York House Recordings, also known as YHR or YHR Tapes, was a small

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which released 31 original cassettes of

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, avant-garde, and dark ambient music between 1979 and 1983.

History

York House Recordings was founded by David Elliott, who also published a magazine called Neumusik. Elliott put out a series of cassettes in parallel with the magazine featuring artists from all over the world. YHR released music by

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& Farnbauer (''

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'') and

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. Other notable artists with releases by YHR include

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, Günter Schickert, Andrew Cox,

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, Paul Nagle, Duallien, and Elliott's own band MFH, later known as Pump. Many YHR releases were subsequently reissued by Auricle Music on cassette after the demise of the label. A number have also been reissued on LP or CD by an assortment of labels.

Catalogue

*YHR 001 MFH ''First Move'' (1980) *YHR 002 MFH ''Within 30 Miles'' (1980) *YHR 003 Andrew Cox ''Arioch'' (1980) *YHR 004 Gordon Alien ''O Puss'' (1980) *YHR 005

''Voyeur Tape'' (1980) *YHR 006

''Cold Tape'' (1980) *YHR 007 Ping-Pong the Bear ''No, Never any Greyhounds'' (1980) *YHR 008 Andrew Cox ''Methods'' (1980) *YHR 009 MFH ''Masks'' (1980) *YHR 010 DAS ''DAS I'' (1980) *YHR 011 Nik Lumsden ''Alarms & Excursions'' (1981) *YHR 012 Andreas Grosser ''Venite Visum'' (1981) *YHR 013 Various Artists ''YHR Volume I'' (1981) *YHR 014 Fondation ''Métamorphoses'' (1981) *YHR 015

& Farnbauer ''Live in Vienna'' (1981) *YHR 016 MFH ''Ground Zero'' (1981) *YHR 017 Andrew Cox ''Hydra'' (1981) *YHR 018 Paul Nagle ''The Soft Room'' (1981) *YHR 019

''Musik aus der Grauzone'' (1981) *YHR 020

Conrad Schnitzler Conrad "Conny" Schnitzler (17 March 1937 – 4 August 2011) was a prolific German experimental musician associated with West Germany's 1970s krautrock movement. A co-founder of West Berlin's Zodiak Free Arts Lab, he was an early member of Tangeri ...

''Conrad & Sequenza'' (1981) *YHR 021 Paul Nagle ''Tree & Leaf'' (1982) *YHR 022 The Klingons ''Analog-Digital'' (1982) *YHR 023 Rüdiger Lorenz ''Earthrise'' (1983) *YHR 024

''Musik an der Grenze'' (1983) *YHR 025 Andrew Cox ''Songs from the Earth'' (1983) *YHR 026 Cinéma Vérité ''Rhythmus und Ritual'' (1983) *YHR 027 Peter Schäfer ''Schaf im Wolfspelz'' (1983) *YHR 028 MFH ''Head'' (1983) *YHR 029 Yin Yang ''Flusswelt'' (1983) *YHR 030 Duallein ''Noch kein Regen für Alle'' (1983) *YHR 031 Günter Schickert ''Kinder in der Wildnis'' (1983)

Notes

References

* Cassette liner notes * Discog
YHR Tapes
retrieved 17 October 2007. * Exotique Music: The Industrial Exchang

retrieved 17 October 2007. * Schickert, Günte

Retrieved 17 October 2007. * SoundOh

retrieved 17 October 2007.

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