Various Artists – Looking Back in a Funny Way (Trunk Records)

Trunk Records was started 30 years ago. It quickly established itself as a unique and highly influential label finding the unfound, the unthinkable and the forgotten sounds of the past. Here we celebrate 30 years of the label, by issuing amazing music it has not released yet. Of course we do. Trunk Records began in 1996. It was the first label to issue noncommercial library music to the public. It was the first label to chase, find and issue The Wicker Man soundtrack, the first to issue the sounds of computer keyboards and even announcements from train buffet cars.

Movements like “Hauntology” and “Folk Horror” all began thanks to the music issued by Trunk Records. And here we are, 30 years on, and we think it is time for a 30 years anniversary LP.

Unlike the 25th anniversary double LP, we are not issuing music we have issued before. Instead, here we are issuing music we have not issued before. What better way to sum up such an important and unique label better than continuing where we first began.

Tracks include some unreleased Roger Webb slow sex disco, scatty breakbeat library, psychedelics from Gabo Szabo’s backing group (The Advancement), groovy jazz from Pittsburg (The Silhouettes), Basil Kirchin’s unreleased electronic experimental thing (it is very much “a thing”). Some outsider singing from a hippie who lived in Drop City, a flexi disc selling you the Milton Keynes shopping centre and of course some improvised jazz for children’s dance workshops. And more too. And all on one

 Tracklist

 Walking On The Dark Side - Peter Beasson / Jacques Hendrix

Stone Folk - The Advancement

Watch The Waters Flow - Ananda Thalia

Lunar Invasion – The Silhouettes

Brass Tones - Delia Derbyshire/Elsa Stansfield

Bowskill Tape 1-1 - Coleridge Goode

Central Milton Keynes - Ronnie Bond

Electronic Instrument Tape - Basil

Kirchin

La Même Chose - Roger Webb

One Day Last Summer - St Mary’s Secondary

Rimmer Tape - John Cameron

Version: Grey Vinyl 2LP

Released: 6^th November 2026

Catalogue Number: JBH113LP/: 5051142053886

Condition: New Sealed