Various Artists - Cold Wave #2, 2x Vinyl LP

Various Artists - Cold Wave #2, 2x Vinyl LP

Compilations don't come much more complete than those put together by the legendary Soul Jazz crew. Cold Wave is a new one that focusses on current electronic artists who "have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s." 

The first gen artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.

Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences –Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image – this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to New Beat.

Most of the featured artists are based in Europe, inc. Krikor Kouchian, Beta Evers and L.F.T., Lena Willikens, Job Siffre and De Ambassade, Toulouse Low Trax, Dave I.D., Broken English Club, and V.C.V.S.

2021, Soul Jazz Records - SJR LP485