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RECOMMENDED RECORDS [V.A.] - The Recommended
Records Double Sampler: 1982 [2 CD set] (ReR
1982; UK) Featuring Faust, Art Bears, ZNR,
Robert Wyatt, The Residents, Henry Cow, This
Heat, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Stormy Six, Aqsak
Maboul, Picchio Dal Pozzo, Decibel, Goebbels and
Harth, The Homosexuals, The Work, Amos and Sarah,
The Black Sheep, Feliu Gasul, The Muffins,
R.Stevie Moore, Robel Vogel, Ron Pate/Raudelunas,
Conventum, Joseph Racaille and Patrick Portella
Originally released in 1982, this is a collection
of specially commissioned and (at the time) newly
recorded pieces by the most interesting groups
and individuals then in the Recommended
catalogue. Never reissued, it has slowly become a
prized collectors' item - and remains an
indispensable snapshot of the range and musical
brilliance of this critical moment in the history
of a small community of left-field groups
struggling towards new musical languages. The
breadth of imagination displayed is exemplary and
it is amazing how fresh and original this music
still sounds, and how much things have changed in
only 25 years.