essential balearic heat beat! follow up to the labels previous album of frank & marias work echoes sl104

2023 repress - 180gram lp with printed deluxe sleeve, full size graphic insert

cccvvv is the brussels based duo of clara vellin and sofa elsewhere. the first covid-lockdown drew these two old friends closer and both a love-story and burst of musical creativity followed.

new strange love lp

lp with colour innersleeve, 500 copies only released

reissue . 1986 classic

nz import. 12inch with printed deluxe sleeve, plus lovely 2 sided full size photo inserfor its second release, strangelove resurrects two cuts from the australian cult synth pop duo, arvos, much-mythologised 1984 album luna. having spent time in europe and with heads & hearts full of the continents synth-pop movements, deborah gray and roy nicolson each returned down-under to discover a doggedly rock orientated landscape. finding solace in roys studio and inspired by their musical o.e.s, the arvo concept was formed and an album took shape. a glamorous visual/electronic opus, major label misjudgment and local bewilderment left luna to unjustly slip under the radar. rescued here, bikini channels an ipanema electronic vibe, nostalgically recalling antipodean beach culture while the synthetic undercurrents of so deep reflect on the nature of our dreams. also presented is a reimagined so deep instrumental from australias synth pop scholar-in-chief hysteric, while french m.o.t.m. shelter tailors bikini into an excursion version.