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01. Tesco Bombers - Break the Ice at Parties
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02. Sexy Terrorist - Sara Goes Pop
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03. People in Motion - When It's War
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04. Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires - C'est Fab
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05. The Distributors - TV Me
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06. Dorothy - Softness
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07. Thomas Leer - Private Plane
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08. Visitors - Electric Heat
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09. The Murphy Federation - Fed Up Skank
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10. The Distributors - Never Never
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11. The Cro-Tones - Tea Machine Dub
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12. Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows
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13. Spunky Onions - How I Lost My Virginity
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15. The Prats - Disco Pope
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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
[Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982)
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
OPTIMO MUSIC
CATALOG #
OMDIY 001B-LP
OMDIY 001B-LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2015
Limited 2016 repress.
[Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982)
collects 15 UK 7" singles recorded between 1978 and 1982, compiled by
JD Twitch
to showcase the DIY spirit of those times. "If Punk was the nuclear detonation, the fallout that came after was where a lot of the most interesting music of that era was made. People who would never have thought to release a record before realised it was something they could do, and the end result was a DIY explosion. I've always loved music that doesn't try to fit in a particular genre, that is anti-canonical and doesn't care what else is going on in music at that time, that takes risks and is full of imagination and ideas that may or may not make any logical sense but that resulted in something unique, that ignores conventions about how a record SHOULD be produced and that was created simply because its creators felt the urge to express themselves and share the results with some other people. This compilation compiles 15 tracks that fulfil all those criteria. None of them had any success, most are (unjustly) obscure but every one of them has inspired me and would be in my ultimate 7" singles box" --JD Twitch. This release has been a real labor of love, involving tracing long-lost artists to far-flung corners of the globe, persuading them that the modern world needs to hear the music they made several decades ago, tracking down masters -- lovingly restoring 7"s in place of lost masters in some cases -- and conceiving an elaborate package with detailed sleeve notes to house the double album. Unfortunately, the original choice of title for this release infringed on the copyright of a series of well-known pop compilations released by a certain major label. They sent a cease and desist letter (hence the title of this edition), and did not accept proposed modifications to the original sleeves, so this edition is released in a more conventional package than was intended. Gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves containing sleeve notes and detailed overviews of each individual track by JD Twitch and an introduction by New York's DIY expert
Dan Selzer
. Includes tracks by
Tesco Bombers
,
Sara Goes Pop
,
People in Motion
,
Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires
,
The Distributors
,
Dorothy
,
Thomas Leer
,
Visitors
,
The Murphy Federation
,
The Cro-Tones
,
Fatal Microbes
,
Spunky Onions
,
The Fakes
, and
The Prats
.
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