On June 20, The Knife are digitally releasing Shaken-Up Versions a mini album of classic tracks reworked especially for the band's recent North American leg of their Shaking The Habitual Tour.

To preview the new versions, the Shaken-Up version of Without You My Life Would Be Boring is being released today, accompanied by a video directed by Bitte Andersson.

Without You My Life Would Be Boring - Single bundle including remixes by @Rroxymore, J. Phlip and Kat Knix
Buy on iTunes http://smarturl.it/wymlwbb?IQid=youtube
Rabid Records Store http://on.theknife.net/TlwXbv
Shaken-Up Versions - Digital pre-order, out June 20
Pre-order on iTunes http://smarturl.it/shupver?IQid=youtube
Rabid Records Store http://on.theknife.net/1lUapbh

Shaken-Up Versions full track list

We Share Our Mother's Health (Shaken-Up Version)
Got 2 Let U (Shaken-Up Version)
Bird (Shaken-Up Version)
Without You My Life Would Be Boring (Shaken-Up Version)
Pass This On (Shaken-Up Version)
Ready To Lose (Shaken-Up Version)
Stay Out Here (Shaken-Up Version)
Silent Shout (Shaken-Up Version)

Without You My Life Would Be Boring (Rroxymore Remix)

Format: 2xLP / CD / DL
Label: PAN 
Cat.No: PAN 60
Release Date: October 20th 

PAN is excited to announce the release of Objekt’s debut album, 'Flatland'. Written between 2012 and 2014, 'Flatland' follows up a succession of dynamic single releases from his base in Berlin, including the recent split 12” with Dopplereffekt on Leisure System, "Cactus" b/w "Porcupine" on Hessle Audio and three 12” singles on his eponymous white label series. His recorded work so far has toyed with techno and electro conventions and has turned dancefloor tropes on their head, tickling the boundaries of what can or can’t constitute an effective club record.

Approaching the album format on its own terms, Objekt makes full use of the larger canvas to explore a framework of competing truths, multiple perspectives and conflicting accounts. 'Flatland' imagines a world in which any scene can be seen from every angle at once. Semblances and cross-references entwine the eleven original tracks and Objekt’s existing recordings, shaping a powerful and absorbing album that weaves between the alien and the hauntingly familiar.
This is an effervescent body of work, its sound design evoking vivid imagery and conveying the same unmistakeable sense of detail and movement for which Objekt has become known. On his first attempt, Objekt has constructed a mature and multilayered album with its own story to tell, from whichever angle you choose to approach it.

The album is mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy, pressed on a double 140g vinyl & CD. It features photography by Joe Dilworth and artwork by Bill Kouligas & Kathryn Politis.

Objekt 'Ratchet' (PAN 60)

zonedout - rain echoes (prod. phntmzn bR)

After Dark (Techno Logic Remix)

ABATE

*** First 100 copies comes with a 5 unreleased tracks bonus CD EP 'Acid Rane'. Available only at Mannequin Records direct orders. There will be no digital/bandcamp downloads available for it. ***

order: http://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-077-sean-pierce-sutro-12-ep-bonus-cd
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Sean Pierce debuts on Mannequin Records with an intense dark / techno modular synth 6 tracks EP. 

Currently operating out of Portland, Oregon, Sean is one half of ASSS, who put out two acclaimed singles on Mannequin Records parent label Haunted Air Records. 

One of the most fascinating elements of Sean's artistic principle is his absolute lack of propriety over his artistic work, which is a beautiful and radical approach. He encourages people to check out his set-up at shows to see what he's concocted. A performance is enjoyable in part because he's able to share information, for he believes a collective pool of idea sharing and advancements into how people think and what they're doing is "really important for the creative community.

Sean is interested in the rearranging of elements within a performance: taking sounds that he or someone else has made and sending them through his particular process. Specific categorization is not applicable to his sound projects, but he says there is something industrial about it, a metallic quality that is, of late, satisfying. The most appropriate articulation of his music might be: the percussive use of synthesizers.

Tracklist

A1. Immodest Force 
A2. Hair 
A3. Memoir 
B1. Motorcade 
B2. Sutro 
B3. Torn Screen 

Limited edition of 300 copies. 

Mastered by Rude 66, The Netherlands.

Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani.

Sean Pierce - Immodest Force

Peaking Lights - Birds Of Paradise (Maria Minerva's Ooh Aah Eh edit)

buy tape + digital nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com - also available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, Juno Download and more.

taken from Nina Buchanan 'Sunk' NM009

Debut release of hi-res, bare bones hardware techno from Melbourne-based synthesis explorer Nina Buchanan. Parallel to creating woozy extended synth pop jams in duo Video Ezy (Paradise Daily) as well as pushing dynamic textural noise forms into unique shapes in UTI (duo with Maya Kjellstrand of Bleach Boys, Leopard Leg), Buchanan has arrived at a precision nexus of brutalist techno and a truly uplifting style of ecstatic melodic synth riffage. Conjuring thick atmospheres and tonalities with almost blu-ray levels of vibrancy is perhaps in essence attributable to the simplicity of her chosen elements; 1 synth, 1 drum machine - the rest is purely incendiary sparks, resonating brightly in the spaces in between. For fans of Helena Hauff, Regis, Nitzer Ebb.

Sunk

Nina Buchanan 'Waiting Game'

DJ Cat @ TESTFM — 13/10/2019

Halflings, the electronic music group of Jeremy Nissan and Ryan Woodhall, was started on Long Island NY in 2005 as a direct response to their suburban upbringing. The duo’s background in DIY punk and their obsession with raw sound led to a distinctly compositional and live approach to harsh noise and power electronics. As teenagers, Halflings caught the ear of Ron Lessard, who released their first full Length LP Self Esteem on RRRecords. 

Over the years the band has pushed the structural element of their work to the forefront, fusing extreme sound with pop, prog, and electronic dance music. Halflings develop each album thematically, often writing lyrics from a first-person perspective as a means to gain understanding of their subjects as well as their own psyche. 

Little Orchard Boy was conceived as a concept album born from their shared formative experiences of sexuality & masculinity. It should be no surprise that the record digs into the band’s early encounters with New York night life. A distinct NYC dirge permeates the raw funk grooves spanning the album. The 3 tracks featured on Little Orchard Boy were initially composed for live performance before being put to tape in 2019. The EP marks an evolution in Halflings’ sound; While the band’s style of noise has always exuded musicality, Little Orchard Boy introduces a more streamlined usage of melody and song structure. The album’s complex drum programming and subtle studio techniques showcase Nissan’s background as a drummer and Woodhall’s background as a producer respectively, but the true power of the sound lies in the duo’s shared musical vocabulary that they’ve developed over the past two decades.

Primitive Languages/Psychic Liberation concludes it’s year span of amorphous output with Little Orchard Boy. Marking the final chapter in the output of the label formally known as Primitive Languages, which created the lane for the new undertaking of Psychic Liberation.

*Mastered by Josh Bonati
*Pressed at Palomino Records

Label: @psychicliberation
Artist: Halflings
Track: "Some Young Guy"
Title: Little Orchard Boy
Format: Vinyl + Digital Album
Release Date: February 14, 2020
Pre-order: https://primitivelanguages.bandcamp.com/album/little-orchard-boy

Premiere #81 Halflings - Some Young Guy [PSYCHIC LIBERATION]

https://lesyndicatdesscorpions.bandcamp.com/album/mimosa

A2 - Crier Dans La Mer

No demos

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