The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs. 

AGP1-138 are now available for direct download in the archive at dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject

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AGP144 is the fourth (and last for the time being) in a series of transcriptions of the long out-of-print ReR Quarterly, produced by Recommended Records. Released at irregular intervals of no less than three months, the series continued through three volumes of LP releases, before switching to the CD medium for a fourth volume starting in 1994, and then ending in 1997. Each volume except the third consisted of four issues containing a magazine and either an LP or CD of music. A pair of CDs with selected tracks from the first two volumes were released in 1991, but those are now also long out of print. A complete track listing for the series can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReR_Quarterly.

AGP144 is a transcription of the LP from volume 1, issue 4, released in May 1986. The highlights of this issue for me are a length concert recording of the Japanese avant-pop group After Dinner (fronted by the singer Haco, who is still active), and another electroacoustic piece by Steve Moore. 

It is an excellent pressing in excellent condition, with negligible surface noise or tracking distortion. The torrent includes a PDF file with scans of the pages from the magazine describing the music on the LP. The scans encompass the four issues of volume 1.

01 - "After Dinner" by After Dinner [18:08
01 - "A Walnut" by After Dinner
01 - "RE" by After Dinner
01 - "A Man of Marble" by After Dinner 
01 - "Glass Tube" by After Dinner
02 - "L'heure des Louves" by Wondeur Brass [5:16]
03 - "One, Two" by Strange Games [4:33]
04 - "Hermetic Discourse" by Steve Moore [6:34]
05 - "C'est Bon la Viande!" by Art Moulu Tréfin [4:50]
06 - "The Murder of the Poet Michael Smith by Three Men in Kingston, Jamaica" by Adrian Mitchell [0:40]
07 - "Power" by Black Sheep [4:22]
08 - "Cantate 159" by (J.S. Bach and) André Duchesne [5:15]
09 - "Staying Awake" by Adrian Mitchell [1:35]

Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest LeoPard tonearm cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio Audiophile USB A/D converter. 

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.