80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2

by Contort Yourself

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𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝖒𝖊𝖆𝖑 Four years have past since the last release, but the oracle foretold the return of Murray CY, with his cabinet of archives, full with sonic experiments made by uncompromising artists of a bygone era.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of 80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2, 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, and 5 more. , and , .

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1.	Die Achse - Under The Church 02:37	buy track
2.	Nostalgie Eternelle - Peace Of Mind 04:10	buy track
3.	Years On Earth - As You're Told 03:34
4.	If, Bwana - Tiny Bladders 03:04	buy track
5.	Stefan Schrader - Attempt To Rap 02:42	buy track
6.	Misteek - Bump Beat 02:45	buy track
7.	M Rendell - CV In 03:44
8.	Dix Ferro - Bienvenidos a Neuchatel 04:08	buy track
9.	Sluik - Open Window 02:05	buy track
10.	Pornosect - Pressure Level 03:17
11.	The Horse He's Sick - Projectile Fascination 02:10	buy track
12.	M Nomized - Nitsed 04:18	buy track
13.	Interaccion - Newton 03:14
14.	Die Mysteriösen - Spürhund 03:40	buy track
15.	Homage a Brinkman - Französisch 04:03	buy track
16.	Solanaceae Tau - Tekno Pop 01:26	buy track
17.	Ob Ovo & Sha 261 - The CIA, It Dances 05:25
18.	Collectionism - We Are All Children Of God 04:18	buy track
19.	UPM - Anstalt 03:54	buy track
20.	Wolfgang Wiggers - Slightly Mental 03:54	buy track

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Once again, digging deep into the underbelly of 1980s DIY cassette culture, Contort Yourself present a weird and wild collection of minimal wave, industrial, post punk, experimental electronic and more...

"Focusing on razor-edged techno pop, bleepy drum machine minimalism and homemade synth experiments, ['80s UCC Vol.2'] takes a global view of the 80s tape underground...saturated in a vibrant layer of multicoloured DIY ambition. But this compilation is more than a nostalgia-fuelled expansion of the archive. It bends chronologies, suggesting that A didn’t necessarily follow B in the way it’s usually assumed. A snap-shot full of surprise precursors, heroic outliers and yet to be realised possibilities." - The Quietus

"Brilliant" - Tom Ravenscroft (BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC)

"From the lurching misanthropic menace of Years On Earth to the static drum machine robo funk of M Rendell, from the dark proto-House, monochrome industrial work out of Pornosect to the primitive sample-punk of Ob Ovo, these mutants all made music brimming with life and vim under the layer of culture and reality that was the mainstream in the 80s. Think Cabaret Voltairish experimentation, sub-Fad Gadget desperation, burbling radiophonic synth tones smothering grooves, these coldest of waves and most clanging of industrial tones represent a tip or a trough of an iceberg or valley of endless invention from the decade that refuses to die." - Monorail

"Listeners with insight into the subterranean 1980s might gather they have a handle on what 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 2 has in store, but a mere spin of the sides reveals the contents to be more expansive than one might expect...and even better, all the cuts have been fully licensed from the artists, making this a stand-up undertaking all-around. " - The Vinyl District

"Glasgow’s Contort Yourself trawl the scuzzier echelons of ‘80s tape culture for the tangiest traces of coldwave, post-punk, post-industrial with an uncanny appreciation of the way the 1980s and 2022 share so much in common.
Delivered to a backdrop of a UK in terminal decline, dominated by ghoulish Tory gas lighters and sex pests, but just about keeping its head above water, ‘’80s Underground Cassette Culture’ offers an ideal soundtrack to disenchantment coloured in morose monochrome and a looming sense of dread. Compiled in Glasgow - proportionally boasting the most record collectors in these blighted isles - the picks are particularly on the money for fans of needling guitars, bleak vocals and general countercultural, antiestablishment aesthetics and rhetoric...an ideal soundtrack to mooching about with a fixed scowl" - Boomkat

Rich-poor divide widens. Unemployment soars. The East and West eyeball each other on the brink. 2022 isn’t too far off the 1980s. Contort Yourself knows this. Following the huge success of the prophetic 80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol 1, the Vol 2 double LP is set to hit shelves and screens with the same brand of distortion soaked didactics. Twenty one tracks from across the globe make up this second installment with nothing being constant. Instead, the overarching message is one of wanton abandonment; burnt-out artists peddling a punk profanity, marginalised musicians spitting on the establishment and industry. Rusted guitar strings, cobbled drum machines and fire in the belly; this is the recipe. A soundtrack of despondent despair, a lament of languid lechery, an anthem of what was then and still is now.

Double vinyl LP with gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves and insert + digital

John J Lafia - Life Is Short is available on the vinyl only

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released December 14, 2022

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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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