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- Robert Rental – Colourblind
- Robert Rental – Stuck
- Robert Rental – Both Ends Meet
- Robert Rental – Ugly Talk
- Robert Rental – Untitled
- Robert Rental – Vox Scientific
- Robert Rental – Untitled
- Robert Rental – Voice
- Robert Rental – Vox
Robert Rental takes up residence with Dark Entries again for an expanded double vinyl reissue of Mental Detentions. Robert Rental was a Scottish pioneer of DIY electronic music. Along with his illustrious collaborators like Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller, Rental helped shape the countercultural sound of the UK with his timely melding of Krautrock, dub, and punk. Originally from Port Glasgow, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Rental however released very little of his solo music - the only solo recording from The 1970s is the 7" single "Paralysis" first released on the homemade Regular Records in 1978, and re-released on Dark Entries in 2020.
Mental Detentions was released as a cassette in 1979, the same year as his masterpiece The Bridge, a collaboration with Thomas Leer. Using an assortment of budget electronics - a Roland drum machine, a kid’s Stylophone keyboard, and an Electroharmonix DrQ - Robert takes us on a gauzy, trip, at once expansive and intimate, minimalist and maximalist. “Stuck” is mangled motorik, like Neu! run through a meat grinder, while “Vox” meanders like an 18 minute ambient fever dream. Robert spoke to friends of his frustration at being unable to replicate his sound in a commercial studio - it was these demos' sound that he wanted to create. Sometimes having only access to the most rudimentary of equipment can sharpen one’s craft - necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. This ethic shines in his work, providing a throughline to the now, as the world feels bigger and smaller than ever.
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- – Tear & Cinnamon
- – Watching Trees
- – Days Hence
- – Tightrope
- – Asterisk
- – Portugal
- – Moving Nowhere
- – Changing Face
- – Temporeal
- – Ignorant Father
- – Ask / Jealousy
- 1. – Tear & Cinnamon
- 2. – Watching Trees
- 3. – Days Hence
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- – Forming Lines
- – Choreography
- – It’s Right There in Front of You
- – No Floor
- 1. – Forming Lines
- 2. – Choreography
- 3. – It’s Right There in Front of You
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- – I Need A Freak
- – If I Gave You A Party
- – You Are My Sexual Connection
- – Exercise Your Ass Off
- – K-I-S-S-I-N-G
- – We Didn't Say It
- – We Want Prince
- – These Are The Things That I Like
- 1. – I Need A Freak
- 2. – If I Gave You A Party
- 3. – You Are My Sexual Connection
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- – Kickin’ In
- – Thief Of Love
- – You Gotta Make It Loose
- 1. – Kickin’ In
- 2. – Thief Of Love
- 3. – You Gotta Make It Loose
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- 12" DE-273£17.99In stockAdd to Bag