Sessions 1981–83
album by Void
Sessions 1981–83 is an album by hardcore punk band Void. It was released in 2011. The album compiles three sessions as well as a live performance. 29 of the 34 songs on the album had not been previously released, officially.
Background
The tapes that the album were remastered from were discovered by Ian MacKaye as he was organizing Dischord's collection. The first 20 tracks were recorded in November 1981 at Hit and Run Studios in Rockville, Maryland and were used by the band as a demo tape. Tracks 21–30 were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in December 1981; tracks 21, 22, and 23 would be used in the Flex Your Head label album. 31 & 32 two were recorded in June 1982 during the recordings for the Faith/Void split album, again at Inner Ear studios. The final two tracks are live recordings of the band during the end stages of their existence in late 1983.
Reception
The album did not receive much attention, but the reviews that it did receive were very positive.
“Sessions 1981–83” enters the record as album by Void. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sessions, album and Void can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Sessions 1981–83” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sessions, album and Void provides the most credible route into that argument.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20814031. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2011, 1982 and 1983.
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