Minny Pops: Sparks in a Dark Room
Minny Pops: Sparks in a Dark Room
Format: CD
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Artist: Minny Pops
Label: Factory Benelux
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 708527000816
Genre: Punk
Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1982 album from the Dutch Electronic band. Factory Benelux presents a new deluxe 2xCD edition of Sparks in a Dark Room, the second studio album by Dutch electronic group Minny Pops, originally released by Factory Benelux in May 1982. Formed in Amsterdam in 1978 by vocalist Wally Van Middendorp, Minny Pops took their name from the primitive Korg drum machine which propelled their austere, post-punk rhythms and provocative live performances. An early association with Factory Records in Manchester saw the band work with producer Martin Hannett, share stages with Joy Division and New Order, and become the first Dutch band to record a BBC radio session for John Peel. SPARKS IN a DARK ROOM is their second studio album, originally issued on Factory Benelux in May 1982. Self-produced by the group, the album was recorded without a guitarist and as a result sounded unusually polished and layered, it's smooth sequencers and motorik rhythms often redolent of Moroder, Kraftwerk and Cabaret Voltaire. Bonus tracks include the non-album singles Time and Een Kus, as well as demo tracks and an EP by instrumental splinter project Smalts. This new edition on FBN also adds a bonus disc featuring an entire live performance (13 tracks), recorded at Amsterdam Melkweg on 7 April 2012 on their 30th anniversary tour, with original members Wally Van Middendorp, Wim Dekker and Pieter Mulder joined by new guitarist Mark Ritsema.
Tracks:
1.1 Mountain
1.2 A Feeling
1.3 Tracking
1.4 Crack
1.5 Vital
1.6 Blue Roses
1.7 Black Eye
1.8 Wong
1.9 Experience
1.10 Dream
1.11 Night Visit
1.12 Trance
1.13 Time
1.14 Lights
1.15 Een Kus
1.16 Son
1.17 Secret Story (Demo)
1.18 Schitterende Ogen (Demo)
1.19 Time (Demo)
1.20 Werktitel #7
1.21 Werktitel #5
1.22 Werktitel #1
1.23 Werktitel #8
2.1 Kogel
2.2 Blue Roses
2.3 Tracking
2.4 Vital
2.5 Goddess
2.6 Dolphins Spurt
2.7 Wong
2.8 Night Visit
2.9 Secret Story
2.10 Time
2.11 Trance
2.12 Mental
2.13 Son
Audio Sample:
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