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...

OUT NOW. VINYL AVAILABLE FROM ALL GOOD RECORDS SHOPS

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

Felicia Atkinson - Le Po​è​me de l​’​angle droit

Ecstatic present the sublime second release from Mancunian duo Celestial, 'Listen To The Sky' offers a quiet fusion of Balearic blues and kosmische influences follows up their mesmerizing 2021 debut "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"'. 

Evoking a rich sonic palette of evocative guitar instrumentals with echoes of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Frippertronics , Celestial deftly forge their own gentle and uncluttered fusion of acoustic and electric guitar textures with immersive environmental synthetic washes. 

Opener 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon' pairs Celestial with fellow dreamer and labelmate Romance (who also provide additional production flourishes throughout the record) for a stunning piece of modern chamber music wreathed with strident electric guitar, piano, horns and electronics, oceans of hiss bathe 'To The Green Mountains' plagent synth bass and meditative Paris, Texas esque guitar figures while 'Four Temparaments' provides an uncharacteristically but welcome clangorous and urgent new age lament. 

'Listen To The Sky's sun-drenched soundscapes and ethereal productions unfold with a kaleidoscopic and nostalgic ennui tenderly captured on fragile AGFA tap providing a mesmeric deep listening experience that skews to the mythic and trancendental.

Celestial - Brother Sun, Sister Moon Feat. Romance

https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/ssri-ssri

Limited edition of 60 copies / C-59 cassette
unlimited digital version
POINTLESS GEOMETRY 2024 / POINT#57

releases April 29, 2024

SSRI - Mysterious duo (Sandra Mikołajczyk and Igor Gadomski) from the center of Poland, is a band whose activity isn't easy to define but often delving into the darker fringes of dub. Their music is often described as a genre of underwater reggae, likely influenced by the distinctive industrial sound of Łódź and a heavy use of reverb effects. They draw inspiration from the city and its distorted concept of tropical nature.

As residents of Radio Kapitał, hosting a show inspired by mental states and the circumstances of their creation, they bring an additional context and depth to SSRI's music.
Their debut album, set to be released on April 29, 2024, by Pointless Geometry.

Music by SSRI: Igor Gadomski & Sandra Mikołajczyk
www.instagram.com/s__s__r__i
radiokapital.pl/shows/ssri
Master and mix by Adam Badí Donoval / www.instagram.com/adambdonoval
Cover by Weronika Mendrek / www.instagram.com/mendrekweronika

SSRI

SSRI - BEEEEEEAT / POINT#57

@nicolowiththeaccent

Production: Nicolò Bozzano
Mastering: Henry @ Pitchcraft
Artwork: Brian Mark

Ssambé

Nicolò - Fakedrums

https://soundcloud.com/jonteprippz

Listen 24/7 at www.retreatradio.net

Jonte Prippz (13/02/25)

Physical copies are available here: boomkat.com/labels/berceuse-heroique
Digital is available here: https://berceuseheroique.bandcamp.com/album/bht-022-roma-vjazemski-handlebar

"Estonian oddball Roma Vjazemski eases Berceuse Heroique back into the original production saddle with a killer suite of wheezing folk-dub synth sketches landing somewhere between Wah Wah Wino, Pretty Sneaky, Aeson Zervas and Civilistjävel!, doing their thing around a Baltic campfire.

The eight part session is the label's first tape of original works since turns by Al Wootton and Tradecraft aka Carrier last year, quietly regaling a slow burning instrumental yarn with lyrically poetic fingers on the keys and in its flickering downbeats. It’s the sort of music that feels to exist in its own dreamy time and space; unfussed or hurried by trend or commercial urgency, happy to glaze over the 3rd eye and unravel to its own atmospheric physics and pace.

With ambidextrous mutability, Vjazemski loosely limns the vibe via lines of rippling rhythmelodic thought on a trip from deliquescent dub minimalism in ‘Wired’, to the alien digi-dub of ‘Cryto’. He variously invokes mountain folk synth spectres in the very Wah Wah Wino-esque lope of ’Nhava’, thru curdled industrial curios on ‘Royal Brown’, and near passing out in a Estonian sweatbox with the wrung-out blips of ‘Sauna Belt’ - reminding us of Bergheim 34’s supremely sick, inexplicably forgotten 1999 bullet ‘Sechstrack’ for Klang Elektronik.

That fine seam of late night suss really comes out best in the glowing tone of ‘5am’ and likewise the smouldering embers of psych-folk dirge in the keening drones and crackle of ’Still Old’ and its ‘Ode to Outro’ like some lovesick mellotron"

Boomkat 


Edition of 100 copies. Mastered by Larry "Bruce" McCarthy at Edgar Studios

02 Nhava

from KR111: Michael Vorfeld - Glühlampenmusik
Tape / DL out on august 22nd, 2025

MICHAEL VORFELD - Strömung

K9//GUENOUILLE - MI 1 (extract live machine)

If you like this track check out my tribal playlist below I got loads more like this.
soundcloud.com/fudgie-bem/sets/tribal-jungle-bunglist-bungle-bunglism

Jungles 🔥

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-pointless-geometry

https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/11779-rozszczelnianie-kultury.html

SSRI - BEEEEEEAT / POINT#57

Pointless Geometry

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