Savage Grounds lands on She Lost Kontrol with a 7 track EP, Hidden by the Night.   For the first time, the voice of Kleio Thomaïdes joins Savage Grounds members Florin Büchel (Synthesizers) and Daniele Cosmo (Drum Machines). The result is an attractive, intense record with some nuances that will surely make the old nostalgics of Krilian Camera and Simona Buja's voice squeak their eyes.   

The record reminds us the heartbeat of Italian darkwave, the angularity of German basements, the youthful despair of French coldwave. But it’s more than that because it’s a very personal kind of darkness.  

The exasperated atmospheres seem to resonate on both sides of the record, with the due differences between the darker-wave elements of the record and the more proto-ebm ones.  

All these songs are almost ‘goth love protest songs’: they all have the gloominess of the pre-disappointed, of the already-disgusted, of the unrelentlessly bleak against a freezing, sparse, ethereal electronic landscape.  

The voice by Kleio Thomaïdes is so fascinating because it’s a wise, opaque, adult female voice which pave the way for a sting of sexy verbs spoken and screamed by a mysterious female voice, discordant EBM-influenced melodies and the occasional screech.  

Dark as hell, coldly passionate, Hidden by the Night really is a poignant journey of pain and love. If you like the sound of that kind of thing, you’re going to love it madly.

SLK016 
Savage Grounds are Kleio Thomaïdes (Voice), Florin Büchel (Synthesizers) and Daniele Cosmo (Drum Machines). 
Recorded between Zürich and Geneva, 2020/2021 
Composed and recorded by Savage Grounds. Lyrics by Kleio Thomaïdes and Daniele Cosmo. 
Mixed by Florin Büchel. 
Mastered by Andrea Merlini. 
Photography by Erika Marthins
Artwork by DudeGraph - Michelangelo Greco

Bandcamp

Savage Grounds - Hidden By The Night

Marco Van Basten & The Castles - The Castles

Savage Grounds lands on She Lost Kontrol with a 7 track EP, Hidden by the Night.   For the first time, the voice of Kleio Thomaïdes joins Savage Grounds members Florin Büchel (Synthesizers) and Daniele Cosmo (Drum Machines). The result is an attractive, intense record with some nuances that will surely make the old nostalgics of Krilian Camera and Simona Buja's voice squeak their eyes.

The record reminds us the heartbeat of Italian darkwave, the angularity of German basements, the youthful despair of French coldwave. But it’s more than that because it’s a very personal kind of darkness.

The exasperated atmospheres seem to resonate on both sides of the record, with the due differences between the darker-wave elements of the record and the more proto-ebm ones.

All these songs are almost ‘goth love protest songs’: they all have the gloominess of the pre-disappointed, of the already-disgusted, of the unrelentlessly bleak against a freezing, sparse, ethereal electronic landscape.

The voice by Kleio Thomaïdes is so fascinating because it’s a wise, opaque, adult female voice which pave the way for a sting of sexy verbs spoken and screamed by a mysterious female voice, discordant EBM-influenced melodies and the occasional screech.

Dark as hell, coldly passionate, Hidden by the Night really is a poignant journey of pain and love. If you like the sound of that kind of thing, you’re going to love it madly.

SLK016 
Savage Grounds are Kleio Thomaïdes (Voice), Florin Büchel (Synthesizers) and Daniele Cosmo (Drum Machines). 
Recorded between Zürich and Geneva, 2020/2021 
Composed and recorded by Savage Grounds. Lyrics by Kleio Thomaïdes and Daniele Cosmo. 
Mixed by Florin Büchel. 
Mastered by Andrea Merlini. 
Photography by Erika Marthins

All the Tears You Shed

Deutsche Liebe

Somewhere Sinister (Kleio's Voice)

What Remains

Everything Dies

Les échos du silence

Sex Is Violence

We are premiering 'Sex is Violence', the first track of the upcoming ep "Hidden by The Night". Pre-order here: shorturl.at/akEV1

Dark as hell, coldly passionate, Hidden by The Night really is a poignant journey of pain and love. If you like the sound of that kind of thing, you’re going to love it madly.

Hidden by The Night

Sex is Violence

Premiere: Savage Grounds - Sex is Violence

We are premiering 'What Remains', the first track from the B side of the upcoming ep "Hidden by The Night" by Savage Grounds. Pre-order here: shelostkontrolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-by-the-night

The gloominess of the pre-disappointed, of the already-disgusted, of the unrelentlessly bleak against a freezing, sparse, ethereal electronic landscape.  Dark as hell, coldly passionate, Hidden by The Night really is a poignant journey of pain and love. If you like the sound of that kind of thing, you’re going to love it madly.

Hidden By The Night

Premiere: Savage Grounds - What Remains

We are premiering 'All The Tears You Shed', last track from the B side of the upcoming ep "Hidden by The Night" by Savage Grounds. Pre-order here: shelostkontrolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-by-the-night

Dark as hell, coldly passionate, Hidden by The Night really is a poignant journey of pain and love. If you like the sound of that kind of thing, you’re going to love it madly.

Post-Punk Premiere: Savage Grounds - All The Tears You Shed

We're premiering the second track from the debut single of Marco Van Basten & The Castles.

@marco-van-basten-wcb met the revolving cast of musicians known as The Castles in Berlin in 2022, and together they set his music afloat across an entirely new ocean. On their own, The Castles have been pursuing a diverse range of music and dramas in the city for years, and Marco—nearly named for the Dutch footballer who scored a famous goal in the week of his birth—has been making music in Dublin and Berlin for a decade.

Now, what started as a playful handful of demos has transformed into the debut 3-track release The Castles on the Italian label She Lost Kontrol. Marco Van Basten and The Castles pair ethereal, evocative vocals with haunting, heavy synth music that reverberates in the mind long after the final notes dissipate to dust.

release October 20, 2022
Streaming: https://bit.ly/3rZFWkH

The Castles

DŁUGA

Marco Van Basten met the revolving cast of musicians known as The Castles in Berlin in 2022, and together they set his music afloat across an entirely new ocean. On their own, The Castles have been pursuing a diverse range of music and dramas in the city for years, and Marco—nearly named for the Dutch footballer who scored a famous goal in the week of his birth—has been making music in Dublin and Berlin for a decade.

Now, what started as a playful handful of demos has transformed into the debut 3-track release The Castles on the Italian label She Lost Kontrol. Marco Van Basten and The Castles pair ethereal, evocative vocals with haunting, heavy synth music that reverberates in the mind long after the final notes dissipate to dust.

Performed live, the music conveys an additional intensity with the musicianship of the performers given room to breathe. However, this intensity means the group must be selective with their performances, with the release party for The Castles taking place on October 20th at the ever-intimate Kantine am Berghain.

"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."

from Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver.

The English artist George Thompson aka Black Merlin, is the name behind our fifth release.

He debuts on She Lost Kontrol with his 4-track EP simply named Noi, in which he continues his ever-going musical research mixing brooding dark techno bass-lines, spectral loops, different kinds of rhythmic structures, ambient elements and dry beats. The result is perfectly in line both with the spirit of the imprint, sometime recalling 70's and 80's experiments by underground researchers in synth-based music, both with the aforementioned lust for new sounds and soundscapes shown in the past by the artist.

All tracks written and arranged by George Thompson Except "Noi 2" co-wrote with Gordon Pohl.
Mastered by Gordon Pohl at Kunstkopf
She Lost Kontrol Records 005 | 2018

Release date: August 30th
Pre order: August 6th on shelostkontrolrecords.bandcamp.com

Black Merlin - Noi 4

Blind Delon & Black Egg are the two names behind our seventh release, 4 original tracks plus two remix from Kris Baha and Years of Denial.

"Dancefloor Dummies" goes back to the origins of coldwave. The encounter between master and disciple sounds good, a wide collection of vintage sounds and synth lines, the co-existence of cold and minimalistic, as well as gray and softer, drum machine lines accompanied by an expressive, almost theatrical vocal style. All lyrics by Black Egg.

The whole EP will be released on limited C60 red transparent cassette tape.

Recorded in France between Kamisori and Kolkoz Studio.
Mixed by Mathis Kolkoz
Mastered by Andrea Merlini, Utrecht.
She Lost Kontrol Records 006 | 2018

Release date: 22/10/2018  // Pre order from Monday 15/10/2018 via Bandcamp

Blind Delon & Black Egg - Dancefloor Dummies

No stranger to the darkness, Kris Baha takes us by the heart for our 8th release. 

In Your Arms, as the name suggests is a sentimental release from Kris, genre-bending 6 tracks through a selfless in-look from a outsiders perspective into what it means to have Lost to love , lost to lust and lost to death. 

Every end has a beginning.

Written, Performed, Recorded and Mixed by Kris Baha
Mastered by Andrea Merlini
Photography by Uma Termas
Design by Zeitype

Release: December
Pre-Order: 28/11/2018

Kris Baha - Jonathan

No stranger to the darkness, Kris Baha takes us by the heart for our 8th release. 

In Your Arms, as the name suggests is a sentimental release from Kris, genre-bending 6 tracks through a selfless in-look from a outsiders perspective into what it means to have Lost to love , lost to lust and lost to death. 

Every end has a beginning.

Written, Performed, Recorded and Mixed by Kris Baha
Mastered by Andrea Merlini
Photography by Uma Termas
Design by Zeitype

Kris Baha - Twisting Numbers

Kris Baha - Lest Lust

Kris Baha - Revolting

Kris Baha - In Your Arms

To celebrate the release of the record, she lost kontrol is premiering the last track of the ep: Jonathan.

Buy: https://shelostkontrolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-arms

In Your Arms

Jonathan

Premiere: Kris Baha - Jonathan

We are thrilled to introduce you the first UNTILDEATH mix, the first chapter of a series of mixes related to our Kollective and fanzine. 
Label's head Errata Paranoia shares an hour of groovy body excursions and wavey dancefloor lights that will dive you down into agitate soundscapes. 
@errataparanoia

Tracklist:
Rome - The Brute Engine
Tolouse Low Trax - Prokery / CCCP - Emilia Paranoica
Gamma Intel - Post Factum 
Cardopusher - Morning Traffic Dance 
Stallion's Stud - The Voice Of No 
Cardopusher - Exceptions
Kris Baha - In Your Arms 
Circa Tapes - Ignition Excite
The Grey Wolves - Flatline
Le Chocolat Noir - N.S.A. (forthcoming on SLK009)
VelenoViola unreleased (VV11)
Burning Heretic (Cycles Of Absolute Truths Mix by Ancient Methods) 
Aktion Mutante - Controllare il Sistema
Anima Distorta - WurstMaster
Tārā in Tibet - All u Do is Carry on My Desires (unreleased) 
Velvet May - Vast As Black Night 
Dame Area - Disumani LANDR

UNTILDEATH // Errata Paranoia

Ancient Methods with his rare and own imprint is transporting you in Middle Ages landscapes full of metal and agony for the fourth extract from the upcoming Carnera's EP "Colpo Di Mano Nella Zona Grigia".

Buy: bit.do/buySLK008

Colpo Di Mano Della Zona Grigia

Io So

Premiere: Carnera - Io So (Ancient Methods remix)

How do you deal with your purely physical desires?

We are premiering Revamp, the last track of the upcoming ep "Crna Ruža".
Pre-order: bit.do/SLK009

Crna Ruža

Revamp

Premiere: Le Chocolat Noir - Revamp

We are premiering Louise Shows Us Her Insecticide Collection, the first track of the upcoming ep "limited edition boxset". Order here: https://bit.ly/2qThGES

How Green Is My Toupee debuts on the label with “limited edition boxset” a limited 4 track 10”.
Influenced by Severed Heads, Garry Bradbury, and Skeptics, the band members Dom Krsic & Frank Sumatra team up to create an acerbic marriage of energized lush melodies blending synth-pop with industrial/post-punk disciplines. Their curious tape loops and industrial noises melts together with clanking drum machine rhythms, surging body grooves and distorted synthesizer melodies. The result is a Psychotic FM Synth Symphony where the Croatian artist slowed-down, sped-up, reversed, and decontextualized his music into a timeless deranged cacophony of samples and percussions.

limited edition boxeset

Louise Shows Us Her Insecticide Collection

Premiere: How Green Is My Toupee - Louise Shows Us Her Insecticide Collection

I'm bored

After 3 years from the first part, we are excited to release Surviving in Europe part two.  The full project comes out alongside a fanzine printed in risograph and a c90 transparent cassette. Registered and assembled during the past 3 years, from 2017 to early 2020. Contributions from: The NE-21, Piska Power, Bop+lksmn, Le Chocolat Noir, How Green Is My Toupee, Mother Juno, Autumns, Savage Grounds, Silent EM, Celldöd, Mind&Flesh, Strangers For Love, Blind Delon & Black Egg, Huren, Kris Baha, Raw Ambassador, Unhuman, Infravision, Be Dellow, Zarkoff. 

Pre-order: https://tinyurl.com/SLK012
Mastered by Andrea Merlini, Utrecht.
Recorded over the last 3 years, 2017-2020.
She Lost Kontrol | 2020

Surviving in Europe 17-20

Surviving in Europe

SURVIVING IN EUROPE 17-20

Alongside the fourth issue of the fanzine we have also the new episode of UNTIL DEATH mix series. This time the contribution is from Le Chocolat Noir. His 80-minute mix is a journey into the imaginary of the Europe we live in.

Buy the latest Until Death issue here: tinyurl.com/SLK012

UNTIL DEATH // Le Chocolat Noir

She Lost Kontrol is excited to announce the debut full length album by the collaboration between the Berlin based producer Unhuman and the performer - activist Petra Flurr . 
The two artists return to the label after their single releases in the two volumes of Surviving in Europe and for Unhuman, after his mighty Aktion Mutante ep in collaboration with Violet Poison back in 2018.

Marking our 14th instalment on the label, ‘’Cause Of Chaos ‘’ comprises eight tracks filled of energy and steeped in to gothic nostalgia and electronic body music. The well-known artists create a mix of post-punk and synthesizer electronics shaped by their uncompromised textures, that glides through genres with ease and combines modern style with retro goodness. An abstract style of contamination seldom seen within the modern music spectrum.

The Deutsch Italo- Griechisch duo offers us an immersive, futuristic and solid sound, inspired by the music which the two artists grew up with, follows a natural evolution to their roots in post-punk, electronic and guitar music. Absolutely an album that will find its space on the shelves of passionate collectors of DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Virgin Prunes  and beyond.
Edition of 350 copies, distributed via ReadyMade Distribution from September 2020.  Limited run of 100 green vinyls available exclusively from our Bandcamp page.

Support the label and pre-order now at:

Distraction=Destruction

Suriv

Nucleus

The NE-21 return to She Lost Kontrol after their first pitch-perfect 80s dark wave release in 2016. After releasing a collaboration with Donato Dozzy with the project 'Men with Secrets' at the beginning of the year, the duo lands on the label with their new work “In The Realm of Electricity". The album is a collection of 8 tracks composed and recorded between 2012 and 2020 at the Sy6 studio in Boscoreale. The outcome is a perfect blend of synth pop and minimal wave, filled with icy synths, shuddering bass, and anthemic vocals, ranging from mumbled vocoder to arch talk-singing. 

While diverse in atmospheric scope, swells of ghostly synths circle the driving beat throughout, producing a haunting totality drenched in an ethereal midnight trance; the submerge of cold, spectral vocals sing within the darkest depths of a starry soundscape – the gloomy romanticism of low, distant vocals bursting with post-punk melancholia. 

The track’s unease between purpose and utility create a discrete synthesis, and, like a piece of speculative fiction, the memory of the body and its coalescence with the future become prime motives for this liquid age. Akin to Ballard or Philipp K. Dick, the work is not only dreamlike and surreal, but vocally sinister, as if this spectrum of LUSH new wave ‘80s pop and Almond-style weirdness hides a truth waiting to be grasped. 
The album in essence sounds unashamedly distinctive, unique and charming. Whether you fall in love with the whole act or you’re just stunned by the bizarreness of it all, one thing’s for sure - you’ll be compelled and gripped right to the infectiously smutty end.

SLK015
Composed, recorded and mixed by Nicola Buono & Lino Monaco at Sy6 Studio. Vocals and lyrics by Lino Monaco. 
Mastering by Joshua Eustis, Los Angeles. 
Design By Michelangelo Greco 
She Lost Kontrol Records 2021

In The Realm Of Electricity

The NE-21 - IN THE REALM OF ELECTRICITY

Under exhausted lights of civil discontent the count has just began. What you parodied, what you scrutinised rears its pure gaze when punctured beyond performance. We cried for justice but instead found order, and now we face the chain. 

PC World comes through with a haunting EP on She Lost Kontrol to distort the view and warp the vision of industrial addicts and mutant punks with their second release “Order”, a discursive counterattack on four distinct forms of command. The South London duo disfigures the unconscious reduction of pleasure and fetish, the connective tissue between privatisation and violence, the seduction of societal norms, and the neurotic tendencies of self-defeat. Like the surrender to a future shock, these four interwoven tracks are produced for the recognition of restraint and the demand for wanting more. 

B-side remixes of the title track “Order” come from Physical Wash (former member of High-Functioning Flesh) and Aktion Mutante (featuring members of Violent Poison and Unhuman), two additional perversions of protocol from synth-punk veterans on both sides of the Atlantic. So initiate these six cries of havoc in solidarity with this wasted world, a world of precarious necessity and incessant definition. A world whose shape and conscience will forever be satisfied by order.
credits

SLK014 
Written & Produced by PC World. // pc.world.protocol@gmail.com
Mixing & Additional Production on ‘Strategy Beat’ by Owen Pratt. 
Mastering by Joshua Eustis, Los Angeles 
B3 Mastered by Dadub Studio, Berlin
Design By Brodie Kaman 
She Lost Kontrol Records 2021

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