Category Archives: Your Prog Roots Are Showing

Though Punk sought to wipe everything that came before from the map [with the best of intentions], Post-Punk wasn’t so rigid and thus some characteristics of Progressive Rock – Punk’s antithesis, thrived anew in the aftermath of Punk.

Superproducer Trevor Horn Recounts “Adventures In Modern Recording” In His Autobiography

Posted on January 5, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I’m not sure that I ever mentioned this one here, but this might have been a case where my wife saw the book was out and ordered it for the library where she works. Due to a shipping snafu, she … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Core Collection, Deadpan Women, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 2022, ABC, autobiography, FGTH, Grace Jones, Todd Rundgren, Trevor Horn | 39 Comments

Crucial Rupert Hine Solo Albums Remastered And Reissued In New Box

Posted on August 12, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Great news. Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings label has given new life to the three A+M solo albums by Rupert Hine that preceded his run of the [also amazing] Thinkman albums. The last time these came in print was in 2001 … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Want List, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 2022, boxed set, Cherry Red, DLX RM, Rupert Hine | 10 Comments

Record Review: Dr. Jan Guru – “Planet Japan” Limited CD-R [pt. 2]

Posted on July 15, 2022 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The almost instrumental “Psychedelic Geisha” as aptly named as the trippy, yet deliriously happy nugget of technopop featured only spoken words from guest vocalist Mia Dambron in addition to the tapes and effects from Hoppy Kamiyama. … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Review, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 2004, 2021, Jan Linton, John Taylor, Masami Tsuchiya | Leave a comment

Rubellan Remasters Releasing Perfect Slow Children CDs, with Peter Baumann’s New Wave Disc As Well

Posted on May 10, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Do you remember all of that effort I spent making CDs of the first and second Slow Children albums in 2020? And finally writing about it last year? Well, I’m ready to toss those discs on the scrapheap of history. … Continue reading →

Posted in Want List, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1981, 1982, DLX RM, Peter Baumann, Rubellan Remasters, Slow Children, Tangerine Dream | 9 Comments

The Night Of The Proms: Middlebrow Eurokitsch?…Or The Final Frontier Of Your Obsessive Collection?

Posted on April 28, 2022 by postpunkmonk

It was during the medium-high internet record collecting years around the turn of the century, that I became aware of a European phenomenon called “The Night Of The Proms.” This was begun in 1985 in Belgium by two students and … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Live Music, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, Alphaville, Bryan Ferry, Grace Jones, Heaven 17, Joe Jackson, Kid Creole + The Coconuts, Martin Fry, Midge Ure, OMD, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears | 7 Comments

‘Fripp Goes New Wave’ “Exposures” Megabox Prepares To Stun Our Senses

Posted on March 10, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Robert Fripp: Exposures SDLX BSOG – UK – 25xCD, 3xDVD, 4xBR [2022] Commercial titles as originally released in red. New mixes in blue. Disc 1 Major Loops I Disc 2 Major Loops II Disc 3 Major Loops III … Continue reading →

Posted in Bowie, Core Collection, Want List, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1979, 1980, 1981, 5.1, boxed set, Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson | 19 Comments

Record Review: Poeme Electronique – The Echo Fades GER CD

Posted on March 4, 2022 by postpunkmonk

The reason why I am the Post-Punk Monk is that, as I mentioned on the recent Billy MacKenzie thread, was that even when Post-Punk was all around me, and I was there trying to gulp it all down, you can’t … Continue reading →