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  Snowy Red - Snowy Red [12 001 BEL 1981 24-Bit 48.0kHz FLAC] This is a re-post of a file originally ripped for Needle Time in July 2019. I know I said I would only be giving space to re-posts in the run up to Christmas, but I thought that many may have missed this first time around, and you should understand its significance with the very next post, later today, which will not be a re-post. Firstly, please do not confuse Snowy Red with drizzly eighties soft-rock artist Snowy White. Snowy Red was the Belgian electronic post-punk pioneer Marcel Thiel who released a barrage of minimal electronic albums & singles between 1981 and 1984 before moving into more collaborative work. This is his debut ripped from a very rare original pressing so please excuse the occasional light crackle in places.   There will be obvious comparisons with early Cabaret Voltaire, however under the pseudonym of Mikey Mike, this album was only recorded on a two-track reel-to-reel, check out the ...

Carol - Breakdown [WYS-012 BEL 2017 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released on Dirty Dance Records in 1981, here's the limited repress of the classic minimal synth/coldwave single backed with the wonderfully gloomy So Low from Carol, who also fronted Belgian new wave synth-popsters, Rive Gauche. Knob twiddling is courtesy of Mikey Mike who has also appeared on these very pages as Snowy Red . A1 Breakdown B1 So Low

Snowy Red - Snowy Red [12 001 BEL 1981 24-Bit FLAC] Firstly, please do not confuse Snowy Red with drizzly eighties soft-rock artist Snowy White. Snowy Red was the Belgian electronic post-punk pioneer Marcel Thiel who released a barrage of minimal electronic albums & singles between 1981 and 1984 before moving into more collaborative work. This is his debut ripped from a very rare original pressing so please excuse the occasional light crackle in places.   There will be obvious comparisons with early Cabaret Voltaire, however under the pseudonym of Mikey Mike, this album was only recorded on a two-track reel-to-reel, check out the eight minute centre piece,  The Wild Boys . Tracks such as  How Funny Are Those Explosions and  Still Human are way ahead of their time with pumping electro beats, others are more stripped back, with the occasional nod to Suicide, especially Baby Tonight which is dedicated to the US electronic duo. I dare anybody...