V/a / Hidden Tapes

Minimal Wave

formats available

CD
$18.60
MW 030 CD
729440956295
Street Date:
September 13th, 2011
Ship Date:
September 12th, 2011
LP
$24.45
MW 030
Street Date:
May 31st, 2011
Ship Date:
May 30th, 2011

NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! A Compilation of Minimal Wave from Around the World ‘79-‘85. The Hidden Tapes features rare, unreleased, and licensed tracks from as far as Japan and the former Yugoslavia. Most of the bands on this compilation recorded on 4-track tape in their bedroom studios while two of them went further to collaborate by sending tapes through the mail. The sounds on this record range from raw proto-industrial to naive danceable Belgradian new wave, to filmic synthesizer music to more complex, vocal-driven melodic synthpop. The Hidden Tapes presents songs from DANTON’S VOICE, OSKAROVA FOBIJA, THE FAST SET, SYMPATHY NERVOUS, PAS D DEUX, UNOVIDUAL + TARA CROSS, SS-SAY, ROBERT LAWRENCE + MARK PHILLIPS, KYM AMPS and RESERVE, all lovingly remastered.