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Artist: ERAAS
Title: Initiation
Release date: 11.11.2013

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ERAAS - Initiation

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MNQ 045 SIXTH JUNE - PLEASURE 12'' EP

- 12’’ EP on black vinyl
- Innersleeve with photos and lyrics - Limited edition of 500 copies
- Limited silkscreen art edition for the first 50 copies, handnumbered and signed by the band members Laszlo and Lidija

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Serbian duo Sixth June - Laszlo Antal and Lidija Andonov - come with a fresh new 5 tracks 12'' EP "Pleasure". They play minimal, industrial synthesized music – digging into the colder corners of the synthetic Eighties for inspiration (Gary Numan, John Foxx, Depeche Mode).

Sixth June started their musical adventure back in 2007 and they are considered one of the purest talents in the minimal synth new scene. Rising from the obscure music scene in Belgrade, they re-based some years ago in the analog synthesizers paradise called Berlin.

Their debut album, ‘Everytime’, released back in March 2010 by the German label Genetic Music and the previous EP on Mannequin, "Back For A Day", was bringing the band to play to most of Europe. The duo represents perfectly the two sides of the same coin, in fact while Laszlo is producing obscure but expressive, powerful and danceable textures, on the back side the voice of Lidija is living the shape to a wobbling atmosphere you won’t escape from.

Lidija, apart singing in Sixth June, is a professional actress. Laszlo, composer of all the tracks, instead is an illustrator and music video director.

Strongly recommended to fans of Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Soft Metals, Xeno & Oaklander.

Sixth June - Pleasure

From the crypts of FU's old demos comes our cover of an even older, and way more powerful, song by The Names. 

To your Halloween.

Future Unlimited - Speak Your Language

ERAAS - Looking Glass / Pettibon

ERAAS  - The Dream

Order: http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-046-deathday-no-future-12-ep-legowelt-remix

MNQ 046 DEATHDAY - NO FUTURE 12'' EP
12’’ EP on black vinyl - Limited edition of 300 copies

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Deathday (formerly Deathday Party) is a Los Angeles based Experimental Post-punk band, formed in Santa Ana, California in 2008 by brothers Alex Guillén and Giovanni Guillén. Previous incarnations of the group can be traced back to Santa Ana's Koo's scene of the late 1990's. While the title-track is an unreleased one, instead "Dropped Into Obscurity" was already included in the Downwards compilation "Click Heels" alongside with Tropic Of Cancer, Silent Servant, The KVB. On the B side Mannequin asked to the synth-master Legowelt to remix After Dark". 

Seldom has the post-punk revival seemed as urgent as with Deathday, who match their guitar driven dirges with esoteric industrial soundscapes and tape manipulation. Their music is often as bleak as it is violent, with low end cacophony bludgeoning the listener into submission. Lyrically, Deathday often invoke the violent culture hidden beneath the media, as well as explore the crippling aftershocks of isolation and the mysticism of the occult.

Comparisons, for those who prefer them, could easily be made to the likes of Throbbing Gristle and Suicide’s uncompromising attitude and primal infrastructure, but the band has equal roots in forgotten post-punk favorites such as Nagamatzu, Venus In Furs, and Joy of Life, creating a powerful hybrid exploring the darkest and most hypnotic corners of the spectrum.

Known as Deathday Party until 2011, the band’s self-titled cassette, released in early 2012, exists as a cold snapshot of their formative material, while both “After Dark” and “Dropped Into Obscurity,” released on Mannequin’s The End of Civilaztion and Downward’s So Click Heels compilations respectively, offer a club-friendly alternative. While neither track compromises the band’s dark overtones, these tracks are ripe for the dance floor, having garnered heavy play in LA, New York, and Berlin especially. With a handful of releases on the horizon for 2013, including a split with Bestial Mouths, a vinyl reissue of their self-titled debut, and new material to follow, the future is looking uncharacteristically bright for Deathday.

In March of 2006 the brothers Guillén participated in Glenn Branca’s “Symphony #13 (Hallucination City)” for 100 guitars in Los Angeles.

Strongly recommended to fans of The Soft Moon, The KVB, Legowelt, Tropic Of Cancer, Silent Servant.

Deathday - No Future

Sixth June: Fade 
from the album "Everytime" 2010
No Emb Blanc  NEB002 
order the vinyl or cd at Genetic Music's homepage: 
www.geneticmusic.de 

Sixth June - Fade

Track 2 on Sleep Thieves EP Islands.
Recorded and mixed in Dublin by Sean Corcoran. Mastered at Masterlabs by Aiden Foley.
Copyright 2012 Sleep Thieves
Released May 18th, 2012

Oceans

Mannequin is proud to present new music from Austin,TX 
based full-analog-synth quartet S U R V I V E. Their first LP 
is a highly anticipated release and we're more than thrilled 
that the vinyl is finally out. 
 
"An analogue incarnation of Rustie taking a couple of notes 
from Eduard Artemiev’s poetic account of a supernova 
imploding upon itself in a storm of strobe lights which are but 
morse signals from God’s ship as it sails across the empty 
black sludge of space, annotations in a sheet music for a 
jam bound to send Astronomers all over the planet into a 
frenzy of air keyboard slapping and knob twiddling"-20 Jazz Funk Greats  
 
Adam Jones, Kyle Dixon, Mark Donica, Michael Stein form the analog synth purist band 
SURVIVE, considered as one of Austin's most important live electronic mainstays. With 
Austin's diverse underground synth scene starting to boil over (see: Neon Indian's world 
domination, Silent Diane's new single on Matador imprint True Panther, //TENSE// early 
EBM shocks and Sleep ∞ Over's debut on Hippos In Tanks), SURVIVE is creeping up, not 
far behind.  
 
LP Version: Limited edition of 300 copies, 140 gr clear vinyl 
 
DIGITAL Version: Distribution through The Orchard in the most important digital stores 
(iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Nokia, Spotify and many others). 
 
Tracklisting: 
 
A1 Deserted Skies 
A2 Floating Cube 
A3 To Light Alone I Bow 
A4 Hourglass 
A5 Omniverse 
B1 Black Mollies 
B2 Scalar Wave 
B3 Shunting Yard 
B4 Dirge 
 
 
http://www.survive.bandcamp.com 
 


S U R V I V E - Hourglass

15 minutes of music from Erol Alkan's impeccably curated <i>Another "Bugged In" Selection</i> disc, out September 4th on !K7. <i>Another Bugged Out Mix / Bugged In Selection</i> follows up on Alkan's highly regarded 2005 contribution to the Bugged Out series, keeping with the format of a club-leaning "Bugged Out" disc, and a more introspective "Bugged In" disc. The entirety of the first "Bugged In" mix from 2005 is streaming on <a href="http://soundcloud.com/erolalkan/erol-alkan-a-bugged-in-mix">Erol's Souncloud</a>

Tracks:
Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo)
Margot - "Voci Giaga"
Chromatics - "A Matter Of Time"

Pre-order via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Another-Bugged-Out-Mix-Selection/dp/B008E708BW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1344979684&sr=8-2&keywords=erol+alkan+bugged+in">Amazon</a> (CD), <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/erol-alkan-another-bugged/id550239295">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://boomkat.com/downloads/563733-erol-alkan-erol-alkan-another-bugged-out-mix">Boomkat</a>, <a href="http://www.recordstore.co.uk/search.html?term=erol+alkan+bugged">Recordstore</a>

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Erol Alkan - Another "Bugged In" Selection [preview]

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-025-l-a-s-s-crime-disphoria-1985-1989-lp

L.A.S.’s Crime (the initials stand for “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”, a famous short novel by Oscar Wilde) is an electronic band from Siena (in the medieval tuscan, center of Italy) founded in 1984 by Sandro Marchetti (vocals, synthesizer, programming) and Maria Elena Brogi (vocals, synthesizers).

With a music sometimes soft, sometimes melancholic, but always fully electronic the duo from 85 to 89 L.A.S.'s Crime produced 5 demo tapes (Five Lies '85, Anomaly '87, Inanitas '87, Electa '88, Korobi '89) and a studio album (Abyss 43) registered at Sound City studio of Florence, but remained unreleased for label close.

During the five years of activity (85-89) the band had various additional members for the live concerts, but the original nucleous always have represented the true creative engine with more than 60 songs in a few years...Some of this songs have survived for 25 years exclusively for users' choice, spreading through the web.

Today, thank to the italian label "Mannequin", 13 selected songs can have finally a new life on vinyl, giving to the listener a small piece of 80's remained intact...

LP LIMITED EDITION 300 COPIES 


L.A.S.'s Crime - B7 - Frenesya

I recorded this track one afternoon last April (2012)

sometimes the music comes fast. 

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A Trip to the Moon

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-028-uv-p-p-no-songs-tomorrow-lp

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-028-uv-p-p-no-songs-tomorrow-cd

Mannequin is honoured to offer you one of the best UK New Wave reissue from the 80's.

UV PØP were an early 80’s post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. An excerpt from the album’s liner notes penned by JP Shea helps explain the political climate during which this album was recorded: “In the 1980s there was nothing to smile about; nothing to smile for. The person whom some called wrongly the iron lady brought vengeful spiteful selfishness and a narrow-minded out- look into all our lives. Instead of love and respect there was: a three-day week, Miners strike, and The Falklands War. The sound of UV PØP has always been a sophisticated blend of sadness; with morose North Country sense and a humorous confrontational sensibility. So, you might ask why ‘No Songs Tomorrow’? There is the answer. UV PØP and John White were as certain as anybody there was a strong possibility there might not be anything left with which to make a tomorrow….The fight back, the resistance came in the miners’ strike, on the streets of north Ireland and in the sovereignty of popular culture. And, there was plenty of that in Yorkshire and particularly in the southernmost parts of that region. Working class poets had not all died with the Victorians. The Rough Trade charts for one week in 1982 tell a very interesting story. Alongside acts of the caliber of Sisters of Mercy, Robert Wyatt, Sex Gang Children and Virgin Prunes are UV PØP, their place well-earned.”

We are honored to offer this reissue of their classic 1981 album and we look forward to bringing the band over to play some key shows in NY, LA, and Austin around this release.

Track listing: 
01 No Songs Tomorrow 
02 Portrait (Extended) 
03 Some Win This 
04 See You 
05 I.C. 
0 Psalm 
07 Sleep Don’t Talk 
08 Commitment 
09 Arcade Fun 
10 Hafunkiddies 
11 Four Minute Warning

* For fans of Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, Public Image Ltd. No Songs Tomorrow was pressed originally pressed in a very small edition and has since been considered a very rare, highly sought after early 80’s post-punk classic

U.V. PØP - 03 Some Win This

MNQ 034 VARIOUS - THE END OF CIVILIZATION LP

Mannequin has the dual and parallel aim to unearth hidden or unpublished gems, running along a road that starts from the period of reference for this kind of music (late 70s – mid 80s) and comes to nowdays, with a vision deeply influence by Factory Records / 4AD labels. 

Catching the same spirit of such great labels, we asked to the italian synth wave princess Mushy to create a compilation starting from a tabula rasa. The mission was hard. Following her tastes and heart, she had to select a dozen of new bands from all over the world with unreleased and unique for this project tracks, picking up the title and realizing the graphic design and artwork. The full process of "The End Of Civilization" took almost 1 year but the result was touching us ￼deep into our soul. 

Mushy began her career crafting noise bursts and aggressive oblique instrumentals before, in her newest form, blooming into a beautiful, epic and heart-heavy icy synth sound, having both "Faded Heart" (2011) and "Breathless" (2012) as album of the week at Rough Trade. "The End Of Civilization" perfectly represents her double sided synth-wave / kraut-psychedelic soul. Every track she selected for us is an absolute highlight, moving from the analog minimal / cold wave sounds of Police Des Moeurs, ASSS, The Circa Tapes, TEEEL and Rosemary to the tempestuous post punk and psychedelia of Deathday, The Murder Act, Phosphor and The Strange Forces, ending with spectral cold folk of Tablets and The Long Wives. 

- Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl 
- Digital distribution by The Orchard 
- Exclusive unreleased tracks 
- Artist Selection and graphic design by Mushy
credits


Deathday - After Dark

MNQ 034 VARIOUS - THE END OF CIVILIZATION LP

Mannequin has the dual and parallel aim to unearth hidden or unpublished gems, running along a road that starts from the period of reference for this kind of music (late 70s – mid 80s) and comes to nowdays, with a vision deeply influence by Factory Records / 4AD labels.

Catching the same spirit of such great labels, we asked to the italian synth wave princess Mushy to create a compilation starting from a tabula rasa. The mission was hard. Following her tastes and heart, she had to select a dozen of new bands from all over the world with unreleased and unique for this project tracks, picking up the title and realizing the graphic design and artwork. The full process of "The End Of Civilization" took almost 1 year but the result was touching us ￼deep into our soul.

Mushy began her career crafting noise bursts and aggressive oblique instrumentals before, in her newest form, blooming into a beautiful, epic and heart-heavy icy synth sound, having both "Faded Heart" (2011) and "Breathless" (2012) as album of the week at Rough Trade. "The End Of Civilization" perfectly represents her double sided synth-wave / kraut-psychedelic soul. Every track she selected for us is an absolute highlight, moving from the analog minimal / cold wave sounds of Police Des Moeurs, ASSS, The Circa Tapes, TEEEL and Rosemary to the tempestuous post punk and psychedelia of Deathday, The Murder Act, Phosphor and The Strange Forces, ending with spectral cold folk of Tablets and The Long Wives.

- Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl 
- Digital distribution by The Orchard 
- Exclusive unreleased tracks 
- Artist Selection and graphic design by Mushy
credits

Phosphor - Skull

MNQ 032 Ancien Régime - The Position LP out 11th February 2013 on Mannequin Records

Ancien Régime - Negative

IDEAL 003/NOT 025 is a series of existential nightmares, released in alliance with Not Applicable and strictly limited to 100 tapes and available through all major digital channels. Available for pre-order now from: http://newideals.bigcartel.com/product/the-odes-live-c45-lp

O! Pity Us!

MNQ 038 LIGHT HOUSE - IN THEIR IMAGE 12'' EP

 
Mannequin Records is simply elated to present the debut 12'' EP from Light House. 

Light House have been kicking around Portland for two years. The band contains Chris Relyea, an ex member from The Rapture, Dawn Sharp and Brooks Blackhawk from Atriarch. Excellent dark wave with spacious mixes, minimal synths, reverb drenched guitars and eerie malevolent vocals that either pierces your heart or your spinal cord.

Originally released in United States by Freee record label in 2012 and recorded on pure analog tape, ‘In Their Image’ EP illuminates the romantic and elemental nature of Light House's dreamlike sound, a moody, theatrical dirge which brings to mind classic 4AD acts such as Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil. 

To celebrate this relaunch Light House will be touring America and Europe, hitting the West Coast in mid June to coincide with Warm Leatherette in San Francisco, then onto New York and making their way along the East Coast. 

Light House is music that lulls the Etheric body awake, in a hypotetical world where Tropic Of Cancer meets Soft Metals. 

- 12’’ EP on black vinyl 
- Limited edition of 300 copies 
- Artwork by Giandomenico Carpentieri 

Strongly recommended to fans of Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, 4AD, Factory Records, Minimal Wave. 

Tracks: 
In Their Image 
Watchword 
The Walls Want Communion 
Seven Seas You Sent

BUY 12'' EP OR DIGITAL

Light House - Walls Want Communion

Part of the upcoming VOID VISION / VICE DEVICE split 12".  More information available at http://www.accidentprone.com

Pre-order:  http://www.accidentprone.com/vicedevice/

My wave

M.Zed