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Chicago - Chicago III (1971) LP

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:14:37 +0200

Label: CBS (Cat.#: 66260)
Released: 1971

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (1975) LP

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:45:55 +0200

Label: Virgin (Cat.#: 27 493 XOT)
Released: 1975

Cure, The - Boys Don't Cry (1980) LP

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:20:19 +0200

Label: Fiction (Cat.#: 2442 178)
Released: 1980

Joy Division - Still (1981) LP

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:50:31 +0200

Label: Factory (FACT 40)
Released: 1981

Original UK release

Run-off groove notations:
Side A: The Chicken Wont Stop
Side B: -< -< -< -< -< -<
Side C: -< -< -< -<
Side D: The Chicken Stops Here

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming (1979) LP

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:22:21 +0200

Label: CBS (Cat.#: CBS 86095)
Released: 1979

Bob Dylan - At Budokan (1978) LP

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:58:45 +0200

Label: CBS (Cat.#: 96004)
Released: 1978

Procol Harum - Something Magic (1977) LP

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:25:06 +0200

Label: Chrysalis (Cat.#: 6307 593)
Released: 1977

Incl. original lyrics sheet

Count Basie - Chairman of the Board (1958) LP

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:17:17 +0200

Label: Emus (Cat.#: ES-12023)
Orig. released: 1958
Reissue: no date on the album, probably 1960's

USA pressing

John Lee Hooker - Everybody Rockin' (1981) LP

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:00:27 +0200

Label: Charly (Cat.#: CRB 1014)
Released: 1981

Compilation of work recorded from 1955-1962.

Johnny Guitar Watson - The Very Best of Johnny Guitar Watson (1981) LP

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:48:20 +0200

Label: MCA (Cat.#: MCA-5273)
Released: 1981

USA pressing

Dark Day - Window (1982) LP

Sun, 13 May 2012 09:02:54 +0200

Label: Dark Entries (Cat.#: DE-006)
Orig. released: 1982
Reissue: 2010

2012 repress of the 2010 reissue

Dark Day was the brainchild of Robin Crutchfield formed after leaving New York’s seminal No Wave band, DNA. Following the first few incarnations and various lineups, 1981 saw the direction of the project morphed into an electronic keyboard duo where Robin was joined by Bill Sack. Together they recorded an album of nine songs entitled Window that was released on Plexus Records. Lyrics were inspired by various sources including occult texts by Colin Wilson and art by Leger, Bruegel, Malevich, Man Ray, Duchamp and Jean Cocteau. The mechanized sound of Window is less one of the man machine robots in charge of Kraftwerk than man at the mercy of his machines. The infectiously-engaging toy-like instruments captured the ears of fans worldwide with popcorn drum rhythms. A Synare borrowed from Jeff and Jane Hudson lent a “Bette Davis Eyes” crack to the percussion on the percolating tracks. The instant polaroid images, an homage to Japanese recording artist Susan of “The Girl Can’t Help It,” adorned the album sleeve in two stark headshots of musicians at work, haunted by the unseen. The front cover, a Crutchfield-designed collage in two tones of salmon flesh and Mediterranean watery blue show a string of rickety children in diaper togs, forced much like the children of “Cat In The Hat” to spend a dreary day indoors. The look on the children’s faces asks you to determine whether they are needing to be rescued from their enclosure, or inviting you to join and play. Is the window something you look out, or in? You must answer that question.
Carefully remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. This re-issue also includes a 24-page newsprint zine “Darker Days As I Recall Them” by Robin Crutchfield and an 8×11 lyrics sheet with song meanings and reflections from Robin Crutchfield and Bill Sack on the making of Window.

Dark Day - Exterminating Angel (1980) LP

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:44:49 +0200

Label: Dark Entries (Cat.#: DE-025)
Orig. released: 1980
Reissue: May 8th, 2012

Dark Day is the minimal electronics brainchild of Robin Crutchfield following his separation with no wave band DNA. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Crutchfield was fascinated with both performance art and the most esoteric edges of pop music. After making his escape to New York City in the mid-seventies, he was inspired by Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band and Lydia Lunch’s Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. He made the transition into the new music of downtown Manhattan and formed the “no wave” band DNAwith Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori in 1977.
In 1979 Crutchfield left DNA to pursue a series of musical projects under the name Dark Day. His first album, “Exterminating Angel” is named after the Luis Bunuel film of the same name. On this album the band is Robin on synthesizers and vocals, Phil Kline on guitar/bass, Barry Friar on drums and guest Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon on saxophone. All 13 songs on “Exterminating Angel” use cheap synthesizers to create cyclical, machine-like keyboard riffs as a foundation for the moody, Teutonic music. Crutchfield sings like a lost member of Kraftwerk with a dry detachment creating a starker and chillier atmosphere. Lyrics were derived from cut-up methods similar to those used by the surrealists, fluxus artists, and William Burroughs and Bryon Gysin and pit the subjected against their torments and tormentors.
All songs on “Exterminating Angel” were originally recorded at Sorcerer Sound, NYC. 1979 and produced by Charles Ball. This re-issue has been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Each LP includes a two-sided fold out poster containing lyrics, photos and lyrical explanations by Robin Crutchfield. Dark Day continue to inspire the current wave of stark, eerie, processional synthesizer music more than 30 years later.

Joy Division - Closer (1980) LP dark red vinyl

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:45:38 +0200

Label: Factory (Cat.#: FACT. 25)
Released: 1980

Original UK pressing in dark translucent red vinyl (only visible against strong light), thick rough cardboard cover with rough inner sleeve and having rounded corners.

Matrix Number: FACT 25 A 1 OLD BLUE?
Matrix Number: FACT 25 B-1

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980) 12 inch

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:09:52 +0200

Label: Factory (Cat.#: FAC 23-12)
Released: 1980

Original first UK pressing

Groove run-out writing
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A): FAC-23-12-A A PORKY PRIME CUT SPECTACLE IS A RITUAL LYN 8535-1U MAX
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B): FAC-23-12-B A PORKY PRIME CUT PURE SPIRIT LYN 8536-1U MAX

Joy Division - Komakino (1980) 7 inch flexi disc

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:38:59 +0200

Label: Factory (Cat.#: FAC 28)
Released: 1980

Original 1980 flexi disc