The Opiates

‘Hollywood Under The Knife’

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/hollywood-under-knife-special/id466723106

Release date: 	  21 October 2011

Label:	   	 Disco Activisto Records 

Distribution :  	 Cargo UK

Images:	 Wolfgang Tillmans

Web: 	              www.billieraymartin.com

Style : 	              dark electronic pop



The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.  Already dubbed by the press as ‘The Carpenters of Electro’, their album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates’ unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.  


RAINY DAYS AND REMIXES : EP 
Prior to the release of the album comes the digital release of the "Rainy Days and Remixes“ EP on 19 September. The EP includes exclusive remixes of three of the album’s songs by Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair), the legendary Chris and Cosey (Throbbing Gristle) and XHK, plus the single "Rainy Days and Saturdays“. 


HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE KNIFE : CD & DIGITAL ALBUM
"Hollywood Under The Knife" is an album of real substance, both musically and visually. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans supplies nine previously unseen and unpublished images for the album cover and booklet. Each song on the album portrays another social 'misfit'. Characters who, trying to change their outer appearance or tweak their behaviour, believe they might just fit and ultimately face the consequences:

•	The woman who employs strange sexual fantasies involving the TV series CSI, to keep the boredom of life at bay. (Candy Coated Crime)

•	The transvestite (Candy Darling) who, although leading the wild life and preparing for a sex change, dreams of married life and a house in the suburbs. (Rainy Days and Saturdays)

•	The young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. (Anatomy of a Plastic Girl)

•	The fifteen year old girl who wanted to be herself, but gets voted off the reality TV show 'Make Me A Supermodel' and who is so destroyed that she believes her life is over at the age of fifteen, because they told her it was. (Reality TV)

•	The aging formerly rich daughter of a formerly famous actress who reminisces about her mother feeding her tranquilizers as a kid to keep her out of the way and who later goes through a path of plastic surgery, health foods, porn movie making...all to find out who she is. (Oprah's Book of the Month Club)

•	The same woman who suffers from insomnia and tells the story how the demons of her soul and the demons of the night keep her awake. (Silent Comes the Nighttime)

•	The man who dresses up in women's clothes (Roman Polanski in 'The Tenant') trying to fight the people he believes want to kill him by convincing him that he is Simone Choule, a woman who committed suicide in the apartment that he now rents. (I'm not Simone Choule)

An EP entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ was released in March 2008, accompanied by a much celebrated gig at London’s Rough Trade store, resulting in rave press reviews for both the gig and the EP. In Germany, the song ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’ made it into the Top 20 listeners choice charts when added to the playlist at Radio One.
Plans are afoot to stage a performance/play entitled ‘Anatomy of a Plastic Girl’, a multimedia piece using Wolfgang’s images as well as multimedia elements, in the near future.


COVER AND BOOKLET :
Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans (famed for his sleeve design & videos for Pet Shop Boys, REM, Goldfrapp ...) is a long-time fan of Billie’s work. He has photographed her twice and chose her as ‘most influential woman’ as part of i-D Magazine’s 25th birthday issue and celebrations. For ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’, Wolfgang opened his entire archive and gave The Opiates unprecedented access to choose their favourite images. 


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The Opiates: I'm Not Simone Choule

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'Ammunition'- collab with Donkong: cheeky 24 hour taster

Buy the track here: https://pro.beatport.com/release/fly/1602546

Fly is the first single ever to be released by the Icelandic musician val-kyrja, a young and upcoming Icelandic musician based in Oslo. After seeking inspiration from the beautiful nature in Iceland, Fly was created by a direct, powerful and sudden inspiration, surrounded by good vibrations and positive energy. In the production and arrangement of Reykjavik Sounds, Fly is a song that takes you on a musical journey and reminds you of letting go of things that hold you back, just be yourself and enjoy the moment.

Composer and singer: val-kyrja (Þorgerður Jóhanna Sveinbjarnardóttir) 
Production and arrangement: Reykjavík Sounds (Stefán Atli Jakobsson & Garðar Jakobsson)
Lyrics: Þorgerður Jóhanna Sveinbjarnardóttir, Tinna Katrín Jónsdóttir and Tómas Oddur Eiríksson
Mixing by Halldór Á. Björnsson 
Artwork by Michael Snyder
Photos by Julia Roditeleva

Released by Aquavit Records September 28th 2015 
val-kyrja's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/val-kyrja-136112776559152/timeline/

I wish I could hate you. 
I wish I could say that I deserve more, but I really don’t. 
I just fuck shit up.
I wish I could break you.
Put some make up on and make you jealous, but that would never work.
I wish I could hate you. 
I wish I could say that I deserve more, but I really don’t. 
Cuz I just fuck shit up.

How many times I call you and you aint picking up? 
I wonder what you do and you don’t give a fuck.
Fell in love.
Phenomenal. 
This game turned me into an animal.

So I do it to them.
Boyfriends. I’m trough with them. 
Bullshit. Through with them. 
All that. Through with them.
Ask me one thing, you know, I’m through with them. 
I wish I could spend the time I spend on you on me. 
I just fuck things up.

I wish I could hate you. 
I wish I could say that I deserve more, but I really don’t. 
I just fuck shit up.
I wish I could break you.
Put some make up on and make you jealous, but that would never work.
I wish I could hate you. 
I wish I could say that I deserve more, but I really don’t. 
Cuz I just fuck shit up.

Reminding myself. Reminding myself. Reminding myself. 
Reminding myself. Reminding myself. Reminding myself. 
Reminding myself when you used to come over. 
Reminding myself that I’m still getting loaded. I am fully loaded. 
Reminding myself.

I wish I was special. 
Then you would never do it like you do it to me now
and I would never do it like I do it to you now.

I wish I could hate you. 
I wish I could say that I deserve more, but I really don’t. 
I just fuck shit up.
I wish I could break you.
Put some make up on and make you jealous, but that would never work.
I wish I could hate you. 
I wish I could say that I deserve more, but I really don’t. 
Cuz I just fuck shit up.


artwork by Malin Bernalt

jj - I wish

Featuring 4 remixes of the enigmatic and bohemian Waterson on Ashley Beedle's Back To The World label. KDA provides his trademark pulsing bass - a sound that recently propelled him to No. 1 with Tinie Tempah & Katy B - delivering a rolling dub remix with nods to early-90s house. Ashley Beedle works his house magic referring to the classic King Street neighbourhood New York vibe which spawned the sounds of Levan and Knuckles. Horse Meat Disco's Severino teams with Nico De Ceglia, and partner in crime as the Hyena Stomp project, to give 'Tell Me' the proto-house treatment - both raw and full of the uplifting and urgent energy of disco. Fast emerging as one of Europe's most in-demand deep-house producers and a leading light in the underground Moscow house scene, Lay-Far re-works the track with mesmerising depth & soul to turn in a track that will win over fans of Motor City Drum Ensemble and Max Graef alike.
Available on 12" from Phonica: http://smarturl.it/TellMePhonica
https://pro.beatport.com/label/back-to-the-world/53579

http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Back+To+The+World/releases/

http://www.traxsource.com/label/19290/back-to-the-world

Waterson - Tell Me - KDA 'Anywhere You Want It' Dub

Waterson - Tell Me - Ashley Beedle Vocal Mix

Featuring 4 remixes of the enigmatic and bohemian Waterson on Ashley Beedle's Back To The World label. KDA provides his trademark pulsing bass - a sound that recently propelled him to No. 1 with Tinie Tempah & Katy B - delivering a rolling dub remix with nods to early-90s house. Ashley Beedle works his house magic referring to the classic King Street neighbourhood New York vibe which spawned the sounds of Levan and Knuckles. Horse Meat Disco's Severino teams with Nico De Ceglia, and partner in crime as the Hyena Stomp project, to give 'Tell Me' the proto-house treatment - both raw and full of the uplifting and urgent energy of disco. Fast emerging as one of Europe's most in-demand deep-house producers and a leading light in the underground Moscow house scene, Lay-Far re-works the track with mesmerising depth & soul to turn in a track that will win over fans of Motor City Drum Ensemble and Max Graef alike.
Available on 12" from Phonica: http://smarturl.it/TellMePhonica
https://pro.beatport.com/label/back-to-the-world/53579

http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Back+To+The+World/releases/

http://www.traxsource.com/label/19290/back-to-the-world


Waterson - Tell Me - Severino & Nico De Ceglia Remix

Waterson - Tell Me - Lay - Far Remix

all these years I been living kind of sober in fear
I've been paranoid
and for that I'm not proud
you say I'm lovely but not easy to love
because no one really knows me
I don't know why you cry
and for that I'm not proud

Do you think about me when
Do you think about me when you brush your teeth
when you make your coffe and tea
do you think about me when she rub your feet  
do you think about me when she rub your feet
cooking pasta
by the hour
do you think about me when you cooking
when you hear that voice
do you think about me cooking that pasta?

animals around me fall in love

all these years I been living kind of sober in fear
I've been paranoid
and for that I'm not proud
you say I'm lovely but not easy to love
because no one really knows me
I don't know why you cry
and for that I'm not proud

animals around me fall inlove

animals around fall in love when we're coming through
they eat horses around here 
don't you think they will eat you too
if someone told them to?
if someone told them to 

cannibals around me
fuck em duck em
fuck em duck em
you're running out of luck man
you're running out of luck man
take your time 
I think not man
I think not man
I think not man
I think not man
I think not man
I think not man
I think not man

I light up on all 4s
four doors
one horse
my roof is no ones floor
I go hard on all 4s
I light up on all 4s
four doors
one horse
I light up on all 4s
four doors
one horse
my roof is no ones floor
I go hard on all 4s
I light up on all 4s
four doors
one horse
my roof is no ones floor

animals around me fall in love

all these years I been living kind of sober in fear
I've been paranoid
and for that I'm not proud
you say I'm lovely but not easy to love
because no one really knows me
I don't know why you cry
and for that I'm not proud

Paranoid

UGLY (DEMO)

Born and raised in Upstate New York, Rick O’Disko (government name: Richard Nacy) has loved dance music for as long as he can remember: “In elementary school, I used to get to class early so that my friends and I could dance to our disco 45s. ‘Ring My Bell,’ ‘Knock on Wood,’ anything by Donna Summer… we thought we were dead cool.” At eight years old, he asked for – and received – a strobe light for Christmas. “I set my room up as a discotheque. My stuffed animals were the patrons. There was no door policy – just come on in and get down.” For more information on Mr. ODisko: www.rickodisko.com.

UGLY (DEMO)

RickO'Disko