo Change" was recorded on 4-track and previously released on the compilation 'A Tribute To Jo Change'; "Don't Surrender" was featured on the cassette 'Dance To This'. All other tracks are sound-on-sound recordings which have not been previously released. 

Label: Music For Midgets ‎– none 

Format: Cassette, C60 

Country: UK, Switzerland, France

Released: 1983 

Style: Electro, Experimental, Minimal Wave

Tracklist:

A1 She's My Baby 

A2 A Tribute To Jo Change (1) 

A3 Lost George 

A4 "...Snakes Sang" 

A5 Let Freedom Reign 

A6 A Place Of My Own 

B1 Radio Dromedary 

B2 Promised Land 

B3 Haunted House 

B4 "Obviously Nigger Music" 

B5 Jo Change (2) 

B6 Yesterday 

B7 Don't Surrender 

B8 Lard 

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Vocoder ‎– Vocoder [LP] (1987, Neon Danza)

Vocoder was formed in 1981 in Zaragoza. Antonio Laval and Ildefonso Olarte, young high school classmates, together with Antonio Tenas, from Radio Juventud, formed this group inspired by the "Movida Madrileña" and the synth-pop. With the incorporation of Pilar Pellicer they have a positive response of Neon Danza (Discos DRO) that leads to record the Maxi 'What Happens Now' in 1984, 'Mindanao' in 1985 and the LP 'Vocoder' in 1987, published in several countries of South America. [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80] 

Label: Neon Danza ‎– 4ND - 023 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador

Released: 1987 

Style: Electro, Synth-pop 

Tracklist:

A1 Mi Chica Tiene Un Lio Con Satan 4:26 

A2 Educacion 4:29 

A3 Monopolis 4:01 

A4 En Mi Oscuridad 4:15 

B1 Hacker 4:35 

B2 Me Sabe A Ti 2:56 

B3 Don Juan 4:30 

B4 Radiotelescope 8:58 

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Un Département ‎– Un Département [Cass] (1984, Illusion Production)

Un Département was a French Minimal Wave and Experimental Rock trio formed in 1980 in Orléans and disbanded in 1985. Members were Marcel Kanche (saxophone, vocals), Phil Gaz (bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards) and Bruno Tollard. They released one 7” and one 12” 1981, one tape in 1984 and one LP in 1985 (‘Le Album’). After Un Département disbanded Marcel Kanche was in various punk bands that allowed him share stage with, among others, Les Rita Mitsouko, Pere Ubu, Alan Vega or The Cure. This tape sounds like a meeting between Foetus and Smegma, and Steven Stapleton lurking quietly.

Label: Illusion Production ‎– IP 017 

Format: Cassette, C30 

Country: France 

Released: 1984 

Style: Experimental, Abstract, Art Rock, New Wave, Minimal Wave, Experimental Rock, Industrial

Tracklist:

A1 Drawing Of A Cup 

A2 Drawing Of Two Guys 

A3 Drawing Of A Bull 

A4 Drawing Of A Girl Face 

B1 Drawing Of A Pear 

B2 Drawing Of A Clown 

B3 Drawing Of A Bicycle 

Notes:

Cassette is affixed to a cover paper and a sturdy cardboard. 

Track titles are drawings instead of written titles. 

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Tiny Desk Unit ‎– Naples [12''] (1981, 9½ x 16" Records)

Tiny Desk Unit was a psychedelic dance band playing around Washington DC in 1979. In its short and fiery history Tiny Desk Unit released one LP and one EP on its 9½" x 16" record label. The band first formed, rehearsed and performed at dc space on September 11th 1979. When the 9:30 Club opened its doors on May 30th 1980, Tiny Desk Unit was the first band to take the stage. The band rehearsed in the rat infested basement of the 9:30 Club and many of the band members lived within a few blocks of the club. On a few occasions Tiny Desk Unit were joined on stage by some of their favorite people, include Julius Hemphill of World Saxophone Quartet fame, and Laurie Anderson. Tiny Desk Unit stopped playing together in the winter of 1981. [SOURCE: DISCOGS] 

Label: 9½ x 16" Records ‎– #010.5 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM 

Country: US 

Released: 1981 

Style: Art Rock, Post-Punk 

Tracklist:

A1 Take Me To Paris 5:03 

A2 Napping In Japan 3:35 

B1 Standing There 6:02 

B2 Couscous 5:19 

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Los Seres Vacios ‎– La Casa De La Imperfección [12''] (1982, 3 Cipreses)

The birth of Los Seres Vacios at the end of 1982 was due to the constant creative activity of Ana Isabel Fernandez (Ana Curra) and Eduardo Benavente who, not happy with the success they were having with Paralisis Permanente, decided to create this new group. Los Seres Vacios are framed in the sinister Spanish wave, although with its own style. Their songs are capable of creating dark atmospheres, dark but always with subtlety. Los Seres Vacios edited three EPs, all of them on the Tres Cipreses label. The first of them, 'La Casa de la Imperfección', was published in 1982 and produced by Eduardo Benavente. [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80] 

Label: 3 Cipreses ‎– 3C-007 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM 

Country: Spain 

Released: 1982 

Style: New Wave, Goth Rock 

Tracklist:

A Los Celos Se Apoderan De Mi 

B La Casa De La Imperfección 

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The Rip ‎– Stormed Port [12''] (1987, Flying Nun Records)

The Rip is a notoriously (lyrically) morose and musically upbeat second wave Dunedin post-punk group with one EP, the thrashy and melodic 'A Timeless Peace' to their name. In 1987, The Rip will add another record, the 'Stormed Port' EP. More a solo Alastair Galbraith project than a group effort, the second record has classic Rip tracks such as ‘Entropic Carol’ joining the more challenging and impressionistic work that anticipates the composer’s solo years. [SOURCE: AUDIOCULTURE] 

Label: Flying Nun Records ‎– FN069 

Format: Vinyl, 12" 

Country: New Zealand 

Released: 1987 

Style: Acoustic, Dunedin Sound

Tracklist:

A1 River/Chasm 

A2 Starless Road 

A3 Stormed Port 

B1 Entropic Carol 

B2 Wrecked We Hymn 

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