391 | Vol.4 Umbria - Voyage Through The Deep 80s Underground In Italy
Spittle Records presents 391 Vol. 4: Umbria - Voyage Through The Deep 80s Underground In Italy. The 391 project was born in 1983 from the desire of two troubled teenagers, from a boring provincial town, Ascoli Piceno, to give life and form to a series of compilations on tape, a picture of the Italian music underground. The name choice was intended as a tribute to the homonymous magazine of Dadaist New York, drawn by painter and poet Francis Picabia. The intent was to geographically organize the …
391 | Vol. 3 Toscana - Voyage Through The Deep 80s Underground In Italy
Vol. 3: Toscana (SPITTLE 1002CD)
The 391 project was born in 1983 from the desire of two troubled teenagers from the boring provincial town of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, to give life and form to a series of tape compilations portraying the Italian music underground. The name choice was intended as a tribute Dadaist Francis Picabia's magazine of the same name. The intent was to geographically organize the musical material, probing the new wave and post-punk groups region by region. A mapping of Italy'…
391 | Vol.1 Marche - Voyage Through The Deep 80s Underground In Italy
Vol. 1: Marche (SPITTLE 1000CD)
The 391 project was born in 1983 from the desire of two troubled teenagers from the boring provincial town of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, to give life and form to a series of tape compilations portraying the Italian music underground. The name choice was intended as a tribute Dadaist Francis Picabia's magazine of the same name. The intent was to geographically organize the musical material, probing the new wave and post-punk groups region by region. A mapping of Italy's…
Paréidolie
*Limited Edition of 300 copies.* Three years after Pergélisol/Chorémanie, their first diptych album crossing post-punk radicalism and minimalist ambition, the quartet named after Maria Spelterini (an Italian tightrope walker who crossed the Niagara Falls on a wire several times in 1876) released a second record that transcends this delicate aesthetic balance and navigates well beyond/below rock and electronics. When Pierre-Antoine Parois, Arthur de La Grandière (members of Papier Tigre), Meriade…
New Wave Italiana 1980~1986
*In process of stocking.* What exactly happened in the Italian underground/post punk scene of the '80s, is not entirely clear. Therefore, this collection of 13 incredible tunes helps track down the feeling and focuses on the blurry images of a period that was mixing influences from the UK/USA scenes with a more "national" approach to new music developments. The damage began in 1977 when a series of urban/suburban musical agitators, whether skilled or complete amateurs, decided to embrace instrum…
Strapazen und Genesung
Geier aus Stahl is one of the many artistic guises of Leonard Prochazka. No superfluous elements take away from the core experience of his sound. Somewhere a statement from David Byrne crossed our path, able to highlight something of the essence of Leonard's art: “No matter how alienated the subject or the singer might appear, the groove and its connection to the body would provide solace and grounding. But the edgy, uncomfortable stuff was still on the foreground”. The debut album 'Strapazen un…
Transformational Salt
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Slugfuckers sole full-length 'Transformational Salt', originally released in 1981 and now back on vinyl, is an absorbing slab of Australian DIY, dense with thought and fury. The album brings together reprobate dub poetics and thug-drubbing spite in a mangled collage of post-punk disjunct and proto-industrial churn.
1/2 Alive
“Lester Bangs liner notes place Suicide in its proper historical context: A document of a force of nature – the filthy loud subway station heart of NYC. Suicide pioneered everything from synth-pop to industrial disco – low rent electronic angst-fest. Vega runs rough shod over the whirring blast of Rev’s homemade synth.” – Rolling Stone Record Guide
Ghost Riders
*2022 stock * 'Suicide took mid-70's NYC underground attitudes to extreme, but logical, ends. Singer Alan Vega's often terrifyingly apocalyptic vision was perfectly complimented by keyboardist Martin Rev's pulsating, sizzling accompaniment on rhythm box and synthesizer. Their psychotic electronic blues was the sound of American culture sliding towards destruction. On stage, they were routinely heckled by audiences unappreciative of their minimalist explorations (they actually incited riots while…
Hemp Is Here
*Printed in an edition of 150. Originally released on tape by Unlikely Records* In 1985 a wondrous album titled Hemp Is Here was created by the obscure English duo Leven Signs, composed of Pete Karkut and Maggie Turner. Since then, Hemp Is Here has proven to be a visionary recording that holds a special place in the ongoing expansion of experimental music. Through the method of tape collage, an unclassifiable recording was created that consisted of post-punk and avant-pop sounds, tribal rhythms …
C’est Disco
** 2022 limited reissue ** C'est disco is the first studio album by the Italian band Rats. It was released in 1981 by Italian Records and is a record strongly inspired by the wave and dark scene of that period. In 2014 the record was reissued in a vinyl version with the addition of a bonus CD featuring the complete album plus the song Tattoo, initially discarded from the album's tracklist and included in a compilation. The band's line-up featured vocalist Claudia Lloyd on vocals, and on guitar t…
Demonstration Takes & Retakes
Tristan Disco was an ephemeral Japanese project led by Takayuki Shiraishi (BGM, who released material on the Japanese experimental label Vanity Records, MLD) and focused on making dub-influenced Post-Punk. In 1982 they elaborate a no-wave full of unrehearsed breaks and cavernous vocals. Boundless dark jamming sessions through shades, effects and reverbs always submerged by a tense nervous bassline. On the B side Krikor delivers a hard-hitting Industrial reconstruction of "Social Dance" perfect t…
Compiled 2.0 / 1981-84 • Full Emotion
Remastered and sounding better than ever, ‘Compiled 2.0 / 1981-84’ wraps up the most indispensible bits by Gudrun Gut and co’s all-female German post-punk unit Malaria! - effectively Berlin’s answer to The Slits or The Raincoats and one of the key Neue Deutsche Welle and post-punk units of the era.
Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1980-86
Spunky wave kraut from early ‘80s Germany, portraying the sound of the country’s first proper youth movement, with Conrad Schnitzler, Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Asmus Tietchens, Holger Hiller, Populäre Mechanik and many more
Auf Der Suche Nach Dem Glück
* Edition of 300 * In 1994, Jens Kraft and Godeke Ilse reunited the band. The increased number of their band name like "SAAL 3", "SAAL 4" and "SAAL 5" was returned to "SAAL 2" as the original. "Auf der Suche nach dem Glück" was released after the reunion, but their first first album. This reissue CD includes unpublished tracks additionally as bonus. Producer: Detlef Diederichsen (Die Zimmermänner).
* 2021 digitally remaster used. * Including full-color booklet. * Limited edition, Japan release O…
Saal 3 + Saal 4
* Edition of 100 * Including all the official tracks from the Saal 3 and Saal 4 era. Plus an unpublished track as bonus. Limited to 100 copies
Weil Das System Nicht Funktioniert!
* Edition of 300 * Saal 2 was formed in Hamburg in 1980 and had an influential position in the German music scene then. Including all the tracks from "Angust Vorm Tanzen" (their debut release from ZickZack, 1980), compilation track and unpublished tracks from the same time. This compilation album was previously released on LP from VOD label in 2005. This CD, in addition, includes 5 more unpublished tracks as bonus.* 2021 digitally remaster used.* Including full-color booklet.* Limited edition, J…
Ruckzuck (7" + CD)
2021 Stock * Edition of 300 * Reissue of the project by Ralf Dörper (Die Krupps, Propaganda) in 1992. Including official cover versions of "Ruckzuck" from the first Kraftwerk album. Featuring: Richard Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), Mark Gamble, Robert Gordon, Uwe Schmidt ( AtomTM). Colored vinyl (yellow) + CD set, limited to 300 copies, Japan release only!!
Vertrauensmann Des Volkes
2021 Stock * Edition of 300 * The original LP was released on Zensor in 1982. Guiest musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Alexander von Borsig, Angelika Maisch, Christian Kneisel (ex. Agitation Free). Including bonus tracks from “Valeska”, his first 7” EP (1979) and more. A long awaited reissue attempt of Frieder Butzmann's first album from 1981. Butzmann, a self proclaimed "spokesman of the people," more specifically of the Berlin underground, published his debut album after the famous "Waschsalon" 7"…