Mannequin Records - Tracks

Nico Fidenco, "The Magic Is In Progress (Alessandro Adriani Remix)"

Two generations of Italian music history come together on this split 7″. Milan meets Rome, Fred Ventura meets Alessandro Adriani. For this occasion Adriani and Ventura covered the 82′ evergreen ‘Changing’ by Bill Bruce. The perfect combination to pay homage to this monumental piece of music. On the flip side Fred’s early 80’s new wave band State Of Art got the remix treatment by Alessandro’s moniker Newclear Waves. Another unique match of these two key figures preserving the 80’s underground sound of Italy.

From the Adriani & Ventura / State Of Art - Changing / Venice (Newclear Waves Remix) 7" out on Bordello A Parigi 21st of March. 

http://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/upcoming/adriani-ventura-state-of-art-changing-venice-remix-7/

Adriani & Ventura - Changing 7"

Fuoco

Alessandro Adriani - A man who would come here of his own free will

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MNQ 088 Plath - Plath 12'' (Alessandro Adriani Edit)

Originally self-released as a 7’’ in 1982, Plath release is definitely one of the obscure gems of the Italian underground.
Plath were a duo from Prato, formed in 1982 by Silvia Innocenti (voice, bass guitar) and Fabrizio Lucarini (synth, drum machine). Plath were influenced by Throbbing Gristle and early Cabaret Voltaire works, moving in between two essential thematic actions: first, the constant search of a sound which aims to reflect the current reality as they were interpretating it and, second, the constant exposure of their anarchist ideological thinking against the established political and social system.
While the A-Side includes the original single in full, with the classic ‘I Am Strange Now’, recently unearthed by Alessio Natalizia/Not Waving in his monumental ‘Mutazione’ compilation released by Strut Records in 2013, the B-side instead contains a killer percussive edit of Alessandro Adriani made for the most crazy mental dancefloors..

Tracklist

A1 - I Am Strange Now 
A2 - Proletarian Submission 2 (The Howl) 
A3 - Telik 12345 
B - Proletarian Submission 2 (Alessandro Adriani edit)

Mastering by Rude 66.
Graphic Design reworked by Alessandro Adriani on the original 7’’ graphics.

Limited edition of 300 copies, grey vinyl.

MNQ 088 Plath - Plath 12'' (Alessandro Adriani Edit)

Plath

Plath - Proletarian Submission 2 (Alessandro Adriani Remix)

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Mannequin Records is really proud to announce the 12’’ release of the Dutch Industrial band Zombies Under Stress. Started in 1984 as an industrial/electronic one-man project, lately expanding as a 7 persons multimedia collective, the band mainteined always during their career a pure industrial approach, through the use of analog synthesizers, microphones, effects and distorted acoustic sounds.

For this single we have selected 4 killer tracks for you: ‘Liberation’ and ‘Stalin’ from their 1985 cassette ‘Fanaticism & Hysteria’, this last one also presented in a “Seven Sisters of Putin” remix form, plus on the b-side the killer slow industrial-techno ‘Message’ from the cassette ‘Matrix Machinations’ (1996).

If you want to approach the true 80's industrial mentality then you are in the right place. 

Tracklist

A1 Stalin 
A2 Stalin (Seven-sisters of-putin-remix) 
B1 Message 
B2 Liberation 

Mastering by Rude 66.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani.

Limited edition of 300 copies, black vinyl.

MNQ 086 Zombies Under Stress - Stalin

Stalin

MNQ 086 Zombies Under Stress - Stalin 12''

pre order the tape here: https://berkanarecords.bandcamp.com/album/digital-morgue-i

He Is Everything And Also Nothing (tape Edit)

Harshly edged and unforgiving, title track 'The Healer' conjures all manner of sinister sonics over its 9 minute duration. Searing 303s run white hot and caustic atmospheres thicken and intensify with ominous growls of overdriven bass and distorted vocal transmissions. Drums increase in ferocity, evolving from stripped-back and skeletal to aggressive and unrelenting, thrashing violently as the track reaches its apex. Something that stands out is the clarity of the mix: elements that might be cumbersome or cacophonous are easily heard, all the while managing to retain Fallbeil's intended menace.

'The Healer' is out February 13th on Mannequin Records. 

Pre-order: bit.ly/2kzIhPO

Premiere: Fallbeil – The Healer [Mannequin Records]

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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.

Limited edition of 500 copies

Tracklist

A1 Intro
A2 Neue Dimensionen
B Neue Dimensionen (Instrumental)

Mastering by Rude 66.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani.

Neue Dimensionen

Techno Bert - Neue Dimensionen

"Assassin" by @sebastien_bouchet alias Sebastopol, featuring a remix of the title track by @alessandroadriani, will be out on June 02 through @correspondant. More info: bit.ly/Sebadriani

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