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...

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Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/80s-underground-cassette-culture-volume-2/883082-01/  
 
Volume 1 sold out super quick so be careful...

DIGITAL: https://contortyourself-cy.bandcamp.com/album/80s-underground-cassette-culture-volume-2

IF YOU BUY THE VINYL FROM JUNO OR ANYWHERE ELSE JUST LET US KNOW AND WE'LL SEND YOU A DOWNLOAD CODE FOR THE DIGITAL

"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

TRACKLISTING:

A1. Die Achse - Under The Church
A2. Nostalgie Eternelle - Peace Of Mind
A3. Years On earth - As You're Told
A4. If, Bwana - Tiny Bladders
A5. Stefan Schrader - Attempt To Rap

B1. Misteek - Bump Beat
B2. M Rendell - CV In
B3. Dix Ferro - Bienvenidos a Neuchatel
B4. Sluik - Open Window
B5. Pornosect - Pressure Level
B6. The Horse He's Sick - Projectile Fascination

C1. M Nomized - Nitsed
C2. John J Lafia - Life Is Short*
C3. Interaccion - Newton
C4. Die Mysteriösen - Spürhund
C5. Homage a Brinkman - Französisch

D1. Solanaceae Tau - Tekno Pop
D2. Ob Ovo & Sha 261 - The CIA, It Dances
D3. Collectionism - We Are All Children Of God
D4. UPM - Anstalt
D5. Wolfgang Wiggers - Slightly Mental

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

All tracks licensed directly from the original artists.

FORMATS: Double vinyl LP with gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves and insert
                   Digital release
RELEASE DATE: 17/10/22
DISTRIBUTION ENQUIRES: milo.bragg@juno.co.uk
EMAIL: contortyourselfnow@gmail.com

80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2

80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2 - Double LP - PREVIEW

Brussels-based Mika Oki (@mikaoki1) is a polymath of the arts, seamlessly blending her background in  sculpture and electro-acoustic music to craft immersive experiences that defy conventional boundaries. Much like a sculptor meticulously wielding her tools to shape raw materials into intricate forms, Oki's selections as a DJ exhibit a masterful finesse and meticulous preparation. Her eclectic mixes effortlessly blend nostalgic dance anthems with obscure gems, weaving together disparate elements into a tapestry of sonic coherence that never fails to astonish. Venturing into the realms of DJ and radio shows, Oki translates her atmospheric experiments into pulsating sets that blur the boundaries between explosive bass, dub, mutating vocals and ambient narratives.

PURE Guest.057 Mika Oki

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: Ceqi - Fog Juice

Bodañ  is a journey through genres and styles, where escape is the key word. For this new Bodañ show, the guest is @vanadismd !

Spotted by the Maintenant festival and Astropolis, Vanadís is an inveterate researcher. Resident and founder of ÖND in Rennes, she covers a wide musical spectrum, from acid to electro, EBM, industrial techno and UK Bass. Each set is a veritable avalanche of dissonant sounds and unstructured rhythms at a variety of tempos. She also produces under the alias DJ Padset, where breaks and battered synths give way to a new universe. 
Since September 2020 she has been featured on Tsugi Radio's monthly residency, ‘Digressions Auditives’, where she shares her wide-ranging musical universe. She is also resident for Dôme, an Astropolis entity promoting the Breton scene, having passed through the festival springboard.

TRACKLIST : 

JTNova - Eighth Tower
Manuel Fischer - Rusty Chair
Weith - Enigma
Low End Activist - Just A Number (Institutionalised)
Dubkasm X Tricky - Concrete Flowers (O$VMV$M Remix)
ΣΕΘ(SET) - BADMAN
Wugori - DramaLick
AJO - Kawanone (La Serpiente Remix)
RumTheVoyager - Hidden Path
A13 - Harry La Hache - Casey - En bas d'la page - C&S
John 3:14 - God cries feat. La desgracia en compañia
Tsodor - Husten
CloZinger - The Renegade Queen
Skee Mask - Dolan Tours
Laser Loewi - assimilate [premise]
Tassilo Vanhöfen - LSDream
Leonce - Snakes
TR/ST - Wake With
Betonkust & Palmbomen II - 24x33
DJ Guy - Tab-a-La
Blood Flow  - Soft Metal Edit
BUNGALOVV - LA FUERZA DE LOS AUSENTE

Bodañ with Vanadís - 16 April 2025

"This episode of Night Shift features Wade Black & Francesco Presotto. Both Wade Black (Melbourne) and Presotto (Milan) are prolific industrial and experimental artists in their own right, but together they compose and perform sophisticated, yet deconstructed sonic landscapes and soundtracks for fashion and film. So, in this mix, you'll hear a range of intense industrial music, dark ambient, metal, and artfully-build sonic experiments." 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/diamondstein/episodes/diamondstein-9th-april-2025

Night Shift w/ Diamondstein, Wade Black, & Francesco Presotto  090425

Beyond the Clouds

In the year 5000, humanity drifts above the clouds, far from the lost world below. Time feels weightless, dissolved into shimmering echoes and pulsing rhythms.

Ethereal IDM textures merge with rolling breakbeats and deep, spaced out trap grooves creating a sound both hypnotic and free, like a signal from the future floating through an endless sky.

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H.D. Reliquary is the first eponymous release from Ben Shirken [a.k.a. Ex Wiish], and finds him returning home to 29 Speedway. The songs sparked during sessions with close collaborators - across 11 pieces, artists such as Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger and Muein breathe personality into the record. H.D.R. coaxes beauty from a serrated, raw, yet subdued palette drawn from improvised recordings of trumpet, violin, upright bass, cello, Max/MSP and modular synthesis.

The title references the hard drive as a sacred container for relics, contemplating how digitally archived fragments of one's existence can burn eternally after death. Archives, and in this case recordings, splinter and warp. Some distort what they contain. Some vanish, and others are eternally preserved, immune to deletion. Your information on these digital drives becomes archival shrapnel, the music that survives the remnants of collaboration.

Quick to note the dangers of creating music with ecologically intensive, mass marketed, and unethically trained AI software, Shirken employed bespoke, resource-light machine listening techniques for some of the compositional process. Pieces of recordings were fed into a series of proprietary neural networks, generating MIDI information and audio that reacted to on-the-fly soloing, imaginary sessions between players and algorithms invented posthumously (in post).

Shirken will release H.D. Reliquary alongside a sound installation on April 11. He has performed in spaces such as The New Museum, Pioneer Works, Public Records and Nowadays in New York City; Dripping Music And Arts Festival in New Jersey; La Station in Paris; and Cafe Oto in London. In recent years, he has also been a foundation of the elusive free jazz group Nu Jazz. Where his prior work was geared towards dissociation, H.D. Reliquary invites us to contemplate how our tools for understanding and containing the world fundamentally alter our relationship with it.

Written, recorded, & mixed by Ben Shirken
Greg's Thesis mixed by Jason Park
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @ Schwebung Mastering
Art & Design by Brian Mark
29 Speedway 2025
29S07

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Greg's Thesis w/ Kevin Eichenberger

After “Infinite Night”, Evitceles emits a second output with “Cursed Radiance” on Strange Therapy. His signature emo-tinged melodies are consumed by possessed guitar riffs that surge with pulsing and toxic energy, crafting a sonic sci-fi thriller.

A harsher, more visceral experience unfolds during the album, each track feels like a fractured transmission from a haunted frequency, where static vocals and metallic echoes collide. While some fleeting moments send chills through the wreckage, the statement is clear - the project moves into a new, unsettling narrative.
credits
releases April 29, 2025

All music written by Etien Slavchev
Mastered by Hex Audio Lab
Artwork by Nadia Kostova
© Strange Therapy 2025, Amsterdam | ST026

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