Music reminiscent of the original Sid & Nancy soundtrack.

Sid & Nancy II ~ Official Soundtrack

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'I know i believe in nothing but it's my nothing'.
['Faster' Manic Street Preachers]

Faster - AUGUST 2016 \\ Dreampop / Shoegaze / Psychedelic / Krautrock / Indie Pop / Grunge

[p*dis] distribution sampler for September 2016

p*dis sampler 2016.09

New releases this September

UK-based Nang presents Disco legend Rayko latest album, due for release on the 31st of March 2014 on vinyl and digitally. 

Nang has been releasing quality Disco since its inception, dropping tracks from the likes of Martin Brodin, Tensnake, Daniele Baldelli, Brioski, Toby Tobias and with an incredible list of remix artists such as Luke Solomon, Andrew Weatherall and Lindstrom amongst other. This spring they are delivering Disco visionary Rayko's latest album Rebirth which follows Rayko's latest single, Rusos Theme on the Uk-based imprint. 

The LP comprises 10 forward thinking disco tracks and it opens with Balearic Intro, which is a slow tempo moody disco tune, guided by an almost talking guitar solo. The second track The Cave is clearly influenced by 80s synth rock while Time And Space is more a deep club focused tune. The fourth cut Nightlogy is a perfect example of how Rayko can revitalise dated sounds and give them new shine, adding on top of the tune a soulful vocal. This last cut is on par with Rusos Theme, a more pop oriented track driven by the hypnotic male voice that repeats "I'm gonna make you love me.", quite a clear mission statement!

The LPs title track merges acid synth lines with a relentless groove and its a strong dancefloor focused track. He Came From The Space is an uplifting funky tune, while Dreamer is a more groovy synth driven tune with a cheeky vibe to it. The last 2 tracks are the perfect ending for the album: Warhammer is a slow moody cut while the closing tune Goodbye Baby is a proper club track, in which a funky slapped bass line is combined with guitar riffs and a long ethereal pad, it rounds off the release perfectly and feels like the end of the show.

Spain's Rayko latest LP Rebirth is due for release on the 12th of May: keep your eyes out all Disco heads.

[NANG120] 01. Rayko - Balearic Intro (96 kbps)

Artist: STAG HARE
Album: Spirit Canoes

HITD 006
CD – 50 copies
Release date: 13th August 2011

Label: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

STAG HARE - To Coyoto To Hop

Bande originale du documentaire Joshua Trip - Histoires musicales dans le désert californien. Tous les morceaux ont été spécialement composés et enregistrés pour accompagner ce road trip à Joshua Tree. 

02 Rendez-Vous - FRÉDÉRIC RIVIÈRE

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Lost In Ritual

Still taken from video by Julian Hand. Music from "The Kyvu Tapes Vol.1" 

Afterthought

Circles

Artist: THE OSCILLATION
Album: Monographic

HITD 028 
LP / CD / DL
Limited edition of 300 white vinyls and 700 black vinyls
 Release date: March 2016
Released in partnership with All Time Low

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

Written, recorded and produced by D.Castellanos
except: Alignment Zone written by D.Castellanos/V.Magaletti

Guitars/vox/keys/bass: D.Castellanos
Drums: Valentina Magaletti
Additional drums on Alignment Zone: Tim Garrat
Mastered by Carim Classman@thefishtank
Artwork and layout Julian Hand and Floriane Miny

THE OSCILLATION - Take Us To The Moon

GGB-008
The album "House in the Tall Grass" will be released on LP/CD/DL in May 13th.

CD/LP/DL: https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/house-in-the-tall-grass

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Website: kikagakumoyo.tumblr.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/kikagaku_moyo

Kikagaku MoyoHouse in Tall Grass


Kikagaku Moyo - "Kogarashi"

The KVB - White Walls

Pre-Order at ridingeasyrecs.com or monolord.bandcamp.com 

Monolord - Lord of Suffering

Artist: TOMAGA
Album: The Shape of the Dance

HITD 030
LP / CD / DL
 Release date: 19th September 2016
Released in partnership with Negative Days

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

All songs written and performed by Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen

TOMAGA - A Perspective With No End

The Curse In Reverse leads off side B on the new album by The Tyde.  This track with Bernard Butler on guitar and co-vocals.

Darren 4

The Tyde - The Curse In Reverse

From the album Momentform Accumulations by Automatisme

Automatisme
Momentform Accumulations
180gLP/CD/DL
CST118

cstrecords.com/cst118
automatisme.bandcamp.com/

Momentform Accumulations

Automatisme • "Simultanéité 1"

Robert Pollard - Get Under It

From the EP, "Parts of a Flower."

Produced & Mixed by Doug Boehm 
Engineered by Doug Boehm & Keith Cooper
Mastered by Mike Marsh 



Alluria

Dead Light was created after Anna Rose Carter and Ed Hamilton moved from London to a quiet, remote space in the countryside. The migration out of the sprawling metropolis to their new rural refuge was a transition that significantly impacted them both, and one that continues to turn and shift under the ambivalence of change, loss, and new beginnings.

Dead Light is released on vinyl, CD and digital download on October 14th, 2016.

Preorder here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dead-light/id1138056150

www.villagegreenrecording.co.uk

Dead Light - Blooms

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Doublethink

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Douglas Dare - Doublethink

The Side Eyes - Don't Talk To Me

Second single from Beauty Sleep

Produced/Mixed by Ryan McGroarty
Artwork by Jack Coulter (www.jackcoulter.com)

Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7zt2mzXSnr9B9vVP1GTLdV
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Living Right

From Satchmode's forthcoming LP "Love Hz". Artwork by Dana Brancucci.

Give us some love on Hype Machine! http://hypem.com/track/2hq5n/Satchmode+-+State+of+Mind

State of Mind

Title : Dance
Artist : Marihiko Hara & Polar M
Cat # : mnc017
Release Date : September 2016
Format : CD / Digital
Genre : Post-Classical / Instrumental Pop 

01. Duo
02. The Season Changes
03. Ray of Light
04. Monologue
05. Dance
06. Ocean of Night
07. Beryl
08. Asia
09. Gone Gone Gone
10. On The Silent Way 

“Laughing, singing, dancing
Laughing, singing, and dancing
Howling, sobbing, shouting
Howling, shouting, sobbing
Laughing, singing, and dancing

Dancing.”

After releasing their critically acclaimed debut album “Beyond”, Kyoto-based Marihiko Hara and Polar M (Masumi Muranaka) have embarked on a series of live performance around Asia region, including Korea, Malaysia and many places in Japan. Each time they performed together, the sense of how their individual sounds complement each other grew stronger. And with these live performances, their interweaving sounds have underwent subtle refinement – they become even more profound and exquisite, and far more interconnected.

While touring, the duo was also actively collaborating with dance choreographers. In early 2016, the duo was again commissioned to compose new pieces for a dance performance. It was during that time, their brand new 2nd album “Dance”, was conceived.

Through their interactions with the talented dancers across Asia, these two very gifted musicians started to explore the meanings of “dance”. Gradually, they have come to realised that, everything in our daily life can be regarded as “dance” – the rhythm of the changing seasons, the subtle movement of time, the weight of words, the shifting of emotion, the cycle of life, all parts that form our lives, are indeed in themselves – a “dance”. And in this gorgeous new album, using their ever delicate sounds, the duo graciously illustrated this aesthetic interpretation of “dance”.

Musically, the duo picked up where they left off in their very successful debut album - traces of refined post-classical, melodic folktronica, floating ambient, and glimpses of jazz, continued to be found in this 2nd album. What is more apparent in this new album is that the guitars had taken a more prominent role. As such, the sound textures and melody movements have become much richer and more diverse, which impeccably reflect the refinement that underwent for the musical style of Marihiko and Masumi.

The duo’s good friend, Mia Cabalfin - a renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who lent her wonderful voice in the debut album, continued to feature in this album by performing the hauntingly beautiful spoken words in the album title track. This album is tastefully mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photo by Ken Furudate, and design by Seitaro Nishioka. In addition, the artist management for the duo is supported by the excellent people from Kyoto’s label and event organiser NightCruising. 

Credits:
composition, arrangement & mixed by Marihiko Hara & Polar M
track 5 : spoken words by Mia Cabalfin

mastering: Chihei Hatakeyama
photo: Ken Furudate
design: Seitaro Nishioka

To enquire about distribution, please kindly email us at info(a)mu-nest.com. Thank you. 

DANCE / Marihiko Hara & Polar M (album preview sample)

track from my new CD "Re-enact" street date 26.8.16

Re-enact

MIDHEAVEN

RE-ENACT: BACKWARD MASKING

Portion / Acryl (SRCD065)

1. ?
2. ayahaaa
3. Acrylic
4. UUDDFF
5. PNA
6. 25mg
7. KKVMNBE
8. dio
9. Cola
10. Enamel

produce : Acryl (dagshenma & Madegg)
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Shun Ishizuka

Acrylic / Acryl

Far From You- Exultation
ambient progressive post rock 

TOMAGA - A Perspective With No End

Hands In The Dark