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40 years ago this week I was born and I wanted to celebrate with a completely random mix of songs released in 1981. thanks to lowergrandradio.com Appliances - Paranoia Rap Bernard Wright - Haboglabotribin’ Nyrabakiga - Cor Corora Siouxsie & the Banshees - Congo Conga Anna Dobiey - Resümee Herbie Hancock - Magic Number Imagination - Flashback ZYX - When Darkness Comes Rich La Bonte - White Magician...

Buy Vinyl: https://daxpierson.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-bumps-a-queer-divine-dissatisfaction Dax Pierson’s debut solo LP is coming via San Francisco’s Electronic powerhouse imprint Dark Entries Records and Oakland’s Ratskin Records collective. Pierson, an Oakland-based underground legend, has pushed the boundaries of experimental electronic music with his soul-moving opus Nerve Bumps; A Queer Divin...

Traxx(Nation) created a 6-hour selection dedicated to Danny's in Chicago where he held his monthly party Passage. Curated and programmed musically by Traxx, transporting us to a full night of music from 9-pm til 2am. Passage focuses on the new wave/new beat era with a personal collection of music fashioned to alleviate your senses discovering different outtakes and unknown songs. It’s a lengthy jo...

BUY VINYL: https://daxpierson.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-bumps-a-queer-divine-dissatisfaction Dax Pierson’s debut solo LP is coming via San Francisco’s Electronic powerhouse imprint Dark Entries Records and Oakland’s Ratskin Records collective. Pierson, an Oakland-based underground legend, has pushed the boundaries of experimental electronic music with his soul-moving opus Nerve Bumps; A Queer Divin...

BUY VINYL: https://sexual-harrassment.bandcamp.com/album/i-need-a-freak Dark Entries is pleased to announce a deluxe reissue of Sexual Harrassment’s 1983 opus I Need A Freak. Lynn Tolliver, DJ/Program Director at Cleveland’s WZAK, adopted the pseudonym David Payton in order to keep his musical endeavors separate from his public persona. Sexual Harrassment (misspelled deliberately) was formed as a...

BUY VINYL: https://jasmineinfiniti.bandcamp.com/album/bxtch-sl-p-remastered Brooklyn-based queer nightlife luminary Jasmine Infiniti self-released her debut album, BXTCH SLÄP, in March 2020. Dark Entries steps forward to present the album remastered and on double vinyl. Over the thirteen disruptive club cuts of BXTCH SLÄP, Jasmine conjures occult rave incantations with sub-tectonic bass and seduct...

BUY VINYL: https://grouprhoda.bandcamp.com/album/passing-shades Group Rhoda, the solo project of Mara Barenbaum, returns to Dark Entries with ‘Passing Shades’. An integral member of the Oakland electronic music scene, Barenbaum has been writing, performing, and plunging into oneiric depths as Group Rhoda since 2009. This is the project’s fourth LP, and the third time Barenbaum has collaborated wit...

BUY VINYL: https://grouprhoda.bandcamp.com/album/passing-shades Group Rhoda, the solo project of Mara Barenbaum, returns to Dark Entries with ‘Passing Shades’. An integral member of the Oakland electronic music scene, Barenbaum has been writing, performing, and plunging into oneiric depths as Group Rhoda since 2009. This is the project’s fourth LP, and the third time Barenbaum has collaborated wit...

BUY VINYL: grouprhoda.bandcamp.com/album/passing-shades Group Rhoda, the solo project of Mara Barenbaum, returns to Dark Entries with ‘Passing Shades’. An integral member of the Oakland electronic music scene, Barenbaum has been writing, performing, and plunging into oneiric depths as Group Rhoda since 2009. This is the project’s fourth LP, and the third time Barenbaum has collaborated with Dark E...

BUY VINYL/DIGITAL: https://patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/some-funkettes Dark Entries is humbled to continue digging through the archives of legendary producer Patrick Cowley. While best known for his production on chart-topping cybernetic disco anthems such as Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” or his own “Menergy”, Cowley, who passed away from AIDS-related illness in 1982, left us wi...

BUY VINYL/DIGITAL: https://patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/some-funkettes Dark Entries is humbled to continue digging through the archives of legendary producer Patrick Cowley. While best known for his production on chart-topping cybernetic disco anthems such as Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” or his own “Menergy”, Cowley, who passed away from AIDS-related illness in 1982, left us with a s...

https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-endangered-species-vol-1 In eleven years of deep digging, Dark Entries has uncovered many curiosities, lone exemplars of the scarsest breeds. They are lurking in Croatia, on the streets of New York, maybe in the back of your own dusty closet - these odd-ball Italo and synth-wave monsters are too rare to live, too divine to die. Once-los...

PREORDER: https://crushedsoul.bandcamp.com/ Berlin-based, Dutch-born Steffi possesses near-boundless prowess. As a DJ, she’s proved her effortless mastery of disco, house, electro, and techno; as helm of labels Klakson and Dolly, she’s long maintained her status as tastemaker; as a producer, she has graced us with three solo LPs and numerous 12”s. Dark Entries is now honored to unveil the debut of...

Crushed Soul “Scalar Property” from the ‘Family of Waves’ EP out Friday Aug 28. Steffi serves up unhealthy dose of what can only be described as Metroid-funk, its staccato bass jabs interlaced with ghastly vocal pads.

BUY VINYL/DIGITAL: https://robertrental.bandcamp.com/album/paralysis Robert Rental is an artist as influential as he is overlooked. An anchor of the early British DIY and post-punk scene, his name is most frequently uttered alongside illustrious collaborators such as Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller. Dark Entries and Optimo ally to illuminate some of Rental’s early solo works with an expanded reissue...

https://robertrental.bandcamp.com/album/paralysis Robert Rental is an artist as influential as he is overlooked. An anchor of the early British DIY and post-punk scene, his name is most frequently uttered alongside illustrious collaborators such as Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller. Dark Entries and Optimo ally to illuminate some of Rental’s early solo works with an expanded reissue of his debut 7” Pa...

Our first digital-only compilation called ‘Lost & Found Vol. 1” out July 3rd on Bandcamp featuring Bézier, Bill Converse, Doc Sleep, Mystic Bill, Borusiade, Group Rhoda, Sepehr, Patrick Cowley, Maxx Mann and Magnus II all proceeds go to artists and Black-Led Trans orgs ❤️https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lost-found-vol-1

BUY VINYL: https://red-axes.bandcamp.com/album/red-axes This year marks the tenth of collaboration for @redaxes Red Axes, the Tel Aviv-based duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi. Informed by post-punk, new wave, and a plethora of club sounds old and new, they have cleaved a singular path with their hefty discography. To celebrate their anniversary, they reunite with Dark Entries for an eponymous 11 t...

BUY VINYL: https://sepehr.bandcamp.com/album/shaytoon We are proud to welcome back San Francisco based DJ and producer Sepehr Alimagham @sepehr-a for his debut album ‘Shaytoon’. He cites early influences like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and post-hardcore bands for kick-starting his affinity for off-kilter, underground music. In 2017 Sepehr began performing live PA sets and released his first EP...

BUY: https://sepehr.bandcamp.com/album/shaytoon We are proud to welcome back San Francisco based DJ and producer @sepehr-a Sepehr Alimagham for his debut album ‘Shaytoon’. Drenched in nostalgia from his upbringing, ‘Shaytoon’ pays homage to 1970s Iranian albums that were on rotation throughout his youth. Eight tracks of twisted acid, left-of center electro, sludgy psychedelia, and things-you-can-m...

Maxx Mann were the gay New Wave duo of Frank Oldham Jr (vocals, lyrics) and Paul Hamman (music) from New York City formed in 1981. Frank studied voice and acting at the Herbert Bergdorf School idolizing Eartha Kitt, Nancy Wilson, Johnny Mathis and Shirley Bassey. Paul was playing piano for a cabaret singer at a bar in Greenwich Village where Frank met him and their friendship began. Paul and Frank...

We are honored to share a segment from Passage, a party at Danny’s in Chicago curated and programmed musically by Traxx on the last Wednesday of every month. Passage focuses on the new wave/new beat era with a personal collection of music fashioned to alleviate your senses discovering different outtakes and unknown songs from far off countries. This mix also nods to the Liaisons Dangereuse radio s...

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/ep/fear-e-grey-skies-in-a-dear-green-place/ We are proud to welcome Fear-E @fear-e for his Dark Entries debut ‘Grey Skies In A Dear Green Place’ out February 28th. Fear-E is the moniker of Scott McKay a Glasgow based DJ and producer. Scott has already made a name for himself as one of Glasgow’s most technically-gifted and diverse selectors o...

BUY VINYL: https://shcuro.bandcamp.com/album/particle-of-memory Shcuro is the alias of João Ervedosa a DJ, producer and graphic designer based in Lisbon. He also runs the record labels Sombra and Paraíso, makes music as Jose Acid and hosts a show on Rádio Quântica. His first contact with a DJ setup happened at age 15, and that’s when Shcuro decided to buy his own turntables and mixer; and started...

BUY VINYL: https://shcuro.bandcamp.com/album/particle-of-memory Shcuro @shcuro is the alias of João Ervedosa a DJ, producer and graphic designer based in Lisbon. He also runs the record labels Sombra and Paraíso, makes music as Jose Acid and hosts a show on Rádio Quântica. His first contact with a DJ setup happened at age 15, and that’s when Shcuro decided to buy his own turntables and mixer; and...