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A Game Of Despair

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For our 55th release we are launching a special series called Dark Entries Editions, dedicated to 12" singles made for the dance floor. The first release in this series is Victrola, the duo of Antonio "Eze" Cuscinà and Carlo Smeriglio from Italy. The band formed in Messina, but later relocated to Florence to join the rich musical scene there with Neon, Pankow, Alexander Robotnick and Diaframma. Beginning as a 4-piece combo (two guitarists, bassist, drummer) in 1979, they slimmed down to a synthesizer and guitar-based duo a few years later.
Their sole release was the "Maritime Tatami"/"A Game Of Despair" EP, from 1983. Using an array of now-classic Roland synthesizers (TR 606, TR 303 Bassline, Juno 6) plus a Korg Polysix and Fender Stratocaster, they crafted two darkwave ballads. "Maritime Tatami" engulfs the listener with trance-inducing synth lines and melancholic vocals over its epic 8 minutes. Oblique minor-key bass lines provide an anchor while snappy, brittle 606 rhythms propel the track along. The lyrics tell the story of Tatami, a boy from a fishing town who yearns for a new life in the big city. "A Game of Despair", on the flipside, is a haunting crawl through the eyes of a woman left by her lover. An angular guitar riff repeats hypnotically, as fragile icy synth lines chime emptily above it.
Each song has been carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in an exact replication of the original jacket, and includes an insert with lyrics and never-before-seen photos. Victrola's only release is a truly singular and timeless masterpiece—it’s from a dimension of its own.

Victrola - Maritime Tatami

HELM — Olympic Mess (PAN 63) 2xLP/CD/DL
Release Date: 15th June 2015
http://p-a-n.org

HELM - Olympic Mess (PAN 63)

Yaws - Stoicism In E5 -  02 Flesh War (Total Control Cover)

Taken From The EP - Flesh - due out on Hyperdub on 22nd July 

Preorder on I-Tunes

HDB101 -  ENDGAME - Felony Riddim

So Into Being Screwed

VICTROLA _ the mutant glow

Star Eyes (I Can't Catch It) ft. David Lynch - Sparklehorse & Danger Mouse

The Altar +++++

The girls are picking flowers
Dangling at the sides of their hands

Somewhere else someone else feels worse
Forget that the sun is in the universe
Somewhere else someone else feels worse
A life of compassion feels so rehearsed
Somewhere else someone else feels worse
Forget to remember your own worth
Somewhere else someone else feels worse
All your regret cannot be reversed
All your regret cannot be reversed
All your regret cannot be reversed

The Altar (Ruined By Yves Tumor)

Dance driven future pop that perhaps belongs in a Berlin nightclub circa 2040, Embedded Figures has paved a venomous, dark disco path in the NZ electronic underground before relocating to Melbourne in 2017.

"Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) is an incremental Compilation built over the year by Detonic Recordings.
Each Month an on-line single is published with an "A" and "B" side from each of the international artists participating in the project.
In December the complete compilation will be released on Vinyl featuring the hit from each contributor.

Minimum Viable Product

Embedded Figures - St. Kilda

I Trusted You

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Mega Bog
Dolphine
LP/CD/Digital
PoB-049
June 28, 2019

Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. She is joined on her fifth and finest album (and first for PoB) by members of Big Thief, Hand Habits, and iji, who help her spin a manic web of emotions into beautiful, abstract future poems and thrilling genre perversions.

RIYL: Laurie Anderson, Slapp Happy, Kevin Ayers, Bridget St John, Beefheart, Bowie, Cate Le Bon, Ursula K. Le Guin

Prismatic avant-pop that balances warbling melodies with unexpected bursts of frenetic energy. 'Diary of a Rose' is a lush representation of Birgy's ability to evoke warmth and nostalgia while keeping her gaze to the future. – NPR Music

It joins Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising and Big Thief's UFOF as one of 2019's left field pop gems, a record created with no detectable consciousness of a wider scene but with a bedroom-wide sense of possibility. Birgy's songs are tangles, unconcerned with hooks, verses, choruses, while floating melodic ideas are addictive precisely because they don't repeat but play themselves out then disappear. Part prog, part easy listening, warm and engulfing... a shimmering chiaroscuro [of] fully fledged delicious pop. Dolphine pulls off the trick of making the small scale feel all-encompassing. – The Wire

8/10. Sonic fantasia from a poetic mind… a whimsical and devastating cosmic journey through loss and healing. It’s part folk-rock fantasy, part avant-pop mind trip, and all gorgeous. With lush sonic layers that are alternately raw and delicate, Dolphine translates as a series of dream worlds where the confessional meets the fantastical, and lost ones live forever. – Uncut

"The weirding way got weirder," Erin Birgy sings, sounding like Nico at her spookiest, a lovely summation of her beguilingly crooked guitar playing. Fans of Cate Le Bon, look sharp. – The Guardian

Somewhere between the mystical landscapes of prog rock and the familiar breeze of easy-listening radio... It sounds something like the 'energize' effect on Star Trek as transposed for a jazz band ... the music is vast and refined, hinting at chaos but never quite losing control. The band is equally adept at sweeping you away and pulling you in. – Pitchfork

A lounge track for the lobby of a passenger ship floating through space, Mega Bog’s 'Truth in the Wild' toys with the earthly and the cosmic. Frontwoman and multi-instrumentalist Erin Birgy guides listeners on a mystical adventure." – Cool Hunting

Absurdly good. She blurs the lines between the surreal and the profound in a way that she seems able to do like none other... "Diary of a Rose" is a stunning introduction to the new record, a jazzy/breezy gem with vaguely sinister undertones, teeming with Birgy’s unforgettably peculiar and vivid lyrical phrasing and the kind of deceptively labyrinthine melodies and slithering guitar lines that made the band’s last LP Happy Together such a compelling, unsung masterpiece and one of the best records of the last half-decade. – Gorilla vs. Bear

Starts off mossy and inviting, but then builds to an impressive tempest of wailing guitars. Spectral, at times suave and smooth, and baroque. She's not quite like anybody else. – Brooklyn Vegan

I’m forever dumbfounded by the raw intimacy and alien sophistication of Erin’s work. It’s dream music of the highest order. – Jessica Pratt

The whole experience is a pristinely surreal excursion. – Paste Magazine

Imagine an adventure game quest with Yoko Ono as your guide, or Laurie Anderson doing her best David Attenborough impression: a deep, joyful abstraction that draws to a pure, human conclusion. – Pitchfork

Dolphine

LP/CD/DL/stream

Mega Bog: Dolphine - "Diary of a Rose" (2019, PoB-049)

Pre-order Jesca Hoop's new album STONECHILD (out 05 July 2019) via Memphis Industries: http://smarturl.it/stonechild 

A culmination of life and musical experience, uncompromising in its vision, STONECHILD, the new studio album from Jesca Hoop is a self described “compassion project.” Released on July 5th by Memphis Industries, STONECHILD is Hoop refined and defined.

Stonechild

Shoulder Charge (ft. Lucius)

Jesca Hoop - Shoulder Charge (ft Lucius)

Lungbutter • Honey

Release date: 31 May 2019

180gramLP / DL
Constellation

Lungbutter • "Flat White"

Alien Nosejob - Buffet Of Love

Mixed by Matt Tink Tank Tinkler 
Mastered by Babam@Storn Studios Bandung

STRANGE STAINS - RELAXATION (ZACHARIAS SZUMER REMAXX)

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / https://bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers

HELM - I Knew You Would Respond (PAN 99)

After the release of her sublime, critically acclaimed sophomore solo album ‘Penelope Two’, Penelope Trappes and Houndstooth are pleased to announce ‘Redeux’; an album of top-drawer reworks of tracks from ‘Penelope Two’, which showcase not only the intrinsic brilliance of Penelope’s composition and performances, but also her far-reaching and all-encompassing musical influences and significance. 

http://hndsth.lnk.to/Redeux

“There were no preconceived notions of how the reworks would work together, just total freedom. I’m absolutely in love with all of these! I never really thought I’d get the chance to collaborate with such an array of creative artists who have inspired me, but at this point, I’ve learned to never say never” explains Penelope. 

A1. Burn On (Mogwai Rework)
A2. Carry Me (Cosey Fanni Tutti Rework)
A3. Maeve (JFDR Rework)
A4. Farewell (Johnny Hostile Rework) 
A5. Night Hive (Paul Corley Rework)
B1. Nite Hive (Nik Colk Void Rework)
B2. Connector (Aasthma Rework) 
B3. Farewell (Throwing Snow Rework)
B4. Kismet (Poppy Ackroyd Rework)
B5. Burn On (Félicia Atkinson Rework)

http://www.penelopetrappes.com/


Penelope Trappes 
‘Redeux’
Released June 7th 
Houndstooth 
Vinyl / digital

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