Wednesday, April 18, 2007

NULL AND VOID-HAPPINESS AND CONTEMPT, 12" EP, 1980, USA




Very Nash The Slash-like high energy synth driven arty new wave classic from this Orange County, California unit that was featured on the seminal minimal synth comp "The Up Another Octave Selection". Note: despite what the jacket indicates, tracks 3 & 4 on side B are banded together and listed as one track on the label.

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10 comments:

  1. fuzztunnelApril 19, 2007 at 6:08 AM

    Wow- a friend of mine found this in a Pittsburgh Salvation Army and I never ever thought I'd heer of this again...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 24, 2007 at 1:18 PM

    I enjoyed this tremendously - anything else by them? (or similar)
    Thank you in anticipation.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2008 at 1:34 AM

    Wow, I'm floored. I started playing bass in Null & Void just after they recorded this record. Hearing these tracks brought back lots of memories! Thank you very much for posting the files.

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  4. AnonymousJune 18, 2008 at 10:22 PM

    I bought this album at Tower Records in Brea, California (Orange County) when it came out. I still remember the girl behind the counter saying "Oh no.. your not buying that are you?". She wouldn't tell me why she asked and mumbled "Those guys" shaking her head. I love this album and still have it. I guess the same question goes, were there any other songs recorded after this?

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  5. JoaquinApril 8, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    The vocalist was my roommate! He lives in West Hollywood CA, and has some stuff they recorded afterwards, plus a bunch of material recorded by the other members.

    I can pass on the contact info if anyone is interested...

    el_juak (at) yahoo.com

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  6. AnonymousMay 17, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    holy shit this kicks ass! thank you thank you thank you

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  7. AnonymousDecember 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    I had this record in my second-hand record store in Berlin back in the mid-eighties. I only remember we tried to sell it for very little money but nobody wanted it. Couldn't appreciate it, but today I do! Thanks for sharing!

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  8. UnknownMay 27, 2012 at 9:08 PM

    I lived in fullerton it was friends with 1 of the band members I got a complete copy from the master tape before the album was released.

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  9. dannyJune 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM

    any chance for a re-up??? thank you!

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  10. EEPhotoboothJuly 10, 2014 at 10:55 PM

    It is the year 2014 and I have cleaned out my loft finding this album. When we lived in the City of Fullerton, my sister dated Stuart Barnes for a brief time. We also knew the band members of Agent Orange. Great times during the 1980s

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