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From Resurrection Machine (Fixture, 2013) http://fixturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/resurrection-machine

Watch the video for "Nowhere": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUPBcyc9g0g

Chevalier Avant Garde — Nowhere

Quantum Leap is from John Maus' forthcoming album, We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves, out on June 28th in North America on Ribbon Music and June 27th in the UK / Europe on Upset the Rhythm.

Hear another track, Believer, from the album here: http://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/john-maus-believer

JOHN MAUS lives in his birthplace of Austin, Minnesota. Whilst working towards his PhD in Political Science, he also composes music that taps into melancholic fantasy and affirms that we are all truly alive. Questing synthesizers, tensely strung bass lines and chasing drum machines providing the perfect backdrop for John's deeply resonant reverb-drenched vocal. Born in the decade of synth pop and sharing his birthday with George Frideric Handel, John started making music when Nirvana posters went up on every teenager’s wall. It’s this curious conflux of influences that partially helps to describe John’s music. It’s a world where the Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia and Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop. The confrontation of punk, the fleeting poignancy of 80’s movie soundtracks, the insistent pulse of Moroder and the spirituality of Medieval and Baroque music all find salvation in John Maus.

We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves breaks new ground for Maus. The shirt pulling and air punching of his impassioned live performance is finally captured in all its frenzied appeal alongside a tender inner space that wasn’t as apparent on his previous albums. It’s a record where promise takes the lead for the first time, providing a counterpoint to John’s default existential calling.

Signup to stay informed of the latest John Maus news, including a chance to pre-order the new album on CD/limited-edition LP:
http://www.ribbonmusic.com/label/
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

John will be playing shows across the US this summer including co-headlining shows with LA's Puro Instinct.

05-13 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
06-18 San Francisco, CA - Brick And Mortar Music Hall *
06-20 Portland, OR - Doug Fir *
06-21 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey *
06-24 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry *
06-25 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
06-26 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
06-28 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands *
06-29 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
06-30 Boston, MA - Great Scott *
07-02 Winooski, VT - Monkey House
07-03 Philadelphia, PA - Making Time @ Voyeur *
07-05 Washington, DC - Black Cat Backstage *
07-06 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
07-07 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree Cafe *
07-08 New Orleans, LA - Wolf Den at Howlin Wolf *
07-09 Austin, TX - Mohawk Inside *
07-12 San Diego CA - Casbah *
07-13 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar *
07-15 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *

* w/ Puro Instinct

We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Quantum Leap

John Maus - Quantum Leap

http://www.55shadesofblue.com
Saturday @2am-Sunday @6am
KXLU Los Angeles

DISARO DJs KXLU//55 Shades of Blue (03.19/20.2011)

The Distance Between Us DEMO

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

from the US debut single on HoZac Records :
https://schonwald.bandcamp.com/

mercurial

Eviction

Some Girls, Some Boys

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

released on Taped Sounds in march 2012
side A - first song

Etude des Têtus - Etude des Têtus, Tape, Taped Sounds

desire is proud to announce the release of subtitled debut album by Italian synth-wave masters Newclear Waves. 

Hailing from Rome, exploring droned out electro pop territories with an interest for a refreshing hyperactive 80s New Wave, Newclear Waves’ soundscapes seem to surround a fruitful visual-graphical imaginary which deals with mass consumption, apocalyptic visions, weird machineries, post-modernism and the order of chaos. A promising new coming in the universe of home made electronic avant-gardism.

B4 Tishina

A Great Design is the first single from A Different Arrangement

A Great Design

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-031-mushy-my-life-so-far-12-ep

Sublime synth wave. Mushy began her career crafting noise bursts and aggressive oblique instrumentals before, in her newest form, blooming into a beautiful, epic and heart-heavy icy synth princess. 

'My Life So Far' is the first taster for her new album 'Breathless' and it takes the blue print established on her debut album 'Faded Heart' - namely ghostly harmonies, glacial rhythm movements and beautifully waster vocals, and turns it all up to ten. Sonically, the album is a wide-screen, incredible achievement, with legendary 4AD group A.R. KANE drafted in to help out with production and writing. 'My Life So Far' features an exclusive track not on 'Breathless.' 

You're left feeling a melancholy sense of loss so sweet and delightful that you wish it to go deeper and longer.

Mushy - B2 - PHANTOM LOVE

Never Tear Us Apart (INXS cover)

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

a collection of covers.


produced, recorded, mixed and performed by skeleton hands
recorded at studio hands (newport, ky), foam marrow (bellevue, ky), and the lazerbatcave (newport, ky) 

Something In The Way (Nirvana cover)

(((О))) - Dead Friends

Filigreed echoes of raped emotions twinkling through bodies torn motions, shot dead at close range souls and crystal happiness squirted through veins, as the one ascended to heaven two tracks gave life to the other two and rained on tight dancefloors and smoky crackhouses of the future, leaving behind destruction and peace.

CROSSPARTY - HUNTER (Summer Of Haze Remix)

Gold Zebra - Dark Musique

Tobias Bernstrup - Surround - Martial Canterel Remix

First single: GENERAL RELIEF off THE PRESENT MOMENT'S new album CRUEL Released via COREDARK RECORDS-LOS ANGELES- Spring 2014

General Relief

This is a very special gift to all the lovers and forthcoming lovers and of course non lovers ;) Happy Valentine <3

Special thanks to Deborah Lehnen again for her great work on this track!

Sun Glitters feat. Deborah Lehnen - Into Dust (Mazzy Star Cover)

Mannequin Records is simply elated to present the debut 12'' EP from Phantom Love, a mysterious Kosmische act from Southern Europe.
 
Emerging from the majestic and fiercely sun-trapped lands of the Old Continent, Phantom Love takes you along a dazing journey through a spectral yet dreamy haze of spacey psychedelia.
 
Drawing inspiration and guidance from the ever-revered mitt European and Mediterranean tradition of Kraut and Cosmic rock, Phantom Lovemanages to encapsulate and transcend the formulas normally associated with these genres.
 
A retro-futuristic feast for the ears, a production that is equally analogue and digital, haunting and exotic, Phantom Love’s debut is a sonic sculpture of obsessive arpeggios and reverb-drenched strings.
 
Against this arcane melodic canvas, tribal and shape-shifting drums structures fight and discipline the liquid interplay and superimposition of cymbals and cowbells delays.
 
*Limited Edition of 300 copies with artwork by Giandomenico Carpentieri. 

Strongly recommended to fans of Brian Eno, Klaus Schulze, John Carpenter, Carter Tutti, Stellar Om Source, Harald Grosskopf, Tangerine Dream, Beak, Zombie Zombie.

Phantom Love - B1 - Psychic June

track from upcoming ''Connected by Wires'' compilation

Xiu - Black Horse - from upcoming ''Connected by Wires'' compilation

DUST is a contemporary ouroboros of acid house, combat techno, and late italo. A collective consisting of avant garde Korean noise goddess Greem Jellyfish, psych musician/model Angela Chambers, dungeon wizard/tech genius audio engineer Michael Sherburn, and DIY nightlife entrepreneur /DJ John Barclay, they are headquartered at infamous psychedelic/art/techno mansion Trip House in the jungles of Deep Bushwick. 

DUST utilizes both vintage hardware (909, 303, Juno 60) and HD cinematic soundscapes to create a heavy, lavish experience. 

Founded in 2012 by Sherburn and Barclay, DUST was originally a dark italo project. Soon Chambers and later Jellyfish were incorporated to enliven the dark magic with their sporadic vocals, and live energy. DUST released “Past Future,” their first EP on Brooklyn’s Low Life Inc. 

DUST performed their first live set alongside Gatekeeper, Supreme Cuts, and Teengirl Fantasy at the Dustbowl, a DIY venue in Chicago, and has since performed and/or DJ'ed alongside Light Asylum, Kim Ann Foxman, Phuture, DJ Pierre, Pictureplane and Steve Summers. Also, DUST serves as resident DJs at “Tropical Goth” a monthly party at Bossa Nova Civic Club, which Barclay owns, in Brooklyn. 

- 12’’ EP on black vinyl 
- Limited edition of 300 copies 
- Artwork by Giandomenico Carpentieri 

Strongly recommended to fans of Phuture, Cybotron, Gatekeeper, Legowelt, International Music System, Future Sound Of London. 

Tracks: 

A1 - ONSET OF DECIMATION 
A2 - CAVE DWELLER 
B1 - NOTHING FEELS GOOD 
B2 - IM MELTING



DUST - Onset Of Decimation

DUST - Cave Dweller

Instrumental electronic music by Eigenfrequenz. Main equipment used on this track: Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Roland Juno-60, Roland TR-606, Yamaha SPX90. This track uses a field recording of a train made into a loop, along with TR-606 percussion, a Pro-One sequence and Juno bass and lead.

About Eigenfrequenz:
Eigenfrequenz creates electronic music based around vintage analogue synthesizers, guitars and sounds, from melodic instrumentals to abstract soundscapes, inspired by the sounds and instruments of the 70s and 80s. Influences include Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Neu!, Brian Eno, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD), Ultravox, John Foxx, The Human League, Gary Numan, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle.

Eigenfrequenz is also looking at moving images as a way to connect music and visuals, in a different way to the conventional ‘music video’.

Instruments
Roland Juno-60 (1982), Yamaha CS-15 (1979), Roland SH-101 (1983), Yamaha DX7 (1983), Sequential Circuits Pro-One (1981), Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus (1979), Roland RS-202 Strings (1976), Korg M500 Micro-Preset (1977), Roland CR-78 (1978), Roland TR-505 (1986), Roland TR-606 (1982), Moog Etherwave Theremin, Doepfer Dark Time, Gibson Les Paul Standard, Epiphone EB3, Yamaha 12-string acoustic

Effects
TL Audio C5021, Yamaha E1010 (1978), Korg SE300 Stage Echo (1979), Roland Dimension-D (1979), Roland SBF-325 (1979), Roland RV-100 (1978), Lexicon PCM70 (1987), Yamaha SPX90 (1985), Yamaha SPX90II (1987), Korg A2 (1991), Electro-Harmonix Small Stone (1976), E-H Small Clone (1979), E-H Frequency Analyzer (1976), E-H Deluxe Electric Mistress (1976), E-H Big Muff Pi (NYC) (1971), MXR Phase 100 (1977)

Recording
Revox B77 HS (1978), Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro, AKG Perception 420, Shure SM57, ART Tube MP Studio V3, Tascam US 122 MK 2, Mackie Big Knob, Tascam DR-40, AKG K702, Genelec 6010A, Laney CUB-12R, Logic Studio Pro 9 (as multi-track recorder – no MIDI, no plugins)

Download on Bandcamp

Frequenz 8: The End Of The Line

Dark, Post-Punk, Goth-Gaze
New Ep 'FORMULA' here: https://schonwald.bandcamp.com/album/formula

mercurial

SCHONWALD