Portrait

Guyers Connection

Portrait

 

1983

  • 1.
    Pogo of Techno
  • 2.
    Ballade Pour Nous
  • 3.
    Ein Glas Voll Gurken
  • 4.
    She's So Hot
  • 5.
    La Transformation
  • 6.
    Links & Lustig
  • 7.
    Die Grille
  • 8.
    Keep the City Clean
  • 9.
    Dallas
  • 10.
    Arabia
  • 11.
    National- und Ständerat
  • MW056

Minim­al Wave is proud to pre­sent a re­is­sue of the semi­n­al first album from Swiss Wav­ers, Guyer’s Con­nec­tion. Tibor Csébits and Philip­pe Al­ioth for­med Guyer’‘s Con­nec­tion in Basel, Swit­zerland when they were only 14 and 15 years old. At the time they were in a new wave rock band cal­led “Kurtzschluss” which they de­cided to break from in order to make pure­ly electronic music. They began with two syn­thesiz­ers, a drum mac­hine, a 4-track tape re­cord­er and a multi­tude of ideas. They chan­neled their uni­que and humor­ous vis­ion into their first album, en­tit­led Portrait which they pro­duced them­selves and self-released in 1983. Over the years, the album be­came a high­ly sought after minim­al synth cult clas­sic. It stands alone as one of the stron­gest ex­am­ples of Swiss Minim­al Wave, and pro­bab­ly the only one that is in Basel­dytsch. The Portrait re­is­sue is pre­sen­ted in a high qual­ity gloss sleeve, with artwork to match their origin­al sleeve de­sign from 1983. The re­cord fea­tures newly re­mas­tered audio pre­ssed on 180 gram black vinyl, as a hand-numbered edi­tion of 999. Re­lease date: Sep­temb­er 16th, 2014. Pre-order avail­able August 22nd, 2014. Due to pre­ss­ing plant de­lays, all ord­ers for this re­lease and which in­clude this re­lease will ship out on Sep­temb­er 25th.

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