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OUT NOW, ON LOLIPOP RECORDS!!!
Corners / Morning Smoke (SPLIT 7")
the long awaited 7" split from 2 of our favorite bands!!! Corners from Los Angeles & Morning Smoke from the UK!!! all copies pressed on purple wax / co-release with UK's Dead Fun Records!!!
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"NO CONFUSION"
You wanna have a voice?  You better make a choice.
It's time you understand that this ain't nobody's end.
Tear the dividers down and open up the hand.
You try to ascertain?
I'll make it white and black so there's no confusion.

You wanna make a plea?  Then get up off you knees.
You want to make it clean?  I'll cover it with gasoline.
I've never felt that way no matter what they say.
You want infinity?  Don't complain to me.
I'll pull the stinger out and forget the bee.
Now I have to shout to get it underneath so there's no confusion.

"No Confusion" was written by Tracy Bryant & Robert Cifuentes
Lyrics by Tracy Bryant
Tracy Bryant - Vocals, Guitars & Drums
Robert Cifuentes - Bass, Synth

Recorded by Robert Cifuentes at Lolipop Records in Echo Park, CA

Cover photos by Matt Grote

CORNERS is TRACY BRYANT, ROBERT CIFUENTES, RICK MABERY & JEFFERTITTI
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CORNERS - "No Confusion"

PRE-ORDER: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/dark-entries/joe-crow-compulsion-ep/

Joe Crow is a post-punk musician from Birmingham, England. He was a member of legendary Brum band The Prefects, & hung on long enough after the name-change to appear on a couple of early Nightingales singles. In 1981 Joe began his solo career and recorded a 2-song demo “Compulsion” and “Absent Friends”. Joe sent copies of the finished recordings to Cherry Red, who thanks to Lawrence of Felt, ended up releasing the single in 1982. An edited version of the single would later appear on the compilation “Pillows & Prayers” that collected songs which originated as 45s or EPs. Martin Gore of Depeche Mode subsequently covered “Compulsion” on his ‘Counterfeit' EP in 1989 forever solidifying its status in the cannon of UK melancholic synth pop . 

“Compulsion” and “Absent Friends” were originally intended as a double A-side. Composed, performed and recorded by Joe on an 8-track reel-to-reel at Sinewave Studio, Moseley Village in February 1981 and were engineered by Al McKerchar. Joe plays everything: guitar, bass, Boss Dr. Rhythm, Bee Gees Rhythm Machine, Wasp synthesizer, bongos stuffed with towels and an old tin tray for a snare drum. Everything was borrowed. “Compulsion” is an imaginary suicide note, a meditation on loss and grief. Its dark twin “Absent Friends” is an anti-song: no verses, choruses or middle-eight, some willfully odd chord progressions and plaintive yet melodic keyboard motif.  Both songs are a spectral hybrid of alternating childlike and cynical vocals over lo-tech basement electronics with profound lyrics. This expanded 12” reissue adds 3 unreleased bonus tracks on the B-side taken from a mini-album of nine songs, recorded at the same time as “Compulsion”. Originally titled “Ken Blagdon Sings” with music by Joe Crow and lyrics by photographer Brendan Jackson, as a birthday present to the latter's girlfriend, Jacqui Neave. The whole session lasted one day and the line up was Brendan Jackson (alias Ken Blagdon; vocals/percussion), Joe Crow (vocals/bass/guitar/Boss Dr. Rhythm/Wasp synthesizer), Mark Rowson (drums), Helen Rowson (alto saxophone), Eamonn Duffy (Nightingales bassist; squawks) and Legs Akimbo (technicals). 

All songs have been remastered from the original master tapes for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is an exact replica of the 1982 edition enlarged for the 12” format, featuring front and back photos of Joe from a dawn beach shoot at Hayling Island, Hampshire, England. Each copy includes a two-sided newsprint insert with lyrics, never-before-seen photos and liner notes by Joe Crow and Robert Lloyd of the Nightingales. These songs are perfect new wave / post-punk tracks, full of attitude and dark romanticism. 

Compulsion

"90 Degrees" appears on Ladytron's album, Gravity The Seducer, in stores now on Nettwerk Records. 

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Ladytron - 90 Degrees - Gravity the Seducer

i recorded this sometime in the fall of 2006 using garageband virtual amps.  oh, and a single Samson R11 dynamic mic captured the entire drum set, which consisted of hi hats, a crash-ride cymbal, kick and snare.


Common People (Pulp Cover inspired by Ben Folds' arrangement for William Shatner)

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five point one presents a hand-picked selection of some of reeder’s remixes remastered and re-mixed in crystal clear dolby digital 5.1 surround sound and in traditional 2.0 stereo sound. present is his work for legendary heavyweights such as the pet shop boys and sam taylor-wood, john foxx, anne clark, die toten hosen or former new order as bad lieutenant, vanessa daou or blank&jones, plus an exclusive remix he made for depeche mode. while reeder also puts his particular retro synth-pop spin on tracks from up-and-coming artists such as echoes, electrobelle, fidelity kastrow, may68 or noblesse oblige.

five point one is a deluxe collection of some of the best of reeder’s recent work, a deluxe DVD and 2CD package, gloriously remastered in dolby 5.1 surround sound, creating a listening experience which enhances the depth and radiance of reeder's original stereo mixes, all of which are also included on two CDs for a traditional 2.0 stereo sound system too.

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