Altered Zones

In a recent interview with Samantha Cornwell, Puro Instinct's Piper Kaplan turned us on to Red Wave, a compilation of underground synth-pop artists from 1980s Leningrad which has inspired the Los Angeles dream-rock duo both musically and visually. "That record," she said, "had similar aesthetic ingredients to post-punk records that I’ve loved. It was also better, in the sense that it was amateurly and instinctively executed, and just reinforced the whole iron curtain vibe, where there’s a stronghold on information. It's like they’re playing their skewed version of whatever is going on in the Western World." Intrigued, we asked Piper to create a mixdown of some record store arcana she's had on rotation of late. Most of the artists on here are too obscure for Google, but we were pleased to run into a little Red Wave, some Fleetwood Mac, a jazz-rock number from Rah Band, and a cut from music writer Julian Cope's '80s post-punk outfit, Teardrop Explodes. --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

Puro Instinct: "I Can't Feel My Face" by alteredzones

01 Christian Kovolitschke: "I'm on my way"
02 Tesla Boy: "Spirit of the Night"
03 The Teardrop Explodes: "When I dream"
04 Fleetwood Mac: "Ricky"
05 GFY: "My Rules"
06 Rah Band: "Downside Up"
07 Videosex: "Stakleno Nebo"
08 Spontaniac Overfroze: "All About Money"
09 Tony Banks: "Thirty Three's"
10 Al Dimin: "For Better or Worse"
11 All Dead: "Peppermint Lounge"

Read our spotlight on Puro Instinct's Headbangers In Ecstasy LP, and peep them live at the Altered Zones x 5x5x

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MP3: Puro Instinct: "Stilyagi (feat. Ariel Pink)"