[Cease & Desist] Diy Cult Classics From / Various: [Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982)

[Cease & Desist] Diy Cult Classics From / Various: [Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982)

[Cease & Desist] Diy Cult Classics From / Various: [Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982)

Format: VINYL LP

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Title: [Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982)
Artist: [Cease & Desist] Diy Cult Classics From / Various
Label: Optimo Music
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 880319732737
Genre: Rock

[Cease & Desist] DIY! Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era (1978-1982) collects 15 UK 7 singles recorded between 1978 and 1982, compiled by JD Twitch to showcase the DIY spirit of those times. If Punk was the nuclear detonation, the fallout that came after was where a lot of the most interesting music of that era was made. People who would never have thought to release a record before realized it was something they could do, and the end result was a DIY explosion. I've always loved music that doesn't try to fit in a particular genre, that is anti-canonical and doesn't care what else is going on in music at that time, that takes risks and is full of imagination and ideas that may or may not make any logical sense but that resulted in something unique, that ignores conventions about how a record SHOULD be produced and that was created simply because it's creators felt the urge to express themselves and share the results with some other people. This compilation compiles 15 tracks that fulfill all those criteria. None of them had any success, most are (unjustly) obscure but every one of them has inspired me and would be in my ultimate 7 singles box -JD Twitch. This release has been a real labor of love, involving tracing long-lost artists to far-flung corners of the globe, persuading them that the modern world needs to hear the music they made several decades ago, tracking down masters - lovingly restoring 7s in place of lost masters in some cases - and conceiving an elaborate package with detailed sleeve notes to house the double album. Unfortunately, the original choice of title for this release infringed on the copyright of a series of well-known pop compilations released by a certain major label. They sent a cease and desist letter (hence the title of this edition), and did not accept proposed modifications to the original sleeves, so this edition is released in a more conventional package than was intended. Gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves containing sleeve notes and detailed overviews of each individual track by JD Twitch and an introduction by New York's DIY expert Dan Selzer. Includes tracks by Tesco Bombers, Sara Goes Pop, People in Motion, Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires, The Distributors, Dorothy, Thomas Leer, Visitors, The Murphy Federation, The Cro-Tones, Fatal Microbes, Spunky Onions, The Fakes, and The Prats.

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