For their upcoming 3rd album “THE CURX“ Austria’s leading noise-pop slackers KILLED BY 9V BATTERIES most surprisingly teamed up with Vienna techno pioneer and producer of the latest Hercules And Love Affaire record Patrick Pulsinger to tweak and refine their very own “neuhass”-postnothing-sound. Already the pre-release single “WORST OF TOTAL ANARCHY“ caught international media attention by the likes of NPR, LA’s Filtermagazine, German INTRO magazine and BBC’s Steve Lamacq strongly suggesting to watch out for this band for the months to come. Enriched by Patrick Pulsinger’s sheer endless collection of synths and sounds KILLED BY 9V BATTERIES still feed all those nerds hungry for the old days of Subpop and AmRep outfits, or those just recently getting their fix by bands like Male Bonding, No Age and Japandroids. 

Killed By 9V Batteries - Track To The Crux

LUISE POP is rock’n'roll rubbing up against rigid electronics in a cascading melody of fireworks, surf noir banging against synth sounds in brilliant Technicolor as if The Drums, Le Tigre, Patti Smith and New Order would meet for a moonlight serenade at the Carnival of Souls. But beyond coquettish post-punk coolness we hear an echo of the Golden Age, in which a pop song could lift the world off its hinges in two and a half minutes. An intensity of the unfinished, more James Dean than Grace Kelley, more trailer park than glamour, a slackerish elegance of the ephemeral, paying hommage to the Dada Baroness: ‘’we love you like hell.’’ How do we know that heaven and hell are the same place? The difference lies in the heart of the beholder.
LUISE POP just signed two months ago at SILUH RECORDS now preparing the release of their 2nd album due for early 2012. The first single teaser“BLACK CATS“ is available in September 2011.

Luise Pop - Black Cat

From the Austrian Alps to the United Kingdom, from Japan to Germany to Iceland and back through Europe, Clues is the debut album of self-styled noisepop cosmopolitan Bensh... and the sum of a six year expedition to some of the most ecclectic places in pop. After working with Dan Swift (Snow Patrol, Art Brut) and Gordon Raphael (The Strokes), the final mix of Clues was completed with Biggi Birgisson (Sigur Rós). The single How Come Nao already received airplay in Austria and Germany; the album is scheduled to be released in Germany, the UK and Sweden on October 3, 2011. (http://www.benshmusic.com)

Bensh - How Come Nao

Gary - Leave Me

diver´s music is affective, simple and honest. Emotions are realized powerfully, still quiet, with acoustic instruments and through a variety of different voices. The essence of their music is the contradiction between harmony and their lyrics dealing with insecurity and disorientation. Their songs are swirling around the difficulty to fulfill other people’s expectations,still trying to be true to oneself and about the discrepancy between overwhelming emotions and rational realizations.
diver are: Olaf Schuberth, Stephan Ebert, Wolfgang Bruckner (https://www.facebook.com/divermusic)


Diver - The Theory

Bernhard Eder´s music hums in a tone both modern and old, swaying in slow-motion between the perimeters of folk and indie and leaving the listener with a slight taste of Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, and José Gonzales. Though his influences are apparent, Bernhard Eder has a voice all his own and uses those influences not as templets to shape himself with, but as fuel to propel his music in new and exciting directions.
Following the EP "The Unexpected" and the album "Tales From The East Side", his new release – also a vinyl premiere – is called "To disappear doesn't mean to run away".
(www.bernhardeder.net)

Bernhard Eder - Sad Ballad Man

Bilderbuch - Bitte, Herr Maertyrer

Tanz Baby! - Liebe Ist Ein Hospital

Ogris Debris are not really DJs but no worries their taste is tremendous! Listen to their "My Definition Mix" (also available as a free download). A musical journey with some favourites, influences and own works!

tracklist:

ogris debris - miezekatze
digger - schnurren
jeff samuel - those were the days
four tet - circling
stimming - fruits of life
stimming - funkworm
dave aju - hide and go seek
dop - blanche neige
dj koze - i want to sleep
james holden - idiot clapsolo
ricardo villalobos - enfants
ben klock - init two
ogris debris - salty womb
dave aju - be like the sun
andre lodemann - where are you now
the clonious feat. zanshin - leaving belief
james holden - lump
dorian concept - harpoonyverse

Ogris Debris - In The Mix

Trouble Over Tokyo - Void

„Wait – you got here right in time“. Man sitzt in einem Studio in Wien-Hernals und hört sich das Album an. Die riesige Bandmaschine surrt, man merkt, dass es hier gar nicht mehr so kalt ist wie vor ein paar Monaten, als sich "Transformers", die zweite Platte von M185 noch im Anfangsstadium befand. Viel wurde umgekrempelt, verworfen, verändert im Laufe der Entstehungsgeschichte dieses Albums: ein Instrumental-Duo hat den Minimalismus beiseite gelegt und die Band um drei Köpfe erweitert - M185 haben sich als Rockband wiedergefunden, der man mit losen Vergleichen zu Sonic Youth, dem Sound der frühen 90er oder der Noise-Bands von heute nicht ganz Unrecht tun würde. "Transformers" also, sieben Songs, die musikalisches Neuland sowie Verwandlung gleichzeitig beschreiben, ein Songzyklus, der sich damit auseinandersetzt, was nach der Dekonstruktion kommen soll. Oder besser gesagt, "Transformers" ist ein Album, das das „Hier und Jetzt“ thematisiert, das sich von den Metaebenen verabschiedet, das einfach nur "straightforward" ist. Das „Hier und Jetzt“ ist insofern auch wichtig für M185, weil ihr Wien sich gerade zu einem wichtigen Punkt für Gitarrenmusik mausert.
Ein dreiviertel Jahr wurde an "Transformers" mit Sebastian Meyer in den Wurlitzerstudios gearbeitet und von ihm schließlich auch auf Band gemischt. Die Bänder wurden dann nach München zu Michael Heilrath (Couch, Tied and Tickled Trio, Notwist) gebracht, der sie gemastert hat. Die international anerkannte, österreichische Modedesignerin Ute Ploier wurde engagiert um ein Cover für das Vinylalbum zu entwerfen, das in streng limitierter Auflage erscheinen wird und so die zwei Geschwister Musik und Design erneut vereint.
Außerdem ist "Transformers" das erste Album, das auf dem neu gegründeten Label Speed of Light erscheint, ein loses Kollektiv, das sich auf die Verbreitung von Independent-Künstlern in Österreich spezialisiert. Nach knapp vierzig Minuten ist das Album durchgehört, die Bandmaschine rattert nicht mehr, und während man sich noch im leichten Rausch befindet, ist man sich sicher: "Transformers" steht für Kollektivität, Veränderung und dem Wissen, dass immer noch etwas passieren kann.
M185 sind Heinz Wolf, Wolfram Leitner, Joerg Skischally, Roland Reiter und Alexander Diesenreiter.

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