{"id":1910,"date":"2013-06-12T17:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:34:33","slug":"various-artists-dreams-and-desires-k7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/various-artists-dreams-and-desires-k7\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists- Dreams and Desires K7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have a few tapes here to share over the next few weeks… Some more rare\u00a0Italian demos, a\u00a02xK7 French compilation, and much more, but here’s an old classic as donated by Jeffo and re-ripped at VBR for maximum enjoyment.\u00a0 You may have heard this over at Return of the East back in the day, an old favorite blog of all things dark that’s\u00a0since purged from Blogger.\u00a0 PS- You should all take a listen to The Anxiety of Love<\/a> if you want to hear more from the excellent chap who ran that blog, here’s to more great sounds from them to come.<\/p>\n

This tape, released in 1984,\u00a0essentially reads like a who’s\u00a0who\u00a0of the\u00a0classic 4AD roster, with some other amazing contributions from\u00a0favorites such as Pink Industry (and a track by Ambrose working on her own), Vazz, Clair Obscur,\u00a0In\u00a0the Nursery, Band of Holy Joy, etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many of the\u00a0tracks that appear here are in demo form, some of which (like the sketch of Cocteau Twins’ sublime “Pearly Dewdrops Drops” and Dead Can Dance’s excellent demo of “The Arcane”)\u00a0haven’t been compiled in even the most thorough retrospectives.<\/p>\n

Pleasantly\u00a0Surprised<\/a>, the Scottish label run by Robert H. King, eventually became Cathexis Recordings<\/a>\u00a0(Vazz and Clair\u00a0Obscur vinyl releases), which then\u00a0turned into\u00a0Total<\/a>, a music magazine,\u00a0by the 1990s.\u00a0 Pleasantly Surprised were notorious for these compilations, as well as for releasing a rare Dif Juz<\/a> tape and providing reissues\/alternate distribution methods for an early Clair Obscur release, just to name a few standout credits.\u00a0 I haven’t heard many of the other VA compilations so I can’t be sure if the versions on those cassettes are demos as they are here, or if they’re studio versions compiled for cassette.\u00a0\u00a0If anyone can confirm or deny, please feel free to leave a comment.<\/p>\n

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Various Artists- Dreams and Desires<\/em>\u00a0K7
\n1. Side A Intro
\n2. Richard Killing- Nervous Choir
\n3. Tag Fur Tag (Demo)- Xmal Deutschland
\n4. Diamonds In the Mine (Live)- Artery
\n5. Silver- Vazz
\n6. Sex Gun (Demo)- Colourbox
\n7. Ecstasy (Instrumental*)- The Wolfgang Press
\n8. Pain of Pride- Pink Industry
\n9. A Glorious Morning In Orton Street- The Band of Holy Joy
\n10. Side\u00a0A\u00a0Outro
\n11. Side B Intro
\n12. The Pilgrim’s Progress (Instrumental)- Clair Obscur
\n13. The Arcane (Demo)- Dead Can Dance
\n14. Can’t Get Used to Losing You- David J
\n15. In One Move- Illegitimate Sons of Christ
\n16. Pearly Dewdrop’s Drops (Demo)- Cocteau Twins
\n17. Iskra- In the Nursery
\n18. Free At Last- Ambrose
\n19. Illustrated- Andrew Grey
\n20. Tree Top Club (Demo)- Virginia Astley
\n21. Smile- Patrik Fitzgerald
\n22. Side B Outro<\/p>\n

*download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n

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*not really an instrumental at all.\u00a0 But we all know the Rema-Rema gag, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have a few tapes here to share over the next few weeks… Some more rare\u00a0Italian demos, a\u00a02xK7 French compilation, and much more, but here’s an old classic as donated by Jeffo and re-ripped at VBR for maximum enjoyment.\u00a0 You may have heard this over at Return of the East back in the day, an old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,21,39,214,648,110,167,784,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-37","category-4ad","category-coldwave","category-compilations","category-goth","category-goth-rock","category-minimal-synth","category-pleasantly-surprised","category-post-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","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=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}