Cryptovision Records

Cryptovision Records is a New York City based independent record label that was founded by musicians James Talley, Mike Linn, Brian Beggs, and Gene Wood in 1979 and dissolved in 1990. In 2009 Dave Amels, A&R man for the original Cryptovision Records, restarted the record label in New Jersey as Cryptovision Records LLC.

Cryptovision Records helped start the career of Sam Coomes with his group The Donner Party. Coomes went on to form Quasi and play guitar for Elliott Smith.^[1]

Cryptovision Records' debut release for their restart of the record label in 2009 is Dennis Diken^[2] with Bell Sound - "Late Music".

Discography

Singles and EPs

Deprogrammers - Midas Touch/Grim Reaper - 1981 - 7" - C-1001
Stepford Husbands - Why Aren't You There/Yeah - 1984 - 7" - BR-1000-11-1
Deprogrammers - Fear Of Success - 1985 - 12" - CR-2001
Stepford Husbands - Rode Out/Seeing is Believing - 1985 - 7" - CR-300
Flying Color - Look My Way/Dear Friend - 1985 - 7" - CR-400
Desolation Angels - Border Patrol/Poison Streets - 1985 - 7" - CR-500
Distraction Boys - Pay Off the Cops/Have a Nice Day/Home on the Missile Range - 1985 - 7" - CR-600
Mod Fun - Mary Goes Round/Grounded - 1986 - 7" - CR-700
Optic Nerve - Ain't That a Man/Mayfair/Happy Ever After - 1986 - 7" - CR-800
Optic Nerve - Leaving Yesterday Behind/Kiss Her Goodbye - 1987 - 7" - CR-810
Stepford Husbands - Seems Like Years/Kwik Way - 1988 - 7" - CR-310
Black Orchids - Lunatics Ball - 1988 - 7" - CR-900
Contact Obsession - Because It Seemed/The Other Side/The Same Obsession - 1989 - 7" - CR-1100
Sultrees - Take Me As I Am/Contrails - 1990 - 7" - CR-1000
Stepford Husbands - Building of Love For Sale/Bag Man/Tick Tock - 1990 - 7" - CR-320

Albums

The Lyon in Winter - As Winter Falls - 1986 - 12" - CRL-1300
Mod Fun^[3]^[4] - Dorothy's Dream - 1986 - 12" - CRL-1000
Various Artists - Please Don't Adjust Your Set... - 1986 - 12" - CRL-1100
The Stepford Husbands - New Ways of Seeing - 1987 - 12" - CRL-1200
The Donner Party - Donner Party - 1987 - 12" - CRL-1400
The Corvairs - Rio Blanco - 1987 - 12" - CRL-1600
Hector Penalosa^[5] - Hector - 1988 - 12" - CRL-1700
Various Artists - Havoc from Holland - 1989 - 12" - CRL-1800
Dennis Diken with Bell Sound - Late Music - 2009 - CD - CRC-3000

References

External links

[1] MTV - Elliott Smith Exclusive Photos By Autumn de Wilde Archived 2011-11-17 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Late Music, The Debut Album From Dennis Diken With Bell Sound, Brings Classic Pop Echoes

[3] Mod Fun Discography

[4] Mod Fun MySpace

[5] Power Pop Criminal's Blog "HECTOR PENALOSA - HECTOR (1988)"

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