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Orange Label is a soulseek based mix project.

For more information, visit the Orange Label Group.

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http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6348/dotgreycs0.gif Ambient Electronic
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6348/dotgreycs0.gif C-86, Jangle & Twee
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6348/dotgreycs0.gif Chlorine Dreams
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6348/dotgreycs0.gif House Arrest

If you've heard a mix you like, feel free to butter my ego (it won't hurt).

So, you've discovered a magic lamp and the genie turns out to be a music fanatic.

He grants you one wish only, the ability to go back in time and staple one album to your former-self's head.

Which album would you choose, and when would you present it?

In order of impact….

The The - Soul Mining (1983)
There's something about this album that lives up to its title. Every track is an assault on your way of life, by the time it ends, you're questioning your very existence. The music is exsquiste, including a piano solo that seems to last for hours.

For me, this album sparkles in the pile of post-punk like a fist-size diamond.

Curve - Frozen EP (1991)
If "Soul Mining" kicked its way in, then "Frozen" used a drill. When I bought this record I had no idea what it would sound like,…

2004

The variety of 2004 was staggering (provided you ignored the music press).

The following 50 tracks probably cover 20 genres, with artists dotted all over Europe & America. I was particularly impressed with the German output (all forms of electronica), which says alot about their thriving micro-label scene. It's interesting, and perhaps ominous (for us in the UK) that a label such as Kompakt can double in size every 2 years.

2004, I salute you!?!

01. !!! - Hello? Is This Thing On?
02. Drama Society - Crying Hero (Original Mix)
03. Full Intention - Musique
04. Pinback -…

As a kid I liked sitting in shadows, and let's face it, the 80's was a huge dark amorphous mass.

There's something about the original post-punk/goth rock/industrial sound that hasn't been replicated, in a way I'm glad, in a way not. I'd be delighted if the next 'Siouxsie Sioux' would step forward.

Anyhow, the contents of a surviving mix:

01. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Nothing Wrong
02. The Cure - A Forest
03. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
04. Fad Gadget - Coitus Interruptus
05. Lords of the New Church - Lord's Prayer
06. Department S - Is…

Mix 2:

01. Click Click - Awake and Watching
02. Neon - Lobotomy
03. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Arabian Nights
04. Cabaret Voltaire - Kickback
05. The Cult - Lil' Devil
06. Central Unit - Saturday Nite
07. Ikon - Reality Is Lost
08. The Chameleons - Pleasure And Pain
09. Joy Division - Day of the Lords
10. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste the Floor
11. Silke Bischoff - On The Other Side
12. Ministry - Same Old Madness
13. Pink Turns Blue - Your Master Is Calling
14. Suicide Commando - No More
15. The…

1991

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1991 was my favourite year in music, probably because I had a well-paid job for the first time and CD's started appearing in every crevice of the room (even under the pillow).

But saying that, the music was execeptional. I guess, C-86 coming of age, dreampop taking off as a genre, the emergence of acid-house. On the other side of the pond, grunge and its punkish energy.

It was all there. 1991, I salute you!?!

01. Curve - Coast Is Clear
02. New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Fishes Eyes
03. Spacemen 3 - I Love You
04. Pixies…