Do not adjust your sets. Take a step back from the tracking. This is the sound of Germany's musical youth let loose on cheap synths and pawnshop guitars. A record of a disparate scene of squat pop-stars, art-school upstarts and committed non-musicians who redefined German music in the first half of the...

Various Artists \ From Brussels With Love LTMCD 2479 Originally released as a deluxe cassette/book package by Les Disques du Crépuscule in November 1980, From Brussels With Love featured 22 exclusive tracks from the international avant-garde and new wave, as well as the Factory Records roster. ...

A year in the making, " Further Perspectives And Distortion " presents a snapshot of the UK s experimental and avant-garde music scene, observed through the paradigm-shifting lense of the post punk revolution and bringing together disparate names from across the experimental spectrum. This is a long-overdue...

Some visionaries endeavoured to show us, in a display of perseverance, what the future would be like. From the margins, they opened the doors to electronic music, embracing melody and a rhythmic and danceable structure. At the dawn of synth pop, an army of machines was ready to inflict a strange defeat...

In the early '80s, futuristic music existed that triumphantly anticipated another musical era for a number of groups that worked on alternative circuits in Spain. Tradition, trajectory and future: these three words sum up a movement that was castrated at birth and sought to bring plurality and nuance...

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...

Second Volume in a series of CDs is this highly recommended compilation by one of our own artists, 'Mad Masks' (the mysterious duo of mountain dwelling Frenchman! Their debut album is still available from us). Features some rare unreleased or obscure tracks by well-known acts in the field of Industrial,...

After releasing the Graf & Zyx and Viele Bunte Autos retrospectives on CD, we have compiled a double album of rare Austrian underground tracks from the late 70s to mid 80s, plus some young bands that continue this tradition until this very day. All tracks have never been released on CD and cover a wide...

Following on from 2018's LP V/A " Prophecy + Progress: UK Electronics 1978 - 1990 " LP. Peripheral Minimal is proud to present PM33 2CD, a double CD containing all the original tracks from Volume I and a further 13-tracks for Volume II. Both volumes contain a bonus track. The whole package contains 2...

The term cold wave was first coined on the cover of a 1977 issue of UK music magazine Sounds featuring Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk, and later by the same magazine in an article about Siouxsie and the Banshees, with the publication proclaiming, Listen to the cold wave roar from the...

The damn "Movida" ... The best that can be said of that phenomenon is that it was the starting point and the trigger of something else, of that movement that garnered not fame but was far more interesting musically and intellectually, although the glow of glamor went to the fatuous flames of superficiality....

Two years have passed since the successful release of the first " Sowas von egal " compilation. " Sowas von egal " is a collaboration between the Hamburg record label Bureau B and the Hamburg party series Damaged Goods where they present rare, obscure synth & wave discs from the early 1980s which absolutely...