Frank Bull12/04/2026
This is the most useful thread I have read all month. Thank you for documenting it.
Re-Discovered: A Forgotten Maurizio Bianchi Recording
A test pressing with no sleeve and a label hand I had never seen before. Two weeks of sorting later, here is what the archive gave up about Bianchi in 1983.
The acetate had been filed under the wrong year for nearly four decades. The give-away was the matrix scratch — a numbering system Bianchi only used for a handful of months.
Why it matters
It reframes the gap between Symphony for a Genocide and what everyone assumed was silence. There was no silence. There was a tape nobody had heard.
Comments (7)
ZkoArchivist13/04/2026
This matches what I have on my copy exactly. Good to see it written down.
Frank Bull30/04/2026
The re-issue runs on the new master. Original is original, but the re-issue is cleaner by design, not by accident.
DiscoveredZkoIn198902/05/2026
This is why I keep coming back here instead of the old group.
PowerElectronicsUK03/05/2026
Have you compared it against the 1986 Japanese promo cut? Allegedly only 30 copies pressed.
CassetteCultureJP11/05/2026
I would call reel dubs collectible if the provenance is solid. Otherwise they are just copies.
NoiseFloorUS14/05/2026
Welcome to the scene. You did not overpay — you bought a story.