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hang me alongside the scarecrow

22 Tracks in 2018... and the rest is NOISE.

Tobins Spirit Guide

Centaur Pinball

Gorgar

Twilight Zone

Medusa

When asked to describe the circumstances that influenced her beautifully fraught new work, Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson—better known simply as Anika—quickly articulates a set of feelings and unpredictable circumstances that are familiar to anyone who tried to make art—or simply tried to live through—the recent global pandemic. “It’s a moment caught in time,” she says of Change, her much-anticipated new record. Given that it has been 11 years since the release of her last solo album, 2010 cult-favorite Anika, the artist suddenly found herself with a lot to say. “This album had been planned for a little while and the circumstances of its inception were quite different to what had been expected. This colored the album quite significantly. The lyrics were all written there on the spot. It’s a vomit of emotions, anxieties, empowerment, and of thoughts like—How can this go on? How can we go on?”

Having worked collaboratively in the past with the likes of BEAK> and Mexico City’s Exploded View, Change was ultimately the product of necessity. “After recording the initial ideas alone at Klangbild studios in Berlin, a few months later and by some stroke of luck, Mr. Martin Thulin of Exploded View, managed to make his way over from Mexico, to co-produce the album with me and play some live drums and bass,” recalls Anika. “Between Reality Baitz and Impression Recordings in Berlin, we managed to get the album together.

The intimacy of its creation and a palpable sense of global anxiety are seemingly baked into the DNA of Change. Spread across nine tracks, the central feeling of the record is one of heightened frustration buoyed by guarded optimism. The songs offer skittering, austere electronic backdrops reminiscent of classic Broadcast records or High Scores-era Boards of Canada, playing them against Anika’s remarkable voice—Nico-esque, beautifully plaintive, and—in regards to the record’s subject matter—totally resolute. Incantatory tracks like “Naysayer” and “Never Coming Back” are both, as Anika explains them, both a call to arms and a warning. “Never Coming Back” was written after reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,” she explains. “I was living in the old East countryside outside of Berlin, where there seemed to be no shortage of birds. Apparently their numbers have dropped significantly, but it is one of these changes that we never really stop and notice. We take things for granted, until it’s too late. With all this other noise going on, care for the environment has quickly been moved to the back-burner. So long as we get what we want NOW and on demand, who cares about whether we are taking care of the future?”

Finger Pies

"Lonely Richard" appears on Love, out now. 

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Amen Dunes - Lonely Richard

From The Endless Winter Sessions, recorded by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording in Philadelphia.

Focus

no dana, only zuul

Watch it Burn:
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Proud to announce that this is the first song released under Taco Bell's new Cheesy Gordita Summer Music Slam®*

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Dunes

Juve & Fandor

This my version of Fovea Hex's piece "All Those Signs" released on 21 June 2017. I was particularly inspired by the original song and was very pleased to contribute to this release.

This remix is contained on the Bonus Cd only which can be found here:
http://janetrecords.com/2017/buy.html

Their original version can be listened here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0dEukZyfQ

The Salt Garden II

FOVEA HEX - We Dream All The Dark Away (Abul Mogard Remix)

From 'Freedom,' out now.
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Amen Dunes - Believe

This week on the MNMT podcast, we welcome our very own Editor in Chief and Head of Premieres; https://soundcloud.com/paulakoski, showcasing her passion for dark, textured and driving sounds.

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MNMT 188: Paula Koski

Beta Evers - Eruptive
Mr.Pauli - Der Alte
Silent Signals  -  Waiting For Reaction  
Rude 66 - The 1000 Year Storm 
Legowelt - Geneva Hideout 
Mr. Clavio  -  Tsjupa Tsjupa  

no dana, only zuul

Valley Exit