Have you heard of
Desire Records? Have you heard of cassettes? How old are you anyway? Yeah like I am just about old enough to remember them - ok, ok I am
DEFINETELY old enough, I used them goddammit, for a long time during my childhood in the late 80's early 90's before switching to Minidisc (there's a thought when will
they be making a comeback?).
Anyway, I digress, I just though I'd let you know that Cassettes are still in use people, and there are even labels that are producing brand new music (great underground independent music!) that is available on cassette only. I mean this is exclusive shit you guys so dig out your old walkman and head on over to Desire Records to pick up a copy of one of the following;
//TENSE//
Memory+
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limited edition cassette - 75 copies only - C90
This very limited edition cassette (pro-dubbed, 75 copies only), called Memory+, contains the full album on the A side and 7 exclusive and unreleased remixes on the B side by Soft Metals, White Car, T. Grave (Blessure Grave, Soft Kills, Group Hex), Death In Plains, Kris Komakino (Project:Komakino, Opus), NTRSN. Black printed on thick black paper, cream case, white tape.
side A
1 - Work Hard Short Life
2 - Sin Realite
3 - Perpetual Swim
4 - Mine Too
5 - Lost Race
6 - Empty Handed
7 - The Visitor
8 - Lead Head
9 - Living Dream
10 - Rapid Pulse
side B
1 - Work Hard Short Life (White Car Ephemeral Employment Mix)
2 - Sin Realite (DEATH IN PLAINs Remix)
3 - Mine Too (Soft Metals Remix Version 2)
4 - Work Hard Short Life (Don't Do it Remix by T. Grave)
5 - Perpetual Swim (Perpetual Sinking Remix by T. Grave)
6 - Work Hard Short Life (NTRSN Remix)
7 - Sin Realite (Real Sin Remix - Kris Komakino)
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Demontré
Masculin/Féminin
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limited edition cassette - 60 copies only - C60
It includes an unreleased and exclusive long track recorded in rehearsal. 60 copies only, pro-dubbed yellow cassette, full color artwork printed on tracing paper!
side A
1 - The Vale Of Health (Part 1)
2 - The Vale Of Health (Part 2)
3 - Brandenburg
4 - Lorenheim
5 - Wholly Communion
6 - White Feather Letter
7 - The Lion King
side B
1 - Fauns
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Dark, No Black volume 1
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limited edition - 100 copies only - C50
The artwork is signed by French artist/musician/journalist/blogger Joseph Ghosn aka Discipline, the mix has been done by UK finest Spun Djs. It includes 14 tracks: some from the desire back catalogue and some from forthcoming releases.
side A:
Soft Metals - Hot On The Heels Of Love / //TENSE// - 9am / Project:Komakino - Syndrome (Eros Mix) / Ike Yard - Oshima Cassette / The Present Movement - Emily / Loom 11 - Artifacts / Kasms - Ode To Millers
side B:
Televised Crimewave - Hotel America / Ike Yard - Robot Steppes / deathday party - Cold Room (demo version) / //TENSE// - Versus Man (remix) / deathday party - Chaos Reigns (demo version) / Der Ventilator - Waves / Demontré - Brandenburg
Jerome is Label boss at Desire Records. He also works for Official.fm. If you want to know more about Desire then check out their label page on Official.fm. There are loads of tracks to listen to and buy and you'll find the links to the Desire store too where you can buy Cassettes and Records and T-Shirts and CD's. Now over to Jerome and his Top 5 albums of 2011.
