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release date 21 feb 2025


Mannequin Records is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Chromium Industries, a double LP (MNQ 162) capturing the innovative spirit of two pioneers of electronic music: Andrew Lagowski and Paul (Howie D) Howard. This long-anticipated album marks a return to the seminal sounds of the Chromium Industries label, which emerged as a crucial platform for boundary-pushing techno and electronic music in the 1990s.

Andrew Lagowski, a name synonymous with exploration in electronic music, has been at the forefront of sound innovation since the early 1980s. Known for his work under various aliases, including Lagowski, Legion, and S.E.T.I., his early output in experimental and industrial sounds paved the way for his later techno-focused ventures. Albums like Knowledge (S.E.T.I.) and Nadir (Lagowski) highlighted his pioneering approach to unconventional sound sources and production techniques. In the 1990s, his work with Chromium Industries brought him into the techno spotlight, with a series of influential 12” singles that helped shape the electronic music landscape. With over 60 albums and 10+ singles to his name, Lagowski’s versatility and dedication have garnered him a loyal following and lasting influence across genres.

Paul Howard, aka Howie D, brought his DIY ethos from the punk scene of the 1970s into electronic music. As a founding member of The Frames and co-founder of the Brain Boosters and Spacematic labels, Howard has consistently pushed boundaries. His early forays into hip-hop saw him release the genre-pioneering jazz-rap track Miller Light as Fission. The transition from punk and hip-hop to electronic music was a natural one, culminating in his creation of Chromium Industries after a fateful night hearing Lagowski’s Vermilion at a London party. The label brought some of the most unique techno releases to the scene, with tracks like Blue Anomaly causing near-riots on the dancefloor. Since then, Howard’s work has evolved to include multiple aliases, including The Legend That Is, Phase Collective, and Skulpture.

Chromium Industries 2xLP is more than an album; it's a legacy preserved and reimagined. The double LP transports listeners to an era when electronic music was in full experimental bloom while showcasing the genre’s continual evolution.

Chromium Industries 2xLP will be available for purchase from January 2025 through Mannequin Records and select distributors. This is an essential release for collectors, DJs, and anyone who reveres the legacy of 1990s techno and the boundless potential of electronic music.

MNQ 162 Lagowski​/​Chromium - Chromium Industries 1991​-​1992 2xLP (snippets mix)

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from the upcoming album „The Harbour Of The Broken Hearted“ / THOTBH by BRUCH – out JUNE’25 via CUT SURFACE & TROST Records. 

Music & Video by Bruch. 
Mastered by Dino Spiluttini

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IN MEMORIAM André Hourtal (1911–1986) & Juliette Tramesaygues (1916–1996)

André Hourtal, my great-grandfather on my mother’s side, passed away when I was two years old, so I never really got the chance to know him. From what I've heard, he was a refined, cultivated, genuine and kind gentleman with remarkable social skills. 
He managed the Orchestre Symphonique du Capitole de Toulouse for many years. A French horn player himself, he would often step in when musicians couldn’t attend.
While helping my grandmother move a year ago, I stumbled upon an old iron cookie box filled with tapes bearing his name. Among the pile, mostly opera recordings, were tapes of some kind of live gatherings where he would introduce music and artists to an audience before playing tracks. 
I digitized the tapes, carefully cleaned the damaged audio, and edited his words into several hours of material. His voice now opens the album from the hereafter, in the intro track Cicatrices.

Juliette Tramesaygues, known as "Alberte," my great-grandmother, was fierce, unapologetic, clever, funny, and wildly talented. She would sing all the time at home, play the harmonica, the banjo, really any string instrument she could get her hands on. She spent her days at the piano, chain-smoking unfiltered brown Gauloises cigarettes. She passed away at 80, with one lung, a cigarette in one hand, an oxygen mask in the other, telling the doctors to fuck off. Gangsta. But thinking back as an adult, I realize she could’ve blown up the whole damn hospital. Gangsta, but a little reckless. Well, those were different times, as they say.
She was everything to me, the person who taught me how to read and who, along with my parents, introduced me to music and culture. The second track is for her. I created all the harmonics using her own harmonica (which I found the same day as André’s tapes) and a piano. The intro is a screwed 8-bit version of Des Chiffres et des Lettres, an old French TV show we used to watch together after school.
I love you so, so much, my Mémé, you can’t imagine. You were the first rebel I ever met. You were punk when Johnny Rotten was still in his daddy’s bollocks, and you helped shape the man I became. I still think of you every single day, 28 years after your passing. You are part of me forever. I hope there’s an afterlife, so one day we will carry on with this beautiful relationship we had. I want to play you everything I’ve created while you were away. Or maybe you reincarnated and you’ll experience life & dance to this album as a new child. Who knows? No one.

While I was composing this album, my six years relationship, with the person I thought I’d grow old with, was ending. This record also became a reflection on past relationships, my mistakes and the long path to self-improvement. Learning to respect myself and my vision of commitment, setting boundaries with people and pushing my limits musically. An allegory of the tumultuous climb toward healing, symbolized by the Pic du Midi, the mountain I saw from my bedroom window as a child, while reconnecting with old memories of my great-grandmother.

It would mean the world to me if you take the time to listen to this piece of music, which is quite literally a piece of my heart. If you like what you hear, please share it. Online, or even better, in real life with other human beings or with dogs, cats, rats, cows, monkeys, elephants, parrots, ostriches, llamas, whales, dolphins, mollusks, frogs, ants, tardigrades, plankton, plants, flowers, water, rocks, snowflakes, stalactites, etc.

THANK YOU!

@pierrelabret
Abstract Reality

OUT on 05/23/2025 on all platforms.
Worldwide Distribution: Triple Vision.

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[ABRE011] Pierre Labret - Acid Love Break Ups & Eternal Snow

Soon to be out (June 2025!!) on the label Maturre, the Duo Jolie Gentiane is bringing a first LP, gently infused in the  top of the mountains. On the cover, happy to present the first song from the opus. Echoes from the depths of the valley and a manifesto of their work, the track invites you on a voyage of discovery. So chop chop, and see you once you've crossed the first pass

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NTOAB Jeez is - Jolie Gentiane - Tribulations

Béllis (@im_bellis) is a DJ from Zaporizhzhia whose music career began on the Kyiv scene. She is the curator of the show Inner Voyage, which aims to provide a platform for experimental works by artists and DJs in various downtempo genres.

In this episode, she steps away from her usual sound and unveils a selection of somatic techno and electronics with trance, tribal, and dub influences.

Stay tuned @ www.20ftradio.net

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Inner Voyage w/ Béllis @ 20ft Radio - 07/05/2025

Release date: August 15th, 2025 // More info on  https://www.bureau-b.com/releases

On their last trip to Silberland, Bureau B hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg imprint opt for an unhurried itinerary, coasting far beyond the familiar rhythmic terrain to explore crystal caverns and emerald pastures, immersing listeners in the ambient side of this alternative Allemagne. Building on the tape loops, tone poems, and minimalist compositions of the 60's avant-garde, these musicians utilised the sweeping scope of the synthesiser to create expansive meditations on outer-planetary escapism, human connection, and the natural world. This compilation offers a survey of this singular era, blending pioneering voices with lesser-known artists for an immersive sonic experience.



VA - Silberland Vol 3 - The Ambient Side Of Kosmische Musik 1972-1986 [album preview]

Social(ist) Edits series returns with 6 refixes by https://soundcloud.com/pierrelabret, French electronic producer and head of the https://soundcloud.com/abstractrealityrecords label.
This selection of Acid, Electro, and Italo Disco remixes of old and obscure gems transports you into a distinctive side of Labret’s musical universe, one of cyborg bats dropping acidic guano on politicians, abandoned factories inhabited by grimy urban cryptids, and floating Mayan pyramids beneath a stormy, menacing night sky.

There is a fine line between the concepts of Edit and Remix on these tracks. Although the original audio elements were preserved and used as a foundation, Pierre has completely reinterpreted most of them by adding his own synthesizers and drum machines, creating a new meat carcass over the original skeleton.
The result is a collection of enhanced, radioactive mutant versions of the originals.

The release opens with an Edit of a track by late industrial artist and Palestine activist Muslimgauze.
Symbolically, the release will be out on June 17th, Bryn Jones’ birthday.
As always, all edits are available for free, but any support is welcome, as contributions from Edits will be donated to an organization supporting children in Gaza.

Released 17th June on 44,100Hz Social Club bandcamp.

youtube: https://youtu.be/UgSyfoWIv1s

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PREMIERE | Muslimgauze - Salaam Alekum, Bastard (Labret 'Acïd el-Filtr' Edit)

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Ours to Kill
The Essence ft. Sad Lovers And Giants  -  a reflected dream 
Cuckooland
Alice (I'nt Playing)
Things We Never Did
Seven Kinds of Sin (Single Version)
Colourless Dream
When I See You
Cloud 9
Lost In A Moment
Clint
Echoplay
There Was No Time
50 : 50
The Change

// ThingS WE NEVER DiD !! // (SaD LoverS AnD GiantS)

Hyped to announce a brand new collaboration between Antoni Maiovvia & Hyetal on Insult to Injury Records - an alchemy that blurs the boundaries between dystopian EBM, raw electro and the UK’s lineage of bass driven music, their creative collision has crystallised into Votives. Check out first single POSSESSOR here! xx

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