Vinyl On Demand label S/D and worship thread

It's like the Bear Family for people in leather pants. and very cool! only i'm not rich :(

ha, yeah, even with a subscription I am still paying approx. $20 per LP once postage and the exchange rate get factored in. I couldn't really afford it but given the lineup I had no choice.

the record cover archive is friggin' amazing. kudos for that alone:

http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/Gallery_of_Record_Covers_(appr__20_000_pics___scans_of_Record___Tape_Covers)-2-80.htm

Whenever we get a shipment of these, there's usually two or three that I'm ultra tempted to buy. I have never bought one of their boxes! I came close with Broken Flag & the Tietchen's one as well.

That E.G. Oblique graph 2LP, that's a real winner. And those Die Todliche Doris LPs, now probably out of print.

I think this could be part of a larger discussion about subscription labels as a new business model for niche bands. This came up on an Einsturzende Neubauten thread because they are engaged in similar subscription programs.

xpost to ian yeah all that early EG Oblique and Muslimgauze stuff rules.

I have never heard Die Todliche Doris :( Must rectify.

There's a fifteen minute track featuring Borbetomagus on the new-ish Controlled Bleeding Box!

english language link:

http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/HOME-2-64.htm?PHPSESSID=51a5fcbb974f7c3f8aff22e929ece65b

shocked at the lack of interest in this thread.

A lot of the more New Order/Depeche Mode sounding "minimal synth" stuff doesn't impress me much. Never been a big fan of that aesthetic, really. There are exceptions; a band like the Pink Dots really kind of transcends being tagged as "coldwave" or whatever, and their box is really quite good. I'm normally kind of skeptical of the Dots, but the stuff on that box that leans towards the more ambient is really something, and even the vocal passages don't grate as much as they do on some of their records. I think my problem with the Pink Dots is that they just have so many records out, plus all the Ka-Spel solo records. I'd probably like a good chunk of it, but it's such a big discography and the records are uncommon enough (CDs easy enough to find, i guess..) that I don't have the patience to dig through it all.

I really like the Storm Bugs single LP they put out last year; that and the Storm Bugs disc on Fusetron are both really excellent; they were another band who transcended a genre, being more concerned with the method and creation behind each individual piece than being a band with a "sound." Good interview with main storm bug guy in the newest issue of Sound Projector, too.

please allow me to vomit at my overuse of the word "really."

afaik that Storm Bugs is available as an MP3 from the VOD site.

I am with you about all the cold wave minimal synth stuff, I don't think it has aged very well. I did recently hear ADN Krystal (who are on the 2008 schedule) and I liked that quite a bit.

As far as Ka-Spel, Pink Dots, etc, yeah they were always a different beast.

Some quick LPD recommendations: Asylum, Chemical Playschool 3/4 or 8/9 (either), Faces In The Fire.

Lots of stuff on here by people who I've meant to check out, but never quite got round to. Legendary Pink Dots, in particular. They seem a real love 'em or hate 'em proposition. Anyone see the letter from Ka-Spel in the Wire this month after one of the reviewers shat on one of the recent Pink Dots compilations? Suprisingly, that was the first ever mention of them in the mag.

Anyway, I'm hunting around for the best price on the Asmus Tietchens set right now, but I'd also like to hear the Snatch Tapes, Cultural Amnesia and The Naughtiest Girl was a Monitor...

the 5-LP Severed Heads box (scheduled for 2008) also looks quite interesting.

Only one of the 2008 Industrial releases I don't know is that Third Door From The Left tape. I looked at their website but had never heard of them before.

i wish i got the Broken Flag box, I'll be kicking myself everyday for it

the only thing that kiiiind of bothers me about the whole VOD deal is the fact that they're all edited like crazy, no real collector's worth. When I'm nitpicking I'd rather see some good reissues, but hey...who'd care to do that?

??? not the Pink Dots, Die Todliche Doris, or Tietchens boxes, those are reissues of full cassettes. Broken Flag I can see being bits and pieces of all kinds of releases though. As far as I know the MB box also contains complete tapes.

The Broken Flag box yeah...I can't wait for the Ramleh Awake! box to come out

rizz, you could find a copy of the broken flag box relatively easily if you hunt around on the net.

i know...no $$ though

do a couple medical experiments at your local hospital or university! they pay well for a few hours work.

(AVAILABLE IN SHOP BY END MARCH)

VOD49: Severed Heads - ADENOIDS 1977-1985 5-lp-Box w. 16-page Booklet and w. or w/o. T-Shirt (for members with printed pillowcase and T-Shirt)

VOD50: S.P.K. - DOKUMENT IIIO 6-Lp-woodenbox with T-Shirt and 36-page Booklet (for Members with add. 3x7"Box and option to buy one more with wooden 3x7"Box)

VOD51: Experimental Products - PROTOTYPE plus GARAGE TRACKS Lp-2 (for members with Bonus 7")

VOD52: GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA - 181-1987 Lp-2 with DVD in Armee-boot-bag (for Members with Bonus 7")

PRIPUZZI 02: GOZ MONGO / INYURMANIA Split Lp with Booklet

for those interested in Storm Bugs, some mp3s at http://www.stormbugs.co.uk

Hey Storm Bugs!!
Great interview in Sound Projector; love both the LPs on VoD and the Fusetron one.

we aim to please :)

Just signed up for the '08 industrial set. Now i've got $35 to live off of for the next week, thx VOD. Just couldn't pass it up, last years releases were tempting, but this year they've outdone themselves. I don't see what they could possibly do in '09 to top this.

I guess now we wait... $530 poorer and wait wait wait.

are there tracklistings for the severed heads and spk? i can't seem to find them. would like to know before i buy.

nothing yet. I was curious as well. 6lp's+3x7"s of pre'83 spk is all i had to hear.

Printed pillowcase!!? Fuck the merzcar!

6lp's+3x7"s of pre'83 spk is all i had to hear.

Yeah, me too. It says "1979-1983" on the box.

btw mp3 blog dualtrack has a mindboggling assortment of live SPK gigs.

Yea i discovered that entire webring of industrial/etc. blogs last year. Found tons of new (read old) wonderful stuff. It inspired me to start a couple of my own (white ward and shock corridor).

VOD finally updated the shop. Here's the spk info:

"Besides the official Tape-Releases such as Wars of Islam, From Science to Ritual, at The Crypt, and Last Attempt at Paradise, this Box-Set also includes Live recordings from their first concert in Sydney in 79, the Heaven Concert London in 80, the Brickwerkz-Concert in 82, the SO36 Concert in Berlin plus a few more live-documents. Members will recieve their edition with a limited 3x7“wooden Box-Set containing their first 3 Side Effect 7“ from 1979 plus a Post-card-Set with photographies by SPK-Member Sinan Revell"

Interesting. can't wait to see the box and shirt. Unless someone beats me to it i'll probably do the discogs entry and take a bunch of pictures.

it's the 3x7" box that would clinch it for me but sadly i have missed this ear's membership allocation.

sinan revell = swoon! i have been in awe of her since i saw them in '84.

omg just what I was hoping for

extra bonus points for the "From Science To Ritual" tape, all studio stuff.

stirmonster, you can generally get the subscription extras on an individual basis as a non-subscriber if you get in early (at a small extra cost). you should email the label.

do a couple medical experiments at your local hospital or university! they pay well for a few hours work.

-- ian, Friday, February 8, 2008 2:17 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

I should take my own advice.

waiting waiting waiting argh, didn't reckon how painful it would be to wait for these things to show up.

from the VOD site, lol:

5 NEW RELEASES OUT BY END APRIL (30th of APRIL, NOT MID APRIL!!)

PLEASE NOTE: IT TAKES 2-3 WEEKS TO HANDLE ALL ORDERS AND PACKAGES SO DO NOT WRITE MAILS ABOUT TRACKINGNUMBER OR DELIVERY-STATUS, I WILL NOT ANSWER THOSE TIME-INTENSIVE MAILS IN ORDER TO SPEED-UP THE PACKAGE-MAILOUT.

also stirmonster, apparently the subscriber edition comes with an offer for me to be able to buy another whole box set (with the 7" box), so email me if you still want/need one.

amazing

just noticed your earlier post, sleeve. am i too late?????

did you get the SPK box sleeve?

yes

hi folks! this thread is gonna be a lot quieter without ian :(

Stir feel free to email me, I am a little unclear on how it'll work with VOD but it says that 250 copies of the singles box are for distribution. I'll email Frank and ask him. I think you have to buy the whole 6LP box to get it though.

the box does not include From Science To Ritual, all material is live. It DOES have the complete Last Attempt At Paradise tape and (I think) all of the Crypt tape. Only some of the Al's Bar gig. The box is huge and imposing. Large glossy book with a lotta amazing photos, essays, and discography/gigography for the era. The singles come with exact replicas of the original covers as inner sleeves and a VOD design with SPK graphics for the outer sleeves. I can't fit everything into the small wooden box so I had to leave the outer sleeves in the big box.

An unannounced bonus - a small black box called DoppelgANGER by Sinan Revell, containing a series (maybe 40) of glossy photos some of which she appears to have taken, some definitely not. Some are disturbing and they definitely make a point.

Also, a T-shirt.

I wonder who they have do their mastering - these are the only records I've ever head that fit 32-33 minutes on a side and don't sound like shit towards the end.

Haven't dived into the Gerechtigkeits Liga 2LP beyond a couple of tracks.

oh now I see the photo box was announced, I missed that before.

this thread is gonna be a lot quieter without ian :(

I rest my case.

bump for stirmonster

VOD 53: Etant Donnes Tapes 1977-1983 6-Lp-leather-Box with DVD 87,99 €

The Box provides all of Etant Donnes avantgarde-tapes released between 1977 and 1983 on the famous french BainTotal-Label Recordings include in specific: LA VUE, L’OPPOSITION, L'ETOILE AU FRONT, CEUX QU'ON AIME - CE QUE JE HAIS , CINQ PORTES SOUDEES, LES CENTS JOURS CLAIRS. The release also contains a DVD with Live-Peformances of Etant Donnes of the last 3 decades. The music of this Etant Donnés’s first period (1977/1983) boxset describes a rite of passage from mortality to divinity ,a powerful but hidden passion craving beauty and burning love that can be conquered only by another form of secret pain ,that of losing yourself in the cosmos and becoming part of the muddy streams of distant stars .Their soundworks are constructed through the manipulation of natural sounds ,using the variation of velocity and intensity of the recordings ,the cutting and splicing of tape . Etant Donnes ‘s compositions are passionate and brutally communicative ,their music and words are minimalist just like the writings and chants of the religious mystics sufi ,trying to recover the virginity of the words and sounds ,they map new territories and establisch their own personal rules.These first tracks contains all the brutal collages of found sounds investigating nuances of sounds that at times verges upon silence ,the inspired and enraptured meeting with earth’s natural forces ,an hommage to the shadow of night ,to the vineyard and the golden door. In these six first vinyls Etant donnés create their own brand of total audio expression using belches and punches ,their attention is concentrated on the symphonic cacophonie organisation of disorganized found sounds ,using magical rythms only directed by cosmic rules . A perfect way of organising natural sounds that obeys to fundamental principles that everyone wishes to convey ,a music able to tear down walls and to build a universal comprehension ,a cosmic law of beauty ,a magical and alchemical act of poetry.

I don't see what they could possibly do in '09 to top this.

new schedule for '09 AND '10 out now!!! And yeah, they didn´t top '08.

We have 2009-confirmations by:

For the Industrial-Subscription:

Nurse With Wound (3Lp), Vidna Obmana (3Lp), Andrew Liles (3Lp),
Giancarlo Toniutti (3Lp), DDAA (4Lp), Smegma (5Lp)

for the Wave/Minimal-Subscritption: Norma Loy (1Lp), Polyphonic Size
(4Lp) Konstruktvists (1Lp). Die Form/Bain Total (5-Lp), Crash Course
in Science (3Lp), M-Squared-5Lp-Box (Systematics, Scattered Order,
Makers of Dead Travel Fast, ,

Schedule for 2010 is also set with! Programm für 2010 steht auch
schon! Sleep Chamber (4Lp), Rapoon (3Lp), Laibach (5Lp), Voice of Eye
(2Lp), Hunting Lodge (3Lp), Spanish Industrial Box (4Lp), The
Grief(2Lp), Neon (5Lp), Mark Lane(1), GermanWave Box (4Lp) & with
Portion Control (5Lp-Box)

who the hell are Neon? Looks like my bank account will be saved this time around, although the 2010 Industrial looks tasty and I like Portion Control a lot. I'm probably just going to buy the NWW set separately this next year and pass on the rest. Smegma have to be the most overrated of all these bands, I sure don't need 5 LPs worth.

also I would like to say that while the Etant Donnes box LPs were not all that great, the DVD that came with it is super, most of it from the later Touch era that I love unconditionally.

The Nocturnal Emissions is hit and miss, two great records, one poor-sound-quality LP's worth of noisy live gigs, one side of earlier Pump stuff that's OK, and one side of "outtakes" that sound much more like their later work post-Caroline K.

I have 2 Neon mp3s downloaded on those old virtual bootleg comps, New Wave Complex Vo. 4 and A Tribute to Flexipop 09. Not my favorite. The M-Squared/Australian one looks cool.

I got the new NWW box. It's one of the most incredible artefacts I've ever seen. Worth every penny.

NWW box sounds amazing - I'm drooling over the Giancarlo Toniutti box mayself - early cassettes and unrealeased. Also includes notes and data.

2009 stuff is on the way, I'll talk about it when it gets here but I am really psyched about owning a Nurse With Wound greeting card.

I never got around to talking about the last installment of Industrial 2008. The Hermann Nitsch sounded good on paper, but it was a letdown when it arrived for a few reasons. First, it was a reissue of a tape that I already had (Orgelkonzert). Second, the DVD (no doubt hotly anticipated by all Nitsch fans) is a straight shot of his back playing the huge pipe organ for 50+ minutes. Almost a Sex Pistols level "joke's on you" there, augmented by the DVD including TWO TAKES, the rehearsal and the actual performance.

That said, the organ drone pieces are really something and well worth checking out if you like e.g. the Harmoniumwerk series. And the only other released example of this style is the Komposition Fuer Orgel CD from the late 90's.

Third Door From The Left LP has great packaging as usual, the music is pretty obviously an early example of UK people being inspired by TG and Cabaret Voltaire. Not bad, but not memorable either.

Yeah, the NWW greeting card is really something. It made me jump out of my skin when I first opened it b/c there's this sound chip inside that plays a (short) track when you open it.

I got the Nitsch box as well, the fact it was a reissue wasn't a letdown for me as I didn't have the original tape. Anyway even if I had had it I would have bought this monster anyway. Agree the DVD is somewhat underwhelming but it's worth it just to see Nitsch's little legs dangling from the piano stool.

Two (count 'em) Current 93 boxes coming next year, so I'd better start saving now.

can someone explain this to me? i can't make heads or tails of their web site, with the small print and obscure band names.

If the band names are that obscure it's probably not really something that caters to you...

But, it's a small run record label that puts out deluxe box sets of (for want of a better word) 'underground' artists.

Oh and the NWW set is sublime. Have to get a friend to set up some really nice mics in a quiet studio to record the greeting card. Also the first time a box set tshirt is in my size!

i know NWW. are they boxed sets of previously released material?

From the website:

Two hours of their official tape-releases Scrag, Nylon Coverin and Mi Mort, more than one hour of compilation-tracks only released on tape-compilations and not available as Vinyl and more than one hour of their first 2 live performances in 1984 plus a 37 minute 10“ with unreleased material from 1983 plus a one exclusive NWW Track on a Soundchip/Greetingcard

Oh sorry are you asking about the content of the box sets in general or just the NWW one? In general I think the website is pretty clear as to what's in each box. But many of the early ones are sold out now (click the Releases section to see them all, then the Shop section, and if you can't find the one you want in the latter then it's sold out).

I'm interested in the Giancarlo Toniutti box. He's one of those names that I know from various noise/experimental compilations but never quite got round to investigating further. His contribution to the G edition of the recent Zelphabet series is totally absorbing though, so I think I'll have to bite.

if u live in the States I will sell you my near-mint copy of that Toniutti box for a sweet deal, send me a mail thru ILX if you're interested. I'd ship international also but it might add up.

the greeting card track is also included on the bonus 5" single so I will be recording it, fyi (xp).

bah.... I'm in the UK. Is it more of a miss anyhow?

I dunno, it hasn't come yet! I used to have his LP La Mutazione way back in the day.

We might be able to make it work, I'll send you a shipping estimate if it turns out I'm selling.

OK, been working my way through 2009. DDAA cancelled (sounds like they just didn't get back in touch) so instead there will be a 4LP O Yuki Conjugate box which is just about the best thing I can imagine.

Polyphonic Size was a real surprise, don't know how I missed this band. They even had a U.S. EP release! The early (79-80) tracks that showed up on Flexi-Pop comps aren't anywhere near as good as their LP proper from 1982 and the 1981 singles. Lots of duplicate demo versions round it out, but overall a really nice treat, hitting the same sweet spot for me as early Legendary Pink Dots (except from Belgium).

Norma Loy... seems more like Joy Division wannabes than "cold wave", but what do I know. 3 sides only, with some dubious later material. Early stuff is interesting enough though, more aggressive and raw.

I am not a big Andrew Liles fan (no quality control) so I'm not convinced I should listen to that one (as opposed to selling it in mint).

Also haven't gotten to the M Squared box but man do I love The Systematics. Over on the aussie postpunk reissue thread there was high praise.

Vidna Obmana box is killer in the 3LP version, totally different than his later stuff. Very noisy grinding stuff like Esplendor Geometrico with a dash of Whitehouse (sound, not lyrics). Maybe my favorite of the industrial ones aside from the NWW.

Other people have mentioned the staggering greatness of the NWW box and yeah it is quite something. Still going through the 1st 3 tapes which are familiar to me, looking forward to the comp tracks and the unreleased live. The live stuff that was on the Mi-Mort LP is so so good, Stapleton disavows it for some reason and I have no idea why. Hearing that in non-RRR-bootleg-tape quality will be nice. The ten inch is fantastic as well, solo piano twisted and folded.

Here is the first track from the 5" subscriber record, same as the greeting card but obv. better quality.

I am a diehard Konstruktivits/Konstruktivists fan although I think he's lost a bit of edge over time, this double LP is a nice look at his early years. Most of this was taken from tiny self-run tapes from before the 1st LP, but side 4 was released on the Audiofile label as a tape in 1989 I think. I think it's from the same period, regardless.

Giancarlo Toniutti was another nice surprise, I guess I should have given La Mutazione another listen back in the day. Some of it almost reminded me of field recordings. Very primal, dense sense of texture going on in these works. Comes with a gorgeous full color 4x6 (?) softcover book like an exhibit catalog, a first for VOD as far as I know. Still, I gotta sell it to help get the 2010 stuff.

Also haven't gotten to the Crash Course In Science box but it looks awesome and those two EPs are really great. I'm glad they're releasing more stuff that was previously on OOP vinyl, as opposed to just tape reissues.

2010, finalized:

NDUSTRIAL: appr. 20 Records / 20 Schallplatten
Current 93 Vol.1 (3LP), Rapoon (3Lp), Laibach (4Lp), Voice of Eye (2Lp), Hunting Lodge (4Lp), Psychic TV (w. White Stains) (4Lp)

MINIMALSYNTH/WAVE: appr. 24 records / 24 Schallplatten
Current 93 Vol.2 (4Lp), Portion Control (8Lp-Box), Sleep Chamber (4Lp), Experimental Products (1Lp), Mark Lane (2Lp), GermanWave Box (5Lp)

Why split the C93?

So people have to buy both subscriptions - the NWW box was going for more than the whole Industrial subscription for 2009 and I think he's trying to discourage speculation by making it harder to get both C93 sets in the collector-scum subscription versions.

reissues!!!

Absolute Body Control (Untitled) VOD37.1 (reissue) red Vinyl, lmtd.444   14,99 ¤

Reissue of the first Absolute Body Control-Tape which also came as part of the long sold-out Absolute Body Control Vinyl-Box-Set (VOD37). The reissue is in red Vinyl and lmtd. to 444

 
S.P.K.            Dokument III0 – 1979 3x7"Box, lmtd.166                     29,99 ¤

Very limited reissue of the original and ultrarare three 7" released on Side Effects back in 1979. The 7" have also been released in the SPK-Special member-edition in 2008. This reissue comes as grey marbled Box compared to the black Box as in the member-edition. The three 7" are housed in a reprint of the original Side-Effect-Sleeves.

man... 2010 looking good

VOD73: PORTION CONTROL s/t 7LP (COMPLETE WORKS 80-83) METALBOX
WITH T-SHIRT / DVD / BOOK (Vod-Members with additional Bonus-7")

VOD74: CURRENT 93 s/t 4LP WOODEN-BOX (UNRELEASED, DEMOS, LIVE 82-90)
WITH METALPIN / POSTER ON HANDMADE-PAPER FROM NEPAL / BOOKLET
(Vod-Members with additional Bonus-7")

VOD75: CURRENT 93 s/t 4LP WOODEN-BOX (CHRIST & THE PALE QUEENS / RED FACE / EMBLEMS / AS THE WORLD DISAPPEARS
WITH METALPIN / POSTER / BOOKLET
(Vod-Members with additional T-Shirt") / Full members to recieve an additional deluxe silkscreened and embossed finelinen-Folder to fit both wooden Boxes)

VOD76: MARK LANE 2LP "WHEN THE NIGHT IS CRUEL" (1979-1988)

VOD77: EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTS 2LP "TRACKS TO GLOW IN THE DARK" (80-87)
(Vod-Mitglieder mit zusätzlicher Bonus-7")

also, that Crash Course In Science box is superb, the live shows in particular really hit this noisy peak of electronic yowl for a band that was allegedly a "minimal synth" outfit.

Smegma box has the distinction of making me go "what the HELL are we listening to?" almost every single time a track came onto ipod work shuffle. A disappointing amount of this (basically 2 LPs worth) was previously on CD, but vinyls are old and rare so I guess that's OK. Glamour Girl 1941 in particular lived up to the hype of a "legendary LAFMS album".

A bunch of the O Yuki Conjugate box was on the limited CD Primitive, and the 2nd LP has also been on CD. The tracks I hadn't heard were no big surprise, but I think this band is one of the best late 80's-early 90's ambient/industrial hybrids. DVD is A+++ couchlock material.

Die Form box was um a large listen, I did it all and am still not sure what to think. Clearly this guy was in the forefront of cassette label culture, and I can heard an original sound in the work, but I think I need another listen. This is one of the only bands I knew almost nothing about before I dove in.

All the 2010 releases are now on sale kids. Better move quickly if you want the C93 boxes as they won't stick around for long. The above mentioned "additional deluxe silkscreened and embossed finelinen-Folder to fit both [C93] wooden boxes" is actually available to all, not just to members. I'm not a member and I went for the two boxes w/o the folder. I'm as much of a VoD fetishist as the next man but that's just unnecessary.

Oh and I've never seen Frank do this before but the C93 LPs are also available individually.

I am so psyched for that Portion Control box!

the Portion Control tracklist looks pretty damn comprehensive...not that i would expect anything less from VoD.

wish those boxes from Germany didn't take so damn long to get over here - the month or so a parcel from VoD takes to get to oregon is interminable. gotta check the mailbox several times a day, just for good measure.

Mark Lane and Experimental Products i'm really looking forward to as well...Current 93 - meh. i reckon the NWW box brought a hefty cash infusion to the operation, so i guess it was to be expected that D.Tibet wasn't far behind lickin' his chops...

yeah I'm in Oregon too, it's agonizing.

kind of excited to hear the unreleased C93 stuff, but the 2nd box is all stuff I have on CD. and come on, four LPs of unreleased/rare/demos etc and no "Antichrist/Antichristian" or "Jesus Wants Me For A Moonbeam"???

Current 93 - meh. i reckon the NWW box brought a hefty cash infusion to the operation, so i guess it was to be expected that D.Tibet wasn't far behind lickin' his chops...

I don't think this is entirely reasonable, I mean it's not like C93/NWW don't fit squarely into the VOD aesthetic anyway. I know what you mean about the torrent of releases from these groups being a bit much but these are the kind of artists that VoD have been working with for years.

agreed. didn't mean to phrase that like i was beefing with VoD - as a subscriber to his label from the beginning i have nothing but respect for Frank and his enterprise. the NWW box, i think, was a initiation for many folks to the label and the quality of his releases and that ain't nothing but a Good Thing. was just being bitchy re: C93...never been much of a fan of the man or his works, really. i reckon there's a thread on here somewhere that Tibet beef would be more on-topic.

but speaking of VoD, i would like to go on record sayin' that i've been mightily disappointed that the planned Karl Blake/Lemon Kittens box didn't ever come through (was planned for 2008, i think). i'm not privy to all the reasons why. but damn, Karl, let's make this happen!

Just received the two C93 box sets in the linen folder and I have to say this release is incredible. Incredibly beautiful packaging on this. This is the most impressive VOD release to date. It ups the ante on the NWW set.

I second that sentiment, really really impressive (the box is so huge!). Some good stuff on that Unreleased box as well, thought I was gonna be all jaded about it but I spent this past weekend in major C93 binge mode.

On another positive note, all my Portion Control LP sleeves had split seams from shipping, and VOD 75.4 had pressing vinyl burr gunk screwing up side A. Within an hour of my email Frank had offered to replace everything at no cost, shipped with the next package. I am impressed, again.

also got a buncha Portion Control LPs with split seams, but that's a minor gripe compared to the goodness within those grooves. one of the finest VoD releases ever, really - sound quality is fantastic (never heard the original tapes, but assuming it was at least partially sourced from those). tracks on the first LP and the 7" are particularly illuminating from an archaeological angle and the unreleased versions/comp tracks LP is tops. I Staggered Mentally sounds better than i've heard before. highly recommended.

agreed that the C93 box is mighty attractive and, uh, large! 'tis a minor cloth-bound monolith sitting in the middle of the room...surprised the cat hasn't used it for a scratching post as of yet. it's on the turntable next, i reckon.

Those first two tapes have some of my favorite Portion Control tracks! So good. I never got the love for 'Surface And Be Seen' aside from "Barbarian" which is obv. classic. The Private Illusion disc is my favorite right now, and yes the mastering & sound quality is a huge improvement over the Inphaze originals.

I do wish VOD would stop using white linen for packaging, that stuff is a dirt magnet.

Just one minor issue on the C93 set. The metal clasps on both boxes are missing the little pin that keeps the latch closed. Is that just me? Did they break off in shipping?

Mine is broken on one box but not the other. I emailed Frank and he said he would send me a new "seal", not sure what that is or how it works so I'll have to see what turns up.

Also I thought at first the badges were missing since they weren't in the boxes. Finally I realized they were actually floating around inside the packaging itself. One was in fact missing though, he said he would replace it.

the "seals" are little teeny tiny pieces of brass like little knobs, blink and you'll lose them. Mine were inside the boxes at first. they fit into the holes on the box clasps, but I had to install mine using needlenose pliers and it was a little tricky.

my badges were floating around as well.

almost done listening to all of these, I didn't know Mark Lane had worked with Attrition!

new update on the site, y'all. next shipment/releases will be early October:

VOD78: HUNTING LODGE “Shadows out of Time-82-83” 3Lp/7”-Box
VOD79: SLEEP CHAMBER “SixSixSix“ 80-87 4LP with 7“/Booklet
VOD80: VOICE OF EYE 2LP„ Anthology One 1989-91“ gatefold-cover
VOD81: RAPOON „Ghosts from a machine“ 1989-94 3LP-Box

definitely looking forward to Hunting Lodge rarities, and the Rapoon strikes me as kinda fun (in a low-key fashion).

hey thanks for the heads up! I have been checking the site every once in a while to see what's next but I missed this. Love that early period of Rapoon, also looking forward to the Voice Of Eye.

Really been enjoying the Mark Lane and Experimental Products albums, pleasant surprises. Every time I think I'm sick of minimal synth 80's stuff I hear something that makes me remember why I love it so.

oh man this new Rapoon box is blisssssssss.

so lovely. lots of early period stuff, sub-mixes, rough versions, etc.

VOD83: PSYCHIC TV with White Stains “at Stockholm plus Jarman Themes / Live New York 17-11-83 plus Unclean and unreleased rarities “ 4LP 66,66 €

Psychic TV and its mastermind Genesis Breyer P-Orridge works and writings doubtlessly has been one of the inspirations and mind-settings of many people, artists and labels incl.VOD. Along with Throbbing Gristle to be released in 2011 and 2012 this is a definite milestone for VOD

.......the live stuff? can't imagine anything else.

damn folks, VoD has a banner fucking year 2011 lined up, looks like. i won't give away the surprises here, but check this out, yo!

http://vinyl-on-demand.com/VOD_ABO_MITGLIED-1-1.htm?PHPSESSID=7c1ea0669e86edb9d7c5ecc81bfab411

...and report back describing the depth of yr amazement in 10 words or less.

haha I bumped the John Bender thread this morning but no excited responses yet...

since we're here, who is doing distro for this stuff in the US now? cuz Forced Exposure sure isn't, and Fusetron doesn't have the last batch of releases.

and I'm also wondering about the nasty snark in this Alga Marghen press release, are they just jealous of the Tazartes box? Europeans be beefin'.

Ghedalia Tazartes - Granny Awards LP $26.99 (Alga Marghen)
"alga marghen was the first label to issue on CD the 4 record LPs that Ghedalia Tazartes privately produced between the late 1970s and early 1980s, therefore contributing to the diffusion of this music among the new generations. At the same time Ghedalia Tazartes' music defined the high standard level of the alga marghen label in its early days. These great recordings are still available in their original CD editions and no surprise that alga marghen has now the privilege to bring you the pleasure of listening to a previously unpublished LP recently discovered in the artist's archives. Side 1 features 'Ferme ta gueule, Zarathustra' (i.e. 'Shut Up, Zarathustra') a long track constructed by several fragments recorded in the early 1980s that would have later composed, with different editings, some of the best parts of 'Une eclipse totale de soleil'. On side 2 we find five shorter tracks titled 'Whatever', 'Works', 'Singing', 'Wild', 'My Rock Ghedalia'. Recorded in the artist's own studio in his anhydridic Paris, these pieces are based on materials pre-dating Ghedalia Tazartes first LP Diasporas and were re-elaborated in the early 1980s to be included in this lost work of art. Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. He is also one of the most original artists in the sonic art scene. In these last years when cheap low-level editions are produced by kitsch-on-demand labels which can nothing but copy, falsificate and propose expensive tasteless boxsets, alga marghen brings you the 'original' edition of this wonderful music. Edition limited to 450 copies."

also FUCK YES to Clock DVA

hmmm that Alga Marghen quote is interesting...obviously some backstory beef there we're not privy to. i know they put out a CD box, but not vinyl, right?

whilst we're on a speculatory slant, i wonder how VoD managed to snag Bender? suppose Frank could be emailed, but more fun to succumb to wild speculation and rumour-starting.

regarding u.s. distro, i haven't seen either that they have steady distribution here...seems pretty piecemeal and, well, on demand.

really looking forward to the DVA (fucking finally this stuff is released properly), Bender, Attrition and Van Kaye/Ignit boxes mostly, but the rest of the lineup appears very tasty...hopefully it won't mutate too much by the end of the year, as has happened occasionally in the past...

also, it appears that Throbbing Gristle isn't on 2011's menu...but that's OK with me anyway. like the world really needs more TG live material floating around?

3rding the ! about the CDVA stuff. Very interested to hear the stuff pre White Souls in Black Suits.

Aside from the DVD it seems like the Alga Marghen CD box is still the one to own, then again this is the thread for VOD fetishism.

yeah that's a really interesting list, not sure I'll be subscribing but it's good to see him going a bit more obscure again after the maybe more obvious C93 and NWW boxes.

that Alga Marghen comment is weird. how exactly are the VOD boxes kitsch? because there's been t-shirts and other such frills?

I can see them now at A.M. HQ in Italy... "A Tazartes kitchen apron??!? That's just not OK, we have to amend our catalog description to reflect our righteous fury"

(afaik the Tazartes set does not come w/an apron but I would not put it past a label that has done special edition pillowcases)

I might get a Wave sub and buy the Clock DVA box separately. Laughing Hands are good and all but I have no use for a Club Moral 5LP set.

Tazartes apron would be righteous! would be the first VoD gimmicky-item i would use, having not properly utilized my Severed Heads pillowcase, or flown my Controlled Bleeding flag.

but hell, even if it did include a branded apron, candle snuffer or paddleball game, i wouldn't go so far as to call it 'kitsch' or 'tasteless'.

oh, wait.

haha I can't believe the liner notes to the NDW box are all in German, wtf

hey this Psychic TV live LP that I thought was just a repress of NY Scum Haters has like ten or twelve extra minutes of music!

hey sleeve, did you ever get that ADN Krystall box??

yup! thanks a bunch, I love their/his synth sound.

second re: German liner notes...i can of course dig that everything about the set is German, but all previous VoD releases' liners have been at least partially in english, so was also surprised. guess i'll have to find a sultry German-speaking woman to stop by and translate for me.

love the contents, though - had only heard a few of those groops previously (which is why i love classic VoD...don't need a Laibach box). the Poison Dwarfs are particular favorites at the moment, and White Russian had a perfect new wave sound with earworm hooks to boot. lurve it.

Did anyone else fail to get a PTV poster? Frank seems to think he sent it to me but I didn´t find it anywhere. No big deal though, I´m keeping that sucker.

Forced Exposure now has the German Wave box and the PTV set, so I guess they´re carrying them again.

hey sleeve, i didn't receive a poster with my set either (guess i didn't notice one was to be included until now)...

have seen quite a few u.s. retailers list the two new releases - Fusetron, Experimedia, Tedium House come to mind, but have seen 'em a few other places. a good sign!

OMG look at all of this minimal synth. I had no idea how much interesting synth / wave there was!! How am I going to finance this?

VOD85: TARA CROSS „Tara Cross 1982-89“ 4LP-Box 64,99 €

Box incl. Spurt Ditties (1982); Waiting for the War (1983); Concocting Chaos (83); Collaboration-Tracks with Unovidual; Searchlight & Torch (84, with Stefan Tischler of Port Said); Limelight (85); Compilation-Tracks 83-89, Tempus Fugit (88)

Excellent wide-ranging minimal/synth & Wave-tunes by one of the most outstanding female artists in the 80’s cassette-culture and wave/underground releasing a total of 4 Tapes, one Lp and contributing to numerous Cassette- and Vinyl-compilation.

Tara Cross was always exposed to music as a child.Her family, being second generation in the United States from Ireland, kept their roots by filling the household with lots of Irish and American music. Her father was a great singer and an admirer of Bing Crosby and Perry Como. Tara's interest in music awakes at age 13, when she begins to play the guitar. She studies at Hunter College of New York, where she majors in Music and Psychology, yet she decides not to pursue her musical studies in an academic institution, since her primary interest is centered in the performing arts.. Despite the opposition of her family, she devotes her time to her musical career while keeping a full time job in the corporate world. Her jobs ranged from secretary, typist, microfilm supervisor, librarian, magazine publishing company, etc. Tara is the first of six children and needed to help with family finances. In the late 70's and early 80's she moves from Brooklyn into the "village" in Manhattan, the center of the art scene in NY, forms punk rock bands and later goes onto experimenting with an Electro-Harmonix mini synthesizer and a primitive drum box. She develops her efforts into a very unconventional, experimental kind of music. In the early to mid 80's, she herself produces, composes and performs her own works, acts as her own public relations, takes care of the administrative and secretarial work, etc, She works mainly at first with cassettes, later going onto reel to reel 4 track, then 8 track, recording everything at home and releasing it worldwide. In 1997. she opens a hair salon, getting out of the corporate environment, called Le Chandelier Salon. As a musician, she considers herself as some sort of sound structurer who experiments with sound the same way as a painter would experiment with colors.

FYI, lineup for 2012:

END FEBRUARY 2012 (VOD97-99) 3 x Wave/Min/Synth-Releases w. 6 records

VOD97: Port Said „Port Said“ 2Lp
VOD98: Lucas Trouble „In a fit of delirium 1979-82“ 2Lp
VOD99: Paul Nova „Trees without Leaves“ 2Lp

MID MAI 2012 (VOD 100-102) 4 x Industrial-Releases w. 22 records

VOD100: Conrad Schnitzler 8Lp-Box
VOD101: Years on Earth 2Lp (plus 7“ for members)
VOD102: Sema/Robert Haigh 4Lp-Box
VOD103: Kluster 8LP-Box

END OKTOBER 2012 (VOD 103-107) 4 x Min/Synth -Releases w. 11 records PLUS 1 x Industrial-Releases (VOD108) w. 4 or 8 records

VOD104: Werkpiloten 2Lp (plus 7inch for members)
VOD105: Bizarre Unit 3Lp-Box (plus T-Shirt for members)
VOD106: Stratis 5Lp (incl.Bonus-Lp (96 Eyes) for members)
VOD107: Gen Ken Montgomery 1Lp
VOD108: BIG NAME TO BE CONFIRMED 4 or 8LP-Box (w. 7“/T-Shirt for members)

kinda wish there was actually some obscure Belgian proto/post-industrial group named BIG NAME TO BE CONFIRMED, but alas...nothing on discogs i can find...

OMG SEMA OMG

I can die happy now

gonna get an Industrial sub next year for sure

Does the VOD108 translate literally that they have released 108 box sets? I have a lot of catching up to do. I can't believe I slept on these! How possible is it to get the early ones at a decent price? Hunting Lodge, Controlled Bleeding, and SPK? That John Bender book looks beautiful!

what ya mean you don't just listen to private press country? ;)

there are indeed 108 box sets: http://www.discogs.com/label/Vinyl-on-demand

SPK box is reasonably priced as long as you don't want the bonus box of 3 singles, that's $$$.

Hunting Lodge is probably available cheap, sadly neglected. I dig it.

Controlled Bleeding is oop I think? FE and Fusetron are the main US distros for this stuff.

HA!! I love this sort of music, used to dj industrial/italo. I was really into noise/industrial in high school/early 90's's. Would be cool to see some of the Houston,TX scene get treated to a box set. I just haven't been keeping up with it. But this thread has me really excited!

omg SEMA box indeed!!

OHHHH these are the guy who put out that Absolute Body Control early tapes!!! That has been on my want list for awhile.

have you heard Psyche - Insomnia Theatre?

no, I missed that one... other folks on this thread have it though.

Absolute Body Control is a hard one to find, that went fast.

Sema box set sounds amazing.. wonder why Rob Haigh is ok with a vinyl box when he's turned down all offers for CD reissues (based on lack of master tapes..)

yeah i wondered that too.

new ones are being mailed out now, I see.

my john bender "book" just arrived. i can't express how much i had been looking forward to this and it doesn't disappoint. i was worried the hard to find / unreleased stuff wouldn't live up to how i hoped it would be but it completely exceeds all expectations. a joy!

as if I could get any more excited, good news!

man surface mail is slow... anybody on the West Coast gotten these yet?

also,

Sema box set sounds amazing.. wonder why Rob Haigh is ok with a vinyl box when he's turned down all offers for CD reissues (based on lack of master tapes..)

― Talcum Mucker, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:48 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i wondered that too.

― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:53 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

I would hazard a guess that the box is going to consist of unreleased/archive stuff, like that Sema CD that came as a bonus with Silent Storm. Which would kind of bum me out, but I will still buy it.

still waiting...

here's the finalized 2012 list - 10 LPs of early Merzbow!

OVERVIEW TO 2012-RELEASES AND THE RELEASE-DATE

END FEBRUARY 2012 (Already Released) (VOD97-99)

3 x Wave/Min/Synth-Releases w. 6 records

VOD97: Port Said 2Lp „Port Said 1980-84“

VOD98: Lucas Trouble 2Lp „In a fit of delirium 1979-82“

VOD99: Paul Nova 2Lp „Trees without Leaves“ recordings 1982-84

END MAI 2012 (VOD 100-103)

4 x Industrial-Releases w. 22 records

VOD100: Conrad Schnitzler 8Lp-Box "CON-tainer T1-T8 (1971-1981)" (plus 7“ for Members)

VOD101: Years on Earth 2Lp "The Structure of Change Tape-Recordings & unreleased 1979-82" (plus 7“ for Members)

VOD102: Kluster 8LP-Box "unearthed recordings 1969-72"

VOD103: Sema/Robert Haigh 4Lp-Box "Time will Say Nothing 1982-1984 - the complete works"

END OKTOBER 2012 (VOD 104-108)

4 x Min/Synth -Releases 11 records 1 x Industrial-Releases w. 10 records

VOD104: Werkpiloten 2Lp "Der Werkpilot & The Wonderful World of" (plus 7inch for members)

VOD105: Bizarre Unit 3Lp-Box (pre Paul Nova) "recordings 1979-1982" (incl. Bonus-Record and T-Shirt for members)

VOD106: Stratis 5Lp (complete Tape-recordings 1982-1984 & unreleased) (incl.Bonus-Lp (96 Eyes) for members)

VOD107: Gen Ken Montgomery 1Lp (tape-recordings and unreleased 1981-1986)

VOD108: Merzbow 10Lp-Box "Lowest Music & Arts 1980-1983" w. Book (plus 7“ / T-Shirt for members)

YESSS

I will report back later, although my shipping box was torn open on two corners everything seems to have come through unscathed.

OK I'm not sure how I feel about this new "folder" design. I liked the big monolithic boxes, so imposing on the shelf.

4 sides into John Bender and it sounds worlds better than the sketchy rips from Mutantsounds. Plus, Pop Surgery has extended versions of more than half the songs! Bender wrote a fascinating essay about his history and influences, might post some of it on the JB thread (I was surprised to read abt just how much he is a devotee of the Canterbury scene and Robert Wyatt in particular).

still totally immersed in the bender box. dying to know what's on the schnitzler set.

still excited about the Sema box. From the '82-'84 period, so it looks like it will contain the Le Rey material.. which will be great - especially if there's unreleased stuff too!

^ ditto! it's the first VoD product i'm excited about, tbh.

yeah my ears perked up when I saw "The Complete Recordings", I fervently hope to finally own a decent version of "Three Seasons Only".

Thinking about it, there must be at least some unreleased stuff on the VoD box - seeing as most of Le Rey releases were more like 12"/mini-lps...

VOD100-103 (see list above) are available for pre-order now, plus CD reissues of a few earlier VOD titles now out of print on vinyl, notably the excellent Broken Flag box set.

damn I gotta pass on a sub this year again, and just cherrypick the Sema box.

anyone got the Sema box yet?

Rising From The Red Sand!!!! And an early Lustmord box, hell yeah. And Frohmader. Tons of stuff I've never heard of, more than usual.

http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/index.php?ln=2&navid=6&shopid=32&vorschau=&sid=

got my Laughing Hands and Un-Kommuniti boxes in the mail yesterday, have yet to dive in. It seems like he's back on schedule with these releases.

I never knew Tim Gane had a cassette culture background!

One VoD release I wish got more attention is the Campingsex album. I guess it's an outlier for the label in the sense that, however noisy it may be, it's still "just" a guitar-based post-punk record. It's great, though. Very heavy. At certain points it even reminds me of Kreator and German thrash in general, the crushing momentum of tracks like "Guten Morgen". Thurston Moore is supposedly a big fan.

that looks good, surprisingly affordable through US channels.

2014: 10 LPs of 1983-87 Muslimgauze with 220 page book, Robert Haigh 2LP (guessing that this is the LAYLAH records)

2015: 10-LP sets from Pierre Henri and Francois Bayle

start saving now, kids!

Just ordered the Rising From The Red Sand box.

mmm now I have four new box sets of primo industrial noise sitting in my room.

which one should I listen to first? totally unfamiliar w/Frohmader's work. I'll probably rip the Rising From The Red Sands box before sitting through 4 LPs of unreleased Hafler Trio.

The Lustmord set has their 1st album, but does not appear to include the Lustmordekay cassette at first glance, which seems weird. I don't think that stuff was on the Dark Vinyl reissue CD either.

i see they're releasing a dada computer lp - i had some post-prod involvement in an earlier reissue of that, it's very good

excited about this:

- PASCAL COMELADE Degeneration Electronics 1975-83

gosh this Muslimgauze box sounds great, I have originals of some of these and they did a good job remastering (as usual).

kind of a controversial move not to include the original artwork imo, I have to assume that was a move to preserve some of the "value" of the original vinyl releases.

Robert Rich's box of early stuff sounds great, primordial drone

haven't broken into the Comelade or Alien Brains yet, but as nerve pylon notes the Comelade box is super exciting.

my personal metric for success in the professional world is someday being able to afford shit from this label

Smegma have to be the most overrated of all these bands, I sure don't need 5 LPs worth.

I was wrong about this, and that box is great

the Comelade box is fantastic. so great to have all of this. i have the Fluence lp (Tapioca reissue)—the remastering is stellar.

now, who can translate the french articles in the booklet?

11 x MINIMAL/SYNTH/80’s WAVE-RELEASES OUT MID TO LATE SEPTEMBER

VOD128 - RICHARD BONE Vaulted Visions, Filmworks, Synth-Pop, Demos and Experiments 79-83 3Lp/7inch (VOD-members w. T-Shirt)
VOD129 - ENDE SHNEAFLIET The Trumpett Years 1981-83 5Lp

VOD131 - V/A VOD presents MINIMAL/SYNTH/WAVE VOL.2 12Lp incl.

VOD131.1 Mike Vamp (1Lp)

VOD131.2 Ericka Irganon / J.J. Cabanis (1Lp)

VOD131.3 Mark Lane (1Lp)

VOD131.4 Robert Marlow (1Lp)

VOD131.5 Malcolm Brown (1Lp)

VOD131.6 Ptose Productions (1Lp/7“inch)

VOD131.7/8 Thealonian Music / Modern Jazz/Ash Wednesday (2LP)

VOD131.9/10 Sea of Wire/Chris Jones (2lp)

VOD131.11/12 Techno Menses / K. Kusafuka (2Lp)



PREVIEW 8 x INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIMENTAL-RELEASES & VICE VERSA 4Lp OUT END OCTOBER

VOD132 V/A VOD PRESENTS 80’s INDUSTRIAL & AVANTGARDE Vol.1 13LP incl.

VOD132.1 Death & Beauty Foundation (2Lp)

VOD132.3 Silverstar Amoeba (1Lp/7inch)

VOD132.4 Counter Dance (1Lp)

VOD132.5/6 Vox Populi (2Lp/7inch)

VOD132.7/8 Funeral Dance Party (2Lp/7inch)

VOD132.9/10 K2 (2Lp)

VOD132.11/12 Robert Haigh (2Lp)

VOD132.13 Blockader / Chris Connelly (1Lp)

uh what?

CONFIRMED ARTISTS AVANTGARDE / EXPERIMENTAL FOR 2015

RELEASE SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY / MARCH 2015

- PIERRE HENRY Choix d’œuvres 1950 a 1985 // Works 1950-85 10Lp

- CLOCK DVA Recordings 1977-1980 5Lp

- S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1980-1983 5Lp

the Clock DVA and SPK sets are represses? so weird...

LOL somebody reads this, via my email

SPK and DVA is more uncovered material (not repress :-)

whoa

ATTENTION! 2015 IS THE LAST YEAR OF THE 12-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION-PROGRAM (2004-2015) WITH 12 RELEASES PER YEAR

- RÜDIGER LORENZ The SynTape-Years 1980-1983 5Lp-Box

^^ umm yes please!!

I looked that guy up on Discogs, never heard of him before & it sounds very interesting.

The stuff I've heard is nice warm post-berlin school stuff. Not all that goth/industrial but when it comes to analog electronics the lines can blur really easilly.

I'm really intrigued by this homemade new age-ish electronic stuff released on small/no labels in the early 80s. Enno Velthuys is another dude kind of in that vein, don't know if his stuff has been reissued. And K. Leimur, who has a newish anthology out on Numero group, i believe.

6 NEW-RELEASES OUT LATE MARCH

3 NEW-VOD-RELEASES

VOD133 PIERRE HENRY 'Choix d’œuvres 1950 à 1985' 10LP-Set 169,99 €

VOD134 RÜDIGER LORENZ 'The SynTape Years 1981-83' 5LP-Set 74,99 €

VOD135 ANOTHER VIEW 'A Career in Dancing - Abstraction Years 1979-81' 6LP-Set 82,99 €

1 NEW-PRIPUZZI-RELEASE

PRIP04: FOCKEWULF 190 'the first & second Side of the Mystic Synth' 2Lp 24,99€

1 NEW-VOD-RE-RELEASE

VOD31.re EG OBLIQUE GRAPH (pre Muslimgauze) 'Complete Oblique' 2LP 24,99 €

1 NEW-VOD-CD-RELEASE

VODCD7BOX ASMUS TIETCHENS '4K7+' 5CD-Box 39,99 €

this Rudiger Lorenz set is heavenly

13 new VOD-Releases & John Bender 7LP-Box-Reissue out early July

VOD136 Clock DVA - The Future & Radiophonic Dvations 5LP-Box – lim. 400 79,99 €

VOD137 Sperm / P. Airaksinen / Samsa Trio Works 1968-76 6LP-Box lim.300 79,99 €

VOD138 VOD presents 80's Minimal.Synth.Wave Vol.3 13LP/4x7" lim. 300 144,99 €

incl.

- VOD138.01/2 Portion Control - Progress Report 1982-1986 2LP 25,99 €

- VOD138.03 Dok-U-Ment - Kum De Profundis 1982-1984 LP 15,99 €

- VOD138.04 Rob Van Wijngaarden / (Heavy) Mental - s/t LP 15,99 €

- VOD138.05/6 Garry Bradbury - Panspermia 1986-2005 2LP/7’inch 28,99 €

- VOD138.07 Ti-Tho - s/t LP/7’inch 18,99 €

- VOD138.08 Irsol - First Contact / Half Life LP 15,99 €

- VOD138.09 Zephyr in The Swamp - Sessions 1981-83 LP 15,99 €

- VOD138.11/12 Art Interface - Secretaries from Heaven / Wild Card 2LP 25,99 €

- VOD138.13 Cacophony '33' - Park Home Recordings 1983-89 LP/7'inch 18,99 €

Special editions

VOD138.11/12B Art Interface Secretaries from Heaven 2LP/7/TS 99cps 49,99 €

special limited Re-Issues:

VOD95.re John Bender Memories of mindless monologues 7LP/7inch lim.200 119,99 €

Pripuzzi 02re: Goz Mongo Alliance / Inyurmania split LP w.booklet lim.100 11,99 €

making a semi-public apology to Frank here for complaining about missing certificates when his mom just died. Frank, you're awesome and I was thoughtless, you can chastise me anytime. Sorry for your loss.

also, this Pierre Henry box is amazing and I can really hear the NWW influence in a lot of it (only listened to the 1st two LPs so far).

New Releases by S.P.K. (7Lp) plus Tone Set (5Lp) plus Experimental Products (12 inch) plus Muslimgauze (10x1Lp) plus ClockDVA (4x1Lp / 1x2Lp) out last week of January

2 VOD-Box-Sets by the Tone Set (ltd. 500) and S.P.K. (ltd. 400)

VOD141 The Tone Set „Such Heavy Convictions 81-83“ 5Lp/7inch-Set 79,99 €

VOD143 SPK „Dokument 1979-83“ 7Lp/7inch-Set w. 16 p. booklet 159,99 €

New 12inch Release by the Experimental Products (ltd. 500)

VODJ1: Experimental Products „Glowing in the Dark“ 12“ 15,99 €

15 Releases by ClockDVA and Muslimgauze (ltd. 200 each)

VOD96.1RE: ClockDVA Lomticks of Time Lp 17,99 €
VOD96.2/3RE: ClockDVA 2nd 2Lp 29,99 €
VOD96.4RE: ClockDVA Sex Works Beyond Entanglement Lp 17,99 €
VOD96.5RE: ClockDVA Deep Floor Lp 17,99 €
VOD96.6RE: ClockDVA Fragment Lp 17,99 €

VOD121.1RE: Muslimgauze Opaques Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.2RE: Muslimgauze Kabul Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.3RE: Muslimgauze Hunting Out WIth An Aerial Eye Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.4RE: Muslimgauze Buddhist on Fire Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.5RE: Muslimgauze Blinded Horses Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.6RE: Muslimgauze Flajelata Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.7RE: Muslimgauze Hajj Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.8RE: Muslimgauze Jazirat-Ul-Arab Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.9RE: Muslimgauze Abu Nidal Lp 17,99 €
VOD121.10RE: Muslimgauze The Rape of Palestine Lp 17,99 €

^^^^^ hooray (re: anagram's post)

(the muslimgauze specifically)

New VOD-Releases: Magnetophonics - Australian Underground 1978-84 7Lp-Set and Bu/Bu Musikverbreitung 4Lp-Set with HEUTE 2Lp/7inch and Der Musikant 2Lp

New VOD-Box-Sets, each limited 400 copies plus 2 Stand-Alone 2Lp’s limited 100 copies

VOD142: BU/BU-MUSIKVERBREITUNG - Recordings 1980-1985 by HEUTE & DER MUSIKANT 4Lp/7inch/Booklet (ltd.400) 64,99 €

VOD144: V/A Magnetophonics - Australian Underground Music 1978-1984 7Lp-Box with large booklet 99,99 Euro (ltd.400) 99,99 €

Der Musikant "Musikantenmusik Recordings 1980-1984" 2Lp (ltd.100) 25,99 €

HEUTE "Präzisionsmusik Recordings 1982-1985" 2Lp/7inch (ltd.100) 29,99 €

VOD142: BU/BU-MUSIKVERBREITUNG - Recordings 1980-1985
by HEUTE & DER MUSIKANT 4Lp/7inch/Booklet (ltd.400) 64,99 €

After 10 years of planning and intensive artists-convincing, a dream for many collectors of minimal/synth-music and VOD has become reality.
A Vinyl-Box with early 80’s audio formerly released only on super-rare and higly collectable Tapes or on 7inch by two of the most radical Minimal/Synth artists from South-Germany; Rolf Schobert and Georg Alfred Wittner with their projects Heute and Der Musikant (solo-project of Rolf Schobert with his name variations as Der Künftige Musikant, der Lustige Musikant, der Ewinge Musikant).
Almost 4 hours of greatest minimal/synth-based-tunes (2 Lp’s each by Heute and Der Musikant) compiled by VOD from more than 10 different early-80’s Tape-Releases, all released and distributed on their own Bu/Bu Musikverbreitung Label in the early to mid 80’s.
The Label and artists released their very own style of minimal „Präzisionsmusik“, music as unique as Minimal/Synth can only sound, standing the test of time, managing the path between the past and the future („Zwischen Gestern und Morgen“).Emotionally loaded rhythmic straight-forward tracks, with superbly schizophrenic, antagonistic and neurotic lyrics such as „Traurig-Lustig“.

VOD142.1/2 der MUSIKANT Musikantenmusik 1980-1984 2Lp (ltd.100) 25,99 €

DER MUSIKANT is Rolf Schobert from South Germany. His music from the early 80’s and his incredibly rare Tape-Releases are a must-have for every serious collector and lover of Minimal/Synth and/or NDW-Music.
His purely minimal straight-forward powerful synth-sounds in combination with his extraordinary and highy emotional vocals and are so distinct and have a unique character. Rolf is also one half of famous HEUTE together with Georg Alfred Wittner. This limited 2Lp which combines almost all this great track recorded between 80-84 can also be bought as part of a 4Lp-Set called "Bu/Bu Musikverbreitung“.

VOD142.3&/4 HEUTE Präzisionsmusik 1982-1985" 2Lp/7inch (ltd.100) 29,99 €

HEUTE is an ongoing minimal/synth-project run by Georg Alfred Wittner alias GAW and Rolf Schobert alias der Musikant. Since the beginning of the 80’s HEUTE released several remarkable and outstanding Tapes on their own Bu/Bu Musikverbreitungs-Label and on other Labels such as Biber Records, Schrott, Kassetto Fix and Intoleranz! The Latter released their classic Tape “Noch ist Polen nicht verloren from 1983. This limited 2Lp which combines almost all their great track recorded between 82-85 can also be bought as part of a 4Lp-Set called "Bu/Bu Musikverbreitung“.

VOD144: V/A Magnetophonics - Australian Underground Music 1978-1984 7Lp-Box w. large booklet 99,99 Euro (ltd.400) 99,99 €

Massive and comprehensive overview of Australian Underground Music released as Tapes/Cassettes or Vinyl between the late 70s and early to mid 80s.

The first 2 Lps called 'Edge City Broadcasts' are Andrew Lonsdale’s (Browning Mummery) selection of rare and essential tracks representing the great variety and diversity of sounds inside the Australian Underground Music scene of the period.

Lp3 is dedicated to one side each of label recordings from the Lymph Products catalogue (The Horse He's Sick, Cerebral Haemorrhage, Kurt Volentine, Cut With The Kitchen Knife); & the home label of Browning Mummery--Boxmusik Tapes.

Lp4 is compiled by Garry Bradbury (former member of Severed Heads) with focus on bands, projects and collaborations that released on the famous Terse Tapes label such as Wet Taxis, Rhino Rhino, and Pissy Relay Switches.

Lp5 contains the split LP of Hiroshima Chair and a selection of M-Squared-Label related bands such as Systematics, Scattered Order, Ya Ya Choral, and The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast.

Lp6 and Lp7 are fully dedicated to the earliest recordings by Tom Ellard’s Severed Heads, containing the highly collectable LPs 'Clean', 'Ear Bitten' and the 'Side 2' tape.

The 7 LPs are accompanied by a large and extensive 48 page LP-sized booklet with lots of valuable information, insights and photos/scans compiled and written by David Courtney.

A must-have for those that are willing to explore and dig into the universe of Australian Underground Music of the late 70s/early 80s.

Announcement on the website that VOD will be "terminating its mission" next year. Can't say I'm surprised, as the well of early industrial/noise/cassette culture recordings must be running dry by now. Still, I'll miss them, and I treasure the Broken Flag, C93, NWW and Nitsch box sets.

sad but inevitable news. i've always had issues around the exclusivity of their releases but overall it has been an amazing label that has introduced me to so much music i'd never have heard otherwise.

3 new VOD-Box-Sets plus 4 new Stand-Alone Lp’s out 31st December 2016

VOD147: Bourbonese Qualk 1980-86 (4Lp-Box) ltd. 400 with XL-Poster early Tape- and Compilation-Recordings 64,99 €

VOD 148: V/A Cassette-Cassette Electronica from Mexico 1976-82 (6Lp-Box) ltd.400 w. 24 page lp-sized booklet 94,99 €

incl. - Via Lactea (2Lp) - Carlos Alvarado / Decibel / Hilzoizmo (1Lp) - Oxomaxoma (1Lp)- Aristeo (1Lp) - Voladepet (1Lp)

VOD149: Boyd Rice / NON Archival Rarities 1975-1981 79,99 € (5Lp-Box) ltd. 400 w. 12 page lp-sized Booklet

VOD149.6: Robert Turman: Solo-Works 1976-79 1Lp ltd. 400 15,99 €

VOD149.7: Steve Hitchcock: Sheet Tape Reg.Black 1978/79 1Lp ltd. 400 15,99 €

VODDJ2: Click Click : Demos 1982 1Lp ltd. 400 15,99 €

VOD84.6: Laibach: Live in Hell at V2 1Lp ltd. 400 15,99 €

looks like the website has been shut down

he had a good run

RIP VOD, although their Facebook page is fairly active—posted about a DVA box in the works...?

Frank is back, start saving now:

VOD-RECORDS UPCOMING RELEASE PROGRAM:
LATE JUNE / EARLY JULY

VOD155: ZOVIET FRANCE "Châsse" complete album works 1982-1987 15Lp-Wooden Box with Shirt (ltd. 400) plus 11 Stand Alone Releases (ltd. 200 each)
Lp1: Garista Lp (1982)
Lp2: Untitled / Norsch Lp (1982/83)
Lp3/4: Monomishe 2lp (1983)
Lp5/6: Eostre 2Lp (1984)
Lp7: Gris Lp (unreleased extended version) (1985)
Lp8/9/10: Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music 3Lp/7inch (1985)
Lp11: Misfits, Loony Tunes And Squalid Criminals Lp (1986)
Lp12: Gesture Signal Threat Lp (1986)
Lp13: Loh Land Lp/7inch (1987)
LP14: Assault And Mirage Lp (1987)
Lp15: A Flock of Rotations Lp (1987)
(All originally 12 Releases re-mastered by Sam Grant and manufactured with Direct Metal Master Cut and pressed on 180 gram Vinyl)

VOD 156: TWO DAUGHTERS Tape-Recordings 1979-1981 2Lp-Set (ltd.500)

VOD136.re CLOCK DVA & THE FUTURE Horology 2 - Radiophonic DVAtions 5Lp Box (ltd.400) (new edition without large Booklet so that it can be shipped worldwide for just 17 Euros on postage)

LATE OCTOBER / EARLY NOVEMBER (more detailed Info soon)

VOD 157: COME ORGANISATION 10Lp Box

VOD 158: Jerry Kranitz / Various: Cassette Culture - Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age 212p. Book w. 2x7inch

VOD 159: CLOCK DVA Horology 1-3 Recordings 1977-1980 15 CD Box with 212p. Book

already eyeing up the :z*f: and Come Org sets

wowwww

YESSSSSS

TWO DAUGHTERS!

Excited for the ZF.

So, did i imagine it or did he announce VoD was all over at some point, and then changed his mind?

he announced a year-long break for 2018 and said he'd return in a slightly different form

during the break he was working on this:

https://www.tape-mag.com/

ah, ok. thanks. i'd seen tape-mag but didn't realise it was him. i'm not complaining but the form isn't very different.

no subscriptions this time around I think?

from Frank:

You can surely already reserve and preorder a copy, just let me know address and Shirt-SIze and I will get back to you with a price

There is no mailing list anymore after European copyright law had some new rules and me not being able to use my old registered emails.

But I am searching for a way to inform all 2000 soon.

Vol 2 of the awesome :zoviet*france: reissue programme went up earlier today on Frank's site, the art edition box set is sold out already but as of now the regular edition is still available along with some of the individual LPs.

was the art edition box set much more expensive?

no, maybe 30 more euros for like an extra print or something, maybe hand screened box?

(I got the regular version)

ok. thanks.

Massive release programme for 2021-22 just announced:

NEW RELEASES FOR 2021

LATE MARCH 2021

VOD166: Hafler Trio / Autechre 7Lp-Box

Lp01. æ³o / h³æ
Lp02. æo³
Lp03 ³hæ
Lp04/5 5ah³eo
Lp06/7 ha³oe

VOD 167: TOLERANCE 4Lp plus 7inch

Lp01 Anonym
Lp02 Divin
Lp03 Dose
Lp04 Demos
Bonus 7inch Today's Thrill / no title

VOD 168: VARIOUS VANITY BOX VOL.1 5Lp

LP1 R.N.A.ORGANISM / R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O
LP2 BGM / Back Ground Music
LP3 SYMPATHY NERVOUS / Sympathy Nervous
LP4 SAB / Crystallization
LP5 SYMPATHY NERVOUS,MAD TEA-PARTY,PERFECT MOTHER / 7“singles

VOD174:VARIOUS VANITY BOX VOL.2 4Lp

Lp01 Dada - Jyo
Lp02 Morio Agata Norimono Zukan
Lp03 Normal Brain - Lady Maid
Lp04 R.N.A. Organism - Unaffected Mixes

VOD 169: VARIOUS VANITY Demos 2Lp

Lp01 DEN SEI KWAN / P'
Lp02 V.A. / Demos

VOD 170: ICE 9 - The Fifth Column Years 2Lp

Lp01 1981
Lp02 P.F.L.P

MID JUNE 2021

VOD CD09: CLOCK DVA Horology 1-3 Recordings 1977-1980 15 CD Box

Horology I - DVAtion 78/79/80
CD01 Lomticks Of Time
CD02/03 2nd - I
CD04 Sex Works Beyond Entanglement"
CD05 Deep Floor
CD06 Fragment

Horology II - Clockdva, The Future & Radiophonic Dvations
CD07 The Future
CD08 Radiophonic Dvations 1
CD09 Radiophonic Dvations 2
CD10 Radiophonic Dvations 3
CD11 Radiophonic Dvations 4

Horology III- DVAtion 78/79/80
CD12 Tape, Reel_Recordings & Art 1
CD13 Tape, Reel_Recordings & Art 2
CD14 Tape, Reel_Recordings & Art 3
CD15 Tape, Reel_Recordings & Art 4

VOD CD10: MUSLIMGAUZE Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 11 CD Box
CD01 Opaque
CD02 Kabul
CD03 Hunting Out With An Aerial Eye / Hammer & Sickle
CD04 Buddhist on Fire
CD05 Blinded Horses
CD06 Flajelata
CD07 Hajj
CD08 Jazirat Ul Arab
CD09 Abu Nidal
CD10 The Rape of Palestine
CD11 Coup d'Etat

VOD CD11: S.P.K. Anthology 1979-1983 7 CD Set w. booklet

CD01 Information Overload Unit
CD02 The 7inch Tracks
CD03 Leichenschrei
CD04 Leichenschrei Backing Tracks
CD05 Studio and Compilation Tracks 1981-83
CD06 Backing Tracks 1982/83
CD07 Backing Tracks 1983

VOD171: V/A LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY 1974-1983 12Lp Box (lmtd. 500 plus 99 friends editions)

Lp01 Chip Chapman’s cassette - “Magic Beans”
Lp02 "Seldom Melodic Ensemble Godzilla's Mystery Abortion 77“
Lp03 " Dennis Duck Goes Disco album cover Dennis Duck Dennis Duck Goes Disco 77“
Lp04 4 Light Bulb, Issue 3 Christmas Box Cassette
Lp05 "Joe Potts Airway (7"", Ltd) none 1977 1 " "Mother/Daughter / The Residents album cover Joe Potts / Slimy Adenoid And The Pablums Mother/Daughter / The Residents 77" "The Pablums Under My Gums (7"")“ AIRWAY cassette single
Lp06/07 Light Bulb Magazine Number Four - "The Emergency Cassette“
Lp08 1981 December Compilation (a selection)
Lp09 Tom Recchion Freak Show
Lp10 Dinosaurs with Horns (Rick Potts / Joseph Hammer)
Lp11 Fredrik Nilsen Music from Norway
Lp12 Archive Recordings / unreleased

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LATE SEPTEMBER / EARLY OCTOBER

VOD172: ZOVIET FRANCE Châsse Vol. 3 16Lp Wooden Box (ltd. 500 plus 99 artists-editions in special colored Vinyl plus 8 x Stand Alone Releases (ltd. 300 each)

VOD 172 1/2 in.version (1996) 2LP – first time on vinyl
VOD 172 3/4 Digilogue (1996) 2LP – first time on vinyl for the original expanded CD release
VOD 172 5/6 Feedback (Mort aux vaches) (1998) 2LP – first time on vinyl
VOD 172 7/8 The Decriminalisation of Country Music (2000) 2LP – first time on vinyl, including additional unreleased recordings
VOD 172 9/10 A Long Walk (2011) 2LP – first physical release
VOD 172 11/12 7.10.12 (2012) 2LP
VOD 172 13/14 The Tables Are Turning (2013) 2LP – including additional unreleased recordings
VOD 172 15/16 A Third Collusion (new) 2LP - tracks from compilations, first time on vinyl

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LATE DECEMBER

VOD173: VARIOUS: NEKROPHILE RECORDS 1983-1987 10 Lp plus 2x 7inch wooden box with 200 page Book (ltd. 500 plus 99 artists-editions)

LP01 NRC01 1983 Korpses Katatonik Subklinikal Leukotomy 1Lp
LP02 NRC02 1983 Genesis P-Orridge / Stan Bingo What's History 1Lp
LP03 NRC03 1983 Various The Beast 666 1Lp
- Korpses Katatonik Choronzon 4:26
– Coil Here To Here (Double Headed Secret) 4:22
– Hunting Lodge Learn To Will I 4:28
– Kathan Spiss The Serpent 6:38
– Toy Muzik Introducing The Brides Of Christ II Part A 7:45
– Stigma Diaboli La Force Pas La Joie 10:18
– Hunting Lodge Learn To Will II 5:08
– Mr. Vile Thumb Introducing The Brides Of Christ II Part B 4:44
– Zero Kama V.V.V.V.V. 6:59
– Post Mortem: The Sea Of Cefalu 1:45
LP04 NRC04 1984 LAShTAL Thoum Aesh Neith 1Lp
LP05 NRC05 1984 Zos Kia / Coil Transparent 1Lp
LP06 NRC06 1984 Various The Archangels Of Sex Rule The Destruction Of The Regime 1Lp
– Sleep Chamber W:O:M
– Zero Kama Prayer Of Zos
– Ain Soph Theme III
– Ewald Spiss Gbvrh
– Metgumbnerbone Death
– Coming To Now Thy Call To Kia
– Zero Kama Seven Nights Of Tantra
– Ain Soph Theme II
– Ewald Spiss NTzCH
– Sleep Chamber Coven Of Angels
LP07 NRC07 1984 Zero Kama The Secret Eye Of L.A.Y.L.A.H. ‎(Cass, C60) 1Lp
LP08 NRC08 1985 Ain Soph Ars Regia ‎(Cass, Album, C60) 1Lp
LP09 Coming to Now „Closer to Silence“ 1Lp
LP10 Metgumbnerbone For the Raven“ Lp plus 7inch

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RELEASES SRPING / SUMMER 2022 (Last VOD-Releases most likely)

VOD 175: ANESTIS LOGOTHETIS electro-acoustic works 4Lp Box

VOD 176: David Toop / Paul Burwell / Bob Cobbing / ABana Trio 4Lp 70’s Improvisation Recordings

VOD 177: VARIOUS British Cassette Culture Vol.2 8Lp
- Bourbonese Qualk
- The Pump (pre Nocturnal Emissions)
- Konstruktivists
- Robert I Gillham (NCP / Aconite)
- Stress 2Lp
….more artists to be announced

VOD 178: VARIOUS: SYNKRONOS Label Retrospective 5Lp w. Booklet
- The Nightcrawlers
- Tom and Peter Gulch
- Chuck van Zyl
- Xisle
- D Andrew Rath

Too much!