Dark Entries Records (USA) / LP
Bay Area Retrograde
(BART) Volume 1 is Dark Entries’ first compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) in the 1980s. Towards
the end of the 70s, San Francisco experimental music clashed with the aftermath of punk and gave birth to
a vibrant underground scene. By the early to mid 80s the DIY music scene of the
Bay Area was a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and
synthpop, quite similar to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle. This compilation literally connects the (transit) lines between these
varied musical offerings and tells the secret story of eleven forgotten Bay
Area bands and contains four previously unreleased tracks on vinyl, until now.