♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ Oldskool Represses ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮

There's been tons recently, as you all know. I've been checking all my fave sites to find somewhere that actually keeps track of them all and i can't find anything. I know there are some big providers like MPS and Flash Forward, but there are plenty other smaller and indy releases that can slip by. Does anyone want a thread here (or elsewhere)? I'd really like a central place where i can keep track of them all (and get on the quality).

Hinty at a sticky here BUNKERHEADZ ;)

Represses are shite. Go for the original.

The only slim little chink of good from a repress is the minimal amount of royalties otherwise label/pressing plant etc eat up the money.

I'm all for collecting originals mate, i've spent a lifetime doing it, but there are some really good represses doing the rounds recently. And considering the spike in vinyl prices over the last year or two i have no problem buying an official and clean sounding reissue rather than some £50+ VG option. Anyway all opinions welcome, i was just wondering what the community feeling is.

So are you after a list of sites to check or links to represses as they come out? (I'm more up for the latter)? Strictly represses or new stuff in an old school style?

Anyway - if you like MPS represses, they put some leftovers here:

https://www.inaspinrecords.co.uk/vinyl-records

there's also loads here:

http://seventhstoreyprojects.com/classic-represses/

Maarten is still massively prolific:

https://music.maartenvandervleuten.com/

Few bits here:

https://frameofmindrec.bandcamp.com/

loadsa kniteforce:

https://kniteforce.bandcamp.com/

cheers Vincent Floyd - The Magic E.P

I just thought it would be handy to have a single thread where people could post new ones. For those that are ok with buying represses anyway ;)

Right - gotcha... ;)

I'll keep an eye out and post if i see any indie stuff. Just 'cos some miserable sods think that represses aren't in the right elitist way of doing old school, i think most of us love represses :)

Oh and interestingly, seems as if ninety-two retro are back in the game ... not Indie, but easy to overlook as they haven't repressed anything for ages:

Mystery Man / 1st Prodject - Love E / DJ Business / Right Before

SecretSquizza
Oh and interestingly, seems as if ninety-two retro are back in the game ... not Indie, but easy to overlook as they haven't repressed anything for ages:

DJ Smokey Joe* - The Crimewatch Project
Mystery Man / 1st Prodject - Love E / DJ Business / Right Before

Nice, i didn't know that. This is exactly what i wanted this thread for. They've done some awesome represses in the past. cheers

Thought i would mention this one too. Love my old italo:

Transitive Elements - The 90s Anthology

siman91
Represses are shite. Go for the original.

100% on that one brother,,,,,as I send to my ex roomate dj collector dude represses are for millenials that their parents gave them a map to the easter egg hunt........entittled biachesssssss

siman91
Represses are shite. Go for the original.

100% on that one brother,,,,,as I send to my ex roomate dj collector dude represses are for millenials that their parents gave them a map to the easter egg hunt........entittled biachesssssss

it's like a dooch who calls him self a dj but has a bunch of mp3......I am a vinyl sherpa hauling crates up flights of stairs and to the summit of mount neverest,,,,,,you catch my drift......trying crossing death valley with 5 crates of vinyl on your back

spaceface01
Transitive Elements - The 90s Anthology

Cheers for that - do they sound OK as there's 3 tracks per side?

I'm going to ignore the comments above and hope this thread can move on with what it is supposed to be for.

SecretSquizza
Cheers for that - do they sound OK as there's 3 tracks per side?.

Give me an hour or two, i'll do a quick rip of some clips and , and you can judge for yourself. I never like stating outright, cause it's the internet. Too many opinions and all that

spaceface01
never like stating outright, cause it's the internet. Too many opinions and all that

Good move ;) ... and thanks!

Dread & The Bald Head - Wicked Piece A Tune / Twenty Four Seven ... this one for junglists

SecretSquizza
Strictly represses or new stuff in an old school style?

Good question actually? :)

I'm not a snob regarding represses. Especially if the original pressings were atrociously mastered. What I'm not keen are when things are repressed but with either original crap mastering and/or remixes on the same release. I believe remixes should be totally separate from original mixes.

Here's one for a variety of styles

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/label/797720-Musique-Pour-La-Danse

Here's a few that were done this year, so might still be copies available at sensible prices:

Various - Seven Hills Presents Nation Of Noise 91 - 93

SecretSquizza
Strictly represses or new stuff in an old school style?

Sorry, never replied to this. Personally i wanted a thread for represses only. I think new stuff should have it's own thread

And here is the Transitive Elements rip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4sbizk6fhm5nno/Transitive%20Elements%20%E2%80%8E%E2%80%93%20The%2090s%20Anthology%20Side%20D.wav?dl=0

I finally found it and picked a side at random (side D) and made some quick 10 second clips of all 3 tracks

what.cd taught me well, i know everyone likes the lineage. This was done on a 1210 mk2, Shure M35X stylus and all eq's neutral on my xone:22 :)

SecretSquizza
Reel By Real - 20 Years Surkit

Instant purchase. I never saw this one, and this is exactly what i'm into these days. Thanks man

Reissue incoming: Model Citizen - Young & Intelligent

Reissue incoming: MBG - Rame* - Alkemy - Uovo* - DJ GLC - DNArt - Peter Pan E.P.

SecretSquizza
Reel By Real - 20 Years Surkit

thanks Ade, i missed out on the earlier version that's twice the price now!

these are some more that i've bought over the last few months. Maybe you know them all, but for anyone that hasn't been paying much attention it might be useful:

Dina Gad - Crack The Whip

SecretSquizza
Here's a few that were done this year, so might still be copies available at sensible prices:

Break The Limits - Break The Limits Volume I
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

saw has been repressed so many times......it is fiat currency

and sheet i did not know they repressed Break the limits, was wondering when people would come around to those

Mr. & Mrs. Dale - It's You

spaceface01
these are some more that i've bought over the last few months.

Bagged three of those! Thanks.

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/label/1103191-Mint-Condition-2

SecretSquizza
Bagged three of those! Thanks.

That Global Electronic Network tune is something else. I'll be honest and say that i hadn't heard it before until this reissue popped up on my radar, but i could listen to Part 1 over and over

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/label/1103191-Mint-Condition-2

Thanks mate. I've bought a few of these, though i've seen some people say the sound quality can be dubious. I recently ripped Arnold Jarvis - The Way You (Trego Dubs) and i think it sounds great. Maybe they are not all so good though?

spaceface01
Thanks mate. I've bought a few of these, though i've seen some people say the sound quality can be dubious. I recently ripped Arnold Jarvis - The Way You (Trego Dubs) and i think it sounds great. Maybe they are not all so good though?

Yes, same here. I'll be honest. Two which I purchased seemed to contain lots of static, but after asking my friend to give them a once over with their record cleaning machine there was a vast improvement.

spaceface01
Raymond Castoldi* - X-Ray Records 1992-1994
Technical Onslaught - The Calling
Various - Scopex 98/00
100 Hz - Catching Spiders
Eighth Ray - Axis Of Love
Global Electronic Network - Time Square
Dina Gad - Crack The Whip

By the way. Are any of these still available outside of the discogs maketplace? Apologies for the laziness, I'm currently on my mobile which isn't very compatible for browsing external online record stores.

8892sales
Are any of these still available outside of the discogs maketplace? Apologies for the laziness, I'm currently on my mobile which isn't very compatible for browsing external online record stores.

I'm honestly not sure. Global Electronic Network and Dina Gad are both quite recent, and i think Scopex got another pressing after the initial batch sold out, so they might be. Not sure about the rest. I tend to just buy between Juno and discogs, with the occasional Bandcamp order, but i know there are a few other online stores, so might be worth checking around

spaceface01
and i think Scopex got another pressin

too expensive.....had both of them. the original 12's.....let me be a dick, did not think they are all that.......not enough funk.....could name 1000 electro tracks that I think are better

drgiggles
too expensive.....had both of them. the original 12's.....let me be a dick, did not think they are all that.......not enough funk.....could name 1000 electro tracks that I think are better

It's all good mate. Good or bad music, it's all just opinion in the end isn't it? In all honesty i was never a massive electro fan myself. I never really got the hype with the likes of Drexciya (bracing myself to get shot down for that comment!), but i did REALLY want the Pollon 12". Lonely Planet has been up top of my wantlist for years. Considering it's currently €69 minimum for a VG+ copy, this repress seemed like a great deal.

spaceface01
I never really got the hype with the likes of Drexciya (bracing myself to get shot down for that comment!)

Ha! Not by me you won't. I do like some Drexciya releases, own a few myself. But they are definitely overrated aswell as many later Detroit releases as a whole. The Jaguar comes to mind, late 90s Jeff Mills/Robert Hood/Basic Channel/Minimal/Loopy bowllax... Please don't punch me!

I love 1980s electro though I'm sfraid. Sorry for those who think that era of music isn't COOL and trendy enough. That was proper electro as far as I'm concerned :)

yea, I don't drink the drexciya kool aid.........so many followers, dare I say the one on Rephlex is not good at all, this one is pretty damn good though.......really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gfgYP2juI

the bass line is freaking so brilliant

Ill take something like this that https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Benjamin-Pecek-Exploring-New-Territories/release/100377grooves over mechanical formula stuff.......this is another record SPastik444lonz ruined with hype......had it since the day it came out

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Benjamin-Pecek-Exploring-New-Territories/release/100377

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/AS1-Eyes-Of-Man/release/1135637

this one!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0mSbrTcETg

when it kicks into the break it is aural exstacy imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByZbc2G1gk

pretty slow to be called electro but this one jams!!!!! Neneh Cherry

this one and this one.......

it is really something to be in Miami and here some of the dj's down there,,,,,,there is a whole bunch that are damn good

uprokk danny daze are the first 2 that come to mind

Ac records.......cultivated electronics....u

This guy is my favorite electro dj

https://soundcloud.com/dietroiter

But are all these represses? :)

you asshole!!!! ;)

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Detromental-Move/release/10462240

why is the repress selling for this much?? do these millenials have too much money to spend? As I have mumbled to myself over and over while stairing into the mirror Taxi Driver style....."Represses are for spoiled children whose parents gave them a map to the easter egg hunt"

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Color-Of-Music-Make-U-Mine-EP/release/11960259

2ND reissue from the same label that reissued catching spiders.

Dark Entries Editions does some nice Italo Disco / Synth Wave / Disco reissues..

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Ramjac-Corporation-Cameroon-Massif-/release/11874151

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Memphis-Beneath-A-Different-Sun/release/11566700

https://parallaxrecordings.bigcartel.com/product/para-003-total-dark

oh and there's still a couple of copies of this left to grab from parallax - fantastic release:
https://parallaxrecordings.bigcartel.com/product/technosaurus-techno-brewster-dj-iceman-the-best-of-invention

I’ve Always been a person who gets the orignal Unlike my dad (who I share this with) who buys any copy of a song. That’s how he did it back then as well. I’m trying to sell any of my represses so I can get the orignal like BT EXPRESS-DO IT TILL YOUR SASTISFIED DOUG LAZY-LET IT ROLL ADONIS-NO WAY BACK MR FINGERS-CAN YOU FEEL IT. That’s how OCD I can be when it comes to DJing and music.

Great thread, a few things I missed out on.

Cheers.

John Beltran - Ten Days Of Blue just reissued by Peacefrog. Delighted cause it's been on my wantlist for a while.

By the way, does anyone mind if vinyl slightly outside the '80-'93 range such as this are posted, or would you rather we strictly stuck to those years?

Another highly sought after reissue on Peacefrog, though after reading John Beltran's comments on Ten Days of Blue you have to wonder what is going on here. It's hard to resist, but i'd be far happier knowing that my cash is going, at least in part, to the artist involved.

Stasis - Circuit Funk

spaceface01
It's hard to resist, but i'd be far happier knowing that my cash is going, at least in part, to the artist involved.

True that, but if you paid £30-£40 for the original, none of it is going to the original artist.

Bagged, cos its great! Nice heads-up.

Not exactly recent but repress nonetheless...
https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Underground-Resistance-World-2-World/release/8533408

SecretSquizza
but if you paid £30-£40 for the original, none of it is going to the original artist.

Very true mate. You're actually throwing one of my own arguments back in my face when it comes buying originals :) I actually felt a little guilty about posting the Ten Days Of Blue resissue after reading Beltran's comments (and i'm sure everyone agrees that we'd like to see him get some of the proceeds) but in the end buying second hand has the same end effect.

Elements Of Life - Innocence And Inspiration

spaceface01
Elements Of Life - Innocence And Inspiration

Top reissue!

From a post of the MPS page on FB:

Deep Shizzol
Morning guys... Just thought I would post a link to a couple of unreleased 92-93? tracks of mine, recorded at Sound Entity Studios, they were recently recovered from a DAT I thought I had lost!! I used to play them at Sterns on dubplate and they used to go down pretty well!... Just wondering if either of them, maybe both? should get the release they should of had back in the day?

Hey guys... great news!!! ... You wanted it so you got it... Artwork is done for this release "The Lost Tapes" ... just need to get the audio mastered... no firm date yet as to when this will be released... the wheels are now in motion.

https://soundcloud.com/deepshizzol/sets/spencer-t-my-ting-preview-192-kbps

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/no-smoke-international-smoke-signal-2-x-lp-warriors-dance/

https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/no-smoke-watt-noize-koro-koro-ian-tregoning-rewire-its-my-life-max-d-edit-warriors-dance/

BUNKERHEADZ
Hey guys... great news!!! ... You wanted it so you got it... Artwork is done for this release "The Lost Tapes" ... just need to get the audio mastered... no firm date yet as to when this will be released... the wheels are now in motion.

https://soundcloud.com/deepshizzol/sets/spencer-t-my-ting-preview-192-kbps

I notice it says on the soundcloud page, "single release date: April 2018" - i take it that's wrong?

ooh, also just saw this on the MPS site: https://www.mpsvinyl.co.uk/collections/represses/products/rotating-heads-ep (!)

BUNKERHEADZ
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/no-smoke-international-smoke-signal-2-x-lp-warriors-dance/

Great find this Bunkerheadz. Great site too. Quite a few others on there that i definitely can't wait for. Especially this!

https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/code-6-joey-beltram-untitled-ep-midnight-drive/

^ Third Aura off that is such a tune. easily my favourite thing Mr Beltram ever did.

Yep, it's an all-round incredible EP. I have the other two Code 6's, but i've been after this one forever.

spaceface01
https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/code-6-joey-beltram-untitled-ep-midnight-drive/

Anyone know if these can be bought individually - can't see links to purchase - or do you have to sign up for regular mailouts?

SecretSquizza
Anyone know if these can be bought individually - can't see links to purchase - or do you have to sign up for regular mailouts?

ah ... just seen you can buy it through Juno - not released yet though.

SecretSquizza
spaceface01https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/code-6-joey-beltram-untitled-ep-midnight-drive/

Anyone know if these can be bought individually - can't see links to purchase - or do you have to sign up for regular mailouts?

Yeah mate, i got the impression this was a site for wholesalers or something. Still, good for keeping an eye out on stuff

spaceface01
https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/code-6-joey-beltram-untitled-ep-midnight-drive/

Just bought this through Juno ... so now available in case anyone was waiting on it :)

SecretSquizza
Just bought this through Juno ... so now available in case anyone was waiting on it :)

Ordered that aswell. However, I wouldn't have known if I hadn't by pure coincidence looked at my juno wantlist yesterday. Bloody juno didn't send me an alert even though I have everything set to receive alerts for new in stock.

A few others i have picked up recently:

Hawke - 3 Nudes In A Purple Garden

according to the most recent Kniteforce mailing list: there will be a Sub Love release coming with 4 old tunes repressed and an unreleased tune (plus some remixes). probably in a month or two (that's my guess anyway, no date confirmed)

traffic_cone
there will be a Sub Love release coming with 4 old tunes repressed and an unreleased tune (plus some remixes)

Hopefully not just a re-repress of the sublogic represses...

SecretSquizza
Hopefully not just a re-repress of the sublogic represses...

You know it !

SecretSquizza
Hopefully not just a re-repress of the sublogic represses...

i wonder. i mean Kniteforce doesn't seem like a label that'd'd do something lazy. It's also not really a label that normally does re-releases from other labels so I don't know what to expect.

one of the remixes will be by Hyper On Experience too which I have high hopes for :)

Lhasa - The Attic / Sexxor

Not exactly a reissue, but there are some highly sought afters on these:

https://a-ton.bandcamp.com/album/chronicles

BUNKERHEADZ
Lhasa - The Attic / Sexxor

Annoyingly doesn't have adhesive on it ... my fave :(

SecretSquizza
Annoyingly doesn't have adhesive on it ... my fave :(

Yep, should've had all the original tracks. By the way, apart from discogs, where is it available to puchase from anyway? None on juno.

8892sales
where is it available to puchase from anyway? None on juno.

Can't see anywhere, but its listed as released on 1st Jan 2019, so maybe just not up for pre-order yet?

I reckon it'll appear here at some point: https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/

SecretSquizza
Can't see anywhere, but its listed as released on 1st Jan 2019, so maybe just not up for pre-order yet?

Surely it shouldn't have been submitted into the database yet then? Or have discogs changed the way releases can be submitted now?

BUNKERHEADZ
Lhasa - The Attic / Sexxor

Does anyone know if Sexxor is a new track? As in new this year, and not something unreleased from back in the day?

8892sales
Surely it shouldn't have been submitted into the database yet then? Or have discogs changed the way releases can be submitted now?

I doubt anything has change - people just don't follow rules very well ;)

SecretSquizza
I doubt anything has change - people just don't follow rules very well ;)

Ok - so i see from the release that it has "allegedly" been pressed but not generally released until January. Doesn't look like the images are from the release however, so no actual proof.

Interactive - The Techno Wave

and looking on their FB page revealed some more old German classics coming up...

https://imgur.com/a/oHvCtqC

Not very recent by any means but nevertheless a repress.

https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Reese-Just-Want-Another-Chance/release/5643960

https://undergroundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/essential-squirrel-beats-vol-2 - four 92 Bogwoppa/Dance Bass tunes! well...one is a 2018 remix (although faithful to the original).

(actually, just noticed on the same page that a repress of Lunatic Asylum - Chaos Effect is coming too! i know 95 is a bit late for here but might be of interest: https://undergroundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/digital-camelon

[edited in order to make the last link work, E]

traffic_cone
(actually, just noticed on the same page that a repress of Lunatic Asylum - Chaos Effect is coming too! i know 95 is a bit late for here but might be of interest:

Thanks for mentioning. Nice to see the same font is used as on the original.

Ha! finally they woke up @ Warriors Dance :D

More incoming January '19, still no sign of this being repressed - No Smoke - Righteous Rule

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/no-smoke-koro-koro/712264-01/

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/addis-posse-warriors-dance-after-midnight-ep/712269-01/

Mad Dog - Mad Dog E.P.

BUNKERHEADZ
Mad Dog - Mad Dog E.P.

How the flip do you buy it ?

SecretSquizza
How the flip do you buy it ?

All I could find:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vinylfanatiks/mad-dog-monged-out-ep-25th-anniversary-repress-rem

Yer that's all i found as well ... bugger - looks like its finished!

Canadian beauties:

https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/label/big-shot-records/