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THEUS MAGO Carrier People 12"
Theus Mago -- the man, the myth, the legend from Mexico City. Leaving behind his characteristic synth wave/dark disco sound, the Duro label cofounder delivers a new experience where modular synths and Amazonian rhythms blend seamlessly with a type of laidback psychedelic techno music. All of this thanks to a huge amount of spices added to glue everything together just nice and deliciously. The Carrier People EP features three heating original tracks and a remix interpretation by unmistakable Curses.

PHASE FATALE Scanning Backwards CD
Scanning Backwards, Phase Fatale's second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music -- and sub frequencies in particular -- are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture. Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne's rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power -- specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics. In his own words: "All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain -- something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories." Ultimately, Scanning Backwards surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound -- and brainwaves.

Exit In Grey
"Control Points"

CD (ltd. 300)
MV-XII

1. Ferro
2. Lamontines
3. Pyramid

total length: 49:10
price: €10

"Control Points" @ bandcamp

Exit In Grey: website | soundcloud | vk

The new album by the Moscow region based drone ambient project Exit In Grey is released by joint forces of the labels Muzyka Voln and Frozen Light. It represents the completion of the symbolic trilogy started by “Shadows of Stillness” (2013, Muzyka Voln) and continued by “One Lumen from the Past” (2016, Frozen Light).

Exit In Grey stays true to his creative method: using an electric guitar, voice, effects, field recordings, radio waves & digital synthesizers he creates spatial sound canvases immersing the listener in gentle melancholic and contemplative atmospheres and dissolving his attention in endless fields of sonic vibrations.

The CD is released in an edition of 300 copies in 6-panel matte digisleeve, digital version is available at bandcamp.

muzykavoln.bandcamp.com/album/control-points

THE BEAUTIFUL DISEASE -- "Have A Nice Dream" -- CD-R -- €7
2005 Unidentified Recordings, UIFR0015
Psychedelic Rock / Darkwave. A somewhat sister project to BIRDMACHINE (both members of Birdmachine: Chris Goellnitz & Michael Schaffer, aided by Stanley Carr) playing a mixture of post-gothic darkwave and psychedelic rock music. Once again, think about slightly darker German relatives of The Legendary Pink Dots...

the-beautiful-disease.bandcamp.com/album/have-a-nice-dream

HEXAS -- "Liberty Nest" -- CD -- €10
2017 Hagshadow, HAGKENHEX1
Industrial. A collaboration project by Patrick Leagas (6COMM / DEATH IN JUNE) and Gaya Donadio (ANTICHILDLEAGUE). Heavy beating Industrial contaminated by Patrick and Gaya vocals.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdJ2CoISww

When we first heard the Belarusian band Molchat Doma in the office we were instantly obsessed and when we found out they were a contemporary band we were genuinely shocked. Molchat Doma’s music feels so classic both in song writing and in vibe that we assumed they were the greatest 80s post punk band we’d never heard but lucky for us all they are a current band making incredible music who are about to embark on a huge European tour and they have signed to the label! In celebration of their signing to Sacred Bones we are re-issuing their first two records. Their debut S Krysh Nashikh Domov will be available for the first time ever on vinyl and their hit follow up Etazhi will finally be back in print after being long sold out. Both are available for pre-order now and release on March 27th.

www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr3036-molchat-doma-s-krysh-nashikh-domov?mc_cid=fc6dfca00a&mc_eid=10...

ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO Cinetica LP
LP version. Edition of 600. Esplendor Geométrico, the influential "industrial" pioneers of the pulsating, hypnotic, and mechanical rhythms, returns with a new album Cinëtica, after their previous Fluida Mekaniko (GR 2140CD/LP, 2016). Based now in Shanghai and Rome, they have not stopped their live performances all over the world in the last two years (Germany, Spain, Russia, UK, France, Italy, and recently Chile) with great success. The material was recorded between 2018- 2019. Cinética gives a twist to the line that the group has followed in their last albums, highlighted by a more elaborate sound. A less raw sound, but without losing the essence of EG: hypnotic rhythms and innovative industrial music, danceable and tribal sometimes. Certain songs like "Acoplamiento Internacional" and "Modulaciones", with Eastern and African voices, remember the classic LP Mekano Turbo (1988) that is considered as one of the best albums of EG. In Cinética, there are filtered and natural voices, broken, mechanical and industrial rhythms, synthesizers layers, percussion, noise, distortion, Mongolian chants... Esplendor Geométrico celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2020 and prepares special editions for that year. They have developed a unique style since 1980 that influenced many "industrial" musicians around the world, including the new trends of industrial techno.


IMA The Flowers Die In Burning Fire LP
IMA is percussionist and improviser Nava Dunkelman (Japan) and electroacoustic composer and sound artist Amma Ateria (Hong Kong). IMA depicts expressionistic noise music of Japanese poetry by deconstructing and dissolving heavy music through restraint and release. The Flowers Die In Burning Fire, the debut album of IMA, tells an anecdote of the inevitable notion of time, change, decay, the vanished, and rebirth. With meticulous, industrial, and filmic instrumentation, IMA marches forth with starkness and surrender into the aftermath of destruction, and attempt for transformative regeneration of beauty through catalysts of pleasure.

CONTROLLED DEATH Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness 2LP
Controlled Death is the dark side project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki, aka Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with first album Symphony For The Black Murder (UMA 125CD) then followed at the beginning of 2019 from second work in an astonishing black wooden box that included Journey Through A Dead Body on vinyl and Deathwish Tapes 1-3 on CD and double-tape (UMA 130LP). Now there's yet another mind-boggling work on double-LP recorded during 2019, Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness. Wild and amazing, this one is absolutely essential for any fan of synth and dark ambient music. Cracked minimal electronic sound by Korg MS-20, unclear and disturbing voice with the influence of primitive black metal and dark ritual in this new double-album which developed a moisturized doom world while wearing a raw material texture. While listening to the records, each long track does meander their way slowly through proceedings with silent pauses, but they nonetheless generate a respectably dense assemblage of sounds. The smell of death is soaked in every groove produced by the four vinyl sides. The activities of Controlled Death are like archaic revival to the music experience before Masonna. You can also find the pathology image of the early industrial period and the shadows of Vienna activism such as Hermann Nitsch as well as loose bits of seminal black metal. The existence and art that pierces through conspicuous consciousness and dives to areas of unconsciousness due to death and pleasure. 140 gram vinyl; deluxe gatefold sleeve with impressive photography (of a cave church with the remains of the people who were massacred by the Saracens in 999 A.D. during the invasion of southern Italy) by Aldo Volpe. Edition of 299.

UVEGRAF A Laxe Modularys 2.049 LP
"A Laxe Modularys 2.049 is the new album (third after the Kosmos CD) of the pioneering UVEGRAF project, alias of the Madrid musician Juan Teruel. His cassette label and productions played a very important role in the Spanish 80s electronic underground scene. In our opinion, the new album surpasses Sala de Maquinas, the previous vinyl. More solid and regular, it really has the spirit of the 'old school' of the eighties with elements of minimal synth, post-industrial music, and even influences of '70s German electronic music. The ten tracks made primarily with sequencers, synthesizers, and analog rhythm boxes, stand out for their bright and powerful sound. We must mention the outstanding sleeve design by Alonso Urbanos who has been working with industrial groups such as Esplendor Geométrico for some years now." --Andrés Noarbe-Rotor Translucent green vinyl; edition of 300.

VA America Invertida CD
Synth ambiences, acoustic landscapes, deep songwriting, and subtle candombe percussions combine in most of the musical output released in Uruguay during the '80s. A very unique sound was developed within the narrow boundaries of Montevideo, the country's capital city, by just a small group of very talented artists. These sounds reverberated in singer-songwriting (Eduardo Darnauchans, Fernando Cabrera, Estela Magnone), jazz fusion approximations (Hugo Fattoruso's La Escuelita), experimental music (Leo Maslíah, Hugo Jasa), and the work of musicians at the intersections of these worlds (Jaime Roos, Mariana Ingold). In América Invertida, ethereal vocal arrangements and acoustic guitars cohabit with synthesizers and drum machines; Candombe and Latin American music form a fellowship with new wave and dream pop. However, the overwhelming musical harvest produced by giant neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, shadowed any attempt for this scene to transcend beyond the local market. It's only now, a few decades later, when some of those records have achieved cult status among a discreet group of collectors that try hard to get hold of those titles, pressed in only tiny numbers at the time. No wonder, the timeless beauty of these songs remains in full effect while retaining the uniqueness of a sound resulting from multiple cultural encounters on the streets of Montevideo. This compilation, América Invertida, reveals part of this hidden world. It veers towards the most experimental side of Uruguayan singer-songwriting of the '80s, both from an acoustic and electronic point of view (with artists who moved between both universes) as well as towards instrumental fusion. A collaboration with Montevideo based label Little Butterfly. Compiled by Spanish DJ and collector Javi Bayo. Extensive liner notes by Uruguayan journalist and music expert Andrés Torrón. Also features Contraviento, Jaime Roos Y Estela Magnone, Eduardo Mateo, and Travesía.

VOID VISION Sour (Black Vinyl/Alternate Cover) 12"
2020 version; black vinyl and alternative cover. Originally released in 2014. Void Vision is a Philadelphia based solo female minimal synth/cold wave project from Shari Wallin. Already included by Rough Trade in their seminal Synth Wave compilations, the single anticipated her full-length Sub Rosa for Mannequin Records (MNQ 054CD/LP, 2014). "Sour" was featured in the acclaimed Wild Wild Country Netflix series in 2018. Music supervisor Chris Swanson about the track: "We were having a hard time finding a song for that scene, actually. We had a Future Islands track originally in that scene, I think, but I remember we were having a hard time getting the tone right... because there were objectives with regards to the narrative... we wanted a good beat, a sense of time but also conforming to the time. I think of all the songs [in WWC], the Void Vision song is the one that stands out... because it was different yet it sold the story that we were trying to tell." Remix by Vanzetti & Sacco, aka Jos Van Galen with the Otto Kraanen, the boss of the acclaimed Bordello A Parigi from Rotterdam. Edition of 500.

DISSEMBLANCE Over The Sand LP
Exploring the balances between pop song writing structures, '80s cold wave bedroom style electronic production, and dreary gloom rock, Paris-based Dissemblance presents her debut LP Over The Sand for Mannequin Records. Over ten tracks, Dissemblance treads the fringes of a blurred dream world, using her bass guitar, voice, and drum machine as the backbone to create haunting yet soothing pop atmospheres in her songs. The opener "Transfuge" maintains a focus on the bass guitar, while a sparse rhythm box and monotone vocal fuel unbreakable tension. "Rescue" continues centered around the bass playing, this time with more almost upbeat surf rock pop sensibility driving the track. The closer, "A Ride", takes shape with Boss DR-55 clicks, solemn, floating vocals, and a subtle bassline reminding us of some of Lifetones' finer moments. A welcome new addition to the Mannequin catalog, Over The Sand will appeal to fans of gloom-tinged electronic pop and even to optimistic goths around the globe. All songs written and produced by Mathilde Mallen in Paris, France. Mixed by Silent Servant in Los Angeles, California, 2019.

MEN WITH SECRETS Psycho Romance & Other Spooky Ballads LP
Sometimes you want something so badly you don't even know to ask for it in the first place. Like Adam and Eve stumbling upon the fruit of knowledge -- or psychedelic techno wizards Donato Dozzy and Retina.it (aka Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono) producing a pitch-perfect, vintage-styled minimal wave record, filled with icy synths, shuddering bass, and anthemic vocals, sounding like a lost gem unearthed from 1982 for the first time. Except it's not -- this record is brand new. The three Italians first came together under the moniker Le Officine Di Efesto, releasing an EP of murky left-field techno on Dozzy's own Spazio Disponibile. They quickly discovered a shared love of classic post-punk, wave, and synthpop, and not long after, Men With Secrets was born. "Men With Secrets" might sound like an old-school synthpop act you've never heard of, but the name is actually borrowed from Richard Bone, an early New York electronic musician and minimal pop pioneer. The trio's name is but one of their many homages -- Cabaret Voltaire, The Human League, New Order, and even Dopplereffekt are additional reference points -- but this album is neither imitation nor rehash. It's just as carefully and ingeniously produced as you'd expect a record from Donato Dozzy and Retina.it to be, except it's filled with poppy hooks so brilliantly catchy they'll stick in your head until you hit repeat and find yourself singing along. These Men With Secrets clearly have their tongue placed firmly in cheek: check the record's title and artwork for proof. But the music is deadly serious. The drums hit hard, the synths soar to emotional heights, and the vocals intone rhythmically. All of it' is coated in the warm fuzz of analog tape. Not many records on The Bunker New York are as likely to be played in goth clubs as they are by adventurous techno DJs, but then again, this is not your average Bunker New York record. Mastered by Peter Van Hoesen. Cut at Manmade Mastering.

DAL FORNO, CARLA Look Up Sharp LP
Repressed. LP version. Carla dal Forno announces her second full-length album, Look Up Sharp, on her own Kallista records. Dal Forno beckons a bold new era in her peerless output pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to the limits of flawless dream-pop. In a transformative move towards crystal clear vocals and sharpened production, Look Up Sharp is an evolutionary leap from the thick fog and pastoral stillness of her Blackest Ever Black missives, You Know What It's Like (BLACKEST 015CD/LP, 2016) and The Garden EP (BLACKEST 068EP, 2017). Three years since her plain-speaking debut album, the Melbourne-via-Berlin artist finds herself absorbed in London's sprawling mess. The small-town dreams and inertia that preoccupied dal Forno's first album have dissolved into the chaotic city, its shifting identities, far-flung surroundings and blank faces. Look Up Sharp is the story of this life in flux, longing for intimacy, falling short and embracing the unfamiliar. In her own territory between plaintive pop, folk and post-punk dal Forno conjures the ghosts of AC Marias, Virginia Astley, and Broadcast through her brushwork of art-damaged fx and spectral atmospheres. The first half of the record is filled with dubbed-out humid bass lines, which tether stoned hazes of psychedelic synth work, as on "Took A Long Time" and "No Trace". These are contrasted with songs like "I'm Conscious" and "So Much Better" that channel the lilting power of YMG and are clear sequels-in-waiting to dead-eyed classics like "Fast Moving Cars". The second half begins with the feverish bass and meandering melody of "Don't Follow Me", which takes The Cure's "A Forest" as its conceptual springboard. It's the clearest lyrical example since "The Garden" of dal Forno's unmatched ability to unpick the masculine void of post-punk and new wave nostalgia to reflect contemporary nuance. Look Up Sharp reaches its satisfying conclusion with "Push On" -- dal Forno's most explicit foray into an undiscovered trip hop universe between Massive Attack and Tracey Thorn. Adding further depth to Look Up Sharp are the instrumentals, which flow seamlessly between the vocal-led pieces. "Hype Sleep" and "Heart of Hearts" drink from the same stream as The Flying Lizard's dubbed-out madness and the vivid purple sunsets of Eno's Another Green World (1975). While "Creep Out of Bed" and "Leaving For Japan" funnel the fourth-world psychedelia of Cyclobe's industrial-folk into the vortex of Nico's The Marble Index (1968). A deeply personal but infinitely relatable album its many surfaces are complex but authentic, enduring but imperfect, hard-edged but delicate.

LEIMER/MARC BARRECA, K. Chains Of Being LP
A conceptual and contemporary approach to early music, exploring its ambiences, timbres and feelings. Delicate experimentation with sound textures where different white noise tones can meet the strings from a viola da gamba. A cinematic work, very touching and emotional. Almost mystic, spiritual ambient. K. Leimer and Marc Barreca are two American synth/multi-instrumental musicians that have been active since late '70s. They have some previous collaborations released in Leimer's imprint Palace Of Music. Presented in a very careful edition, the record comes packed in a folder printed in letterpress with wood and lead types. Six letterpress cards -- one per track -- are also included, contextualizing the artists' references used as an inspiration for their compositions."These three pieces spring from a love of early music, specifically the works of Sainte-Colombe, Marin Marais, and John Dowland. Each of these composers -- their lives spanning a period of great musical innovation and change from 1563 to 1728 -- is represented by a track included here. While there are no direct quotations present from any of their pieces there is a now familiar reliance on timbre and even on drone, elements that flourished in the often slowly-paced and harmonically narrow style of early music. Those stylistic elements have been taken up today, deliberately or not, by ambient, dark ambient, post-ambient, and slow music artists. In atmosphere early music often evokes a melancholic -- even elegiac -- sensibility appropriate to the present time." --K. Leimer"These three tracks were inspired by the shadows, streams of sunlight, muted colors and peaceful interior ambience of Spanish cathedrals. Calm and mystery combined." --Marc Barreca

BRIGHTER DEATH NOW -- "With Promises Of Death" -- CD -- €13
2014/2015 Familjegraven, GRAV-01, 2nd edition
Death Industrial / Power Electronics. "With Promises Of Death" is the first new full length album from seminal death industrial legend BDN in eight years. The inaugural release on Roger Karmanik's new label, Familjegraven, created with the sole intention of producing releases from BRIGHTER DEATH NOW in the wake of Cold Meat Industry's demise, heralds a slew of planned reissues and new material. This is now over! [label info]

tescogermany.bandcamp.com/album/with-promises-of-death

GORDUW -- "XXXIV CIF. Buga (Sacral Geography)" -- CD-R -- €5
2019 Torga Amun, Amun-142, (ltd. 20)
Industrial / Darkwave. New "exploration" album / report by GORDUW featuring Vitaly Maklakov. Simple sleeve.

torga-amun.bandcamp.com/album/xxxiv-cif-buga-sacral-g...

COLORAY Real Life Cinema 12"
Coloray's Real Life Cinema infuses powerful, unpolished sound aesthetics with relentless energy. After cutting his teeth on both the Dutch and international DJ circuit, and nurturing his production skills as member of the Tunnelvisions duo, Raynor de Groot his solo project Coloray translates an inwards desire to create and explore off the beaten path, and does so with a compelling '80s attitude. This strong backbone in musical undertaking, together with his background in songwriting and vocal work, transmits a unique sound that drifts somewhere between the hazy lines of contemporary electronics and early EBM.

MORDISCO Atlas EP 12"
Mordisco is a Spanish duo hailing from the southern part of Spain (Granada). Their tracks will make many dance floors move with raw, resonating synths and beats. The scat vocal samples in "Odissi" and "Ventura" are right on the money and give the music that unexpected twist. The EP is produced with excellent technique and many synth layers/percussion. This is essential material for people that play between 116 and 121 beats per minute.

ART TEACHERS Art Teachers 12"
Art Teachers goes deep into modern sounds with its delightful ambiance accompanied by freaky "glurps" vocals. Fuzzy connection between Motor City (US) and Stuttgart (EU) amplified by dark synth lines and the mechanics of new wave in full effect. Limited to 250 copies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15aXZQnNtM0

BIESMANS Electric Love 12"
A core member of the Oberbaumbrücke family delivers a sleek label debut. As the club's technician, Joris Biesmans (aka Biesmans) has been an invaluable fixture at Watergate for the last five years. A true audiophile, when he's not tuning WG's sound system to perfection, he's building modular synths and honing his studio craft. Having recently quit his technician job to focus on making music full time, he's a new addition to the WG agency roster and follows suit with an impressive debut EP on the label, after releases on Correspondent, AEON, and Adana Twins' TAU. The title track "Electric Love" is a chugging slice of electro, marked by lush key progressions and attitude-drenched vocals from newcomer Idorski. Marvin and Guy Amplifier are tapped for remix duties and inject the original with a celestial melody line primed for end-of-the-night moments. "Technician on a Mission" is driven by a polished bassline that modulates throughout, while '80s synths give it a retro-future stamp. "City Boy" is a modern day synth-wave gem, reinforcing the breadth of sound espoused by Watergate Records.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkEeZZ-n50

KRIEGER, ULRICH Wall Of Sound: Drones Patterns Noises 3CD
Wall of Sound is a music of sonic sensations. It is a physical and sensual approach to the phenomenon of thick sound worlds. Sound waves become physical objects, four-dimensional sonic sculptures to be experienced, bodily and mentally. Ulrich Krieger's Wall Of Sound is a series of CDs about music that invites the listener to indulge themselves in sound. It doesn't guide an audience through a narrative, like a song, but offers the listener slow changing and developing soundscapes, acoustic sculptures, to immerse themselves in. How listeners move in and through these sounds is up to them: meditative drifting along, focusing on certain small details of sounds, letting themselves be taken away by emerging psycho-acoustic phenomena or going back and forth between listening attitudes. Wall Of Sound features compositions by: James Tenney, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Lee Ranaldo, Boris Hegenbart, Zbigniew Karkowski, Ulrich Krieger, John Duncan. 3CD set comes in a digipack; includes 16-page booklet.Ulrich Krieger is well known as a saxophone player in contemporary composed and free improvised music as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary pop culture: somewhere in the limbo between noise and heavy metal, ambient and silence. He also arranged works by Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, Deicide, Terry Riley, Henry Cowell, and others for chamber ensemble. He collaborates with: Lou Reed, LaMonte Young, Phill Niblock, Text of Light, Lee Ranaldo, John Duncan, Zbigniew Karkowski, Thomas Köner, DJ Olive, Christian Marclay, Kasper T Toeplitz, Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Mario Bertoncini, Michiko Hirayama, Miriam Marbe, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Ensemble Modern, Berliner Philharmoniker, Soldier String Quartet, zeitkratzer, just to name a few. Krieger has received prizes, grants and residencies from: Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Villa Aurora Los Angeles, Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig e.V., Akademie der Künste Berlin, "Meet-the-Composer" Forum New York, DAAD, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, and many others. Since 2007 he lives in Southern California, where he is associate professor for the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

MESTRE - "Beyond The Lines" [ICR033]
[French Street Wave - Cold-Punk. FR]
Available on Digital - CD DIGIPACK (soon)
Listen & Buy the Album
Co-production Urgence Disk Records + Analog Wasteland Records

MESTRE, Cold-Wave érudite du Grand Est
Des références sombres du post-punk à un shoegazing colérique, les Français croquent dans chaque genre sans tous les engloutir.

Il fut un temps, un groupe de mélomanes assoiffés d’ambiances survoltées et de guitares douces comme déglinguées séjournait dans les provinces brumeuses du Grand-Est : Mannequin Republic. Arborant fièrement son patronyme en hommage à un titre des illustres At The Drive-In, le groupe se lasse finalement de son post-rock par essence savante mais contemplative, et met un terme à son aventure. A l’instar des sages omniprésents dans les cités fortifiés de l’oeuvre de George R. R. Martin, le groupe prend la robe et gagne sa chaîne, devenant ainsi Mestre, pour coller davantage aux racines de son nom et de ses goûts.

Une musique froide, haletante et davantage active, faite de basse métalliques, de guitares stridentes et de boîtes à rythmes résonnante. Sans pour autant ternir son passé d’érudit. De The Cure à DIIV en passant par A Place To Bury Strangers et Eagulls (on s’évitera le blasphème d’une comparaison avec Joy Division, décidément redondante sur ce registre sonore), Mestre choisit les idées cold-wave excitantes plutôt qu’un rock instrumental passif. Et replace par la même la France sur la carte du post-punk.
Tout est prêt : envoyez les corbeaux aux quatre coins du monde connu.
[full review] by THE WAVE MEDIA

icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/icr033-mestre-beyond-t...

Out now on Manic Depression Records
the second album of the french-swiss post-punk band.

Raskolnikov
"Lazy people will destroy you"

Raskolnikov is a Franco-Swiss coldwave / post-punk band formed in Geneva in September 2015. The band rocks us with a hypnotic rhythm and dark, tortured melodies. The group takes its name from the main character of Dostojevski’s famous novel “Crime and Punishment”.

Raskolnikov’s music, strongly influenced by the Post-punk and New-wave bands of the late 70’s and early 80’s, is intended as powerful and haunting. The first album “Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall”, is released in late 2017.

After a tour of numerous dates in France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland… in 2017-2018, Raskolnikov announces the release of their second album “Lazy people will kill you” in early 2020 with a bunch of European concerts.

The band released three video singles to tease what is an energic, melancolic, tensed and dark post-punk album. Leering into shoegaze soarings, bringing quickly the tension down with the punk-rock energy.

raskolnikovmusic.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-people-will-des...

Greetings from the Dark Side!

We have just released the new THE SEARCH album "Some Place Far Away", the second and final part of a retro-inspired journey that started in 2018 with the album “A Wave from the Sidelines”. In "Some Place Far Away" Razmig Tekeyan - the founder and currently sole member of THE SEARCH - skillfully blends melodic pop sensibilities with reverberated sound landscapes and offers a ten-track dose of escapist pop music.

The album is now available at Bandcamp, Amazon, Spotify, iTunes, Deezer and many more retailers and digital streaming and download services.

thesearch.bandcamp.com/album/some-place-far-away

LISFRANK “The Human” CD (Final Muzik / St.An.Da.)
March 2020: legendary early 80's Italian synth wave pioneer Lisfrank is back with a new studio album. After his comeback “Elevator”, released by Final Muzik in 2014 on both vinyl LP and CD, Fulvio Guidarelli/Lisfrank started working again. Even though some of the songs on “The Human” were conceived as early as 2011, the album took shape in 2018; all tracks have been produced, remixed and remastered again and again, to guarantee the best recording result. The remastering work has been done by Andrea Bellucci (Red Sector A, Nerva, Iluiteq). Expect that classic, catchy, typical Lisfrank's minimal electronic / 80's new wave trademark, with some interesting news: a few more aggressive songs (“I Hate”, “I Was Looking For Me”) show Fulvio Guidarelli's angrier face, while a darker shadow seems to haunt the whole atmosphere of the album. Such is the case of “Everything Passes”, of the obscure “Death's Dance”, the melancholic “A Dancing Star” or the beautifully estranging “Feel It (Your Body, My Body”) the latter of which was recorded with Pankow's Maurizio Fasolo. “The Human” introduces a new, darker side of Lisfrank with solid, innovative songs and classic, old school minimal-wave hits (“In My Soul”, “The Cold Night”). Another “must have” from Italian electronic wave at its finest. Limited edition of 300 copies only, released by Final Muzik with St.An.Da label (FMLK102 / ST.AN.DA. 2020).
SPECIAL PREORDER OFFER for our mailing list members → € 9,90 each copy + postage : please write to us for different methods of shipping. Preorder offer IS VALID if CDs are paid before March 10th , then the album will be distributed at its regular price (€ 12,00 + postage). CDs will be shipped in the fourth week of March . Limited edition: preorder your copy now, friends!

Over the years, American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri has become ubiquitous within the spheres of ambient, drone and electronic music. Whether it’s through Irisarri’s celestial long-form albums or his lauded audio engineering credentials for countless artists and labels, Irisarri’s consistent dedication to his craft never wavers from the forefront.

While Irisarri’s compositions typically field an array of modern ambient overtones threaded through oceanic symphonies with tape loops, bowed electric guitar and vast washes of overdriven sound, his recent debut album for Dais Records, Peripeteia, portray these common themes giving way to metal and classical influences that emphasizes Irisarri’s melancholic tendencies. These unique overtures, coupled with his signature layering of distortion and bleached-out textures, fabricate an audible environment that would seemingly be at odds with, yet gracefully complement each other. In Irisarri’s own words, “My previous works internalize any exterior forces or circumstances, while trying to make sense of the world. Peripeteia reverses that approach, focusing on the personal in order to tell a wider human story.”

Out May 22, 2020

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irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/peripeteia

SOL OOSEL En allegeance a l'inconnaissable -- Une etude en choregraphie pour le flux d'energie LP
Sol Oosel presents an album with a complex mixture of tones and structures, striking a close relation between a sort of devotional music and a trancelike state. Beyond his own specific exploration of the possibilities of electronic modular synthesis, Sol Oosel searches for hacks in different states of consciousness by way of sound. En allégeance à l'inconnaissable - Une étude en chorégraphie pour le flux d'énergie is meant as a musical aid for visualizing the ability to dance with and manipulate attainable flows of energy. Largely produced using modular synthesizers and the Roland SH-09, Sol Oosel stretches beyond the fields of ambient music, adding a special sense of drama to this psychoactive journey. Each song is built around solid structures and infused with a mystical atmosphere. Harmonically, this album is close to Hans-Joachim Roedelius' early works; it is emotionally positive, informed by pop nuances that are rarely found in this type of ambient music. Sol Oosel also owes to the works of Klaus Schulze; however, while Schulze was concerned with space and made music of the unknown but conceivable cosmos in his mind, Sol Oosel is more interested in Earth and the force that weighs us down in this complex physical reality. His music speculates on the relationships between inner and outer worlds. En allégeance à l'inconnaissable... is a soundscape and a choreographic exercise for relaxation, intentionally disrupted by "Here (Au Bord De L'Univers)", a deconstructive piece covered in multiple layers of repetition, progressive beats, and kosmische pulsation which detours from the flow. In a way, it represents the bridge between all these cosmic and earthly energies. This is Sol Oosel's debut on Umor Rex. He previously self-released the album Janus, and was member of several bands and projects before focusing in Sol Oosel. He lives in the rural village of Tepoztlán, México, where he works as an artist, performer, sculptor, sonic landscaper, and dancer.

Out now on Manic Depression Records
the new album from the Electro Rock / Synth Gam Wave duo

VELVET KILLS
"Bodhi Labyrinth"


Velvet Kills is a Synth-punk / electro-rock, duo with Su Eko on Vocals/Bass and Harris Iveson on Guitar/Synths.

Velvet Kills is a thoroughly modern and urban endeavour, speaking directly to today’s society - with all its anxieties, addictions, destructiveness as well as exhilaration. You'll find in their driving beats raw emotion, and a terrific darkness. The sound is complex, almost abstract - a combination of cinematic textures, gritty guitars, and potent vocals.​

Velvet Kills announced their new album titled “Bodhi Labyrinth”, the Vinyl/12 is set to be released in March 2020 alongside Icy Cold Records, Manic Depression Records and Unknown Pleasures Records.

Awakening the labyrinth of our minds to be freed from hate, greed and ego this album brings us to the reality of our actual society. The messages come coded in sarcasm, euphemism, hyperbole and irony where the two dig into the files of a lonely civilization and question the purpose of life vs government structures where we "Cash and Move" and where love is forgotten.Inside the “Noise” of the apocalyptic war a “Hangover Calling” to the universe to rise humans to a higher state of positive vibration.“The Key” is Love.


manicdepressionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/md120-velvet-kills-bodhi-labyrinth?mc_cid=7870c1e5d8&mc_eid=25...

OHYDA Koszmar LP
Sophomore release by Lublin's Ohyda. Picking up where their self-titled LP left in 2016 their new 12" ups the feedback, aggression, and psychedelic-infused hardcore of their previous release to new levels. Sonically Ohyda are dark and anthemic, with a ferocious guitar tone and delay vocals backed up by an extremely solid rhythm section. Not afraid of riffs or creating atmospheric passages leading to explosions of noise full of nightmarish visions of the current world. Imagine Abaddon meeting Hawkwind at Jarocin Festival then using Cress's gear to write an album of distorted, quasi industrial hardcore. If the class of 1984 Polish hardcore had dreamed of what the future would sound, it will be close to Koszmar.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh-GRQHYNLI

GIOBIA Plasmatic Idol CD
The Giöbia album Plasmatic Idol is simply impressive: a collection of different sounds and atmospheres, brings the listener to another sidereal world full of dreams and mind travels. You can clearly feel the influence of certain Pink Floyd in some passages but also pinches of Italian progressive rock, horror soundtrack sounds from '70s movies, '60s garage influences, US West Coast psychedelia, and late '60s space rock a la Hawkwind. The production is delicate and smooth, the album flows without interruptions and the music immerses your mind in a cosmic dimension. The vintage organs and synthesizers are used in the best way possible, eight tracks that capture your attention without distraction. Produced by Bazu, the guitar player and singer of the band. Mixed and mastered by Brett Orrison (Black Angels, Jack White) at Spaceflight Records in Austin, Texas. Cover artwork by Metastazis.
giobiagiobia.bandcamp.com/album/plasmatic-idol


DE SANG FROID Vox Dei LP
Killer French minimal/industrial/electro tunes from A// aka Le Syndicat Electronique, French precursor musician and performer, at work since 1996, and founder of the labels Hieratique and Invasion Planete Recordings. Born in November 2018 at the same time as the French Yellow Vest Revolution, A// renews the industrial genre by his avant-gardism and his uncompromising vision of a refined music at its strict minimum, without artifices, without compromise in the sounds and words used. Recommended to fans of Dopplereffekt, Beta Evers, I-F, Umwelt, and Legowelt. Red vinyl; edition of 400.

RAMLEH The Great Unlearning 2CD
Double-CD version of the critically acclaimed The Great Unlearning album, originally released in mid-2019 as a double-LP by Egyptian label Nashazphone (NP 030LP). This release saw Gary and Anthony not only reunited with Stuart Dennison, Martyn Watts, and Philip Best, but also collaborating with Philip's wife (and Consumer Electronics partner) Sarah Froelich and delivering perhaps their most surprising and immediate work to date. Drawing from post-punk, ravaged psychedelia, raw electronics and, of course, the group's own background as purveyors of music both intense and uncompromising, The Great Unlearning is their most accomplished work yet. This is the culmination of where all their ideas have been heading over the years and undoubtedly proves Ramleh to be completely on top of their game. Packaged in a six-panel sleeve.
mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-133-de-sang-froid...

handfulofsnowdrops.bandcamp.com/album/asymmetrical-ep

robertturman.bandcamp.com/album/the-prisoner-in-the-mirror

CITI027 Schwefelgelb – Die Stimme Drängt EP

Cititrax is honored to announce a new EP entitled Die Stimme Drängt by Schwefelgelb, a techno body music duo from Berlin. Known for their bombastic strobe-lit live performances and immaculate studio production, their sound can be described as heavy, apocalyptic electronic body music for the club. They often play their synths intentionally detuned, and find harmony in disharmonious melodies paired with strong, steady rhythms and sparse, abstract vocals. It is no surprise that their releases sell out quickly and are often re-pressed. The Die Stimme Drängt EP is their first EP since 2018, when they put out their highly acclaimed ‘Aus Den Falten’ which fiercely hit the DJ circuit and left a great impression. Their music has been played by DJs like Silent Servant, The Hacker, Helena Hauff, Veronica Vasicka, Regis, Samuel Kerridge, Phase Fatale, Adam X, Front 242, Jensen Interceptor, Tommy Four Seven and more. Purchase here while supplies last. Also available on Bandcamp.

A1 Die Dünne Hand

A2 Auf Die Erde
B1 Die Augen Gehen
B2 Das Bild Das Wiederskehrt


MW071 Aural Indifference – The Sound of Indifference (Cassette)

'The Sound of Indifference,' the 1981 cassette by Australian post-punk studio collective Aural Indifference, headed by Brian Hall (M Squared) and Kevin Purdy, is now out on Minimal Wave. This rare cassette features thirteen tracks that can be described as quirky guitar-driven synth heavy electronic folk music. High-bias cassette tape, remastered from original source tapes complete with original artwork. Limited to 300 copies. Purchase here while supplies last. Also available on Bandcamp.

1 A.I. Theme

2 Funky Party
3 Bohemian Insta
4 Man Am I Progressive
5 D&Z Part 3
6 Are You Worried?
7 Conceptual Car Crash
8 Secretary Chick
9 God
10 Transit
11 We Will Go to the Beach
12 Park
13 Curious Ways Of Dying

MW073 Daily Fauli – Fauli Til Dauli LP

Fauli Til Dauli, the legendary LP written and recorded by Danish artist / actor Søren Fauli when he was a teenager in 1983, is in production now. We are hoping that by May or June, the world will have returned to some semblance of normalcy. Anyway, as soon as it does, this record will be out! In the meanwhile, let us remain excited! Check out a sample of the newly remastered SPEED.












VERONICA VASICKA X SLAM RADIO ++

Since all gigs have been canceled and most people are at home now, Veronica has uploaded a mix to Slam Radio for your listening pleasure during this period of universal self-isolation. Stay safe and cozy in the privacy of your virus free homes. Listen, here – it will go live on March 19th, 2020.

Also, check out Veronica's feature in Metal Magazine published in February 2020. "Veronica Vasicka is possibly one of the most important label owners and DJs in the underground electronic industry".

Check our new monthly Spotify playlist. The first episode is here now.

We should have a limited number of copies of the ‘Rock & Roll Station’ DLP by the end of the month. Details are on the ICR website now :
icrdistribution.com/products/nurse-with-wound-rock-roll-station-2lp-available-end-...
If you would like to reserve a copy please now email :
colinpotter@icrdistribution.com
We are waiting for the records to arrive before we take payment, but also we want to be certain that they can be shipped. No doubt everyone is aware of the restrictions caused by the virus epidemic & there is a possibility that things will get much worse. So let’s see what the situation is when they are available. An email update will be sent with up to date information.

We can also announce another one of Darren Tate’s limited edition re-issues, this one being the Monos album ‘360 Degrees’ originally released on CD by Anomalous back in 2001. Details are here :
icrdistribution.com/products/monos-360-degrees-ltd-ed-cdr-print-p...
This is an edition of 15 copies, signed & numbered, consisting of a CDr in a clamshell, a framed collage (each one different) & 2 postcards. We only have a small number, so, as usual, if you would like a copy (£20.00 + shipping), for postage and payment details, please email : colinpotter@icrdistribution.com

Next month we will have a new 2CD by Moljebka Pvlse. The first CD is 3 new pieces & the second CD is made up of reworkings of tracks from MP’s album ‘Discourse on Lightness’ (one of our favourites from 2017) by various people including Colin Potter, Daniel Menche, Phil Knight, Troum & others.

Hopefully around the same time we will have copies of the CD version of Trevor Wishart’s new work ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’.

Sad news on the live performance front. The Edinburgh Black Glass Ensemble show featuring Colin Potter has been cancelled. It is highly likely that some of the other shows over the next few months may also suffer the same fate. Depending on who you believe (or perhaps more realistically, you realise that no one really knows what will happen) it could be that there will be no live performances for quite some time. Most of us who would have been playing at these shows rely on them as a major source of income, which is now disappearing. We hesitate to add to the throng of performers, artists & venues asking for support, but it looks like hard times ahead. Just sayin’

So the ICR Bandcamp page : icrdistribution.bandcamp.com/ will be much expanded over the coming days. A lot of out of print items will be added.

That’s all for now. Keep checking the website and thanks for listening!

AND STAY SAFE!

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