WL//WH - MARCH 2024 // Shoegaze /Dream Pop /Psychedelic /Indie Pop

Colder XLVII

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During the 1980s, the Züri brännt riots were violent protests against exorbitant cultural subsidies enforced by the city, which had also dismantled cultural programs for Zurich’s youth. Platzspitz park was since known for its gorgeous gardens and Baroque architecture until it started to become a gathering point for heroin users, subsequently being referred to as Needle Park. Authorities permitted illegal drug use and sales at the park to try to solve the issue, but the lack of regulations meant that drug dealers and users arrived from all over Europe and crime and overdoses became rampant. Zurich became reduced to a mess of violence and anger, mud and used needles. From this atmosphere rose the genesis of the music within this album. Originally released on Calypso Now in 1986, Squares and Crossings was supposed to be part of a series called The Guild, a collection of music written by Swiss music critics. Mario Scherrer was the only one responding to this invitation, thus making him the sole contributor for this project. These productions are coated in punk varnish, simultaneously blending elements of new wave, pop, musique concrète, improvisation, poetry and ambient, which would only make sense coming from the same city as the home of the Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of the Dada movement. This album is not only an artistic diary, but also has an environmental affinity with this snapshot of Swiss history.

"Where some are desperately looking for something new, others play with what has been forgotten, whitewashed by the dust of centuries. A kind of music which is developed in permanent motion, a music of endless flowing. There are no rests, no breaks. It could almost be called a boundless music; a music, however, which carries you away, wherever it goes. La Nouvelle folk music: a wonderful conglomeration of Swiss cultural history."
-Mario Scherrer

Artwork
https://lindameli.com/
https://www.instagram.com/linda_meli/

https://deedeespicks.bandcamp.com/album/ddp004-squares-and-crossings
https://deedeespicks.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dee_dees_picks/
https://www.facebook.com/deedeespicks/

PREMIERE: Mario Scherrer - Some Different Men [Dee Dee's Picks]

'Monopoly' is the first single off my upcoming debut album, which will be out on Spirit Goth Records 2nd of August 2024 :) 

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→ Listen on DPS here: https://songwhip.com/yndling/monopoly
→ Insta: @din.yndling
→ Bandcamp: https://yndling.bandcamp.com
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thank you so much for listening <3

Lyrics: 
I thought I had a monopoly 
the only one who got to feel 
sad, to say, I almost can’t 
decide if I want to stay around

I thought I had a monopoly 
at acting out, being hard to read
the only one to feel unease
the only one hard to please

I know I act like I don't care about you
but I would love for you to stay around
I hope you haven’t changed your mind

I thought I had a monopoly 
the only one to ever breathe
in with such difficulty
the only one who got to leave

I know I act like I don't care about you
but I would love for you to stay around
I hope you haven’t changed your mind
I know I act like I don't care about you
but I would have loved for you to stay around
I hope I haven’t changed your mind

I know I act like I don't care about you
but I would love for you to stay around
I hope you haven’t changed your mind
I know I act like I don't care about you
but I would have loved for you to stay around
I hope I haven’t changed your mind

Monopoly

Buy on Bandcamp

FM Attack - Strange Ways

01 Gwendoline - CONSPIRE

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Spin around darkness untold 
Crushed-down senses overload
Dragged along that twisted road
Can’t stop shaking panic mode
Beads of sweat and terror chills
Unresponsive coping skills
Spinning floors bent windowsills 
Hallucinogenic pills

Take my 
Hand
Pull me through now
Somehow
Free me 
Fear all but gone 
Salvation 

Dose up higher fingers numb 
Tears seep out now makeup's run
Bitten lips and knuckles pearl 
Overloaded thoughts unfurl 
T-shirt drenched around skin and bone
Old faces become unknown 
Legs are folding to the trance 
Distant screaming ambulance

Take my 
Hand
Pull me through now
Somehow
Free me 
Fear all but gone 
Salvation

SALVATION

When are you coming home?

https://alphasect.bandcamp.com/album/machine-crime-ep

Weever - L'Esclave De La Machine (Alpha Sect Remix)

𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳

∞

releases march 1, 2024
written, recorded & mixed by kate
mastered by taylor deupree at 12k mastering

Heart Desire

https://soundcloud.com/loislazur
https://soundcloud.com/teenagemenopause
🛒 https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com/album/half-of-a-hand
🔊 https://youtu.be/XpfsqVtWb74

Autodidact producer based in Marseille, Lois Lazur is a sound artist evolving on the borders of varied musical styles which rub shoulders and sometimes intersect, very gently.
This first mini-album “Half Of A Hand” poses as a manifesto, subtly turning towards post-club music, structured around slow grooves where the bass is heavy and the percussions pile up on jerky rhythms.
Always rhythmic, often very melodic and although sung, his electronic music with Indus, Acid and Dub sounds, illustrates a poetic and metaphysical aim: an invitation to encounter, to the inhibition of gender and class barriers on a variegated dancefloor and certainly caring.

Tracklist: 

Dool - Missing Twin - Momento Mori - Pinson's Tale - Verdanson - God Is Dead

Half Of A Hand

PREMIERE: Loïs Lazur - Missing Twin [Teenage Menopause Records]

Tears is the latest single by Talking to Shadows. Recorded at the Magpie Cage Studio in Baltimore, MD by J. Robbins.

Tears

Naissance Des Morts EP

With collaboration with the visual artist Morgan Hall, I conceived this two musical compositions which are like the two sides of the coin, the two sides of our life. You will find single visuals per track and a unique design for the album, catered by Morgan Hall. This EP has a more consolating and listening approach, not produced for dancefloor but for that Sunday morning at home, just after the club.

SUPPORT

Your A Side Killed Me

The Spy is on a mission for the 8th Kri release and it ends with a bang. Similar to Wessel's releases on Mechatronica and Osare! Editions, his signature sound keeps evolving by melting electro, EBM and wave into a hypnotising dystopian soundtrack.

His Kri debut is named Halt and Hack and it ranges from melancholic EBM-ish slow burners to mutated wave-meets-electro anthems, rounded with a nostalgic remix by the mighty Zement operator Kluentah.

Available as limited lathe-cut vinyl and digitally on 17th of May 2024.

Halt and Hack

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : The Spy - Speed Boxer

Dive into the mesmerizing fusion of sounds with Alpha Sect's latest vinyl release, 'Fragmented Reality', on Soil Records. Featuring remixes by the renowned talents of Curses, Local Suicide x Skelesys, and Raw Ambassador, this EP spans the realms of EBM, Italo-Disco, Wave, and Techno. Each track invites you to journey through a sonic realm where pulsating rhythms and ethereal melodies converge, blurring the lines between genres. With Alpha Sect leading the way, immerse yourself in a hypnotic experience that transcends conventional boundaries. 'Fragmented Reality' is out now, offering a unique sonic adventure for the discerning listener.

Design by: Greta Haga
Mastered by: Thomas P. Heckman D

La última vez (Curses x Tutto Vetro remix)

Telos Tou Kosmou

La última vez

Le Reve Éveillé (Raw Ambassador Rework) Digital Bonus

Unnatural Acts (Athens)
Oraculo Records (Barcelone)
Kluster Collective (Paris)
Tjalk Records (Lyon)
Synthicide (NYC)
Samo Records (NYC)
CSC Records (Brest)
Khoinix (London/Istanbul)
Soil Records (Valencia)
Crave Tapes (Berlin)
Miseria Records (Berlin)
Wie Ein Gott (Berlin)
Nu Body Records (Bruxelles)
Forkha Records (São Paolo)
MSQ Records (St. Petersburg)
Hertzel Records (Rennes)
Pildoras Tapes (Bogota)
ECTO Records (Strasbourg)
Bodymusick (Bogota)
Kein Rauch Ohne Feuer (Hannover)
OSM Tapes (Thessaloniki)



The Alpha Sect is rising - Keep the secret