Synergy ‘Games’ (Passport, 1979)

byJoe Silva
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The overstuffed bins at Angry Mom Records are just down the hill from the engineering campus of Cornell University, where students shoot lasers through cool neutral plasmas and test semiconductors

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Side-projects can be a complicated affair, particularly if you’re a fan of the precursory band. Acolytes find themselves talking up a lesser-known record they might not actually like very much, but a perceived obligation of support results in them writing cheques their misplaced loyalty can’t cash.

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If, like me, you were a teenager in Australia in the early 2000s, the album everyone was listening to at house parties, on the radio, and on swapped burned CDs was the debut record by The Avalanches.

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Synergy ‘Games’ (Passport, 1979)

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Joe Silva

Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

Robert Marlow ‘The Peter Pan Effect’ (Energy, 1983)

Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)

ACID CASUALS ‘Omni’ (Placid Casual, 2006)

Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)

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