The final installment of Ongehoord's survey of Amsterdam based project, Deadline Paranoia, comes to an astounding conclusion with 3/3. A true revelation from the shadowy depths of 1980s DIY and cassette culture - hybridizing punk, dub, industrial, experimental, and ambient music - there's been nothing like them before or since.

DIY cassette culture - flowering across the globe during the late 1970s and 1980s - has proven, from a distance, to be among the most fascinating contexts of music to emerge during the last half century. Taking the form of reissues and archival releases - tapping this astoundingly rich vein of exploration and covering a vast field of distinct creative territories - incredible artefacts have fallen, one after another, into our hands. Among the most striking of these have been a widely celebrated series of LPs - issued by the Dutch imprint, Ongehoord - surveying the Amsterdam based project Deadline Paranoia’s output during a brief but prolific run that began in 1986. Now this incredible, revelatory journey culminates with 3/3, the series’ stunning conclusion. A mind-bending, free-standing sonic world from a band with no equivalent, like its predecessors, 3/3 has to be heard to be believed.

Almost entirely unknown prior to Ongehoord’s exploratory deep dive, Deadline Paranoia was a quintessential gesture of the 1980s musical underground. Based in Amsterdam and led by Hugo Vlugt, Marcel Witte, Paul Hettema and Paul Soto, between 1986 and 1988 - fueled by a steady diet of drugs - the group self-released four strikingly singular cassettes, deploying the DIY ethos as a means toward personal and creative freedom, before disappearing from view.

A crystalline distillation of the band’s singular sound, 3/3 is arguably the most introspective and emotive of the material brought to light by Ongehoord to date. From its first guttural exhalations - flirting at the border of primal minimalism - tribal percussiveness, woozy dubs, rolling riffs, druggy jams, and meditative rhythms, form as a deeply personal and psychological music that stands as a pitch-perfect rebuttal to the oppressive, conformist temperaments of the era, presenting an inward journey into the minds of a remarkable group of musicians who paid loyalty to none.

A moody, surreal trip - balanced at the razor’s edge between the meditative and anarchic - blending hypnotic, off kilter beats into a thick atmosphere of instrumentation, Deadline Paranoia’s 3/3 is an inspiring revelation that sets history on its head.