Николай Коперник ‎– Родина [CD] (2005, Not On Label)

Николай Коперник ("Nicolaus Copernicus", also known as Nikolay Kopernik) is a Russian art-rock / new wave / psychedelic / neo-romanticism band from Moscow, founded in 1981 by singer, guitarist and composer Yuri Orlov. The group gained a wide popularity after the release of their debut reel-to-reel album 'Родина' ("Motherland") in 1986. Nicolaus Copernicus became one of the most original and eccentric projects on the Moscow underground rock scene, alongside with such bands as Zvuki Mu and Center. They had a chance to rehearse and work with many Western musicians, including Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Chrissie Hynde. They also played on the same stage with The Sugarcubes at the large rock-festival Lituanika in Vilnius, Lithuania. The band went on a permanent hiatus in 1993 but was revived by Yuri Orlov in 2000s with a new line-up. [SOURCE: DISCOGS] 

Label: Not On Label (Николай Коперник Self-released) ‎– none 

Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Digipak 

Country: Russia 

Released: Nov 2005 

Genre: Rock 

Style: New Wave 

Tracklist:

1 Люди Мира 3:10 

2 В Небесах Лазурных 5:09 

3 Дымки 4:48 

4 Муза 2:34 

5 Юкагиры 4:41 

6 Коники 1:46 

7 Звезда 5:17 

8 Ты Далеко 7:50 

9 Артельный Трактор 2:19 

10 Родина 6:46 

Notes:

℗ 2005 © 1985 

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Mecanique Vegetale ‎– Musique Pour Self-Service [Cass] (1981, Grafika Airlines)

Mecanique Vegetale is an enigma -unclear if it is one man or one band. This is an experimental album with strong industrial and ambiental influences which are conveyed through cheap-ass synths in a drone-like fashion. The tracks almost exclusively rely on short melodies being repeated for their whole duration, with a couple of layers of various sounds added in because why not. Not only experimental but also avant-garde, melody is sometimes thrown out the window and replaced by the paranoid sounds of the synthesizer. 

None of the tracks are particularly memorable, excepting three longer compositions: "Ballade Mystique" and "Sorry for the Sound" which are arguably the best tracks on the recording. They create a dark atmosphere reminiscent of Dark Ambient which hangs heavily in the air. They are easily the most interesting as they are also the ones which evoke a particular mood and can justify their length -the rest of the tracks are experimental curiosities which are way longer than they should be. 

The other memorable track is "Brouillard Diabolique", another lengthy, dark composition which, unlike the previously mentioned songs, tries to combine a mood with the tired synth lines that would belong in most of the tracks of this album. The droning, and honestly bad synth lines ruin any sense of ambience that the track could have been able to achieve. Recommended to those fascinated with obscurities and experimental albums that throw the rules out the window. For most people, this would only feel boring and befuddling. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: Grafika Airlines ‎– GRA8 

Format: Cassette, C60 

Country: Belgium 

Released: 1981 

Style: Industrial, Experimental, Minimal, Minimal Synth

Tracklist:

A1 Intetatia 3:02 

A2 Ne Cherchez Plus Le... 3:49 

A3 Sorry For The Sound 3:31 

A4 Ballade Mystique 4:34 

A5 Chasse Gardée 4:18 

A6 Choeurs De L'Abbaye 4:42 

A7 Vue Sur La Mer 1:59 

A8 Qui A Tué L'Eucharistie? 2:55 

A9 Sanctuaire Primitiff 1:56 

B1 La Sirène De Biarritz 3:00 

B2 Il Était Une Fois Dans L'est 3:46 

B3 La Décadence Du Chasseur 2:50 

B4 Saignements Ordinaires 1:48 

B5 Non Retour 3:06 

B6 La Danse Du Lièvre 2:27 

B7 La Solitude Du Piège 3:40 

B8 Brouillard Diabolique 6:18 

B9 Résurgence 3:45 

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Lemon Kittens ‎– Cake Beast [12''] (1980, United Dairies)

Lemon Kittens was a short lived experimental group formed by Karl Blake in his home town of Reading. Karl asked Danielle Dax to design the cover for an EP, Danielle joined, and pretty soon the group became a duo. Signed by Nurse With Wound's John Fothergill, they became part of the United Dairies label's roster of eclectic and bizarre acts on the very outer fringes of the UK's alternative scene. Splitting in 1982, Danielle became a successful indie solo act, although her bid to make the mainstream ultimately failed. Karl ploughed ahead into more obscure realms with his group Shock Headed Peters, and occasionally playing as a member of Current 93 and Sol Invictus. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: United Dairies ‎– UD 07 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM 

Country: UK 

Released: 1980 

Genre: Electronic, Rock 

Style: Experimental 

Tracklist:

A1 Kites 

A2 Only A Rose 

B Popsykle 

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Kitchens Of Distinction ‎– The Last Gasp Death Shuffle [7''] (1987, Gold Rush Records)

The lush, dreamlike British pop trio Kitchens of Distinction were formed in London in 1986 by singer / bassist Patrick Fitzgerald, guitarist Julian Swales, and drummer Dan Goodwin. Taking their name from a Hygena advertisement, they issued their 1987 debut single, 'Last Gasp Death Shuffle', on their own Gold Rush label, signing to One Little Indian after the record garnered Single of the Week honors in the pages of the NME. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]

Label: Gold Rush Records – GRR3 

Format: Vinyl, 7", Single 

Country: UK 

Released: 1987 

Genre: Rock 

Style: Indie Rock 

Tracklist:

A The Last Gasp Death Shuffle 

B Escape! 

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Joanna Brouk ‎– Golden Swan [Cass] (1983, Hummingbird Productions)

California-based Joanna Brouk composed slow, sparse works intended for meditation and reflection, utilizing acoustic instruments, vintage synthesizers, field recordings, and the human voice. Her music was inspired by classical minimalism, but it was embraced by the burgeoning new age movement during the 1980s. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949, Brouk moved to Berkeley, California in 1970 to study literature. Inspired by the cadences of poetry and the human voice, as well as the rhythms and soundings of nature, she began creating music. She spent numerous hours experimenting with synthesizers at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, and studied under the tutelage of avant-garde legends Robert Ashley and Terry Riley. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

Label: Hummingbird Productions ‎– CH104 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1983 

Genre: Classical 

Style: New Age 

Tracklist:

A Going Through The Veil: Becoming A Swan 

B Dance In The Water: The Creation Of Angels 

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Inertia – Confection [Cass] (1981 Inertial Records)

Time for some Minimal Wave low-budget electronica from 1980, the peak era for electronic music, before the atrocity of Midi made everything play in time; 1980 BD (before digital). Inertia was a Douglas Benford project that edited the single 'The Screen / A Submarine', that contains a catalogue / analogue synth playing along to a home organ rhythm box, with passionless vocals that verge on talking. Sounds awful doesn't it? In some aspects it is musically non-existent, no melody, no song-craft. This is the sound of alienated youth, sick of the rock trip, finding their way in a new world of endless possibilities. Their best work was to come, but this is a charming moment in the birth pangs of minimal electronic pop, played by fingers not computers. [SOURCE: DIE OR D.I.Y.?] 

Label: Inertial Records ‎– ERT 4T 

Format: Cassette 

Country: UK 

Released: 1981 

Genre: Electronic 

Style: New Wave, Synth-pop 

Tracklist:

A1 Abstein 

A2 Secret Revival 

A3 Loosen Up 

B1 Fatima 

B2 Empty Evenings 

B3 Policy Of Indecision 

B4 Concentration-optimist 

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The Hollow Men ‎– Tales Of The Riverbank [LP] (1986, Dead Man's Curve)

The Hollow Men were a British alternative band from Leeds that caused a stir on the alternative music scene in Manchester during the mid to late '80s. Comprising frontman David Ashmoore, rhythm guitarist Choque, lead guitarist Brian E. Roberts, bass guitarist Howard Taylor, and drummer Jonny Cragg, the group made their name on the gig circuit by combining the lucid, psychedelic rock sound of the '60s with the upbeat, rhythmic aspects of acid house. Naming themselves after the poem by T.S. Eliot, the project initially began as a two-piece in 1985 with Ashmoore and Choque putting out their debut release, the single 'Late Flowering Lust' on their own label, Evensong. They were eventually joined by Taylor on bass duties for their debut album, 'Tales of the Riverbank'. The album was released through Dean Man's Curve along with their follow-up, 'The Man Who Would Be King', which featured Cragg and Roberts, thus completing the line-up. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

Label: Dead Man's Curve ‎– DMC015 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: UK 

Released: 1986 

Style: New Wave, Indie Rock

Tracklist:

A1 Cathryn-Wheel 

A2 Phillip 

A3 Jigsaw Man 

A4 Lightsoundynamics 

A5 Chimera 

B1 Ocean Lies 

B2 Waterfall 

B3 Raindrop Children 

B4 As Deep As The Sea 

B5 Starfish 

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Giancarlo Toniutti ‎– Epigènesi [LP] (1986, Giancarlo Toniutti)

Starting from free electroacoustic improvisations with Tiziano Dominighini in 1978 (later naming the duo "Airthrob In"), enlarging his palette with a Crumar analog synthesizer in late 1980. Giancarlo Toniutti studied electronic music at the Conservatory in Venice (1982-1985) under Alvise Vidolin. Since 1985 he's worked only with acoustic sound-sources with analog treatments (magnetic tape, etc.). His interest in visuals, installations and other art forms has been reflected in many of his works and other phenomena simply defined by Toniutti as "sound sites" as well as projects based on heterogeneous approaches to sonic acoustic materials. He has worked with many artists, including Siegmar Fricke, Andrew Chalk, Conrad Schnitzler and more recently James Wyness. [SOURCE: DISCOGS] 

Label: Giancarlo Toniutti ‎– K di Rⁿ 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Numbered 

Country: Italy 

Released: 1986 

Style: Abstract, Musique Concrète, Experimental, Dark Ambient, Industrial, Space Ambient

Tracklist:

A Tèndine Lividìssima Cesòia 27:45 

B Ethmòs-Crivèllo 23:47 

Notes:

Comes with a 40-page 26,5 x 19,5 cm sized hand numbered and signed book written by the Giancarlo Toniutti, with photos and drawing. LP cover and inside sleeve hand signed and numbered. 

"The recordings contained in this work consist in maltreatments of sound-sources, mainly acoustic, performed by me in Udine, in my home-studio and in some other different places, from 5.1.85 to 15.1.86. Such recordings were then by me assembled (technical maltreatment), from 14.1.85 to 15.1.86, and mixed, from 31.12.85 to 21.1.86, in my home-studio in Udine. This booklet contains works realized by me in Udine from 3.9.84 to 29.11.86, and four works by as many authors. This co-presence pursues my will of semantic extension to that external-me producing pregnant resonance. Thanks to: Jonathan Walker, Anthony Leone, Giuliana Stefani, Robin Stege, Enrico Piva, Andrea Zanzotto, Massimo Toniutti, Loris Ferron, Mauro Teardo, Natalia Mazzon, Giampaolo Giorgetti, René Thom. each one for a peculiar meaning." 

Tèndine Lividìssima Cesòia: 1985 

Ethmòs-Crivèllo: 1985-86 

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The Fizzbombs ‎– Sign On The Line... [7''] (1986, Narodnik)

The Fizzbombs were a short lived Edinburgh band who consisted of Katy McCullars on vocals, Margarita Vasquez-Ponte (Jesse Garon And The Desperadoes / Rote Kapelle) on guitar / backing vocals, Angus McPake (Jesse Garon And The Desperadoes) on drums and Ann Donald (Shop Assistants) on bass. The band existed between 1987 and 1989. 

That line-up released the 7″ single 'Sign On The Line b/w The Words That' (Nardonik, 1986) and they also released a track called "You Worry Me" on the 'Wild Rumpus' Flexi Disc (1987). McCullars and Donald left the band joining The Secret Goldfish. [SOURCE: LAST.FM] 

Label: Narodnik ‎– NRK-003 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM 

Country: UK 

Released: 1986 

Genre: Rock, Pop 

Style: Indie Rock, Indie Pop 

Tracklist:

A Sign On The Line... 

B The Words That 

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Eurogliders ‎– Pink Suit Blue Day [LP] (1982, Mercury)

Eurogliders were an Australian sextet (for a while) from Perth whose main driving force was guitarist and song writer Bernie Lynch. He also traded leading vocals with other main member Grace Knight. Lynch specialised in engaging new wave pop songs which were not always as simply as first appeared, and he particularly loved to douse his work with catchy choruses, sometimes repeated a number of times, while touching them up with imaginative instrumental bits and voice work. 

Ironically, having said Lynch loved his choruses, the opening "Jeepney Talk" doesn't really have one, although its mysterious sounds and vocoder vocals do grab the attention, but there're plenty of singalong moments afterwards, the likes of "Through Your Window", the soulful "Darkest Hour", "On The Nightline" and the closing "Americans" amongst the highlights. The lyrics throughout are quite cryptic. 

'Pink Suit Blue Day' remains a most worthwhile collection of early eighties Australian pop, and there's no real surprise that the Eurogliders went on to find considerable, if all too brief, popularity in the land of Oz. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: Mercury ‎– 6437 154 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Australasia 

Released: May 1982 

Genre: Electronic, Pop 

Style: New Wave, Synth-pop 

Tracklist:

A1 Jeepney Talk 

A2 Without You 

A3 Through Your Window 

A4 Laughing Matter 

A5 Darkest Hours 

B1 Get Me Out Of Here 

B2 Touching Me 

B3 On The Nightline 

B4 Time 

B5 Magneto 

B6 Americans 

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