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Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - My Baby Just Sailed Away

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Soviet Soviet - Ecstasy

Released April 2011. 12'' Vinyl & Download.  Optimo Records 

R E A L L O V E (Original)
R E A L L O V E (Optimo Espacio Remix)


R E A L  L O V E

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Words: 
Down from the country road to the water wheel you were standing on a giant stone in your grandpas coat I can't see you in my dreams I don't know why
you know that I will do my best just to see you there in my best suit I will lie in bed just to see you there just to see you there fear is walking by your side so close to thee I can't see you in my dream I don't know why


Empty Bed

Here's my remix of the most popular song by the Legendary band  Joy Division. 

It's a groovy mix of this romantic and haunting track performed by Pete Hook and Beatmode. Will lift yourself above a packed dance floor and will touch every inch of your soul...

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Lux ReMix) by Joy Division

This is the Com Truise remix of 'Sick' by The Twilight Sad. This remix features on the forthcoming album No One Can Ever Know - The Remixes. 

Album pre-order: http://fatcat.sandbaghq.com/the-twilight-sad-no-one-will-ever-know-the-remixes.html 

Tour dates:

        Oct 05	Electric Circus	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 18	Cluny	                Newcastle, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 19	Hop, The	        Wakefield, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 20	Manchester Sound Control	   Manchester, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 22	Hare & Hounds	Birmingham, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 23	Dingwalls	        London, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 24	Louisiana	        Bristol, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 25	Portland Arms	Cambridge, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 26	Brudenell Social Club 	Leeds, United Kingdom	
 	Oct 27	Mad Ferret	        Preston, United Kingdom	
 	Nov 01	Babylon	Istanbul, Turkey	
 	Nov 05	Music Hall of Williamsburg	Brooklyn, NY	
 	Nov 06	The Space	        Hamden, CT	
 	Nov 07	Johnny Brenda's	Philadelphia, PA	
 	Nov 08	Rock & Roll Hotel	Washington, DC	
 	Nov 09	Casbah           	Durham, NC	  	
 	Nov 10	Masquerade	        Atlanta, GA	
 	Nov 13	Red 7	Austin, TX	
 	Nov 14	Club Dada	        Dallas, TX	
 	Nov 15	Record Bar	        Kansas City, MO	  	
 	Nov 16	Empty Bottle	        Chicago, IL	 	Nov 17	Grog Shop	Cleveland, OH	
 	Nov 18	Horsehoe Tavern	Toronto, Canada	
 	Nov 20	Great Scott	        Allston, MA	
 	Dec 15	Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom	Glasgow, United Kingdom	


The Twilight Sad - Sick (Com Truise Remix)

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TOUR DATES
02.25 Detroit @ The Magic Stick*
02.26 Chicago @  Lincoln Hall*                          	
02.27 Minneapolis @ 7th Street Entry*                       
02.28 Winnipeg, ON @ WECC*                          
03.01 Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos*                 
03.02 Calgary, AB @ Hi-Fi*        
03.04 Edmonton, AB @ Pawn Shop*         
03.06 Kelowna  @ TBA / $150 (direct)                                                                            
03.07 Vancouver, BC @ Venue*                     
03.08 Victoria, BC  @ Sugar*                          
03.10 Seattle, WA @ Barboza*                                	                                                       
03.11 Boise, ID @ The Shredder*      
03.12 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge*     
03.13 Denver @ Larimer Lounge*                  	                                                       
03.15 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot*     
03.16 St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway*                  	                                                                     
03.19 Pittsburgh @ Brillobox*                                                      	                                                       
03.22 Montreal, QB @ SAT*				                                                                                    	

*w/ Trust (Arts & Crafts)

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Released by: felte 
Release/catalogue number: felte-002 
Release date: Oct 2, 2012

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ERAAS - At Heart (The KVB Remix)

New EP from How to destroy angels_

Available November 13th at http://store.destroyangels.com and wherever records are sold.

Ice age (The Soft Moon remix)

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts (No Ceremony /// Remix)

TOY - 'Motoring' Tom Furse extrapolation mix (Record Store Day release)

Radiohead - Ceremony (Joy Division Cover)

Cold Cave - God Made The World

This is the first single off Holograms' second full-length record 'Forever.' This record will be out September 3rd on Captured Tracks and  September 18th on Stranded Rekords (Sweden). 

Pre-order the album now on iTunes: http://goo.gl/AUGyA

Holograms // Flesh and Bone

QUANTUM is a brand founded in Taipei in 2012. We concentrate on the connection between human beings and multi-ideologies, explore the concept of our design through Chinese history and traditional apparel, and focus on the relationship between Kinesiology and garment structure. We use the best quality fabrics which can be integrated into our daily wear. Ultimately, we complete each and every piece of our garment through craftmen's hands to present the silhouette of minimalism.

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