Out july 5th 21_ vinyl only !

Mindscan Tapes, an English label that was active between 1988 and 1994, who released, amongst others, Beatronic and UK Electronics, two compilation series that had a notably wide style for the time. At the end of the '80s, it was deemed appropriate to stick to stylistic zones. However, Robert Maycock, the sole young Englishman running this DIY structure, mixed electro, early techno, ambient, experimental, house and industrial music, all while keeping it cohesive. We're still amazed to this day, with regards to the quality of these compilations, how underground his work was, best seller did only sell 30 plus copies.  Here at Delodio, we decided to select our favorite tracks from these two compilation series, with Robert Maycock's blessing, and make an album out of them, which we hope will help pay our respects to the contributing artists, and highlight the "artistic direction" work that Mindscan Tapes made, via these flawless choices. We want this album to also be a celebration of the way things were done and the typical mindset of this era from before the internet. A time when people had no other choice than to help each other out, to advance the common cause, to hopefully push their own projects forward, with the single goal of introducing people to new music. To be a transmitter amongst transmitters. Copied on demand on home tape decks, these cassettes were circulated via mailing lists that people tried to somehow promote by send flyers by post to other music fanatics, who were doing the exact same thing, to try and grow the network. "UK Electronics 1988-1994" is the sound of an era, via the very personal vision of a young Englishman who would spend all of his dole money on the production of underground compilation cassettes.

A2_TEKNOHEDFUK - THF 4.1.A_DEL09

from "To Live & Die In Space & Time" CS
https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/to-live-die-in-space-time

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - "Plantwood (Day)"

Castillo

Ashlar

The lost Belgian blueprint of Brussels based jazz fusion and how free form Franco-Flemish punk put Zeuhl school in the Classroom via to the conception of COS.

Emerging from behind the same clouds that kept formative Belgian progressive jazz records like Brussels Art Quintet and Kiosk’s Mona Call in tangible obscurity, these impossibly rare early Euro jazz recordings shed a new ray of light on the intricate foundations of the scene that elevated COS, Marc Moulin, Placebo, Marc Hollander and Telex to Zen master status, while also capturing one of Europe’s best female vocal artists in the midst of her wide eyed and uninhibited prime.

Idiosyncratic, intrepid, psychedelic, scholastic? Affirmative. But not once do these recordings resemble pages of a dog-eared sketchbook. Expertly executed and recorded, this semester of progressive proto jazz fusion symposiums capture the group as they unveil the unique strain of experimental ‘Flower Music’ (a title worthy of a lost Don Cherry album?) that would imminently blossom into the trailblazing COS powerhouse. Listen closely and hear the sound of this outernational mutating quintet as they tear up the rule book and still graduate onto the International jazz rock scene with flying psychedelic colours. Fans of COS tracks such as Mein maschine ist schön and L’Idiot Léon will herein identify the foundations of Pascale Son’s early experimental, non-lyrical and onomatopoeic vocalisations which would earn the band favour amongst early Zeuhl aficionados, thus winning the group support slots with Magma and historically leading directly to the Classroom/COS overnight metamorphosis. These recordings capture that precise chink in time and the eureka moment where Daniel Schell’s experiments become a leading life force. Constantly forward-thinking with a don’t look back mantra, these recordings have remained nestled on old acetates and magnetic tape akin to similar lost Low Country albums such as Alain Pierre’s mythical L’enfant grandit synth opus and Placebo’s coveted Three Days In April TV recordings.

Never before released on vinyl, these tracks provide us with a sonic chalkboard of Daniel Schell’s ambitious musical equations, recalculated by precocious polymaths, then conveyed via Pascale Son’s inquisitive child-like vocal explorations. For those keen to learn the Histoire De Melody COS? The classroom door is open - prepare to be schooled!

lnk.to/Cclassroom

Classroom

Sur deux

Classroom - Sur deux

Cuban record collector, ethnomusicologist researcher, picks up a hour of global vinyl via Havana bimonthly 
https://www.nts.live/shows/cami-laye-okun/episodes/cami-laye-okun-12th-september-2023

Insolar w/ Cami Layé Okún 120923

from the "Sequentia" CS (NNF407)
Not Not Fun / 2024

TUNE IN:
https://frunk29.bandcamp.com/album/sequentia
https://www.midheaven.com/item/frunk29/sequentia

Frunk29 "Bubblegun"

The Cosmik Connection, Vol. 8

DJ Bigspin - 5am Bike Ride

From Idle Worship Cassette and Digital out April 28 2017 on Sounds of the Dawn

Idle Worship

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Alex Crispin - Idle Worship (Cassette and Digital Out 4/28/17)

NTS - 220118

This track is part of the compilation Mikro Onigiri (M14-D) from Mikrodisko. 
You can purchase this track online on https://mikrodisko.bandcamp.com/

Produced, arranged and mixed by VANYA.
Mastered by MadPremium.

Mikro Onigiri

Cruise (by the lake)

Taken from 'V/A - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997' (MFM050)
Buy Vinyl: https://www.musicfrommemory.com/
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© 2020 Music From Memory

Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

Birds & Flutes

A1. MLO - Birds & Flutes (5:21)

VANYA is a south American musician/producer/dj based in Berlin. Computer music nerd with a sound design approach driven by wonky grooves, pushing bass music towards the edge.

Cruise (by the lake)

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