Van Kaye & Ignit
Anthology 1980-85 (5lp)
Great, fantastic minimal-synth tracks from legendary Dutch duo Van Kaye and Ignit. Van Kaye alias Ed Van Kasteren (studying history of the arts and being singer of Monomen in the late 70s) and Ignit Bekken (performing artist, painter and studying to become an art-teacher) met in early 1980 and started woking and experimenting with synthesisers. The result was the minimal/synth-classics and highly sought-after tapes 'A Slight Delay' and "With a Little Help" which they distributed and pubslihed through their own Ding Dong Discs label. Another ex-Monoman, William Wisselink alias "Wizzkopf", joined the project in 1982. Van Kaye & Ignit did run the famous record-label Ding Dong Records & Tapes which published beautifully designed releases of Independent/Wave-artists such as Legendary Pink Dots, Bene Gesserit, Anne Gillis and many more including the All-Time-Classic-Must-Have-Compilation 'Film Noir'. This box includes both tapes 'A Slight Delay' (as 8-track demo an 11-track original release) and 'With a little help' as well as the ultra-rare 'Picasso on the Wall' 7" tracks, 17 compilation-contributions from 1981-85 (including the Radionome tracks), 7 unreleased tracks/demos recorded between 80-85 and a 30 minute live-concert held in Rotterdam 1983.