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Impurities (Tannhauser Gate Remix)

Still Cold

Remix we did for bobby and friends. Didnt want to change the core track to much since I love the original. 

//Tense// - Disconnect Myself (XVI DAYS Remix)

Lebanon Hanover - Midnight Creature

Artist: DIKTATUR
Diktatur is César Canali & Lana Popsimonova
Song:  Things That They Did´t Teach us.
Album: Not So Cold Vol.2 Release Date 01July2015
www.tacuararecords.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/diediktatur

Diktatur - Things That They Didn't Teach Us ( C.Canali & Popsimonova )

Qual is Lebanon Hanover’s bassist and vocalist William Maybelline.  
With his solo project he aims to examine his personal view on music, Maybelline moved from the pop touch of well-known and respected main band of his to cruise the slums of darker and even more extreme electronics.  To quote William's own words, Qual is about vile visions, despaired in a frowning black tower of pain. Concealed yearns of a desolate heart, trying to scratch that unscratchable rotting itch from within. Centuries of sorrow drenched in gloomy electronics that palpitate like human passions. A call for help.  
Debut album Sable is available on LP/CD/Digital. 

http://www.avantrecords.com/

QUAL - Flay

Qual is Lebanon Hanover’s bassist and vocalist William Maybelline.
With his solo project he aims to examine his personal view on music, Maybelline moved from the pop touch of well-known and respected main band of his to cruise the slums of darker and even more extreme electronics. 
To quote William's own words, Qual is about vile visions, despaired in a frowning black tower of pain. Concealed yearns of a desolate heart, trying to scratch that unscratchable rotting itch from within. Centuries of sorrow drenched in gloomy electronics that palpitate like human passions. A call for help.

Elegant 4-side Digipak limited to 300

07. Luxurious Bleedings

WHITE RING - IXC999  (SINISTRO RMX)

Cititrax is proud to present a four song debut solo EP by The Hacker‘s new project called Amato. Influenced by early EBM, German techno and new wave, Michel Amato aka The Hacker began producing tracks under his new moniker Amato in 2014. The first one to be released, called Physique, came out in 2015 on the Cititrax Tracks Volume One EP and was a dancefloor success. On this forthcoming EP, entitled “Le Desordre et La Nuit”, Amato integrates his love of the new wave to form four ebm tinged techno funk hits. Very dancefloor friendly, these tracks take pop elements reminiscent of Belgian body music and bring them to the present day. Amato shines as a producer here, as he has so many times before. It’s an absolute honor for us to release this debut project. Artwork is sourced from photographs taken in NYC in the 1980s with layout by Veronica Vasicka. The release is limited to 999 copies pressed on 160 gram silver vinyl, and accompanied by jackets printed on matte heavyweight cardstock. Release date: July 13, 2016.

B2 - The Warehouse

So It Seems

"Parálisis en mi cuerpo" 

Siento parálisis en todo mi cuerpo, no sé que hacer 
Necesito una dosis de dolor 
Mi consumo alimenta mi silencio, no sé que hacer 
Por momentos me desaparezco, 
siento que me desvanezco 

En el olvido permanezco, 
sigo sintiendo ese temor

Siento Paralisis

"Desequilibrio"

En tus ojos hay dolor, no recuerdas que pasó 
En tu boca hay cenizas que evocan compasión 
Sé que ocultas un secreto, haces creer que nada sucedió 
Quieres olvidar el pasado, dejar a un lado todo, sin razón! 

Sin embargo siento un desequilibrio 
Olvidando efectos del futuro de los dos 

El vacío me destruye, no lo puedo comprender, 
si el camino redescubre el secreto tu de ser 

Aprovecho cada momento, todo el tiempo estoy sintiendo 
evidentes sensaciones alrededor de nuestro universo 
En mis manos siento el fuego al acariciar tu cuerpo 
Trato de hacerte olvidar todo lo que estuvo mal 

Sin embargo siento un desequilibrio 
Olvidando efectos del futuro de los dos 

El vacío me destruye, no lo puedo comprender, 
si el camino redescubre el secreto tu ser

Desequilibrio

Morceau crée pour l'intro du show de RENDEZ VOUS au Centre Pompidou.
Recorded and mixed by RENDEZ VOUS , Mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta.

STRAIGHT ON THE LINE

1 Without Love - https://youtu.be/it6esju-_X0
2 Forgiveness - https://youtu.be/bHWNsbqMnkg
3 Natural Selection - https://youtu.be/H42Jo5kC7hs
4 White Lies - https://youtu.be/J6oGDISl4uE
5 Blood Oath - https://youtu.be/gJiK40pY9Nc
6 The Altar - https://youtu.be/7BFYdKoO9PE

STREAM the Alice Glass EP 
Spotify - http://found.ee/AG_EPSpotify-e
Apple Music - http://found.ee/AG_EPApple-e

DOWNLOAD the Alice Glass EP
iTunes - http://found.ee/AG_EPiTunes-e
Amazon - http://found.ee/AG_EPAmazon-e

FOLLOW Alice 
Website - http://www.alice-glass.com 
Facebook - http://found.ee/AG_fb
Twitter - http://found.ee/AG_tw
Instagram - http://found.ee/AG_ig

Alice on Tour - http://www.alice-glass.com/tour.html

Alice Glass EP

Blood Oath

Cat-No: F//008
Kontravoid - Undone

One can imagine, listening to Kontravoid’s latest release, an alternate reality in which the cold-war played out to the background of drum machines and spectrographs, sinister audio technology manipulating a hidden frequency of the world’s unfoldings. Cameron Findlay returns to his masked alias for the first Kontravoid release since his debut self-titled album, years in the studio reap their rewards as the production on ‘Undone’ effortlessly cuts its way through hypnotic dance floor compositions.

‘Hold Nothing’ implements perfect song structure, with precise breaks, ferocious snare builds and simple repeated vocal phrases enveloping the main groove in symbiosis. A playful criminality sets the mood of the record here, one for pouted lips and furrowed brows on bunker, basement dance-floors.

‘The Last Thing’ is a straight forward dance floor stomper, arpeggiated synths batter the listener like blunt instruments, locking the body in a rhythmic cell, dissonant, steam whistle drones contrast with gurgling, radio transmission synths to shift the balance of the parts from uplifting wooze to downcast dance automaton.

‘Not Your Dream’ opens with a moment of primitive, science-lab techno, echo laden vocal jabs open the door to new-beat territory while the synth lines swing between pure rhythm and hypnogogic, alley-chase sound track, clocking in at seven and a half minutes, this is another track destined for synth-wave, dance floor greatness.

‘Undone’, the self-titled track from the release focuses on softer-synths and pads, still motivated by driving drums and percussion, the vision of a lone, masked figure emerges, cutting a path through mud and snow, factories half submerged in some destroyed, industrial miasma. Muttered vocals set a strict grounding to the piece, keeping the track from escaping into sentimentality, layers of cold synth melodies artfully weave between percussive crescendos as radio static crackles distantly.

As a natural companion to the record Schwefelgelb close with a remix of ‘Hold Nothing’, where the percussion is stripped back to its bare necessities and the synth parts are sliced down into even more pointed arpeggiations.

With his concrete approach to song writing and bear-trap grasp of dance floor composition, Kontravoid cements his reputation as one of the stand out voices in the current new-beat, synth wave scene.

Tracklist:
A1 - Hold Nothing
A2 - The Last Thing
B1 - Not Your Dream
B2 - Undone
B3 - Hold Nothing (Schwefelgelb Remix)

B3 Kontravoid - Hold Nothing (Schwefelgelb Remix)

The title 'Myth Machine' demonstrates all the richness of meanings that gives us words connected by genitive case: if you want, read it 'The Mythical Machine', or "The Machine Creating Myths".

Ambiguity here plays into our hands. This epic compilation by NEN Records is dedicated to myths as a ways of giving meaning to the suffocating meaningless reality. It is devoted to narratives, coherent or broken, that each of contributors create by their own lives. Perhaps, therefore, the release turned out to be so poly-stylistic, and there is nothing to be surprised at.

And of course, behind all these narratives, lurks the shadow of a huge and hardly perceived Machine, which severely cuts off the plot lines and - arbitrarily, it would seem, draws new ones.

Note: All tracks on the compilation are created on electronic machines of varying complexity, each of which, for sure, has a hidden desire to tell its own machine myth (and you can even distinguish it).

Compiled by Nick Larkin & Ivan Napreenko
Artwork by Evgeniya Belyakova & Ivan Napreenko
Design and layout by Murad Ibatoullin
Mastered by ArSch aka Myrrman

Regulaar - Disconnected

CRUMBLING (DEMO 5-22-12)

Crystal Castles - Magic Spells

Artist: Automelodi
Song: Angoisses d'Orléac
Album: Mirages au futur verre-brisé
Label: Holodeck

Xavier Paradis: vocals, electronics, percussion
Dillon Steele: guitar

Bandcamp: https://automelodi.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/automelodi
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GqUVPQmaNutfxWfakfEvx
Facebook: @automelodimusic
Instagram: @automelodi
Label Website: https://holodeckrecords.com/
Label Bandcamp: https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/
Label Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/holodeck-records
Label Facebook: @holodeckrecords
Label Instagram: @holodeckrecords
Label Twitter: @holodeckrecords

LYRICS:
Hors d’élan, où j’en suis
Notre-Dame des Soucis
Fantôme

Hors du temps bouge ainsi
Notre drame d’insomnie
Lent flot

Où même les bouées s’abîment

Tu rêves dans l’autre pièce
Et je ne veille qu’en vain sur toi
J’écris d’une autre angoisse
Où je ne peux hélas plus rien pour toi

Et je voudrais te dire
Qu’aucun de nous ne souffrira
Je voudrais le dire en vain
Mais je ne suis pas encore mort pour toi

Antichambre où rancit
Notre dérive, tu me dis
Fantôme

Quand les bouées coulent au fond du fjord
Beau langui
Notre drakkar d’insomnie entonne

Au large un largo pour noyés

Les questions de ces nuits
Où tu glanes les peurs d’occis
Embaument

Comment marchander la mort en
Or du temps d’agonie
Dont tu aimes charger ta vie d’avance?

Mais les bouées s’oublient au fond du fjord 

(Et au fond...
En somme je ne veille qu’en vain sur toi)

Brilliantly combining the art of sound design with unforgettable songwriting, Montréal-based synth-pop duo Automelodi is back with their third full-length Mirages au futur verre-brisé out May 3, 2019. As an established and respected staple of the international community of underground hardware enthusiasts, Automelodi is led by the inspiring studio engineering and magnetic persona of singer/producer Xavier Paradis. Showcasing his master ability to design infectious rhythms, rich bass lines, and brooding hooks, Automelodi expertly crafts a listlessly romantic aesthetic embodied by Paradis’ dynamic voice and eloquent French lyrics. Automelodi’s focus on color and arrangement converges taste and technique, making Mirages au futur verre-brisé deeply engaging for both party-goers and analog synth connoisseurs alike.

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