Silvery Sky (Dark Sky)

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Lessines, Belgium, mid-1980s. The city that saw the birth of surrealist artists such as René Magritte or Louis Scutenaire looked like a musical desert. Three friends decided to create a band: voice, bass guitar and analog synths. Later, two other guys joined them.

The Ultimate Dreamers are influenced by Belgian cold wave and British post-punk music but the teenagers explored their own way. The frigid, organic tones tainted with melancholy melodies maybe catchy, maybe verging on the dissonant, serve as a backdrop for themes dominated by raw dreams, distressed love and social criticism. Between 1986 and 1990, they wrote and self- recorded numerous tracks at home before falling asleep.

Thirty years on, Covid oblige, the recordings resurfaced and were brought to the ear of Dimitri, the record label magnate behind Wool-E Discs, who immediately offers an album deal. After selection and mastering, 11 tracks were to be selected under the banner of Live Happily While Waiting For Death, released on September 20, 2021.

The Ultimate Dreamers are reverie no more, they are back in a new configuration including three original members and a new one. The repertoire is exhumed, resuscitated and enriched with new creations...

https://www.the-ultimate-dreamers.com/
https://wool-e-shop.jouwweb.be/

Japanese info:
coldexperiment.com/news/the-ultimate-dreamers-live-happily-while-waiting-for-death/

Tracklist:
01. I Love You?!
02. Japanese Death
03. Never Die
04. Female Zone
05. Education
06. Funeral Walz
07. I Hate You?!
08. A Long Time Ago
09. Laughing Furniture
10. No Matter
11. S'envoler

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Follow The Ultimate Dreamers :
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theultimatedreamers/
Bandcamp: https://theultimatedreamers.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: @the-ultimate-dreamers

Follow Wool-E Shop :
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wool.e.shop
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wooleshop/
Bandcamp: https://wool-e-tapes.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: @wool-e-shop

Live Happily While Waiting For Death

I Love You?!

Premiere: The Ultimate Dreamers - "I Love You?!" [Wool-E Discs / Dans Les Profondeurs]

silk entry selections

Silk Entry's Marble Footsteps Selections

“The ceiling doesn’t know it’s being watched by so many liquid-sick eyes”

Cult duo VACUUM turn their gaze from the mechanical to the mortal with their second single ‘I’ll Call You’, which explores Western end-of-life rituals.

Cavernous soundscapes are cut razor-sharp and met with Andrea Blake (ASPS/CHROME DOME) and Jenny Branagan’s (NUN) dual deadpan recitations, reminiscent of early Anne Clark. An ominous sub-bass sets the tone while the squeak of a rubber sole on waxed hospital floors is dressed in an echo of New Wave delay. Empty platitudes are uttered down the phone line - diegetic and delivered like an infernal Shangri-las. The anticipation of a flatline extracts the sacred from the mundane – the Temenos of a waiting room, the Oracle of the Yellow Pages and an Ambrosia of instant coffee.

The album VACUUM S/T will be out Feb 18th 2022
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released November 25, 2021
Recorded by Josh Wells (Naarm Melbourne) and mastered by Enyang Urbik (Berlin).

Cover Photograph by Nicole Reed
Design by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative

VACUUM - I´LL CALL YOU

Tabula Rasa is a deep and often wistful journey into the world of Daniel Holt’s project Human Figures. Transitive and ethereal, these eight tracks effortlessly fuse elements of cold wave, post-punk, and minimal electronics culminating in a pensive opus awash in faded dreams. With his extensive catalog of releases on L.I.E.S., The Black Lodge, Frigio Records, and more, as well as his own Ardetha imprint, he weaves a dark tale full of mysticism and melancholia. Another classic from the visionary artist at his finest.
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Releases on limited cassette and digital January 28, 2022.

@0humanfigures0
All recording songs and lyrics by @danielholtt
Photo by MK
Mastering by @kfrey
Artwork by Brian Drabant

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www.instagram.com/dead__channel/
www.facebook.com/dead.channel.records/
www.discogs.com/label/2023500-Dead-Channel-Records

Human Figures - Obedience [DC012] (Snippet)

Carlos Perón - Impersonator

2LP Vinyl: b.link/impersonatorlp
Special edition on piss yellow vinyl. Limited to 150 copies with postcard.
Standard edition on black vinyl. Limited to 350 copies with postcard.

2CD: b.link/impersonatorcd
Limited edition of 500 copies on double CD with vinyl record gatefold sleeve replica and printed inner sleeves.

Digital: b.link/impersonatordigital

40th anniversary edition of the debut album by the multi-talented musician Carlos Perón “Impersonator” was originally released in 1981 when he was still a member of Yello. This first solo work represents a desire to conduct daring electronic experiments, to achieve stylistic variety and musical intensity while at the same time it is an example of Mr. Perón’s bizarre sense of humour.

Since the beginning of his career he pushed experimentation beyond limits with noise atmospheres, loops and complex textures which he has long used since before the introduction of sampling technology. With the arrival of sound sampling, he was among the first to experiment with equipment such as the Fairlight, Emulator and Mirage. During his time with Yello, Carlos may well have been one of the world's first sampling masters.

This re-issue of “Impersonator" includes all original tracks with some bonus including the whole Frigorex EP from 1984 and six previously unreleased cuts recorded between 1982 and 1983.

Impersonator

Carlos Perón - 10,000 Zippers (Early Version)

Fear

Fear (feat. Xiu Xiu)

From the albumette released TONN Recordings, recorded by Iv/An during the period of self-isolation imposed by what is now known as the new normal after the global pandemic stopping the world in its tracks. Play loud when no-one is around. Stowaway dusted off. 

Available on cassette on TONN Recordings Bandcamp.  

Mastering by Thanos Mylonas 
Image © Alan Currall 
Design by Nieuw NDG 

Iv/An // A Scream Is But A Train Of Thought 
cat. tonn034 
2022

A Scream Is But A Train Of Thought

A Scream Is But A Train Of Thought 1-4

A Scream Is But A Train Of Thought 1-4 - Iv/An (from the cassette album)

A few more songs about sticky thoughts and background fear, this time dancing hypnotically in place with pink sheer flesh and creeping tendrils.