Cryptovision Records
Cryptovision Records is a New York City based independent record label that was founded by musicians James Talley, Mike Linn, Brian Beggs, and Gene Wood in 1979 and dissolved in 1990. In 2009 Dave Amels, A&R man for the original Cryptovision Records, restarted the record label in New Jersey as Cryptovision Records LLC.
Cryptovision Records helped start the career of Sam Coomes with his group The Donner Party. Coomes went on to form Quasi and play guitar for Elliott Smith.
Cryptovision Records' debut release for their restart of the record label in 2009 is Dennis Diken with Bell Sound - "Late Music".
Discography
Singles and EPs
Deprogrammers - Midas Touch/Grim Reaper - 1981 - 7" - C-1001Stepford Husbands - Why Aren't You There/Yeah - 1984 - 7" - BR-1000-11-1Deprogrammers - Fear Of Success - 1985 - 12" - CR-2001Stepford Husbands - Rode Out/Seeing is Believing - 1985 - 7" - CR-300Flying Color - Look My Way/Dear Friend - 1985 - 7" - CR-400Desolation Angels - Border Patrol/Poison Streets - 1985 - 7" - CR-500Distraction Boys - Pay Off the Cops/Have a Nice Day/Home on the Missile Range - 1985 - 7" - CR-600Mod Fun - Mary Goes Round/Grounded - 1986 - 7" - CR-700Optic Nerve - Ain't That a Man/Mayfair/Happy Ever After - 1986 - 7" - CR-800Optic Nerve - Leaving Yesterday Behind/Kiss Her Goodbye - 1987 - 7" - CR-810Stepford Husbands - Seems Like Years/Kwik Way - 1988 - 7" - CR-310Black Orchids - Lunatics Ball - 1988 - 7" - CR-900Contact Obsession - Because It Seemed/The Other Side/The Same Obsession - 1989 - 7" - CR-1100Sultrees - Take Me As I Am/Contrails - 1990 - 7" - CR-1000Stepford Husbands - Building of Love For Sale/Bag Man/Tick Tock - 1990 - 7" - CR-320
Albums
The Lyon in Winter - As Winter Falls - 1986 - 12" - CRL-1300Mod Fun - Dorothy's Dream - 1986 - 12" - CRL-1000Various Artists - Please Don't Adjust Your Set... - 1986 - 12" - CRL-1100The Stepford Husbands - New Ways of Seeing - 1987 - 12" - CRL-1200The Donner Party - Donner Party - 1987 - 12" - CRL-1400The Corvairs - Rio Blanco - 1987 - 12" - CRL-1600Hector Penalosa - Hector - 1988 - 12" - CRL-1700Various Artists - Havoc from Holland - 1989 - 12" - CRL-1800Dennis Diken with Bell Sound - Late Music - 2009 - CD - CRC-3000