Name: Ill Never by Hoffen
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: In the floor of this site could flowers grow.

Kasvetli Kutlama

Sand

to see your eye already home free your mind oh you’ll be left behind left behind a sea of lies all inside to see your rage all was into hold my hand oh, we’ll be left behind left behind left behind you were left behind to your trail to your drain to die and I know all I know

TENSION

Empty Room

The Agnes Circle: Ceramics

In the floor of this site could flowers grow.

Ill Never

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MNQ 062 Carmody - Sleep On Mirrors: The 1981-1985 Tapes LP

As earlier compilations of 'Danza Meccanica' have taught us, Italy gave birth to a disproportionate number of synth-pop, new wave and electronic acts in the 80s. 

Mannequin goes deeper into the Italian new wave archelogical research with a killer 10 tracks selection of Carmody. Picking their name from a science fiction novel titled "Dimension of Miracles" by Robert Sheckley, Carmody were coming from Torino, as their pairs Monuments and Chromagain. Started as a duo (Alberto Ramella and Andrea Lesmo) and later a trio with Max Casacci joining in  as a guitar player, Carmody recorded from 1981 to 1985 and issued three incredibly rare demo tapes. "Sleep On Mirrors" compiles the best tracks from those tapes, bringing you one of the most peculiar 80's minimal synth music coming out of Italy.

Tracklist

A1 - Messengers Of Love 
A2 - Most of you 
A3 - As We Down 
A4 - Ambiguos 
A5 - Psalm 
B1 - Long Breath 
B2 - Space invaders 
B3 - Sleep on mirrors 
B4 - Bones 
B5 - Time's under 

Limited edition of 300 copies. 

Mastering by Rude 66. 
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani.

Carmody - Messengers Of Love

Through varied experimental synth-scapes conjured with keen ears for sound design, production, and theatrical aesthetics, Selofan rest not on the laurels of just creating highly danceable coldwave infused music, but with together with Joanna Pavlidou's haunting vocals, and Dimitris Pavlidis' throbbing bass guitar, and modular synth compositions, the pair conjure whole other worlds and narratives throughout each album and music video they create. Thus far the Selofan have released 5 studio albums, issued through their own legendary label they curate themselves: Fabrika Records.
Through their Fabrika family, Selofan have championed such acts as Lebanon Hanover, and She Past Away, aiding these bands in becoming two of the most popular Darkwave acts worldwide.
In the Spring of 2020, Selofan released the video for the hopelessly plaintive "There Must Be Somebody", the first single from their forthcoming sixth studio album Partners In Hell, the follow-up to 2018's widely popular Vitrioli LP. "There Must be Somebody" is a discordant composition, mimicking the startled song of birds after a disturbance in a wooded enclave on a mountainside, while a magic ritual unfolds.
The album itself opens with "Grey Gardens", a menagerie of morose melodies setting a sombre tone for the rest of a bleak record whose sound design and dreamscapes evoke the best sounds of British and German post-punk of the 80s.
"Almost Nothing" is a brooding bell-driven track with a dark and pirouetting melody that is the perfect soundtrack to a figurine twirling in a music box.
The German language "Nichts" means No, and this song is both sinister and cinematic with sighing keys, shuddering drum machines, and German lyrics sung with sorrowful conviction.
"Zusammen", is a word often asked if you are together, or separate, is a dark ballad whose shadowy keys weave a nightmarish delirium, evoking the soundscapes of a lullaby sung in a haunted dollhouse.
"4am" is a restless rhythm, whose soft percussive melody tosses and turns alongside subtle bass and string accents overlaid with despondent vocals.
"Happy Consumers" sounds like the swirling of a finger drawn upon the edge of crystalline glass, with vocals and drum machines coming emanating from an adjacent room with echoing acoustics, collectively evoking the sound like lingers when the somnambulist wakes from his dream.
"Absolutely Absent" hums onward like a phantom train ride that is a one-way ticket to madness, and with the next track "Metallic Isolation" the locomotive beats gather more steam, propelled forward with anachronistic melody.
The album closes with "Auf Deiner Haut", which translates as on your skin, and the song is both tactile and tenebrous with sensuously dark synth textures amidst howling German vocals that take flight like witches during a Sabbat. 

Almost Nothing

Debut Album, FRAGRANCE out on December 17th 

Music Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlDieDgp_hs

Produced by Solange Endormie Records

Violence In Your Eyes (Solange Endormie RCDS)

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Soft Kill - "Seven Hundred"

Hoffen is a post punk band formed in 2015 in Mexico City by musician Dalí Lantzeta, who has participated in projects such as Lecumberri, Los Robotes and The girl is dead and NWT. 
The band has quickly been identified as a reference in the dark underground scene of Mexico, participating even in documentaries, films, short films and compilations of the Goth genre.
Hoffen shows a strong influence by the post punk, new wave and the British eighties gothic rock.
The lyrics show inspiration in spirituality, the dark, Greek mythology and nature.

Ill Never

Hoffen

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