{"id":1761,"date":"2013-04-22T19:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:35:29","slug":"la-valse-winter-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/la-valse-winter-7\/","title":{"rendered":"La Valse- Winter 7&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly rare 7&#8221; from the Netherlands here that I&#8217;ve seen on several wantlists over the years.\u00a0 Due time for this gem to be heard!\u00a0 No year attached to this one, and despite the label (No Records), it may be a private pressing.\u00a0 If I had to guess, it has an early 80s feel to it- perhaps 1981-4 due to the prominent use of the TR606 (EDIT: according to a magazine listing, this was released in 1984). \u00a0The band were from Breda and this is their only release, perfect for fans of that cold guitar sound with both male and female vocals on the a-side.\u00a0 Minimal synth fans should also enjoy this one, as the flip features some trademark synth and drum machine work.\u00a0 You can also find &#8220;Sorrow&#8221; on one of the <em>None Night of Flexipop<\/em> compilations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Either way, both tracks here are great, gloomy affairs that should feel at home for fans of The Names\/Factory Records.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldwave.fr\/\">St\u00e9phane<\/a> for\u00a0clueing me into and sending me the original rip of\u00a0this lost classic!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/la-valse-winter-7\/lavalse\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lavalse-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lavalse-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lavalse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lavalse.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Valse- <em>Winter<\/em> 7&#8221;<br \/>\n1. Winter<br \/>\n2. Sorrow<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/systemsofromance.com\/SOR\/lavalse.zip\">download it here<\/a>* (RE-RIPPED at 320 kbps 5.5.13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly rare 7&#8221; from the Netherlands here that I&#8217;ve seen on several wantlists over the years.\u00a0 Due time for this gem to be heard!\u00a0 No year attached to this one, and despite the label (No Records), it may be a private pressing.\u00a0 If I had to guess, it has an early 80s feel to it- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,39,461,765,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-37","category-coldwave","category-dutch","category-la-valse","category-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5552,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}