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Recordings 1980-1982
Limited edition of 500. Galen Herod is one of the pioneering synthesis artists of American cassette culture. From 1979 to 1982 he produced several outstanding and creative electronic tape releases which he distributed either via Eurock or by himself in the Phoenix, Arizona area. His very early tape works are dominated by abstract, austere, experimental electronics in the vein of Conrad Schnitzler, using tape loops and completely homemade synth-equipment includes oscillators, filters, and …
Recordings 1979-1980
Limited edition of 500. Don Slepian is a true pioneer of electronic music. He started composing in 1969 and released his first compilation cassette in September of 1978. He left Hawaii and came to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he was "Artist in Residence" in computer music for the next two years. In 1980 he released three more cassette tapes on the Hawaiian record label Plumeria Productions: The Sea of Bliss, New Dawn, and Open Spaces. In 1981 he self-released his first LP, Co…
Tape-Recordings 1979-1981
Limited edition of 500. Young Scientist was been a Seattle-based improvisational electronic trio consisting of Marc Barreca, James Husted, and Roland Barker. Husted and Barker also recorded as the duo Sequencer People, and released a tape on Engram Records in 1982. Between 1979 and '80, the trio recorded four cassettes of prime electronic music: Life Sciences, Results Not Answers, Over Low Trees..., and Electron Music. All of these tapes were made available via Eurock and extracts of these t…
Tape-Recordings 1974-1979
Limited edition of 500. Anode has been the professional alias of Robert Carlberg since 1972. The Seattle-based musician has dabbled in musique concrète, minimalist tape music, drones, manipulations, and other non-keyboard-based electronics. Through founding a newsletter for electronic musicians in 1979 called SYNEX (together with Charles Larrieu), establishing one of the first DIY tape labels (Anode Productions, which released works by Anode and Kerry Leimer), and writing a monthly column fo…
Waves of Perfect Timbre: Recordings 1982-1987
Limited edition of 500. Multi-talented autodidact musician and devoted painter Leon Lowman became interested in synthesizers when he heard ELP's "Lucky Man" in 1970. At that time Lowman was working for various recording studios and sound companies in California and with his first paycheck he made a down-payment on an ARP 2600-Synthesizer (as well as a Mediamix Joystick for pitch bending), which he still uses at the time of this release. From that point on he used whatever money he could sp…
Tape-Recordings - Now (Extended)
Limited edition of 500. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach (born in 1955 in California) is a longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, drawing on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. At the age of 20, inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis, he taught himself to play synthesizer. After being a member of Doug Lynner's Moebius in the late '7…
Tape-Recordings 1976-1983
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 ele…
Syntheseas: Recordings 1980-1982
Limited edition of 500. Multi-talented autodidact musician and devoted painter Leon Lowman became interested in synthesizers when he heard ELP's "Lucky Man" in 1970. At that time Lowman was working for various recording studios and sound companies in California and with his first paycheck he made a down-payment on an ARP 2600-Synthesizer (as well as a Mediamix Joystick for pitch bending), which he still uses at the time of this release. From that point on he used whatever money he could sp…
Recordings 1971-1983
Limited edition of 500. Don Slepian is a true pioneer of electronic music. He started composing in 1969 and released his first compilation cassette in September of 1978. He left Hawaii and came to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he was "Artist in Residence" in computer music for the next two years. In 1980 he released three more cassette tapes on the Hawaiian record label Plumeria Productions: The Sea of Bliss, New Dawn, and Open Spaces. In 1981 he self-released his first LP, Co…
Recordings 1980-87
** restocked, last copies around ** Multi-talented, autodidact musician and devoted painter Leon Lowman became interested in synthesizers when he heard ELP’s Lucky Man in 1970. At that time Leon was working for various recording studios and sound companies in California and with his first paycheck he took a down-payment for the ARP 2600-Sythesizer (as well as a Mediamix Joystick for pitch bending) which he still uses until today. Ever since he used whatever money he could spare towar…
Anvil Creations Recordings 1972-1983
** restocked, last copies around ** Ken Moore (from Baltimore, Maryland) is one of the very early american DIY-Synthesists & Mult-Instrumental Talents. Ken started to explore electronic music in the mid 70’s along-side working in various (progressive)-Rock formations
In 1980 Ken Moore established his own label called Anvil Creation and in the following 4 years released appr. 20 Tapes with his Solo or Collaboration-Works he had recorded between between 1973 and 1983. Ken's solo work of that…
Recordings 1971-1983
** restocked, last copies around ** The new VOD American Cassette Culture box set documents American artists who were pioneers and protagonists of the late 70’s/earlry 80’s cassette-culture. It includes composers such as Steve Roach, Don Slepian, K.Leimer, Galen, Ken Moore, Young Scientist, Marc Barreca, Anode
While rock-music of the 70’s and 80’s became a worldwide mainstream corporate business the creation of the cassette format and a network in the late 70’s opened music production up to ev…
Memories Of Mindless Mechanical Monologues 1976-1985
This outstanding deluxe Box-Set delivers an excellent and extensive overview of John Benders music-output recorded between 1976-1985. John Bender is without any doubt, the protagonist, if not the inventor of a whole musical-genre known as Cold Minimal Wave/Synth. His synthesizer-sounds already carried elements of techno and acid-beats while techno was still to be invented a decade later.His voice and his partially sentimental and mourning lyrics made his music to something outstanding and extrao…
VOD-records presents 80's Minimal. Synth. Wave. Vol.3
This is the third in a series of 12 or 13Lp-Box-Sets covering a wide range of 80’s Minimal-Synth and Wave-music from the 80’s. Some well known bands, some less familiar but a superb and pleasant surprise and a great mix in styles and content. This Volume contains the following artists/bands:138.1/2 PORTION CONTROL (2 x LP)This material from PORTION CONTROL clearly demonstrates their early experimentation both as ‘musicians’ and with at the advent of analogue electronic machines. The eclecti…
Horology 2 / The Future and Radiophonic Dvations
**White vinyl edition, limited to 99 copies with a hand-numbered certificate and 40 page booklet.** This 5 LP box release, pre dates Horology 1 and is a companion collection of experimental recordings made in late 1977 / 1978 period by Adi Newton prior to and during the formative period of development of Clockdva. The box includes the original The Future recordings made by the trio of Adi Newton, Martyn Ware & Ian Craig Marsh before The Future developed into The Human League and Clockdva. The Fu…
Works 1968-1976 (Friends Edition)
**Limited Friends edition of 99 copies only** Milestone reissue exploration of the legendary Sperm hugely influential late 60's - early 70's electronic music* The Sperm mixed elements of avant-garde music with free jazz and psychedelic pop. Members of Sperm during the years of existence have been Antero Helander, Ilkka Lehtinen, J.O. Mallander, Markus Heikkerö, Mattijuhani Koponen, Nikke Nikamo, Pekka Airaksinen, Peter Widén. By 1970 Pekka started his own label O Records to produce and distribut…
Afrodipankara (1984) LP
200 limited copies only - act fast! Pekka Airaksinen is a Finnish composer of electronic music. Airaksinen formed his first band, The Sperm, in the late 1967. The Sperm mixed elements of avant-garde music with free jazz and psychedelic pop. By 1970 Pekka started his own label O Records to produce and distribute Vinyl-Records of his Solo-Works such as 'One Point Music' (1972) or the Sperm-Lp 'Shh! Heinäsirkat' (1970) or his free-jazz-dominated project Samsa Trio in 1972 (together with Antero Hela…
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Last copy, tiny wear on cover Milestone! Asmus Tietchens, a German electronic synthesist and musician whose interest in experimental music and musique concrète already started during his childhood. He began recording sound experiments in 1965 with electronic musical instruments, synthesizers and tape loops. In the 1970s he met producer Okko Bekker, and the two formed a decades-long partnership. In 1980 Peter Baumann (of Tangerine Dream) heard a recording of Tietchens' music and offered to produ…
Complete Oblique
** edition of 300 copies only /pre-sale, shipping the next week.** This 2 Lp-Set contains Bryn Jones, (alias Muslimgauze) earliest musical works as his then-moniker, E.g Oblique Graph. An important, 'must-have' document on a nascent artist's first steps towards technical and musical mastery. This material is recorded between 1981 to 1983 and self-released on Product Kinematograph as well as underground label, Recloose, in extremely limited tape and vinyl editions.
Bryn Jones is a highly pro…
The first & second Side of the Mystic Synth (4xLP + 7
This limited 99 4Lp-Box combines the last and long overdue work of the highly influential, enigmatic & near mythical Italo-Group Fockewulf 190 called “the First & Second Side of the Mystic Synth” plus a limited clear Vinyl re-release of “Microcosmos 1982-86” only available as part of this Box-Set - as Protagonists to the Dark Side of Italo Disco evolving and developing in the mid 80’s music-scene, they influenced countless newborn artists all over the globe. The newly recorded Studio-Lp in…