Cold wave / Ethereal wave / Minimal Synth

Candy Walls

Stock

Song taken from debut LP "Minor Blues"
Grab the new repress in transparent blue vinyl
here: https://shadshadows.bandcamp.com/album/minor-blues

Minor Blues

HTRK – Body Lotion

Body Lotion is a collaboration between Belgium's Sleeperhold Publications, Australian duo HTRK and London-based artist David Ferrando Giraut. The three tracks on the record—"Sugar," "Punch" and the title track, "Body Lotion"—date back to the sessions that led to the band's 2011 album, Work (Work Work). For any HTRK fan, the opportunity to hear three unheard Work (Work Work)-era tracks is reason for both celebration and reflection. Two of the songs feature the unmistakable basslines of Sean Stewart, who died in 2010, before Work (Work Work) was released. 

Both "Sugar" and "Punch" were recorded live in HTRK's London rehearsal room, the then trio of Jonnine Standish, Nigel Lee-Yang and Sean Stewart. On "Sugar," Jonnine's voice smolders through smeared drums and Sean's bassline. "Punch" is spare and confessionary; "Body Lotion" is suggestive, winking and bruised, a trademark HTRK hook submerged beneath the murk. All three tracks mutated from the recording sessions that ultimately led to Work (Work Work) track "Slo Glo." While they all stand as striking individual songs, they share subtle elements in common—a lyrical idea here, some guitar parts there. 

David Ferrando Giraut's distinctive artwork adorns Body Lotion's sleeve and one side of the wax. (All three tracks feature on the record's A-side.) The Spanish artist has a deep and intimate connection to HTRK—he was living with Nigel in London at a time when Sean would visit to sketch out songs in Nigel's tiny room. They've collaborated before, too: Jonnine has narrated and appeared in some of his films, while Nigel has provided the music. Giraut's previous installations have often carried a musical lean—he's used LP covers and turntables in the past—and he's found a rich stream of creative inspiration in music's ability to create meaning and change in memory and behaviour.

This year has seen HTRK return with Psychic 9-5 Club, a bold and triumphant album, one that marked the beginning of a new era for Nigel and Jonnine. Body Lotion presents a beautiful, bittersweet glimpse into the recent past. 

About Sleeperhold Publications:

Sleeperhold is a Belgian-based publication platform. It's aim: to produce ten outputs, spanning different realms of the arts, and then cease to exist. Its current project is a run of ten vinyl records—HTRK's 12-inch follow previous efforts from Tropic Of Cancer, Moon Duo and Disappears. Before the vinyl series, Sleeperhold put out a photobook, a poster set, a deck of cards and short stories. They say: "There is no recurring theme, there is no recurring format, there is no recurring audience."

SHP #5.4: HTRK - Body Lotion

TUXEDO GLEAM|PRINCESS DYE SPLIT 
https://tuxedogleam.bandcamp.com/album/tuxedo-gleam-princess-dye-split

Tuxedo Gleam - Truth

From the forthcoming 12" 'Cruel Game' by Nouvelle Phénomène on Bordello A Parigi.

Out late summer 2015.

https://soundcloud.com/nouvellephenomene
https://soundcloud.com/bordelloaparigi

Nouvelle Phénomène - Cruel Game (Vanzetti & Sacco Remix)

Banger alert! Here is the second premiere of the week : after their "Glory Of Romance" LP out on Other Voices Records in 2013, new wave band Nouvelle Phénomène from Budapest is about to unleash a new EP on long time fav and unstoppable label Bordello A Parigi. It features a remix of the title track by Vanzetti & Sacco​ and one of B side "Au Fond De Mon Coeur" by Rotterdam's Machinegewehr, the latter being exclusively brought to you by LYO! Solid club beat, great synths and epic melodies, French vocals and laser noises, what's not to like? "Cruel Game" will be out on Bordello A Parigi early October.

PREMIERE : Nouvelle Phénomène : Au Fond De Mon Coeur (Machinegewehr Remix)

Here is a re-upload due to popular demand

Valentine

Bringing together analog and virtual analog hardware synths... :-) (anyway most parts are MS-20)

SignalShaper | Korg MS-20 mini & SQ-1 / Nord Lead 2 | Mekon-3

Song taken from debut LP "Minor Blues"
digital available here:
https://shadshadows.bandcamp.com/album/minor-blues-dsk-011
and iTunes 
follow us also on Spotify and Apple Music

Big Dipper

From Stop Suffering EP, Blackest Ever Black 2015

I Woke Up and the Storm Was Over

Fumes

Dormir - Rendezvous

An unreleased out-take from the Soir album recording sessions.

Instrumentation: Roland SH-101, Crumar Orchestrator, Arp Odyssey, Roland JX-8P, Roland CR-78. Treatments: Eventide Harmonizer, Roland DEP-5.

Soir is available on vinyl and double cd from Cold Beats Records: https://coldbeatsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soir

L'Avenir -  Les vieux jours

Music For 2 Synthesizers

Survive is the first single of M!R!M's new album, The Visionary, out January 31 on Avant!Records.
Pre-Order now available: https://m-r-m.bandcamp.com/

The Visionary

Survive

A Track from the L'Avenir debut album "Collapsing Silence". Out on Beläten Fall 2013. Gear used on this track: Arturia MiniBrute, Roland SH-101, Roland TR-606, DSI Mopho, Crumar Multiman.

L'Avenir - Fallout

Written and produced by hørd
Mastered by Luminance

From the split Ep with Volcan, out on Objet Trouvé Label
Available in vinyl and mp3

Cold wave / Ethereal wave / Minimal Synth

Jeremy Tobacco