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Crash Course In Science performs a Key Studio Session at WXPN in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012.

The Key Studio Sessions July 25, 2012

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MNQ 024 Central Unit - Loving Machinery 12'' EP

buy: http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-024-central-unit-loving-machinery-12-ep

Limited edition 300 copies, clear vinyl

30th Anniversary edition, remastered from the original master tape by Natale Nitti


Mannequin is really happy to present the 30th Anniversary Edition of the 12’’ EP ‘Loving Machinery” from Central Unit, the cult New Wave mitteleuropean band based in Bologna (nowdays reformed with a different lineup). Formed in 1981, they were among the first in Italy to manipulate synths, drum machines and other electronic devices (as far as we know they were one of the few bands in the world able to program a Korg-KR55 drum machine) to create atmospheric soundscapes and they were considered the Italian answer to Tuxedomoon, who spawned a whole school in the Italian underground.  
 
After the first live appareances as opening act to bands like Spandau Ballet and Monochrome Set in their Italian tours, Central Unit published in March 1982, the 12’’ EP “Loving Machinery” with 4 tracks, including a cover of “What Use?” from Tuxedomoon.

The EP first entered Belgian and German charts with the single Saturday Nite, thanks to its skeletal electronic beats and minimal synth atmospheres, combined with mechanical basslines and relentless bass guitar meanderings, with slothy saxophone murmurs peeping out here and there.  
 
Central Unit joined some important live shows in Italian and foreign festival (remarkable their show in 1983 at No Wave, No Jazz  festival in Berlin where they played with Fad Gadget, Einsturzende Neubauten and Notorische Reflexe), they released an album for major label CGD, produced by Tuxedomoon bassist Peter Principle in 1983.  
  
Cover art by the renowned cartoon artist Giorgio Carpinteri (Frigidaire, Linus). Carpinteri was part of the so- called Valvoline group, a group of experimental comics artists, that followed in the footsteps of José Muñoz, Joost Swarte and Art Spiegelman. 

Central Unit - Saturday Nite

It's not the original version, this one is slightly faster (1.09).

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Dark Entries is working in reverse order to re-issue Dark Day's first album  "Exterminating Angel" originally released in 1980 on Lust/Unlust.  Dark Day is the minimal electronics brainchild of Robin Crutchfield following his separation with no wave band DNA. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Crutchfield was fascinated with both performance art and the most esoteric edge of pop music. After making his escape to New York City in the mid-seventies, he was inspired by Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band and Lydia Lunch’s Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, he made the transition into the new music of downtown Manhattan and formed the “no wave” band DNA with Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori in 1977. 
In 1979 Crutchfield left DNA to pursue a series of musical projects under the name Dark Day.  By the time of Dark Day’s first album, “Exterminating Angel”  the group consisted of Robin, Phil Kline, Barry Friar and a revolving lineup of artists which included Steven Brown and Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Nina Canal of UT and David Rosenbloom. 
Exterminating Angel uses cyclical, machine-like keyboard riffs as the foundation for moody, Teutonic music. Dark Day take on the atonal, discordant and alienated performance art/new wave/punk of New York's late ‘70s no wave movement using drums, synthesizers, piano, bass and guitars. A synth is used to create the violin-sounding riffs that define the album’s sound. Crutchfield sings like a member of Kraftwerk with a dry detachment  creating a starker and chillier ground. Stuart Argabright of Ike Yard called this music "Post no wave / Proto electro … somewhat unclassified or not necessarily a part of any movement." Lyrics were derived from cut-up methods similar to those used by the surrealists, fluxus artists, and William Burroughs and Bryon Gysin and pit the subjected against their torments and tormentors.
"Exterminating Angel" uses less than desirable instruments in an attempt to overcome their shortcomings and mold them into something other than what they were. Dark Day continued to release albums throughout the 80s and eventually Robin started his solo career and continues to make music to this day. 
All songs on "Exterminating Angel" were originally recorded at Sorcerer Sound, NYC. 1979 and produced by Charles Ball. This re-issue has been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Each LP includes a two-sided fold out poster containing lyrics, photos and lyrical explanations by Robin Crutchfield. Dark Day continue to inspire the current wave of stark, eerie, processional synthesizer music more than 30 years later. 


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