D-I-Y Colour Discs

October 5, 2020

in New Catalogue

D-I-Y Colour Discs

The indie label boom following punk in the late 70s led to an explosion of D-I-Y imprints, often based in bedrooms, issuing limited edition cassettes (cheaper than records!), sold at gigs and by mail-order.

One of the most prolific such operations was Color Discs, an alias for Gary Ramon, which was behind numerous lo-fi synth pop, post-punk, indie and electronica creations by acts such as Mystery Plane, Modern Art, Lives Of Angels, weR7, The Ordinary and The Good Missionaries.

While the original cassettes sell for a fortune, many of these homespun projects have been recycled across six volumes of the CD series Cold Waves Of Color.

Cherry Red now represent the rights to the Color Discs catalogue.

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