Various
Death Of Vinyl

Listening notes

Death of Vinyl is a various-artists compilation released in 1991 on the DOVe label, bearing the catalog number DOVE CD022. Despite its title, the release appeared in CD format rather than on vinyl, a detail that sits in quiet tension with the name the compilers chose.

The sixteen-track collection spans a notably broad stylistic range, documented across genres including ambient, cut-up and DJ work, electronic, experimental, hip hop, and industrial. That breadth alone makes the compilation an artifact of a particular moment in underground and experimental music, when those categories were actively colliding and cross-pollinating without the cleaner genre divisions that would later be applied retrospectively.

The tracklist runs from "Your Jolly Giant," which opens at just under five minutes, through a varied sequence of durations that suggests the compilers were not working to a fixed template. "Into The Circle" is the longest track at eight minutes and twenty-five seconds, while "Cuckoo Clock" occupies barely over a minute at 1:10, and "Broadkast III" clocks in at 1:30. The presence of a live recording, "The Motorcade Sped On (Live)," at track five introduces a documentary dimension to the set. The closing track, a version of "Can't Get Used To Losing You," runs four minutes and thirty-seven seconds and offers a title familiar from pop history appearing in an otherwise resolutely non-mainstream context.

The catalog number places this as the twenty-second release on the DOVe imprint, suggesting the label had established a meaningful body of work by the time this compilation appeared. Individual contributor and personnel information is not confirmed in available documentation and has been omitted here pending verification.