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Optik Nerve

MEDIUM MEDIUM - The Glitterhouse

Expanded reissue of Medium Mediums debut album, The Glitterhouse, originally released on Cherry Red in October 1981. Formed at the end of 1978, Medium Mediums self-described extreme dance music" had reviewers scrambling to draw comparisons with the bands contemporaries and find a label for its post punk sound. Medium Mediums solid dance rhythms and chaotic, chiming guitar were superficially reminiscent of the Gang Of Four and Talking Heads, but Reess tangential sax playing and Grahams tape and keyboard interjections from the front-of-house mixing desk, took Medium Medium in another direction. "Free-blown dubbed-up white funk" was how Max Bell described the sound in Englands New Musical Express (NME). "At the forefront of the post punk funk movement," raved Cashbox. The U.S. Billboard magazine opined that this was "post punk and post disco dance music." After the initial release of The Glitterhouse, In Sound International magazine Dave Henderson wrote prophetically, "It could be one of the most important records of the type to emerge this year and will doubtlessly be revered as a classic after the group have long since departed." This reissue also features the "Hungry, So Angry" single version which was produced by Adrian Sherwood at Berry Street Studio in London. Also included is a selection of tracks from Cherry Reds 2001 Hungry, So Angry retrospective compilation album, the B-side of the bands debut single on Apt (1979), and a previously unreleased demo version of a song from the 1982 Sound-Products EP, Splendid Isolation. It includes a bonus EP featuring previously unreleased tracks from the 2008 Village recording session. All of the various lineups of Medium Medium are represented. Color vinyl; Gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves." - Optik Nerve.

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Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.

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