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2025-03-0707 min
darkentriesrecordsDeep Entries : Gay Electronic Excursions 1979-1985 SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deep-entries-gay-electronic-excursions-1979-1985
Dark Entries has raided the bathhouse to bring us Deep Entries: Gay Electronic Excursions 1979-1985, 10 tracks of obscure queer synth bliss. One of Dark Entries' most important missions has been illuminating neglected facets of gay musical history, with crucial archival works by legends like Patrick Cowley, Sylvester, and Man Parrish. On Deep Entries, the label spans 6 years of gay electronics - from sultry to angsty to camp, these songs are overflowing with snappy 808 snares and sinewy analog synth leads. The '80s were a difficult period for many in the gay c...
2024-12-0115 min
darkentriesrecordsEleven Pond - Bas Relief (2024 Remaster) PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL / DIGITAL https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-pond-bas-relief-2024-remaster
Dark Entries celebrates its 15th anniversary by returning to where it all started, our initial darkest entry: Eleven Pond’s masterpiece Bas Relief, an ultra-obscure album from 1986 that would become a definitive dark pop holy grail. Eleven Pond was James Tabbi (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jeff Gallea (drum machine, synthesizer, vocals), Jack Schaeffer (guitar) and Dan Brumley (synthesizer, samples, vocoder, melodica). They met in Rochester, NY, while attending art school, brought together by their shared love of 4AD and Factory Records. Taking cues from acts like Joy Division, Fad Gadget, and Fo...
2024-07-1816 min
darkentriesrecordsBack Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 SNIPSBUY VINYL/DIGITAL: https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/back-up-mexican-tecno-pop-1980-1989
On Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop, Dark Entries brings us 10 divergent tracks of Mexican electronics from 1980-1989, full of skittering analog drum boxes and saucy synthesizer hooks. 8 of these songs were culled from the 2005 CD-only compilation Backup: Expediente Tecno Pop on AT-AT records. Also included are two previously unreleased cuts. This release marks the first time many of these songs will have appeared on vinyl; it is also the first ever vinyl compilation of Mexican New Wave and post-punk.
While synth pop and obscure electronics from Europe and the United...
2021-09-2315 min
darkentriesrecordsV/A- Endangered Species Vol. 1 CLIPShttps://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-endangered-species-vol-1
In eleven years of deep digging, Dark Entries has uncovered many curiosities, lone exemplars of the scarsest breeds. They are lurking in Croatia, on the streets of New York, maybe in the back of your own dusty closet - these odd-ball Italo and synth-wave monsters are too rare to live, too divine to die. Once-lost creatures now have a home with Dark Entries’ new Endangered Species series. The inaugural edition features five specimens previously deemed extinct, only mentioned passingly in lore and speculation, but now safely preserved on vinyl.
The first cut on Endangered Specie...
2020-09-0407 min
darkentriesrecordsVarious Artists - Lost & Found Vol. 1Our first digital-only compilation called ‘Lost & Found Vol. 1” out July 3rd on Bandcamp featuring Bézier, Bill Converse, Doc Sleep, Mystic Bill, Borusiade, Group Rhoda, Sepehr, Patrick Cowley, Maxx Mann and Magnus II all proceeds go to artists and Black-Led Trans orgs ❤️https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lost-found-vol-1
2020-07-0310 min
darkentriesrecordsFear-E - Grey Skies In A Dear Green Place SNIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/ep/fear-e-grey-skies-in-a-dear-green-place/
We are proud to welcome Fear-E @fear-e for his Dark Entries debut ‘Grey Skies In A Dear Green Place’ out February 28th. Fear-E is the moniker of Scott McKay a Glasgow based DJ and producer. Scott has already made a name for himself as one of Glasgow’s most technically-gifted and diverse selectors over the past decade. Then a slew of releases on the home-grown Dixon Avenue Basement Jams and Super Rhythm Trax introduced Fear-E, equally skilled studio operator, to the world.
‘Grey Skies In A Dear Green Place’ contains six club-r...
2020-02-2709 min
darkentriesrecordsBorusiade - Fortunate Isolation LPBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lp/borusiade-fortunate-isolation-lp/
We are proud to release ‘Fortunate Isolation’ the sophomore album from Borusiade. Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, Borusiade aka Miruna Boruzescu started DJ-ing in 2002 as one of the very few female DJs in the city’s emerging alternative clubbing scene. Influenced by a classical musical education, a bachelor in film direction and fascinated by raw electronic sounds, Borusiade first combined these universes
in the construction of her DJ sets and starting 2005 also in her music production. A sound of her own has slowly crystallized, often dark with poignant bass lines...
2020-02-0713 min
darkentriesrecordsRed Axes - Voom EP SNIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/ep/red-axes-voom-ep/
Our final release of 2019 is a 4-track EP by Red Axes @redaxes the prolific production duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi from Tel Aviv. The pair were raised on a diet of post-punk, new-wave, and Italo-disco at fogged out warehouse and basement parties. Their own productions and remixes have appeared on labels such as I’m a Cliché, Correspondant, and Hivern Discs.
“Voom” kicks things off with wild percussive toms and bubblegum female chants over a fat electro break. “Doom” rightly brings us into a dark, menacing cave where see pulses...
2019-12-0606 min
darkentriesrecordsTV.OUT - Dusk Till Dawn SNIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/ep/tv-out-dusk-till-dawn/
Tel Aviv born, Berlin based duo TV.OUT @tv_out make their Dark Entries debut with a 6-track EP titled ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ out Black Friday 2019. Doron Mastey Charly & Ori Itshaki have made a name for themselves the past few years putting on impressive live sets, DJing around the world, and running Parallax Records releasing various strains of rugged, well informed electronic music. Clocking in at 36 minutes this collection moves in hot pursuit of their two previous EPs for L.I.E.S. Side A opens with the metallic hi-hats of “...
2019-11-2709 min
darkentriesrecordsDark Day - Darkest Before Dawn LP CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lp/dark-day-darkest-before-dawn/
Dark Day is the brainchild of Robin Crutchfield, a New York City based musician, performance artist, and writer. Robin’s musical path began in 1977 when he formed the no wave group DNA with Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori. In 1979 Crutchfield left DNA to pursue his more synthesizer-based solo project. He released the ‘Hands In The Dark’ 7” followed by two albums, ‘Exterminating Angel’ in 1980 and ‘Window’ in 1982. In 1984 he re-launched Dark Day as an acoustic chamber ensemble performing ethereal soundscapes and self-released two cassette albums “Obsession” and “Beyond The Pale”.
‘Darkest Before Dawn' is a collecti...
2019-11-2219 min
darkentriesrecordsTom Ellard - Ga Duum BlitzfonikaBUY VINYL: https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-tens-across-the-board
Celebrating a Decade of Dark Entries with a compilation titled ‘Tens Across The Board’. We revisit our roster and chose 10 songs from 10 bands from 10 different countries spanning the years 1981-1993. The songs flow in chronological order and have never appeared on vinyl, with 7 of the songs previously unreleased. The compilation begins in 1981 with Parade Ground from Belgium, the duo of brothers Pierre and Jean-Marc Pauly with help from Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc of Front 242. “The Light’s Gone” was one of their earliest experiments and employs a stark minimalism with modular synthesizers, guitar rev...
2019-11-0505 min
darkentriesrecordsLena Platonos - Μια Γάτα Σας Περιμένει Στη ΓωνίαBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lp/various-artists-tens-across-the-board/
Celebrating a Decade of Dark Entries with a compilation titled ‘Tens Across The Board’. We revisit our roster and chose 10 songs from 10 bands from 10 different countries spanning the years 1981-1993. The songs flow in chronological order and have never appeared on vinyl, with 7 of the songs previously unreleased. The compilation begins in 1981 with Parade Ground from Belgium, the duo of brothers Pierre and Jean-Marc Pauly with help from Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc of Front 242. “The Light’s Gone” was one of their earliest experiments and employs a stark minimalism with modular sy...
2019-10-2501 min
darkentriesrecordsV/A - Tens Across the BoardBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lp/various-artists-tens-across-the-board/
Celebrating a Decade of Dark Entries with a compilation titled ‘Tens Across The Board’. We revisit our roster and chose 10 songs from 10 bands from 10 different countries spanning the years 1981-1993. The songs flow in chronological order and have never appeared on vinyl, with 7 of the songs previously unreleased. The compilation begins in 1981 with Parade Ground from Belgium, the duo of brothers Pierre and Jean-Marc Pauly with help from Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc of Front 242. “The Light’s Gone” was one of their earliest experiments and employs a stark minimalism with modular sy...
2019-10-2215 min
darkentriesrecordsPatrick Cowley - Mechanical Fantasy Box PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/patrick-cowley-mechanical-fantasy-box
Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid ’70s, Patrick’s synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester, including hits like “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance (Disco Heat)” and “I Need Somebody To Love Tonight.” This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. Cowley created his own...
2019-10-1919 min
darkentriesrecordsPhotonz - Nuit CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/photonz-nuit-2xlp/
Photonz @photonz is the alias of Marco Rodrigues a DJ, producer and driving force of Lisbon's underground scene. For little over a decade now, he's been crafting his own deeply personal style of Portuguese house and techno. As a DJ, Photonz grew a reputation for deep crates and intensely euphoric sets and in 2017, together with Violet (co-founder at his Radio Quantica) and Lisbon's own Rabbit Hole collective, he started the now infamous Mina parties - a monthly, sex-positive, queer and intersectional-feminist techno party aimed at using the dissociative potential of...
2019-10-0916 min
darkentriesrecordsPatrick Cowley - Right Here, Right NowBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/patrick-cowley-mechanical-fantasy-box
Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid ’70s, Patrick’s synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester, including hits like “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance (Disco Heat)” and “I Need Somebody To Love Tonight.” This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. Cowley created his own...
2019-10-0803 min
darkentriesrecordsViolet - They Don't Wanna KnowBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/violet-bed-of-roses/
We are honored to release the debut album from @Violet, the alias of Inês Coutinho, Lisbon born and raised DJ, producer boss of Naive records, co-founder of Rádio Quântica, and mina resident. Violet began producing music in 2012 and has released music on One Eyed Jacks, Love on the Rocks, Paraíso and Naive. Inês uses her seemingly boundless energy to amplify other artists all the while progressing her own creative practice.
‘Bed of Roses’ contains 10 songs made as a sort of childhood-teenage memories diary, a return to things In...
2019-09-2004 min
darkentriesrecordsViolet - Bed of Roses CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/violet-bed-of-roses/
We are honored to release the debut album from @Violet, the alias of Inês Borges Coutinho, Lisbon born and raised DJ, producer boss of Naive records, co-founder of Rádio Quântica, and mina resident. Violet began producing music in 2012 and has released music on One Eyed Jacks, Love on the Rocks, Paraíso and Naive. Inês uses her seemingly boundless energy to amplify other artists all the while progressing her own creative practice.
‘Bed of Roses’ contains 10 songs made as a sort of childhood-teenage memories diary, a return to things...
2019-09-1915 min
darkentriesrecordsKonstruktivists - Glennascaul 2xLP CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/konstruktivists-glennascaul-2xlp/
Konstruktivists is the Industrial project of Glenn Michael Wallis from Kent, England. In the late ’70s Wallis was a “control agent” for Throbbing Gristle and the Industrial Records crew. Influenced by Krautrock bands like Can, NEU!, Cluster/Harmonia as well as Tuxedomoon, Yello, Chrome, and SPK, Glenn began to record his own material. After several cassette releases, Konstruktivists’ first LP ‘A Dissembly’ was released in 1982 followed by ‘Psykho Genetika’ in 1983 and ‘Black December’ in 1984. That same year Wallis collaborated with his friend Chris Carter, of Throbbing Gristle and Chris and Cosey fame, on CTI’s...
2019-09-1319 min
darkentriesrecordsMekanik Kommando - Dancing Elephants CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/mekanik-kommando-dancing-elephants/
Mekanik Kommando was a post punk / New Wave band from Nijmegen, the Netherlands founded in 1979 by Peter van Vliet and Laszlo Panyigay. The duo became a quartet with the addition of Simon van Vliet and Mirjam van Hout. The name Mekanik Kommando comes from the album ‘Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh’ by the French progressive rock band Magma. Inspired by a DIY ethos, Kraftwerk and Magma, the band began recording songs at home using two tape recorders. Their demo cassette was discovered by Wally van Middendorp of Minny Pops and owner o...
2019-08-2307 min
darkentriesrecordsVelodrome - На Велодроме 141 CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/velodrome-au-velodrome-141/
We have been working on this reissue since we began the label 10 years ago, and finally its ready to share with the world. Velodrome need no introduction to most, but for the uninitiated, they are the duo of Krishna Goineau (Electronics + Vocals) and Jordi Guber (Electronics + Programming). At age 15, Jordi played guitar in Barcelona punk band Ultimo Resorte, and formed Líneas Aereas with Frank Palomo after becoming interested in electronics. Krishna had been performing with Chrislo Haas and Beate Bartel in Liaisons Dangereuses. Krishna and Jordi met in 1979 through Jordi’s b...
2019-07-3104 min
darkentriesrecordsAngela - Fantasy EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/angela-fantasy-ep/
Angela was the studio project of husband/wife duo Angela and Ingo Werner formed in 1981 in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Ingo had classical training in bassoon and piano at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt from 1966-70. He joined Krautrock band My Solid Ground in 1971 before going on to form his own project Baba Yaga in 1974. In the late 70s he formed the ensemble AIR with Armin Stöwe and Reinhard Karwatky. The project debuted with a a concert at ARS Electronica Competition in Linz, Austria 1980, which they won. Klaus Schulze was...
2019-07-1806 min
darkentriesrecordsSuzanne Doucet - New Age Box Set 1982-84 SNIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/suzanne-doucet-new-age-box/
We are honored to release a 5-LP Vinyl Box Set from one of the key figures of New Age music, Suzanne Doucet from her incredible run of cassette only albums from 1982-84. Suzanne was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. By the age of 18, Suzanne was an established pop star in Germany with several #1 hits. She also made her mark as a composer, actress, TV moderator, director, engineer, and producer. At...
2019-07-1839 min
darkentriesrecordsAlgebra Suicide - Still Life SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/algebra-suicide-still-life/
Algebra Suicide was a Chicago poetry-music duo consisting of poet and visual artist Lydia Tomkiw and musician Don Hedeker. They formed in 1982 and self-released a 4-song EP that year. It featured a 60's Vox Guitar Organ, a precursor to the synthesizer guitar, and a Multivox Rhythm Ace drum machine. In 1984 they released their 2nd EP ditching the guitar organ for a Casiotone MT-40. Their debut album ‘Big Skin’ was released in 1986 on cassette and featured 13 new compositions with more complex arrangements. A vinyl compilation album, "The Secret Like Crazy", was released in 1...
2019-07-1223 min
darkentriesrecordsLinea Aspera - Preservation Bias CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/linea-aspera-preservation-bias-lp/
Dark Entries is celebrating our 10 year anniversary with ‘Preservation Bias’, a compilation of lost songs and rarities from Linea Aspera. The group formed in London in November 2011 by Ryan Ambridge (Synths/Programming) and Alison Lewis (Vocals/Synths). Within the duo, Alison writes and performs all vocal elements, while Ryan is responsible for producing, recording and mixing the electronics. We released their debut self titled album in June 2012 that was followed by a posthumous vinyl reissue of their tour cassette “II” on Weyrd Son Records in 2013. For all recordings Ryan utilizes an analog s...
2019-06-2712 min
darkentriesrecordsZru Vogue - Zru Vogue LP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/zru-vogue-zru-vogue-lp/
Zru Vogue is a two man post punk avant-pop group from Palo Alto, California, combining the talents of Andrew Finkle and Rick Cuevas. The band began in 1980 as a four member group: Rick, Andy, Tom Sanders and Nancy Miller. Tom and Nancy left the group shortly after the first single, "Nakweda Dream", was released by independent San Francisco label Adolescent Records in February 1981. Inspired by rave reviews and heavy airplay on alternative radio stations, Andy and Rick went back into the studio, now as a duo, to record some new ZRU...
2019-06-2112 min
darkentriesrecordsBill Converse - Hallways 2xLP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/bill-converse-hallways-2xlp/
We are pleased to present ‘Hallways’ the third full length from Austin, Texas analogue hardware enthusiast Bill Converse. Immersed in the early days of the 90s midwest rave scene, Bill began DJing at a young age in Lansing, Michigan. Luminaries such as Claude Young, Traxx, and Derrick May were key early influences. Techno, noise, ambient and tape processing are all part of his uncanny sound palette.
‘Hallways’ is an 80 minute journey spread across 12 tracks and 2 slabs of vinyl. All tracks were recorded directly to tape with no overdubs, made at Converse...
2019-06-0518 min
darkentriesrecordsVin Sol - Planet Trash 2xLP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/vin-sol-planet-trash-2xlp/
We are honored to announce the debut album from Vin Sol, who’s taken club-goers on a trip with his tracks and sets for the past two decades. @vin-sol is a third-generation San Franciscan of Salvadorean descent who has released on Unknown to the Unknown, Clone, Delft, Honey Soundsystem, and Ultramajic. His DJ sets expertly span the genres of house, electro, techno, italo, disco, soul, funk, and whatever other finds he digs up. He’s also a musical partner of Matrixxman, AKA Charlie Duff, with whom he started the Soo Wave...
2019-05-1315 min
darkentriesrecordsDe Bons en Pierre - Frog StoempBUY VINYL: www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/de-bons-en-pierre-ep-bundle/
We are proud to present two new EPs from De Bons en Pierre, the duo of Beau Wanzer & Maoupa Mazzocchetti. Beau Wanzer spends the majority of his days sifting through paraffin embedded animal tissues and reading old issues of Fangoria, occasionally breaking his monotonous routine to record in various fits and bursts. As well as solo material, he is also in numerous projects including Streetwalker, Mutant Beat Dance, Civil Duty, and Corporate Park. Maoupa Mazzocchetti is the pseudonym of Florent Mazzocchetti, a French producer based in Brussels. His sonic vision is one...
2019-05-1003 min
darkentriesrecordsDe Bons en Pierre - EP No. 2 PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/de-bons-en-pierre-ep-no-2/
We are proud to present two new EPs from De Bons en Pierre, the duo of Beau Wanzer @bwanz & Maoupa Mazzocchetti @maoupa-mazzocchetti . Beau Wanzer spends the majority of his days sifting through paraffin embedded animal tissues and reading old issues of Fangoria, occasionally breaking his monotonous routine to record in various fits and bursts. As well as solo material, he is also in numerous projects including Streetwalker, Mutant Beat Dance, Civil Duty, and Corporate Park. Maoupa Mazzocchetti is the pseudonym of Florent Mazzocchetti, a French producer based in Brussels. His sonic...
2019-05-0910 min
darkentriesrecordsDe Bons en Pierre - EP No. 1 PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/de-bons-en-pierre-ep-no-1/
We are proud to present two new EPs from De Bons en Pierre, the duo of Beau Wanzer @bwanz & Maoupa Mazzocchetti @maoupa-mazzocchetti . Beau Wanzer spends the majority of his days sifting through paraffin embedded animal tissues and reading old issues of Fangoria, occasionally breaking his monotonous routine to record in various fits and bursts. As well as solo material, he is also in numerous projects including Streetwalker, Mutant Beat Dance, Civil Duty, and Corporate Park. Maoupa Mazzocchetti is the pseudonym of Florent Mazzocchetti, a French producer based in Brussels. His sonic...
2019-05-0909 min
darkentriesrecordsGhosts of Dance - Walking Through Gardens LP CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/ghosts-of-dance-walking-through-gardens-lp/
We are proud to release a compilation from British post-punk/Futurist group Ghosts of Dance formed in North Devon in 1981. The members were Yvette Norris (vocals), Kevin Maynard (drums), Daryl Hunt (bass), Mark Butcher (keyboards), and Pete Heaton (guitar). Ghosts of Dance took their name from the song 'Ghosts' by David Sylvian which appeared on the first Japan album. After playing an early gig in Barnstaple, a gentleman in the audience named Richard Newman expressed his interest to start a record label and release their music. Richard scheduled a recording session...
2019-05-0316 min
darkentriesrecordsBody Without Organs - Isis And Thoth 2xLP SNIPEPTSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/body-without-organs-isis-and-thoth-2xlp/
Body Without Organs were a duo from New York City consisting of Richard Behrens (lyrics, vocals, guitar) and Carl Howard (electronics, effects) formed in 1982. The pair brought together skill and ideas from such diverse areas as writing, poetry, ceremonial magic, studio technology, and mass media sounds and images. The name Body Without Organs could mean several things: a body, being an organization, without organs, or hierarchy; a form of anarchy, certainly opposed to the capitalist system, and if not directly opposed, then deeply skeptical of its effects on society. Richard...
2019-04-2613 min
darkentriesrecordsLhasa - The CallBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lhasa-acetabularia-12-ep/
Lhasa is the brainchild of Alain Raes from Siegen, Germany. As a teenager he was inspired by Tubeway Army's “Are Friends Electric” and Art Of Noise’s “Beatbox”. In 1985 he began collecting analog equipment (Prophet-5; Oberheim OB-X; Linn LM-1) as digital synthesizers had started to become more popular. In 1986, New Beat was born in Belgium. Dancers tapped into the darker side of synth pop, and DJs would play 45 rpm records at 33 with the pitch control set to +8. Alain was playing in New Wave bands and had started production work and synth prog...
2019-04-0506 min
darkentriesrecordsLhasa - Acetabularia 12" EP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lhasa-acetabularia-12-ep/
Lhasa is the brainchild of Alain Raes from Siegen, Germany. As a teenager he was inspired by Tubeway Army's “Are Friends Electric” and Art Of Noise’s “Beatbox”. In 1985 he began collecting analog equipment (Prophet-5; Oberheim OB-X; Linn LM-1) as digital synthesizers had started to become more popular. In 1986, New Beat was born in Belgium. Dancers tapped into the darker side of synth pop, and DJs would play 45 rpm records at 33 with the pitch control set to +8. Alain was playing in New Wave bands and had started production work and synth prog...
2019-04-0509 min
darkentriesrecordsLena Platonos - Lepidoptera Remixes EP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lena-platonos-lepidoptera-remixes-ep/
SIDE A
Cyaniris (Anatolian Weapons 6 a.m. Eternal) @anatolianweapons
Araschnia Levana (Pasiphae Remix)@pasiphax
SIDE B
Cyaniris (June Remix)@june
Τα Γενέθλια Ή Aporia Maturna (Morah Remix)@morah-l
Λένα Πλάτωνος (Lena Platonos) is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. Her third solo album, ‘Lepidoptera’ was produced in 1986 and reissued by Dark Entries in 2018. Inspired by a scientific book on butterflies she found in a trashcan one day, the compositions follow minimalistic motifs and carefully-staged soundscapes. Lena narrates each song in deadpan fashion, skillfully reciting her surreal Greek poetry.
We’ve recruited 4 contemporary Greek producers to remix their favorite tracks fro...
2019-03-1406 min
darkentriesrecordsStratis - New Face LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/stratis-new-face-lp/
Stratis is an electronic duo from Cologne, Germany, formed by Antonios Stratis and Albert Klein in 1981. They took inspiration from the progressive electronic synthscapes of Tangerine Dream & Vangelis and the proto-techno of Chris & Cosey and Yello, as well as jazz and funk. The duo recorded 5 cassette-only albums between 1982 and 1986 - Exotic, New Face, Musica da Ballo, Film Musik, and Raging Beauty - which were released on their own label Creative Tapes (later called Temporary Music), and which were also licensed to Colin Potter's Integrated Circuit Records (ICR) label.
We are pleased...
2019-01-1812 min
darkentriesrecordsVictrola - Born From The Water 2xLP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/victrola-born-from-the-water-2xlp/
Victrola is the duo of Antonio "Eze" Cuscinà and Carlo Smeriglio from Messina, Italy. The band formed in 1979 but shortly thereafter relocated to Florence take part in a rich musical scene alongside Neon, Pankow, Alexander Robotnick, and Diaframma. Beginning as a 4-piece (two guitarists, bassist, drummer) they slimmed down to a synthesizer and guitar-based duo by 1982. Their sole release was the now classic ”Maritime Tatami"/"A Game Of Despair" EP from 1983, which we reissued in 2012.
‘Born From The Water’ is a 12 song collection of unreleased demos recorded between 1983 and 1985. The band se...
2019-01-1818 min
darkentriesrecordsRoy Garrett & Man Parrish - Hot Rod To Hell LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/roy-garrett-hot-rod-to-hell-lp/
Roy Garrett born Roy Samber in Newark, New Jersey arrived in New York City hungry to explore the sex and porn scenes he’d seen advertised in the Village Voice’s classified section. He danced in Times Square theaters The Gaiety, Ramrod, and Big Top before moving into adult film. From 1979 through 1983 Garret starred in ten films, five of them for Joe Gage, including his lead role in 'Heatstroke'. Throughout this period of self-discovery, he wrote the suite of 48 poems that became ‘Hot Rod to Hell’. In 1982 he recorded and self-released the poem...
2019-01-1603 min
darkentriesrecordsProcess Blue - Control Panel LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/process-blue-control-panel-lp/
Process Blue was formed in the fall of 1981, at Antioch College near Dayton, Ohio. The group essentially consists of Chel White (tapes, keyboards, percussion) and Dan Gediman (keyboards, vocals, bass). Additional members contributed at various points to both recorded works and live performance. Process Blue's original interest was in electronic music and the interfacing of electronic sounds with acoustic instruments, non-musical instruments, and tape-manipulated sounds. The group's primary objective has been to strive for creative experimentation within the format of contemporary pop music.
We are proud to release a 12-song LP...
2018-12-0718 min
darkentriesrecordsDie Form - Some Experiences With Shock LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/die-form-some-experiences-with-shock-lp/
Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977 as the primary project of electronic musician and multimedia artist Philippe Fichot. He began by recording a number of experimental cassette releases in the late 1970s and formed the Bain Total label to release these early cassettes, as well as various side projects such as Krylon Hertz, Camera Obscura, Eva-Johanna Reichstag, Hurt and Fine Automatic. The name 'Die Form' means '(the) form/shape' in German and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym...
2018-12-0718 min
darkentriesrecordsDrama - Loneliness 2xLP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/drama-loneliness-2xlp/
Drama were the Canadian duo of Eric Simpson (Vocals, Bass Guitar, Guitar) and Don Stagg (Keyboards). Formed in in Mississauga, Ontario in 1978, the pair had previously played together in progressive psych bands Majik and VIIth Temple. Almost every Saturday, Eric and Don would record one song on a TEAC 4 track tape recorder after a couple of takes with very little over dubbing. The pair were influenced by what was playing on the radio during the recording sessions. Everyone else at that time was in a rock or pop band yet...
2018-12-0737 min
darkentriesrecordsCardopusher - Sewer EscapeBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cardopusher-muscle-memory-12-ep/
Born in Venezuela and based in Barcelona, Luis Garban aka Cardopusher @cardopusher has spent the last decade creating a wide variety of noisy dancefloor assaults. Although his roots lie in the breakcore scene, he’s slowly gravitated toward a raw, electro-infused take on techno that is no less compelling. Along the way, he’s released music via labels like Terminal Dusk, Murder Channel, Hyperdub, and Tigerbeat 6, and has also found the time to launch his own Classicworks imprint, which he continues to run alongside co-founder Nehuen. Cardopusher has also forged a re...
2018-11-3006 min
darkentriesrecordsCardopusher - Muscle Memory EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cardopusher-muscle-memory-12-ep/
Born in Venezuela and based in Barcelona, Luis Garban aka Cardopusher has spent the last decade creating a wide variety of noisy dancefloor assaults. Although his roots lie in the breakcore scene, he’s slowly gravitated toward a raw, electro-infused take on techno that is no less compelling. Along the way, he’s released music via labels like Terminal Dusk, Murder Channel, Hyperdub, and Tigerbeat 6, and has also found the time to launch his own Classicworks imprint, which he continues to run alongside co-founder Nehuen. Cardopusher has also forged a rela...
2018-11-3009 min
darkentriesrecordsPhotonz - Etheric Body Music EP snippetsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/photonz-etheric-body-music-ep/
Photonz is the alias of Marco Rodrigues a DJ, producer and driving force of Lisbon's underground scene. For little over a decade now, he's been crafting his own deeply personal style of Portuguese house and techno for labels such as Créme Organization, 20:20 Vision, Don't Be Afraid, Skylax, Unknown To The Unknown and his own One Eyed Jacks. As a DJ, Photonz grew a reputation for deep crates and intensely euphoric sets and in 2017, together with Violet (co-founder at his Radio Quantica) and Lisbon's own Rabbit Hole collective, he started the n...
2018-11-2309 min
darkentriesrecordsPhotonz - ViperidaeBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/photonz-etheric-body-music-ep/
Photonz @photonz is the alias of Marco Rodrigues a DJ, producer and driving force of Lisbon's underground scene. For little over a decade now, he's been crafting his own deeply personal style of Portuguese house and techno for labels such as Créme Organization, 20:20 Vision, Don't Be Afraid, Skylax, Unknown To The Unknown and his own One Eyed Jacks. As a DJ, Photonz grew a reputation for deep crates and intensely euphoric sets and in 2017, together with Violet (co-founder at his Radio Quantica) and Lisbon's own Rabbit Hole collective, he started t...
2018-11-2206 min
darkentriesrecordsSepehr - Body Mechanics EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/sepehr-body-mechanics-ep/
We are excited to release a 6-track EP from San Francisco based DJ, producer, and remixer Sepehr Alimagham. The San Jose native has been a fixture in the Bay Area house and techno scene for quite awhile now — on the dance-floor, behind the decks, in the studio, or all of the above. Early influences like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and post-hardcore bands later in high school started his affinity for off-kilter, underground music. In 2017 he began performing live PA sets, utilizing his immense production backlog to perform vivid and electric se...
2018-11-1509 min
darkentriesrecordsSepehr - Roses + ThornsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/sepehr-body-mechanics-ep/
We are excited to release a 6-track EP from San Francisco based DJ, producer, and remixer Sepehr Alimagham. The San Jose native has been a fixture in the Bay Area house and techno scene for quite awhile now — on the dance-floor, behind the decks, in the studio, or all of the above. Early influences like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and post-hardcore bands later in high school started his affinity for off-kilter, underground music. In 2017 he began performing live PA sets, utilizing his immense production backlog to perform vivid and electric se...
2018-11-1406 min
darkentriesrecordsKittin - Cosmos LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/kittin-cosmos-lp/
Reclaiming her original moniker of Kittin, electroclash pioneer - formerly known as Miss Kittin - presents Cosmos, a continuous twelve-track LP of organic, leftfield electronica due 2 November on Dark Entries. Throughout her illustrious career, Kittin has carved a considerable niche for herself, assimilating references from New Wave and 90s techno to form an inimitable sound that resonates with electronic music fans the world over. Despite being most recognizable with ‘Miss’ before it, Kittin was in fact her original artist name - the prefix often added without her consent at promoter’s will a...
2018-11-0217 min
darkentriesrecordsDavid Javelosa & Baby Buddha - Everyone Is My Age LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/david-javelosa-baby-buddha-everyone-is-my-age/
Baby Buddha is the experimental new wave duo of Charles Hornaday (vocals, guitar, electronics, drums) and David Javelosa (vocals, electronics, clarinet). Born from late night improvisations of San Francisco synth-punks Los Microwaves with a rotating cast of musicians. Live shows would include music, projections, dance and performance art in both clubs and gallery spaces. In 1980, Howie Klein's 415 Records released their first single of Tammy Wynette's “Stand By Your Man”. In 1981, ‘Music For Teenage Sex’ was their first full length album released via Poshboy Records. It featured Los Microwaves’ Meg Brazill, Poshboy boss Robbi...
2018-10-2218 min
darkentriesrecordsStröer Duo - Fluchtweg Madagaskar LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/stroer-duo-fluchtweg-madagaskar-lp/
Hans P. and Ernst Ströer are the Ströer Bros. Based close to Munich, Bavaria, they work as composers, arrangers, musicians, producers and authors, traveling between many different musical worlds. Hans plays bass, guitars and piano, Ernst plays all kinds of drums and percussion. The two of them descended from the wildly expanded jazz brew of the ’70s. In early 1979 Hans went on a six week tour through eleven African countries as a bass player in Jazz guitarist Volker Kriegel’s group Mild Maniac Orchestra. Inspired by his experiences on tour...
2018-10-2118 min
darkentriesrecordsRaw - Fragments EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/raw-fragments-ep/
Raw formed during the summer of 1990 in Athens, Greece when keyboardist Giannis Papaioannou and percussionist Makis Faros started composing music for imaginary waiting rooms. They combined the traditional cut-up technique of tape-loops, the industrial timbres of musique concrète with the harmonics of world music, all filtered through digital sampling and computer programming. Their first recordings generated an 8 track demo, which was freely distributed among friends and the local underground press. After 6 months of work and several sessions with guest musicians on acoustic and electric instruments, Raw self-released their first album ‘Lan...
2018-10-0607 min
darkentriesrecordsEric Random - A Boy Alone 2xLP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/eric-random-a-boy-alone-2xlp/
We are honored to release ‘A Boy Alone’, a double LP set from Manchester electronic music pioneer Eric Random. Best known for his early recordings for New Hormones and Les Disques du Crépuscule and collaborations with Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks), Cabaret Voltaire and Nico. As an original member of The Tiller Boys with Shelley, Random injected a healthy dose of Krautrock into the dour Manchester post-punk scene in 1978/79 before going solo the following year. Random’s first 7” “Subliminal”/“23 Skidoo” was released in 1981 via Les Disques du Crépuscule and explored ominous sonic surr...
2018-09-0915 min
darkentriesrecordsTalking Drums - Courage EP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/talking-drums-courage-ep/
Dark Entries is honored to reissue the debut 12” single ‘Courage’ from Scottish band Talking Drums. Formed in Glasgow in 1981 when Charlie and Dot lived above a pub and discovered their downstairs neighbor, Carol, was a sensational singer. They quickly recruited Stewart on bass and Derek on drums and started gigging. Scotland in the early 80s had a live music scene where unsigned bands could gather a serious following and the band played every major city, helped by catchy, indie-pop tunes and Carol's explosive performances. The recorded their debut album 'Fighting To The Fi...
2018-09-0906 min
darkentriesrecordsBilly Nightmare - Reality Check EP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/billy-nightmare-reality-check-ep/
Digging deep into the Chicago Rave vaults to re-issue the debut EP from Billy Nightmare aka “Mystic Bill” Torres. Growing up in Miami, Bill was involved in various parts of the music industry, from working at Flamingo Record Pool, to playing guitar for the band Life In Sodom (80’s Synth/Goth band). His interest in both House & Industrial music inspired him to make his move to the Windy City. Bill quickly became involved in the night scene with residencies at clubs like Shelter, Crobar, & Smart Bar. His studio work began with a remi...
2018-09-0906 min
darkentriesrecordsBill Converse - Hulled EP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/bill-converse-hulled-ep/
We are pleased to present a 4-track EP from Austin, Texas analogue hardware enthusiast Bill Converse. Immersed in the early days of the 90s midwest rave scene, Bill began DJing at a young age in Lansing, Michigan. Luminaries such as Claude Young, Traxx, and Derrick May were key early influences. Techno, noise, ambient and tape processing are all part of his uncanny sound palette. His debut album ‘Meditations/Industry’ was released on cassette in 2013 and edited for a vinyl release on Dark Entries in 2016 followed by two 12” singles ‘Warehouse Invocation’ and ‘7 of 9’ the sa...
2018-09-0906 min
darkentriesrecordsCyrnai - To Subtle-Drive 2xLP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cyrnai-to-subtle-drive-2xlp/
We are honored to reissue the 4th full-length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, as well...
2018-09-0916 min
darkentriesrecordsCyrnai - Parts Of The Insomnic Wheel 2xLP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cyrnai-parts-of-the-insomnic-wheel-%e2%80%8e2xlp/
We are honored to reissue the 2nd full length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cab...
2018-09-0921 min
darkentriesrecordsCyrnai - Charred Blossoms LP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cyrnai-charred-blossoms-lp/
We are honored to reissue the debut album from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, as well as an...
2018-09-0914 min
darkentriesrecordsJon Krocker - Monolog LP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/jon-krocker-monolog-lp/
We are proud to present the first ever vinyl issue of Jon Krocker’s debut album ‘Monolog’ originally released on cassette in 1983. Jon is from Winnipeg, Canada and got his start as half of the synth noise duo Dialog. In 1981-82, while studying for a BA in Film Studies, he would go to the studio and practice. No writing or patch memories, composing on the fly. His set up consisted of a Minimoog, Oberheim Two Voice, Roland RS-202, Roland Space Echo, EML 400, Roland DR 55, Roland System 100 mixer. After playing some of the so...
2018-09-0912 min
darkentriesrecordsCyrnai - Hypno-Seizure LP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cyrnai-hypno-seizure-%e2%80%8e-lp/
We are honored to reissue the 3rd full length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cabaret...
2018-09-0813 min
darkentriesrecordsPolaroid - Senza Respiro LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/polaroid-senza-respiro-lp/
Polaroid were an Italian post-punk/new wave band, formed in Turin in 1981. The original lineup of the band consisted of Marcello Zavatto (voice, guitar), Massimo Vagnarelli (bass, drum-machine), Evandro Fornasier (guitar), Claudio Vagnarelli (synthersizer) and Marco Farano (Drums). Polaroid made their debut with the cassette 6-track EP ‘Senza Respiro’, self-released in 1984. Influenced by Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, Pere Ubu as well as Chic and Talking Heads. The music was dark and cold, but also melodic especially with regards to guitars and voices. At the end of 1984 the band added vocalist Mich...
2018-08-2015 min
darkentriesrecordsEl Deux + Martin Kraft - Nur Für Mädchen LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/el-deux-martin-kraft-nur-fur-madchen-lp/
El Deux is the Swiss electro-pop trio of Gutze Gautschi (guitar, vocals), Steno Onetz (bass), Martin Kraft (vocals, drum machine). Formed circa 1981 in Aarau by Gutze and Steno who played together in punk/New Wave band Fresh Color aka Frische Farbe featuring a pre-Yello Dieter Meier. Gutze’s minimal electronic compositions did not fit the concept of Fresh Color, so they formed a new project with their live mixer, Martin Kraft, on vocals. The group was quite successful with many concerts, mainly in southern Germany and various TV appearances in Germany an...
2018-08-2015 min
darkentriesrecordsUmo Vogue - Just My Love EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/umo-vogue-just-my-love-ep/
Umo Vogue formed in Bristol by Stig Manley, Russ Crook and Neil Deamer who were in Bath based ska rock outfit ‘The AT’s’, along with Bristol based singer Debbie Marlow. Neil’s Brother Clive joined the band bringing a fantastic new dynamic to the band on drums, percussion and heavy artillery. The band name is a deliberate misspelling of the ultra-chic Italian fashion magazine ‘L’Uomo Vogue’. After winning the Bristol ‘Battle of the Bands’ in 1982 they were signed to Phonogram and dropped a few months later. They then signed to EMI in ’83 and...
2018-08-1907 min
darkentriesrecordsCold Beat - A Simple Reflection EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cold-beat-a-simple-reflection-ep/
Cold Beat is a San Francisco-based quartet fronted by Hannah Lew (synths, vocals) with Kyle King (synths, guitar), Luciano Talpini Aita (synths) and Sean Monaghan (guitar). Formed in 2013 the band has released three albums and two EPs. ‘A Simple Reflection’ is a 7-song collection of Eurythmics covers, yet feels just as personal as any of their original material. While digging through a collection of 12"s for her record shop Contact Records, Lew stumbled across the earliest Eurythmics B-sides and was floored. This lead to the discovery of their debut album ‘In The Ga...
2018-08-1010 min
darkentriesrecordsColin Potter - The StateBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/colin-potter-the-where-house-2xlp/
Colin Potter is a sound engineer and musician currently based in London. He has worked within the fields of electronic and experimental music for over 35 years, collaborating with the likes of Current 93, The Hafler Trio, Organum, Andrew Chalk, and most notably as a key part of Nurse With Wound alongside Steven Stapleton. He started the esteemed ICR (Integrated Circuit Recordings) label in 1981 releasing a clutch of wonderful home recordings of his own, over half a dozen small run cassette only releases.
‘The Where House?’ was recorded in 1981 at IC Studio, a co...
2018-06-2503 min
darkentriesrecordsLena Platonos - Lepidoptera LP snippetsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lena-platonos-lepidoptera-lp/
Lena Platonos is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. She was one of the pioneers in the Greek electronic music scene of the 1980s, and she remains active today. Lena was born on the island of Crete and grew up in Athens. She began learning how to play the piano at the age of two and became a professional pianist before turning eighteen. Soon afterwards, she received a scholarship to study in Vienna and Berlin, where she was exposed to jazz, rock, and Middle Eastern music. She returned to Greece...
2018-05-2113 min
darkentriesrecordsV/A - Outer Himmalayan Presents LP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/v-a-outer-himmalayan-presents-lp/
Dark Entries and Sacred Bones team up to release the early discography of UK synth-punk and Deathrock label Outer Himmalayan Records. Between 1979 and 1982, Nick Blinko and Martin Cooper’s Outer Himmalayan Records released 7-inches by three short-lived bands – The Magits, Soft Drinks, and S-Haters – who would nonetheless cast a massive shadow on the UK’s burgeoning post-punk/anarcho punk scene. Outer Himmalayan Presents collects all of the music found on those original records, along with rare and unreleased tracks by all three bands. It’s a snapshot of a period of frenzied cr...
2018-05-2019 min
darkentriesrecordsColin Potter - The Where House? 2xLP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/colin-potter-the-where-house-2xlp/
Colin Potter is a sound engineer and musician currently based in London. He has worked within the fields of electronic and experimental music for over 35 years, collaborating with the likes of Current 93, The Hafler Trio, Organum, Andrew Chalk, and most notably as a key part of Nurse With Wound alongside Steven Stapleton. He started the esteemed ICR (Integrated Circuit Recordings) label in 1981 releasing a clutch of wonderful home recordings of his own, over half a dozen small run cassette only releases.
‘The Where House?’ was recorded in 1981 at IC Studio, a co...
2018-05-0922 min
darkentriesrecordsINHALT - Commerce EP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/inhalt-commerce-ep/
Dark Entries is proud to release ‘Commerce’, the third EP from San Francisco-based trio INHALT, German for “content”. The group was founded in 2009, and for the purposes of this recording are Matia Simovich, Philip Winiger and Steven Campodonico. INHALT’s core operative strategy is of sonic fidelity and integrity rather than nostalgia. Their first release was a split 12" on World Unknown in 2011 followed by two EPs on Dark Entries, a remix EP on Emotional Especial and a Part Time Punks Session on Cleopatra.
‘Commerce’ is a close examination of the self destructive te...
2018-05-0906 min
darkentriesrecordsRichard Wahnfried - Time Actor 2xLP SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/richard-wahnfried-time-actor-2xlp/
Dark Entries is honored to re-issue one of the greatest and most overlooked albums of the 1970s. "Time Actor" was the result of a collaboration between legendary Crazy World & Kingdom Come visionary Arthur Brown and German synthesizer and ambient genius Klaus Schulze, recording under the pseudonym of his alter-ego Richard Wahnfried. "Richard" is the name of Klaus’ son born in 1979, and the first name of the German composer Wagner. "Wahnfried" is the name of Richard Wagner's house, from the German "wähnen Frieden fand" (that his search and hopes will fin...
2018-05-0812 min
darkentriesrecordsMiss Kittin & The Hacker - Lost Tracks Vol. 2 SNIPPETSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/miss-kittin-the-hacker-lost-tracks-vol-2-ep/
Miss Kittin & The Hacker are the Electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France. The pair met during the early 90s at a rave and soon after bought turntables and began DJing. In 1996, they started writing music heavily influenced by 1980s synthpop and post-punk bands like Fad Gadget, DAF, Liaisons Dangeuresues, and Yazoo, as well as Italo Disco. Bored by the techno scene at the time, they set out out to lighten the serious tone and bring a campy sexiness to the dour musical landscape. Upon hearing t...
2018-04-2506 min
darkentriesrecordsAria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist - Distant Companion LP snippetsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/aria-rostami-daniel-blomquist-distant-companion-lp/
Aria Rostami and Daniel Blomquist are from San Francisco, CA, though Rostami has recently moved to Brooklyn, NY. Rostami and Blomquist's work occurs in two stages: the gathering/preparation of source material and the live performance. Rostami and Blomquist's source material primarily focuses on the exchange of information, repetition and decay, and surrendering aspects of creative control. The source material is either sampled and altered by Blomquist or composed and recorded by Rostami. Sometimes this material is repeatedly passed back and forth to be altered, others, it’s barely touched.
Following pr...
2018-04-0906 min
darkentriesrecordsInstant Music - Instant Music LP snippetsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/instant-music--instant-music-lp/
Instant Music is the trio of Bernd Schöll (Bass, Vocals, Rhythm), Mike Hauer (Guitar, Synth, Percussion), and Marion Siekmann (Vocals) from Munich, Germany. They formed in 1980 after meeting through mutual friends attending the local art and graphic design school. The trio were dissatisfied with their surrounding musical environment. Inspired by the Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, and Giorgio Moroder, they set out to create their own brand of Neue Deutsche Welle fusing Dada, disco, and Krautrock.
Over the course of 2 weeks in Summer 1980 the band teamed up with local producer Mario Str...
2018-04-0909 min
darkentriesrecordsDsorDNE - È Un Sole LP Preview ClipsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/dsordne-e-un-sole-lp/
DsorDNE (pronounced Disordine) is a project from Torino, Italy that evolved as group out of the electronic experimental post punk project Novostj in 1987. At the core of DsorDNE is Marco Milanesio, musical engineer and co-founder of the HAX record label, joined by a revolving cast of musicians. Their spectrum ranged from experimental to structured electro-poetry and Soundtrack like instrumental electronic music. In 1987 they released their first track on a split-single with The Legendary Pink Dots. Between 1987 and 1994 they released 6 full length albums, 3 split-EPs and appeared on various cassette compilations.
È Un Sole (I...
2018-03-1912 min
darkentriesrecordsBézier - Parler Musique 2xLP snippetsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/bezier-parler-musique-2xlp/
Dark Entries is proud to release the debut album from Bézier titled ‘Parler Musique’. Bézier is Taiwanese-American musician Robert Yang who is also part of the Honey Soundsystem crew. A multi-instrumentalist, Robert grew up in Southern California then planted his roots in San Francisco in 2005. Over the years in SF he has built an impressive analog synth-based studio, which also serves as the creative hub for his riveting live performances.
Parler Musique clocks in at over 52 minutes with 8 tracks are spread across four sides for maximum loudness. The album...
2018-03-1212 min
darkentriesrecordsFantasy Life - Over And Over 12" SnippetsBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/fantasy-life-over-and-over-12/
Fantasy Life was a one-off Italo disco studio project that consisted of various producers, songwriters, and vocalists from Turin, Italy. The line-up included Lorenzo Avico, Maurizio Camoletto and Sergio Bergamin. They recorded their only single “Over and Over” at Minirec Studio in 1985 with mixing engineer Gigi Guerrieri. It was released that same year by Thick Record a sublabel of Il Discotto Productions and became one of the most coveted Italo Disco 12”s. “Over and Over” is a parable that describes the story of a girl growing up, comparing her life to the change...
2018-02-2003 min
darkentriesrecordsCute Heel ft Aga Wilk - State of Mind (LA-4A Remix)BUY VINYL: www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cute-heels-featuring-aga-wilk-state-of-mind-12/
Cute Heels is the project of Victor Lenis, a contemporary electronic artist living in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in Bogotá, Columbia during the 1990s, surrounded by the radial punk scene. Over the years, Victor's passion and fascination for synthesizers and drum machines to produce and compose resulted in his debut album “Spiritual" for Dark Entries in 2014 as well as the “Third Skin” EP in 2016. Inspired by equal parts Liaisons Dangereuses, Drexciya and Black Devil Disco Club, Cute Heels connects the dots between Detroit techno, early Chicago house and Belgium electronic body music.
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2018-02-0605 min
darkentriesrecordsCalendar Crowd - Perfect Hideaway EPBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/calendar-crowd-perfect-hideaway-ep/
Calendar Crowd was the duo of Alan Heaton and Terence Tiernan who met in their hometown of Widnes, Cheshire as schoolboys and played together in various bands in the ‘70s. In the ‘80s they formed a 6-piece band called Room For Humans and recorded one single“Telephone Telephone / Girlfriend”. When the band split and Alan and Terence continued as Calendar Crowd in a more experimental direction. Their influences were wide reaching: Kraftwerk, Neu, Cabaret Voltaire, Eno, PIL, and Joy Division.
In 1982 they released their debut single “Perfect Hideaway/Perfect Hideaway Dub” on 7”. Guit...
2018-01-2906 min
darkentriesrecordsIntense Molecular Activity - I. M. A. LP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/intense-molecular-activity-i-m-a-lp/
IMA (Intense Molecular Activity) is the duo of Don Hunerberg (synthesizers) and Andy Blinx (drums and percussion). Based in New York City and active between 1979 and 1982. Don, a studio Sound / music engineer and musician, Andy an electronic clothing designer, drummer and sound reinforcement engineer at downtown clubs like Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club and CBGB. In between doing sessions at Radio City Music Hall Studios for groups such as Ramones, Richard Hell, Sonic Youth, Liquid Liquid, John Zorn, Glenn Branca and many others, IMA took advantage of off hours to create...
2018-01-2912 min
darkentriesrecordsVilla Åbo - Magnetic Moves 2xLP PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/villa-abo-magnetic-moves-2xlp/
Villa Åbo in the alternative solo project of Swedish musician and producer Jan Svensson, who has been making electronic music for the better part of 30 years as the artist behind such aliases as Frak, Studio SS and Alvars Orkestra. Svensson also runs legendary Swedish dance and experimental music label Börft, the product of a mutual appreciation for Severed Heads and Terse Tapes. As Villa Åbo he released two records in 1997 on Börft and remained inactive for 17 years until the Dutch label Bio Rhythm coaxed him into revisiting the proj...
2018-01-2912 min
darkentriesrecordsCute Heels feat Aga Wilk - State of Mind 12" PREVIEW CLIPSBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cute-heels-featuring-aga-wilk-state-of-mind-12/
Cute Heels is the project of Victor Lenis, a contemporary electronic artist living in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in Bogotá, Columbia during the 1990s, surrounded by the radial punk scene. Over the years, Victor's passion and fascination for synthesizers and drum machines to produce and compose resulted in his debut album “Spiritual" for Dark Entries in 2014 as well as the “Third Skin” EP in 2016. Inspired by equal parts Liaisons Dangereuses, Drexciya and Black Devil Disco Club, Cute Heels connects the dots between Detroit techno, early Chicago house and Belgium electronic body mu...
2018-01-2906 min
darkentriesrecordsTrisomie 21 - Chapter IV 2xLP (snippets)BUY VINYL http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/trisomie-21-chapter-iv-2xlp/
Trisomie 21 is a post punk band formed in 1981 by Phillipe Lomprez (vocals, drums) and Hervé Lomprez (guitar, electronics), two brothers from Abscon, in the North of France. They began composing songs at the age of 16 while studying at school. The brothers were influenced by Kraftwerk, The Residents, Yello, P.I.L as well as the films of George A. Romero. Their music consists of lush soundscapes that do not easily fit into any one category. Lyrics are sung in English because in the north of France the duo sought t...
2017-12-1227 min
darkentriesrecordsTrisomie 21 - Wait and Dance LP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/trisomie-21-wait-and-dance-lp/
Trisomie 21 is a post punk band formed in 1981 by Phillipe Lomprez (vocals, drums) and Hervé Lomprez (guitar, electronics), two brothers from Abscon, in the North of France. They began composing songs at the age of 16 while studying at school. The brothers were influenced by Kraftwerk, The Residents, Yello, P.I.L as well as the films of George A. Romero. Their music consists of lush soundscapes that do not easily fit into any one category. Lyrics are sung in English because in the north of France the duo sought to c...
2017-12-1215 min
darkentriesrecordsTrisomie 21 - Passions Divisées LP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/trisomie-21-passions-divisees-lp/
Trisomie 21 is a post punk band formed in 1981 by Phillipe Lomprez (vocals, drums) and Hervé Lomprez (guitar, electronics), two brothers from Abscon, in the North of France. They began composing songs at the age of 16 while studying at school. The brothers were influenced by Kraftwerk, The Residents, Yello, P.I.L as well as the films of George A. Romero. Their music consists of lush soundscapes that do not easily fit into any one category. Lyrics are sung in English because in the north of France the duo sought to c...
2017-12-1212 min
darkentriesrecordsTrisomie 21 - Le Repos Des Enfants Heureux LP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/trisomie-21-le-repos-des-enfants-heureux-lp/
Trisomie 21 is a post punk band formed in 1981 by Phillipe Lomprez (vocals, drums) and Hervé Lomprez (guitar, electronics), two brothers from Abscon, in the North of France. They began composing songs at the age of 16 while studying at school. The brothers were influenced by Kraftwerk, The Residents, Yello, P.I.L as well as the films of George A. Romero. Their music consists of lush soundscapes that do not easily fit into any one category. Lyrics are sung in English because in the north of France the duo sought to c...
2017-12-1213 min
darkentriesrecordsSolid Space - Space Museum LP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/solid-space-space-museum-lp/
Dark Entries is honored to finally present the first ever official vinyl reissue of Space Museum by Solid Space. Solid Space was the British duo of Dan Goldstein (keyboards, vocals) and Matthew 'Maf' Vosburgh (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) formed in 1980. Dan and Matthew met at the age of 11 while attending school in north London. In late 1978 at at the age of 14, they formed Exhibit 'A' with Paul “Platypus” and Andrew “Lunchbox” Bynghall. They recorded two EPs in 1979 and 1980, self-released on Irrelevant Wombat Records and appeared on 'The Thing From The Crypt' compilat...
2017-12-1019 min
darkentriesrecordsRed Axes - Nyx Tape EP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/red-axes-nyx-tape-ep/
Dark Entries is honored to release a 4-track EP by Red Axes, the prolific production duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi from Tel Aviv. The pair were raised on a diet of post-punk, new-wave, and Italo-disco at fogged out warehouse and basement parties. Their own productions and remixes have appeared on labels such as I’m a Cliché, Correspondant, and Hivern Discs. ‘Nyx Tape’ features two new compositions backed with two edits from our catalog. First up is the slick electro anthem “5 Min” another collaboration with French-Canadian born singer Chloé Raunet aka C...
2017-12-0506 min
darkentriesrecordsRobert Rental & Glenn Wallis - Untitled LP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/robert-rental-glenn-wallis-untitled-lp/
Robert Rental was the stage name of Robert Donnachie (1952–2000), a British pioneer of post-punk, DIY, and industrial music. Originally from Port Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s where he met Glenn Michael Wallis. Glenn was recording music with the group Heute and leaving to start his solo projects NKVD and Konstruktivists. Both were heavily involved with Throbbing Gristle and the Industrial Records crew.
In the Summer of 1979, Robert invited Glenn to his studio in Battersea to jam. Robert on guitar and Gl...
2017-12-0505 min
darkentriesrecordsE Myers - Love/Hate 12" (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/e-myers-lovehate-12/
Contemporary producer E. Myers has self released four limited edition white label 12”s since 2015, whilst managing to remain low profile. Whoever they are, we guess they’re huge fans of late 1980s Chicago House, Shep Pettibone, Colourbox and most of our reissues. So much that they asked us to re-release their second 12” ‘Hate / Love’ from 2016 backed with new remix of “Hate” made for Dark Entries. “Love” kicks off the A-side “beats out a wood-cut tattoo of tuff drums rubbed with balloon-squeak synths to sound like Gesloten Cirkel meets Helena Hauff,” said Boomkat. “Hate” is a d...
2017-12-0504 min
darkentriesrecordsThe Hacker Le Théâtre des Opérations 2xLP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/the-hacker-le-theatre-des-operations-2xlp/
We are honored to announce the latest album from Michel Amato aka The Hacker, ‘Le Théâtre des Opérations’. Michel began making music in 1989 a the age of 17 in Grenoble, France. He grew up listening to New Wave bands like Duran Duran, The Cure and Depeche Mode as well as the darker side of electro Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire and D.A.F. In 1990s he released a series of 12” singles and an album of cold, calculating and relentless techno. In 1997 he teamed up with Caroline Herve aka Miss Kittin and to re...
2017-11-1412 min
darkentriesrecordsAlesia Cosmos - Exclusivo! LP (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/alesia-cosmos-exclusivo-lp/
Alésia Cosmos was a collective of musicians led by Bruno de Chénerilles formed in the early 1980s in Strasbourg, France. The group consisted of Pascal Holtzer (guitar, synthesizer, tapes, drum machine, vocals), Pierre Clavreux (vocals, gong), Marie-Berthe Servier (vocals), Bruno (guitar, tapes, synthesizer, drum machine, vocals) and Tunisian percussionist Lotfi Ben Ayed (darbukas, bendir). In 1981 Bruno composed and wrote some sci-fi radio plays for French state radio channel France Culture. Under the influences of William Burroughs, John Cage, Pierre Henry and others, he developed tape music studio work. By 1982 he...
2017-11-0717 min
darkentriesrecordsThe Hacker - Underwater SequenceBUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/the-hacker-le-theatre-des-operations-2xlp
We are honored to announce the latest album from Michel Amato aka The Hacker, ‘Le Théâtre des Opérations’. Michel began making music in 1989 a the age of 17 in Grenoble, France. He grew up listening to New Wave bands like Duran Duran, The Cure and Depeche Mode as well as the darker side of electro Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire and D.A.F. In 1990s he released a series of 12” singles and an album of cold, calculating and relentless techno. In 1997 he teamed up with Caroline Herve aka Miss Kittin and to re...
2017-11-0705 min
darkentriesrecordsSmersh - Sideways 12" (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/smersh-sideways-12/
Dark Entries returns to the New Jersey basement studio of Smersh to unearth an 18-minute jam session from 1989, backed with two contemporary remixes. Smersh was the duo of Mike Mangino and Chris Shepard from Piscataway, NJ who began making music together in 1978. They were uninterested in traditional notions of songwriting or live performance. Between 1981 and 1993 they released over 40 cassette albums on their own Atlas King imprint. As these tapes traded their way across continents, Smersh developed a devoted following in places far beyond New Jersey, leading to releases on dozens of...
2017-11-0604 min
darkentriesrecordsTom Ware - Tom Ware (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/tom-ware-tom-ware-lp/
Tom Ware is a Grammy nominated engineer, producer and musician from Omaha Nebraska. Throughout the 70s and 80s Tom was the drummer for many bands, including Norman & The Rockwells, Toy boat Toy boat Toy boat, and Hit N Run. Because of his love for electronics, mechanics, and machines of any kind, he was always the only one who truly knew how pa systems worked. Tom got an entry level job at a Rainbow Studios and would work at the recording studio during the day, play evening gigs till 2 in the morning...
2017-11-0615 min
darkentriesrecordsTranceonic - New Crime (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/tranceonic-new-crime-lp/
Tranceonic is the duo of Carlos Perón and Boris Blank of Yello who met in 1971 in their hometown of Zürich, Switzerland. At this time Carlos studied Free Jazz while Boris listened to bands like Pink Floyd and Queen. The two bonded over a conversation about The Mahavishnu Orchestra album ‘The Inner Mounting Flame’ and became musical friends. From 1973 to 1976 they played in the New Wave group Urland. After the split of the group Perón founded the Tranceonic studio with his equipment in his private flat. Carlos invited Boris over to...
2017-11-0616 min
darkentriesrecordsSmersh - Sideways (JTC Remix)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/smersh-sideways-12/
Dark Entries returns to the New Jersey basement studio of Smersh to unearth an 18-minute jam session from 1989, backed with two contemporary remixes. Smersh was the duo of Mike Mangino and Chris Shepard from Piscataway, NJ who began making music together in 1978. They were uninterested in traditional notions of songwriting or live performance. Between 1981 and 1993 they released over 40 cassette albums on their own Atlas King imprint. As these tapes traded their way across continents, Smersh developed a devoted following in places far beyond New Jersey, leading to releases on dozens of...
2017-11-0505 min
darkentriesrecordsPeppermint Lounge - Perfect High (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/peppermint-lounge-perfect-high-12/
Dark Entries Editions is proud to reissue "Perfect High" the 1983 debut 12” by Peppermint Lounge from Germany. The group consisted of Matthias Elvers (synthesizers, bass), Regina Petersen (vocals) and Jorg Burckhardt (drums, strings). They took their name from a popular 1960s discotheque in New York City. Treading the lines between Italo Disco, Electro, and New Wave, the trio crafted a unique sound difficult to classify. Regina’s powerful vocals command attention as they tell the sad tale of a boy searching for the perfect high. The lyrics are based on the poem “The Pe...
2017-11-0503 min
darkentriesrecordsVirginia - Blue Pyramid 12" (snippets)BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/virginia-blue-pyramid-12/
Dark Entries and Emotional Rescue team up to further explore Psychic TV’s Acid House years. Psychic TV was formed by Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle with Alex Fergusson of Alternative TV in 1981. After various line up changes, the band shifted direction to dance oriented songs influenced by the House and Techno scenes of Detroit and Chicago. By 1988 the group included Dave Ball of Soft Cell, Fred Giannelli of Turning Shrines and Matthew Best of Carcrash International. During the summer of 1988 the group recorded a batch of songs at...
2017-11-0506 min