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The Legendary Pink Dots

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-	¿Qué tipo de sonidos predominan, acústicos o  electrónicos?
-	¿Con qué término o términos describirías la textura?


EDUARDO POLONIO: "Minicositas"

Legendary Pink Dots - True Love <3

A Chud Convention track that sounds a lot like Skinny Puppy's early work. I add it to their tracks because it sounds so similar and rather spooky.

01 Silent Sorrow

02 Patient Sorrow

Legendary Pink Dots - Super

Spanish synthesist Eduardo Polonio’s second album Acaricia La Mañana, originally released in 1984, is a dizzying collection of works recorded between 1976 and 1984, documenting the electroacoustic pioneer’s experiments with Polymoog, Minimoog, EMS Synthi, and Farfisa organ. Each piece is structured upon a rotating series of short, repeating cycles, which dance around one another and slowly intertwine into buzzing and belching polyrhythms. It’s a curious kind of minimalist composition, almost like synth phase in a sense, but whose dense textures and gurgling sonorities evoke the stereotypes of a vintage mad science lab.

Acaricia La Mañana is an easy entrypoint into the vast and still quite untapped world of private-press Spanish synthetic esoterica. Bonus points to Vinilisssimo for including an extra 7″ with the LP which contains four previously unheard contemporaneous works from Polonio’s archives, offering further views into this Spanish magus’s brilliant mind.

Polonio - si, euclides/automat

The Legendary Pink Dots - MMMmmmmmmmmmm

Robert Rental - Different Voices For You, Different Colours For Me. Demos 1980 (mini album)

A1 - Big Day
A2 - Double Heart
A3 - Before Closing Doors
A4 - Radio Silence

B1 - Moving My Blue
B2 - Open Air
B3 - On Location


On an unassuming cassette, just labelled ‘Robert Rental’ in green Dymo tape, these demos have lain unheard for years amongst his family’s treasured possessions, cared-for artefacts of a life cut short far too soon.

These songs, which Robert recorded in his council flat in Battersea in 1980, provide an enticing glimpse into his all-too-infrequent solo work. On most occasions, Robert worked with Thomas Leer, Daniel Miller or other collaborators. These are rough recordings, tape hiss still in evidence, but his creativity shines through the murk, like uncut diamonds.

With these recordings Robert appears to be moving towards more recognisable song structures than most of his earlier work, which could be wildly experimental and would often involve found recordings taped directly off television.

We know 2 of these tracks from their later re-recording for the Mute Records single ‘Double Heart’ late in 1980. Robert spoke to friends of his frustration at being unable to replicate his sound in a commercial studio – it was these demos’ sound that he wanted to recreate. Sometimes having only access to the most rudimentary of equipment can hone the creative talent into something sharper and more focused – necessity is the mother of invention, indeed.

Simon Dell,  2018


I am humbled and ecstatic to be entrusted with this music and able to aid getting these songs out into the world. I have now listened to them countless times and feel they are so, so much more than just an interesting archival release, but rather a small, fully formed body of wondrous songs that deserve to be heard and enjoyed by as many people as possible. In this current era where so much music is so completely focussed on the production, with the result that often the soul is sucked out of it, it’s a pleasant shock to discover that a forgotten tape from nearly 40 years ago can be the freshest and most refreshing sounding thing ever.

JD Twitch, 2018

Released on vinyl (and digital) on September 28th 2018. Distributed by Kompakt.

Robert Rental - Different Voices For You. Different Colours For Me. Demos 1980 (mini album sampler)

New, previously unreleased track from the coming 2012 album

01 - the legendary pink dots - potsdammer spats (ep rund um den watzmann, korm plastics, 1990)

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