The Lonely Crowd

The Misz

The Lonely Crowd

 

1983

  • 1.
    Only Lunies Fall
  • 2.
    Tameless Horses
  • 3.
    It Ain't All Garbage
  • 4.
    Even Bad Times Are Good
  • 5.
    Le Jolie Jardin
  • 6.
    The Wave of Miszbehave
  • 7.
    When Preachers Come
  • 8.
    Zastava Home
  • 9.
    The Lonely Crowd
  • 10.
    Roll Over Bhopal
  • MW069

Minim­al Wave is happy to pre­sent an LP of tracks by Be­lgian syn­thwave lumina­ries The Misz, en­tit­led The Lone­ly Crowd. The Misz for­med in Gent, Be­lgium in 1983 by Jan Van den Broeke and Dries De­kock­er at a time when they had both just re­located from the co­unt­ry. They lived on the same street and col­laborated free­ly with the li­mited equip­ment they had, which al­ways cen­tered around the Fos­tex 250 4-track tape re­cord­er. They used an un­known mono­phonic syn­thesiz­er, casio syn­ths, roland drum mac­hines, hand drums and guitars through ef­fects ped­als, im­provis­ing with their voices and often in­cluded friends for ad­dition­al voices and sounds. They cap­tured these sonic ex­peri­ments and some­times re­leased them on cas­sette (It Ain’t all Gar­bage, 1984 - Eddy Merckz, 1985 - Viol­ence and Love, 1987) in very li­mited edi­tions of 100-200. They were also in­cluded on numer­ous cas­sette com­pila­tions throug­hout the 1980s on labels like Mad In Be­lgium, The Cas­sette Fac­to­ry, 3RIO Tapes, Minimart pro­duc­tion, Frac­tion Studio, Cauc­hy Pro­duc­tions, Home Pro­duct, R.R. pro­ducts, ZNS Tapes, and Body Re­cords. They de­scribed them­selves as young, im­ma­ture and bit stran­ge yet total­ly bold and fear­less. They sang about what sur­roun­ded them from world politics and en­viron­ment­al cat­astrop­hes to love and lust. The songs on The Lone­ly Crowd span from vari­ous cas­sette re­leases and have been re­mas­tered from their origin­al reel to reel tapes. The LP is pre­ssed on 180 gram vinyl as a li­mited edi­tion of 600 co­p­ies, the first 300 are in white and the re­main­ing 300 in black. The cover and inner sleeve are prin­ted on matte heavy card stock featur­ing photog­raphic col­lages, typo­gra­phy and de­sign by Peter Miles. Re­lease date is April 23, 2019. Pre-order is now avail­able. Re­cords will ship out on May 7th – along with any ord­ers con­tain­ing MW070 and CITI026.

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All sample clips are 30-90 seconds in length