coldwave

Indie

Great

- synth wave - synth pop - minimal -

again a few soundcloud goodies from the past weeks and months

Image by Brett Walker [2010]

- synth wave 5 -

RockCurrent  Trop Tacks Stream

Dark sounds

Minimal Wave / Coldwave

Winter

Selections 028: Synth

Das Kabinette -The Cabinet

Vitreum

http://shop.daisrecords.com/collections/vinyl/products/martial-canterel-gyors-lassu-lp

Martial Canterel "And I Thought"

7" VINYL LIMITED TO 35 COPIES

A - Damages
B - The Storm

The record comes in a special edition of 35 transparent vinyls with a laser cut and screen printed ultra black cover (Fedrigoni 480 gr.). 

After her previous noteworthy projects Phosphor and Minuit Machine, Hélène de Thoury offers, through her first solo project, a cold and synthetic music mixing nagging cold wave and striking electronics. 
« Her Fall And Rise » depicts these moments in life when you swing between dark melancholia and bright hope. The EP spreads all its complexity through 7 tracks and a limited edition vinyl, offered as a real art object with several interpretations. 

'The Storm' music video directed by Jeremy Carne & Nikolas Kasinos (http://theouroboros.co.uk). 

• http://vimeo.com/111617103 • 

Inspired by the dark tones of 'The Storm', directors transcribe a dystopian world parallel to our own, where strange characters appear overnight and own the streets. The characters seem to be observed by someone, they look him and seem to recognize him, but they stay apathetic and intrigued by his presence. 
The director duo 'Ouroboros' plays on the confusion of meaning and disorientation that occurs at night, by suggesting the appearance of beings in unreal appearance. In the form of a dark poetry, they plunge us into a fantasy world populated by demons who haunt us at night, those who come from the past and particularly from our childhood, those who make us believe that we are not alone at night.

Hante.﻿ 
http://www.facebook.com/hanteband 
http://soundcloud.com/hante-band 

All songs written, performed, produced, and recorded by Hélène de Thoury 

All songs mastered by A.P 
www.ghostsounds.net/GS_Mastering_and_Post.html 

Cover artwork : 
Analog photography taken by Fanny Guigon with a Nikon FM2 
Graphic design and printing by Stellar Kinematics & Emilie Thieuleux 

Produced by Stellar Kinematics 
www.stellarkinematics.com

7" Vinyl + Digital

Hante. - One More Dance

Hi-Scores Recording Library 2012

http://hiscoresrecordinglibrary.com/

Blank Capsule  "Shades And Shades And Shades Of Grey"

LOOKING DOWN

Never Yours

PRCRS - L'Identité (feat. Patokai)

From the debut LP "Plastic Heart" - available soon from Head In The Sand.

Pre-order now: http://headinthesand.ca/product/ghost-twin-plastic-heart-pre-order/

Ghost Twin - Saturn Swallows The Sun

Stranger Love - HEAT

A while ago Mojo Magazine asked us to do a cover of David Bowies "Be My Wife" for a tribute album they were putting together.
Unfortunately that project was never fully realised. We really like how it turned out though, so we'd like to share it with you now!

Free DL!

Artwork by Victor Claeson.

Be My Wife (David Bowie Cover)

"Behind Curtains" appears on Growing Seeds, Out now. 

LP/CD: http://bit.ly/1Uyjh7q
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/growingseeds

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LustForYouth.Official/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/Lust4Youth

Tour Dates: http://bit.ly/1KPwMbc

Lust for Youth - Behind Curtains

Bleed

in my dark cave
I feel the safest from it all
tucked away
from the pain
and scary things
that haunt me
love, lust and success
it's all just one big mess to handle

in my dreams
I'm living with out fear 
I'm happy

in my dark space
I dont have to get close to you 
it saves me from all the hurt again
as I age am I getting better ?

where do I find the strength to be open again
maybe I'm just stuck in my cave forever

Cave

For updates about more songs, connect with us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LastLynxMusic

http://open.spotify.com/track/0uO61Krzwb0LmjSRYkRHRt
http://wimpmusic.se/wweb/album/?album=18045957

Live version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBblmn1-1Nc

©2012 SoFo Records, Under exclusive license to Universal Music AB.
Artwork by: Martin Bejbom

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Last Lynx - Killing Switch

Broke For Free - 942 Miles

Mixed by Ash Workman (Metronomy/Summer Camp/Klaxons) at The Premises Studios, London, November 2012. Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy.

Mitzi's debut album 'Truly Alive' will be released on Feb 19, 2013 in North America via Future Classic.

www.facebook.com/mitziband
www.hellomitzi.com
www.facebook.com/futureclassic
www.futureclassic.com.au

Management: nathan@futureclassic.com.au
Press: matthew@terrorbird.com
Bookings UK/Euro: ali@elasticartists.net

Meet The Band

All I Heard

"Line of Fire", from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.

Buy the track on Amazon: http://glnk.it/1v4
or on iTunes: http://glnk.it/1v5

http://www.junip.net
http://www.mute.com
http://www.cityslang.com

Lyrics:

What would you do
If it all came back to you
Each crest of each wave
Bright as lightning
What would you say
If you had to leave today
Leave everything behind
Even though for once you're shining

Standing on higher ground
But when you hear the sounds
You realise it's just a whim (/the wind)
And you notice it matters
Who and what you let under your skin

If put to the test
Would you step back from the line of fire
Hold everything back
All emotions and desires

Convince yourself to be someone else
And hold back from the world
Your lack of confidence
What you choose to believe in
Dictates your rise or your fall

With no one else around you
No one to understand you
No one to hear your calls
Look through all your dark corners
When you're backed up against the wall
Step back from the line of fire

I'd do the same as you would
Would do the same as you
Step back from the line of fire

Buy on iTunes

Junip - Line Of Fire

Pretend That We're Alone

Taken from 'Christopher' our 28/1/13 in UK/EU via Memphis Industries, 29/1/13 in US via Sub Pop

In Real Life

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released in February 2013, their second album 'The New Life' is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, 'The New Life' is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, Girls Names made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, 'Dead To Me,' earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. And yet, despite all the praise heaped on it, as soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. 

The band’s performance at this year Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise 'The New Life.' The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains: 

“'The New Life' is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. 'Dead to Me' literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, 'The New Life' is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. 'The New Life' is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream today - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, 'The New Life,' stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

"The New Life" will be released on February 18th, 2013 on Tough Love (UK) and February 26th, 2013 on Slumberland Records (US).


Girls Names - Pittura Infamante

HELL HOTLINE

Rivals Blood

Fooled

The Bends - One Night Only

REDREDRED_Lucid Moving Circles

Artist: Paperhaus
Album: Lo Hi Lo
Release date: May 28, 2013
Label: self-release

Press contact: michelle (at) teamclermont (dot) com

About: 
Paperhaus started in a basement in the suburbs of Washington, DC, where guitarists Alex Tebeleff and Eduardo Rivera spent their teenage years playing music together with ears buzzing from Radiohead, Television, and Fela Kuti. Miles away in Philadelphia, the dissonant vibrato of drummer Brandon Moses howled over distorted blues, while bassist John Di Lascio’s three drunken years playing absurdist prog-pop in shady Japanese yakuza bars were winding down. 

When the haze cleared, these four musicians found themselves in the Red Door room in DC's legendary Gold Leaf Studios (R.I.P.), screaming raw vocal poetry into rickety old mics and bleeding cosmic noise through rusty tube amps. All night jams edged into anything from CAN to DC Gogo, while haunting noisescapes echoed of Sonic Youth and Scott Walker. Above it all hung country-blues and pop-oriented arrangements with deeply personal lyrics.

Paperhaus is the lovechild of four very different, but passionate songwriters, who share only a belief in the spiritually transformative power of music. This attitude perhaps more than anything inspired the establishment of "The Paperhaus," their shared home studio and DIY concert space. Over the past two years, this humble row house in Petworth has hosted over 100 bands from all over the country and is an institution in national DIY culture.

Paperhaus released its alt-country styled self-titled EP in 2011, and will release its second effort, an EP entitled Lo Hi Lo on May 28th, 2013. Lo Hi Lo was recorded at DC's legendary Inner Ear studios with producer Ivan Basuri, and reflects the more pop side of Paperhaus' Psychedelic music. A full-length LP of more blues and funk influenced psychedelic music is already in the works and will be released in 2014. You can hear songs from all the different sides of Paperhaus' music at one of Paperhaus' many live shows this spring as they embark on a two-month national tour.


Paperhaus - "Helicopters"

Morningbell - "We Have Eyes As Well As Ears"

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Das Lied von Anouk - Update

You planted fire in my heart
You had me at hello
But we burn too bright
We will never last the night

Perfect waste of love
But never mind the damage
Maybe in the next life we'll be good
It's just a minor burn
So never mind the damage
Maybe in the next life we'll be good

This is so many kinds of messed up
We both know that it's dangerous
But we burn too bright
We will never last the night

@ninasounduk
www.ninamusic.co.uk

Written by Paul Gala & Mia Van Wyk
Produced by Paul Gala
....
© 2013 Aztec Records Ltd
℗ 2013 Aztec Music Publishing

All rights reserved
www.aztecrecords.com

WASTE OF LOVE

Midnight Street lights
Haunted Lonely
Unforgiving, 
Star crossed lovers
We all know the outcome
That place between sleep and the dream
This is where I'll wait for you

Let's stretch across the highways
Until our voices echo through the dunes
Life takes no prisoners babe
We have to do all our living soon

We are the wild ones
There is no hope for us now
We are the lost souls
We might as well drive unto the edge

I'll meet you at the corner
I have a full tank
And a heart full of dreams
Find what you love
And let it kill you
That place between sleep and the dream is where I'll wait for you

@ninasounduk
www.ninasounduk.com


Written by Mia van Wyk & Paul Gala
Produced by Paul Gala
© 2013 Aztec Records Ltd
℗ 2013 Aztec Music Publishing

All rights reserved
www.aztecrecords.com

Contact: laura@aztecrecords.com

WE ARE THE WILD ONES

The Scrap Mag - Compilation - TSM 0004
www.thescrapmag.com

1.7 - Warmline - In Your Shadow


The Scrap Mag - Compilation - TSM 0004
www.thescrapmag.com


1.6 - Antoni Maiovvi - Four Horses

Do you have time to wait forever, and live your life a never never
Take a blade and cut your tethers, and leave behind your white feathers.
Catch yourself a breeze, spill out all your seeds, don't wait you may never last the day
Don't hold back, what are you waiting for?
Unleash your dogs, step outside your box, don't wait you may never last the day.
Ride upon a tide, don't hide inside, don't wait you may never last the day.    
(Words and Vocals Clive Pierce)
                                                            
All of this was created, it turns to dust when you check out.
It gives its power to the nameless, inventing riots in the south.
Oh my knight you are my mercy, the dark waters of this wrath.
Don’t you want to become fearless, don’t you dare to drown in lies.
(Words and Vocals Natalie Alva)

Unleash Your Dogs by Clive Pierce featuring Natalie Alva.

Signals From The Dark - Dhatasix, DVS NME and CPU Collaboration

Original track and album here.
http://oppenheimermkii.bandcamp.com/


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