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In 2003, It came into existence. And many peoples from every fields talked about it quickly. The VINYL-specialized label, Vinyl On Demand (VOD) is founded by a german named Frank Maier.

It is running for maniacs by a maniac.

"Vinyl-On-Demand has recognized, that very good material of the old days has become very collectible but almost impossible to get. With the Vinyl-On-Demand-concept, this material is now possible to obtain, in better quality than the original tapes and on a better medium. Pripuzzi Records is a sublabel of Vinyl-On-Demand and should be seen as a platform for, so far unknown, experimental artists not able to find a label so far."...

Theses notes are from their Web-site.

Until now, 'Elekt Noiz' introduced the releases from some casette labels in 1980's (Selektion, Tape Klar! etc...) as one of the roots of today's noise music. If an artist was releasing their music on the casettes and the OFFICIAL vinyls, I really prefer the former to the latter plainly. It is a interesting phenomenon in a unique era when the 'Primal Instincts' were very important factor. Also these casettes functioned as a media sent us the movement of the scene directly.

So I'm hoping the VOD's future releasing what kind of casette reissue not stay only german stuff.

Also Pripuzzi Records opens the gate for unkown artists who cannot release their music by themselves.

It is the VOD's different intent in lots of the reissue labels. I mean, the diggin' the unknown talents no matter old or new is the VOD label's most important view. If you interested in VOD, let's try it. the more details are shown on their Web-site.

Their first releases, VOD1.1 - 1.6 are the reissues of 6 casettes for

Die Toedliche Doris. It's a splendid achievement. In recent years, Doris 's sound archives were released by some labels and regarded very highly by maniac listeners or artists.

VOD releases are crucial in these reissues. It's all recorded in the golden NDW era, 1980 - 1984. And these plays are impossible to categorize...noise or punk or comtemporary...They includes all of these elements. For example, there is a desperately chaos with the tense agitation and the extreme noise. On the other hand, there's a low-fi recording of the sociable party scene. In addition, there are collaboration with artists from various fields like a mysterious beatnik poet or a female filmmaker. Doris always breaks limit of their representation.

If you only knows a facet of Doris as an art performance group after 1984, please listen these recordings.

Each vinyl include the source from one casette. Some LP include only around 10 minutes recordings. So someone might think all recordings should be combine as the 2LP set. But thi s k ind of paranoiac fixation reveal the VOD's attitudes.

By way of parenthesis, they released the 66 limited deluxe box sets includes 6 LPs.

- VOD2 is the recordings by a very obscure NDW band in 80's. They were playing the eccentric sounds mixed the electronic archetype of the era and the theatrical development reminds early Genesis'.

- VOD3 is the works by an artist named Graf Haufen in 1983 with prog-like organ, effected psychedelic voice...The profound combination is so interesting.

- VOD4 is the recordings by a german art project in 1979-84. It's the synthetic sound effects using the musical instruments and non-musical instruments. Sounds just like mixture of 70s' and 80s' german music.

- VOD5 is the work by the cult prog-psyche band in Berlin . It's an amalgamation of the geometric playing by sophisticated musical skills and the heaviness of rock music. It's like an preoccupation of post-rock acts in recent years. It's a 2LP with Their mainman, Max Mueller's minimal electronics sketch album recorded as a soundtrack for an early 80s' experimental film.

- VOD6 is the reissue of The New Blockaders' 1st LP. It's the 250 limited edition reissue with high quality sound from the master tape and released as a part of TNB's 21th anniversary series. Yes, only 99 copies of 250 are the maniac 2LP box edition with their unreleased first live recording in 1983.

VOD web-site said it's sold out before the release date. I raise my hat to you.

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