Experimental Products

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Experimental Products were an electronic group. Founded in 1982 by Mark Wilde and Michael Gross, they were a Philadelphia-based group. They self-produced the album Prototype in 1982. While it would be their only full album, they released 2 EPs- Glowing In The Dark in 1984, and Experiment! in 1987. "Glowing" proved irresistible to DJs and became a 1985 dance club chart breakthrough. Today, many DJs and collectors consider it a "classic" synth record. Around the release of "Glowing in the Dark", Mike Simmons played live as a third keyboardist. He contributed songs played live that were never officially recorded. A very rare flexi-vinyl of Work the Beat (?) was included in Philadelphia's "Terminal" music scene newspaper, produced by EP's first manager, Steve Fritz. Mike Simmons's time with the band lasted a year around the "Glowing" era. He has operated MARS recording studio for over 25 years. He later played bass and wrote songs with DeSoto Rust, who charted on the #1 on European Americana charts around 2010. He is currently (2019-20) playing bass in a Buzzcocks cover band, "Singles Going Steady", performing in the Philadelphia-DC areas. A rough cut video for Glowing in the Dark was shot at the Kennel Club, and can be found on YouTube. An entire show at City Gardens was videotaped with a single locked camera (just to document), but has an audio hum. A "hand-synched" video with Wilde, Gross, and Mutschler on electric trumpet, an early version of "Work the Beat", was recorded as

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Prototype

Glowing In The Dark

Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2

Tracks to Glow in the Dark

Protoype

Prototype ----- Plus Garage Tracks

The Found Tapes

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Prototype Plus Garage Tracks (2xLP + 7-inch) Vinyl

experiment!

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HELL BOYS Italo Megamix By DJHell

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This is What I Call Minimal 80s! Vol. 13

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Glowing in the Dark Vinyl

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