Echo Wielkiej Plyty: Rare Unreleased & Forgotten Electronic Music From Poland 1982-1987 vinyl

While in the West we can barely comprehend a different way of living, when the contents of this very heads-y collection were produced Poland was completely reliant on that different way of life. And yet every track here, while certainly cut from a cloth that's anything but mainstream, could really have come from just about anywhere.

And that's precisely the point. Or at least it was. Electronic experimentation and musical development behind the Iron Curtain was every bit as vital as those it was on The Other Side, and much was driven by the opportunity to evade heavy censorship many countries in the region were subject to, with no lyrics to anger the powers that be. Hence many pieces here, for example the filtered electro of 'Pamietnik Manekina', can be considered masterpieces well ahead of their time.

Marco Gallerani, Kaoru Inoue, Juno Recommends Leftfield, Juno Recommends Experimental, Eddie C, DJ ROCCA