Stuart's got a split 7" from Vietnam available for download at Radiodiffusion this week. Pressed in 1966, this scratchy disc features Duc Minh on one side and Thanh Vu, Hông Phuc & Phuog Bang on the other. These aren't the most memorable tunes in the world, but as Stu points out, you don't get to hear a lot of 60s Vietnamese pop. Cambodia faired much better in that respect.





The mix on the Duc Minh track is really strange--there's a drum that's way louder than anything else on the record. Part of the interest of records like this is imagining the material and social circumstances of their production. A year ago, the excellent recording magazine Tape Op had an article on studio recording in Vietnam today, but that's the only information I've ever seen on the subject.