The first full length LP for this collaborative project between Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle) and Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly). John Foxx features on vocals and synth on two tracks, Trees and Forgotten Towns, reprising his appearance on The Belbury Circles debut EP, Empty Avenues in 2013. Brooks and Jupp...

Latest collection of rare cold wave from the Color Tapes archives also includes a full colour poster plus a rare reprint of issue 2 of Color Tapes' own Purple Twilight fanzine from 1985, featuring articles on bands such as Bushido and Mystery Plane, plus The Subway Organization cassette catalogue from...

Polaroid were an Italian post-punk/new wave band, formed in Turin in 1981. The original lineup of the band consisted of Marcello Zavatto (voice, guitar), Massimo Vagnarelli (bass, drum-machine), Evandro Fornasier (guitar), Claudio Vagnarelli (synthersizer) and Marco Farano (Drums). Polaroid made their...

" In 2012 Claus Fovea Self Released A Cassette Containing 10 Tracks, He Was At His Swedish Beginnings. 9 Years Later Lux Rec Re-Discovered His Tape And It Still Sounded So True And Relevant To Them That They Decided To Release It On Vinyl. Claus Then Reworked Some Tracks, Scrap Some, And Made Few New....

At last, the long mooted, hotly anticipated DETOX TWINS debut full length finally hits the racks this November. Following a slew of instant sell out, hugely acclaimed 45s, the first LP is utterly wonderful despite the apparent silence during its preparation, the wait is more than worth the while. Comprising...

In 1981 the Düsseldorf band Die Krupps (Jürgen Engler, Bernward Malaka, Ralf Dörper) released a seminal album which wrote its own chapter in the history of music: the "Stahlwerksinfonie" (Steelworks Symphony) was a near thirty-minute musical monolith of metal and guitar sounds with scattergun saxophone...

Konstruktivists create their own brand of Industrial, using electronics as a base and tape loops, percussion, lurching rhythms and droning melodic arches on top. Check Konstruktivists are a UK Industrial group formed by Glenn Michael Wallis in 1982 out of the ashes of Heute . In the late 70's/early 80's...

The second of October s brace of ace new Polytechnic Youth LPs sees the Crouch End based micro label team up with Morecambe s Horror Pop Sounds imprint. (A previous collaboration brought the world the wonderful Tisch Tennis by XAM Duo in 2017). Both labels are incredibly excited to release -for the first...

Here is the long-awaited fifth volume of the well received electronic compilation series from the 1980's color tapes label. As with the other volumes you can find great examples of cold wave, minimal wave and synth electronics made by obscure British bands such as: Berserk In A Hayfield, Disintegrators,...

"The Polytechnic Youth pre- Christmas release overdrive continues in full flow with 2 more fabulous releases. First up is the killer first release for the label by the wonderfully named ADDERALL CANYONLY. 'Museum of Fire' contains 8 tracks of uptempo kraut themed, occasionally whacked out electronica,...

Breathing Age was formed when Simon Champion (then Lawrence) approached his cousin Paul Seccombe in 1981 to add some lyrics and vocal melodies to some electro pop instrumentals he had recorded at his flat in Worthing, England. This compilation presents a selection of the total recordings made by the...

"The second of November's releases was a chance outing that came about from a discussion with Long Distance Poison's Nathan Cearley (LDP having released two LPs on PY sister label, the more kraut / kosmische themed Deep Distance). Realising a love for early Cabaret Voltaire and TG, and more darkly themed...