Double Single: Forgotten Place / She’s the Night

Shadow-drenched synths, pulsating basslines, reverb-heavy guitar textures, and moody atmospheres collide in this darkwave / EBM-infused release. This is a two-track journey through tension, rhythm, and release—where faded sorrows meets nocturnal melodies.

Forgotten Place / She’s the Night

She's the Night

BANISMENT

★ based on the 1978 song "Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" by US artist JOHNNY THUNDERS ★ more shred here : soundcloud.com/le-slapon/sets/gazed-diffused ★

𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒 : 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺

★ based on the 2025 song "Because We Built It" by US artist JOHN MAUS ★ more shred here : soundcloud.com/le-slapon/sets/gazed-diffused ★

𝐎𝐑𝐆 : 𝙒𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙄𝙩 (𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙼𝚊𝚞𝚜 ᶜᵒᵛᵉʳ)

Ever waited for a train in the middle of October fog, only to realize your real crisis isn’t the delay but the lack of vowels on the station sign? 🫠 This is that moment turned into chillwave: ghost-trains, trembling rails, and a narrator who’s on his knees not for love, but for A, E, I, O, U.

It’s a misty slow-motion dream where vowels are contraband, consonants clatter like empty carriages, and the station announcer sounds like a deadpan Kafka character. “Ladies and gentlemen, all vowels have been suspended indefinitely” — and somehow you’re still scrolling Telegram.

Think Twin Peaks meets Wheel of Fortune in a night train with no destination. This track isn’t just about missing letters; it’s about the absurd poetry of losing the little things that make life sing. Chill, weird, melancholy — but funny enough to make you whisper “Lalala — give me my ‘A’” in public transport.

Lyrics:

I stand in the fog, platform of despair,
Steel bones trembling, October air.
But what haunts me most — not death, not time,
It’s a word with no vowels, an unholy crime.

No way forward, no way back,
A consonant curse on a broken track.
People fear ghosts, I fear the sign —
A skeleton name with no vowel inside.

Oh please, I beg you please — give me vowels, I ask you on my knees.
A, E, I, O, U — I’d even pay a fee,
Without your song I’ll never be free. 

A nameless station in the middle of night,
But I only complain the spelling ain’t right.
I don’t pray for love, I don’t pray for light,
I just want an “E” to make it polite.

“Ladies and gentlemen, due to technical difficulties,
All vowels have been suspended indefinitely.
Please form an orderly line at the KRC station.”

Lalala — give me my “A”
Ooh ooh ooh — I need my “U”
Echoes ring, but none reply,
A vowelless world where hope will die.

Oh please, I beg you please — give me vowels, I ask you on my knees.
A, E, I, O, U — come back to me,
Without your sound, I’ll never be free.

Vowels

The EP contains four titles written, recorded and produced in autumn 2021 in a pretty straightforward fashion using a small setup of four synthesizers, a drum computer and voices.

"The texts on the EP depict a past state of intimate chaos, crisis, loss of control and upheavals... It is not always clear whether it's everyday life or more cinematic scenes that are described here, or if these things happened on a molecular level."

OPERON, was released on the Belgian label Antibody.
Brussels based Antibody is a label specializing in de(con)structed forms of Techno, New Wave, EBM, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Sound Art, Metal and Noise.

IM WIND

IN LEEREN STÄDTEN

Welcome to the Ministry of Touch — a government office where love has to wait in line, kisses need carbon copies, and romance is strictly by appointment only.

This track is chillwave bureaucracy:
✨ synths as fluorescent as office lights,
✨ beats as mechanical as a stamp machine,
✨ and longing that’s been filed in triplicate under “Affection Denied.”

Imagine Kafka moonlighting as a nightclub clerk, or your typewriter secretly yearning for skin. That’s the vibe.

So clock in, pull a lever, and let the Kiss Operator process your feelings. Don’t forget Form C — without it, you’ll never dance.

Lyrics:

I punch my card at the Ministry of Touch,
Fluorescent lights, the rules too much.
Every sigh must be signed in blue,
Every kiss must be numbered too.

Stacks of files marked “Affection Denied,”
Love in triplicate, stapled inside.
A window clerk asks, “Do you have form C?”
Without it, darling, you’ll never kiss me.

I’m the kiss operator,
Stuck inside this state machine.
Stamps and seals for every feeling,
Nothing’s ever what it seems.
Conveyor belts of silent yearning,
Levers pulled but hearts don’t move.
I’m the kiss operator,
Processing a love I can’t approve.

The phones all ring but no one replies,
The air tastes dry, fluorescent lies.
A shadow writes minutes of my desire,
Ink-smudged lips in a filing fire.

The supervisor coughs: “No passion today.”
He locks the drawer, he hides the way.
But even the typewriter dreams of skin,
Letters falling where kisses should’ve been.

I’m the kiss operator,
Stuck inside this state machine.
Stamps and seals for every feeling,
Nothing’s ever what it seems.
Conveyor belts of silent yearning,
Levers pulled but hearts don’t move.
I’m the kiss operator,
Processing a love I can’t approve.

Pages flutter like wings of shame,
The system erases your tender name.
But in the margins, scribbled small,
A secret kiss escapes it all.

I clock out late, the corridors hum,
No lips to count, no love to come.
The keys all rust, the papers fade,
But the kiss operator
stays on parade.

Kiss Operator

Leere Städte's music is characterised by an intuitive fusion of genres reminiscent of electro, wave and new beat. A keen sense of harmony and analogue electronic instruments shape the sound.

Recording and performing electronic music as a part of cult EBM project Die Selektion for over a decade, Berlin-based musician Leere Städte has also been recording as a solo project for a while now.

The debut EP, OPERON, was released on the Belgian label Antibody.
Brussels based Antibody is a label specializing in de(con)structed forms of Techno, New Wave, EBM, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Sound Art, Metal and Noise.

The following single, Leerraum, was released by the label Miseria, which focuses on compilations and encompasses genres such as Nu Goth, Synth Punk, CyberPunk, Wave, EBM, Techno, Industrial, New Beat and Noise.

In addition to releases on compilations, another release will appear sooner or later to continue the story of the OPERON EP.

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