THIS IS SOOO GOOD! Still love it 10 years after production. My fav track of you, i think.

i had to come back to listen again to this... it's one of my favourites of you!

amazing sounds and feeling - massive beat!

I awoke from the grave when this came on!

My wave

ECHOLALIA

THIS IS WHAT I KNOW
THIS IS WHAT I SEE
THIS IS WHAT I DREAM
WHAT I BELIEVE

ECHOLALIA

Reinterpretation of an early Interpol track.... "Untitled"

Untitled (Surprise Sometime) Interpol Reinterpretation

I wait for the right, the right moment
I wait too long
I wait for the right, the right moment
I wait to long and now its gone

Sometimes I look to the stars
Sometimes I look from a far
Sometimes I see it in my eyes
I can't have it, I want it all still the same
Sometimes

Sometimes

When the hollowness speaks
You know you're down
All your demons flock homeward bound
In silence you can't make any sound
Haunted ghosts spin round and around

Hope or pain you can't tell what's worse
Fear or shame, whatever comes first
You searched so hard
Collapsed to the ground
Nightmares circle round and around

This is what you think you deserve
Hide yourself you don't have the nerve
Endless questions just confound
Only you can turn things around

There's no sense in
Beating up yourself
You can break that spell
Cause you've so much to live for today

So don't let desperation leave its mark
Know there's always light in the dark

Round and Around

I must be feeling low again, lower than low
I must be feeling low again, lower than low

But some feelings feel the same
I fear it every day
But I can't complain
I must have gone insane...

I'm stuck within my mind tonight
When will it end?
I don't belong
I won't become just another one of them

I'm tearing out my brain
I struggle on in vain
How could I complain?
I know that they're insane...

Photo by Robin Schreiner from Pexels

Feeling Low

Mannequin is proud to present new music from Austin,TX 
based full-analog-synth quartet S U R V I V E. Their first LP 
is a highly anticipated release and we're more than thrilled 
that the vinyl is finally out. 
 
"An analogue incarnation of Rustie taking a couple of notes 
from Eduard Artemiev’s poetic account of a supernova 
imploding upon itself in a storm of strobe lights which are but 
morse signals from God’s ship as it sails across the empty 
black sludge of space, annotations in a sheet music for a 
jam bound to send Astronomers all over the planet into a 
frenzy of air keyboard slapping and knob twiddling"-20 Jazz Funk Greats  
 
Adam Jones, Kyle Dixon, Mark Donica, Michael Stein form the analog synth purist band 
SURVIVE, considered as one of Austin's most important live electronic mainstays. With 
Austin's diverse underground synth scene starting to boil over (see: Neon Indian's world 
domination, Silent Diane's new single on Matador imprint True Panther, //TENSE// early 
EBM shocks and Sleep ∞ Over's debut on Hippos In Tanks), SURVIVE is creeping up, not 
far behind.  
 
LP Version: Limited edition of 300 copies, 140 gr clear vinyl 
 
DIGITAL Version: Distribution through The Orchard in the most important digital stores 
(iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Nokia, Spotify and many others). 
 
Tracklisting: 
 
A1 Deserted Skies 
A2 Floating Cube 
A3 To Light Alone I Bow 
A4 Hourglass 
A5 Omniverse 
B1 Black Mollies 
B2 Scalar Wave 
B3 Shunting Yard 
B4 Dirge 
 
 
http://www.survive.bandcamp.com 
 


S U R V I V E - Hourglass

This is an alternate version of Surrender that I use for live performance.

Original version here: https://soundcloud.com/myjoy/surrender

I want you to surrender
I want you here tonight
I want you to surrender...

Look this way
Turn this way
Yield to the hold I have upon you
You'd better do as I say
Don't disobey
You can't ignore your pulse it calls
Give in to sin without remorse

I want you to surrender
I want you here tonight
I want you to surrender
I want you to submit to me
You'll surrender
I won't let go 'till you completely surrender

Head the signs
Fear my designs
I need to know your every part inside out
So give in
Resign to your fate
Our interests are aligned
We need no alibi

I want you to surrender
I want you here tonight
I want you to surrender
I want you to admit to me
You surrender
So just confess and scream with pride you surrender

youwant

Surrender (Where the heck did I put my guitar? mix)

It's just a bad dream
That I can't seem to wake from
Can't seem to filter what's real

It's such a long time
Since the darkness descended
Won't play along with your games

I'm sick of your lies
Lost count of all your abuses
Grown tired of all your excuses

There's only so much
That one can take before patience
Is overcome by vengeance

I see you
Right through you
I can't trust you
I could kill you

Your menacing ways
The constant tirades and broadsides
They don't scare like they used to

So do what you want
But know I'm so much stronger
Don't underestimate me

I see you
Right through you
I can't trust you
I could be you



Photo by Vijay Putra from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-white-hands-mask-bussinesman-64699/

Kill You

I recorded this track one afternoon last April (2012)

sometimes the music comes fast. 

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Songwriters: Marco Pirroni / Adam Ant
© Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Original track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3M3DDB0-4
From the album "Kings of the Wild Frontier".

I live the life that I've been left
I leave most things unspoken
But deep inside Geronimo is tearing me apart
I've seen him in the streets
And I've seen him in the pictures

Killer in the home
Killer in the home

Now's the time I must digress
From going through the motions
Take my head out of its sling
Free the warrior
I'll fight him in my dreams
And I'll fight him till he kills me

Killer in the home
Killer in the home

They cut you in half with a gun
And give you a band aid
They gut you in half with a gun
And give you a band aid

Killer in the home
Killer in the home
Killer
Is the home

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels

Killer in the Home (Adam & the Ants cover)

It's not the way that I planned it
It's just the way that I am
It couldn't have been avoided
So let's stop the pretence
This is nothing unusual
We were not playing games
I thought the feeling was mutual
Now you're fanning the flames

We will never get used to this
It's just the same as before
The inevitability
Was clear when you stepped through my door

But back when it all started
We could not foresee the pain
All the hurt we imparted
Where only guilt remains

We could only delude ourselves again
It's the way people are
So move on
And don't let our fate be sealed in the same way...

It's Not The Way That I Planned It

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-028-uv-p-p-no-songs-tomorrow-lp

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-028-uv-p-p-no-songs-tomorrow-cd

Mannequin is honoured to offer you one of the best UK New Wave reissue from the 80's.

UV PØP were an early 80’s post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. An excerpt from the album’s liner notes penned by JP Shea helps explain the political climate during which this album was recorded: “In the 1980s there was nothing to smile about; nothing to smile for. The person whom some called wrongly the iron lady brought vengeful spiteful selfishness and a narrow-minded out- look into all our lives. Instead of love and respect there was: a three-day week, Miners strike, and The Falklands War. The sound of UV PØP has always been a sophisticated blend of sadness; with morose North Country sense and a humorous confrontational sensibility. So, you might ask why ‘No Songs Tomorrow’? There is the answer. UV PØP and John White were as certain as anybody there was a strong possibility there might not be anything left with which to make a tomorrow….The fight back, the resistance came in the miners’ strike, on the streets of north Ireland and in the sovereignty of popular culture. And, there was plenty of that in Yorkshire and particularly in the southernmost parts of that region. Working class poets had not all died with the Victorians. The Rough Trade charts for one week in 1982 tell a very interesting story. Alongside acts of the caliber of Sisters of Mercy, Robert Wyatt, Sex Gang Children and Virgin Prunes are UV PØP, their place well-earned.”

We are honored to offer this reissue of their classic 1981 album and we look forward to bringing the band over to play some key shows in NY, LA, and Austin around this release.

Track listing: 
01 No Songs Tomorrow 
02 Portrait (Extended) 
03 Some Win This 
04 See You 
05 I.C. 
0 Psalm 
07 Sleep Don’t Talk 
08 Commitment 
09 Arcade Fun 
10 Hafunkiddies 
11 Four Minute Warning

* For fans of Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, Public Image Ltd. No Songs Tomorrow was pressed originally pressed in a very small edition and has since been considered a very rare, highly sought after early 80’s post-punk classic

U.V. PØP - 03 Some Win This

MNQ 034 VARIOUS - THE END OF CIVILIZATION LP

Mannequin has the dual and parallel aim to unearth hidden or unpublished gems, running along a road that starts from the period of reference for this kind of music (late 70s – mid 80s) and comes to nowdays, with a vision deeply influence by Factory Records / 4AD labels. 

Catching the same spirit of such great labels, we asked to the italian synth wave princess Mushy to create a compilation starting from a tabula rasa. The mission was hard. Following her tastes and heart, she had to select a dozen of new bands from all over the world with unreleased and unique for this project tracks, picking up the title and realizing the graphic design and artwork. The full process of "The End Of Civilization" took almost 1 year but the result was touching us ￼deep into our soul. 

Mushy began her career crafting noise bursts and aggressive oblique instrumentals before, in her newest form, blooming into a beautiful, epic and heart-heavy icy synth sound, having both "Faded Heart" (2011) and "Breathless" (2012) as album of the week at Rough Trade. "The End Of Civilization" perfectly represents her double sided synth-wave / kraut-psychedelic soul. Every track she selected for us is an absolute highlight, moving from the analog minimal / cold wave sounds of Police Des Moeurs, ASSS, The Circa Tapes, TEEEL and Rosemary to the tempestuous post punk and psychedelia of Deathday, The Murder Act, Phosphor and The Strange Forces, ending with spectral cold folk of Tablets and The Long Wives. 

- Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl 
- Digital distribution by The Orchard 
- Exclusive unreleased tracks 
- Artist Selection and graphic design by Mushy
credits


Deathday - After Dark

MNQ 034 VARIOUS - THE END OF CIVILIZATION LP

Mannequin has the dual and parallel aim to unearth hidden or unpublished gems, running along a road that starts from the period of reference for this kind of music (late 70s – mid 80s) and comes to nowdays, with a vision deeply influence by Factory Records / 4AD labels.

Catching the same spirit of such great labels, we asked to the italian synth wave princess Mushy to create a compilation starting from a tabula rasa. The mission was hard. Following her tastes and heart, she had to select a dozen of new bands from all over the world with unreleased and unique for this project tracks, picking up the title and realizing the graphic design and artwork. The full process of "The End Of Civilization" took almost 1 year but the result was touching us ￼deep into our soul.

Mushy began her career crafting noise bursts and aggressive oblique instrumentals before, in her newest form, blooming into a beautiful, epic and heart-heavy icy synth sound, having both "Faded Heart" (2011) and "Breathless" (2012) as album of the week at Rough Trade. "The End Of Civilization" perfectly represents her double sided synth-wave / kraut-psychedelic soul. Every track she selected for us is an absolute highlight, moving from the analog minimal / cold wave sounds of Police Des Moeurs, ASSS, The Circa Tapes, TEEEL and Rosemary to the tempestuous post punk and psychedelia of Deathday, The Murder Act, Phosphor and The Strange Forces, ending with spectral cold folk of Tablets and The Long Wives.

- Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl 
- Digital distribution by The Orchard 
- Exclusive unreleased tracks 
- Artist Selection and graphic design by Mushy
credits

Phosphor - Skull

MNQ 032 Ancien Régime - The Position LP out 11th February 2013 on Mannequin Records

Ancien Régime - Negative

Weak fragile minds
Bleed through the cracks formed between tough times
Screaming cold hard emptiness
You stand alone
Your concrete ego
Drags like a stone
Confusion, poison and madness

I've never been so aware
Of the feeling you just don't care
When I have always been there for you
So tell me
How in your life of luxury
Can you enthusiastically
Embrace such paranoid fears?

Eyes to the floor
So you can't see what you can't ignore
Lest you feel what you cannot bare
Ears to the ground
There is no sound cutting through the dead air
Just a twisted web of despair

I hung on your every word
Which now seems so absurd
I drowned myself in your fantasy
So tell me
Do you believe in what you say
Your words spread so much misery
Propagating your fears

I thought we were the same
That we're on the same side in the game
But now you're just the strangest stranger to me
No one's  indestructable
You're no less disposable
You've realised your worst fears

Fears

B[ur]eaucrat by day and electronic music artist known as Beaucrat while I should be sleeping. 

My music is a collide of organic raw imperfect music rooted in post-punk with the precise perfection of electronic music. All wrapped in elements of new wave, downtempo, ambient soundscapes, goth and a touch of industrial grit. I call that Orgonic. 


For those of you who liked my Downtempo/Ambient type work, check out my side project Momentary Awareness www.soundcloud.com/momentaryawareness 

Come follow me on facebook where I post beta versions of songs or links to exclusive tracks.  
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