V/a / Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Vol. 1

Dark Entries

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LP
$17.25
DE 013
Street Date:
August 16th, 2011
Ship Date:
August 15th, 2011

Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Volume 1 is Dark Entries’ first compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) in the 1980s. Towards the end of the 70s, San Francisco experimental music clashed with the aftermath of punk and gave birth to a vibrant underground scene. By the early to mid 80s the DIY music scene of the Bay Area was a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop, quite similar to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle. This compilation literally connects the (transit) lines between these varied musical offerings and tells the secret story of eleven forgotten Bay Area bands and contains four previously unreleased tracks on vinyl, until now! Features cuts from NOMINAL STATE, BATANG FRISCO, NECROPOLIS, WASP WOMEN, DISTANT THUNDER, VOICE FARM, DANNY BOY AND THE SERIOUS PARTY GODS, QUIET ROOM, LOS MICROWAVES, STANDARD OF LIVING, and UNITS. All tracks have been carefully remastered by GEORGE HORN at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each LP is housed in a large 6-panel fold out poster by with liner notes by JOHNNY RAY HUSTON, original photos, fliers and artwork documenting this fertile period.