How do you follow up a landmark album like group:xex? By releasing a compilation of underground Bay Area bands from the 80s!
The next release on Dark Entries will be our first ever compilation: BAY AREA RETROGRADE (BART) VOL 1, featuring unreleased tracks alongside long lost classics from San Francisco and its surroundings. Here is an introduction to some of the bands:
Nominal State / Middle Class /1983 / SF
Batang Frisco / Power / 1986 / SF
Necropolis of Love / Talk / 1982 / Berkeley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72xC5Q9Ja1c
Wasp Women / Kill Me / 1980 / SF
Distant Thunder / Tin Soldiers / 1987 / SF
Voice Farm / Voyeur / 1982 / SF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urr3gOQjzlg
Danny Boy and the Serious Party Gods / Castro Boy / 1983 / SF
Quiet Room / Yangtzee River / 1981 / Palo Alto
Los Microwaves / Silent Screamers /1982 / SF
Standard Of Living / N.F.A. / 1982 / SF
Units / Mission / 1980 / SF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQnLel6OsI