VA - Trax Test Excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987 (2017)

Trax Test is the first ever survey of Italy's pioneering, visionary, and influential label and mail art collective Trax, which ran from 1981-1987 as a network for the creation of collaborative projects. Traces of disco, cosmic krautrock, jazz, electro-pop, and industrial noise are all tessellated across the compilation's 25 tracks, with a number of artists and the same equipment – cheap drum machines, synths, FX and tape cropping up in various, mutant formations. This set is right up there with the best compilations from Vinyl On Demand, Light Sounds Dark, or Minimal Wave.

Track List:

01. Cancer - Telematic 04:34
02. MA Phillips - Youve Lost That Loving Feeling 05:53
03. Nausea - No Conversation 03:44
04. Amok & Mecanique Vegetale - Untitled 02:12
05. Daniele Ciullini & Amok - The Secret Door 02:11
06. E Coli - Borax 01:36
07. The Cop Killers - Cop Killers Theme & Calma Atmosfera 04:32
08. Peter Mayer & Rod Summers - Notterossa & Rednight (exce 04:09
09. Piermario Ciani & Vittore Baroni - Live Blister Bump 03:37
10. Piermario Ciani & Ado Scaini - I Love Cancer 03:15
11. B Sides - Trybuna Ludu 02:50
12. Colin Potter - Solidarity at Wujek Colliery 06:16
13. Piermario Ciani - Co.Mix 03:12
14. Naif Orchestra - Fratelli DItalia 04:35
15. Merzbow - Kimigayo 04:23
16. Monty Cantsin - Catastronics 04:40
17. Utopia Production - Chainsaw Massacre 02:16
18. Spirocheta Pergoli - Merendine 03:21
19. Nostalgia - Biosolution For Today 03:18
20. Ptose - The Jellyfishs Mood 03:00
21. Vittore Baroni - (Living With) Prosthesis 02:07
22. DDAA - Ghosts Of The Paper Trumpets 03:49
23. Zone Verte - Le Fantome De LElephant 03:35
24. I Nipoti del Faraone - Prendi Losso E Corri 01:36