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From Punk to Ultra
Artist Various Artists
Format:Vinyl / 12" Album
Label:Modern Harmonic
Catalogue No:LPMH8302
Barcode:0090771830210
Genre:Compilation
No of Discs:2
Release Date:19 Jul 2024

The label that ignited the Dutch post-punk scene!
Homogeneity be damned, these early Plurex tracks are a head-turning
snapshot of what was happening in the late '70s Netherlands
underground! Includes an interview with Plurex founders and all of the
singles from 1978-'80!
Some of the bands would never release another record, but for the label
and many of the artists there was yet more history to be made, not least
of which was Minny Pops' ascendance to seminal status, and Plurex's
emergence at the center of the envelope-pushing Dutch music scene that
came to be known as Ultra
"It's extreme, that's what that word stands for," explains van Middendorp of the
movement, "It stands for something that's clearly outspoken, and that's what we
tried to do." From the confrontational clang of their early punk releases to the
electronic art attacks that arrived soon after, Plurex was about saying something
new, loudly enough for all to hear.
When those records were made," says van Middendorp, "I never expected that we
would have a conversation about them 40 years later if not longer. At the time
nobody was even thinking for one minute that this might happen.... That so many
years down the line there's still people out there that will discover this music. And
the great thing [about The Plurex Story] is that it's also on a format that I'm a big
fan of, because who gives a shit about the stream? It's nice to have a physical
album in your hands."

LP Tracks: Mollesters - Plastic / Ze Popes - Sexy Pyjamas / Tits - Daddy Is My
Pusher / Minny Pops - Footsteps / Interior - Bizarre Disco / Minny Pops -
Nervous / Bandt + Instruments - Sweet Bananas / The Mumbles - Poly Vinyl /
Filth - Don't Hide Your Hate / Bandt + Instruments - Special Agreement / Minny
Pops - Mental (live) / Tits - We're So Glad Elvis Is Dead / The Mumbles -
Collision / Ze Popes - Sell Jesus / Interior - Jaws / Filth - Sex / Bandt +
Instruments - Words / Minny Pops - Night Out (live) / Filth - Nothing For Me /
Minny Pops - Kojak / Mollesters - I Am / Jan Van De Gronde Groep - Vlinder /
Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt (live)