Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19th 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study electronic music at the City College of San Francisco. By the late '70s, Patrick's synthesizer techniques...

S Ō O N "NOISE" A5 CD Digipack ARM CD 004 S Ō O N Is the Collaborative project of Adi Newton DVA / TAG & Jack Dangers / Meat Beat Manifesto. The name derives from the Japanese word for Noise / Sound / Discord and also infers a connection to time. This Unique Project & Album is unlike any other due...

A Dancing Foot And A Praying Knee Don't Belong On The Same Leg was released in 1984 on Volition Records, Australia. It was Scattered Order's second album 2 years after Prat Culture. Their sound was by then still very much in the postpunk tradition, but more electronic elements kept coming in. Of course,...

Factory Benelux presents a special 30th anniversary edition of From The Hip , the pioneering 1984 electro album by cult Factory Records group Section 25, produced by Bernard Sumner. Recorded in 1983, From The Hip was the band's third album for Factory and the first to pursue a more accessible musical...

A Complex Web - The Story of THE SHINING PATH ... began in 1982 when Peter Miller (aka Dr. William S Ray - vocals, tapes, guitar) met Andrew Millar (aka Maurice Spectograph the Nose-y Pieman - program execution) in Gold Coast, Australia. While sharing a similar taste in music, they decided to form a...

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...

Peripheral Minimal Records is proud to present - and for the first time on CD - Martial Canterel 's second album " Confusing Outsides ", being the debut originally recorded between August and December 2003, " Austerton ". The CD is limited to 300 copies in a Digipak. The artwork reflects the original...

"Voices In The Night" is 23rd Underpass' third full-time length album, and Costas Andriopoulos has not lost a bit of his talent to write classy and catchy yet dark synth pop-infused Italo disco tracks. Again aided by Nadia Vassipoulou, John Britsas and Panos Papapetros on vocals, the album is comprised...

Chez Renee (ik en erotiek) is an art project by Belgian artist Renee Lodewijckx . The haunting soundtrack for the video and performances was composed by Jan Van den Broeke and originally released on cassette in March 1988 (100 numbered copies only), as part of the presentation package of the project....