Album Notes

All tracks recorded in London at Chez Dots between 1980 and 1984. All tracks are exclusive to this CD. All tracks previously released on private edition cassette-only.

Formed in 1980 in the UK, and shortly thereafter transplanted to Amsterdam, The Legendary Pink Dots are more together today than ever before. Constantly touring for 16 years on the Continent and USA, they have produced 18 records on labels such as Play It Again Sam, Wax Trax, Staalplaat, Caroline, and recently, on Soleilmoon USA. Their leader, Edward Ka-Spel, a frequent collaborator with Skinny Puppy, has released 4 albums of his own material and with Tear Garden (members of Skinny Puppy) on Nettwerk Capitol USA.

"Under Triple Moons" compiles their very earliest privately recorded tape-only for fans-only cassette tape recordings, commercially released for the very first time! Tracks were selected by Edward Ka-Spel, the band's enigmatic leader and vocalist.

"Bands like Loop and Spacemen 3 may have grabbed the psychedelic laurels in Britain, but on the Continent, it's a group of English exiles that are hailed as the true voyagers of the outer limits."-- Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker UK

"The Dots inhabit a twilight world of warped psychedelia - a hybrid of minimalist avant garde electronica having a mutilated tea party."-- Sounds, UK

"...a singular blend of spookhouse electronics, space jazz and ghostly industrial percussion, the Dots conjure up striking post-punk variations."--David Fricke, Rolling Stone

"If there is anything Ka-Spel and crew are more prolific at than creating albums, it is embarking on tours for those albums in their 16 year history! The Dots have engendered a following analogous in loyalty to Psychic TV or Skinny Puppy. They have legions of followers and fan clubs! A Pink Dots show is an anxiously awaited event that can sell out by word of mouth alone!" -- Permission USA

"Shamanic theatre, a garishly vivid sound picture of a future world rendered unnaturally and plushly beautiful by pollution, a whimsical nursery book courtyard of garish fantastic mutant blooms, a world falling apart missing its centre, floating in deranged derelict space."
-- New Musical Express UK

Formed in London in 1980, Legendary Pink Dots moved to Amsterdam in the middle of the decade. Members throughout the band's career have been Edward Ka-Spel (vocals, keyboards) and Phil Knight (keyboards), also known as the Silver Man, with a shifting supporting cast over the years. The Dots' music is by turns melodic pop and exotic psychedelia, with classical influences, sampling, and relentlessly dark, violent, apocalyptic lyrics. After several releases for Mirrodot and Inphaze during the early '80s, the group signed to Play It Again Sam distribution for 1985's The Lovers, and released much of their best material (1990's Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, 1991's The Maria Dimension) on the label. Even as Legendary Pink Dots neared their two-decade anniversary, the group continued to tour Europe and America quite consistently, appreciated by several generations of dark industrial/goth audiences (and documented by the 2000 live album Farewell, Milky Way).