Label: Not On Label – VPAG-4504 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1988 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental
Fully STUNNED by this dead-stock excavation executed by Portland’s uber-digger, Concentric Circles label boss and one time Tabi Tapes contributor Jed Bindeman - the sole 1988 private self-release from Boston’s Darline Victor.Discogs informs that Victor did a stint in the mid-late 80’s with US EBM / Industrial group Sleep Chamber before knocking out this self-titled release and then seemingly just packing it all in.It forges an irresistible mix of ridged / staccato drum programming and sullen yet FUNKY basslines with added shimmers of rhythm guitar and just the right amount of gothy / industrial undertones.The detached / canned drum machine immediately recalled A Produce’s ‘The Clearing’ LP, which came out in the same year - but there’s very little about this that sounds dated, whilst there’s some echos of Pink Industry in the early electro / proto-techno feel, albeit somewhat harsher.Mad, yet comforting to know, that stuff like this is still out there to be found.. only have a few!(NM/NM - with insert)
Tracklist A1 The Gate A2 Positive Attraction A3 #84 (Dance!) Extended B1 Minus The Logic B2 Art Before Death B3 History Repeats/Once Again
