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Since his debut album "Transsiberian", Thylacine has developed a taste for composing through travel, an initiatory project that led him to compose during his journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A seminal album that allowed the young electro prodigy to make a name for himself on the electronic scene.
With the aim to combine music and image and to make us discover his world through travel, Thylacine has continued to climb the ladder and has racked up no less than 121 million streams. Whether it's "Anatolia", "Olatu", or "War Dance", Thylacine has made a name for himself by writing real hits.
Through "9 Pieces ", Thylacine wanted to pay tribute to some iconic tracks that are currently only released digitally and independently and to let us discover his new compositions, all of which are just as transporting and refreshing. His new opus "9 Pieces" will contain unreleased tracks from his latest travels and encounters, pieces to be assembled in order to reconstitute a puzzle and immerse oneself in the universe of Thylacine.
Like this object, each musical piece will find its place alongside his greatest hits. "9 Pieces" will be released the 21st of October on Intuitive Records.




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Since his debut album "Transsiberian", Thylacine has developed a taste for composing through travel, an initiatory project that led him to compose during his journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A seminal album that allowed the young electro prodigy to make a name for himself on the electronic scene.
With the aim to combine music and image and to make us discover his world through travel, Thylacine has continued to climb the ladder and has racked up no less than 121 million streams. Whether it's "Anatolia", "Olatu", or "War Dance", Thylacine has made a name for himself by writing real hits.
Through "9 Pieces ", Thylacine wanted to pay tribute to some iconic tracks that are currently only released digitally and independently and to let us discover his new compositions, all of which are just as transporting and refreshing. His new opus "9 Pieces" will contain unreleased tracks from his latest travels and encounters, pieces to be assembled in order to reconstitute a puzzle and immerse oneself in the universe of Thylacine.
Like this object, each musical piece will find its place alongside his greatest hits. "9 Pieces" will be released the 21st of October on Intuitive Records.

A1. Polar
A2. Anatolia
A3. Duduk
A4. Olatu

B1. War Dance
B2. Pleyel
B3. Night Train
B4. Versailles


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Following the release of the second volume of Roads from the french electronic prodige Thylacine, Intuitive Records presents a deluxe version with Roads Vol 1 & 2, coming in a 2LP slipcase including 7 posters.


This boxed set retraces the two journeys of the prodigy of the French electro scene in his Airstream caravan transformed into a mobile studio. Vol.1 was recorded on the roads of the Andes Cordillera and Vol.2 in the Faroe Islands, drawing inspiration from Moderat eerie, Jon Hopkins textures and Paul Kalkbrenner power.

Tracklist Roads Vol 1:

A/1. Murga

A/2. Purmamarca

A/3. El Alba

A/4. The Road

A/5. Volver

B/6. 4500m

B/7. Condor

B/8. Sal Y Tierra

B/9. Santa Barbara

B/10. 30 (Outro)

Tracklist Roads Vol 2:

A/1. Alda
A/2. Saksun

B/3. Eysturoy





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As a follow-up to the Roads series, it is in the Faroe Islands that the prodigy of the French electro scene, Thylacine, decided to record his new EP on board his Airstream caravan.

This Vol 2 is the continuation of a creative journey, the story of which begins on board the Transsiberian, the famous train that links Moscow to Vladivostok where he recorded his first album (2015), which revealed him to the scene.

He continued his journey with the Airstream caravan, transformed into a mobile studio and with which he travelled along the Andes Mountains on the Argentinean side to write his second album, Roads Vol.1.

These four new tracks tell the story of the wild and powerful environment of the Faroe Islands. Eysturoy subtly combines the aerial melodies of Moderat with the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner. The amazing voice of the Faroese diva Eivør.
Saksun transports into Nordic atmospheres with the presence of strings in an ethereal and minimalist style.

Stormur is reminiscent of the hypnotic tablecloths of a Jon Hopkins. Alda projects a bewitching electronica where Thylacine's favourite instrument, the saxophone, mixes with the sound of the waves.




Tracklist

A1. Saksun

A2. Alda

B1. Eysturoy (feat. Eivør)

B2. Stormur





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Second LP from French electronic talent Thylacine
Regardless of whether or not the thylacine, a species of marsupial with a tiger-striped back, still lives
in Tasmania or not, it is in Argentina that this young star of the French electro scene decided to
record his second album. To create a follow up to Transsiberian, his brilliant first album that he
recorded in 2015 aboard the train that links Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé, aka Thylacine,
bought a 1972 trailer, one of the famous all-aluminum Airstreams.
After painstakingly transforming the trailer into a recording studio, he put his beautiful American on
a freighter across the Atlantic and got it back a month later in Buenos Aires.
He was drawn to South America by the pull of the unknown, the absolute absence of reference. He
wanted to immerse himself in desert and lunar landscapes, explore multicolored canyons, sand
dunes, giant cacti forests, snow-capped peaks... and write, alone, in the intimacy of his nomadic
studio.
After making stops in the middle of nowhere, he returned with ten tracks that marvelously combine
Moderat's aerial melodies, the solar touch of Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner.
His electronica is often laden with saxophone—his instrument of choice, which he started playing at
the age of 6 at a conservatory—and features vocals from Julia Minkin (of Kid Francescoli), Clara
Trucco (a member of the trio Femina), and Juana Molina, "considered the Argentinian Björk," says
Thylacine.
Mission accomplished: the young Angevin's vaporous layers are tinged with charango, a local
instrument, and melodies inspired by traditional Argentinian songs. "I wanted to go back to a music
with a more acoustic sound."
And the tracks follow one another, telling the story of his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotizing “The
Road” expresses the miles of road traveled; the captivating tale of “Santa Barbara” evokes the close
ties between inhabitants of a tiny village in the Andes; and the rhythm of “4500 m,” cut by the flow of
the American rapper J. Medeiros, recalls the high desert where Thylacine once had to sleep, forced to
stop for the night by storms of a rare intensity.
Three months and ten thousand kilometers later, this "concept album" is ready; it's called Roads vol.
1, and it’s the first installment of a collection that the 26-year-old Thylacine expects to add to as he
continues his travels. His itinerant studio, ingeniously equipped with solar panels, will take him,
hopefully, very far.
Tracklist
1. Murga
2. Purmamarca
3. El Alba
4. The Road
5. Volver
6. 4500m
7. Condor
8. Sal y Tierra
9. Santa Barbara
10. 30

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Second LP from French electronic talent Thylacine
Regardless of whether or not the thylacine, a species of marsupial with a tiger-striped back, still lives
in Tasmania or not, it is in Argentina that this young star of the French electro scene decided to
record his second album. To create a follow up to Transsiberian, his brilliant first album that he
recorded in 2015 aboard the train that links Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé, aka Thylacine,
bought a 1972 trailer, one of the famous all-aluminum Airstreams.
After painstakingly transforming the trailer into a recording studio, he put his beautiful American on
a freighter across the Atlantic and got it back a month later in Buenos Aires.
He was drawn to South America by the pull of the unknown, the absolute absence of reference. He
wanted to immerse himself in desert and lunar landscapes, explore multicolored canyons, sand
dunes, giant cacti forests, snow-capped peaks... and write, alone, in the intimacy of his nomadic
studio.
After making stops in the middle of nowhere, he returned with ten tracks that marvelously combine
Moderat's aerial melodies, the solar touch of Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner.
His electronica is often laden with saxophone—his instrument of choice, which he started playing at
the age of 6 at a conservatory—and features vocals from Julia Minkin (of Kid Francescoli), Clara
Trucco (a member of the trio Femina), and Juana Molina, "considered the Argentinian Björk," says
Thylacine.
Mission accomplished: the young Angevin's vaporous layers are tinged with charango, a local
instrument, and melodies inspired by traditional Argentinian songs. "I wanted to go back to a music
with a more acoustic sound."
And the tracks follow one another, telling the story of his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotizing “The
Road” expresses the miles of road traveled; the captivating tale of “Santa Barbara” evokes the close
ties between inhabitants of a tiny village in the Andes; and the rhythm of “4500 m,” cut by the flow of
the American rapper J. Medeiros, recalls the high desert where Thylacine once had to sleep, forced to
stop for the night by storms of a rare intensity.
Three months and ten thousand kilometers later, this "concept album" is ready; it's called Roads vol.
1, and it’s the first installment of a collection that the 26-year-old Thylacine expects to add to as he
continues his travels. His itinerant studio, ingeniously equipped with solar panels, will take him,
hopefully, very far.
Tracklist
1. Murga
2. Purmamarca
3. El Alba
4. The Road
5. Volver
6. 4500m
7. Condor
8. Sal y Tierra
9. Santa Barbara
10. 30

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Since his debut album "Transsiberian", Thylacine has developed a taste for composing through travel, an initiatory project that led him to compose during his journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A seminal album that allowed the young electro prodigy to make a name for himself on the electronic scene.
With the aim to combine music and image and to make us discover his world through travel, Thylacine has continued to climb the ladder and has racked up no less than 121 million streams. Whether it's "Anatolia", "Olatu", or "War Dance", Thylacine has made a name for himself by writing real hits.
Through "9 Pieces ", Thylacine wanted to pay tribute to some iconic tracks that are currently only released digitally and independently and to let us discover his new compositions, all of which are just as transporting and refreshing. His new opus "9 Pieces" will contain unreleased tracks from his latest travels and encounters, pieces to be assembled in order to reconstitute a puzzle and immerse oneself in the universe of Thylacine.
Like this object, each musical piece will find its place alongside his greatest hits. "9 Pieces" will be released the 21st of October on Intuitive Records.

A1. Polar
A2. Anatolia
A3. Duduk
A4. Olatu

B1. War Dance
B2. Pleyel
B3. Night Train
B4. Versailles


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Since his debut album "Transsiberian", Thylacine has developed a taste for composing through travel, an initiatory project that led him to compose during his journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A seminal album that allowed the young electro prodigy to make a name for himself on the electronic scene.
With the aim to combine music and image and to make us discover his world through travel, Thylacine has continued to climb the ladder and has racked up no less than 121 million streams. Whether it's "Anatolia", "Olatu", or "War Dance", Thylacine has made a name for himself by writing real hits.
Through "9 Pieces ", Thylacine wanted to pay tribute to some iconic tracks that are currently only released digitally and independently and to let us discover his new compositions, all of which are just as transporting and refreshing. His new opus "9 Pieces" will contain unreleased tracks from his latest travels and encounters, pieces to be assembled in order to reconstitute a puzzle and immerse oneself in the universe of Thylacine.
Like this object, each musical piece will find its place alongside his greatest hits. "9 Pieces" will be released the 21st of October on Intuitive Records.




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As a follow-up to the Roads series, it is in the Faroe Islands that the prodigy of the French electro scene, Thylacine, decided to record his new EP on board his Airstream caravan.

This Vol 2 is the continuation of a creative journey, the story of which begins on board the Transsiberian, the famous train that links Moscow to Vladivostok where he recorded his first album (2015), which revealed him to the scene.

He continued his journey with the Airstream caravan, transformed into a mobile studio and with which he travelled along the Andes Mountains on the Argentinean side to write his second album, Roads Vol.1.

These four new tracks tell the story of the wild and powerful environment of the Faroe Islands. Eysturoy subtly combines the aerial melodies of Moderat with the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner. The amazing voice of the Faroese diva Eivør.
Saksun transports into Nordic atmospheres with the presence of strings in an ethereal and minimalist style.

Stormur is reminiscent of the hypnotic tablecloths of a Jon Hopkins. Alda projects a bewitching electronica where Thylacine's favourite instrument, the saxophone, mixes with the sound of the waves.




Tracklist

A1. Saksun

A2. Alda

B1. Eysturoy (feat. Eivør)

B2. Stormur





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Following the release of the second volume of Roads from the french electronic prodige Thylacine, Intuitive Records presents a deluxe version with Roads Vol 1 & 2, coming in a 2LP slipcase including 7 posters.


This boxed set retraces the two journeys of the prodigy of the French electro scene in his Airstream caravan transformed into a mobile studio. Vol.1 was recorded on the roads of the Andes Cordillera and Vol.2 in the Faroe Islands, drawing inspiration from Moderat eerie, Jon Hopkins textures and Paul Kalkbrenner power.

Tracklist Roads Vol 1:

A/1. Murga

A/2. Purmamarca

A/3. El Alba

A/4. The Road

A/5. Volver

B/6. 4500m

B/7. Condor

B/8. Sal Y Tierra

B/9. Santa Barbara

B/10. 30 (Outro)

Tracklist Roads Vol 2:

A/1. Alda
A/2. Saksun

B/3. Eysturoy





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Second LP from French electronic talent Thylacine
Regardless of whether or not the thylacine, a species of marsupial with a tiger-striped back, still lives
in Tasmania or not, it is in Argentina that this young star of the French electro scene decided to
record his second album. To create a follow up to Transsiberian, his brilliant first album that he
recorded in 2015 aboard the train that links Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé, aka Thylacine,
bought a 1972 trailer, one of the famous all-aluminum Airstreams.
After painstakingly transforming the trailer into a recording studio, he put his beautiful American on
a freighter across the Atlantic and got it back a month later in Buenos Aires.
He was drawn to South America by the pull of the unknown, the absolute absence of reference. He
wanted to immerse himself in desert and lunar landscapes, explore multicolored canyons, sand
dunes, giant cacti forests, snow-capped peaks... and write, alone, in the intimacy of his nomadic
studio.
After making stops in the middle of nowhere, he returned with ten tracks that marvelously combine
Moderat's aerial melodies, the solar touch of Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner.
His electronica is often laden with saxophone—his instrument of choice, which he started playing at
the age of 6 at a conservatory—and features vocals from Julia Minkin (of Kid Francescoli), Clara
Trucco (a member of the trio Femina), and Juana Molina, "considered the Argentinian Björk," says
Thylacine.
Mission accomplished: the young Angevin's vaporous layers are tinged with charango, a local
instrument, and melodies inspired by traditional Argentinian songs. "I wanted to go back to a music
with a more acoustic sound."
And the tracks follow one another, telling the story of his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotizing “The
Road” expresses the miles of road traveled; the captivating tale of “Santa Barbara” evokes the close
ties between inhabitants of a tiny village in the Andes; and the rhythm of “4500 m,” cut by the flow of
the American rapper J. Medeiros, recalls the high desert where Thylacine once had to sleep, forced to
stop for the night by storms of a rare intensity.
Three months and ten thousand kilometers later, this "concept album" is ready; it's called Roads vol.
1, and it’s the first installment of a collection that the 26-year-old Thylacine expects to add to as he
continues his travels. His itinerant studio, ingeniously equipped with solar panels, will take him,
hopefully, very far.
Tracklist
1. Murga
2. Purmamarca
3. El Alba
4. The Road
5. Volver
6. 4500m
7. Condor
8. Sal y Tierra
9. Santa Barbara
10. 30

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Second LP from French electronic talent Thylacine
Regardless of whether or not the thylacine, a species of marsupial with a tiger-striped back, still lives
in Tasmania or not, it is in Argentina that this young star of the French electro scene decided to
record his second album. To create a follow up to Transsiberian, his brilliant first album that he
recorded in 2015 aboard the train that links Moscow to Vladivostok, William Rezé, aka Thylacine,
bought a 1972 trailer, one of the famous all-aluminum Airstreams.
After painstakingly transforming the trailer into a recording studio, he put his beautiful American on
a freighter across the Atlantic and got it back a month later in Buenos Aires.
He was drawn to South America by the pull of the unknown, the absolute absence of reference. He
wanted to immerse himself in desert and lunar landscapes, explore multicolored canyons, sand
dunes, giant cacti forests, snow-capped peaks... and write, alone, in the intimacy of his nomadic
studio.
After making stops in the middle of nowhere, he returned with ten tracks that marvelously combine
Moderat's aerial melodies, the solar touch of Nicola Cruz, and the techno power of Paul Kalkbrenner.
His electronica is often laden with saxophone—his instrument of choice, which he started playing at
the age of 6 at a conservatory—and features vocals from Julia Minkin (of Kid Francescoli), Clara
Trucco (a member of the trio Femina), and Juana Molina, "considered the Argentinian Björk," says
Thylacine.
Mission accomplished: the young Angevin's vaporous layers are tinged with charango, a local
instrument, and melodies inspired by traditional Argentinian songs. "I wanted to go back to a music
with a more acoustic sound."
And the tracks follow one another, telling the story of his extraordinary odyssey: the hypnotizing “The
Road” expresses the miles of road traveled; the captivating tale of “Santa Barbara” evokes the close
ties between inhabitants of a tiny village in the Andes; and the rhythm of “4500 m,” cut by the flow of
the American rapper J. Medeiros, recalls the high desert where Thylacine once had to sleep, forced to
stop for the night by storms of a rare intensity.
Three months and ten thousand kilometers later, this "concept album" is ready; it's called Roads vol.
1, and it’s the first installment of a collection that the 26-year-old Thylacine expects to add to as he
continues his travels. His itinerant studio, ingeniously equipped with solar panels, will take him,
hopefully, very far.
Tracklist
1. Murga
2. Purmamarca
3. El Alba
4. The Road
5. Volver
6. 4500m
7. Condor
8. Sal y Tierra
9. Santa Barbara
10. 30

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TRACKLIST:
1. Design - Premonition
2. Vision - Lucifer’s Friend
3. Richard Bone - Alien Girl
4. John Howard - I Tune Into You
5. Ian North - We’re Not Lonely
6. Selwin Image - The Unknown
7. Harry Kakoulli - I’m On A Rocket
8. Rich Wilde - The Lady Wants To Be Alone
9. Billy London - Woman
10. Alan Burnham - Science Fiction
11. The Microbes - Computer
12. The Goo-Q - I’m A Computer
13. Gerry & The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
14. The Warlord - The Ultimate Warlord
15. Die Marinas - Fred From Jupiter
16. Dee Jay Bert & Eagle - I Am Your Master
17. Peta Lily & Michael Process - I Am A Time Bomb
18. Sole Sister - It’s Not What You Are But How
19. Alasdair Riddell - Do You Read Me?
20. Karel Fialka - Armband (The Mystery Song)
21. John Springate - My Life
22. Incandescent Luminaire - Famous Names
23. Disco Volante - No Motion
24. Dream Unit - A Drop In The Ocean

Compiled by Philip King
“And then came the rise of synth pop : blokes with dodgy haircuts hunched over keyboard-operated
machines stuffed with wires and do-it-yourself tone oscillators making sounds like a brood of geese
passing gas in a wind tunnel. Whoopee! This is the way the ‘70s ended : not with a blood-curdling bang
bang but with a cheap, synthesized, emasculating whimper.”
NICK KENT, NME.

All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 is a new compilation that charts the
underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music. Compiled by Philip
King (previously seen compiling All The Young Droogs, Glitterbest and Boobs - The Junkshop
Glam Discotheque), the music here connects the dots between DIY synth enthusiasts grappling with
new, cheap synthesisers at the tail-end of punk and wannabe, jobbing songwriters enthral to the new
music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller’s Mute Records. Featuring rare
tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter
chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failure.
Complete with extensive sleeve notes written by King and never before seen imagery, all 24 tracks
were remastered by RPM in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master
tapes. The story told on All The Young Droids is one of the dawning opportunity presented by both the
emergence to the market of cheaper analog synthesisers and the distribution networks plus indie labels
that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976. While the music that sprouted out all over the
globe in the wake of these factors was decried as fake, plastic, a refutation of punk’s guitar-led
revolution, it’s telling that much of the music on All The Young Droids.. was created in bedrooms,
ramshackle studios and home-made set ups with often borrowed equipment. In the era of record labels
jumping to capitalise on the success of The Sex Pistols, The Clash (both on major labels, of course)
these artists struggled to stand out from a new gold-rush with next to no budget or PR team. With radio
and labels desperate for the new Yazoo, what resulted was a testament to necessity being the mother
of invention.

At the time, the synthesiser was the music of the future, a shiny new machine that could paint like an
orchestra with a single finger and a 4-track. In the hands of Manchester avant-pranksters Gerry & The
Holograms it’s a pulsing, sardonic weapon.. the only instrument on the Messthetics classic lampooning
of New Wave fashion. In Hamburg, a 16 year old Andreas Dorau used it to write and record (with his
female classmates on vocals) a global smash in Fred Vom Jupiter (later licensed to Mute Records).
The hard-to-find English version (Fred From Jupiter, natch) is included here. Many artists with alreadystoried careers caught the bug and recorded synthesiser-fuelled peons to space, computers, the future
and, of course, love-interests. Harry Kakoulli, late of Squeeze, recorded a solo album in 1979 that
included the incredible power-synth-pop smash-that-never-smashed I’m On A Rocket. Similarly, Ian
North of Neo and American Power Pop stalwarts Milk ’n’ Cookies bought a Korg MS20 and used a
tape machine to record We’re Not Lonely, an absolute lost-classic of minimal synth pop. We’re Not
Lonely also features on the Junkshop Synth Pop sampler 7” twinned with John Howard unreleased
track You Will See, released April 12th 2025.

There are plenty of compilation debuts in evidence. Sole Sister were a mysterious trio who were
featured on the Scaling Triangles compilation of female-fronted, queer-adjacent post-punk /
underground music that also featured The Petticoats. Selwin Image were from San Francisco and
featured members of the recently defunct power pop/punk group The Pushups. Their stupidly catchy
The Unknown fizzes with New Wave energy - think XTC to Sparks but remains unreleased until now.
Dream Unit’s A Drop In The Ocean is an early synth wave cut, positively teaming with Joy Division
instrumentation, previously only released on a long-forgotten and super rare, self-released EP.
Incandescent Luminaire’s Famous Names belies an archetypal struggle of a small-town trying to
make it in a cruel industry but is a thrilling New Romantic-Synth Wave cross over with a OMD
gloominess that’s a joy to hear. Feminist Minimal Wave track I Am A Time Bomb by performance artist
Peta Lilly and Michael Chance is a revelation destined for new found cult status. It was released on 7”
and lost until now.

The flipside to the subterranean, never-made-it synth pop mentioned above are the ambitious, even
fruity attempts at success that have a perennial elegance to their confidence. New Jersey-ite Billy
London (real name Ed Barth) tried to cash in on the synth boom with Woman, released by a major
label, a lurching new wave track built on the Louie Louie rhythm and a wonderfully camp Lou Reedstyle sleazy vocal before exploding in the synthesised chorus. The song bombed but with a chorus like
this, you have to wonder why? Ex-Glitter Band member John Springate’s My Life is truly epic, with
doomed chord progressions and massive sounding drums turning into at least 3 different songs in the
course of the track. Before you wonder what’s going on the song resolves with a glorious return to the
main refrain.

The dry-ice-dressed dance floor is well catered for too. Design’s Premonition and Vision’s Lucifer’s
Friend are stone-cold minimal synth bangers, well loved but given a new lease of life here. The
Warlord’s The Ultimate Warlord was released in 1978, a homespun proto Hi NRG banger that was
later re-recorded by The Immortals in Canada who had a club hit with it. One-man- band Disco
Volante’s No Motion was re-issued by Synth wave label Medical in 2012 but makes its first vinyl
compilation appearance here. Close your eyes and you can imagine what Lawrence of Felt would have
sounded like with some cheap Korgs a little earlier in his career. Gibraltar-based trio The Microbes
imagined a computer programming people to dance - how prescient - and ended up with a propulsive,
robo-funk track with splendid rubbery bass playing over a tectonic drum machine. Previously picked up
by Belgian label Stroom TV, Dee Jay Bert & Eagle’s heavily Euro-accented I Am Your Master
demands the listener to “come to paradise!” In a frankly terrifying manner.
All The Young Droids is the first compilation to peel away from the narrative that dour, Minimal Synth
and Cold Wave were the only musical children of the first rush of synth pop. Philip King and School
Daze Records describe a much more complicated world: along with the austere, Brutalist children of
Daniel Miller (who produced Alan Burnham’s Bowie-Low-influenced Science Fiction here) was a
plethora of desperate cash-ins, accidental mainstream hits, ambitious pop dramas and major label
punts that went nowhere. Crucially, the compilation blurs the line between junk and treasure. What if the
two things are interchangeable. What if it’s all science fiction?

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Tracklist

A1. Le Fouet version
A2. Grosse Bite version
B1. Sac plain version
B2. Sac vide version

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Fellow long time in the disco trench dweller his graciousness Dimitri of Paris kindly offered us employment on a remix for him as his friend Malik, after doing said job we asked if we could impose a tariff of releasing our unused mixes, because he’s a super nice guy he complied with our art of the deal for art….Welcome to another EDM banger from BTD.




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Artwork and Typography by Stefan Marx

Tracklist:
A1 Ways Of Mine
B1 After All
B1 Dimension

We feel like Frank & Tony and Smallville have been on the same musical wave-length since forever. Our musical paths have crossed back and forth over the years and we have always shared a lot of the same values- steadily putting out quality music, that stands the test of time - growing consistently - never stop following our very own way - always not-following trends forever..
Frank & Tony is the collaborative guise of Scissor & Thread co-founders Francis Harris and Anthony Collins aka Grant. Both have long been staples of the underground with material under their own names and numerous other guises shaping the musical landscape of House Techno and beyond since the turn of the millennium. Both lived together in New York and as Frank & Tony the pair have delivered multiple albums and many EP’s on their own label, Tokyo’s Mule Musiq and Pacific Rhythm- now they are warmly welcomed onto the Smallville Records roster with their latest collection of works.
‘Ways Of Mine’ leads on the A-Side and showcases the pairs signature deep hypnotic house style via soft billowing pads cascading metallic chimes psychedelic spoken word and dreamy dubbed out keys floating atop a robust bouncy rhythm
section.To open the flip-side title-track ‘After All’ lays down a subtly blooming chord sequence shuffled drums and bumpy bass stabs at its core all subtly nuanced while the latter half introduces more dynamic rhythmic elements and intertwined melodic touches. ‘Dimension’ then concludes the release diving deeper with saturated ethereal pads and bubbling resonant arpeggio lines alongside heavily swung crisp drums jazzy keys and delayed vocal chants.
After All comes with a full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.

All tracks written & produced by Francis Harris & Anthony Collins
Mastering and Vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville

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