Death in June – Nada-Ized! (Aqua/Smoke & Red/Smoke)

Death In June Nada-Ized! (Aqua/Smoke & Red/Smoke) vinyl is one of the more visually striking pressings to come out of the Death In June catalog in recent memory, and the music inside matches the ambition of the packaging. This is a Soleilmoon release, catalog number BADVCC2 66, pressed on two distinct color variants: aqua smoke and red smoke. If you are buying for the shelf as much as the turntable, these colors deliver.

Death In June: Four Decades of Going Their Own Way

Death In June formed in 1981 as a post-punk outfit, but Douglas P. steered the project somewhere nobody else was going. Over the course of the 1980s and into the decades that followed, the sound contracted and deepened, shedding noise and aggression in favor of acoustic arrangements, layered symbolism, and an intensity that polished production would have completely buried. The neofolk genre as a recognized thing owes its existence largely to what Death In June built, mostly by ignoring what everyone else was doing. Their catalog is not a straight line. It doubles back, contradicts itself, and rewards patient listening.

What Nada-Ized! Actually Is

Nada-Ized! is not a standard retrospective. Spanning 41 years of the group’s existence, from tracks like “Heaven Street” to “The Trigger”, the record is a curated selection that spiritually revisits Death In June’s mid-1980s engagement with militant electro-dance while staying grounded in the present tense. That framing matters. This is not a nostalgia exercise or a dig through the archives for casual listeners. It is a deliberate recontextualization, the kind of project that only works when an artist has enough perspective on their own history to see patterns that were not obvious at the time. The result sits in an interesting tension between two very different eras of the same project.

Why the Death In June Nada-Ized! (Aqua/Smoke & Red/Smoke) Vinyl Belongs in Your Collection

Color vinyl from Soleilmoon on a Death In June title at this scope does not turn up constantly. The aqua smoke and red smoke variants are visually distinct from each other, and both press differently than a standard black copy would suggest on the shelf. Catalog number BADVCC2 66 is the specific release reference here, so if you are tracking pressings carefully, that is your anchor point. For collectors who care about the physical object as much as the content, the combination of a thoughtfully assembled tracklist, a label with genuine credibility in this corner of the market, and two serious color options makes this a focused acquisition rather than a casual one. Death In June rewards the kind of attention that vinyl collectors already bring to the table.