For our second release we travel to Wales, UK 1981 for Violin Sect. This was one of the first releases on my “wish list” when I started the label after I found Steve Walker from the band online and discovered he was not only still making music but he had also uploaded some stuff from his archive, including rough mixes of the two unreleased VS tracks which were somehow even better than the two on the 7″!
Available on our Bandcamp page or our Big Cartel and distributed by Revolver USA and Fusetron.
Minimum Table Stacks is proud to present the first ever reissue of the ultra-rare sole 7” by the Wales, UK post-punk four-piece Violin Sect, expanded to 12” 45RPM vinyl with two additional previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same recording sessions, all remastered from the original 1⁄4” studio tapes.
Self-released by the band themselves in 1981, the 7” was of the type only whispered about among hardcore collectors of obscure British “DIY” punk and post-punk, even slipping past the compilers of the mighty “45 Revolutions” book. After years of mystery, band member Steve Walker dug up the original 40-year-old tapes and had them remastered by a friend, digitizing for the first time two additional songs from the same sessions not heard since 1981.
Violin Sect’s dub-inflected post-punk/spaced out guitar funk places them firmly in the presence of contemporaries like the Raincoats, Public Image Limited, the Pop Group, Scritti Politti and many of the other early Rough Trade bands. Included with this release are liner notes by bassist Steve Walker along with photos and ephemera from his personal archive, including a full reprint of a Violin Sect interview that appeared in a small UK zine in 1980. One of the best discoveries of forgotten UK DIY/post-punk since the “Messthetics” compilation series!
