After a hiatus as a label, Va Va Records are back with FUTURO/PASADO, a double sided book and compilation album that presents new artists to the roster as well as a fond look back at some of the music and personel thoughout it's inception in 2009.

 

If this is your first encounter with the label, here’s what author and founder of Big dada Records, Will Ashon had to say:

“Va Va can’t be said to have a house style. The music runs from off-kilter folk to off-kilter jazz to off-kilter rock to off-kilter techno. Or maybe off-kilt? Because the men behind Va Va are Aberdonians, then again, this is an Aberdeen of the mind, twinned with a Detroit of the soul, wild camping on a slag heap of dreams, in an unloved banlieue of a city that never existed. Then again, it isn’t.

There’s something interesting going on here which is all about peripheries, about feeling peripheral and finding in that only freedom. Because if nobody cares what you do then you can do what you like. You do not have to be part of any club to belong here and you still won’t belong and that’s what makes it exciting. You do not have to like all the music or hate all the music, or even understand it, and this is your own responsibility. Whatever you do, though, you’re going to lose, that’s the lesson. And that means, it turns out, that you also win.”

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DOWNLOAD HERE: not quite ready as yet

TRACK LIST

FUTURO

  1. Expect Nothing (Accept Everything Mix) - Earl E. Mann [exclusive to this release]

  2. Educated Stimulated Days - Willis Ellmore [exclusive to this release]

  3. Society of the Spectacle - VerseChorusVerse [exclusive to this release]

  4. Sonata For A Badman - A La Fu [exclusive to this release]

  5. Watch Out For The Past - mdrn_slvs [exclusive to this release]

  6. The Bet - Granite Hertz [exclusive to this release]

PASADO

  1. Esoteric P.E. - Tut Vu Vu [taken from Tut Vu Vu LP, VAV010]

  2. Fractal - Keith K. Hopewell [taken from Chaoid Systems, VAV009]

  3. Clarity Of Sight - Erskine Lynas [A Menagerie For One, VAV026]

  4. Grace Of God - Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lock Pickers [Goths!!!, VAV015]

  5. Me - Blackledge Falling [taken from The Kissing Shell, VAV027]

  6. Digital Killed The Radio Star - DLX ADV [previously unreleased]