The Short Wave Mystery - rare US synth 1983-85

[discoginfo]

I just discovered this group on youtube, good if you like the more hard-edged Depeche/Rad Flag military-marsching-paced-beat. All tracks are good that I have listened to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zna62I26kQ

Only one CD, but seems very limited.
http://www.discogs.com/Shortwave-Myster ... se/2911565

/JW

www.jonaswarstad.com
www.discog.info

[thunderbird2]

Excellent thanks for posting I have ordered a copy

[profil]

Me too. Thanks again for posting. I always appreciate to discover such excellent sounding bands from the golden era of synth pop.

[discoginfo]

You're welcome. Hard Corps aren't bad either
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxmf_HAVCYo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuiIYiReGdY
I never heard of them before, just found them on youtube...
I just hope their name doesn't mean what it sounds like....yuk.

[profil]

Like them too. I have their cd "Metal & Flesh" - a nice compilation of singles and b-sides, but far from complete.

[Passing_Stranger]

"Hard Corps" has nothing to do with corpses. It's a military term.

[discoginfo]

It seems they only released one vinyl
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?releas ... 5467&ev=rb

not cheap......!!!!

The CD digipak is nice but the letter style it hard to read.

/JW
http://www.discog.info/hard-corps.html

PS I will add the latest digital EP "Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt" soon, it has a couple of great "new" tracks (previously unreleased) on it.

[budaniel]

kind of ridiculous price for that vinyl 12" when you consider pretty much every track on it is on the CD....

[discoginfo]

I guess it's for vinyl addicts. About the recent vinyl LP/download “Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt”, it says here
http://minimalwave.com/articles/article ... p-april-16
"Now for the first time ever, rare unreleased versions of Hard Corps tracks from the 1980s have been remastered and are being made available."

I know two tracks are prev unavailable, but not sure if the other four are new/unreleased versions?

[profil]

Some songs of the Shortwave Mystery - Signals From Afar cd are absolutely fantastic. A very nice surprise. Thanks again Jonas [:)]

It is my understanding that most of the versions included on the 12" Pilot differ from those on the cd. Their album Down And Out In A Town Of Yardsales seems to be vinyl only [:(]

Would like to have it all on cd [:p]

[Sean]

Thanks for the suggestion discoginfo. I did went ahead and buy the cd and it's a great compilation. Great band that time forgot. The digipak case has a pretty cool design and I was happy with that. Slightly bummed out that it is a cd-r but it has been advised that it is a cd-r so I knew that going into the purchase. It's so sad these days that artists/labels can't even silver press 300 copies of these cd's to sell, especially when they can do it for around $500.

[yipyipcoyote]

and it's pronounced "cor"[:D]

[SallyLightfoot]

Reminds me a little of the cold wave sounds of The Minimal Wave Tapes. Cool stuff. I also recently checked out Bippp - French Synth Wave 1979-85, which is a different kind of trip from the era.

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[discoginfo]

The digipak CD has nice design, but like I said the letters are so small it's difficult to read, as if thery were designed for a vinyl LP and then diminished. Another concern I have is the sound, it's just fine to me, but since it's a CD-R, how long will it be playable? And did they use compressed MP3 to burn it, or uncompressed?

Btw the Pilot 12" WAS available here http://goutroy.blogspot.se/2008/08/shor ... ts-12.html
but the link was removed, too bad. But it says the link will be back. Let's keep an eye out OK?

[CounterCircular]

Maybe I've just been lucky or something, but the first CD-R's I made back in 1996 when I got my first CD burner (Phillips) still play perfectly today. Also I've never encountered any issues with mp3.

Speaking of mp3, I know there are audiophiles that know their music stuff big time, but I admit for myself and many of my friends, I can play an mp3 track and the original track from CD and cannot tell any difference in sound. I've tried this with friends and they tell me they cannot hear anything different in quality. Nor can I and I try hard, honestly. Maybe it is my system that limits the quality to begin with but I use Vienna Acoustic speakers and pretty high end components and cables, etc...for my ears anyway, an mp3 sounds excellent, of course as with even a CD, depending on the source material. Maybe it also depends on rates used (I used 320 only) and CD-R quality. I use Sony since for me they've just been easiest to find where I live.