A 14-track expertly curated compilation of blindspot gems from the " Worldwide New-Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial Underground 1978-1984 " picked up and spat out by London's venerated Cherrystones . A killer compilation for both the insatiable digger and curious psych-o-naut alike, it starts at the fringe...

An essential document from the 80's UK cassette underground scene. The majority of tracks from these UK garage cold wave bands used synthesizer, drum machines and sequencers such as EMS VCS3, Minimoog, Korg MS-20, Roland Juno 6, SH-09, TR-808, all playing a crucial part in the development of electronic...

Strut present an exclusive new compilation curated by Optimo s JD Twitch , " Kreaturen Der Nacht ", bringing together classics, rarities and oddities from Germany s original post-punk and independent scene from 1979 to 1985. This was an era of particular artistic upheaval in Germany; emphasis was placed...

Sowas von egal is a collaboration between the Hamburg record label Bureau B and the Hamburg party series Damaged Goods. The divergent trajectories of a record company on the one hand and DJs on the other are happily aligned through a love and passion for seeking out, collecting, releasing and playing...

Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organisation and music venue (the legendary Ambulance...

Seventeen years on from his last solo release, the twenty-five tracks collected on Chris Carter 's " Chemistry Lessons Volume One" CCCL Volume 1 were the product of six years spent working on solo material in the Norfolk home studio he shares with Cosey Fanni Tutti . CCCL Volume 1 reinforces Carter 's...

The 2017 album " Sammlung " compiled by Stefan Schneider first introduced a selection of previously little known exponents of 1980's Dusseldorf electronic tape music to a stunned audience. A further remarkable example of the Dusseldorf underground tape output, 1986s " Singende Draehte " originally circulated...

Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, originally consisting of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger , used electronic...

Eric Random is a British pioneer of post punk electronica. Born in 1961 Eric soon joined the Buzzcocks road crew. At the age of 17 he became a third of a group called The Tiller Boys , the other two being Pete Shelley and Francis Cookson. They played their live debut in 1978, supporting Joy Division...

Hula were founded in Sheffield in 1981. Three members ( Mark Albrow , Alan Fish and Ron Wright ) lived with Stephen Mallinder ( Cabaret Voltaire ) and Paul Widger ( They must be Russians , Clock DVA , The Box ) in a villa called Hula Kula . After trying the bass players Alan Watt and Chris Brain ( Tense...

Section 25 formed in Blackpool, UK in November 1977. Initially they were a duo, consisting of brothers Larry Cassidy and Vincent Cassidy. In June 1978 they made their live debut with Phil Denton on guitar. Their first 7", " Girls Don't Count ", was released in July 1980 on Factory Records, produced by...

Thomas Leer is a key figure in the British electronic and Industrial scene. His album "The Bridge", together with Robert Rental, was released by Industrial Records in 1979 and is today seen as a landmark album from that era. Thomas later went on to record more pop influenced music with releases such...