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http://coldcolors.bandcamp.com/album/early-demos

Early Demos

Cold Colors - Mon âme perdue

EASTER - PILLO

Pre Order: http://bit.ly/1vQlLBC

Release date: 11/11/2014

MNQ 057 The Actor - Exploded View LP / Cassette

We are really proud to announce the reissue of one of the most important Dutch Wave bands THE ACTOR, with their seminal 1982 tape "EXPLODED VIEW". "In the beginning of the eighties, a new phenomenon emerged: home taping. This way of recording resulted in a lot of noise. But that was less important then getting one’s music out to the public. A well known label for cassette bands in those days was the dutch Trumpett Tapes. They were the first to publish the music of The Actor, who became their top selling cassette band in 1982 and 1983. The Actor’s first release was Exploded View in 1982. The songs – sung both in English and German – often related to fashion, modernism, dancing and appearence. This made The Actor “quite fashionable."

LP Edition of 500 copies.
Tape Edition of 120 copies.

Limited silskcreen art edition for the first 50 copies, 160 gram white vinyl.

Remastered from the original tapes by Rude 66, The Netherlands, 2014.

Tracklist
1 Unreal Personality
2 Lights
3 Deutsches Mädchen
4 Covergirl
5 Wählerisch!
6 UCX-S
7 Modern Air
8 Seit Wir Uns Kennen...
9 Picture 210
10 Gentlemen &amp; Pettycoats

The Actor - Picture 210

Carport rock. Sort of like garage rock, with a few corners smoothed. Artwork by notaverygoodmonk (https://artistree.io/notaverygoodmonk)

Lyrics:

We all knew you well
Now we can't find you
You disappeared one night
You didn’t leave a clue

You never wanted much
Never tried to be seen
You helped everyone
See what freedom really means

You barely said a word
But we all understood
You lifted our hearts
We’d bring you back if we could

You said your work was done
You taught us all we know
You slipped into the crowd
But we could see your halo

You never wanted much
Never tried to be seen
You helped everyone
See what freedom really means

You barely said a word
But we all understood
You lifted our hearts
We’d bring you back if we could

You touched us all
Ya made us whole
How’d you see
Inside our souls?

You touched us all
Ya made us whole
How’d you see
Inside our souls?

You never sought out fame
Glory passed you by
You only worked for peace
You said we have to try

You never wanted much
Never tried to be seen
You helped everyone
See what freedom really means

You barely said a word
But we all understood
You lifted our hearts
We’d bring you back if we could

You barely said a word
But we all understood
You lifted our hearts
We’d bring you back if we could

Copyright 2025, Penrose Bunnington

You Helped Everyone

Paris, Texas. No Matter

Don't Touch Me I'm Dancing

Dear dancers,

Ramona is proud to present Fort Romeau's second installment for her Live at Robert Johnson audio enterprise. His take on neo-dance, post-disco and proto-house is as unmistakable as it is dreamlike. Ramona is still in love.

Stay gold, 
Ramona

Fort Romeau – Seventyfour (Snippet)

Music: Tricks
Art Femi Frykberg

Tricks is a duo based in Malmoe, Sweden. David and Martin usually hang at Davids place and talk for hours. Mostly about the state of the world; the injustice, the inhumanity, the horror. They usually end up making music, as kind of a means of finding some light in these dark times. Their productions reflects their mood. Melancholy and hope, vast soundscapes and lush melodies.

Everywhen is Tricks second release on Revenue Label, an icy crisp winter symphony carefully visualized in Femi Frykbergs video.
https://youtu.be/tKJS6ktV2Cs

https://www.facebook.com/tricksmusic000

Tricks - Everywhen

Geneva Jacuzzi - "Casket"

Medical Records releases the first full length LP in 5 years by LA’s Geneva Jacuzzi. To say Jacuzzi is a multifaceted artist would be an understatement. She is well known for her uncompromisingly obtuse synth-driven pop and one-of-a-kind performance art that is comprised of one time only spectacles and installations. Her works have been presented in famous art institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA and numerous other venues across the globe. She has developed a very focused cult following in the art AND music scenes. She was originally well known for her multitude of self-released home recordings but also released a full length Lamaze in 2010 on the Vinyl International to much acclaim. Not to mention her track The Sleep Room featured on The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol 2. Technophelia is the culmination of a hybrid of DIY and professional studio recordings (with the help of esteemed producer Chris Coady) that resulted in this exquisite album. Features the soon-to-be-hits I’m A TV and Cannibal Babies. Lovers of unique and left-field wave such as Gina X, Ronny, and the like will be transfixed by the raw, oozing newness of it all. All tracks recorded/performed by Geneva Jacuzzi with additional production by Chris Coady at Sunset Sound Studios. Mastered by Josh Bonati. Presented on high-quality 180gram heavyweight white vinyl.

Geneva Jacuzzi -  Cannibal Babies (MR​-​053)

Facit - Dans Le Pacifique

Boo Hoo

Some things just make sense and we’re pleased present the first collaboration of 2 of our favourite artists : RED AXES & C.A.R. 
This release has been a long time coming. Tracks were first exchanged back in 2014 and it’s been an organic, intuitive process. Like-minded musically & likeminded lyrically - Red Axes & C.A.R. seem to work the same way. Recordings happen fast. One or two takes. It’s punk and it’s effortless. 
1960’s, psychedelic 2040 arrived on queue. A sweaty, London-summer evening, after spending the day writing alone out Hackney Marshes, Chloé demo’d the vox. - languid, nostalgic, at arm’s reach from the city - the track depicted the moment perfectly. A paper thin Victorian wall separating her from the chatting neighbours, she shut her eyes and got as close to the mic as possible. 
A few weeks Red Axes & C.A.R. were together in Tel Aviv. Ten times sweatier than London. To say the studio was dripping hot is an understatement. There was a party heaving in the square below, a van parked in the middle, broadcasting out on the radio waves. Dori was determined to use the intimate London vocals for 2040 and so they cracked on with Incognito, a club track that isn't one but works in its own way: rockabilly reverbs, an almost hip-house delivery, the strange alchemy of 808 fumes. Already inebriated from the city, Chloé had written her words off-cuff in the hotel room, just hours before.
Fastforward a year. Summer 2015. Niv had sent Space Cream a few months earlier - an electronic 4/4 ballad which already featured looped samples of some of the stuff they’d recorded in Israel. Heady and sticky, Chloé had to wait for longer days before she could get anything down.
Finally XMan, descends further down into psychedelia… Perfect for the London winter closing in. Heads filled with Cookie Mueller & memories of losing oneself in dark, basement parties - the words rolled off the tongue. 
Last autumn Red Axes invited C.A.R. down to London’s Pickle Factory to perform Incognito live. During soundcheck she penned some words for a new track they were debuting, which they also ended up doing. It’s an experience synonymous for this collaboration. What comes easy, makes sense.

01 - Incognito - Red Axes / C.A.R.

KAS PRODUCT - man of time

"Our leading politicians need a chance to steal. That's the reason, they're always stirring up disturbances."
A line from the Lysistrata, a Greek play about a group of women who decide to use unconventional methods to end a war which their husbands had engineered. Almost 2500 years after Aristophanes wrote the Lysistrata the world is still being run by angry men. 
TONN  Recordings are two years old and to celebrate they have put out the compilation 'Intersection'. A collection of Nu-Nu Wave tracks, one of the highlight of these is 'Here Come the Angry Men' by Le Cliche and This is the Bridge.
A snarly analogue Cold Wave track which could just as easily be the sort of thing which you chance across while scouring youtube for obscure 80s forgotten gems as buying a hip compilation from one of the most prolific left of centre labels. Taking cues from Gary Numan and Soft Cell in spirit but bringing something new to the table. Probably best you head home, because here come the angry men.

https://soundcloud.com/le-cliche
https://soundcloud.com/this-is-the-bridge

PREMIERE | Le Cliché & This Is The Bridge - Here Come The Angry Men [TONN Recordings] 2018

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