Name: Dancing Germanic - Underground Resistance vs Nik Kershaw by Cliff Lothar
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: Nik Kershaw - Dancing Girls vs Chaos - Afrogermanic UR-021

Fantastic remix Cliff. I've been watching YouTube videos of Nik Kershaw on a loop since I've heard this. 

aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww. [weird joy expression]

This place was a maze; corridors veered off in every direction, doorways led to new rooms, stairways to unknown locations. Getting out of here would be an impossible task, everything had a mind of its own — things that were once there disappeared only moments later, escape routes morphed and shifted into new forms. This place played tricks on you, you had everywhere to run and everywhere to hide, but freedom was not yours — it was slipping away quicker than ever.

Cosmic Pint Glass have been working hard to put Norwich on the electronic music map with their parties and label. Since launching back in 2015 they've shared music from Ruf Dug, Marc Du Mosch, Toby Tobias and many more, and now they're welcoming back the group who helped launch the imprint nearly four years ago: Jack Pattern. Their follow up EP, 'Kosmische Kueche', is made up of three original cuts that range from industrial slow burners to mutant trip hop, backed up by remixes from Wax Stag and Dane Close.

CPG009

PREMIERE: Jack Pattern - Paolo Santoz (Dane Close Remix) [Cosmic Pint Glass]

We are very pleased to welcome in a mixtape from Mark Griffey, the NYC New Age boffin behind the infamous www.ultravillage.com - the incredible & ever expanding archive/guide to US New Age & ambient music from 1975 to 1995.

Many artists from this era produced their music on cassette in small editions which were sold through a network of independent book shops and magazines. While collector interest remains high, much of the music is not well documented and Ultravillage aims to improve that by providing an in-depth look at these musicians and their music.

"For this mix, my theme was the elements - water, earth, air and fire, with the first two represented on side one and the latter two represented on the second side. Many artists here integrate the sounds of nature in their recordings, or use their instruments to evoke the elements." - Mark Griffey

We owe a big debt to Mark for his dedicated efforts to unearth and educate us all on such a critical moment in US New Age history.

A limited run of cassette mixtapes are available now via our online store, and coming soon to our loving regular stockists - Commend, Out of Joint & Boomkat.

GMT46 Ultravillage - Elements (Snippets)

BUY 12'' EP: http://bit.ly/1fWH9KU
BUY DIGITAL http://bit.ly/1jC1AlG

Distribution by Rush Hour (Europe) and Forced Exposure (US)

Musumeci tapes reissue, with their brutal body music plus, similar to DAF, CHBB and Liaisons Dangereuses, was one of the most acclaimed in the Mannequin Records 2013 productions. So we really happy to unearth for you 3 more recordings from their discography, all recorded live in 1985. 

Mauro Massaglia, founder member and lead synthesizer, describes the band’s aesthetic as “simple music, no solos, new sounds, all played at maximum volume possible.” Something that surely catch the attention of best DJs on earth, starting from TRAXX, the Chicago-based head of Nation Records, who redesign for Mannequin Records a raw live version of 'Tag Fur Tag' with what he described as a "ugly-tape Kode".

Massaglia recalls Musumeci’s live shows as multimedia performances of a confrontational stripe, mixing rough sound collage with provocative visuals. “Our intention was to involve the viewer with two senses: ear and eye,” he remembers. “We loved stupid old black-and-white movies or war images, Berlin in the May of ’45, the Vietnam conflict, corrupt Italians involved into massacres or scandals… in short, all the shit that the human race can produce.”

Tracklist

A1 Untitled I
A2 Untitled II
B1 Tag Für Tag (Traxx Edit)

- 12'' EP 3 tracks on red vinyl
- Limited edition of 250 copies.
- Artwork by Alessandro Adriani

Strongly recommended for fans of D.A.F., Severed Heads, Liaisons Dangereuses, CHBB, Traxx, Nation Records. Artwork by Alessandro Adriani. 

Musumeci - Tag Für Tag (TRAXX Edit)

Knotpop is a revelatory lost album of deviant new wave from San Fransisco duo Ixna. Like Brian Eno and The Flying Lizards, the album is a sideways and inverted take on pop music. Jay Cloidt and Marina La Palma were students of David Behrman and Robert Ashley at Mills College, inspired by their infamously irreverent faculty to nudge the avant-garde out of its stuffy tweed and into something more exciting, something clad in denim & leather. Recorded at the Center For Contemporary Music at Mills in 1981, the album combines Cloidt's studio wizardry, sampling abilities and vibrant bass with La Palma’s expressive vocals, and love of made-up and invented languages (Esperanto). Ixna only released one 7" during that time, featuring two songs from this unrealized album, which became sought after over the decades. The discovery of Knotpop will feel like manna from heaven for previous fans, and a welcome addition to the cannon of avant-inverted-pop ur-classics by Suicide, impLOG, Naffi, General Strike, Thick Pigeon and UnknownMix. Concentric Circles is honoured to present Knotpop to the world for the first time. Mastered from the original reels, DMM pressing. 

Release date April 12th
PRE-ORDER HERE: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/ixna-knotpop

Release by Concentric Circles

For EU distribution contact: info@rushhour.nl
For NA distribution contact: info@seance-centre.com

Ixna - Fun Fun Fun (CC-002)

Nik Kershaw - Dancing Girls vs Chaos - Afrogermanic UR-021

Dancing Germanic - Underground Resistance vs Nik Kershaw

Pink fog rises amidst the hills; dew covers all in silver paint glittering in the background. layers covering layers of low clouds, fog and haze. Shimmering city lights. Silhouettes of figures sitting in the hills, hanging in bridges, on top of houses, looking upon, observing city drive from up high as if it was a meditating bonfire. A notion of something going to happen. But all that remains is a glimpse of pink fog hanging static in the air.

Risks Issues Opportunities, the third release from Berlin based @RIOLabel brings together a collection of electronic wave music from six different performers with one common ground: their mysterious & slightly melancholic aesthetics.

Our pick comes from Hague based artist @theDazion who delivers a moody, atmospheric track in ' Lights in the City' which is really  fitting our Sunday mood.

Artwork by Omnigroup - https://omni.gr/

Release Date - 06/12/19

Sinchi Blog -  https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-dazion-lights-in-the-city-rio/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/NtBCcsgkNwk

PREMIERE - Dazion - Lights In The City (RIO)

Order Here : 
www.juno.co.uk/products/hawkwind-rangoon-langoons-cherrystones-mixes/709241-01/

Emotional Rescue starts a non-defined set of reissues where some of the label’s favourite artists have lesser known, but (cult) classic songs unearthed, remastered, reappraised and then reinterpreted by contemporary producers and fans, for today’s DJs and collectors alike.  

To start, the idea of the legendary British psychedelic band Hawkwind appearing on the label might come as a surprise, but when the nature of songs and remixer involved is explored it makes perfect sense.   

Following the departure of Lemmy to the Motorhead hinterlands, the band’s sound took a wider but more defined style, including their burgeoning interest in electronics.  With that, the 1976 album Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music contained a song that has become a secret spin for the more leftfield and adventurous.  The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon – itself referencing cult psychedelic band Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band’s alien invasion opus The Eggplant That Ate Chicago – with it’s use of loops, synthesiser and motorik drumming is a short instrumental that has gained cult status in its own way.  Focusing on much of Hawkwind’s musicality in one song, mixing psychedelia, fusion and humour with a killer groove, all in one short blast of repetition meets experimentation.

This is backed with the album’s other stand out, in the beautifully laidback stoner vibrations of City Of Lagoons.  Lanquidity rules as West Coast meets Floyd touches abound.  A hazy Gilmour style guitar and heavy phasing and reverb drums underpin space rock key solos that carry you to the horizon.   

An Esteemed excavator, musician, compiler and oracle, the choice of Cherrystones to rework these instrumentals is a given.  With two decades of production chops from beats, breaks and jazz for the likes of Stark Reality, Twisted Nerve and Brutal Music to the abstract, psychedelic acoustics for Whatever We Want Records, he has gone on to become a respected composer of soundtracks for Adidas, Stone Island and YMC.

His heavy retake of The Aubergine pulls up the drum and bass and overlays freeform synth stabs atop a warped Riley arpeggio loop that takes the smoke hazed original and give it doses of codeine and rum.  To close, his City Of Lagoons rework becomes ‘Head’ outtake overkill.  Trippin’ beyond the light fantastic.  

Words from Cherrystones:

“When the prolific and albeit consistent Emotional Rescue label & head honcho Maestro Chuggy proposed this as a potential project to me I was initially excited as much as honoured, but also hesitant.  Why you ask? Because that which is close to the heart is often the most sacred and foreboding to envisage or should I say take out of context or possibly leave in context via sympathetic realisation.

My history with Hawkwind is as murky as anyone that truly let the band into their hallowed cerebral bandwidth whilst following their smoke signals and oily pipes serenading the riff fuelled synth washed sunsets where dogs on strings jugglers tents and paratrooper boots were standard issue on stage and backstage.  This is more than a mere band, these wrote the book on themselves, used pages to roll with and smoked their own scriptures and blew smoke rings that became parables with no care to any place scene or need to fit within or out.

A2. Hawkwind - The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon (Cherrystones Rework)

The streets were paved with gold, a secluded seaside town where dreams were made and those who'd failed came to retire into the sunset. They sat upon street corners, in parks and upon the shore looking out on the tourists and the faces who came and went with no attachment to this place. It was not their legacy just a passing place, yet to some it was home. A lonely retreat in the outback of a country on the brink. It was beautiful. 

Abstrakce Records are a label based in Valencia, an imprint with a penchant for the experimental and come from a far collection of influences. They are set to release a new LP from Senthulà, am alias of José Guerrero. The album is a collection of wild expansive instrumental escapes and pays homage to diy culture. It also features a remix from Tolouse Low Trax.

La Curva Paralela LP

PREMIERE: Senthulà  - Sub páramo [Abstrakce Records]

Exhausted Modern's debut full-length titled The Year of the Rat is a proof of the thought-provocation that author's name generates. Released on his own Endless Illusion imprint, the album doesn't have all the answers, it simply offers Exhausted Modern's perception of the modern times and also the energy to do something with them. The title, borrowed from the Chinese zodiac calendar, doesn't slip to mere esoteric prognosis, it fittingly and provocatively comments on broken mechanics of society, capitalistic hierarchisation and emotional frustration of its victims. Despite the dystopian character of Exhausted Modern's sound, which ranges from fast melancholia through suspicious calmness to slowly bubbling rage, it doesn't feel like the end of the world. It's critical artistic statement of a person who despite seeing all the darkness, also sees the way out of it.

@exhausted-modern

Release: 3.8.2020 12" / Digital (Bandcamp)
Streaming platforms: 1.9.2020

Produced by Ladislav Zensor in Prague, 2019-20.
Vocals A2 "Something stronger" by NVST @ghettonast

Mastered by Marco Spaventi
Distributed by @clone-distribution
Graphic design by Jan Horčík (Heavyweight)
Word by Jonáš Verešpej @still-sparkling

BUY VINYL/DIGITAL

Exhausted Modern - Year of the Rat LP | [ENDILLP02]

Exclusive: Steve Pepe - Oltraggiosa Musica (Lamusa II Remix)

With his album Vivere in Diagonale Roman artist Steve Pepe set the bar high for future releases on London label Inside Out Records. A good few months after the release a handful of artists ventured to take on remix duties and provide the orginals with some alternative musical pieces or offer a different access to Steve Pepe's music. Amongst others Tolouse Low Trax, niCo and Hivern Discs-artist Lamusa II took on the task to create venerable musica. The latter delivers, just as the original track title suggests, a percussive, hypnotic, experimental version that includes accentuaded gitarre riffs and an none-alternating chord, which sets the basis for various glitch sounds and resounding drums. All of the beforementioned though is highlighting the omnipresent and catchy vocal, which accompanies the listener through Lamusa II's journey through creative sound compositions. 

Steve Pepe's Vivere in Diagonale Remix EP will be out on Inside Out Records on December 4th, 2020.

Artist & label information:
Steve Pepe: @stevepepe-music // www.instagram.com/stevepepe6
Lamusa II: www.facebook.com/lamusamusic // @lamusalamusa // www.instagram.com/lamusa2000 
Inside Out Records: www.facebook.com/insideoutrec // @nsideoutrec // www.instagram.com/insideoutrec

Visit & follow Torture the Artist at:
www.torturetheartist.net
www.facebook.com/torturetheartist
www.instagram.com/torture_the_artist
www.twitter.com/TorturingArt
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Vivere in Diagonale Remix EP

Steve Pepe - Oltraggiosa Musica (Lamusa II Remix)

More exclusive music

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Pepe - Oltraggiosa Musica (Lamusa II Remix) [Inside Out Records]

Psyclones: Tape Music 1980 – 1984
 
Since the early 1980s the Eureka, California based duo Psyclones freak out in music. As one of the most long-standing DIY duos, Brian Ladd and Julie Frith created a body of work, that flirts with Ambient, experimental industrial sounds, New Wave, Post-Punk, Synth-Pop, and all that electric jazz. Besides a few hard-to-find vinyl releases, they published their music regularly via cassette tapes on labels like their own imprint Ladd-Frith or other famed 1980's underground tape labels like Cause And Effect from Indianapolis, legendary San Francisco based Subterranean Records, Sound of Pig from New York, Insane Music from Belgium or the Spanish label Auxilio De Cientos to name but a few.
 
Now, Notte Brigante is dropping “Tape Music 1980 – 1984” – a detailed compiled sampler on Psyclones early output, that was scattered over diverse tape releases. A nine tracks long trip into the work of a highly underrated band, that never lost their drive to explore new avenues in sound. “Tape Music 1980 – 1984” displays their artistic impulse with a strong, minimal leaning post-punk feeling, spreading the early magic of a once new genre, that liberated rock music briefly from its bombastic male driven professionalism. Psyclones liberated large, while adding the repetitive patterns of drum machines, witchy female singing, cool male chanting, Tuxedomoon-ish weirdness, darkish synth sounds and dubby big city Angst to their cocktail of music. All balancing between icy wave coolness and nonchalant neon funk. Insane Music for sane people, smokers, rain lovers, midnight movers and all those cats, that can’t cope with the pre-written consumer life reality. If you chose to eat “Tape Music 1980 – 1984”, make sure to wear shoulder pads, bring an ashtray and turn your inner fog machine on.

Music recorded on cassette by Julie Frith and Brian Ladd between 1980 and 1984. LP mastered today from the original recordings.

Out around March 2nd, 2021, edition of 300 copies. Buy Vinyl & Digital: https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/psyclones-tape-music-1980-1984

A1. Departing Was For Sure
A2. Neon People
A3. Reagan For Shah
A4. Keep It Together
A5. Between Space
B1. I Don't Know
B2. News Of The World
B3. In And Out
B4. With The Other

Distribution: www.crevetterecords.be
Mastering: Brian Ladd
Artwork : Jad Hussein - www.look-specific.com
Text: Michael Leuffen

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