Minimal Synth

Pic: Maximo Pedraza (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maximopedraza)

Soko - Monster Love (feat. Ariel Pink)

Order your copy here: http://bit.ly/1hsmq7t

MNQ 044 POLICE DES MOEURS - POLICE DES MOEURS LP

- LP on black vinyl - Limited edition of 500 copies

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PDM is a synth pop band formed in Montreal in 2010 and they give the francophone perspective on what Black Marble, Lust For Youth, and Cold Showers did in English in 2012, as well as fitting in with the output of Lescop. Members are Francis, Anouk, Fred and Cristine.

Their debut full-length, after some quicky old out singles, is permeated by a cold, melodic and nostalgic music for broken hearts and dark minds. PDM is the soundtrack for the nuclear night, a transition moment between the end of utopia and the final ecological disaster. The world after the future.

PDM main influences and interests are underground aestheticisms (1979-1981), industrial transformations and the process of electrification, norms and deviance, nuclear and environmental anxiety as well as paranoia, secret agents, spies and political extremists.

Strongly recommended to fans of Rational Youth, New Order, Martin Dupont, Jacno, The Normal, Xeno & Oaklander.

Police Des Moeurs - Ta Fin Du Monde

The first single from Preoccupations' debut s/t album on Flemish Eye, out 2015/01/20.

Watch the video by the very talented director: Yoonha Park here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdMz7BUtOvk

Preoccupations : Continental Shelf

amour sisterhood remix compilation, happy helloween

yyellow - lock me in your basement (lal tuna cover)

Remastered version of this original track: https://soundcloud.com/bogdan-anghel79/i-have-these-dreams

These Dreams

Deux Golden Dreams

MNQ 012 /// Led Er Est / Ancien Régime 12'' ep SPLIT 2010

Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies in glossy and normal paper, it includes 2 inserts.

LIMITED EDITION LP cover on hand-made serigraphy on hard carton closed with black sealing wax for the first 50 copies.

Led Er Est - A Darkness In My Soul (Solid Space cover)

Pre-order: http://anotherdarkage.bigcartel.com/product/exek-biased-advice-another-dark-age

Another Dark Age is proud to release Exek's debut LP, Biased Advice, which follows one self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). The album collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realisation of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne’s live gig circuit. 

Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesiser), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and together they began recording material according to Wolski 's vision.

"Then they were there, on my arms, on my legs, everywhere." - 'Foregin Lesions'

The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy’s Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering,  Essendon Airport’s Palimpsest LP (1981). But Exek  dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new wave scene reaching out to  German post-punk of the same era. Wolski’s songwriting is akin to that of the records put out by Hannover’s No Fun Records and Hamburg’s Zickzack, channeling the droll lyricism of The 39 Clocks and saturated with self-deprecating Attitude. 

"New friends, new influence, new ring around the finger, a hedonist who finds regret.”  - ‘A Hedonist’

Exek are messengers for today’s young, unemployed, immobile, self-obsessed middle-class.  The themes of societal isolation, heartbreak, consumerism are all funnelled through metaphors of terminal illness, monsters and bondage. Their vision mirrors Tuxedomoon’s ‘Holiday for Plywood’ but crucially Biased Advice is a sermon that Exek preach to themselves. The band pit themselves as both victims and saviours living in a world that’s trying to extinguish them, or worse still, mould them into boring automatons. 

“Spitting image, two legged, stick figured, adolescent, disinfectant, replicant.”  - ‘Replicate’

The conceptual weight carried in Wolski’s lyrics follows on from process. Dub and other studio techniques are used throughout Biased Advice and are no better evidenced in the 16-minute modern (and instant) classic, ‘Baby Giant Squid.’ This song remains unchanged from it’s cassette release on Melbourne’s Resistance/Restraint label but spread out over one side of a record it lays bare its perfection. Basslines that stand out one moment give way to dubbed out percussion, hissing tape delay and reverb drenched vocals. Simply, this post-kraut-dub-psyche-punk excursion looks back over it’s shoulder as it leaves ‘Bella Lugosi’s Dead’ for dead. It’s a sublime balance of improvisation and cold calculation. 

“Excitement entails the probability of murder to eliminate stress.”  - ‘Baby Giant Squid’

It’s the tension between this teetering psychotic nihilism and arrangement with studio-like precision that gives Biased Advice the tone of a forewarning. But of what?

“Listen well.”  - ‘Submitted’

Exek - A Hedonist

Proximamente podremos disfrutar de una nueva reedicion de este magnifico album, agradecer a todas esas escuchas que hacen posible que nunca muera la musica como esta.

Martin Dupont - Love On My Side (Hot Paradox 1987)

Solid Space - Destination Moon (1982)

taken from V.A. - "Forward + Rewind: The Future Echo Tapes" 2x C-60 Tape [a+w 005]

[a+w 005] LINEA ASPERA - Younger Dryas

aken from VELVET CONDOM - "VC" C-30 Tape [a+w 008]

coming soon...

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[a+w 008] VELVET CONDOM - Kalter Lippenstift

PEINE PERDUE (Coco Gallo/Stephane Argillet) - 2012
excerpt from the album "No Souvenir" (Cold Beats records, 2014)

Les sentiments inachevés
S'obstinent
À changer de fleuve

Le désespoir est à son comble

Mon âme, retient mon corps
Emporté par le courant

Le naufrage se poursuit

Scène intermédiaire
D'un drame immense

Fuite de l'existence

Au-delà des retenues
Passent les rapides
Prisonniers de la cartographie

Les liaisons transatlantiques
Ne se font plus

Les trains de nuit vers l'Est
Faussent compagnie
  
Les Ferry-Boats
N'abordent plus les tempêtes

Les long-courriers
Plient bagages

Au-delà des retenues
Passent les rapides
Prisonniers de la cartographie
 
Le naufrage se poursuit
Tous ne reviendront pas

Les sentiments inachevés
S'obstinent
À changer de fleuve

Le désespoir est à son comble
Le naufrage se poursuit
Tous ne reviendront pas


Peine Perdue - FAUSSE COMPAGNIE

medio mutante 17 Anos

Released May 27th. Night School Records.
CD/LP/Digital.
Pre-Order: http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lssn016-terror-bird-all-this-time-lp

“All This Time” is the 3rd full length LP from Terror Bird - aka Nikki Nevver - and is by far the most personal, emotionally affecting and musically developed. Recorded at home over a period of 5 months, the 10 songs on “All This Time” document a period of intense emotional upheaval, a period wherein Nevver underwent major shifts in her personal life, rediscovered the solo recording process (previous albums having used live drumming and studio production) and married a raw, personal music with a straight-to-tape aesthetic most in-tune with her early recording experiences. The difference this time is that Nevver’s unique voice - at turns operatic and fragile, untutored and wearing its heart on its sleeve - serves as the perfect conduit for the emotional turmoil in the songs.

Nevver’s voice has grown into a formidable instrument, a towering, unabashed vocal whose resonance curls around the synth and drum machine production, at times duetting with itself, at times scaling the vocal register to reach new dramatic heights. Brought up on the music of the 80s “studio” - The Smiths, Kate Bush, The Cure - Nevver’s music exists beyond modern zeitgeists or considerations, subverting “big production” music into a personal DIY aesthetic. It’s a pure songwriting that outgrows genre and thrives purely on the merits of direct communication between songwriter and listener. 

Each song on “All This Time” serves as a chapter in a narrative that is universal; from the self-doubt and loneliness of opener “The Wrong Way,” to the doomed bedroom romance of “Try To Break Me,” from the masochistic guilt of “Locket” to the near-anthemic “Lust & Violence.” Each song speaks directly, plainly, to the listener, dispensing as much as possible with the unnecessary augmentation of modern pop music; “All This Time” is simply the deeply romantic, part-doomed / part-hopeful songs of a singular, unique talent.

The Wrong Way (From LSSN016 - "All This Time" CD/LP/Digital)

ARTIST: Solid Space
SONG: A darkness in my soul
DISC: Space Museum (1982)
LABEL: In Phaze Records

Solid Space - A Darkness in My Soul

Minimal wave - Oriental groove (vynil&K7 dj set) - Chicago House - Italian funk - french boogie - synth punk - ghetto tech and many more...

Booking: ssadkine@gmail.com



Solid Space - Destination Moon (1982)

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