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IKE YARD - 1982 LP Independent Assiko Golden Band de GrandDark Entries flashes back to the grimy streets of New York City circa 1982 to bring us an unreleased album from cult outfit Ike Yard. Comprised of Stuart Argabright, Michael Diekmann, Kenneth Compton, and Fred Szymanski, Ike Yard sits between the sinewy proto body music of the Neue Deutsche Welle and the shattered grooves of their No Wave peers in New York. The bands initial run was short but blinding. They released an EP for Les Disques du Crpuscule