Darkwave

"This is an anthology, a selection of old and new. It's a collection of the past but moving forward. It's past and future." Dark Arts is one of those bands that for some reason got lost in the shuffle. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, by a man named Bob Katt, the "cool, older guy" who went to all the concerts in town and had been in a bunch of other bands. Initially there were five members: in '83 there was Bob on bass and percussion, singer Sue Ann Mason, drummer Dave Green, Bill Bruner on guitar and Stephanie Payne on keyboard. Katt is the one who brought everyone together and came up with the name: they were the 'art' band and they were 'dark'. Keyboard player Stephanie Payne, just like Katt, was also present at every musical happening.  Reflections In A Rear View Mirror by Dark Arts

NEP was a loose multimedia collective formed in 1982 Zagreb, ex-Yugoslavia. The founder Dejan Krsic collaborated with various artists in a quest of re-thinking the stale concepts of art history, position of the author and the barriers between pop and elitist high culture. A1 Novi Poredak (Auguri) A2 Velika Magija A3 Novi Poredak (Metal Mix) A4 How Do I Dance To This Music? B1 Decadance (Album Version) B2 Transcendance B3 Radical Chic B4 Proljetna Pjesma

Heavy stuff. Snippets: HERE Following up Batozsek's four slices on Vol 2, Ecdisis Vol 3 is fresh and ready to wreak some havoc. Some familiar names from the first volume of these series return for the third instalment as well as an otherworldly figure in the electronic music world.

Welcome to the seductive groove of Nonetheless, a new duo formed of Florian Bocksrucker and Felix Bergleiter, and the first LP on Neubau. A1 Machine Of Love & Hate A2 Belzeflute B1 Antipop B2 Cayotte C1 Epik C2 Exclusion Zone D1 Velvet D2 Thanksgiving

Deep, somber vocals filled with sorrow and anger cap it all. 45 rpm 12" vinyl + insert. A press of 500 on  Avant! Records.   Until Next Morning The Snake Has Bitten Its Tail HeartbeatTo Never, Forever