80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 (2xLP)

by Contort Yourself

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Fred Guile For whoever secretly listening to bizarre and masochist electro

Sad Guitar i'm looking forward to volume 2

Richard Sanghera A sick comp full of wonderfully obscure sound experiments from the fringes of the 80s analog underground. Lots of great stuff in here (p.s. please release it on tape!!) Favorite track: Blackhouse - Numerology.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Magnetic Healing EP (CYN002), 'II - Popmuziek' LP, Urubus Fall From The Dying Sun In An Improvised Manner EP (CYN001), The Black Wig Throw Off EP, 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 (2xLP), CY007 - From Heavy Metal Bashing to Leisure Pursuits EP, CY006 - But Darling, It's Hideous EP, CY005 - A Disseminated Darkness on Inner Personality Status EP, and 4 more. , and , .

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1.	East End Butchers - Assassins 01:50	buy track
2.	Magthea - Magthea and Insanity (Extract) 05:07	buy track
3.	Missing Persons - Rotten To The Core 02:13	buy track
4.	PCR - Myths of Seduction and Betrayal (Extract) 07:55	buy track
5.	Urbain Autopsy & K... - Tribal Moment 04:08	buy track
6.	Human Flesh - Ancient Smiles 03:48	buy track
7.	Nocturnal Emissions - Fat Slimey Parasites 03:27	buy track
8.	Merzbow - D.D.T. 02:03	buy track
9.	DDV - If You're Looking For Trouble 08:01	buy track
10.	ALU - Fies Sein 05:25	buy track
11.	Menko - The First Kiss 03:03	buy track
12.	Die Klopferbande - Cadillac Im Ghetto 02:29	buy track
13.	Jacinthebox - Wipe The Church 02:46	buy track
14.	Cripure S.A. - Little Meat 02:12	buy track
15.	Felix Menkar - Buscando El Espacio Interior 04:27	buy track
16.	Blackhouse - Numerology 03:16	buy track
17.	Muziekkamer - Being Home Tonight 03:28	buy track
18.	Dead Tech - Catalavox 05:56	buy track

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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 brutalised 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..

ALL TRACKS LICENSED DIRECTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS.

"80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 could function as a miniature Nurse With Wound list for the the tape underground of its chosen era, but it also documents an alternative history of experimental music...excellent compilation." - The Wire

"Head ready to burst, ears ready to bleed, Contort Yourself have pulled off a blinder here. Listen, take a trip down the memory lane that you didn’t know existed and, be impressed." - Louder Than War

"This anthology places its contents onto a once elusive format to resounding success; hopefully, more volumes will come to fruition."- The Vinyl District

"80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 is a truly brilliant and eye-opening selection, one to be cherished by anyone who got excited by Ecstatic's Trax comp and Optimo's stellar [Cease & Desist] comp." - BLEEP

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released November 6, 2017

Complied by Murray CY
Artwork design/layout by Fraserton Simth
Mastered at Optimum Mastering

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Contort Yourself Glasgow, UK

Quasi record label based in Glasgow releasing contemporary techno & industrial along with original lost tracks from the 80s/90s electronic underground...

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