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Glorious Din

Leading Stolen Horses

How a boy from the Sri Lankan jungle formed the greatest post-punk band you’ve never heard... Fronted by an intense singer with an oblique songbook an... more...

• 01 Tenement Roofs
• 02 Pallet To The Floor
• 03 Arrival
• 04 Cello Tape

Glorious Din

Closely Watched Trains

How a boy from the Sri Lankan jungle formed the greatest post-punk band you’ve never heard... Fronted by an intense singer with an oblique songbook an... more...

• 01 Stilt Walkers
• 02 Red Dirt
• 03 1651 Map
• 04 Another Train Pulls In

Martial Canterel

Drilling Backwards

Recommended by: Solvent

Essential recordings by the minimal synth master of our age. Deluxe edition of 500 copies. With the staccato surge and somber vocalizing of DAF, the d... more...

• 01 Foreign Birthplace
• 02 Drilling Backwards
• 03 Lips Not For Lsitening
• 04 Harbors and Martyrs

Martial Canterel

Sister Age

Recommended by: Lokier

Essential recordings by the minimal synth master of our age. Deluxe edition of 500 copies. With the staccato surge and somber vocalizing of DAF, the d... more...

• 01 The Outside
• 02 Silence
• 03 Listener Dead
• 04 Firmament

Various Artists

Dutch Wave, A History Of Minimal Synth and Wave In The Netherlands

Recommended by: Solvent

First chapter on Onderstroom digging into the history of Dutch minimal synth & wave. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with metallic finishing and pressed on... more...

• 1 Nine Circles - What's There Left
• 2 Beatnik Love Affair - Share My Heart's Blood
• 3 The Actor - Unreal Personality
• 4 Storung - Dimensie 4

Cheiron

Land After Life Ep

Does the treasure chest of Lex Grauwen have a bottomless pit? After the re-discovery of Tranquil Eyes Walks cassette a few years back and more recentl... more...

• 1 Land After Life
• 2 Ping Pong
• 3 No Trace
• 4 Serenity World

Palais Des Bauzards

In The Grassfield

Palais Des Bauzards persued an industrial and electronic variant of the sound that swept into vogue during the first half of the '80s. This compilatio... more...

• 01 Soylent Green
• 02 Native Tongue
• 03 It's Disgusting
• 04 Money

Ssleeping Desiress

Ssleeping Desiress LP

Coldwave / darkwave debut album by San Francisco based producer Gabriel Ramos. While the band has gone through some lineup changes Ssleeping Desiress... more...

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Twilight Ritual

The Ritual

Recommended by: Marsman

Finally! The re-release of the first ever recordings by Belgian minimal synth masters Twilight Ritual. Released in 1982 in a tiny cassette edition thi... more...

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Frozen Ducks

Frozen Ducks LP

Frozen Ducks were the two brothers Hans Grauwen and Lex Grauwen. The short-lived duo had Hans doing vocals, and Lex playing synths and doing the produ... more...

Martial Canterel

Austerton

Recommended by: Solvent

Much-needed re-issue of this privately released 2007 album. Martial Canterel’s Sean McBride is the progenitor of American cold synth sounds of the 21s... more...

De Brassers

Live at Doornroosje 1982

Recordings of a stand-out gig at Doornroosje in Nijmegen (NL). By 1982 De Brassers had been playing in almost every small public space or squad in the... more...

Neon Judgement

Early Tapes

''Early Tapes'' compromises the first recordings of the duo Dirk Da Davo and TB Frank and is now, for the first time, available on CD! The Neon Judge... more...

• 01 factory walk
• 02 sweet revenge
• 03 harem
• 04 the machine

Tranquil Eyes

Walks

Much needed re-issue of this fantastic and unfortunately overlooked 1985 tape on ''Stichting Stopcontact''. Lex Grauwen and Paul Oosterbaan had worked... more...

Twilight Ritual

Rituals

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff | Clone

The Rituals album is one of the best kept secrets of the synthpop/coldwave movement. Sinister, Dark and a bunch of touching melodies. Peter Bonne and... more...

• 01 amorphous materials
• 02 i never called you a dream
• 03 message
• 04 what are rooms for

Snowy Red

The Ultimate Edition

Tremendous 5xCD box by one of the highest acclaimed minimal synth bands active during our favorite decade. The Snowy Red project started as a one-man... more...

Twilight Ritual

The Factory Scream

Recommended by: Clone

Twilight Ritual was/is the main project by Geert Coppens and Peter Bonne. During the early eighties they were involved in many other bands including A... more...

• 01 visions of steel
• 02 l'uomo moderno
• 03 only you
• 04 show him out

Polar Praxis

Music For Fireworks

Deluxe re-edition of this forgotten proto house/techno release from 1985!! By Polar Praxis who mostly is known for his repetitive music in the style a... more...

• 1 Music For Fireworks (Part One)

Human Flesh

Second-hand Emotions and Half-forgotten Feelings

Recommended by: Kris Baha

Human Flesh is a long lived project of Alain Neffe. The tracks presented here are all unreleased songs recorded in the mid 80s. With a wide range of u... more...

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BeNe GeSSeRiT

Half Unreleased Madness

Cool compilation of unreleased BeNe GeSSeRiT tracks. The husband & wife duo of Alain Neffe & Nadine Bal counted as one of the most frivolous & impress... more...

• 1 track 1
• 2 track 2
• 3 track 3

The Misz

Eddie Merckz

The Misz' Eddy Merckz lp is a good example of the high quality of the 80′s cassette-culture-scene. Its catchy sound is comparable to early Virgi... more...

• 1 the wave of miszbehave
• 2 roll over bhopal

Kuruki

TV Scape

On this lp from 1984 an accurately crafted structure of frivolous minimal electronics Sally Joy & Monsieur Tic sing about an era wherein alienation &... more...

• 1 kleenex
• 2 tv-scape