Various
Death Of Vinyl

Listening notes

Released in 1991 on the DOVe label, Death Of Vinyl is a compilation CD issued under catalog number DOVeCD022. The release brings together sixteen tracks from various artists, spanning a notably wide range of genres that includes abstract, ambient, cut-up and DJ work, electronic, experimental, hip hop, industrial, musique concrète, plunderphonics, and sound collage. The breadth of those genre tags alone signals an intent to gather work from across a broad experimental and post-industrial landscape as it existed in the early 1990s.

The tracklist runs from the four-minute-fifty-seven-second opener "Your Jolly Giant" through a varied sequence of durations and apparent approaches. Longer pieces such as "Into The Circle" at eight minutes twenty-five seconds and "Fugitive" at seven minutes forty-five seconds sit alongside brief interjections like "Cuckoo Clock" at one minute ten seconds and "Bless Cadaveric Bodies Experiences" at one minute twenty-four seconds. One track, "The Motorcade Sped On," is designated as a live recording. The closing track, "Can't Get Used To Losing You," runs four minutes thirty-seven seconds. Total runtime across the sixteen tracks is substantial, reflecting a compilation designed to document a range of work rather than offer a brief sampler.

The label name DOVe and the catalog suffix CD022 suggest this was at minimum the twenty-second release in a numbered catalog sequence, indicating an active label operation at the time of this release.

Because contributor, personnel, and recording details are not available in the verified record for this entry, those specifics are left for the fact checker to research and supply. Readers seeking artist attributions for individual tracks should consult additional documentation.