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001 CAMERA OBSCURA Horizons of Suburbia (extended) CD
“Extended HORIZONS OF SUBURBIA” … CAMERA OBSCURA was formed in the winter of 1982 by Peter Oldroyd and Nigel James from York, UK. They met in a nightclub after a gig and four compositions came out of the initial session of writing and two of them, “Destitution” and “Race in Athens” became the duo's first 7” single on Small Wonder Records in the spring of 1983 (cat# small 28). Melancholic electropop was their thing, using mainly the classic Roland TR-808 drum machine paired with an armada of classic analogue synthesisers of the time (Korg Mono/Poly, Logan String Melody, Moog Prodigy, Roland CSQ-100, Juno-6, Jupiter-8, Organ/Strings, SH-5, SH-09, SH-101, Sequential Circuits Pro-One and Prophet-5) and Nigel’s poetic lyrics, think of Ensemble Pittoresque, Oppenheimer Analysis, Rational Youth, Soft Cell or Twilight Ritual. After the release of ”Destitution” the duo became a desirable addition to several of the major record labels in particular Arista. While everyone deliberated about whether or not to take the band Peter and Nigel decided to put out the track “Village of Stars” on the now super rare double LP compilation album “Directions” on the 101 International label (cat# INTEL 2). The record was to lead to the problems which cost CAMERA OBSCURA the major deal with Arista. CAMERA OBSCURA played live extensively at this time and tried to drum up A&R interest, which was still there and very keen. They recorded demos for EMI and Arista at the beginning of 1984 and were offered a deal by EMI, which was subsequently canned due to budget cuts and a change in personnel. No less than some 20 years later, ten of these tracks marked the first release by Anna Logue Records, the first CAMERA OBSCURA album entitled “Horizons of Suburbia” was released as a limited edition 12”LP in 2005 (cat# ANNA 001.2005) including extended versions of the 7” single tracks as well as widely respected underground hits like “Escape from the City” or “Circular Waves”. The same year two further tracks from 1983/84 were unearthed, “Strange Faces” and “Moving the Mercury”, and eventually released as a limited edition 7” single (cat# ANNA 002.2005). The now released CD re-issue “Horizons of Suburbia (extended)” compiles both the LP and 7” single releases on Anna Logue Records as well as the rare track “Village of Stars” and adds even three previously unreleased tracks from 1983/84 to the list: the killer track “Coloured Glass”, and the tracks “Conscience” and “The Insect” which were thought to be forever lost, therefore making this the ultimate collection of CAMERA OBSCURA’s early 80’s material, a classic of the early 80’s electropop genre.
Record features: - high quality manufacturing made in Germany Price: 12,00 € plus shipping & packaging
“CYNTHIA & CASEY taken away by a MAGIC CARPET” … … STRANGER STATION was Simon Driscoll (music, words, vocals) with some support from Judith Golberg and David Holecombe on studio and live synthesisers, all from the UK. With their debut 7” single “Minutes to Silence”/“Strangers” (Superwop ST 01) STRANGER STATION released a masterpiece of the minimal electronics genre in 1981. Apart from that they only appeared with “Welcome to the Night” on the ultra-rare compilation LP “Synthetic Romance” in 1982. Both vinyls have absolute cult status among collectors worldwide and regularly fetch three- to even four-digit-amounts. In 2009, Anna Logue Records then released a full-time STRANGER STATION album entitled Echoes in Infinity” (ANNA 022.2009) including the majority of the remaining early 80’s material. This album, btw, will see a CD re-issue soon including two further previously unreleased tracks. Anyway, Simon also found three recordings from the 80’s that featured three different singers: the female vocalist Audrey with lovely voice tells us about oh “Cynthia” “so sad, so lost and all alone…she earches the mirror she hopes for a clue, only to find it has taken her glow” only with minimal and beautiful electronic accompanied by Simon. “Casey” flows in with male vocalist Pip introducing “Casey” only with sparse synthesiser and organ-like accompaniment. The b-side features female vocalist Corinne taking us almost on a medieval trip on her „Magic Carpet“. All those songs are very melancholic, very well played, very unique and very beautiful. Something very special.
Record features: - high quality manufacturing made in the Netherlands Price: 6,00 € plus shipping & packaging
“SHE’S A … RUBBER DOLLY” … … POEME ELECTRONIQUE is Dave Hewson (synthesisers, production), Sharon Abbott (lyrics, lead and backing vocals), Julie Ruler (backing vocals) originally already formed in 1980 by Dave Hewson in South London, UK, and by no means an unknown quantity. Dave was studying music and as a rare kind of student species he had a deep fascination for New Wave and electronic music thus also playing and recording electronic music ever since the late. Anna Logue Records have already released a 2007 remixes 7” single of their classic 1982 7” single “The Echoes Fade/Voice” (ANNA 014.2007, Carrere CAR 228) as well as the monumental piece of the work that compiled most of their 1981/82 material, the “The Echoes Fade” 2LP/CD (ANNA 025.2009). For this latest 7” single release on the Attractive Co-ordinates label, Dave has remixed “She’s an Image”, which was originally featured on the album, here giving it a bit more ‘drive’ for optimal performance on the dancefloor. Lyrics-wise Sharon depicts how it felt like being a punk girl in the early 80’s and the social problems arising from just trying to be different. On the flipside we find “Rubber Dollies”, a previously unreleased track from their extensive early 80’s archives that deals with sleazy sex shop/toys topics and comes along as a powerful electropop tune with a disco touch. Not to be missed! Also please note that another album with yet more unreleased early 80‘s material entitled „Fashion for all Sexes“ is in the making and as well as brand new recordings!
Record features: - high quality manufacturing made in the Netherlands
Price: 6,00 € plus shipping & packaging
“The TREELINE is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing, or” … ... an experimental music duo formed in the UK in 1983, when school friends Clive Weston and Steve Lippert bought some very cheap instruments - a Casio SK-1 and a Casio VL-Tone. They also had a TV nearby and a cheap tape recorder. During the next couple of years they created about 10 tunes. Very very lo-fi, and quite messy. Then, around 1990, Steve (by now a graphic designer) was photographing a band called 'Belief' and was invited back to their studio to listen to their tunes. He asked if he could borrow their Yamaha DX27, to which they agreed. This led to more TREELINE tracks being created, but these were still recorded to a tape deck, and in mono! Since then there haven't been many new tracks by the band, although a few years ago, Steve did have a play in Garageband, which lead to a track called “I'm Almost Home“ being created. Despite it only being an uncompleted track, it seemed to be popular with anyone Steve shared it with. Steve was by now the in-house graphic designer at Anna Logue Records (during nights and weekends!) and decided that a TREELINE release could no longer wait. “It's No Good Trying To Reason With Me“ came out on the limited 'Attractive Too' compilation ep 7“ (ATCO2), and that led to Dave Hewson (of Poeme Electronique fame) remastering another TREELINE tune called “Too Hollow“ (originally recorded around 1986). Originally the plan was that there would be just one single, and then call an end to the band, but... there is talk of a Dave Hewson produced TREELINE album now, and so it will be very interesting to see which direction the band go in next. You may not have heard the last of TREELINE!
Record features: - high quality manufacturing made in the Netherlands
Price: 6,00 € plus shipping & packaging
THE QUEST FOR THE ‘HOLY GRAIL’… TRANSPARENT ILLUSION was the brainchild of Roy Young (a pseudonym), hailing from Haverhill, Suffolk, UK. Equipped with just one synthesiser and a drum kit, he entered Octopus Studios, located in Stowupland, Suffolk, and run by Dave Hoser, in 1980/81 to record the ultimate minimal electronic music album. Roy’s music is nothing but rather unique, there were not many bands around that created a similar sound, except maybe for Neural Circus that are coming to mind. Once again, Roy is a pristine example that limitation can be the perfect source for a massive amount of creativity: the rather raw sound is based solely on his Korg MS-10 synthesiser which was monophonic, of course. Anyway, Roy seemed to have a great imagination as even though the tracks are mostly very short they are far from being poor in textures, with brilliant analogue synth sounds all through (bass, monophonic lead synths, effects, synthetic percussion). Engineer Dave Hoser is said to have helped in the performance, thus it can be concluded that, as a team at least, they truly mastered the MS-10. While the lyrics are a testimony of an angst-ridden teenager living in the Thatcherian-Britain-Cold War era (“This cage is barred – I’m trapped inside”, “I just recede – I dream I’m you”, “Dead bodies decaying – all over the town”, “There’s no way out of this nightmare”), the music, to some surprise, is coming up with many uplifting moments in terms of unexpected melodic parts. So, over the recent years, some people have described “Still Human” as being the ‘Holy Grail’ of minimal electronic music, while others say it is totally overrated. From own experience, it can be said that the album needs its time and a good amount of attention to be understood. Also, to be frank, it must not really be classified at all, as - as mentioned above - it is rather an unique electronic music album, that simply has been too much unavailable for too long in an official form. The original vinyl album “Still Human” and the single “Vortex” were released on Roy’s own label Vex Records but only a few copies managed to sell. TRANSPARENT ILLUSION and Vex Records then vanished into obscurity, but the album and single were remembered by a select few. The value of these rare records continued to rise and over the last years four-digit prices were asked and paid if ever a copy had popped up. People not only tried hard to find those records, many also tried hard to track down the mysterious Roy Young. Nobody managed to succeed – until one day in 2009. It wasn’t an overnight success – and that’s why Anna Logue Records refer to the ‘Holy Grail’ in terms of the true quest that was undertaken to find Roy – but Jochen Lange had persevered for more than two years. Public directories and government records were thoroughly checked and letters were sent … The man – alive and … Still Human!
Record features (second edition): - 12", 180 grams black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm,
Record features: - 12" vinyls, 180 grams, 33 1/3 rpm, CD features: - high quality CD manufacturing made in Germany Price: 15,00 € (for the LP second edition) plus shipping & packaging
VARIOUS ARTISTS "The Anna Logue Years - Fifth Anniversary Compilation"
It seems that time flies when you work passionately on something: little Anna truly turns five years old! So, after five years of good fun, hard work and almost 30 releases, it is a good time to look into the past, present and slightly into the future to summarize what has been done. And anyway, as little Anna is a celebrity, no anniversary without a birthday present, so here it is, a lovely little 2CD compilation offered to the world: The Anna Logue Years – 5th Anniversary Compilation [2005-2010]. Anna has carefully selected one track from each release ANNA 001 to ANNA 030, therefore including tracks from CAMERA OBSCURA (uk) – “Circular Waves”, “Moving the Mercury”, and “Strange Faces (2006)”, SLEEP MUSEUM (us) – “Stress”, and “Underground Maneuvers”, THE SILICON SCIENTIST (de) – “Oceans of Green”, and “Snowflakes”, CULTURAL AMNESIA (uk) – “Materialistic Man”, DESIGN (be) – “Fashion & Seduction”, BOYS DU SEVERE (ca) – “Mondmädchen”, CHAIN OF COMMAND (uk) – “Honour amongst Thieves”, NEW SHINY THINGS (us) – “Changing Colors”, SUDETEN CRECHE (uk) – “Glorious Treason”, ADN’ CKRYSTALL (fr) – “Gigolo Gigolette”, POEME ELECTRONIQUE (uk) – “The Echoes Fade (2007 Remix)”, MONUMENTS (it) – “Herz von Samt (1984)”, CAR CRASH SET (nz) – “Fall from Grace”, TWINS NATALIA (de/uk) – “When we were Young”, SPÖÖN FAZER (uk) – “Rising Sun”, SONNENBRANDT (de) – “Diskolied”, DILEMMA (de) – “Christmas Measure ‘88”, THE HANDS OF CAIN (gr) - “The Dagger in Me”, STRANGER STATION (uk) – “Minutes to Silence”, CARMODY (it) – “Messengers of Love”, LISFRANK (it) – “It’s Life”, DELAYSCAPE (dk) – “Mars Control”, CHROMAGAIN (it) – “Killing Dome”, INTELLIGENCE DEPT. (it) – “Too Late to Love”, and PAUL CHAMBERS (uk) - “Steering Solo”. As if it wasn’t already enough, Anna adds three previously unreleased tracks to the list: the very rare and sought-after 1983 track “Village of Stars” by CAMERA OBSCURA, the new track “Operators” by THE SILICON SCIENTIST, as well as finally a new sign of life from the TWINS NATALIA who contribute “Destiny”. Therefore not simply a label compilation, and also useful as a nice entry into Anna’s world or into the world of early 80’s analogue electro pop, minimal electronics, minimal synth, minimal wave, electro, NDW and dark wave in general. Drawings by Érick Moncollin (ADN’ Ckrystall). Mastering by Stefan Bornhorst (The Silicon Scientist). Sleeve by Steve. So, don’t be shy and send Anna your birthday greetings and celebrate with her. 2CD features:
- high quality manufacturing made in Germany Price: 17,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
“Take a ticket on the railway STATIONs”… “Stations/Absorptions” is a comprehensive LP+CD set by PAUL CHAMBERS hailing from the UK and being known for his contribution of the two stunning tracks “Steering Solo” and “Take a Ticket” to the “The Apprentices Dance” LP compilation from 1981 (on US label Sounds Interesting Records, SILP 007). These two tracks, full of Roland CR-78 action and analogue synths, made Anna really want to track down Paul, thus in-house detective Jochen Lange was once again called into action and dear Paul couldn’t hide in obscurity for much longer. PAUL CHAMBERS was truly a pioneer of dark minimal electronic music, starting to record already in 1978! He used a Boss DR-55, Roland SH-1, Korg MS-20 and EDP Wasp, just to name a few, and it’s nothing but pure analogue synthesizer bliss with lots of emotional undertones and the pure honesty of an independent do-it-yourself artist. The LP “Stations” comprises 12 tracks including the majority of his rare vocal tracks (thus also including “Steering Solo” and “Take a Ticket”), recorded between 1979 and 1983, which mark milestones of the minimal electro wave genre while not knowing any boundaries: there is incredible lead synths on “In Tune with the Infinite” or “Mood Two”, noisy guitar accompaniment on “The Appointment with Fear” or a distant distorted lead guitar in “Mood Three”, a certain softness in “You are Time” and “Crazy Lazy”, a sequencer madness in “J 2”, a rather mystic atmosphere in “Never is just a Word” and an icy thrill in “Title Name”. The CD “Absorptions” comprises instrumental and more experimental tracks recorded between 1978 and 1981, which can easily be lined up with the recordings especially by Chris Carter/Throbbing Gristle and The Human League from around the same time, while Paul also acknowledges the influence of Fad Gadget, John Foxx/Ultravox, early Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Gary Numan/Tubeway Army, The Normal, Genocide, Cabaret Voltaire, Suicide, Chrome, Cluster, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Thomas Leer and Robert Rental. The really incredible restoring of very old and very noisy audio tapes and the mastering (or as we called it later on … ‘the magic’) was done by Ton Willekes, to who we owe a deep debt of gratitude. Also, Ton got Anna in contact with the talented artist Jen Clark whose works formed the basis of all artworks in this production, which was – as always – patiently and accurately designed by Steve Lippert. This is a rare merging of individual creativity to one almost perfect whole. Music-wise, finding Paul and unleashing his archives was truly a revelation, so that a total of 28 raw minimal experimental electronic wave tracks from the very early days of home-recorded synthesiser music are now finally seeing the light of day after 30 years time! Paul, this is for you! Record features:
- 12" vinyl, 180 grams, 33 1/3 rpm, CD features: - high quality CD manufacturing made in Germany
Price: 19,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
INTELLIGENCE DEPT. "Sleeping City”
“In this SLEEPING CITY – I will die, I will die, I will die” … “Sleeping City” is the highly anticipated and Anna’s second release in co-operation with the Mannequin label from Rome, Italy. INTELLIGENCE DEPT. were Davide Carlotti (synthesisers, sax, backing vocals), Susanna Zaghi (vocals, lyrics), Stefano Panzera (bass) and Gian Paolo Di Federico (synthesisers, drum machine programming) from Ferrara, Italy. They only ever officially released three, yet totally amazing tracks on the “A White Chance” LP compilation in 1984 (White Studio Recording, WS 001; White Studio was a recording studio in Ferrara). These tracks were “Sleeping City”, “Too Late to Love” and “Anger (Inside)” from their first 5-track demo cassette entitled “Sleeping City” (1984), which also included the track “Loneliness” already known from the “Danza Meccanica – Italian Synth Wave 1982-1987” LP/CD compilation, MNQ 005/ITN 012. Anna was obsessed by these tracks, especially “Too Late to Love”, and she just had to find the band (which by the help of Alessandro Adriani eventually happened, thanks, Ale!). In 1985 they recorded a second 4-track demo entitled “The Big Trouble” but not many people seem to have known about its existence. INTELLIGENCE DEPT.’s music is a unique blend of melancholic 80’s electropop with dark/new wave basses and (not annoying) saxophone action while being fronted by a powerful female vocalist, the lovely Susanna. INTELLIGENCE DEPT. surely had a great potential to become a bigger or more successful band, but those were the times, like many others they faded into obscurity… but were not forgotten, so here we offer them and you a second chance with the retrospective compilation of INTELLIGENCE DEPT.’s works: “Sleeping City”. The vinyl version features all four INTELLIGENCE DEPT. compositions from the “Sleeping City” cassette and all four tracks from the “The Big Trouble” cassette. The digipak-CD version comes with a different artwork and an additional five bonus tracks including the cover version of “Sister Europe” (originally by The Psychedelic Furs), as well as four tracks recorded live at the Arena Nuovo in Ferrara in 1985: “Sleeping City” and “Too Late to Love”, as well as the two previously totally unknown tracks “Nice Faces” and “Black Widow”, thus a total of 13 amazing tracks. Record features:
- 12", 180 grams black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm CD features: - high quality CD manufacturing made in Germany
Price: 16,00 € (for the LP edition) plus shipping & packaging
CHROMAGAIN "Any Colour We Liked”
“ANY COLOUR WE LIKED” … … is the highly anticipated and Anna’s first release in co-operation with the Mannequin label from Rome, Italy. CHROMAGAIN were Luca Pastore (bass, guitar, synthesiser, lyrics, backing vocals), Silvio Ferrero (synthesisers) and Davide Bassino (vocals, lyrics) from Torino, Italy, and was formed in 1982. CHROMAGAIN had two other singers (at first Riccardo Acuto, then Danilo ‘Dana’ Barbero) before Davide Bassino joined as the main vocalist and core member. They started as a post-punk outfit in 1982, then evolving to one of the top-notch Italian electronic dark wave bands. The influence of Joy Division/New Order is inevitable, the playful and melodic bass and lots of synthesisers form the backbone to their songs. In 1985 they released their only vinyl mini-LP “Any Colour You Like” (Supporti Fonografici, SF 004; this label was also home of the similar sounding Weimar Gesang) which was recorded at TKS studio together Mauro Tavella and Andrea Costa of MONUMENTS fame, so no wonder you may recognize some similarity (the Simmons drum machine on those recording sessions, DX-7 synthesiser, etc.). The mini-LP had five tracks ranging from the rather most Italian dark wave sounding “Satisfied” to the up-beat track “Spot”, from the dark wave killer “Killing Dome” (oh that bass… this is for the goth clubs) to the hauntingly beautiful ballad “After the Clouds” and finally to their most New Order-ish track “Season of Steel”. “Any Colour You Like” has been a highly sought-after and expensive rarity ever since and a re-issue was more than overdue, so here is “Any Colour We Liked”, a retrospective compilation of CHROMAGAIN’s works: The vinyl version of “Any Colour We Liked” includes the complete and remastered mini-LP “Any Colour You Like”, plus “Wake Up” (a different version to the one previously released on the “Danza Meccanica – Italian Synth Wave 1982-1987” LP/CD compilation, MNQ 005/ITN 012), “Ethnicbox” from the “Tracce” LP compilation (1984, Shirak, CNW 8440) plus a previously unreleased Dub Instrumental version of “Season of Steel” and artwork by Mushy (Valentina Fanigliulo), thus covering their later phase from 1984/85 with Davide on vocals. The digipak-CD version comes with a different artwork (by Steve Lippert) and an additional six bonus tracks covering all their recordings back to 1982 including a demo version of “Killing Dome”, an alternative early ‘whistle’ version of “Spot” and the tracks featuring the other two singers, Riccardo and Dana. All those additional tracks are nothing but amazing, too, with a more raw edge and wonderful Roland TR-808 drum machine action all through. Dana’s voice is very reminiscent to the one of Belgian singer Geert Coppens, so “Sometimes” and “Killing Dome (Demo)” will more than just appeal to those into Twilight Ritual/Autumn, while the very earliest tracks “Hertzdance” and “I Cut my Nerves” with Riccardo on vocals are more showing their (post-) electro-punk roots. Surely a true classic and not be missed! Record features:
- 12", 180 grams black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm CD features: - high quality CD manufacturing made in Germany
Price: 16,00 € (for the LP edition) plus shipping & packaging
If Anna would have been asked what music would be like a mirror of her very soul, then she’d reply: listen to Morse Disco! DELAYSCAPE is Flemming Kaspersen from Copenhagen, Denmark, who is also a member of Rainscape and has previously been in Swimwear Catalogue. In DELAYSCAPE he is performing solo, creating the most beautiful melodic and melancholic electro you are most likely ever to hear. Usually, Anna did not find much fascination in electro acts as they are mostly missing the depth, the textures, the atmosphere, the ideas, and especially melodies, and, of course, that melancholy that Anna is seeking for in music. DELAYSCAPE is different, and unique, here suddenly it was all there and in a massiveness that lead to several emotional outbursts in Anna’s office. Flemming has rare abilities: he is such a master of sound synthesis, sequencing and he has a great imagination. His tracks are so full of the most brilliant synthesiser sounds, the most wonderful pads/strings, Roland TR-808 simulated rhythms and synthetic percussions, and all is so very organic and honest and interesting. While all tracks are instrumental pieces you shall not worry at all, you will not miss the vocals as there is too much to listen to while diving though DELAYSCAPE’s own sound universe. You will find similarities to Solvent and Lowfish for sure, but DELAYSCAPE is always even more deep and melodic, also Skanfrom, of course, then almost scientifically synthesised space sounds à la Clock DVA and lush and dreamy tracks almost à la Raison d’être. The 2CD set is divided in two parts: CD1 is designated “Music for Dancing at Home” featuring more upbeat tracks, and CD2 which is designated “Music for Frozen Journeys” featuring the more downtempo, ambient and even more atmospheric tracks. Apart from that, Flemming is teaching us a lesson: one must not own a TR-808, Jupiter-8, Prophet-5 or Solina String-Ensemble to produce amazing synthetic sounds and electronic music – it is not the machines but talent, interest and imagination that actually lead to extraordinary creations and results. Same was tried to being achieved with the artwork – many many hours were spent to adapt it to the music and finally it was so worth it, “Morse Disco” does surely have one of the most conceptual and beautiful artworks so far, and following the organic feel it was eventually printed on ecological recycled paper. All tracks were originally recorded between 2002 and 2007 and, apart from four previously unreleased tracks, released by the net labels Acrylik, Cold Room Netlabel, Cluster-Flux, Monotonik and Musicartistry. (Re-)Mastering was beautifully done by Stefan Bornhorst (The Silicon Scientist) so that the tracks sound better than ever before. Sleeve by Steve. For Anna, “Morse Disco” now is the true highlight in the Anna Logue Records catalogue and hopes you will share her love for this wonderful release. 2CD features:
- high quality manufacturing made in Germany Price: 16,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
LISFRANK was an obscure one-man project from Savona area, Italy, active from 1980 onwards but not releasing much music ever since apart from a few tracks via the own Mask Productions label in 1982 and 1983. The first and only LISFRANK stand-alone release was the 12”EP “Man Mask” (Mask Productions, MKX 01, 1982), definitely one of the best and rarest early 80’s minimal electro 12”s ever and on top of most want lists ever since, including the super hit “It’s Life”, as well as “Violence in my Mind”. “Man without Limits” appeared on the label’s equally rare and sought-after vinyl LP sampler “First Relation” (Mask Productions, MKLP 02, 1983). Another very experimental track called “Ombre” was released on the cassette compilation “The Voice/La Voce” (Area Condizionata AC2, 1983). That was the official story so far, even though LISFRANK was truly a pioneering project with a live appearance at the so-called “New Wave Party” in Savona, already in November 1980! So they were almost as early as Florentine stars Neon. Anyway, it took Anna almost a lifetime to track down LISFRANK, but with the key hint by Fulvio Delprato (thank you so much again!), he was finally found and convinced to release an album which has been entitled “Mask Rewind”. It captures the majority of available recordings from 1980 onwards. LISFRANK’s music is completely analogue electronics with drum machine (or real drums on two tracks), very unique and each a track a classic of its own kind. The early tracks until 1983 are rough and dark, and form the 12” album together with similar early composed but later recorded tracks thus creating an overall and coherent dark atmosphere throughout the whole album. As the 1984/85 tracks “Stay with me” and “My Toy” were more pop-oriented they didn’t perfectly fit to the album’s atmosphere and were thus put onto the accompanying 7”. LISFRANK’s lyrics are very dark and full of despair, dealing with personal fears, self-perception and the problems arising from this and other human interactions (“My mind is like a stormy sea – violent”, “Here is all my bitterness”, “Man without limits – Sees hope die - Man without limits – Sees darkness fall within”, “Imprisoned in a nightmare - My terror becomes desperation” or “Your true identity upsets me”), or other topics like ecological pollution (e.g. “I don’t want to breathe your smog - I don’t want to breathe your poison”). All in all, this release is maybe one of the most important and interesting albums coming out of Italy, made by an intelligent person and great composer who is now occasionally recording again. An alternative mix of “Identity” is also going to be released these days on the LP sampler “Danza Meccanica – Italian Synth Wave 1982-1987” (Mannequin/In The Nighttime, MNQ 005/NT012, 2009). Record features:
- 12" black vinyl, 180 grams, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 17,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
POEME ELECTRONIQUE was Dave Hewson (synthesisers, production), Sharon Abbott (lyrics, lead and backing vocals), Julie Ruler (backing vocals) and Les Hewson (bass), formed in 1980 by Dave Hewson in South London, UK, in 1980. Dave was studying music and as a rare kind of student species he had a deep fascination for New Wave and electronic music thus also playing and recording electronic music ever since like using the Boss DR-55, Cosmo Sound Super Drum, Elka Rhapsody 610, EMS Synthi AKS, Korg MS-20(X2)/Polysix/Polyphonic Ensemble 1000/VC-10 Vocoder, Linn Electronics LM-1, Octave Kitten, Roland RS-09/VP-330 Vocoder Plus, Simmons SDS-V Kit and Yamaha CS-80 on this retrospective POEME ELECTRONIQUE album with original material from 1981/82 only. Over the period of more than two years, Dave has remastered these tracks using the latest high-end tools and Stefan Bornhorst (The Silicon Scientist) has given additional input for making them sound better than ever before. After the release of the deluxe 2LP vinyl album (ANNA 025.2009), Anna Logue Records is happy to also release a digital CD format comprising a total of 14 tracks. The well-known track “The Echoes Fade” is the original version taken off the original 7” from 1982. The album “The Echoes Fade” cannot be described other than being a masterpiece and one of the best-ever early 80’s electro pop records ever, and it surely has to be lined up with Rational Youth or Experimental Products’ cult albums (in terms of being minimal synth/wave scene reference albums), but to be frank, Anna thinks that POEME ELECTRONIQUE were even above their level. Truly, they had deserved to go on the successful path like Depeche Mode, OMD or Soft Cell, but fate was against them as it seems. The main difference to other electro pop groups of that time was definitely that Dave did not only master his synths technically-wise, no, he also knew how to actually play, and when you hear his amazing multi-track ‘manual sequencing’, programming skills, great harmonies and melodies throughout the tracks, along with the two girls’ vocal performances - well they also can really sing! – you will agree there is some something remarkably extraordinary in these tracks. You will find minimal electro pop super hits like “Rendezvous”, “She’s an Image”, “Fragile”, or “Dilemma”; hauntingly beautiful melancholic tracks like “A Mourner’s Lament”, “This Night” or “It’s in the Atmosphere”; darkest minimal electronics on “Inside his Head”; and even more lighter tracks like “Follow”. This record will hopefully be loved by any electronic music lover and definitely is a highlight in the growing Anna Logue Records catalogue – the album is truly an outstanding release in every single aspect including sound and artwork presentation. This CD edition includes an exclusive 16pp fold-out poster with individual mini 7” sleeves for each song designed by our dear graphic designer Steve Lippert plus additional band member photos. After so many efforts and more than two years passing by, Anna is so over the moon to see this release being available also as CD now and we have done all we could to make this another outstanding release, so now it’s up to you to give the band their final glory, but Anna is in no doubt that – at least after hearing the sound samples - you will. CD features:
- high quality manufacturing made in Germany Price: 14,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
POEME ELECTRONIQUE was Dave Hewson (synthesisers, production), Sharon Abbott (lyrics, lead and backing vocals), Julie Ruler (backing vocals) and Les Hewson (bass), formed in 1980 by Dave Hewson in South London, UK, in 1980. Dave was studying music and as a rare kind of student species he had a deep fascination for New Wave and electronic music thus also playing and recording electronic music ever since like using the Boss DR-55, Cosmo Sound Super Drum, Elka Rhapsody 610, EMS Synthi AKS, Korg MS-20(X2)/Polysix/Polyphonic Ensemble 1000/VC-10 Vocoder, Linn Electronics LM-1, Octave Kitten, Roland RS-09/VP-330 Vocoder Plus, Simmons SDS-V Kit and Yamaha CS-80 on this retrospective POEME ELECTRONIQUE album with original material from 1981/82 only. Over the period of more than two years, Dave has remastered these tracks using the latest high-end tools making them sound better than ever before. The deluxe 2LP vinyl album comprises 16 tracks of which 14 have never been published before. “The Echoes Fade” and “Voice” are the original versions taken off their original 7” from 1982. The album “The Echoes Fade” cannot be described other than being a masterpiece and one of the best-ever early 80’s electropop records ever, and it surely has to be lined up with Rational Youth or Experimental Products’ cult albums (in terms of being minimal synth/wave scene reference albums), but to be frank, Anna thinks that POEME ELECTRONIQUE were even above their level. Truly, they had deserved to go on the successful path like Depeche Mode, OMD or Soft Cell, but fate was against them as it seems. The main difference to other electropop groups of the time was definitely that Dave did not only master his synths technically-wise, no, he also knew how to actually play, and when you hear his amazing multi-track ‘manual sequencing’, programming skills, great harmonies and melodies throughout the tracks, along with the two girls’ performances - well they can really sing! – you will agree there is some something remarkably extraordinary in these tracks. You will find minimal electropop super hits like “Rendezvous”, “She’s an Image”, “Fragile”, or “Dilemma”; hauntingly beautiful melancholic tracks like “A Mourner’s Lament”, “This Night” or “It’s in the Atmosphere”; darkest minimal electronics on “Inside his Head”; and even more poppier tracks like “Follow”. This record will hopefully be loved by any electronic music lover and most probably marks the highlight in the growing Anna Logue Records catalogue – therefore Anna did not shy away from any costs and the album is truly an outstanding release in every single aspect including sound and artwork presentation. Apart from the bonus tracks you will find in the 2LP deluxe vinyl edition glossy inner sleeves with lyrics to all songs, as well as individual mini 7” sleeves for each song designed by our dear graphic designer Steve Lippert plus many additional group photos on the gatefold sleeves’ inner. After so many efforts and more than two years passing by, Anna is so over the moon to see this release being ready now and we have done all we could to make this an outstanding release, so now it’s up to you to give the band their final glory, but Anna is in no doubt that – at least after hearing the sound samples - you will. Record features:
- 12" black vinyl, 180 grams, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 19,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
Anna is incredibly proud that Stefan / THE SILICON SCIENTIST has chosen to release his second album entitled “Poly” again with Anna Logue Records. His first album “Windows on the World” has received wonderful feedback, from both fans and other musicians worldwide, and he is nowadays recognized as a great influence to many other contemporary electronic music artists. Stefan is indeed one of Germany’s most talented contemporary composers of electronic pop music and taking into account that his time for music is rather limited and that his efforts in playing and finalizing the debut album with SONNENBRANDT in 2008 also took away much of his time for his solo project, his high quality output on all fronts is outstanding. With “Poly” he proves his continuous ability to write substantial and timeless melancholic electropop and electronic wave songs while most of the album’s sounds have been generated on the wonderful Polymoog synthesisers, hence the title! “Silicon Beach” shows the Polymoog’s great versatility to even create lovely South American flute sounds along the all analogue warm and dark synth sounds. On “Meltdown”, fans of The Cure’s Disintegration album will almost get a heart attack from joy – what a wonderful track with real bass and acoustic guitar accompaniment! The album versions of "Oceans of Green" and "Lost City" are reworked and remixed versions of the tracks previously released on the “Colourblind EP”. This time Anna and THE SILICON SCIENTIST are the CD "Bookmarks II" to all copies which is definitely more than just a bonus: it contains 72 minutes of outtakes from the "Poly" recording sessions, tracks from samplers, early mixes of tracks from the previous album and tracks from the very first THE SILICON SCIENTIST album "Inselwinter" which was never released. "Seven" is based upon a demo recording by Marc Schaffer and was accordingly co-written and solely recorded by Stefan. All synthesiser sounds on “Poly” and most of “Bookmarks II” have been generated on real analogue synthesisers (among them Korg MS-10, MS-20, Multimoog, Roland CR-78, SH-101, Solina String Ensemble, Waldorf Pulse Plus) - no virtual machines or plug-ins! The only exception is "Inselwinter I" which contains some sounds from the virtual analogue Access Virus synth... "Poly"/"Bookmarks II" is a masterpiece of melancholic electropop and can hardly be imagined that anyone out there will not love it! Record/CD features:
- 12" black vinyl, 180 grams, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 16,50 € plus shipping & packaging.
CARMODY were Andrea Lesmo (synthesisers, tapes, bass, guitar) and Alberto Ramella (vocals) with the some help from Massimiliano Casacci (guitar - nowadays in Subsonica and running the Casasonica Studios) at the later stage of their existence. They came from Torino, Italy, and were mates of Monuments and Chromagain, also following a similar musical path with predominant synthesisers and drum machines (Boss DR-55, Korg KPR-77, Roland TR-909) along with some sparse guitars here and there. They recorded from 1981 to 1985 and issued three incredibly rare demo tapes. “A Better Spider” compiles the best tracks from those tapes, bringing you some of the best electropop/electrowave music ever coming out of Italy. CARMODY would have so deserved to reach a wider audience, especially the later stage tracks have had much potential to become small hits, and then “Messengers of Love” is definitely one most wonderful tracks ever recorded and led Anna wanting to do this release in the first place. There is no chance you shall miss out on this one if you are into stuff like Monuments or early 80’s electronic wave music in general. CD features: - limited edition of 1000 copies Price: 14,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
STRANGER STATION was Simon Driscoll (music, words, vocals) with some support from Judith Golberg and David Holecombe on studio and live synthesisers, all from the UK. STRANGER STATION released only one 7” in 1981, including the minimal electronics evergreen “Minutes to Silence”, and “Strangers”, and appeared with “Welcome to the Night” on the ultra-rare compilation LP “Synthetic Romance” in 1982. Both vinyls have absolute cult status among collectors worldwide and regularly fetch three- to even four-digit-amounts. Anyway, STRANGER STATION did record another seven tracks back in 1981 which remained unreleased so far. It is thanks to Martin Kleefeld‘s efforts on his web information platform Minimal Elektronik, that made Simon aware of some interest in his old music. He sent Martin the tracks, and that’s when they also made it into Anna’s ears, and then served as the basis for this release, 28 years after their creation. The music is quite weird and improvised minimal electronics, maybe comparable to the similarly weird musical world of ADN’ Ckrystall, but even darker and melancholic. There is a lot of playfulness within these tracks, and you can hear they could play and handle their ARP synthesisers, brooding elctronics, wonderful melodies, great use of any effects section of the synthesiser and many changes and new ideas coming and going within the tracks. The lyrics are dark and quite depressive, well influenced by the time when living in Britain back then. All three aforementioned tracks are also included to “Echoes in Infinity”. Truly a classic electronic music album. Record features: - 12”LP, 160 gramms, 33 1/3 rpm, black vinyl Price: 14,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
THE HANDS OF CAIN were Dimitris Chorianopoulos (vocals, bass), Spyros ‘S. Adam’ Floros (drums), Costas Papakitsos (synthesisers) and Dimitris Stamatiou (guitar) from Athens, Greece. In 1983 the HANDS OF CAIN evolved from of one of the first groups of the Greek punk scene of the early 80’s called Ausschwitss when their music was gaining a darker shade and their lyrics were changing to English. Unlike their former group, the HANDS OF CAIN had very little public exposure, but built their reputation amongst the lively Athenian dark wave/post punk scene of the time with a few live gigs in clubs like ‘Skylab’ and ‘Pegasus’. They finally split up in November 1985, and although none of their recordings was ever released their fame lived on. An end was put to this local hidden secret when Dimitris ‘Profitis’ Petrou sent Anna two tracks in Autumn 2007, “Two Steps to the End” and “The Dagger in Me”. Anna was blown away by those tracks and couldn’t believe they have remained unreleased. Of course, this had to be changed. The quality of HOC’s song writing is amazing, these are just strong compositions, and without any doubt, this album will perfectly line up with the best ever goth/dark wave albums being so close to Christian Death’s first recordings as well as the best songs by Bauhaus. Their tracks are pure mid 80’s despair and melancholy, typical of the goth/dark wave scene of the time, although such terms as goth or dark-wave had not yet been invented by journalists back then. The material was (more or less) preserved on dusty 8mm reels and worn-out cassette tapes – it is thanks to Dave Hewson, who digitally transferred and restored these tracks, we owe you much gratitude, Dave – that these essential songs do not remain in total obscurity. Prepare yourself for a milestone not only in Greek music history, but also in goth/dark wave history! LP features: - 12”LP, DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) cut, 160 gramms, 33 1/3 rpm, black vinyl Price: 15,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
DILEMMA was Klaus Hahn and Christoph Schaller, originally from Viersen, Germany. Out of a deep admiration for rough early 80’s minimalistic electrobands like DAF, Portion Control or The Klinik they themselves started early to create some weird tracks with borrowed synthesisers, found metal parts and whatever did create some noise. Klaus’ first projects were The Chemical Death and Cat No Res, but once established as a permanent duo with Christoph they went on as DILEMMA. They recorded around seven tapes in between 1986 and 1990, and made vinyl appearances on the highly collectible releases “Christmas EP” (7” on Dirk Ivens’ Body Records) as well as on “VA – Forms of Elektronik Body Music” (LP on Impuls Records). Also they supported The Klinik on a tour in 1989. Unfortunately, DILEMMA didn’t have much luck since with people letting them down when it came to an album production or even stealing their ideas for other productions, so DILEMMA eventually stopped in 1991. So it needed Anna, who has actually grown up with DILEMMA’s music, to work at the plan to finally give DILEMMA its right place in music history and it has become a little dream come true for all participants that this album sees its final release. Most tracks are taken off their cassette “Dismember your Body” (1988), as well as from “Pure Epitaxial Dilemma” (1987), plus adding three tracks from a 1988 live performance to the 7”. They have been carefully and perfectly restored by Ton Willekes who we own a great deal of gratitude. DILEMMA’s music is pure raw electronic minimalism in the vein of DAF, but with a touch of the mid-80’s Belgian hard electro bands such as The Klinik or Vomito Negro. A monotone Roland TR-505 punches through the tracks with hard sequences and sparse synth effects from the Roland SH-101 and Yamaha CS30m. Two years of work on this release have passed, but it was worth every single effort. LP features: - 12”LP, DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) cut, 160 gramms, 33 1/3 rpm, black vinyl Price: 17,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
Anna has praised SONNENBRANDT right from the very first second and has been asking for the release of their debut album since more than two years. Now they have finally completed it and Anna is so happy that she was allowed to participate in its production and release. So, the album, entitled “Gestern”, engl.: ‘yesterday’, is a co-production between the three labels Anna Logue Records, Hertzschrittmacher (KernKrach) and NLW, joining forces to help SONNENBRANDT finding their way onto the road to success, just because there is no other contemporary act that deserves a wider audience than they do! SONNENBRANDT hails from Hamburg, Germany, was founded in 2003, and consists of Stefan Bornhorst (THE SILICON SCIENTIST, Dreams Encoded, The Convent – synthesisers, programming, vocoder), Jojo Brandt (Voll Wirksam, Liquid Dreams, The Convent – synthesisers, programming, guitars, lyrics, vocals) and his wife Sonja ‘Sonne’ Brandt (lyrics, vocals). They perform the perfect mixture of early 80’s Electropop and Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) – or “Elektronische Volksmusik” (electronic folk music) as they cutely describe it themselves - paired with German lyrics being entertaining in a funny way, and also as cross as two sticks. The tunes are very catchy, melodic though with some darker melancholic undertones. “Gestern” closes a first chapter being a flashback compiling five years of recording songs. There’s no future without a past. On this album every song is a hit, made for you to sing along (no matter which language you actually speak) and dance to (no matter at which place, sphere or planet you are). Also worth mentioning is a slight participation of Alain Seghir from MARTIN DUPONT as well as the guys from THE MARY ONETTES in “Rotes Telefon”. In no doubt it is thought that everyone out there needs a good dose of SONNENBRANDT, so don’t be shy and support Germany’s most promising underground act by buying their debut album right away! And don’t worry: an LD50 has been estimated by audiophilic experts to approximately 4000 listenings per year (estimations only as no animals or humans have been injured or killed during this album’s production and testing phase). LP features: - 12”LP, DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) cut, 180 gramms, 33 1/3 rpm, black vinyl CD features: - unlimited edition with 4 bonus tracks
Price: 14,00 € for the LP plus shipping & packaging.
SPOON FAZER is the early 80's solo project of Simon Patterson from the UK who got his name from his band mates when playing in some in avant-garde punk bands in Devon and London. He is still occasionally called 'Spoon' by old friends. Being originally a drummer, fortunately Simon found interest in working with synthesisers and drum machines. On stage he used to play his electronic drums with guess what … spoons, of course! SPOON FAZER released the "Music 2 Dance 2" 7"EP (Project Records, Project 1, UK, 1980), Sunset 12"EP (Illuminated Records, ILL 912, UK, 1982), which actually featured the first vinyl appearance by Jimmy Caulty of later KLF fame, and was featured on the "East of Croydon" compilation LP (Nothing Shaking Records, SHAK 1, UK, 1981). Apart from that, SPOON FAZER recorded two tapes entitled "Bam Boo" and "Just another Man-in-Sect". The four 'most Anna Logue-compatible' songs from "Bam Boo" (recorded in 1982) were chosen for inclusion on this beautifully designed 7"EP. "Bam Boo" was the musical expression of Simon's obsession with Japan which you will clearly hear throughout the tracks presented here. The last words are Simon's: "Spoon was a mask I wore! But I have now come to terms with the fact that actually I am Spoon Fazer!" Record features: - 7" black vinyl, 33 1/3rpm Price: 7,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
TWINS NATALIA … is a most unreachable dream coming true! Being involved in this project, I feel a bit timid writing this. Anyway, the TWINS NATALIA songs are unique products of creative minds working together in order to write some beautiful, catchy and substantial electropop songs combining an early 80’s musical approach (analogue drum machine sounds, way of sequencing, etc.) with up-to-date recording techniques. TWINS NATALIA is one of the many brainchildren of Steve Lippert, Anna’s permanent and wonderful graphic designer, who we owe so much. The basic musical ideas are composed by Marc Schaffer creating a basic melancholic and melodic structure. Additional composition, arrangement and performance by Dave Hewson, with beautiful lyrics and vocal lines added by Sharon Abbott, performed by Sharon, and Julie Ruler, the latter three well-known from actually being POEME ELECTRONIQUE. In the end, for me this is close to being the perfect electropop. Further tracks are at early stages so a complete TWINS NATALIA album is planned for 2009. Record features: - 7" black vinyl, 45rpm Price: 7,50 € plus shipping & packaging.
CAR CRASH SET were one of the very few electropop acts coming out of New Zealand and have released several vinyls nationally between 1983 and 1986. Basically, the CAR CRASH SET consisted of synthesists/composers David Bulog and Nigel Russell and guitarist/producer Trevor Reekie, and was formed in late 1981. They created such outstanding electropop songs with a Roland TR-606/808 and such lovely sequencing, - e.g. “Fall from Grace” is definitely a song that Anna will take with her into her grave – that it is indeed a shame that they didn’t receive more attention. Anyway, their 1983 12” ‘Two Songs’ (including “Outsider” and “Fall from Grace”) and the V/A ‘We’ll do our best’ LP (including CAR CRASH SET’s “Toys”) are at least highly collectible items amongst electropop connoisseurs and many people will be happy to see these tracks being available again as well as four previously unavailable demos from both their earliest and later days. David and Nigel are said to be recording again together with only the original Roland gear (“nothing else will do” as David says): TR-606, Jupiter-4, MC-4, System 100m modular and System 104 sequencer as well as Nigel’s Korg MS20… oh well, Anna is prepared! Record features: -
12”LP, 160 gramms, 33 1/3 rpm, black vinyl Price: 14,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
In 1984, the MONUMENTS, consisting of Andrea Costa and Mauro Tavella from Torino, Italy, released their only official record, a mini LP called “Age” comprising six incredibly fantastic electropop tracks. Anna ever thought of this mini LP as being the best electropop record ever coming out of Italy. Unfortunately, the duo didn’t make it any further under the name of MONUMENTS, though even to this very day they follow their careers as composers, studio owners and explorers of electronic music. Anyway, the MONUMENTS were already formed in 1981 and a couple of demos were recorded which never saw the light of day, but were only given to a few friends. Their nature is a bit more rough and never drift towards the more commercial Italo synth pop. So what you get on this CD is indeed an essential retrospective compilation album of one of Italy’s pioneering underground electronic music acts. And while Andrea and Mauro want to close this chapter with this release, a project entitled MONUMENTS II is maybe on its way … CD features: - limited edition of 500
copies Price: 14,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
POEME ELECTRONIQUE … oh didn’t we all dream of finding their only vinyl release, ‘The Echoes Fade/VOICE’ 7” single (Carrere Records, 1982) some day? Well, most of us didn’t and probably won’t, and finding the members was equally hard, but thanks to J. Lange’s investigative nature (hey, you’re great!), Dave Hewson, the composer in the group was finally tracked down. To anyone’s surprise, Dave is nowadays a highly respected professional composer working for such institutions like the BBC - definitely not the common career of an early 80’s New Wave/Electropop underground artist. Dave’s kindness and enthusiasm on reworking old POEME ELECTRONIQUE material and reviving the group is extraordinary, and so is his level of production quality. Now one might think that remixes are uninteresting or useless, but when you will hear the work that Dave did on the 7” tracks, you will surely get the impression that some improvement has occurred. The tracks just sound incredible, and now more versatile. For example, in ‘VOICE’, a chorus, though already written in 1982 but never used, has eventually been added and also the vocals have been completely rerecorded this summer. Truly, Sharon and Julie’s voices sound as fresh as 25 years ago! Anna is incredibly proud of releasing this record, and you will be happy to read that this is not the end of story! Record features: - 7" black vinyl, 45 rpm Price: 7,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
ADN’ CKRYSTALL is Érick Moncollin (aka Dr. Strange), an artist from France and truly a pioneer in electronic music since the mid-70’s. Already in 1976, he was jamming with Vangelis and Tim Blake in Paris, and he was also testing the KORG MS20 in its flat prototype version (and is still owning and using a MS10 prototype today!). In 1982, he released his first album “Jazz’mad” which definitely is in Anna’s Top-5-electronic-music-albums list. The unique weirdness and brilliance of this album is unequalled and a class of its own. Érick never stopped playing and recording electronic music, but, of course, styles changed over the years. In late 2006, “Jazz’mad” was nearing its 25 years anniversary, and thus Anna asked Érick if he wasn’t interested in recording a sister album to it - in “Jazz’mad” style, of course! Érick enthusiastically agreed and armed himself with his two Kawai Synthesizer-100Fs, Korg KR-33, CRB’1969 Diamond 742, Roland Juno-60, Roland JX-3P, MXR phaser 100, Boss Flanger BF-2 and SDE200 Delay. Paired with his weird performing skills, “Minilab” is a worthy companion to “Jazz’mad” and no-one into minimal electronics shall miss out on it. Record features: - 12”LP, 160 gramms, 33 1/3
rpm plus 7", 45 rpm, black vinyls Price: 17,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
SUDETEN CRECHE is Mark Warner and Paul Carlin from the UK and probably they need not much presentation. Their minimalistic electropop track “Are Kisses are out of Fashion”, originally released on the 1982 compilation EP “Europe in the Year Zero” (which amongst others also featured Yazoo), is widely known and respected. Furthermore, they released the four-track 12”EP “Kindergarten” in 1983 on Illuminated Records, which is, of course, very hard to find these days. Anyway, Mark and Paul teamed up again and recorded new tracks for their upcoming album “Kisses from the Creche” - for more info please visit www.sudetencreche.com - and the 7”EP released on Anna Logue Records kind of marks a pre-release presenting alternative versions of “Glorious Treason” and “Wounds”, while “Rogues” is an exclusive track for this vinyl release. This is electropop at its best, both for the dancefloor and the mind and shall bring SUDETEN CRECHE back to publicity and a promising future. Record features: -
7" black vinyl, 45 rpm Price: 7,50 € plus shipping & packaging.
NEW SHINY THINGS were primarily Sara Ayers and Billy Harrigan with some support from Richard Fuller and Art Snay on additional keys. They were shining from Albany, NY, USA, and released the beautifully haunting “Changing Colors” and the powerful “Breadlines and Dissidence” as a 7” single on Blotto Records in 1982 which nowadays is impossible to find. Both tracks have so much substance and have left an ever-lasting impression on Anna, so that she decided to re-release those tracks plus adding the slightly weirder and previously unreleased ‘post-punk’ track “Crayola Psychosis” (written in 1980, recorded in 1984) to the flipside which was composed and recorded by Billy under the name of OPERATION PLUTO. So, this 7”EP, remastered by Art Snay, and presented in a totally new and beautiful artwork made by Sara, is a great reminder of the work of the late Billy Harrigan, who left the earthly domains in 2001, and Sara who is still a recording artist today. Record features: - 7" black vinyl, 45 rpm Price: 7,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
Some may remember CHAIN OF COMMAND from their only vinyl appearance on the brilliant and highly sought-after compilation LP “Subtle Hints” (UK 1983, Sane Records) for which they submitted the track “Some Aspects”. They had recorded a few more tracks which unfortunately didn’t make it onto any further release. Thus, Anna is very proud to present the first CHAIN OF COMMAND vinyl, which makes Matt, Dave and Neil pretty happy today even if the release of their songs has delayed for some 24 years. The 7”EP includes four previously unreleased songs recorded in 1982, and you will surely need to call this vinyl your own! Record features: -
7" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 7,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
This is the first compilation on Anna Logue Records bringing you electronic pop music from international artists dating back to 1979 to 1984 - as already mentioned somewhere else here - the anna/logue years! Most tracks are heard for the very first time. It was indeed a task compiling this one but it was so worth it! DADA DI MUSICA and The TWO are projects by Dutch artist Hero Wouters, JEFF WALTON was normally not into electronics but some day the American seemed to feel like recording this electropop hit. BOYS DU SEVERE was a Canadian project from around the mysterious MONTY CANTSIN/Neoism circles. INFORMATICS and their member VALEK from Australia need not much presentation, you all surely know their release ‘Accidents in Paradise’. BERND KUNZE from Germany was found by accident He’s a home recording artist much in the vein of IAN ELMS. THE HIGHER PRIMATES from the USA are also well-known by now. VEX from Canada comprising Alan Lord and Bernard Gagnon (CHAM PANG) present the earliest track on this compilation dating back to 1979, a truly pioneering work! INVISIBLE ZOO from the USA bring us a powerful electropop tune. SOLITAIRE from the USA was a one-man project with pioneering live-electronics. GILDED YOUTH from Australia are known now as well including a member from SECOND GLANCE and having been released on the Reminiscent compilation. PERFECT JEWISH COUPLE from the USA present a track from their recently self-released CD and The TWO close the album with a demo version of one their songs from their sought-after LP. Many thanks to all artists for their support and endless patience! These songs are the echoes of Your past. Record features: -
12”LP, 160 gramms, 33 1/3 rpm plus 7", 45 rpm, black vinyls Price: 18,90 € plus shipping & packaging.
DESIGN are Edouard Janssens and Eric Brusselmans from Belgium. In the early 80’s they released two tracks on Belgian vinyl compilations: “Premonition” on the sought after “Topless Game” LP (1983) and “Sunset Boulevard” on the “Nuit Blanche” LP (1984). “Premonition” was recorded in September 1982 on 24-track and mixed in Dan Lacksman’s (TELEX) SynSound studio in Brussels. In the same session the previously unreleased track “Fashion & Seduction” was recorded but never made it to any further release. Anna is happy to release these two great tracks, the first one heard for the first time, the other one long deleted and now even remastered by Edouard himself. Definitely not to be missed! Record features: Sold out! -
7 " black vinyl, 45 rpm Price: 6,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
Record features (re-issue !): - 7" transparent red vinyl, 45 rpm Price: 6,66 € plus shipping & packaging.
The English band CULTURAL AMNESIA were first active 1979 to 1983, making a kind of post-industrial electropop. With her listeners' tastes in mind, Anna has selected nine tracks to introduce this original and interesting postpunk electro band. None of the music has been available for more than 20 years, and three of the songs are released for the very first time on the LP „Enormous Savages“. COIL fans will be interested to know that the lyrics to three of the songs were written by Geoff Rushton/John Balance, who was a big supporter of the band. In the last few years CA have been making music again, and the first 130 „Enormous Savages“ will be accompanied by a „Little Savage“, a four-track mini-CD of new and recent material. For further information please refer to: www.culturalamnesia.com Reviews: Click here Record features: -
12" black 160g vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm
Price: 13,00 € plus shipping & packaging.
CAMERA
OBSCURA "Strange Faces (2006) / Moving the Mercury (2006)"
After CAMERA OBSCURA had played their concert in Hannover in 2005, they were so enthusiastic in pressing ahead with the band. Peter was quite unsatisfied with the original sound quality of the recordings of “Strange Faces” and “Moving the Mercury” so the next step had to be the rerecording of those tracks. It was taken much care in keeping the original spirit of the tracks also by using the original equipment but using modern recording techniques to have the tracks sound great. “Strange Faces” has a far more electronic nature now and shall appeal to listeners with a tendency for pure electronics while “Moving the Mercury” sticks pretty tight to the original, but simply sounds far much better now. Record features: -
7" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm - PLUS bonus-LP: CAMERA
OBSCURA "Live in Hannover 8-10-2005"
After the release of “Horizons of Suburbia” (ANNA 001) in summer 2005, CAMERA OBSCURA definitely wanted to enter the stage again after more than 20 years of stage absence. They were invited to play at a small Minimal Electro festival called “Alles in einem” (“All in one”) in Hannover, Germany, Oct, 8th, 2005 together with the German projects Sickdoll and Solitude FX. Peter and Nigel performed a fully professional set with lots of love, enthusiasm and fun. Eight tracks from this show were chosen to be released on this vinyl album for those who were there and for those who were not. “Vincent van Gogh” and “Fever Pitch” are yet unheard newly recorded versions. Performing the then totally unknown “Moving the Mercury” eventually led to the release of the 7” (ANNA 002). It was a fantastic evening and we hope this live album has captured some of its great moments. Record features: - 12" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 15,50 € plus shipping & packaging
THE
SILICON SCIENTIST "Windows on the World"
THE SILICON SCIENTIST is Stefan Bornhorst from Hamburg, Germany, and you will hear that he definitely has a deep fascination for analogue synthesizers and Electropop. In the early 90’s, he started composing and recording many tracks under the name of DREAMS ENCODED, from which a compilation LP and 7”EP is due later on ANNA LOGUE RECORDS. Some may also know Stefan from playing in the Wave group THE CONVENT in which he played synths both live and in the studio between 1999 and 2003. Also, in 2003, Stefan founded the well known wonderful German Elektropop-NDW group SONNENBRANDT together with CONVENT’s guitar player Jojo Brandt and Jojo’s wife Frau Sonne. Their first proper album is said to be finished very soon, so stay tuned! In his solo project THE SILICON SCIENTIST Stefan continues on a more melancholic path of Electropop, recorded solely with analogue synthesizers and drum machines. For more details on his projects please refer to: www.myspace.com/thesiliconscientist Record features: -
12" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm - all records include the 2-track 33 1/3 rpm 7" Colourblind featuring the tracks: THE SILICON
SCIENTIST "Colourblind ep"
- Sold Out! the first 200 copies include the 12-track CD-R Bookmarks featuring the tracks: THE SILICON SCIENTIST
"Bookmarks"
This CD contains various tracks from the time in which the „Windows on the World“ album was written and recorded. Tracks that didn’t make it on the album for some reason. Tracks that were recorded to form the soundtrack of a German serial play but finally remained unused because they sounded “too electronic” to the ears of the play’s producer. Tracks that were recorded for no special reason (except having fun) at home and on holiday in sunny Greece and frosty Denmark. (text taken from back sleeve of “Bookmarks”, written by Stefan Bornhorst) IMPORTANT NOTE: It is a well-known fact a CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is sensitive to UV light, large temperature variations and oxidization. In order to retain a long data storage, keep the disc at a stable temperature, away from direct sun light and well-kept in a container or sleeve. Anyway, CD-Rs seem not to have a “life long” data storage capacity. Thus we highly recommend to save a hard disk copy of the audio data to prevent loss of data. ANNA LOGUE RECORDS is not responsible for any loss of data occurring after the sale of the CD-R and will not replace any CD-Rs due to loss of data. If you don’t agree to the terms of sale, please do not buy this product or choose the edition without accompanying CD-R. Thank you, ANNA LOGUE RECORDS, 28/11/2006. Price:
Robert is working hard on pressing ahead with SLEEP MUSEUM (and his side project AFTER THE SNOW) and has recorded many new tracks since the release of the “Dream of Waking” album. Anna has picked out the three ones she liked the most to put together this great 7”EP. All tracks are new material written and performed by SLEEP MUSEUM. Listen to the sound samples by clicking on the cover. And also stop by at SLEEP MUSEUM's website at www.sleepmuseum.com as well as www.afterthesnow.com. Record features: -
7" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 6,00 € plus shipping & packaging
In autumn 2005, Robert Anthony approached Anna via e-mail asking if she’d be interested in releasing a record from his dark, New York-based minimal synth project, SLEEP MUSEUM. Anna was sceptical at first, but after listening to a few tracks, she was convinced! The tracks are dark and melodic and are produced using vintage electronic early 80's equipment — Robert has a very special voice and way of singing making his music very personal and quite unique. All tracks are new material written by SLEEP MUSEUM. Listen to the sound samples by clicking on the album cover. And see SLEEP MUSEUM's website at http://www.sleepmuseum.com Record features: -
12" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 12,00 € plus shipping & packaging
When CAMERA OBSCURA were playing in Germany last year, they were also playing a fantastic tune yet unknown to the audience. Anna asked them what it was and they said it was another old tune called “Moving the Mercury”. To Anna, it was clear right away that it had to be released on vinyl as well, but it needed quite some convincing to get Peter’s and Nigel’s OK, which was not due to the potential of that song but due to the poor sound quality of the original tape. Anyway, now it has been restored to make it available to you. The next day, Peter told Anna that they had another tune called “Strange Faces” which, back in 1984, was supposed to become a 7”. But, like with the album, this never happened. But, fortunate as you are, Anna once again attended to the affair and so you can get these great songs on a black vinyl-7” oddly enough spinning at 45 rpm on the A-side and 33 1/3 rpm on the B-side. Record features: - 7" black vinyl, 45 rpm
(A-side), 33 1/3 rpm (B-side) Price: 6,00 € plus shipping & packaging
* Previously unreleased extended demoversions Some of you may know Camera Obscura (consisting of Peter Oldroyd and Nigel James from York, UK) from their 1983 7" single release "Destitution/Race in Athens" on the UK based Small Wonder label. Besides that single they only released one further track called "Village of Stars" on the 101 International 2LP-compilation "Directions". Anyway you can read their story on their own web site at http://clancamera.com together with some never before seen pictures and additional informations. The 10 tracks included on this LP were all recorded in 1983 and are all previously unreleased. They were mastered by Peter himself and the best thing even is that through all this they teamed up again to record as Camera Obscura and even on the original equipment! We shall be curious! Record features: (sold out!): -
12" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 12,00 € plus shipping & packaging
Record features: (re-issue!): - 12" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm Price: 12,00 € plus shipping & packaging
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