John J Lafia - Life Is Short (1984) (Contort Yourself)

Track C2 from the double LP "80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2" on Contort Yourself. Double vinyl LP with gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves and insert + digital CONTORT YOURSELF: https://contortyourself-cy.bandcamp.com/ Once again, digging deep into the underbelly of 1980s DIY cassette culture, Contort Yourself present a weird and wild collection of minimal wave, industrial, post punk, experimental electronic and more... BUY VINYL: www.juno.co.uk/products/80s-underground-cassette-culture-volume-2/883082-01/ BUY DIGITAL:https://contortyourself-cy.bandcamp.com/album/80s-underground-cassette-culture-volume-2 "Focusing on razor-edged techno pop, bleepy drum machine minimalism and homemade synth experiments, ['80s UCC Vol.2'] takes a global view of the 80s tape underground...saturated in a vibrant layer of multicoloured DIY ambition. But this compilation is more than a nostalgia-fuelled expansion of the archive. It bends chronologies, suggesting that A didn’t necessarily follow B in the way it’s usually assumed. A snap-shot full of surprise precursors, heroic outliers and yet to be realised possibilities." - The Quietus "Brilliant" - Tom Ravenscroft (BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC) "From the lurching misanthropic menace of Years On Earth to the static drum machine robo funk of M Rendell, from the dark proto-House, monochrome industrial work out of Pornosect to the primitive sample-punk of Ob Ovo, these mutants all made music brimming with life and vim under the layer of culture and reality that was the mainstream in the 80s. Think Cabaret Voltairish experimentation, sub-Fad Gadget desperation, burbling radiophonic synth tones smothering grooves, these coldest of waves and most clanging of industrial tones represent a tip or a trough of an iceberg or valley of endless invention from the decade that refuses to die." - Monorail "Listeners with insight into the subterranean 1980s might gather they have a handle on what 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 2 has in store, but a mere spin of the sides reveals the contents to be more expansive than one might expect...and even better, all the cuts have been fully licensed from the artists, making this a stand-up undertaking all-around. " - The Vinyl District "Glasgow’s Contort Yourself trawl the scuzzier echelons of ‘80s tape culture for the tangiest traces of coldwave, post-punk, post-industrial with an uncanny appreciation of the way the 1980s and 2022 share so much in common. Delivered to a backdrop of a UK in terminal decline, dominated by ghoulish Tory gas lighters and sex pests, but just about keeping its head above water, ‘’80s Underground Cassette Culture’ offers an ideal soundtrack to disenchantment coloured in morose monochrome and a looming sense of dread. Compiled in Glasgow - proportionally boasting the most record collectors in these blighted isles - the picks are particularly on the money for fans of needling guitars, bleak vocals and general countercultural, antiestablishment aesthetics and rhetoric...an ideal soundtrack to mooching about with a fixed scowl" - Boomkat. FULL LP PREVIEW: soundcloud.com/contortyourselfnow/sets/80s-underground-cassette