Name: Modern Art Sad Delusion by COLOR TAPES
Duration: 3 min 23 s
Description: Taken from the forthcoming vinyl and CD reissue of "Oriental Towers", the second album from Modern Art originally released on cassette in 1983. VINYL IS NOW OUT!!!

Gazelle Twin covers 'Heartbeat' by Wire. Released on 'Mammal EP' January 2013, on Sugarcane Recordings.

Heartbeat (Wire cover)

Not so sweet anymore

Jupiter Festival

Taken from the forthcoming vinyl and CD reissue of "Oriental Towers", the second album from Modern Art originally released on cassette in 1983. VINYL IS NOW OUT!!!

Modern Art Sad Delusion

»winter, or a time which represents that season, in a metropole that appears to be moscow. the visitor is taking metro no. 6 at leninsky prospect as he is on his way to the ballroom close to gorky park. the air is icy, the sky is grey. a cat, previously hidden among the dirty snow, is crossing his way. the closer he gets to his destination, the clearer he can hear music, music that reminds him of future days.

the dimly lit room is only sparsely filled. on stage a graceful singer, capturing the room with her presence. captive voices merge with chords played on yet unknown instruments – machine rhythms cycle in 3/4 time. the vigorous peasant dancers, following an instinctive knowledge of the weight of fall, utilize their surplus energy to press all their strength into the proper beat of the measure, thus intensifying their personal enjoyment in dancing. here, in the transhuman ballroom, time stands still and values are being dissolved by numeric progressions. spiritually allied, the visitor, the singer and the peasant dancers short-circuit the present moment while the last falling snow slowly turns into rain.«

with »walzerzyklus«, atom™ returns to raster to complete his series that has once begun with »liedgut« and continued with »winterreise«. the 7 tracks, created in collaboration with russian singer lisokot, are subdivided into 3 pieces of 2 minutes each and 4 pieces of 3 minutes each, intentionally reflecting the 3/4 time of a classic waltz.

throughout the release, lisokot’s delicate vocals are put into different relations to atom™’s rather cool machine music, either complementing or contrasting each other. in the same line, the 3 shorter “leitmotifs” provide the main theme that is taken up repeatedly in the course of the release.

»walzerzyklus« will be released on CD and as special, laser-engraved vinyl edition limited to 300 copies.

Walzerzyklus

atom™ & lisokot »alliiertenwalzer« taken from »walzerzyklus«

First cut of our next EP! Out via @logarithmrecords on February. 
More soon dear people of planet Earth!

You Are Me

Get your cassette now!

Tendts - You Are Me

First song of the upcoming album "The Paris Tapes" out on April 21st 2018!
Previously unreleased album, recorded in Paris in the 80s!

Robert Goerl - The Paris Tapes - Part 2

D & C Forever & Ever VIP

From the Crystalline Stricture album, 'Syndrome'.

Vocals by M. McIntyre. 

Out now on TONN Recordings, available from TONN Bandcamp.

Syndrome

Searching

Searching - Crystalline Stricture (from the album 'Syndrome')

About 'Too Numb to Know' (out 9/25) by Profligate

'Too Numb to Know' showcases Profligate continuing to shirk the heavy electronics of his early years for razor sharp pop. On 2018's 'Somewhere Else,' Noah Anthony delivered dark pop gems while adding live instrumentations, reinvigorating his songwriting and sonic palette. This new song-driven approach gained praise from Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily and The Wire, exposing Profligate to new listeners.

'Too Numb to Know' followed Anthony from coast to coast, as he recorded his first demos in Philadelphia and then moved to Los Angeles, a city he found creatively challenging and emotionally depleting. After the theft of his computer—and with it the work he'd done on 'TNTK' in L.A.—Anthony took a friend's suggestion and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he finished the album and added contributions from allies like Matchess, Lazy Magnet, Gel Set, and Missions, among others.

'TNTK' is about growth, reflection and change. Lead single "Hang Up" urges the artist’s younger self to trust his instincts during chaos. Its message pairs with bright keyboards, a pulsing beat, and soft, alluring vocals - on the chorus, he croons "Nothing you create but love penetrates." It's an urgent, driving pop song that fuses electronics with guitar and bass like the best of alternative radio. Guitar is prevalent on 'TNTK,' building on the live bass of 'Somewhere Else,' adding a new arrow to Anthony’s quiver, creating more space for melody, and using it to fill the room.

"A Little Rain" and "My Days" feature evocative melodic and textural beauty. Laura Callier of Gel Set adds graceful shimmering vocals to “A Little Rain” that wash the song in nostalgia, while the latter song’s weave of mostly acoustic instruments (certainly a first for Profligate) is unexpected and welcome. Softer moments like these are interspersed throughout 'TNTK' between kinetic numbers like "No Clear Way," while "We Can Punish" and “A Stranger” are reminiscent of his noisier, beat-oriented years. This varied approach and attention to detail are the garnish to an already tight song cycle that will satisfy hardcore fans of Noah Anthony's output and newcomers, alike.

About Profligate

Noah Anthony’s music ranges from heavily rhythmic electronics to tightly-composed songs. His debut LP Come Follow Me, was released in 2012 on More Records and a string of 12” EP’s and compilation appearances followed. 2014’s Finding the Floor was issued by Not Not Fun. 2018's 'Somewhere Else' was Profligate's first for Wharf Cat Records and was supported with U.S. touring and an appearance at SXSW 2018. The follow up, 'Too Numb to Know' will be released on 9/25.

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Profligate - Hang Up (from the album 'Too Numb to Know' out now)

Track from the digital compilation Music for Land and Water Complete, compiling all versions of the tracks produced for the 1983 live open air performance in Seattle's Seward Park.

Music for Land and Water Complete

Art and Science (Remix)

BANDCAMP

MUSIC FOR LAND AND WATER COMPLETE: ART AND SCIENCE (Remix)

The Color Tapes label launched in 1982 and was the brainchild of a 16yo Gary Ramon after being inspired by cassette labels such as Fuck Off Tapes, Weird Noise and other UK DIY labels, and also by the music of the late '70's and early '80's such as Cabaret Voltaire, Suicide, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget, as well as electronic musicians such as John Cage, La Monte Young, Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, Moondog, and hip hop electro pioneers Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash that were being discovered after the Kraftwerk assault with "The Man Machine". 

The label relaunched in 2014 with "Cold Waves of Color" for a series of vinyl & CD compilation albums taken from the labels 1980's archives and select reissues from a choice of more than 75+ albums. 

The majority of these tracks are electronic based music made by synthesiser, drum machines, sequencers, EMS VCS3, Minimoog, Korg MS-20, Roland Juno 6, TR-808, TB-303, DMX and Linn Drum, so you know how they could sound. Machines that today fetch high prices and are in electronic museums or big collections. 

All the tracks are remastered from original analogue source tapes by Denis Blackham, and these are must-have recordings for electronic, synth and cold wave collectors. 

"Great stuff. A worthy companion of the "Cold Waves : Minimal Electronics" and "Mutazione" cd's. Anyone who is a fan of Cabaret Voltaire/Human League/Throbbing Gristle/Robert Rental/Chris & Cosey/Coil era electronics will find something they love on this." - ★★★★★ Amazon

"This retrospective is well overdue. As you might expect, much of the material sounds like a cross between early Depeche Mode, curious Italian coldwave and proto- EBM. Pleasingly all the material has been remastered by legendary engineer Denis Blackham, giving the original analogue sounds a whole new lease of life. Essential stuff" - Juno

"A must have collection of English post-punk rarities sourced from the
legendary Color Tapes label" - Boomkat review

Modern Art Sad Delusion

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