Cold Wave + Post Punk

Kasvetli Kutlama

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-041-tommy-de-chirico-close-your-eyes-12-ep

Mannequin Records is proud to present a true pearl of the Italian Minimal Synth from the 80's. Tommy De Chirico founded the post-punk band Politburo in Turin during 1981 togheter with Maurizio Rubinetti (Sick Rose) and Massimo Aluffi (Ivan Siberia). On his own, he released the 7" "Close Your Eyes / Flower Into The Factory", produced and recorded at TKS Studio by the Monuments’ Mauro Tavella between 1982 and 1983 and subsequently released by Turin’s Shirak Records in 1984. 

When Politburo split in 1986, Tommy continued to experiment with various projects and sounds, including Thugs, Quiet (with members of Monuments and Deafear), Noxeda and Lacrimal, with whom he still plays today. 

Presented here are also 3 bonus demo tracks: a rare version of "Close Your Eyes", and 2 out-takes from 1983, "Vuh-Ya" and "Tuxedo Dance".

The original graphic cover was realized by Bruno Zanichelli aka Pennarex, an underground artist from Turin, who died prematurely some years after. 

For 'Flower Into The Factory' Luca Pastore from Chromagain realized a videoclip. We are really happy to announce that we were able to restore it after 25 years.

- 12’’ EP on black vinyl, 33 RPM - Limited edition of 300 copies
- 3 Bonus Tracks 
- Artwork designed by Mushy and Alessandro Adriani  

Strongly recommended to fans of Martin Dupont, Oppenheimer Analysis, Das Kabinette, Victrola, Neon.

Tommy De Chirico - Close Your Eyes

PEINE PERDUE (Coco Gallo/Stephane Argillet) 
excerpt from the album "No Souvenir" (Cold Beats records, 2014)

Pour tuer le temps

J'écris
Des labyrinthes de mots
Fermés de parenthèses
Que je n'ouvre pas
Qui ne s'ouvrent plus

Préférant aux amorces
Le triomphe des clôtures

Aussi, j'écris
Des couloirs de textes
Des impasses et de fausses directions
Des capitales d'errances, des révérences

J'écris, aussi
À tombeau ouvert
Un dialogue allégorique
Séparant le jour de la nuit
En unités de sens fantasmagoriques

J'écris
Pour tuer le temps

Des diligences d'effets
Spéciaux en italique
Le travelling a parfois
Du mal à suivre

L'alphabet disparaît

Peine Perdue - PARENTHÈSE

Buzz Kull - "Heat"

-Remote Dreams
Written and Recorded by Marcel Whyler 
Mixed and Mastered By Alec Feld & Marcel Whyler

Remote Dreams

Taken from the 12"/digital EP "The Next LIfe"
Out now on Slumberland Records/Tough Love Records.

limited edition white vinyl 12": http://smarturl.it/gntnl-vinyl
expanded digital edition from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/gntnl-itunes

Belfast four-piece Girls Names released their critically acclaimed second album, "The New Life," in February and it marked a new direction for the band altogether. That directional shift is emphasized even further by a new limited edition 12" EP, entitled The Next Life.

With the artwork making a playful nod to Bowie's latest record, it's not surprising that the EP should see the band experiment with the sonic make up of their last album. Leading is "Visions," a spooked tune from the album sessions, seeing wide release here for the first time. Also of note is a cover version of Brian Eno's 'Third Uncle.' Recorded in August of this year, it is the first recorded Girls Names track to feature new drummer Gib Cassidy and offers a telling glimpse at what creative steps the band may next take.

Following are a series incredible remixes of tracks taken from the sister record. The first is by producer/composer/dance don legend David Holmes, who lends a somewhat European elan to the titular track. The second sees Gabe Gurnsey from Factory Floor add his band's characteristic dance floor focus to Girls Names' motorik groove, turning in something that jitters and pulses in a manner befitting of any track attributed the Factory Floor moniker. JD Twitch from the Optimo DJ/production team turns in a suitably grooving take on "The New Life," while Locust/Seefeel/Black Hearted Brother member Mark Van Hoen strips down and tracks out "Drawing Lines." The EP wraps up with a spectral take on "Occultation" by bedroom psych/ambient genius The Soft Walls.

All in all, it's an enlightening series of interpretations that sheds new light on Girls Names source material and points way to new avenues of exploration.

Girls Names - The New Life (David Holmes Remix)

From the album 'Koma Koma' 
Available on vinyl from Young and Cold
Digital:  komakoma.bandcamp.com

New Choices

https://www.facebook.com/kriistalann

http://roim.bandcamp.com/

http://roim.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-in-return-2

Resistance 0f Independent Music - Memorial Embers

Die World

Siamese Twins - Siamese Twins

the A side to the upcoming 7" on labor of love records. 

Siamese Twins - In a Box

Echo West - Some thought us dead

Echo West - Soul cleaning

TENSE - AFTER DARK (5-26-12)

Some Ember - Flowers Open

Static is the second single from A Different Arrangement

Static

Recorded, written and performed by Wesley Eisold at home in Los Angeles CA in February 2012.

Cold Cave - A Little Death to Laugh

Internal

Synths by Bertrand Genevi, guitars by Christophe Gitton.

Déficit Budgétaire-Yet another leaden sky

MNQ 038 LIGHT HOUSE - IN THEIR IMAGE 12'' EP

 
Mannequin Records is simply elated to present the debut 12'' EP from Light House. 

Light House have been kicking around Portland for two years. The band contains Chris Relyea, an ex member from The Rapture, Dawn Sharp and Brooks Blackhawk from Atriarch. Excellent dark wave with spacious mixes, minimal synths, reverb drenched guitars and eerie malevolent vocals that either pierces your heart or your spinal cord.

Originally released in United States by Freee record label in 2012 and recorded on pure analog tape, ‘In Their Image’ EP illuminates the romantic and elemental nature of Light House's dreamlike sound, a moody, theatrical dirge which brings to mind classic 4AD acts such as Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil. 

To celebrate this relaunch Light House will be touring America and Europe, hitting the West Coast in mid June to coincide with Warm Leatherette in San Francisco, then onto New York and making their way along the East Coast. 

Light House is music that lulls the Etheric body awake, in a hypotetical world where Tropic Of Cancer meets Soft Metals. 

- 12’’ EP on black vinyl 
- Limited edition of 300 copies 
- Artwork by Giandomenico Carpentieri 

Strongly recommended to fans of Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, 4AD, Factory Records, Minimal Wave. 

Tracks: 
In Their Image 
Watchword 
The Walls Want Communion 
Seven Seas You Sent

BUY 12'' EP OR DIGITAL

Light House - Walls Want Communion

taken from IN DEATH IT ENDS - "Occvlt Machine" CD [a+w cd003]
(limited to 250 hand-numbered copies)

one of seven exclusive bonus tracks that are featured on the cd version of "Occvlt Machine" only

out on: July 18
pre-order starts July 1
www.aufnahmeundwiedergabe.de

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Cold Wave + Post Punk

Decoder KK