** Special Discounted Bundle ** The complete archival collection of Hungary's legendary underground collective Trabant (1980-1987), preserved by Purge in two essential volumes. Active behind the Iron Curtain during the harshest years of authoritarian communism, this loose collective of songwriters and filmmakers - including Mihály Víg, János Vető, György Kozma, and Marietta Méhes - created hundreds of DIY recordings that were hand-traded on cassettes within the Hungarian underground.

Described as "cult band's cult band," Trabant used underground cinema as a vehicle for countercultural expression, threading post-punk, synth pop, and art rock with radical political resistance.  While their lyrical content - described as "enigmatic, intertextual, grotesque and absurd" - will only be accessible to those who speak Hungarian, the radical, bristling spirit with which Trabant's music was made crosses the decades and is easily discerned across the nine tracks that comprise Purge's collection. Resting at the junctures of post-punk, synth pop, art rock, and experimentalism, the LP unfurls as a joyous journey into the realms of slightly off-kilter left-field pop, threading territories of expression familiar to fans of roughly contemporaneous bands Young Marble Giants, The Pastels, The Vaselines and The Raincoats - drum machines, synths, jangling guitars, and achingly direct vocals - with more orchestral and nostalgia-laden passages, leading any fan of 80s post-punk and indie pop to feel like they've discovered a lost, golden holy grail.

Absolutely intoxicating on musical terms - one of those records that you can't get enough of once the needle drops - Purge's first-ever collection dedicated to Trabant doubles as a hugely significant historical artifact, unlocking a remarkable history of countercultural creativity that transpired during the 1980s in Hungary, spanning music and film. Issued on vinyl in a very limited edition, newly transferred and gently restored from the original tapes and housed in a stunning craft sleeve, accompanied by extensive photographic documentation of the band by János Vető, and new English translations of the song lyrics by George Szirtes, we're absolutely loving every minute of this one and just can't get enough.