Here is another Vanity label related 7".This is what I wrote about MLD last year in the Paris Tokyo cassette compilation posted here last year:
MLD were Takayuki Shiraishi and Jun Sonohara. The duo also released a CD under the name Maximum Lunatic Desire and more recently as Musica Nova, contributing tracks to releases on labels NS-COM & Birds in Paradise. Shiraishi has many solo releases, some under his own name on NS-COM, BadOrb, etc... and also under others such as Planetoid on the Belgian ambient label - Apollo. It should also come as no surprise to readers of this site that there is a Vanity connection here. Shiraishi was also a member of the legendary BGM - contributing guitar, synths & vocals.
I compared their Paris Tokyo track to a cross between Liquid Liquid and early Meat Beat Manifesto. The A side of this single sounds like a harder Liquid Liquid with a rhythm and synth bass that reminds me of Disco Rough by Mathematiques Modernes. The B side is slower tempo and reminds me of the tension of earlier Einsturzende Neubauten.
Included in the post is a scan of the insert which appears to plug a cassette (I assume by MLD), also on Kitchen Records. I'm not sure about the rest of it.
Anybody know of other releases by MLD, or the Kitchen Records label?
Enjoy.
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As I'm collecting info on defunct indie labels for "They Could Have Been Bigger Than EMI"; this is what I found until now on Kitchen Record:
SONG 2 METROFARCE - Shosoku Fumei No Kodomotachi 8" 82
SONG 3 VOICE - s/t 10" 1983
SONG 4 METROFARCE - Barizanveaux LP 1983
DRUM 2 MLD - Perpetual Motion 7" 83
DANCE 1 VARIETE - Souvenir 8" 82
DANCE 2 VARIETE - Location At Hollywood 12" 83
Do you know more on labels like Marquee Moon, Skating Pears and LLE?
Curious Guy - Thanks for the info. I recognize a couple titles from that list.
I have a couple flexi 7"s on MM:
Aquapolis - Eldorado M.M.0008 1-sided blue flexi
Pneuma/Libido - Split M.M.0003 2-sided split flexi
Nothing on the others. Good luck with the book. -AAA
Well it's not me actually who is responsible for that book but a guy from Germany. I just help him out if I find anything on the net.
Thanks for the info.
Here's a link for more on that book:
http://www.get-happy-records.com/Labels-Discography.htm
killer music... as always.
thank you!!!
Curious Guy - thanks for providing the link. I think I saw this at a friend's house. Didn't make the connection earlier.
Soundhead - thanks
This music is just astounding..thanks for turning me onto the existance of Kitchen Records though I imagine its going to be a very expensive obsession!
How on earth this record excaped most people's radar now and then is beyond me.
Thanks again for this!
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