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MNQ 059 Bourbonese Qualk - Lies (Ancient Methods Edit + Remix)

Release date: 23 March 2015

"Lies," a track from the now-defunct UK experimental group Bourbonese Qualk, get new life by way of a vinyl release on Mannequin Records with Ancient Methods on edit and remix duties. The release will contain also the original short-time version.

Bourbonese Qualk came into existence in 1979, and put out a stream of confrontational albums through much of the '80s and into the early '90s. After a long pause, their final album, On Uncertainty, came out in 2001, and the band disbanded the next year after the death of guitarist Miles Miles. 

"Lies", a terse, TR 808 driven electro-tinged cut just under two minutes long, originally came out in 1986 on the Preparing For Power LP by way of the group's own label Recloose Organization. 

(Brian Kolada, Resident Advisor)

Release date 23th March 2015.

* Limited edition of 300 copies, 160-gr. black vinyl, with postcard
* Graphic design curated by Alessandro Adriani.
* Mastering by Rude 66.

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Tracklist

A1 Lies
A2 Lies (Ancient Methods Edit)
B1 Lies (Ancient Methods Remix)

Bourbonese Qualk - Lies (Ancient Methods Remix)

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A1 - Suicide Commando

JASSS debuts on Mannequin Records for the "Death Of The Machines" series with a killer 3 track mix of ebm/industrial & wave on this heavy 12''. Perfect for the most abrasive dancefloors. Mastered by Rude 66. 

Tracklist

A Minotauro 
B1 Gates To Nowhere
B2 Mother


Mother

MNQ 084 JASSS - Mother 12''

MNQ 099 Led Er Est - Dust On Common LP
buy: http://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-099-led-er-est-dust-on-common-lp

We are really proud to announce the reissue of one of the best minimal synth / cold wave albums of the past 15 years. ‘Dust On Common’ from Led Er Est (Sam De La osa, Shawn O’Sullivan and Owen Hutchinson) was originally released in 2009 by the seminal Brooklyn based record label Wierd Records. 

The band's first full-length release showed the three piece clearly breaking out of the minimal synth underground they have been a vitally integral part of since its inception in Brooklyn to create an undeniably contemporary set of highly crafted and restrained, icily psychedelic pop songs.

Synthesizing countless disparate musical influences from first wave British industrial music to house, disco, and the largely unknown cold wave (aka 'La Vague Froide') tradition in Northern Europe, the trax on Dust fly by, straight out of the frozen hot, lonely cold plains of vocalist Samuel Kklovenhoof's native central Texas. After digesting a few songs of this rich dust, the listener can do no other than lie down in the wild wierd Laredo bunker to revel in the refreshingly brisk blast of hedonistic analogue pleasure dancing through the airwaves in the sky above...
 
Track Listing
1. Bikini Fun 
2. Port Isabel 
3. Laredo
4. Destination Sanity
5. The Unkept Area
6. Something For The Children 
7. I Wait For You
8. Scissors
9. CC Exit

Dust On Common

Led Er Est - Port Isabel

Mannequin Podcast 2 - Marsman (Pinkman)

Marsman has been making an impressive uprise in the last few years hand in hand with a wide variety of artists whom he cherishes as his own family. All of this is taking place on his acknowledged label Pinkman and the slightly more recent founded imprint Charlois which is more dedicated on the left of the first label in subject. Being apart of the new wave of westcoast labels it’s easy to notice the same DIY vibe known from legendary platforms such as Viewlexx & Bunker.

Catch Marsman djing at Mannequin Records Nacht I, August 18th, Säule, Berghain: berghain.de/event/2106

More info and tracklist: http://www.mannequinrecords.com/mnq-podcast-2-marsman-pinkman/

Mannequin Podcast 2 - Marsman (Pinkman)

Digital download from Bandcamp: https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-094-techno-bert-neue-dimensionen-12

12'' vinyl: http://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-094-techno-bert-neue-dimensionen-12 

Originally released in 1990 on Doremix Records, Techno Bert was the studio project of Robert Passera and Stefano Cundari, co-owner of Memory Records and mastermind behind some italo disco classic names like Hipnosis, Koto, Faxe. Stefano Cundari unfortunately died of cancer on the same year of the release.

"Neue Dimensionen" was developed on Siouxsie & The Banshees's well-known guitar riff of 'Happy House', in a techno crescendo, where the duo would have enjoyed inserting as many samples as possible by stopping only when the capacity of the sampler Akai S1000 memory would be full. While Cundari cared for the sounds from the 48-channel analogue bench and assigned modular effects to the tracks, in studio there was also the musician Stefano Carrara who piloted the keyboards and the Notator installed on the Atari computer. The couple started the work by sampling the Human League "Being Boiled" groove, and built on harmony and melody inspired by Siouxsie & The Banshees with a Jupiter synth to which they added a low reinforcement obtained with a Roland TB-303. The drum set was based on Roland Tr-909 samples. The sample of the voice comes from "Herrmann Hiess Er" by Nina Hagen, cutting and pasting vocal fragments all around the track, from which they got the name 'Neue Dimensionen'.

Even though it was distributed by Flying Records, only the most attentive clubs talked about Techno Bert single. Many discovered it the following year through the Belgian press on Target that circulated in almost all of Europe, or through the Spanish version of Spitfire. Even without big sales numbers and without any radio passage, the song continue to survive by virtue of a subtly underground connotation.

Mastering by Rude 66.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani.

12'' Tracklist

A1 Intro
A2 Neue Dimensionen
B Neue Dimensionen (Instrumental)

Digital Tracklist

A1 Intro
A2 Neue Dimensionen
B1 Neue Dimensionen (Instrumental)
B2 Neue Dimensionen (Marvin & Guy Remix)

Techno Bert - Neue Dimensionen (Marvin & Guy Remix)

https://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-122-giant-swan-high-waisted-12

Giant Swan are debuting on Mannequin Records through the Death of the Machines serie, the dancefloor/experimental oriented side of the label, dedicated to new artists.

Robin Stewart & Harry Wright team up to create an acerbic marriage of energised, aggressive dance music, quaking bass and hypnotic electronic noise. Across a table of machines and pedals, incorporating abused guitar and liberal vocal manipulation, Giant Swan create a cross-breed of hypnotic bass, industrial percussion and disorientating energy delivered with telepathic intricacy.

Tracklist

A1 The Rest Of His Voice
A2 Architectural Hangover
B1 High Waisted
B2 Palm

Mastering by Rude 66, Amsterdam 2018.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2018.

MNQ 122 Giant Swan - High Waisted 12'' (Death Of The Machines)

Release date: 31st August 2018

George Thompson aka Black Merlin is joining the family of Mannequin Records with this insane EP for the Death of the Machines, the serie dedicated to new artists ready to smash the dancefloor. 3-tracks strongly permeated by drones'n'noises, EBM basslines and a 4/4 straight technoish kick drum. Mega TIP!

Tracklist

Oba Enka
DEF
Ham

Mastered by Rude 66, Amsterdam, 2018.

Graphics by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2018.

Oba Enka

Black Merlin - Ham (RA New Tracks Premiere)

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Following on from Adriani’s first incursion on Stroboscopic Artefacts in 2017, ‘Enter The Fire’, and a recent contribution to the label’s thematic VA, ‘Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music’, Mannequin boss Alessandro Adriani returns to the label for his highly anticipated full-length debut for SA, ‘Morphic Dreams’.

Introducing the album is ‘Embryo’ is an immersive four-track micro-odyssey spanning across jagged ambient scopes, unmapped acidic grounds and further leftfield-friendly sonic territories, opening up the path for his forthcoming sophomore LP and first ever for Stroboscopic Artefacts, ‘Morphic Dreams’.

Throughout eleven cuts painstakingly executed but lacking not an iota of the fresh, spontaneous oomph that made his sound stand out of the crowd of techno producers to have emerged over the past decade, Adriani lays the foundations to a suspended sound imaginarium, governed by its own rules and principles of gravity.
 
Revolving around the notions of sublimation and quest for inner balance, 'Morphic Dreams' is comprised of four distinct sequences, conceived and designed as reflections of four mental states, each of them linked to the four alchemical elements - i.e. Water, Earth, Air and Fire - here represented by the A, B, C and D-sides. Fluid and enveloping, the A-side bathes the listener in some zero-G uterine vortex, pitching and rolling from the slo-burning exotic sensuality and tribal spell of 'The Tropical Year' to the trunk-bending, arpeggiated fast-track pulse of 'Storm Trees', through Raindance's feverish electro swing.
 
Entering a further abrasive, minerally rich phase, the B-side unleashes Adriani's dark side with optimum conviction. Deeply anchored in earthly materiality, this new evolution stage starts off to the frantic Italo bass of 'Dissolving Images', rushing headlong into a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of fractured reflections and nasty Giallo-like ambience. The delirious body stretch sequence then rather abruptly swerves onto a calmer flux with 'Dust/Mist', a much enticingly hip-swaying collaboration with Simon Crab, ex-member of the seminal '80s UK industrial-experimental band Bourbonese Qualk, before 'Casting The Runes' engulfs us into a tormented world of swollen eeriness and disquieting esoterism.
 
Back to a widescreen showcase of droney distortions, nasty acid swashes and other quirky drum programming, 'Hors De Combat' opens a new chapter, shortly followed by the playful bass intricacies and modular jeu-de-piste of 'Invisible Seekers', featuring Avian affiliate and longtime friend Shawn O'Sullivan. A further mind-expanding piece, C-side closer 'Crow' deploys its blackened wings wide and high as a chaos of martial percussions and liquefying synths slivers crash past the red-hot skyline. A fluttering melodic interlude, 'Things About To Disappear' blazes a clean trail for 'Make Words Split And Crack' to flourish, slowly but surely blooming into a nonstop grandiose twelve minute-shy finale geared up with the stirring cacophonic force of a Ligetian symphony and something of an epic-scale Kubrickian soundtrack.

all tracks (w)&(p) by Alessandro Adriani
between Berlin and Rome, 2016-2018
thanks to Shawn O’Sullivan and Simon Crab for their contribution
dedicated to my father Roberto:
“too near to god – to pray. too near to heaven – to fear.”
mastered @ Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA]
(p)&(c) Stroboscopic Artefacts 2019
Cat. No SALP008 / SACD011 – all rights reserved
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

Morphic Dreams

A1 - Alessandro Adriani - The Tropical Year [SALP008/SACD011]

For this month program we bring you music by the label Mannequin Records, launched in Rome, Italy by Alessandro Adriani in 2008. Now operating from Berlin, Germany, Mannequin is spreading cold waves for the melancholic with music by the labels boss Adriani, likeminded producers like Jasss, Black Merlin, De Sang Froid or Greek producer June, as well as archival work by electronic, industrial and wave veteran’s like Bourbonese Qualk from England, Italian synth queen Doris Norton or Berlin’s infamous Din A Testbild. 

For Carhartt WIP radio Alessandro Adriani prepared a mix, that introduces a deep digging selection from the extensive Mannequin Records catalogue, featuring artist like Arnaud Rebotini, Techno Bert, Group A or Caroline K.

As ever, we also sat down with this month’s host, posing a series of questions on his label, vision and work. Check the full feature at https://www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music.

tracklist:
1.: June - Dialogues (Interlude I) - MNQ 134
2.: Arnaud Rebotini - The Glove and The Whip - MNQ 144
3.: Amato & Adriani - The Language of Numbers - MNQ 137
4.: June - First Age - MNQ 134
5.: Techno Bert - Neue Dimensionen (Instrumental) - MNQ 094
6.: Chrome Corpse - Into-ition - MNQ 141 
7.: Le Syndicat Electronique - Tape du Pied - MNQ 145
8.: System 01 - Any Reality Is An Opinion - MNQ 140
9.: System 01 - Paralysed Force - MNQ 140
10.: Prequel Tapes - Twisted - MNQ 142
11.: Dona - La Crudeltà Delle Grandi Città - MNQ 138
12.: Dissemblance - Emutiex - MNQ 136
13.: Police des moeurs - Eternel Retour - MNQ 143
14.: Sam De La Rosa - Who Are You Today - MNQ 135
15.: Desolation Colony - The Lower Formations - MNQ 151
16.: group A - Almost, almost - MNQ 126
17.: Caroline K - Don't Believe It's Over - MNQ 130

https://www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/music/radio/2020/04/label-feature-mannequin-records

Carhartt WIP Radio April 2020: Mannequin Records Radio Show

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