« back

v/a - 80s underground cassette culture vol. 1 - contort yourself - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. East End Butchers - Assassins
2. Magthea - Magthea & Insanity
3. Missing Persons - Rotten To The Core
4. Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger
5. PCR - Myths Of Seduction & Betrayal
6. Urbain Autopsy & K... - Tribal Moment
7. Human Flesh - Ancient Smiles
8. Nocturnal Emissions - Fat Slimey Parasites
9. Merzbow - D.D.T.
10. DDV - If You're Looking For Trouble
11. ALU - "Fies Sein" 12. Menko - The First Kiss
12. Menko - "The First Kiss
13. Die Klopferbande - Cadillac Im Ghetto
14. Jacinthebox - Wipe The Church
15. Cripure S.A. - Little Meat
16. Software - Human Situation
17. Felix Menkar - Buscando El Espacio Interior
18. Blackhouse - Numerology
19. Ende Shneafliet - Twistin' On The Tombstones
20. Muziekkamer - Being Home Tonight
21. Dead Tech - Catalavox

The 1980s. Neo-liberal excess. Crumbling communism. Military juntas ruling with an iron fist. And of course, freaked out music. Contort Yourself are turning back the clock and returning to an unholy fount of inspiration with "80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1."

.
A buffet of beaten up and brutalized tracks are on offer from unknown outfits and respected experimenters. Across two LPs expect to find noise reductions, post punk bitterness, no wave grunts, distortion soaked strings and vocals lost in a hail of pain. A road map into the weird and wild world of DIY back alley artists who, armed with only a tape and an idea, gave the established music norms a sharp fist to the throat...