thanks so much for releasing this. I have a much played   45 of Cold Cafe that is getting a bit scratched up.  getting 

Beveled Edges

The cracks were beginning to show; it was nigh on impossible to keep her face from telling the whole story. She'd had a good run, but she knew that it wouldn't be long before she'd give it away, and all the lies and deceipt that had kept this at bay would soon unravel for the entire world to see. Would it have been worth it? A question she couldn't quite answer, but she'd soon find out...

Munich-based platform Alternative Fakten are dedicated to putting the city's underground music and arts scene on the map, be that through club nights, live shows, panel talks, art exhibitions, or releases — like the one we've got for you right here. Like their first label outing, the second is another compilation celebrating artists within the city, though this time, they highlight a wealth of contemporary electronic producers who are operating in the spaces between the city's artworld, activist groups and club culture, including Fuel Moon, WLAN and label bosses Tom Zwotausend & Bartoszek.

PREMIERE: Fuel Moon - Love Like Spaceship [Alternative Fakten]

☀️ Sun-baked miles, Polaroid skies, and the soft collapse into night.

A hazy, lo-fi dream for when your skin still carries the heat of the day and your mind floats somewhere between exhaustion and bliss. Tape-warbled synths sway like distant waves, mellow bass hums under the surface, and retro drum machine ticks trace the slow heartbeat of summer turning into night.

Reverb-drenched vocals drift through the haze, telling a story of dust washing away under cool water, legs sinking into cotton, and the quiet pride of a journey finished. It’s the sound of lying still, fresh and bare, breathing slow — while the day finally lets go.

🎧 For late-night window breezes, beach sunsets that feel endless, and memories that fade like old film.

Lyrics:

Sun in my eyes,
Miles on my skin.
Dust on my hands,
Heat deep within.

Cold water falling,
Dust runs away.
Legs sink in cotton,
Night takes the day.

Stretch in the quiet,
Breeze on my chest.
Proud of the distance,
Let the body rest.

Cold water falling,
Dust runs away.
Legs sink in cotton,
Night takes the day.

Fresh, bare, breathing slow…
Fresh, bare, breathing slow…
Eyes drift, miles fade,
Now I let it go.

Cold water falling,
Dust runs away.
Legs sink in cotton,
Night takes the day.

Cold Shower

„ NEW from Kristy And The Kraks „Snakes On The Phone“ 4 Tracks EP on Fettkakao. Kristy And The Kraks, affectionately known as the two-headed love child of Kate Kristal and Ana Threat, are wreaking havoc on the sensibilities of unsuspecting analog lovers, club kids, and vinyl freaks from Vienna to Chicago. Bristling with handfuls of vipers, ripped-out telephone cords, haywire guitar strings, strangulated utterances, and femme fatale crash & flash, KATK have elevated CAVE-GIRL garage anthems to a new level of sleek ULTRA TRASH AuGoGo. If you are not listening to „SNAKES On The Phone“, you’re wasting your time.“
- Tav Falco, 2017

Snakes On The Phone

Kristy And The Kraks - Ready

Long John Silver

Percussions Pour La Danse

Jean-Pierre Boistel / Tony Kenneybrew - Dans Le Secret & Clepsydre

B. The Gagosians - RFMH (Lexx & Kejeblos Remix) - snippet

This release is individually 500 hand-numbered limited edition. The first 100 copies are pressed on RED vinyls (AR014).
After 44 years, the real masterpiece Tony Esposito's ROSSO NAPOLETANO sees the light again with this marvellous 13-minutes voyage by MUSHROOMS PROJECT.
On sale from 12th December 2018!
:)

Tony Esposito - Rosso Napoletano (Mushrooms Project 2018 Rework)

Almost four decades since it’s domestic release, Karen Marks’ 1981 single Cold Café has finally reaped it’s deserved international credit to become one of Australia's most recognised minimal wave recordings. Efficient Space now showcases the Melbourne artist’s brief but entire discography, including two previously unheard demos, all produced with experimental synthesist Ash Wednesday (The Metronomes, Modern Jazz, Thealonian Music). 

A rarity in the then male dominated industry, Marks found her footing in music, first through rock journalism and then in band management. Formally of Adelaide, newly arrived synth-punks JAB (Johnny Crash, Ash Wednesday and Bodhan X) approached her for representation, subsequently contributing tracks to seminal 1978 snapshot Lethal Weapons and playing the Crystal Ballroom's opening night. Wednesday and Crash would soon dissolve JAB, enlisting Mark Ferry and Sean Kelly to create Models. Still under Mark's management, Models became one of the fastest rising new bands of the punk movement, playing to full houses of dedicated and frenzied fans everywhere. Sadly, internal frictions forced Wednesday and Marks to leave after two years, with Crash following three months later. 

Her creative relationship with Wednesday fortified with the co-production of his 1980 machine-pop prank Love By Numbers, her swooning chorus uplifting his deadpan count to 100, before the two collaborated on Marks’ own recording persona. Immortalised by the icy Oz wave of Cold Café, her Astor issued 7” also boasted the caffeinated flip Won't Wear It For Long - a should be hit with guitar from future Icehouse member Robert Kretschmer. 

Fans know of one more recording - You Bring These Things, a forlorn arrangement of an otherwise unreleased Paul Kelly song, gifted to her by the revered wordsmith. The track only ever appeared on the Astor promotional LP Terra Australis, sinfully alongside Up There Cazaly and Joe Dolce - hard proof that the label grossly misunderstood her talent (Marks recalls their persistent requests to show midriff and cleavage). Locked in a dissatisfying label arrangement and at this stage unwilling to follow her peers to greener pastures overseas, she felt her only way out was to cease all further activities. 

At the 11th hour of preparing this retrospective, two tracks unexpectedly surfaced via two cassettes - a paranoid demo version of her signature tune Cold Café, and a long-lost fourth song Problem Page. Both living room recordings follow Marks and Wednesday’s ingenious framework of minimal lyrics, minimal chord progressions.

Cold Café EP

BUY 12"/DIGI

KAREN MARKS - Cold Café (ES012) OUT NOW

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Read more: https://electrocorp.fr/2019/06/18/wilson-tanner-ii/ 

"These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick". This is how we got introduced to the new album of Wilson Tanner. 

Wilson Tanner is the mutual project of Australian artists Andras (Andrew Wilson) and Eleventeen Eston (John Tanner). Here they release "II", a follow up to their debut full-length published in 2016. 

Through the 8 tracks, Andrew and John captured Ambient and Electronica landscapes, all recorded in 3 days, on September 2017, aboard a 1950s riverboat with weatherproof instruments. 

While listening to the LP, we instantly felt in love with the whole aesthetic and the peaceful feeling that spead throughout the tracks. "All Hands Bury the Dead" is our pickup from the release with its early 70s / late 60s electronic sound that brings back a lot of music and visual memories.

Premiere: Wilson Tanner - All Hands Bury the Dead [Efficient Space]

Et Non Erat Lux

Hüseyin Ertunç Sextet ‎– Unhinged-Ness Voices (Excerpt)

Leonard Prochazka at Radio 80000 05.08.19

Leonard Prochazka at Radio 80000

One of our favorite French 7s in great condition and housing the super cool b-side Remix. The production on this is remarkable and couldn't sound any better today - loud escalating synths and killing bassline. You have to take this one straight to the floor!

"Zoulous !" (Remix) 7" By Les 36'15 On Jj The Track France, 1988 👋

Mystery 7" just fished out of the blue grotto. Stats: One copy ever sold on discogs, 4 wants... File under: freshest sushi in town. Ocean FX added to shake off audio-hi-jackers.

"Ile" 7" - Balearic Bliss - Not On Label, 1980s - 👋 SOLD

My edit of the dark romantic masterpiece from 1985.
Taken from "Illuminati Edits (Vol 1)" out now on Centre Neptune.

Laura Angel - IF YOU WANT (love edit)

Label run by @noise-in-my-head

Distribution queries:

Australia | info@noiseinmyhead.com.au
Rest of the World | www.wordandsound.de

KAREN MARKS - Cold Café (ES012) OUT NOW

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