Trouser Press issued its first flexi disc bound into subscriber copies of the January, 1982 issue.
The discs were manufactured by Evatone Soundsheets out of Florida, who had apparently introduced flexible records to the consumer market back in 1960. Evatone closed up shop fairly recently, after declaring bankruptcy back in 2008.
Trouser Press issued these flexis over the next couple of years, alternating between basic black and a rainbow of different colors.
My goal here is to do a quick survey of the color flexis. Or more specifically, the color flexis that I have in my possession.
That very first flexi from back in January of 1982 was this one-sided, canary-yellow disc that contained two songs from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: New Stone Age (or more properly, The New Stone Age) and Bunker Soldiers, which appeared on their third and first albums, respectively.
If all you know of OMD is If You Leave from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, you might be surprised at the industrial post-punkiness of the music on this bright yellow sheet...
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