Yaz* – Situation

Name: Yaz - Situation
Rating: 4.63 (208 reviews)

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Label:	Sire – 0-29950, Sire – 9 29950-0 A
Format:	Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Repress, Specialty Pressing
Country:	US
Released:	1982
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Synth-pop, Electro

Tracklist

A		Situation	5:40
B		Situation (Dub Version)	5:45

This a repress, released with a cover having no barcode.

Made in U.S.A

Runout etched, MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK stamped.

Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): 0-29950-A-SR1 SP \-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): 0-29950-B-SR1 SP 1-/SM\-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): 0-29950-A-SR1 SP 1-/SM\-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): 0-29950-B-SR1 SP \-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 3): 0-29950-A-SR1 SP 1-1SM1-1 MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): 0-29950-B-SR1 SP 1-1 MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 4): 0-29950-A-SR1 SP I-/SM\-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 4): 0-29950-B-SR1 SP I-/SM\-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 5): 0-29950-B-SR1 SP 1-1 MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 5): 0-29950-B-SR1 SP I-/SM\-I MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK Herbie Jr "Smiley"

	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Situation (7", 45 RPM, Single, Winchester pressing)	Sire	7-29953	US	1982
	Situation (12", 45 RPM, Single)	Sire, Mute	92 99500	Canada	1982
	Situation (12", 45 RPM, Specialty Pressing)	Sire, Sire	0-29950, 9 29950-0 A	US	1982
Recently Edited	Situation (7", Single, Promo, Stereo, Mono)	Sire, Mute	7-29953	US	1982
	Situation (7", 45 RPM, Single)	Sire	92 99537	Canada	1982

Wikiwiki68 Mar 27, 2024
Front has a black label with YAZ with same font in white. Was this added by the pressing company or the store that sold it?
jazzliscious Feb 26, 2004
Yeah, this is the one! Excellent early '80s innovator of techno style before most of us referred to it as "techno". Great tune! Dancy and fresh even to this day, this was what pioneered the "techno" sound. I was not privy to hearing this track until about 1993, when a local radio program director/disc jockey (who happened to be from ol' Blighty - England if you're not nasty) started playing this tune regularly. Being at the height of the techno explosion in the US at the time, it seemed so very logical to school us who wanted to be (and accepted it as such) schooled about the origins of techno music by the original proprietors of the sound. I still love it to this day and feel unfortunate that I had to wait eleven years to finally hear it. Thanks alot shitty US radio! You want techno? Here's some of the original stuff. Check it!