Vinyl Stream # 3 and # 4 / Cassette Update (Patreon)

Zdravo Comrades!

On Friday I'll be streaming a lost classic: Jon Foxx's brilliant Metamatic.  Released in 1980, it's the first album he made after leaving Ultravox (who would go on to stratospheric pop success with "Vienna" the same year) and it would quietly set a blueprint for an entire movement of JG Ballard obsessed synth nerds. This record was a big influence on my early attempts at drum programming and it's something i like to return to when I'm thinking about minimalism and a little thing I like to call Purity of Intent.  It's also cartoonishly 80s in very specifically damp, British sort of way. 

AND THEN...

On Tuesday, Devjoka will be presenting the majestic and often ignored Dazzle Ships by OMD.  I'm not going to spoil it with background but...this album is an absolute all timer with a very strange backstory.  

Quick update on the Radiant Dusk cassettes...they're done! The manufacturing plant finally moved through the backorders they started logging at the beginning of the pandemic.  Art and inserts are being printed today and we should have them shipping by Monday.  The second photo here is a small piece of the back panel fold out.  We've never gotten to really go all out on cassette packaging before and I'm pretty excited to start doing more releases like this for you all...it's essentially like having a micro label.

Finally, I want to thank you all again for subscribing and helping us grow this out into something more than just a place to post new material.  We've said it before but...the loss of touring as a way to connect with people, to get some kind of positive catharsis out of the art we make, to be able to physically be in a room and have a shared experience for a few hours...it's been rough.  Elements and facets of this keep revealing themselves to me in strange ways as time goes on BUT...having this space to create music, share new stuff with you (and have income flowing to let us KEEP doing this) means everything to me.  So thank you all.  Hope you're all staying sane and healthy and we'll see you on Friday at 8pm EDT.

-DB