Manchester’s Ghosts of Social Networks release their new single No Going Back on Friday 10th February via Integrity Records. 

The widescreen slice of sweeping indie rock follows the classic North-West guitar-pop lineage and arrives hot on the heels of their previous singles Love Potion and Comeback Kid.

Since arriving in early 2016, Ghosts of Social Networks (the alter-ego of Manchester-based Nathan Till) have quickly turned musical heads with their debut single Love Potion drawing immediate support from BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and presenters at Amazing Radio. 

Inspired by new wave, Nick Cave and The National, Nathan’s music is classic yet innovative and with the addition of Ben Dargue (drums) and Andrea Gobbi (bass), GOSN create a stunning full band sound. 

Their second single Comeback Kid was championed by BBC Introducing in Manchester as well as over 25 regional radio stations in the Autumn, and the band have also received rave reviews from Louder Than War and online press.

Ghosts of Social Networks follow a release date show at Manchester’s iconic Night & Day Café with further gigs in Birmingham and Manchester.

Sun 5 Mar – Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
​Sat 18 Mar – Fuel, Manchester
Fri 14 Apr – Gullivers, Manchester (FREE SHOW)

For more info, head to ghostsofsocialnetworks.com

No Going Back

Ghosts of Social Networks - No Going Back

‘Sighting’ is the debut single by rising UK bass artist/DJ/producer Mesmanic, and it's out now via the Beat Filter label.

Already building a strong reputation in his native south west for his energetic live sets, Mesmanic looks set to reach a wider audience with his debut release, four minutes of pulsating bass house featuring a vocal by American actor Lou Hirsch (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Superman III) as a bystander who experiences a mysterious ‘Sighting’.

Mastered by the ace team at Stardelta Mastering (DJ Zinc, Oliver Heldens, MK), ‘Sighting’ will be followed in August by a Mesmanic remix for a new EP by Brighton electro-house duo The Love Tectonic (Symbiotic Records), with a couple more still under wraps.

Following recent DJ sets at Exmouth Festival, Home Farm Festival and a headline slot at the Exeter Respect Festival Launch Party, Mesmanic is relishing a busy summer.

‘Sighting’ is available world-wide across all major digital platforms via the Beat Filter label.

www.mesmanic.com
http://www.facebook.com/mesmanic
http://instagram.com/mesmanic
https://twitter.com/mesmanicUK
https://soundcloud.com/mesmanic

For more info, images, licensing or remix requests contact Nick[at]BeatFilter.co.uk
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Sighting

Mesmanic - Sighting

Black Out

'You Don't Speak For Me' by Tribes of Europe & Barbara Stretch, released 21st June 2019 via Integrity Records across all major digital platforms and on limited edition CD.

Provoked by the way in which the public are increasingly lied to and misled, Tribes of Europe knew of Barbara’s history as vocalist with late 70’s radical feminist group Jam Today and loved her voice, so the song was begging to be written. Co-production work by Chris Taylor, bass player with anarcho-punk group Poison Girls during the early 80's, added an extra dimension to a politically-charged song with unashamedly retro-futurist pop sensibilities.

Early radio supporters of You Don't Speak For Me include Steve Lamacq (BBC 6 Music), Janice Long (BBC Radio Wales) and Bob Fischer (BBC Tees).

Previous singles by Fenland-based Tribes of Europe, the alter ego of multi-instrumentalist Martin Elsey, have enjoyed support on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction and a number of specialist shows online.

Barbara Stretch, a fixture in the London punk/post-punk socio-political scene of the late 70's and early 80's, was part of a group who consciously rejected the male-dominated music business of the day in favour of creating a totally female band infrastructure with their own record label (Stroppy Cow).

Of the new collaboration, Barbara says:

“I was delighted when Martin asked me to sing You Don't Speak For Me. It’s a song which, I imagine, in our present political chaos expresses how a lot of us feel."

A limited run of CDs in hand-printed packaging will feature two additional instrumental tracks – ‘Crab Marsh’ and ‘Ysma Kego (Canning Factory)’ - recorded with Cambridge found-sound artist Karsten Koehler (Second Harmonic Generation).


https://tribesofeurope.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/EuropeTribes
https://www.facebook.com/TribesOfEurope/
http://integrityrecords.co.uk/

You Don't Speak For Me

'It’s A Lovely Day Tomorrow’ is the new single by Tribes of Europe & Barbara Stretch, released by Integrity Records across all major digital platforms (29th November 2019) and on limited edition CD (6th December 2019).

Penned by Irving Berlin in 1938, it was in fact written as a war song in response to the so-called Munich Betrayal when conflict with Hitler was avoided by allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of western Czechoslovakia.

The second collaboration between Fenland-based Tribes of Europe and former feminist punk iconoclast Barbara Stretch features additional vocals by Max Taylor (MIKA, Lily Allen, Clor) and drums by Andy Gangadeen (Massive Attack, Chase & Status, Jeff Beck).

Loosely based on the version released by Vera Lynn to lift spirits during the Blitz, multi-instrumentalist Martin Elsey has put his own Tribes of Europe twist on this classic track which he feels is just as relevant today:

“What happened to the ‘lovely tomorrow’ Vera Lynn was singing about? For a while things got better – decent affordable housing, the NHS, effective vaccination campaigns, building stronger ties with Europe to help keep some peace. Then, after years of austerity, and now the Brexit fiasco, the lyric just seemed to become more and more poignant.”

Previous singles by Tribes of Europe, including recent Barbara Stretch collaboration ‘You Don’t Speak For Me’, have enjoyed support on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 3's Late Junction. 

Check out the video on Youtube https://youtu.be/ykw634H80kk .

https://tribesofeurope.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/EuropeTribes
https://www.facebook.com/TribesOfEurope/
http://integrityrecords.co.uk/

It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow

Bleed Me Dry, the brand new single by Danish artist MALMØ, is out on 25th October 2019 via Integrity Records. The track and accompanying video comprise Part II of the forthcoming EP, The Inevitable End, a prediction in 4 parts – each one representing a different way of the world collapsing if we don't change our behaviour. 

With a leftfield art-pop vibe built around mesmerising Nordic throat beats, percussive electronica from co-producer Christian Tronhjem provides a dark underscore for multi-layered vocals as Maria pleads: “You can’t lose someone that you really love”.

Working closely with Kasper Vindeløv (graphic designer) and Noemi Müller (videographer) on each of the 4 parts, MALMØ are keen to add to the wider discussion of the potentially irreparable damage mankind seems intent on inflicting upon its own planet.

As the inspiration behind Bleed Me Dry, vocalist/songwriter Maria offers a chilling thought:

"We eat poison, we have troubled sleep, we breathe polluted air - children are dying in their mother's womb. What if women become unable to carry healthy babies, so the next generation is never born?

We already worship external perfection; superficiality rules over substance. So when they perish inside us we stay quiet, ashamed that we couldn’t be the perfect female with perfect reproduction. But perfect on the outside hides chaos on the inside. Extinction looms. It won't be long now … The Inevitable End."

The Inevitable End EP follows 2018’s critically acclaimed debut album We Come From The Stars, with spot plays on BBC 6 Music, BBC Ulster, BBC London, Amazing Radio, Shoreditch Radio & numerous regional stations, Spotify playlisting from the likes of Crack In The Road, Alex Rainbird, Double J & TUNE, & Spotify editorial support across the Nordics and Asia.

www.malmo-music.com         
www.facebook.com/mariamalmoe            
www.twitter.com/malmo_music      
www.instagram.com/malmo_music_

Bleed Me Dry

MALMØ - Bleed Me Dry

A1M Records New Music Show - "A New Decade a New Dance" - the very best in new music from around the Globe, an eclectic mix of genres, Indie, Electronic, Post Punk, Hip Hop, Rap, Rock, Folk, Synth, Reggae, something for everyone-  EPISODE 49 - 16TH JANUARY 2020
Broadcast Thursdays from Manchester England on Indie Rocks Radio
Los Angeles 11 AM : New York 3 PM : UK 8PM 

Artist - Track
1. P.H.F - I.D.W (From The Anthology )
2. Narrow Margin - Kids Dont Dance
3. Abel Raises The Caine - Shock the One
4. The Vandalis - Break You
5. The Deadnotes - Hopeless Romantic 
6. Def Robot - Borris Johnsons Holiday
7. Vantage - Summer Heat (From Summer Vibin Delux edition HK)
8. 1I2c (John Whitaker)- "Oi" (Voices In My Head LP)
(Colin Spencer @colins cuts Electronic track of the week)
9. The Battery Farm - Crude Oil Water
10. Stepford Wives - I Cant Fight
11. Kryptik - Shattered Dreams 
12. Kamihamiha! - Rapvertisment 
13. Modern Family Unit - Idiot Box 
14. White Collar Rebel - All Fall Down 
15. Furrowed Brow- Dead Dead Still Digging
16. The Energy Whores - Slash - Burn 
17. Y2Mate.com - Bru_c_Life (Prod by Shapes)
(Black Triangle Records tune of the week)
18. Yuka Tree - Preacher 
19. Mono Deluxe - Kill 
20. Ida Wenøe_Varmeland (Single Version)..

A1M records New Music Show on Indie Rocks UK

New Music Show - Episode 49 - 16th Jan 2020

‘Overgrown’ is the new single by Aware, released on 20th March by Beat Filter/Integrity - 3 minutes of cosmic electronica featuring a '90s field recording of a Guatemalan Shaman talking about the Mayan pyramids in Chichicastenango.

 "An earworm of spiritual proportions ... FFO The Orb" (God Is In The TV Zine)

"Röyksopp meets Public Service Broadcasting" (Postcards From The Underground Radio Show)

The mystical ‘Overgrown’ was inspired by a visit to the Mayan pyramids of Guatemala, when many sites were still un-excavated and ‘overgrown’, having been reclaimed for centuries by deep forest. Mark explains:

“Our guide (whose voice features on the track) was a Shaman who told us that some of the hills we could see were actually hidden pyramids and that there remained many such undiscovered places. Using modern technology in 2018/19 it was discovered that this is in fact true and there are hundreds of unearthed Mayan sites in the region.”

Aware are Mark Lane and Tina Morrison.  Ibiza regulars since 2000, when cult label Hed Kandi was the first of many to add their tracks to chill-out and lounge compilations, Aware became a regular name alongside the likes of Röyksopp, A Man Called Adam, Bent and Zero 7 on the finest sunset albums, including releases on the iconic Café Del Mar label for whose 20th anniversary celebrations Aware played a full-band live set to a crowd 2000-strong.

The Birmingham-based duo prepare to celebrate the release of the 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition of their much-bootlegged debut album ‘Catch The Day’ which will be available digitally for the very first time on 22nd May 2020, followed by a new album in September.

www.facebook.com/AwareTheBand
instagram.com/Aware_TheBand
twitter.com/AwareTheBand
www.theawarelounge.com
www.beatfilter.co.uk

Overgrown (Radio Edit)

Aware - Overgrown (Radio Edit)

‘Let The Big Beat Save Your Southern Soul’ is the new single by Tribes of Europe & Barbara Stretch, out 27th November 2020 via Integrity Records on all digital platforms and limited edition 7” vinyl.

Using classic pop forms to tell stories about the present, the future and, in the case of ‘Big Beat …’, the past, Tribes of Europe here surge head-long musically and lyrically into the contemporary cultural legacy of Northern Soul.  With the classic vocal of Barbara Stretch, former frontwoman of Pye Records’ soul sensations The Vernons to the fore, the Ely Fallen Angels Choir led by Max Taylor (MIKA, Lily Allen, Clor) add layers of joyous harmonies.

Tribes of Europe, the alter ego of Fenland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Martin Elsey, are also joined by Andy Gangadeen (Massive Attack, Chase & Status, Jeff Beck) on drums, Ric Elsworth (Belle & Sebastian, Foals) on vibraphone & tambourine and Chris Taylor (Poison Girls) on co-production duties at Bluebarn Studios and the finest bass outside Motor City.

Martin describes the single as an overdue “thank you” to the rare soul scene and the people who made the music: 

“I was a young Pink Floyd fan when the Northern Soul scene hit East Anglia. Kids at school told me how their older brothers and sisters had been driving over to Peterborough, taking something called ‘Sulphate’ then staying up all night dancing. I was intrigued. Only several years later when I got along to a few all-nighters did I really start to understand …”

Previous singles by Tribes of Europe & Barbara Stretch have enjoyed national support on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 3's Late Junction and various regional & international shows.

 “An instantly catchy and uplifting retro-futuristic creation” - Get In Her Ears
“Unashamedly ‘60s but with a new twist” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

https://tribesofeurope.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/EuropeTribes
https://www.facebook.com/TribesOfEurope/
http://integrityrecords.co.uk/

Let The Big Beat Save Your Southern Soul

‘Come Alive’ (29th May) is the first single from ‘A Day Out of Life’, the new album of chilled electronica by Aware which drops on 3rd July via Beat Filter/Integrity Records.

This early summer feel-good track was inspired by walks along Ibiza’s Sunset Strip, catching snippets of nightlife from each passing bar. One of Aware’s more up-tempo tracks, cheerful marimba and piano layered on latin percussion form a base for a vocal hinting at the sense of euphoria promised by the long hot night ahead.

Ibiza regulars for many years, Aware sit alongside Royksopp, A Man Called Adam, Bent and Zero 7 on the finest sunset, chill-out & lounge albums, including releases on the iconic Café Del Mar label for whose 20th anniversary celebrations Aware played a full-band live set to a crowd 2000-strong.  

In addition to their own releases and composing for film & TV, Aware curated the very first album in the series of compilations for the now famous Hostal La Torre where they’ve enjoyed extensive stays and DJ’d sunset sets in the hills above San Antonio.

Aware are Mark Lane and Tina Morrison. 

www.facebook.com/AwareTheBand
instagram.com/Aware_TheBand
twitter.com/AwareTheBand
www.theawarelounge.com

Come Alive (Single Edit)

Aware - Come Alive (Single Edit)

Integrity Records was founded in 1994 in a small office in Bedford, England. After early releases from Cambridge indie-boys The Traceys, the label became notable for signing bands such as Miss Black America, Plutonik and Million Dead, whose vocalist Frank Turner went on to forge a successful solo career.

John Peel was a great supporter of the label and played the vast majority of their releases on his BBC Radio 1 show. In 2002, 5 Integrity releases (including B-sides) proudly appeared in Peel’s annual Festive Fifty.

In recent years, Integrity has also been the UK home for American artists such as ex-Babes In Toyland Kat Bjelland's Katastrophy Wife, Nashville-based duo Travis+Julie and former Low Anthem guitarist Daniel Lefkowitz's new band Futur Primitif, together with Australian all-girl scrunge-rock trio Valentiine and their Melbourne underground buddies Mannequin Death Squad; the most recent additions to the Integrity family being Danish dream-folkers MALMØ and Ida Wenøe, and Greenlander Simon Lynge.

The label's long-term ethos of discovering and supporting home-grown talent also remains strong, with album and EP releases from the likes of Pet Dog Storm, Miniature Dinosaurs, theLights, Horse Party, Silhouettes and Ghosts of Social Networks in their catalogue.