2006

http://coldcolors.bandcamp.com/album/early-demos

Early Demos

Memories on a screen

Mikael Seifu - Brass

Green

the winds blow

Bahnsteig 23 say “Hey! Belarus meet Russia With Love”.   

Schmotlz comes to Bahnsteig schnell after Very Russian Cut Outs espionage.     

Ze Sky Iz Blu.  Ze Sky Iz Blu.  Ze Sky Iz Blu.  Ze Sky Iz Blu. Ze Sky Iz Blu.

Groove Groove Groove iz furher.   Psych Soft Rock iz leibhaber.  Am und am.   

Dai Mne Piau…Owww.   Owww.  Ugh.  Ugh.  Ugh.  Piauuuuu….Ugh.  

Funk verzogen.   Soul kilter. 

Can you tanz?

Panzer Peoples Partei !!! 


A. Ze Sky Iz Blu

Release date :  25 April 2016.

LISTEN : https://wavinghandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-ndag-mon-amour-12-ep

Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, Facit is the project of Joakim Karlsson. For almost a decade, he has been producing tearful synthesizer music under various aliases, often teaming up with compatriot Mai Nestor on vocals. 

Smartly drawing a line between Swedish chanson and minimal synth, ‘Måndag Mon Amour’ is Facit’s second EP after having stopped at Veronica Vasicka’s Cititrax in late 2013 with 'Mat Åt Duvorna' (Food For Pigeons). 

Picture two passengers with paralyzing hemophobia, riding a sad carriage and smiling with tranquil melancholy, endlessly playing early 80s analog gear through some spring reverb. It doesn’t take long to remember « notre amour était dans un igloo » and never forgetting it.

Limited edition of 300 copies, hand-numbered insert included.
Design by Laurène Exposito.

Tracklist :

A1- Krv
A2- Dans Le Pacifique
A3- Farväl Portmonnä
B1- Hippomobile
B2- Livet Är Blott En Transport
B3- Industrimusikvänner

WH010 Facit - Måndag Mon Amour 12" EP (PREVIEW)

Cititrax is thrilled to present a full length LP entitled Adieux Au Dancefloor by Montreal based recording artist, Marie Davidson. Marie Davidson has emerged as one of the foremost electronic artists working in contemporary pop today. As a long-time member of Essaie Pas (DFA Records), Davidson has had the opportunity to hone her many talents. She has been participating in the city’s vibrant experimental community for much of her adult life. However, in 2012 she began to unveil compositions under her own name, revealing a solo artist who possessed the combined confidence and vulnerability required to write, produce and perform unaccompanied. Davidson’s intimate solo work is embodied through a host of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines which coalesce in synchronized harmony, punctuated by vocals, half sung, half spoken in both French and English. She masterfully shapes the overall mood, themes, emotion, expression and intensity of her work, which gives the final result a distinctive, cinematic quality. 
With Adieux Au Dancefloor, Marie makes a slight departure from her last two releases, via Holodeck (2015) and Weyrd Son (2014), by creating her first fully dancefloor oriented piece of work. Through the 45 minutes of music that comprises the album, she experiments with pop structures, defines her voice, and layers rhythms to make complex and beautiful techno tracks. She closes the album with the title track in classic Chanson style.
Adieux Au Dancefloor will be released on October 6th. The record will be pressed on 160 gram white vinyl and will feature photographs by the equally talented Corinne Schiavone. The record will be housed in a full color printed heavyweight jacket along with matching printed inner sleeve. Pre-order available now. Digital release to follow.

Order: http://minimalwave.com/releases/release/adieux-au-dancefloor/

Lyrics: 
It seems like honesty is not so fashionable these days, it's true, I ask a lot of questions.
You call me naive?
I'll tell you what, I'm naive to the bone.
Do you think I'm too soft?
Because I don't hide, or is it that your lost when I smile?
I don't need your love but I'll dare to ask you how you feel about me.
Just to get things straight.

I have no cards to hide.
My life is not a game.

Let me picture my future, a large room where you can hear the silence.
No space for arrogance, no pain in my chest.
Just the beating of my heart.
J'suis pas un cordeau moi! (In French)

In The Middle Ages, people used to wear clocks, it's 2016, get real.
So you think i'm too soft.
I have nothing to prove, I have no advice for you. But remember what Terrance said: 
"The last dance, we dance alone".

Adieux Au Dancefloor

Marie Davidson - Naive To The Bone

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A drone whines in the distance; Horoscope jettisons a new 5-track LP titled Misogyny Stone. It has prescient timing: here we sit at the abyss of masculine power. Originally from Miami Florida but living in New York for over a decade, Rene J Nunez-Cabrera produces raw sonic compositions indebted to the visceral experience of performance. The new LP, his second for Wharf Cat Records, expands his palette of sound and exhibits the artist’s range in 5 succinct opi: from paranoid, buzzing headscapes, to meditative, industrial drumming. Washes and other gestures of contemporary noise abound, but the ultimate descriptor for Nunez’ penchant is mood. The title track contains Nunez’ version of a deep club jam, intertwining light and dark, low and high, with Kathryn Undorfer’s spoken word sitting right in the middle, sonically spotlighted. “Narcissist Vague” has a religious breadth despite its relatively short existence; while “Azebache Necklace Bought to Protect My Daughter” is a snare-pegged story of delivering a totem; “New Piece (for Christian Mirande)” starts with an organ’s lament, creepily. Nunez’ distorted, layered vocals then build into a desperate chorus of screams. Horoscope’s sound is embedded in the struggles of personhood. Through modular manipulations and his acute utility of pedals and tapes loops, Nunez’ de- and reconstructs the dynamics of gender relations: look into the misogyny stone; it is opaque and bleak.

BUY LP

Horoscope - Misogyny Stone (from the Misogyny Stone LP)

Poetry, speech, melody and electronics combine on this limited tape from new sub-label ‘Purely Physical Teeny Tapes’.

A change of pace for PP, ‘Figures’ is also a divergence for the two artists involved. Emerging from Melbourne, 'Figures' is a rare artefact for devotees of both poetry and electronic music. The release marks a protean coming together by two figures with curiosity for each other's practice, forming a union between sound and speech to explore themes of bodies, time, language and power.

Lucy Van, who works as a post-doctoral researcher in English and Theatre studies, offers her poems in spoken form and also transcribed in full for the poster in the release.

Laila Sakini, a DJ who has recently emerged as a songwriter-producer, shapes music around each poem intuitively, adding context with restraint, in an experimental, yet pop-conscious process.

Initially developed as a one track hobby project for a noise and spoken word poetry night (which was cancelled), 'Figures' continued to evolve into a more complete body of work, with Laila leaking the demos on her NTS guest slots, leading to this eventual, finalisation of an EP.

The release is presented on a pro-dubbed all clear tape, packaged with an A2 double sided fold-out newsprint poster, all housed within a PVC heat sealed pouch.

Out June 2nd, 2017.

Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Edition of 100.

Laila and Lucy:

Lucy writes about poetry and photography. She is a post-doctoral researcher in the English and Theatre Studies program at the University of Melbourne, and an editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Lucy also writes lyric and prose poems, and has spoken at venues including The Slow Canoe, Station Gallery, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Laila's role as a DJ and emerging producer/songwriter has seen her traverse between her home town of Melbourne and London. She has performed across clubs and festivals in  Melbourne and in various venues throughout London, Paris and Belgium along with art spaces including The National Gallery of Victoria, Carriageworks and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image. She presents semi-regularly on NTS Radio, has appeared on Boiler Room and has opened for the likes of Dopplereffekt and Optimo. Laila has recently begun producing, writing and performing live solo and collaborative works.

Laila Sakini & Lucy Van - False Ceiling

A premiere, coming straight from Knekelhuis and Jean-Luc collaboration, including Luc Bersier, Low Bat, Leonard Prochazka and Ariel Garcia. Le Sabbat is a playful and sensual piece from Des litres d'essence EP, featuring vocals of Louis and grabbing your deepest parts of heart. This is a boundless music with attitude, capable of making us drift off and disrupt in equal measure, as well as smoothly leading us to the later hours of the dance floor.
Des litres d'essence will come out on Knekelhuis later this month.

Jean-Luc - Le Sabbat

For almost ten years of existence, the Moscow group TRUD has not lost relevance and still hits at the very heart of Russian reality with their romanticized songs in a good sense. The album "7" continues the line set by the group, and the Avacha label presents the listeners an original spin-off in the form of remixes collection from Wolfstream, Soft Metal, Electrodynamique, Radial Gaze and Pozhar.

Buy: http://avacha.bandcamp.com/album/trud-7-remixes

https://soundcloud.com/this-is-avacha
https://soundcloud.com/trudmoscow
https://soundcloud.com/softmetal

PRÈMIÉRE: Trud — God Sploshnyh Neudach (Soft Metal Version) [Avacha]

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Jean-Luc - Le Sabbat

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