![]() In order to sound 'cold' the various bands and musicians featured on this celebrated compilation utilised relatively simple sonic effects - echo, reverb, flangers, hummings at 50 Hz - yet 30 years later mostly sound way ahead of their time" ( France Musique, 01/2014) "Cold wave was a musical genre unlike any other, embracing punk, experimental, industrial and electronic styles. This is an idiosyncratic account of post-punk electronica and its aftermath, often furiously uneven and without joy, but there are flashes of deeply perplexing, fevered energy hidden in the gloom" ( The Wire, 04/2014) Vocal Expression by Nausea consists of two elements that sound alienated from each other - Young Marble Giants-style meek as a kitten synthesiser and psychotic monologue - placed so low in the mix you can't tell if it's twisting around your turntable or the inside of your head. Pseudo Code is a fascinating anomaly, a piece of decaying industrial music made out of creepily distorted drone fog and footsteps that stretches on for eight minutes, repeatedly disintegrating and resuming its haunting progress like a bored ghoul. Kyoto by Polyphonic Size constructs a hazy collage from fragments of Japanese speech, lulling chimes and distant engine roar. Alienation is the prevailing theme, though the lo-fi instrumental pieces are fragile and seductive. "In its expanded state B9 transforms from a spiky little communique to a lucid overview, following the scene as it slinks calmly away from sinister industrial impulses into the lustrous commercial zone of new wave. To order please first select correct shipping option (UK, Europe or Rest of World) and then click on Add To Cart button below cover image, or else contact LTM by email for other payment methods (including tracked shipping). THE NEON JUDGEMENT Factory Walk (live)Īvailable on double gatefold vinyl and CD. If you order a copy of the vinyl direct from LTM you will also receive a bonus CD copy of B9.ġ0. The current edition is pressed on red and blue vinyl (500 copies) and includes detailed liner notes and period images. The cover art is by Victor Vasarely, based on a 1981 poster design for The First Belgian Rhythm Box Contest. Mostly taken from rare singles, these include songs by The Names, Marine, Front 242, The Neon Judgement, Siglo XX, Allez Allez, Berntholer, Nausea, Jung and Isolation Ward. Now issued on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, with revised artwork, this deluxe edition features ten additional tracks by other Belgian artists. Originally issued by Sandwich Records in May 1981, B9 featured ten exclusive tracks by a range of diverse electronic and underground artists including Digital Dance, Polyphonic Size, Kid Montana, Pseudo Code and Prothese - the latter the first recording project by Daniel Bressanutti of Front 242. This deluxe 2xLP coloured vinyl edition of popular compilation album B9 offers a comprehensive overview of post-punk and cold wave music produced in Belgium between 19. ![]() Various Artists \ B9: Belgian Cold Wave 1979-1983
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