Hot Coins  - Geek Emotions (Sonar Kollektiv)

Hot Coins - Freestyle Lover (Sonar Kollektiv)

Hot Coins - Geek Emotions (Jacob Korn Remix) (Sonar Kollektiv)

Good remix, Chris has played some lovely guitar on this EP too

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Hot Coins - Geek Emotions (with Jacob Korn Remix) (Sonar Kollektiv)
Format - Vinyl/Digi
Release Date - 12/11/12

http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK249

Info

The man behind Hot Coins, Danny Berman, is best known by his Red Rack’em moniker. A purveyor of the finest club music from hip hop and soul through to house and techno. A DJ/producer who has progressively climbed electronic music’s precipitous ladder of approval. A vinyl obsessive. A party starter from NG to BK. 

This very personal project is sonically inspired by Berman’s love of dance music’s fruitful 78-82 period that embraced the cross pollination of emerging post-punk, disco and electro scenes. Goths and futurists in England danced to Kraftwerk and DAF, New York punks and no-wavers danced to ESG and ‘Planet Rock’. Good times…

…and bad times. Lyrically, Hot Coins candidly delves into fear and paranoia motivated by the destructive excesses of modern clubbing. The dark side of the dancefloor, the inevitable comedown and the transcendence that can follow. 

‘Geek Emotions’ is the first single to be taken from upcoming album ‘The Damage Is Done’ - a loser’s anthem for the eternal underdog. It means more when a geek wins than when a winner does - but geeks never win. No-one tells that story. The track features guitar from Chris Todd of Crazy P, saxophone by Pippa Marland and a lead vocal by City Hayes. 

Informed by sounds from A Certain Ratio to The Strokes, ‘Freestyle Lover’ sets the tone for the upcoming album. As well as Berman’s vocal debut he also played all instrumentation – taking the punk-DIY ethos literally.

A stunning remix from Dresden based DJ/producer and Trans-Media-Lab artist Jacob Korn completes the EP. 

LP ‘The Damage Is Done’ will be released by Sonar Kollektiv in early 2013.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hot+Coins

Hot Coins - Geek Emotions (with Jacob Korn Remix) (Sonar Kollektiv) Clips

PLEASE FOLLOW THE NEW HOT COINS SOUNDCLOUD - http://soundcloud.com/hotcoins

Hot Coins - Geek Emotions (with Jacob Korn Remix) (Sonar Kollektiv) 
Format - Vinyl/Digi 
Release Date - 12/11/12

12inch:
http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK249
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/110485
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/467388-01.htm

Digital: 
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/geek-emotions-jakob-korn-remix/id574249403
http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK249D

Info

The man behind Hot Coins, Danny Berman, is best known by his Red Rack’em moniker. A purveyor of the finest club music from hip hop and soul through to house and techno. A DJ/producer who has progressively climbed electronic music’s precipitous ladder of approval. A vinyl obsessive. A party starter from NG to BK.

This very personal project is sonically inspired by Berman’s love of dance music’s fruitful 78-82 period that embraced the cross pollination of emerging post-punk, disco and electro scenes. Goths and futurists in England danced to Kraftwerk and DAF, New York punks and no-wavers danced to ESG and ‘Planet Rock’. Good times…

…and bad times. Lyrically, Hot Coins candidly delves into fear and paranoia motivated by the destructive excesses of modern clubbing. The dark side of the dancefloor, the inevitable comedown and the transcendence that can follow.

‘Geek Emotions’ is the first single to be taken from upcoming album ‘The Damage Is Done’ - a loser’s anthem for the eternal underdog. It means more when a geek wins than when a winner does - but geeks never win. No-one tells that story. The track features guitar from Chris Todd of Crazy P and a lead vocal by City Hayes.

Informed by sounds from A Certain Ratio to The Strokes, ‘Freestyle Lover’ sets the tone for the upcoming album. As well as Berman’s vocal debut he also played all instrumentation – taking the punk-DIY ethos literally.

A stunning remix from Dresden based DJ/producer and Trans-Media-Lab artist Jacob Korn completes the EP.

LP ‘The Damage Is Done’ will be released by Sonar Kollektiv in early 2013.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hot+Coins

Hot Coins Geek Emotions (Sonar Kollektiv)

PLEASE FOLLOW THE NEW HOT COINS SOUNDCLOUD - 

Hot Coins - Geek Emotions (with Jacob Korn Remix) (Sonar Kollektiv) 
Format - Vinyl/Digi 
Release Date - 12/11/12

Buy links

Vinyl

http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK249 
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/110485 
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/467388-01.htm

Digital

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/geek-emotions-jakob-korn-remix/id574249403 
http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK249D 
http://www.beatport.com/release/geek-emotions-w-jakob-korn-remix/990373 
http://www.junodownload.com/products/geek-emotions-w/2071869-02/

Info

The man behind Hot Coins, Danny Berman, is best known by his Red Rack’em moniker. A purveyor of the finest club music from hip hop and soul through to house and techno. A DJ/producer who has progressively climbed electronic music’s precipitous ladder of approval. A vinyl obsessive. A party starter from NG to BK.

This very personal project is sonically inspired by Berman’s love of dance music’s fruitful 78-82 period that embraced the cross pollination of emerging post-punk, disco and electro scenes. Goths and futurists in England danced to Kraftwerk and DAF, New York punks and no-wavers danced to ESG and ‘Planet Rock’. Good times…

…and bad times. Lyrically, Hot Coins candidly delves into fear and paranoia motivated by the destructive excesses of modern clubbing. The dark side of the dancefloor, the inevitable comedown and the transcendence that can follow.

‘Geek Emotions’ is the first single to be taken from upcoming album ‘The Damage Is Done’ - a loser’s anthem for the eternal underdog. It means more when a geek wins than when a winner does - but geeks never win. No-one tells that story. The track features guitar from Chris Todd of Crazy P and a lead vocal by City Hayes.

Informed by sounds from A Certain Ratio to The Strokes, ‘Freestyle Lover’ sets the tone for the upcoming album. As well as Berman’s vocal debut he also played all instrumentation – taking the punk-DIY ethos literally.

A stunning remix from Dresden based DJ/producer and Trans-Media-Lab artist Jacob Korn completes the EP.

LP ‘The Damage Is Done’ will be released by Sonar Kollektiv in early 2013.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hot+Coins

Released by: Sonar Kollektiv 
Release/catalogue number: sk249 
Release date: Nov 12, 2012 

Jacob Korn Remix for Hot Coins first single "Geek Emotions" from the upcoming album "The Damage Is Done". Available on the digital release only. 

Geek Emotions w / Jakob Korn Remix

Geek Emotions

Hot Coins - Geek Emotions (Jacob Korn Extra Workout Remix) DIGITAL BONUS TRACK

Punk funk, disco, electro, new wave band fronted by Daniel Berman (aka Red Rack'em).

Debut album 'The Damage Is Done' will be released on Sonar Kollektiv on 28/01/13

HOT COINS 
‘THE DAMAGE IS DONE’ 
(SONAR KOLLEKTIV)

Release Date: 28th January 2013 
Format: 2xLP/CD/Digital

Double Gatefold Vinyl (with mp3 download code)

http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK251LP/
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/111894
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/475224-01.htm

CD (Digipack with 16 page booklet)

http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK251CD/
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/111863
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/475223-01.htm

Digital 

https://itunes.apple.com/album/the-damage-is-done/id591705398?v0=9988&ign-mpt=uo%3D1

Berlin Album Launch - http://www.facebook.com/events/435091983226322/

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Selected DJ Feedback 

"I played New Beat and Foxxy at World Unknown on Friday. Both sounded massive and had people asking what they were" - Andy Blake (World Unknown)

"It's really fucking good. A gloopy mixture that ranges from Shriekback and Gang Of Four at one end to EBM, house and broken beat at the other, like a history of dance music thrown into a big AKAI milkshake" - Bill Brewster (DJ History)

"Sounds good!"- JD Twitch (Optimo)


"Checked out the album. Very nice on first listen! Already taken a shine to I-Ching, Leathered and Roadtrip. No doubt a few more will grab me. Good work!" - Ashley Beedle (Legend)

"I’ve had a good listen to the album over the past few mornings, really love it. Danny should be very proud indeed!" - Ron Basejam (Crazy P)

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An estranged homage to late 70s NYC anti-culture, realized through the eyes of a Scottish born electronic musician living in modern day Berlin.

The man behind Hot Coins, Danny Berman, is best known by his Red Rack’em moniker. A purveyor of the finest club music from hip hop and soul through to house and techno. A DJ/producer who has progressively climbed electronic music’s precipitous ladder of approval. A vinyl obsessive. A party starter from NG to BK.

Quietly working on Hot Coins for the past four years, this very personal project is sonically inspired by Berman’s love of dance music’s fruitful 78-82 period that embraced the cross pollination of emerging post-punk, disco and electro scenes. Goths and futurists in England danced to Kraftwerk and DAF, New York punks and no-wavers danced to ESG and ‘Planet Rock’. Good times…

…and bad times. Lyrically, ‘Damage Is Done’ candidly delves into fear and paranoia motivated by the destructive excesses of modern clubbing. The dark side of the dancefloor, the inevitable comedown and the transcendence that can follow.

‘Foxxy’ encapsulates this, dispelling the myth that clubbing is exclusively reserved for celebration and revising it as a breaking down of pride, a lack of self-belief, a public surrender to humiliation. ‘Confined’ muses on trapped relationships; whether it be personal, professional or with something less animate. First single ‘Geek Emotions’ is a loser’s anthem for the eternal underdog. It means more when a geek wins than when a winner does - but geeks never win. No-one tells that story.

However, it is about dancing after all though: ‘Leathered’ is a Warriors inspired homage to the “homo-erotic nature of Italo-disco” and ‘I Ching’ is naturally described as “David Mansuso having tantric sex with himself in a NYC loft” (“Ching “is also slang for cocaine in Scotland).

Remarkably, the album ended up being mixed in rural Austria on the world famous ex-Townhouse studios SSL 4000 B series desk which was used to mix Public Image Limited’s ‘Metal Box’ album and ‘In The Air Tonight’ by Phil Collins. This is the desk that the famous ‘gated reverb’ drum sound that defined the 80’s was invented on, so it’s fitting that the album was mixed on it.

As several of the tracks feature vocals from City Hayes and Berman himself, plus guitar (from Crazy P maestro Chris Todd and Paul ‘Peej’ Murphy) and saxophone (from acclaimed folk saxophonist Pippa Marland), the future lies in the live performance of these tracks. Hot Coins is currently hard at work in Berlin rehearsing in preparation for a live tour in 2013.

For more information contact Ben Smith or Johnny Beverton 
ben@echoempire.net |  
johnny@echoempire.net | 

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hot+Coins

Hot Coins - The Damage Is Done LP (Sonar Kollektiv) Clips

Punk funk, disco, electro, new wave band fronted by Daniel Berman (aka Red Rack'em). 

Debut album 'The Damage Is Done' will be released on Sonar Kollektiv on 28/01/13

HOT COINS
‘THE DAMAGE IS DONE’
(SONAR KOLLEKTIV)

Release Date: 28th January 2013
Format: 2xLP/CD/Digital

Double Gatefold Vinyl (with mp3 download code)

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/111894
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/475224-01.htm

CD (Digipack with 16 page booklet) 

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/111863
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/475223-01.htm

-----------

Biography

An estranged homage to late 70s NYC anti-culture, realized through the eyes of a Scottish born electronic musician living in modern day Berlin. 

"It's really fucking good. A gloopy mixture that ranges from Shriekback and Gang Of Four at one end to EBM, house and broken beat at the other, like a history of dance music thrown into a big AKAI milkshake"  - Bill Brewster (DJ History)

The man behind Hot Coins, Danny Berman, is best known by his Red Rack’em moniker. A purveyor of the finest club music from hip hop and soul through to house and techno. A DJ/producer who has progressively climbed electronic music’s precipitous ladder of approval. A vinyl obsessive. A party starter from NG to BK. 

"I played New Beat and Foxxy at World Unknown on Friday. Both sounded massive and had people asking what they were" - Andy Blake (World Unknown)

Quietly working on Hot Coins for the past four years, this very personal project is sonically inspired by Berman’s love of dance music’s fruitful 78-82 period that embraced the cross pollination of emerging post-punk, disco and electro scenes. Goths and futurists in England danced to Kraftwerk and DAF, New York punks and no-wavers danced to ESG and ‘Planet Rock’. Good times…

…and bad times. Lyrically, ‘Damage Is Done’ candidly delves into fear and paranoia motivated by the destructive excesses of modern clubbing. The dark side of the dancefloor, the inevitable comedown and the transcendence that can follow. 

"Sounds good!"- JD Twitch (Optimo)

‘Foxxy’ encapsulates this, dispelling the myth that clubbing is exclusively reserved for celebration and revising it as a breaking down of pride, a lack of self-belief, a public surrender to humiliation. ‘Confined’ muses on trapped relationships; whether it be personal, professional or with something less animate. First single ‘Geek Emotions’ is a loser’s anthem for the eternal underdog. It means more when a geek wins than when a winner does - but geeks never win. No-one tells that story.

However, it is about dancing after all though: ‘Leathered’ is a Warriors inspired homage to the “homo-erotic nature of Italo-disco” and ‘I Ching’ is naturally described as “David Mansuso having tantric sex with himself in a NYC loft” (“Ching “is also slang for cocaine in Scotland).

"Checked out the album. Very nice on first listen! Already taken a shine to I-Ching, Leathered and Roadtrip. No doubt a few more will grab me. Good work!" - Ashley Beedle (Legend)

Remarkably, the album ended up being mixed in rural Austria on the world famous ex-Townhouse studios SSL 4000 B series desk which was used to mix Public Image Limited’s ‘Metal Box’ album and ‘In The Air Tonight’ by Phil Collins. This is the desk that the famous ‘gated reverb’ drum sound that defined the 80’s was invented on, so it’s fitting that the album was mixed on it.

"I’ve had a good listen to the album over the past few mornings, really love it. Danny should be very proud indeed!" - Ron Basejam (Crazy P)

As several of the tracks feature vocals from City Hayes and Berman himself, plus guitar (from Crazy P maestro Chris Todd and Paul ‘Peej’ Murphy) and saxophone (from acclaimed folk saxophonist Pippa Marland), the future lies in the live performance of these tracks. Hot Coins is currently hard at work in Berlin rehearsing in preparation for a live tour in 2013.

For more information contact Ben Smith or Johnny Beverton
ben@echoempire.net |
johnny@echoempire.net | 


http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hot+Coins

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