Synth-Pop, New & Darkwave, Elektro

28 Mar 2025

A Million Times

photography by: jessica gibbs
artwork by: melanie sarria
recorded by: airhockey
mixed & mastered by: sebastian hidalgo

little friday

Lunchbox's legendary lost album "Evolver" is lost no more! Sparklingly remastered for the album’s twentieth (and a few!) anniversary and available on CD, cassette and (for the first time) vinyl, this psychedelic masterpiece fills a crucial hole in the band's discography. Recorded in the couple's 1990s Oakland basement between stays in Berlin, tour dates in London, and dreamy sojourns up the rugged Mendocino coastline, "Evolver" fuses jangle and jungle, ambient and dub into a striking pop statement.

Marrying refined songcraft to the serendipitous magic hidden in half-broken reel-to-reel tape decks and vintage synthesizers, the "Evolver" plants its pop flag on the terrain of magic and mystery. Dreamy jangle pop gems emerge seamlessly out of a sea of loops, drones, and dubbed-out horn fanfares, cascades of tape echo feedback and whispers from outer space providing a trance-inducing backdrop to the pop sensibility for which Lunchbox is well-known. Hook-filled and hypnotic, "Evolver" is a sublime slice of post-pop psychedelia that you won't want to miss.

For this special and long-overdue reissue we've raided the bands vaults for three previously unreleased tunes that add extra dimensions to the album's uniquely trippy flow. And for the vinyl heads we're pressing this as a double LP for maximum fidelity and playability, including a *vinyl-only* fourth side of beats, loops, interludes and puzzling aural ephemera, all taken directly from the original master tapes. Super cool!

Lunchbox - Letter From Overend

Return

Carrying on the long tradition of sentimental jangle pop songwriters, Lightheaded distill decades of lovelorn tunes into sounds for modern softies. They have the sunshine sparkle of The Left Banke and Margo Guryan, the C86 charm of Dolly Mixture and Would-Be-Goods, and the cinematic swell of Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura.

"Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!" is their most collaborative and earnest release to date, and marks their first collaborative release with Slumberland and the UK's Skep Wax label. From Laurel Canyon folky jangle to elegant chamber pop to lovesick girl-group ballads, Lightheaded's tunes nod to the ‘60s without feeling antiquated and this new EP is their most perfectly bittersweet and fully-realized recording yet.

Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!

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Lightheaded - Same Drop

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Y1sFbnlzDZu61LrYGcNK9?si=EscPloz1Twy72WVeznnSrg

https://greathare.bandcamp.com/track/calm-backwaters

Calm Backwaters

It’s about that kind of love that spirals - consuming, impossible to quit. It’s the sound of wanting more even when it’s already too much. Perfect for those late summer nights ✨


Written by: Agnieszka Trawczynska, Simon Velazquez, Aleksander Kaczmarek
Drums by: Marek Radziminski
Producer, Mixing Engineer: Aleksander Kaczmarek
Mastering Engineer: Krzysztof Kessler

Feel me
Just like you feel your heartbeat
On your wrists
Feel the hot blood pumping

Curious
Curious, your heart is
I might let you in
If I feel you're like me

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

Crawl
Crawl yourself to my skin
Magnetised
To what you could not see

I'll make you fall
In so many ways
You could not imagine
I'll keep you entertained
Until nothing feels just like this

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

It's so much faster
Feel it approaching
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming

This feeling
This beating
Is harder
Than anything else

Will thicken
Will bubble
Erupt and cause trouble
We'll burst to fall

I'll watch it in rapture
An outstanding finding
And overcommitting
Cause it is so blinding
I'll try to capture
Euphoria and love
And I'm forgetting
That life is upsetting
That every beginning
Is start to an end
I will forget that we ever lived
I will forget that we ever lived

overdose

'Cindy Sherman' is the sixth single by UK band Spirits of Saturn.
Released 27.05.25

Written by Spirits Of Saturn
Mixed + Mastered by Tucan

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linktr.ee/spiritsofsaturn to follow, stream, purchase etc

Cindy Sherman

Moonpools' cover of All Saints' song "Pure Shores" out via Young and Aspiring.

Written by Shaznay Lewis, Susannah Melvoin & William Orbit
Performed by Moonpools
Mixed and produced by Matthias Gusset
Master by Benjamin Gut at Gut.Audio



Pure Shores

‘Fax Message Breakup’ (single mix) taken from the new five-track EP from Rodney Cromwell (released 11 November 2016) on Happy Robots Records www.happyrobots.co.uk

UK LIVE AUTUMN 2016 
Sept. 14 London - Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green
Nov. 4   London - Haunt, Stoke Newington (A Happy Robots Records Night)
Nov. 5   Norwich - Epic Studios (with Marsheaux)

VIDEO
https://youtu.be/kNBW651pGXE 

FIND RODNEY CROMWELL AT
https://www.facebook.com/happyrobotsrecs 
https://twitter.com/robot_rocker
https://www.instagram.com/robot_rocker

PRESS RELEASE
Rodney Cromwell is the nom-de-plume of Adam Cresswell, founding member of indie-folktronica band SALOON (who had four entries in John Peel’s Festive 50 & recorded three Peel Sessions) and one half of acclaimed electronic two piece ARTHUR & MARTHA.
 
Although Phil Collins and his infamous split with his second wife inspired its title, there is none of the bombast of Collins’ work in Cromwell’s lo-fi disco lament.  In a miserable year that has seen the passing of loved musical artists, disruption and political upheavals, the melancholia of ‘Fax Message Breakup’ is very much of the zeitgeist; a paean to despair and defeat with an incessant disco beat.  With the inherent nihilism of its chorus “I can’t do this anymore, I don’t know what it’s for” it is perhaps the perfect soundtrack for 2016.
 
The 5 track EP features four exclusive remixes. ‘Fax Message Breakup’ is remixed by HOLOGRAM TEEN (ex-STEREOLAB synth-wizardess Morgane Lhote) who brings her glitchy motorik disco sound to the party and by regular collaborator AUW, who stretches the title track into something akin to a dark Depeche Mode synth epic.  CHRIS FRAIN from Colorado remixes ‘Baby Robot’ in a 1970s space disco vein - file between Meco’s ‘Star Wars Theme’ and Space’s ‘Magic Fly’.  And London’s THE LEAF LIBRARY close the EP with a beautifully restrained remix of ‘Cassiopeia’ that sounds like Brian Eno collaborating with Galaxie 500. 

ON ‘AGE OF ANXIETY’

The original version of ‘Fax Message Breakup’ is taken from the 2015 debut album ‘Age of Anxiety’ which was a surprising left-field critical hit featuring in over 30 ‘Best of 2015’ charts including Electronic Sound Magazine and The Electricity Club, who also named him ‘Most Promising New Act’. The track ‘Barry Was An Arms Dealer’ featured in the fan voted 2015 Official Festive 50.

"Sounds like liquid gold. Age of Anxiety has renewed my faith in the digital age of electro pop" - MALCOLM HOLMES, OMD
 
"Rodney Cromwell's music belongs to the future" - NME
 
"A must for those who like their synthpop lo-fi but with tunes" - THE ELECTRICITY CLUB
 
"Adam Cresswell has always made quality but quirky pop....an askew view of the world and its woes, but with enough gallows humour and blissful tunes to leave you feeling optimistic about the future" - SOUNDS XP
 
“A reminder of good pop tunes from a magical era” - LOUDER THAN WAR
 
"This is really just the best album of 2015" - DE KETTINGZAAG

‘Fax Message Breakup’ features Alice Hubley (Arthur & Martha, Cosines) on additional synth and Richard Salt (Controllers) on guitar. The video is produced by Dariy Karyakin.

‘Fax Message Breakup’ EP will be available for digital download on November 11, 2016. The album 'Age of Anxiety' is out now on CD and digitally. Both are released by Happy Robots Records and distributed by Cargo Records.

Fax Message Breakup EP

RODNEY CROMWELL Fax Message Breakup (Single Mix)

Written by Theodora
Composed and produced by Mila Dietrich
Mastered by Philip at Copilco studio

Label : Maquisards

Lien De Sang Feat. Theodora

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KYIV-BERLIN

OR_72 Sample ≫ "S.A.D - Shutterspeed" from the forthcoming LÄRM UND STAHL V.A. compilation to be released april 2020 in loving memory of Alex Wolf.
Distributed by Oráculo Records / Bordello A Parigi / Diana Charité
Find it at:
oraculorecords.bandcamp.com/
bordelloaparigi.com
redeyerecords.co.uk
juno.co.uk
deejay.de
decks.de
hhv.de
kernkrach.de
youngandcold.de
discopiu.com
pacifica beach USA
disko union japan
discos paradiso
lostracks
ultrasound
mecanica records
... and some others lovely vinyl stores

OR_72 ≫ S.A.D - Shutterspeed (In Loving Memory Of Alex Wolf)

London based electronic robot-pop label. 

Contact: info@happyrobots.co.uk
Web: www.happyrobots.co.uk

Releases include those by artists CLOUD STUDIES, ALICE HUBBLE, MOOD TAEG, ROMAN ANGELOS, HOLOGRAM TEEN, RODNEY CROMWELL and ARTHUR & MARTHA. Distributed by Cargo Records.

Ich freu mich über Playtimes in Clubs aber auch auf Erfahrungsmöglichkeiten auf privaten Veranstaltungen - gerne mich diesbezüglich anschreiben
Meine Motivation ist es so viel wie möglich analog zu produzieren, weitere Synthesizer ect. werden bald folgen Hier ist mein aktuelles Setup aufgelistet.
Equipment: 
Ableton live 11 Suite 
Arturia Keylab Essentiell mk3
Arturia Analog Lab 
Behringer Toro Analog Bass Synthesizer 
Behringer Pro Vs Mini (Prophet Clone)
Akai 40 Performance Controller 
NI Kontrol X1 mk1 & mk2
Korg Electribe ESX (nicht im Besitz, ausgeliehen) 
 Künstlerlogo von Vicomplex g


- Elektronische Musik aus dem Herzen von Kassel -

2014-2019: 
Einstieg ins digitale Auflegen
 Cluberfahrung im 130Bpm Kassel und A.R.M. Kassel

Ab 2019: 
Einstieg ins analoge Auflegen und Sammeln von 90er Techno-Schallplatten

Ab August 2024: 
Einstieg in die Musikproduktion der Elektronischen Musik

RODNEY CROMWELL Fax Message Breakup (Single Mix)

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