This is an ace comp of 80s German home recorded stuff that Finders Keepers put out a couple of years back
Was listening to Swell Maps just a few days ago after the Neil Young HGATR thread lead me down a little musical twisty path. Great stuff.
This compilation is great.
recent find (used to be in the Rentals, who I need to check out as well)
This Heat were an awesome experimental band from Camberwell which I’m sure many of you lovely nerds will be familiar with! More in the post punk vein but definitely weird. This is from their 1981 album Deceit
the Computer incarnations compilation is fantastic
GTA V special
1980, this very weird song just sneaks in
Amazing French tape from 1987. Sounds like something Not Not Fun would put out about 20 years later.
this is a banger. Not overly weird i suppose but still…
Really like this - they’ve released a lot of stuff. Is that album a good starting point?
There’s a track by them on this (ace) compilation, which probably fits the bill for this thread:
Dunno if this is weird enough but have had this song by Deux on repeat all week, love it so much. Just something about it which is so appealing, from the odd little synth flourishes that sound like a phone ringing or a car horn beeping to the male/female vocals switching between half-sung french and english. Whole album is great but this is the stand out song in my book.
Arguably the king of obscure, weird 80s music at the moment is the Belgian label Stroom, run by Nosedrip. His regular NTS show is packed with gems, and they’ve reissued some amazing stuff in the last few years: