POST PUNK / COLD WAVE / NEW WAVE /  SYNTH WAVE / DARK INDE / MINIMAL ELECTRONICS / EBM / INDUS - 2

FIRE (Permanent Vacation)

Coldwave / darkwave debut album by San Fransisco based producer Gabriel Ramos.

While the band has gone through a few lineup changes Ssleeping Desiress has essentially remained the brainchild of Gabriel Ramos, who is now the sole member. Ssleeping Desiress is certainly a gem in the electronic underground, the album runs along the boundaries between minimal synth, coldwave, and electro with lyrical themes being gentrification, coping with death, artistic drive and confusion and the ephemeral nature of relationships.

The only Ssleeping Desiress release so far was the great A Voice / Sister 7inch on the FlexiWave label in 2012. They also appeared on numerous new new wave compilations in the last couple of years. The self-titled album presented here takes the project to the next level. Kicking off with an echoing voice over repetitive drums and outbursts of synths & guitars, slowly moving towards a more darkwave sound on the second half of the album.

Gabriel Ramon started making solo recordings while living in Portland, Oregon around 2005. Being inspired by the culminating factors of the DIY drive of the city, hosting live shows at his house, which frequently would host friends' bands from San Francisco and his growing fascination and voracious consumption of music: "I can really trace it to the first time Spector Protector played at my house and getting a tape afterwards from one of the two members, Eric Davis. That and being freshly exposed to groups like Suicide and Arthur Russell was very inspirational to begin recording music on my own, though it is something I had done fairly aimlessly since high school. I make an effort and try and change my process as much as I can (usually through collaboration) and vary the instrumentation. I try and incorporate a late 70s punk vibe, a marriage of dub and krautrock repetition and cavernous space. Definitely not always successful but that is what is usually running through my head when I create music for this band."

Ssleeping Desiress - Preservation

Truth
Sets you free
Truth
Helps you believe
Truth
Makes you see
Truth
Cures your need

Confidence
With your truth
Confidence
With your truth

Lying to yourself
Makes no sense
With the lack of confidence
At your expense

When you accept your truth
Life will be better
When you accept your truth
Life won't be sadder

Confidence
With your truth
Confidence
With your truth

Believe in who you are
Believe in what you do
Nobody is in competition
With you

The only competition
Is yourself
Making yourself better
Not like anyone else

Confidence
With your truth
Confidence
With your truth

Confidence With Your Truth

im tryna act normal
ummm im tryna Act normal all my friends are-acting more than me
this ho want pack
adorable, i think she want pack way more than me 
x2

Diamond on the glass
Slithered slowly through the dark
Made my way over your stairs
Crystals flying everywhere
Diamond on the glass
Slithered slowly through the dark
Made my way up over your stairs
Crystals flying everywhere
Diamond on the glass
Slithered slowly through the dark
Made my way up o'er your stairs
Crystals flying everywhere

it fit when i was a kidddd

MXEEN - MONTAGEM ARRASTÁ (slowed to perfection)

Wait to Pleasure

Hare Tarot Lies

Weight Against the Door

Balancing

The Second Album + The First Rehearsal Tapes

Shadazz

The Agent Intellect

The Devil in His Youth

Cassette

Unconscious Melody

Bravery Repetition & Noise

Open Heart Surgery

We Need

Feels

Happy

Drunk Tank Pink

Dark Entries is honored to re-issue the debut cassette by British duo Nagamatzu for the first time ever on vinyl. Expanded with five bonus tracks, “Shatter Days” is a collection of nine songs recorded between 1983 and 1988. Featuring Andrew Lagowski (SETI, Legion, Terror Against Terror) on synths, guitar, and programming and Stephen Jarvis (Pure Motorised Instinct, Terraform) on synths and bass  with Andrew Fleck (synths,  occasional vocals). 
Nagamatzu self-released their debut cassette "Shatter Days" in 1983 after messing around with old tape machines, drum boxes and effects. They cite their early influences as SPK, Cabaret Voltaire and Joy Division. All the songs were recorded onto a TEAC reel to reel in the dining room at Andrew's parents' house.  Some of the backing rhythms and sequencers were recorded first and then the band played along live during overdubs. These instrumentals combine stuttering bass, guitar bursts and funeral keyboards draped over a dragging drum machine beat, calling to mind Clock DVA, early New Order or Cocteau Twins. Their sound is full of complex rhythm patterns and dark electronics.
On the flip side of this reissue are five tracks featuring contributions to international compilations ("If God Had Meant Us To Dance He’d Have Given Us Legs,” “Three Minute Symphony,”  Life At The Top" and "Total Recess 3") plus a previously unreleased song.  All songs have been remastered from the original tapes for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in jacket silver and black offset printed jacket featuring the Nagamatzu symbol from the "Shatter Days" cassette.  Each LP includes a 8-page booklet full of photos, reviews and an interview with the band from 1983. Finally rescued from the UK D.I.Y. cassette underground and restored, "Shatter Days" presents a band at their productive beginnings. 

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