New Friends In Belgium

Blaine L. Reininger - Broken Fingers

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Les Disques Du Crépuscule (TWI 068) in 1982 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Any friend of Vini is a friend of mine. Here is the debut solo album from Blaine L. Reninger recorded with tuxedo chum Peter Principle after he relocated to Belgium in the early eighties. Broken Fingers is a very varied and interesting affair combining experimentation, ethnical influences, synthpop and moody moments. Reininger does get his violin out occasionally but what I find quite striking is how similar to these ears his voice and vocal style is to Bowie. For penguinflight and all you greasy gigolos out there.

A1 Broken Fingers
A2 Nurr Al Hajj (Fake Arab From New Jersey)
A3 Magic Time
A4 Petite Pièce Chinoise
A5 Right Mind
B1 Gigolo Grasiento (Greasy Gigolo)
B2 Spiny Doughboys
B3 Sons Of The Silent Age
B4 Uptown
B5 Les Nuages

No Tears

Tuxedomoon - No Tears

Originally self-released as a 12" vinyl EP in 1979. Generously ripped and donated by a blog follower from a 1985 Benelux repressing. I only ever had this on a compact disc, so here from vinyl (though it's suggested most CD versions came from vinyl) is the classic electro-punk debut from the tuxes.

A1 New Machine
A2 Litebulb Overkill
B1 Nite & Day (Hommage À Cole Porter)
B2 No Tears

Special Treatments

Tuxedomoon - Scream With A View EP

Ripped from a 12" vinyl EP released on Cramboy Records (CBOY 4040) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit flac. Here's the European reissue pressing of a self-released 1979 EP of Tuxedomoon's fine early period electronica. Where Interests Lie could easily have been an early Cabs masterpiece.

A1 Nervous Guy
A2 Where Interests Lie
B1 (Special Treatment For The) Family Man
B2 Midnite Stroll

What's The Correct Use?

Tuxedomoon - Half-Mute

Originally released an a vinyl album on Ralph Records (TX 8004L) in 1980. Ripped here from a 1985 vinyl album on Cramboy Records (CRAMBOY 1010) to high resolution 24-bits of flac. I love what Tuxedomoon do in parts, some early work is superb (like Eno went punk) but in later releases I have found them very sporadic, almost take it or leave it. Still these San Francisco boys have continually ploughed their creative furrow in music and released a plethora of work. I was disappointed to find out too late about their London show this week where the original line up of Brown, Reininger and Principle replayed Half-Mute in its entirety. The cold classic What Use? must have sounded amazing again after all these years. 

A1 Nazca
A2 59 To 1
A3 Fifth Column
A4 Tritone (Musica Diablo)
A5 Loneliness
A6 James Whale
B1 What Use?
B2 Volo Vivace
B3 7 Years
B4 KM/ Seeding The Clouds