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Recordings 1955-91 Vol. 2
Box 2 (VOD1.8-13) covering all his other contributions to vinyl and tape productions as well as unreleased recordings. Henri Chopin (1922-2008) was one of the most significant and influential avant-garde, sound and concrete poets of the second half of the 20th century. In his work as a sound poet, he was an early practitioner of a complex vocal art which he described and defined as poésie sonore , in which he used his voice, a microphone, and elementary "home" recording technologies to manipulat…
Recordings 1955-91 Vol. 1
Henri Chopin (1922-2008) was one of the most significant and influential avant-garde, sound and concrete poets of the second half of the 20th century. In his work as a sound poet, he was an early practitioner of a complex vocal art which he described and defined as poésie sonore , in which he used his voice, a microphone, and elementary "home" recording technologies to manipulate a vast tapestry of sounds with his compositions. As poet, painter, graphic artist and designer, typographer, independ…
Recordings 1975-1979
Larry Wendt (b. 1946, Napa California) began creating artistic text-sound compositions in San Jose, California in the mid 70’s and was a proponent of the use of "low-tech" and "repurposed" electronics. He was also among the early designers and users of “hand-built,” microprocessor-based, sound manipulation equipment to use in the production of his recorded work as well as in his on-stage performances. Active in the audio cassette culture of that time, many of his works were released and distribu…
Works 1977-79
French artist and autodidact Ghédalia Tazartès who is born in Paris in 1947 is a true nomad spending more than 30 years within musical practice and experimentation. Ghedalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person: the self is multitude and others, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. The extra-European music open the ear to Ghedalia's intra-European exotism. The permanent metamorphosis is a principle of composition, it escapes control, refuses classificat…
Objectless
Award-Winning Multi-Media Artist & Genius Osamu Sato was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1960 and is one of the only artists being well known for graphics, animation and music. He studied photographic science and graphic design at an Art University and his first exhibition called ‘The Alphabetical Orgasm’ contained a series of computer graphic arts. Since the early 90’s he is well recognized and praised by domestic and international press. Since then he kept releasing music-, games- and video-contents, …
In a Fit of Delirium 1978-82
Lucas Trouble is a French multi-disciplinary musician who has released over 300 records in the past thirty years under a variety of guises including The Gitanes, Jerking Idols, The Mystic Riders From Spectral South, Temple Gates, and Vietnam Veterans. His earliest recorded work dates to 1978, and his close friendship with Philippe Fichot of Die Form, which began in the early to mid 1970s, is audible throughout the minimal synth recordings collected here: the influence of early Ptose and Die Form…
Demos 1982 (12'')
Originally released on tape as Demo Winter 82, the Luton-based siblings’ debut preserves a remarkably well developed, innovative take on then-emergent styles; whether short-circuiting synth-pop with “real” drums, or rewiring post-punk without guitars, they evidently eked a distinctive style from that era’s creative uprising.
From the top, Exit sounds like a strange hybrid of The Human League and The Buzzcocks, whereas the swaggering, pulsating Documents pits tribal toms and breathless vox r…
Recordings 1972-75
Limited edition of 500. Ken Moore (from Baltimore, Maryland) is one of the very early American DIY synthesists and multi-instrumental talents. Moore started to explore electronic music in the mid '70s while working in various (progressive) rock formations. In 1980 he established his own label, Anvil Creations, and in the following four years released approximately 20 tapes of solo and collaborative works he had recorded between 1973 and 1983. His solo work of that era bridges abstract electronic…
Recordings 1977-80
Up until the incredible "A Period of Review" reissue via RVNG Intl.last year we hadn't even heard of Kerry Leimer, yet that compilation and it’s astonishing followup, this years "Artificial Dance” set under Leimer’s ‘Savant’ alias, introduced us to one of the most fascinating and prolific producers of the era, operating at the cusp of ambient, 4th World and industrial musics. From his base in Seattle, Leimer accumulated a unique catalogue of recordings created on a Micromoog, drum machines, guit…
Recordings 1978/79
Marc Barreca is a Seattle-based composer who has been making electronic music since the mid-1970s, inspired by Brian Eno and the ambient school but taking that influence into more textural and multi-layered territory than most of his contemporaries. By 1980 he had already recorded three cassettes: In a Foreign Land (1977), Raw Fish and Green Tea / Surrogate Religions (1979), and Currents (1979/80), all released and distributed by Eurock in tiny quantities. That year he also released his first LP…
Galen Herod Word & Musics Recordings 1983-88
Galen Herod is one of the central figures of the American cassette culture synthesist tradition, a Phoenix, Arizona-based electronic composer who spent the years between 1979 and 1982 building a substantial body of solo tape work with handmade equipment, distributing it through Eurock and direct personal networks. Alongside his collaborator Greg Horn in Tone Set, he represented a genuinely singular voice within the American underground: music rooted in abstract electronic experimentation rather …
1980-1985
Music has a time and a place. Early 80's post punk eclecticism gave rise to an independence of mind and spirit which opened doors to infinite possibilities. No longer confined by the strait jacket of major labels and imbued with the confidence and imagination of a new era new sounds appeared. The spirit of punk engaged with an aspiration for a wider musical vision and a willingness to experiment with sound. The era of home made cassette music allowed people to share and copy - and more importan…
Studio 12 - Recordings 1980-84
Wonderful limited 444 Collaboration-Release between VOD and Blowpipe to celebrate one of the most exciting dutch 80’s Tape-Labels. Musical harvest of Studio 12, the postpunk cassette label of the Haarlem Dutch Ultra movement. Beginning of the 80's artists and musicians mingled in squatted places to create, in the true DIY-Vain, an unique blend of minimal- electronics, drones, soundscapes and tribal music.
Bands like Nexda, Smalts, Vitaal, Die Krü Blødt, Cargo-Cultus still sound fresh and exci…
Sheet Tape Registered Black 1977-1979
Steve Hitchcock (currently known as Ferrara Brain Pan) began experimenting with music and art in early 1977 as a freshman-year university student in San Diego, where he edited and published five issues of a Neo-Dada mail art 'zine called 'Cabaret Voltaire’. While active in mail art, he corresponded with Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Funni Tutti of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle and thereby became involved with the early Industrial music movement. During the years 1977-79, he created thes…
Archive 1980 - 1986 (Friends Edition)
Simon Crab of Bourbonese Qualk compiled 80 of his favorite BQ tracks for this 4LP set, which he has written and composed. The selection ranges from the early, more industrial-ish and experimental period of the first ultra limited tapes from 1980 and 1981 such as 'Us', 'Cast Loose Red Net' or 'Half Erased' to more beat-orientated compilation contributions of the mid '80s. The box also contains 20 previously unearthed and unreleased tracks of same period. If there was ever a missing gap in the hi…
Solo Works 1976 - 1979
**restocked, last copies** Robert Turman is an experimental musician and composer originally from San Diego, now living in Ohio. Robert started recording music at an early age, using guitar, tape, vinyl records, and whatever instruments were available. Some of these early experiments are to be found on the marvelous self-released 8-cassette box set "Chapter Eleven“, which was re-issued on Hanson Records in 2010.
Several more cassettes were released during the 80s, and have received great …
Archival Rarities 1975-1981 (Friends Edition)
These archival rarities of Boyd Rice and NON constitute a kind of lost chapter in the early history of Boyd Rice. Most hasn’t been heard in 35 or 40 years or wasn’t even remembered by the artist anymore. A few were only recently rediscovered after having gone missing for the last several decades. The lion's share of this material is being released here for the very first (and perhaps last) time ever. Find out why early critics considered NON to be the loudest, noisiest, most minimal group ever t…
Mexican Cassette Culture Electronica 1976-82
The new Vinyl on Demand Mexican Cassette Culture box set offers a flashback to what was perhaps the greatest musical era and some of the most original music produced in the late 1970’s to mid 1980’s.This Box covers many of those experimental artists from Mexico such as Aristeo, Via Lactea & Carlos Alvarado, Hilozoizmo, Decibel, Oxomaxoma with Arturo Romo & Jose Alvarez & Miguel A. Ruiz and Voldarepet with Arturo Meza, Juan Wolfang Cruz and Marco A. Godinez...This kind of music opened a door to a…
80's Minimal Synth Wave Volume IV
Massive, mind-crushing 14 LP box (!!) set housed in a deluxe wooden box from the most dedicated and hard-working reissue imprint from this continent, and once again Vinyl On Demand continues to educate and enlighten. Combining a wide variety of artists and styles in one Box to further explore the debth of 80's cassette-Culture, this time with focus on the american cassette-culture.
While the European cassette-culture of the 80's seemed to focus more on the experimental and Minimal/Synth-Si…
British Cassette-Culture: Recordings 1975-1985
An unparalleled showcase of 'British Cassette-Culture: Recordings 1975-1985' presenting tape releases by This Little Alien, Legendary Pink Dots, Stephen Cadman, All the Madman, Carl Matthews and Kevin Harrison, avalaible on vinyl for the first time. Frank Maier's Vinyl-on-Demand turns its attentions to the UK tape productions during that golden era.
It pays particular focus to:
Carl Matthews. Especially the german music he got into right from the sta…