“I'll boil your boredom, I'll lick your lethargy, and swallow your trouble.”

Eat Your Melancholy is the third EP by Dutch new wave/dark synth foursome Ravage! Ravage!, released via iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp. Remixes come from TEENΛNGST, Glass Eyes, moduli, Sick Boy, Pretorium, Ray Grant, Boldface, Kescal & Anke, Elektrolove, and Ravage! Ravage! themselves, plus three new Ravage! Ravage! originals.

The promo video for the original version can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRY4-mXpI4

The EP will be released on October 31 - the coming days, the tracks will be uploaded to the Ravage! Ravage! SoundCloud in pairs, by Thursday the EP will be complete.

Ravage! Ravage! - Eat Your Melancholy (moduli version)

Ravage! Ravage! - Eat Your Melancholy (Boldface Remix)

Ravage! Ravage! - Eat Your Melancholy (Ray Grant Remix)

Ravage! Ravage! - Eat Your Melancholy (Dark Allies Remix)

Ravage! Ravage! - Spell

Ravage! Ravage! - Eat Your Melancholy (Sick Boy Remix)

Ravage! Ravage! - In Hindsight

Ravage! Ravage! - Box Of Pandora

Ravage! Ravage! - Last Night's Party

2011 sees the very first release of the eccentric Dutch dark synth threesome Ravage! Ravage!
They have selected the sinister “Blisters” as their first single. The song was mixed by Blokgolf and mastered in London by Nilesh Patel (who has previously mastered albums by Crystal Castles, New Young Pony Club, Midnight Juggernauts and The Kills).

The single is supported by a stunning video animated by Maxmana (www.maxmana.com), who has previously done work for Lowlands TV, Postmen, The Routines, DJ Jean, Nobody Beats The Drum and many others, and whose work was featured at this years Venice Biennale.

The online release is backed up by a brand new song as b-side (the elegant instrumental “Pristine”), the demo version of "Blisters", remixes by new Dutch talents Geran (www.soundcloud.com/geran) and Machinegewehr (www.soundcloud.com/machinegewehr), and a gloomy take of new song “Substance” by M3t∆d3bt (formerly known as Kid Goesting) who makes Ravage! Ravage! sound as a bewitched Fever Ray.

The single will be released Monday July 4, via the band's own record label Earlick, on:
http://ravageravage.bandcamp.com
and iTunes, Spotify and a handful of other download portals.

The video has been delivered to MTV Networks and can be seen online at:
http://www.vimeo.com/ravageravage/blisters
http://www.youtube.com/ravageravage

Contact:
inquiries [at] ravageravage.com

Mailinglist:
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Quotes, quotes, quotes:
“Holland's new rave reverends” - TimeOut London
“Ibiza entertainment from hell” - 3voor12draait
“Debauched rave-noir” - Amsterdam Weekly
“Super-electro Dutch ravers” - Trash Menagerie
“Grandson of Marc Almond and Pet Shop Boys” - 3voor12's Hollandse Nieuwe
“Great music!” - DJ Hell
“Klinkt goed!” - Joost van Bellen
“You ROCK!” - Vive la Fete's Danny after a performance
“A Dutch treat” - Ex Berliner mag
“Ravage! Ravage!: Dark, exciting, arty, dance, rave, electro, Justice, Placebo, Bowie, My Bloody Valentine” - 3voor12rotterdam
“Soms kom je een band tegen waarvan je niet gelooft dat het uit Nederland komt” - TMF (Dutch MTV)
“Sophisticated like Pet Shop Boys with a storm of Soft Cell's nastiness” - NoddY RioT

Ravage! Ravage! - Blisters

Oh my. It took some time. More or less a full decade. Originally released on MySpace, the songs with which Ravage! Ravage! debuted were long unavailable. Until now. Way back when, the post-electroclash — the media coined 'em 'new rave' — tracks like Oh My Beau Gigolo, Join Up for the New Young Pony Club and BMBRJXXX roamed the blogosphere, and soundtracked London Fashion Week shows. Now they may even already evoke nostalgia.

Ravage! Ravage! — 'grandson of Marc Almond', according to Dutch music media platform 3voor12 — grew up in small-town Holland, on a diet of 80s synthpop (Pet Shop Boys, Talk Talk), 90s eurodance (2 Unlimited, Snap!) and started writing songs in his bedsit in Suburbia when electroclash (Miss Kittin & The Hacker et al. <3) made a short-lived but exciting splash. Only a month or so after putting some of these songs on MySpace, he got invited to perform at a new rave party in Shoreditch, London, and duly turned into something of an underground cult figure.

Not content with doing solo shows, Ravage! Ravage! became a full-blown band in the years that followed. As a band, Ravage! Ravage! released three EPs, supported by two MTV playlisted music videos, for the same two songs that went to number one on the Dutch indie charts, and performed all over the Netherlands and in cities like Milan, Brussels and Berlin.

Since the death of MySpace, the early solo songs more or less disappeared, hence Out Of Fashion, a compilation that collects the most popular — Oh My Beau Gigolo, Join Up For The New Young Pony Club; the most obscure — Velvet Grrl, Stay a Little Longer; previously unreleased demos — Up the Ante, It Girl; and finishes it off with the best remixes.

Nowadays, Ravage! Ravage! focuses on DJ gigs, after having hosted his monthly Dark Allies party in Paradiso, Amsterdam for two years. Although he does occasionally still do solo guest appearances, like at last year's Milkshake festival, premiering the song he wrote for Amsterdam's queer icon Maxime Duvall, which is scheduled for release later this year on Bordello A Parigi.

For now, Out Of Fashion makes the early Ravage! Ravage! songs available forever. Until the demise of Spotify, Bandcamp and iTunes, that is — or the apocalypse, of course.

OUT OF FASHION — OUT NOW
Ravage! Ravage! — Out Of Fashion: Oh My MySpace Years 2006 — 2009
Digital Album via Earlick, 2017
Available as download on Bandcamp and iTunes
Available to stream on Spotify

SOME QUOTES from WAY BACK WHEN
'Holland's new rave reverend'—TimeOut London
'Electropop is still in fashion, proves make-up smeared Dutchman identified by Ravage! Ravage!' —Exberliner
'Een jeugdige Hollandse Boy George met synthesizer obsessie maakt een stamper uit een postnucleair Ibiza (...) samen met Aux Raus de belofte voor 2006'—Thomas van Aalten, VPRO
'Übergeile master of elektrokitsch'—Cruise Control
'Ravage! Ravage! is te eigenzinnig om in het hippe indie-rave hokje te passen, want ondanks de mascara, het asymetrische haar en de te strakke zwarte spijkerbroek te muzikaal en te pop'—stereomedia.nl
'Soms kom je een artiest tegen waarvan je niet gelooft dat deze uit Nederland komt'—TMF
'Hij strooit rond met Christiane F.-verwijzingen, geremixed Weimar-cabaret en trashy popparafernalia. Zijn muziek wordt gedraaid tijdens de London Fashion Week, hij doet het ook wel eens zelf het buitenland aan en grootheden als Joost van Bellen zwaaien hem lof toe'—Thomas Blondeau, Mare
'Sophisticated like Pet Shop Boys with a storm of Soft Cell's nastiness'—Noddy Riot
'Debauched rave-noir'—Amsterdam Weekly
'Muzikale leider van de new rave scene in Amsterdam'—Het Parool
'Kleinzoon van Marc Almond, Pet Shop Boys en Divine'—3voor12 Hollandse Nieuwe
'Ook over de Britse landsgrenzen slaat new rave aan. Zo heeft Noorwegen Datarock, Brazilië CSS en Nederland Ravage! Ravage!'—OOR
'Great music!'—DJ Hell

Out Of Fashion: Oh My MySpace Years 2006 - 2009

Ravage! Ravage! - BMBRJXXX (Harley Remix)

Ravage! Ravage! - Join Up For The NYPC (S.P.A. Remix)

“It started out fairly innocent, invites to parties a plenty...”

"Trick Mirror (Ray Grant Trickydisco remix)" is a remix by Ray Grant, taken from the second EP by Dutch new wave/electro threesome Ravage! Ravage!, which is released via iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp. Other remixes come from Roxteady Mark, Yes...Pink Pink,  Machinegewehr, Sick Boy and GERAN.

The promo video for the original version can be seen at http://youtu.be/yFTvdLqgg64?hd=1

Ravage! Ravage! - Trick Mirror - Ray Grant Trickydisco Remix

“It started out fairly innocent, invites to parties a plenty...”

"Trick Mirror (Machinegewehr Remix)" is a remix by Machinegewehr, taken from the second EP by Dutch new wave/electro threesome Ravage! Ravage!, which is released via iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp. Other remixes come from Roxteady Mark, Yes...Pink Pink, Geran, Sick Boy and Ray Grant.

The promo video for the original version can be seen at http://youtu.be/yFTvdLqgg64?hd=1

Ravage! Ravage! - Trick Mirror - Machinegewehr Remix

A new new wave/modern synthpop/glossy goth/post electroclash foursome from the Netherlands, who eat glass candy, swing like Siouxsie and splice their synthpop with distorted guitars.

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