Releases & Remixes

R$N Premieres: August 2017

Ana's Flavourites vol. 28

SC&P 003 - Curses

SEPTEMBER 2017

Love Is The 1st Attempt Of Suicide-SEPTEMBER 2017 // Dark Electronics-Techno-Industrial-Dark Disco

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere "Novi Sad - M.S.K (Curses Dub)". The East London Noise Rock band invited Ombra International label boss Curses to remix their politically charged track "M.S.K", taken from their debut EP ‘Are You Ever Able?’ that was released earlier this year. Today we present Curses' Dub, an ultra-deviant EBM injected banger ready to tear the club up.

Out now on Bandcamp: https://novisad.bandcamp.com/album/m-s-k-curses-remixes

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PREMIERE: Novi Sad - M.S.K (Curses Dub)

In sheer rapture, Riotvan hereby announces... Curses, the most classy and charming prince of darkness that contemporary dance music has to offer, is debuting on the label with a new release. 

We’ve seen him on remix duties for New Hook recently. Still, here we find him submitting two originals, crafted with his regular companion, Dame Bonnet, on the bass and showcasing a rather tender sentiment within the signore’s emotional spectrum. 'Premonitions' aligns bass-driven Postpunk-verve with blissful synths and an overall romantic tuning that Human League or Tears For Fears would’ve sold some close relatives to achieve. 

'Salvation', on the other hand, builds a somewhat meditative, almost IDM-like grounding, on top of which Curses practices a head-spinning Talkbox-exorcism. 

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Curses - Premonitions/Salvations

PREMIERE: Curses - Premonitions [RIOTVAN]

Curses presents 'Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX' will be out October 20th, 2023

Read all about it -> https://post-punk.com/listen-to-curses-club-primed-remix-of-nuovo-testamentos-heartbeat-the-next-wave-acid-punx-deux-compilation-tracklist/

Exclusive remix of Los Angeles and Bologna based Nuovo Testamento's Heartbeat by Curses himself! Taken from the band's 2023 album Love Lines, Heartbeat - in its original form a shimmering italo synth pop number, part Danceteria-era Madonna, part Yazoo - has been ruthlessly retooled here by Curses for strobe lit sweatboxes. Shifting the emphasis from its sparkling synths and pop melody towards the rhythm section, the track's synth bass now dominates the track just as its martial kick drums and gated snares push us deeper into EBM territory.

‘Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX’ is a return to the dark romantic of the past, present and future. An undying passion for all things post-punk/wave/body music and beyond. Release date: October 20th. 2023

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Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX

Nuovo Testamento - Heartbeat (Curses Remix)[Eskimo Recordings]

Va - Submarine Club Vol.1 (Forthcoming September 8, 2023)
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CARGO Recording is a project initiated by the IBOAT’s team in Bordeaux. It supports artists through various tools such as a label, artistic residencies, workshops, publishing, professional accompaniment and visual arts. 

Submarine Club Vol.1 is the culmination of an artistic project and an accomplished vision of contemporary electronic music. In this first volume, 12 artists deliver their audio definition of the IBOAT Club and submarine dance. May this compilation bring you the dance and pleasure that club culture has given us for so many years.

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Curses - Streets Of NYC

Taking us on a sleazy, strobe lit tour of the darker corners of clubland Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX is the second compilation curated for Eskimo Recordings by Luca Venezia, aka Curses. Threading the needle between early industrial, EBM, post-punk experiments and some of the most exciting music being made today, the 49 track compilation also features some of Luca's own exclusive remixes such as his 'Revamp' of New Beat classic J.W.B. Hits The Beat's 'Body On Body'.

Originally released back in 1987, Curses' remix brings the track right up date, pushing the tempo and toughening up the drums whilst stripping it back down to focus on the portentous choral synth pads and teasing us with its ecstatic vocal samples before the effervescent Italo melody brings it all together. A perfect synthesis of past and present, much like the compilation it's taken from.

J.W.B. Hits The Beat - Body On Body (Curses Revamp) [Eskimo Recordings]

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Verse 1:

Fresh pair of them vans
Run off with my plans
I don’t listen no drama
Only listen my mama 

I should just run up with a two P and shut the game down
Fuck what they talk about we they only ones they wanna shut down 
But I got my partners.. I got my partners 
Come from the sand
Young premadonnas 

Put me in the sauna 
Be the coldest one there
I be the only one there
Looking like I don’t even care

Glass half full couple gold rings hanging off the Fiji 
yeah.
Shorty talk so bad bad but I swear you far from Rih Rih 
Yeah

Swear you far from near me
Swear you hoes aint near me 
So double back on your attitude
Keep you peace up say fuck the rule

Chorus

“ Go and get you money up.. 
Aint no time for that funny stuff
From the east, from the sunny thing
Skrt Skrt thru the sunny thing ..

Yeah.

X2

Verse 2

Oh you in trouble, oh you in trouble
Used to break down a twenkie 
Now I shave down a truffle 
Yea this the realist state
Im in a happy home
This the realist place
Sharing all my plates
Put you in your place 
Fuck what you say

Live by the code 
Born in the cold
Its all for the bros
Its all for the broo-oos

You prolly won’t be leave me 
If I tell you that I pray
Say you you a rapper
You prolly drink Alize

You must not worry about the pay
You must not worry about the shows
You must be blow all this cash up
You must be getting all these hoes ha 

Don’t believe all the lies baby
Keep the truth up fuck the lies baby
Keep your eyes ton he fucking  lines baby
Keep it up for the side ladies. 

Chorus

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Majeed - Fresh Pair (Prod by. A'Y)

Inga Mauer remixes Curses for SC&P 003 which you can pre-order here: https://goo.gl/HwFgH4

SC&P 003: Curses - Together In The Dark (Inga Mauer Remix)

The journey was awfully long. She watched the flickering lights pass by with a flash as the car moved purposefully along the motorway. In the distance she could see the towering presence of flats in the distance, they were nearing the city now. She had supposedly been taken here as a child but for the life of her she could not remember the visit. Now, some twenty years later she would return to the city to begin a new life. She leant into the warm leather interior of the car, sinking back and fell asleep.

Metropolitan Soul Museum feature as part of a new split EP in the Toy Tonics series. They deliver a smooth house cut alongside tracks from Black Loops and Jad & The...

PREMIERE: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Saaab [Toy Tonics]

Deep beneath the encrypted layers of security lay elusive material. These were the most restricted of folders under which only government access could allow entry. The state of the nation was left in a delicate balance based upon the content contained within. These were perilous times and the tension hung ominously in the air. 

Bauhaus is a newly formed record label from tel Aviv. The tracks have received early support from an array of big circuit dj's including Motor City Drum Ensemble who featured the following track back on his Worldwide FM show in June.

PREMIERE: PRZ Feat. Jerome C - XXX Files [Bauhaus]

The race started quickly on the sound of the gunshot. The orange polyurethane on which he ran had never looked so beautiful as his feet moved quickly back and forth. In the distance he observed his comrade readying himself to sprint off into the distance, for this was a relay and not for one man to win. The team had been training for years for this moment and the roar of the crowd was almost overwhelming. Never had they expected they would get this far. 

Factory Floor are remixed on the "2525+5" EP. Alongside two original tracks Charles Manier, Jlin and Klara Lewis have been recruited to provide alternate versions.

2525+5

PREMIERE: Factory Floor - Relay (Charles Manier Remix)[DFA]

She licked her lips provocatively as she stared him up and down. In the distance there was music playing but the pair cared not for such ambience beneath the glow of the moonlight. Before them the waves rolled gracefully upon the dusty sand, the palm trees blowing delicately in the warm air. The sky was a bitter shade of black, the stars faintly visible behind the gloomy clouds. This was not some sort of peaceful paradise but a stormy romance on an island lost. 

Smagghe & Cross return following recent releases on Offen Music and our own Ransom Note Records imprint. The pair deliver an intriguing EP for Glasgow based record label Huntleys & Palmers.

BLTRS06

PREMIERE: Smagghe & Cross - MMMMMMM [Huntleys & Palmers]

The gang were eager with anticipation. They hung in the car park behind the back of the shopping mall, sat perched upon trolleys and dirt. Cars stayed well clear of the patch, they knew that if they were to cross paths with 'la cosa nostra' then they may well live to regret it. The leader of the pack, a tall tanned gentleman stood several feet away chain smoking cigarettes whilst surveying what lay before. 

Aa3 have just released 'Eradicate Ex Machina' on USB. Starving Poet is the artistic project of New York-based Rose Knapp. Listen to a remix of "La Cosa Nostra" by RN500.

PREMIERE: Starving Poet - La Cosa Nostra (RN500's Waste Management Mix)[Aa3 Corp]

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Lyrics

I’m Happy as I am 
Cause I’m leaving 
Days will be the same 
In a different way 

Going to a place 
Where I used to stay 
Writing something new 
In this home I know 

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog 
Won’t die in the city 

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog won’t die in the city

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog 
Won’t die in the city 

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog won’t die in the city

Right eyelids closed 
Both feet behind 
I aim for tomorrow 
Work on my mind 

Going to a place 
Where I used to stay 
Writing something new 
In this home I know 

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog 
Won’t die in the city 

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog won’t die in the city

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog 
Won’t die in the city 

We’ll be all right 
Stay here some time 
This country dog won’t die in the city

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Label-head Florian Meindl recently released his third artist album „Time Illusion“ on FLASH and is preparing the album remixes from Sigha, Lucy and TWR72. 

In the meanwhile you can take a quick look into the past with this collection of remastered Remixes including the legendary 18min long Radio Slave Remix of „8bit Romance“, Stephan Bodzin’s timeless masterpiece of „The Beginning“ as well as Electric Rescue’s sophisticated deep remix of „Solitaire“. 

In addition to those three remixes Florian did a fresh beatless drone rework of 8 Bit Romance with his modular synthesizers and other analog gear.

8 bit romance

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Florian Meindl - 8 Bit Romance (Radio Slave's Deepest Space Remix Remastered) [ FLASH 183 ]

London based club night and newly formed label Snap Crackle & Pop's third releases comes in the form of a dark take on new wave influenced techno from Berlin based New Yorker Curses. Side A kicks off with a hypnotic techno stomper Another View which playfully tips its hat to early electro albeit through a visor of coldwave inspired guitars. Together In The Dark delves into even darker territores with ice cold organs reaching for the light through the grinding ambient yet groovy undertones. On the B-side Inga Mauer ramps up the dancefloor tension with her machine like acid rework pulsating and crashing urgently Together In The Dark, whilst The Golden Filter turn out a low slung trip of brooding synths and haunting vocals before cascading down the rabbit hole in a swell of industrial motorik beats and percussive explosions in their take on Another View.

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PREMIERE : Curses - Another View (The Golden Filter ReVision)

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Grievance

Smagghe & Cross - MMMMMMM (Jackie House Generators Remix ft. Kevin Clarke and Marke B.)

A straight-up EBM bruiser bearing all the best hallmarks of the genre from Anders Karlsson's @celldod alias, taken from a cassette on Antonio's @smashingtaperecords.

'Korruption' is out September 4th on Smashing Tape Records. 

Pre-order: bit.ly/2euwTq1

Premiere: Celldöd – Res Dig Upp [Smashing Tape]

They held one another's hands tightly. The two were the last ones left in the damp, dark, dirty basement. Running from the cops, together in the dark, they were the last to be caught and captured for a crime in which they had not been involved. Outside the whirring sirens could be heard from miles away, the shudder of a helicopter cut coarsely through the black night sky and from time to time a beam of light would illuminate where they lay through the window.

Curses is set to release a new EP on London based record label and party series SC&P. The Berlin based producer has taken a moody turn on the new release which he describes as follows: 

"Since moving to Berlin, I found myself embracing my post-punk, new wave and rock & roll roots more than ever and incorporating it into my production and sets. Together In the Dark is about the disappearance of fear in unfamiliar and uncomfortable realities and embracing new light to move forward."

Another View [SC&P 003]

PREMIERE: Curses - Together In The Dark [SC&P]

While frontiers currently seem to be (re)claimed and shutting down, we, at Série Limitée, prefer going against the consensus. We proudly and loudly open up our doors to four new artists, Deep 88, Sofotalk, Kisk and The Happy Man. From Italy to Spain, our little musical caravan travels and wanders on paths and tracks made out of raw house beat leaves, fusion jazz trunks and deep groove fields, to bring to you this new VA, our 10th, faithful to our long time recipe: 300 press, and no digital! Step in and join us.

Diego Ocejo, aka The Happy Man, is closing the journey. True explorer himself, highly influenced by hip hop, he started producing five years ago, alongside his career as an illustrator and engraver. A mad records and drum machines-collector in his spare time, this young DJ / producer is pushed by the famous drive called “more”, more new things, more fresh things, more challenging things. His musical sets are but the result of it all, linking house and disco together with some frequent detours via jazz and funk, and endless groovy road. 
Grab our hands, step in with us: it’s time for “Pizza Hug”. It will be the last little dance before our trip ends. It will be a special one. It will be a warm one. It will be the kind of dance that makes you never want to stop.
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PREMIERE : The Happy Man - Pizza Hug

I'm pretty happy with this one and I hope you will be too

Mopeworld

Snug

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"Another View" is available 11 September on Snap, Crackle & Pop

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Premiere: Curses - Another View (Original Mix)

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