WL//WH is very pleased to premiere "Blocage Violent", the fourth song from Impair Pierre's forthcoming 12-track debut album, "Promenades de Jour", due out this November 2, 2023, via London-based DIY label Meta Moto.
Somehow recalling the melancholy-laden vibrant wave of early Indochine entangled with The Cure-like sparkly baritone 6-string hypnotism, "Blocage Violent", sound-wise, is an obsessive pain-staking release of anxiety...with wistful, restless vocals reciting an extensive list of items blocked on a personal computer to avoid discomfort.
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Impair Pierre is the new alias of French electronic multi-instrumentalist and composer Léonard Lampion (also part of Hard Lab and Peep Night), created as an escape route from dark basements and the influence of club music. Since 2017, Impair Pierre has been writing songs in his office in Grenoble, that oscillate between Minimal Wave and Post-punk, using synthesizers, guitar, and voice. Finding inspiration in the events of everyday life, he seeks to develop a form of minimalism.
omenades de jour - this record developed from a desire to write songs that were relatively refined and spontaneous. It brings together experiments with the Yamaha PS-20 synth, songs imbued with a certain melancholy, and others with a more satirical bent. The record is a succession of photos, landscapes, and situations both real and imaginary, like a walk in the spring sun.
French: Impair Pierre est le nouvel alias de Léonard Lampion créé pour sortir des caves sombres et s’affranchir de l’influence du club. Impair Pierre écrit des chansons depuis son bureau de Grenoble depuis 2017 avec différents synthétiseurs, sa guitare et chante sur certains morceaux. L’inspiration lui vient du quotidien et il recherche une forme de minimalisme.
Promenades de jour - L’album naît de la volonté d’écrire des chansons, relativement épurées et spontanées. Il regroupe des expérimentations inspirées par le synthé yamaha PS-20, des chansons imprégnées d’un certaine mélancolie et d’autres plus satiriques. L’album est une succession de photos, paysages, situations vécues ou imaginées, comme une promenade sous le soleil de printemps.
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Artist: Impair Pierre  @leonard-lampion
Album: Promenades de jour
Label: Meta Moto @metamoto
Music and lyrics: Léonard Lampion
Mastering: Kill Shelter
Artwork: Bell Riots
Format: Tape / Digital
Release date: November 2, 2023
Pre-order: metamoto.bandcamp.com/album/impair-p…enades-de-jour

Follow Impair Pierre:
SC: @leonard-lampion
IG: www.instagram.com/leonardlampion/
Follow Meta Moto: 
FB: www.facebook.com/metamotometamoto
IG: www.instagram.com/metamotometamoto/

More info on WL//WH blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premiere-from-cliff-to-computer-blocage-violent-by-impair-pierre/

WL//WH Premiere: IMPAIR PIERRE - "Blocage Violent" [META MOTO]

In our series of TONN Guest Mixes, DJ Alexzandra of Transmission Transmisja has curated a special 2 part mixtape from TONN Recordings catalogue, giving us an insight into her personal journey through music, to share a rich and inspiring electronic selection with the listener.

TONN EDITS 014 - DJ Alexandra - Nightwalk Vol. 2

Featuring music from TONN Recordings catalogue by:

Andy Oppenheimer & Crystalline Stricture ‘Ballad Of Artemis & Orion’
Iv/An Nocturnal Remix for FOKKER ‘The City Under This City’
Crystalline Stricture ‘Body Addiction’
This Is The Bridge ‘Progressive’
Grimdeluxe ‘The Waiting Room’
guinæpig cover of MADMOIZEL's ’Voulez-vous’
David P. ‘El Adios’

All of the music featured in this Mix is available on TONN Recordings Bandcamp. 

Image © Aleksandra Gołąb of Transmission Transmisja
Design by Nieuw NDG

TONN EDITS 014

Nightwalk Vol 2

TONN EDITS 014 - DJ Alekzandra - Nightwalk Mix Vol. 2

In our series of TONN Guest Mixes, DJ Alexzandra of Transmission Transmisja has curated a special 2 part mixtape from TONN Recordings catalogue, giving us an insight into her personal journey through music, to share a rich and inspiring electronic selection with the listener.

TONN EDITS 014 - DJ Alexandra - Nightwalk Vol. 1

Featuring music from TONN Recordings catalogue by:

Misfortunes - ‘Intro To A Growing World’
Grmideluxe ‘Going Up Going Down’
LoveTheMachine & Fokker ‘Red Flags And White Stripes’
guinaepig ‘Evaporate’
Monsieur Crane ‘Clair’
MADMOIZEL ‘Morning Light’
Our Unseen Guest ‘Stars’
Andy Oppenheimer & Crystalline Stricture ‘Forever Fire’

All of the music featured in this Mix is available on TONN Recordings Bandcamp. 

Image © Aleksandra Gołąb of Transmission Transmisja
Design by Nieuw NDG

Nightwalk Vol 1

TONN EDITS 014 - DJ Alekzandra - Nightwalk Mix Vol. 1

Not A Horse

Hey Hiroshima (demo)

Greek DIY label DYSTATIK (@dystatik), run by Athenian DJ/producer dry_feel (@dry_feel), welcomes on board a Darkwave duo from Thessaloniki, Greece founded by tristixia and sofia spyridonidou, named Kama Muta. On Kama Muta's debut album on Dystatik, the band introduces us 8 +1 bonus (cassette & digital) tracks, fluctuating from Synth Pop to Darkwave and from Minimal Synth to Synth Punk sounds, when the same time, the lyrics unfolding an allegorical story within a dystopian setting. An infinite buzz in a boundless echo. 8 times that the voices burned.
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"A diver stares at a fire victim

forcing him to sink...

then burning together"

WL//WH is pleased to premiere "Δύτης / Diver", an off-kilter dystopian allegory, introduced by sad ceremonial glowing keyboard swells, unfolds over the resounding rhythms of tight crashing drum beats, and tense buzzing bassline pulses, surrounded by alarming glaring synth vortexes, to coalesce in an obsessive dramatic backdrop for ominous spoken word vocals, rising, albeit briefly, in terror as an attempt to save another tragically fails for both.
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ARTIST: Kama Muta (@tristixia)
LABEL: Dystatik
TITLE LP: ΟΙ ΦΩΝΕΣ ΚΑΗΚΑΝ / Voices got burned
FORMAT: Cassette & Digital
ARTWORK: Dry_Feel
MIX/MASTER: Savas Kaisaritis
RELEASE DATE: January 13, 2024

PURCHASE: https://dystatik.bandcamp.com/album/kama-muta

More info on WL//WH blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/p94onm-lhd/

ΟΙ ΦΩΝΕΣ ΚΑΗΚΑΝ

WL//WH Premiere: KAMA MUTA - "Δύτης / Diver" off the debut LP "ΟΙ ΦΩΝΕΣ ΚΑΗΚΑΝ" [Dystatik]

I’ve been waiting all alone, waiting for you 
to claw out my soul, I need it too
you were all that I knew, you broke me down

I was so in love
you broke me down 
you broke me down 

she said 
she said that I have crashout eyes and im not right, I’ll never get the chance to say 

sorry lover
sorry lover 
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover 

are you there in the night-time baby
is it you 
is it you 

how I love to dance right by my grave
tombstone you are cold just like me
will you ever come home
into my rotting arms
in my rotting arms 
to my rotting arms

she said 
she said that I have crashout eyes and im not right, I’ll never get the chance to say 

sorry lover
sorry lover 
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover
sorry lover 

are you there in the night-time baby
is it you 
is it you

crashout eyes

Banging Heads

Track 2 - Unrequited Love
from Dawsy's second studio album, self-titled "Dawsy"
BANDBOY Records 2025

crashout eyes

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