On this installment, we spotlight the work of the Oakland-based label and mailorder outlet, Digital Regress. In its roughly five years of operation, Digital Regress has moved from initially documenting some of the arty, DIY punk activity taking place in the Bay Area to reissuing some lesser known classics from the New Zealand underground. Digital Regress also stocks a small selection of mailorder titles that branches out into various areas of post-punk, industrial, and other experimental and fringe sounds. I recently had a chance to speak with Ronnie Portugal, the sole owner and operator of Digital Regress. We discussed some of the background of the label and some the broader challenges that artists and labels are facing right now. You’ll hear that interview throughout the show, along with a broad selection of tracks from the Digital Regress catalog and later in the show from some releases by artists and labels that Ronnie has stocked in his mailorder section that have captured his attention in the past year. I hope you enjoy this new episode. Feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions. As always, thanks for looking and listening.
- ~Introductory Music: SPF “Easy Does It”
- EXEK “Lobbyist” Some Beautiful Species Left (DR38)
- The Shifters “Captain Hindsight” S/T (DR43)
- Unity “Comes To You” S/T (DR06)
- ~Interview segment with Ronnie Portugal~
- Preening “Dogtown Top Ranking” Gang Laughter (DR27)
- Violence Creeps “Sewer Baby” Soul Narc (DR07)
- Marbled Eye “Leisure” Leisure (DR21)
- Mane “Bloodstone” Alpha Female (DR13)
- Landline “Brochacho” S/T (DR22)
- Toyota “Followed” S/T (DR26)
- ~Interview segment with Ronnie Portugal~
- The Kiwi Animal “Time Of The Leaves” Music Media (DR40)
- The Kiwi Animal “Mr. Happy” Mercy (DR41)
- Maxine Funke “Can’t Make Done” Lace (DR36)
- Maxine Funke “Secondhand Store” Felt (DR37)
- Alastair Galbraith “Marcasite Lace” Morse (DR32)
- ~Interview segment with Ronnie Portugal~
- Crazy Doberman “Hermetic Fragments” Hypnogogic Relapse And Other Penumbral Phenomena (DR44)
- Slugfuckers “Tell Me Who You Are” Transformational Salt (DR42)
- Baus “Proud” Songs To Snake To (DR24)
- SPF “Tango” Paul’s McCartney (DR39)
- ~Talk break to introduce music block~
- Mosquitoes “Minus Object Nine” Minus Objects (Ever/Never)
- Komare “5” The Sense of Hearing (Penultimate Press)
- Triple Negative “The Ingrate” God Bless The Death Drive (Penultimate Press)
- Enhet För Fri Musik “När Ska Min Själ Finna Ro” Det Finns Ett Hjärta Som För Dig (Omlott/Grapefruit)
- Blod & Miljö “Untitled” S/T 7” (I Dischi Del Barone)
- Itchy Bugger “An Adorable Graveyard” Double Bugger (Low Company)
- Bobby Would “Bad Man (I’m Not A)” Baby (Low Company)
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