" A Blur is the Distance" was released in February 2023 on the Minimalkombinat label. This is a double vinyl album in black and white vinyl, accompanying CD and various inserts. It is housed in a plexiglass cover and is limited to 120 copies with each copy individually numbered, The album consists of 23 tracks. 17 of them come from the Ectopic Beat and Reunion releases. The remaining 6 tracks are cover versions. The remaining few copies are available from the Bandcamp site.
Album released in June 2021. "Submersion Therapy" was the first album of all new material for over 35 years. Download, CD and cassette is available via our Bandcamp page https://negativeresponse3.bandcamp.com/
The limited edition lathe cut vinyl is sold out
The album has been described as
"It's an absolute corker. A really substantially good record". X Minus One Radio Show, 13 June 2021.
“It’s a cracking album”. The Home Brew Electronica Show 17 June 2021.
A minimal synth, lo-fi or cold wave project emerging from the post punk period of 1980. Using low cost synths and recording equipment and a DIY attitude, produced and self released 3 cassette collections on own label between 1981 and 84. These collections have been remastered and reissued. Now Negative Response is once again creating songs still with the original DIY attitude.
"Negative Responses’ want for utilizing analogue electronics and an austere dusted experimental home production, locates them on a sound spectrum, these days more commonly referred as cold war or cold wave isolationism. " - The Sunday Experience (Oct 2018).
"Very John Bender-esque minimal wave pop primitivism c. 1981-1984. Check for the naggingly funky and freaky jag of ‘Utopia’! - Boomkat.com Records , on "Oblique Angles".
"This is lo-fi proto-electro-pop with live bass and slightly Joy Division-esque twang guitar over lightweight drum machine patterns and squelchy, playful, Eno-esque analogue electronic wobbliness." -Stuart Bruce,Chain D.L.K. on "Oblique Angles".
