FLEXIPOP / NEW WAVE COMPLEX comps and their ilk!!! Only pick...several?

Ooh, these look yummy. Trade with me!!

Most of the names are new to me too. But I know a few from Optimo's terrific Cold War mix.

I notice the non-Jandek Units are on board.

Totally obsessed - there's just so MUCH!! I may have to make a compilation of my favorite from the 10 or so collections I've downloaded this weekend.

Kevin I guess you and I are the only ones who are in on this? I find that hard to believe...

Good discography site here:
HTTP://MEMBERS.SHAW.CA/ECORPSE/TRIBUTE%20TO%20&%20RETURN%20OF 20FLEXIPOP.HTM

Ooh, thanks for reminding me about this stuff. I am about to go on a flexi-pop binge now.

The Flexipop magazine came with singles, or maybe whole tapes or albums, presenting the "new wave" of modern music (which often displayed allergic reactions when confronted with a guitar).So far there are at least ten "Tribute to Flexipop" comps and ten "Return of Flexipop" comps that I know of. Each one contains a regular CD length of tracks. Also see the "None Night of Flexipop", "New Wave Complex", "Shockwaves" and "Tribute to Some Bizarre"* comps

I have learned that these comps are not linked to the Flexipop magazine in any way besides the use of the name of the magazine. The intent is to play tribute to the spirit of the sounds highlighted by Flexipop in the early 80s. The bootleg comps appeared in file-share programs and are being traded and distributed presently.

http://members.shaw.ca/ecorpse/Tribute%20to%20&%20Return%20of%20Flexipop.htm

Tribute to Flexipop 1
The Vyllies - Give Me A Name.
Ceramic Hello - Gestures.
Snowy Red - Never Alive.
Neon - Dark Age.
Njurmännen - Stadvisan.
Indians In Moskow - Singing In French.
Pink Industry - Time For a Chance.
Polyphonic Size - Mode.
Stephen Spera - Sound Of The Crowd.
Die Radierer - Angriff Auf´s Schlaraffenland.
ZSKA - Keinen Teddybär.
El Aviador - Dro - La Chica De Plexiglas.
Fjose - Nobody Is Like You.
The Wake - Patrol.
Doppler Effect - Tim
Silvia - Zuerst ich.
Nine Circles - What is there left.
Soft Cell - Metro MRX.

New Wave Complex #6 is my current fave

Hard making sense of the different comps. What I've gatehred is that they stopped the 'Tribute To Flexipop' titles and changed over, variously, to None Night Of Flexipop and Return of Flexipop, while still subtitling these "Tribute To Flexipop" and keeping the chronology intact (ie Return of Flexipop Volume 1 is actually Tribute To Flexipop Volume 11).

You can buy these CDRs pretty cheap overseas, which I think I'm going to do instead of spending hours and hours downloading and burning them. These comps have been making everything else on my 'pile of shit to listen to' seem like a waste of time.

I hate to say it but I'm having a bit of deja vu about now. I could have sworn that the person who puts together either the New Wave Complex comps or the Flexipop comps posted to this board at some point.

Is this really the only thread devoted to these series?

These were hugely inspirational discoveries late in my process of making the '1981' box set--just so impressively comprehensive, deep--got me over the hump to actually spending hours and hours making physical copies.

Definitely an impressive creation--Between the Return of/None Night of/Tribute to Flexi-pop mixes, and the Tribute to Some Bizarre mixes--what, 35+ mixes? That has to rival, if not best, the Pebbles stuff, right? And no one knows who put these together? Seems impossible it could be one individual person--you would've had to have endless funds and unprecedented access circa 1982 to know all this stuff, or have spent basically since that time seeking it all out. An amazing public service.

i have so many of these, hard to catalog it all in my brain

i put them all into one playlist and just shuffle it and get blown away

I love how they mix known stuff with reasonably findable stuff (like I did with '1981') but then. . . they just go to another level, stuff there's *still* no information about, after 15+ years of the internet. And an amazing amount of it is good.

just listening to these comps transports you to some weird world. and knowing that most of these artists had only 1 or 2 released tracks, never releasing a long player, it's such an interesting view into that era.

OK, so, not http://www.princess-dm.de/MagazineCover/198-_Flexipop.jpg then.

Nope. These, amongst others: http://www.discogs.com/label/Flexi-Pop

I never really bothered to check these out because my impression was they're mostly in the minimal electronic vein, which isn't really my preferred strand of post-punk. Is that an accurate assumption on my part?

God, that picture of Dave Gahan in a coffin cracks me up. What WERE they thinking?

they were CDr bootlegs first, then soulseek virtual comps. I always thought the name was something of a tribute to the magazine. Maybe not.

It's pretty eclectic, sort of. Lots of minimal synth, but also synth-pop, new wave, poppier industrial, EBM type stuff. Lots of bad stuff but the killer stuff is great.

Never seen these before, better get on it!

xposts Dave Gahan, in a coffin, and it doesn't look goth in the slightest!

There is Return of Flexi-Pop,None Night of Flexi-Pop,A Tribute to Flexi-Pop,New Wave Complex,Analog Cyberpunk,Atomic Shockwave,A Tribute to Some Bizarre,Shockwaves,The Anesthetic's Wearing Off & i think that's it.I think combined it's about 85 volumes of these comps.There is some crossover but not loads.I found every single one of them on the internet.It took awhile but they are there.

there's no definitive collection. The Anesthetic's Wearing Off for instance was a friend of mine and way more recent then some of these things, and has nothing to do with any of them. Other than being somewhat likeminded.

never heard of this. feel as though i've slept on life

Got some of these off Slsk, listening to #2 at the mo. Really digging this stuff and apart from Rational Youth & Pink Industry I'd never heard any of these bands before. Thanks ILM!

i linked to a blog hosting the collection somewhere else on ILX. maybe one of the synth pop threads.

Cold Wave, Dark Wave

no one seemed to give a fuck

Missed that thread at the time, thanks for the heads up.

^^^indeed. i give a fuck!