Victrola - Maritime Tatami / A Game Of Despair FLAC download

repress will be back in stock next week, do not pay more than $12

good work heroinwhat's next friend , ? pls charly- i can't love

Will you distribute it, or only sell it from your shop?

A perfect new-wave 12" to discover, both tracks are excellent in their genre.

Reminds me of high school, not that I had heard this in high school but just the feeling of so much desire to possess something and the knowledge that I never will. What an incredible release.

So glad this is getting a repress. Was introduced to it (I am not ashamed to say) by John Robert's superb RA mix ahead of the release of his 2013 'Fences', and it was easily the highlight of the mix for me. Could tell immediately it was of another time & place, and yet so attention-stealing and impressive even in this attention-starved now... timeless music. Even more incredible that it was Victrola's one and only release together. A real myth of a record! Glad to be able to add it to my collection.

Maritime Tatami features 303+606. We're talking 1983, the year these boxes came out.

Def no 303 on there, 606 for sure tho .

It seems wrong to slap genre labels on Victrola, but their music is essentially minimal darkwave. Both songs are in a class of their own, downer overdose synthpop ballads with catatonic monotone vox. Oblique minor-key bass lines provide an anchor while snapping, brittle 606 rhythms propel the tracks along. It seems that many people prefer the A, which is certainly an incredible track, a bizarre virtual reality excursion that sounds as if John Foxx instead of Vangelis had composed the soundtrack for Blade Runner. The synths are shot through with a strain of melancholy usually found only in 8-bit video game soundtracks, but at the same time, there's a shoegazey trance quality to the melodic interplay that strangely gels with the snare-heavy rhythm track. However, for me the B is the real killer here. A post-punk guitar riff repeats hypnotically, as fragile icy synthlines chime emptily above it. The vox only last through the first half, giving way to one of the most bleak and haunting synthscapes ever committed to wax. This track will make you feel like an android dying of hypothermia. It's tragic that Victrola didn't release anything after this, as this EP doesn’t sound like anything else recorded in 83 or anytime after—it’s from a dimension of its own.

"This track will make you feel like an android dying of hypothermia." Excellent!