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John Maus - The Silent Chorus

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Cukor Bila Smert’ - Recordings 1990—1993
Release Date: 15.04.2024
Format: 2xLP vinyl 

Cukor Bila Smerť (Ukrainian: Цукор — біла смерть, IPA: [ˈt͡sukɔr ˈbʲiɫɐ smɛrtʲ]; lit. Sugar — White Death) was a Ukrainian rock band formed in Kyiv, Ukraine. The band was active from 1988, until its dissolution in 1993. It was one of the first bands that initiated the creation of the ethno-gothic scene in Ukraine. Considered to be one of the most prominent music bands of Ukrainian underground.
The main figure of this project was Svitlana Nianio. After graduating from music school with a degree in piano, she began composing music. At first, she played with cellist Tamila Mazur. Sugar - White Death was formed when they were joined by guitarist Jevhen Taran and pianist Oleksandr Kochanovskyj.[3] The band significantly differed from the music of that time by high female vocals, non-sensical lyrics, and, previously unknown, instrumental-gothic performance.

Liner notes:
https://muscut.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-1990-1993

Recordings 1990-1993

The Great Hen-Yuan’ River

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Cukor Bila Smert’ - The Great Hen-Yuan’ River

possibly maybe (lucy mix) is a remix by mark bell, taken from the possibly maybe single, originally released in 1996.

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björk : possibly maybe (lucy mix) - 1996

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poeme electronique - rendezvous

The Law (John Maus Cover)

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Another Dark Age is proud to release Exek's debut LP, Biased Advice, which follows one self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). The album collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realisation of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne’s live gig circuit. 

Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesiser), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and together they began recording material according to Wolski 's vision.

"Then they were there, on my arms, on my legs, everywhere." - 'Foregin Lesions'

The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy’s Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering,  Essendon Airport’s Palimpsest LP (1981). But Exek  dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new wave scene reaching out to  German post-punk of the same era. Wolski’s songwriting is akin to that of the records put out by Hannover’s No Fun Records and Hamburg’s Zickzack, channeling the droll lyricism of The 39 Clocks and saturated with self-deprecating Attitude. 

"New friends, new influence, new ring around the finger, a hedonist who finds regret.”  - ‘A Hedonist’

Exek are messengers for today’s young, unemployed, immobile, self-obsessed middle-class.  The themes of societal isolation, heartbreak, consumerism are all funnelled through metaphors of terminal illness, monsters and bondage. Their vision mirrors Tuxedomoon’s ‘Holiday for Plywood’ but crucially Biased Advice is a sermon that Exek preach to themselves. The band pit themselves as both victims and saviours living in a world that’s trying to extinguish them, or worse still, mould them into boring automatons. 

“Spitting image, two legged, stick figured, adolescent, disinfectant, replicant.”  - ‘Replicate’

The conceptual weight carried in Wolski’s lyrics follows on from process. Dub and other studio techniques are used throughout Biased Advice and are no better evidenced in the 16-minute modern (and instant) classic, ‘Baby Giant Squid.’ This song remains unchanged from it’s cassette release on Melbourne’s Resistance/Restraint label but spread out over one side of a record it lays bare its perfection. Basslines that stand out one moment give way to dubbed out percussion, hissing tape delay and reverb drenched vocals. Simply, this post-kraut-dub-psyche-punk excursion looks back over it’s shoulder as it leaves ‘Bella Lugosi’s Dead’ for dead. It’s a sublime balance of improvisation and cold calculation. 

“Excitement entails the probability of murder to eliminate stress.”  - ‘Baby Giant Squid’

It’s the tension between this teetering psychotic nihilism and arrangement with studio-like precision that gives Biased Advice the tone of a forewarning. But of what?

“Listen well.”  - ‘Submitted’

Exek - A Hedonist

Remix of the GGD song "Chinese High" by the amazing amazing LA duo Nguzunguzu

Nguzunguzu x Gang Gang Dance "Chinese High" Remix

Exploded View's 'Summer Came Early' EP isout November 10 on Sacred Bones Records.
12" EP Preorder: https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr180-exploded-view-summer-came-early-ep
Digital Preorder: https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/album/summer-came-early-ep

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Summer Came Early

From "Die Lieder: 1981, 1983, 1986"
Cassette, $7
Here: http://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/die-lieder-1981-1983-1986/

Die Welttraumforscher -  Glücklich Traurig, Seltsam (Binika, 1986)

First song from the debut LP of French quartet Rose Mercie co-released with SDZ and Jelodanti Records!

This comes out in the states on March 2nd 2018. Presale will be up in February. 

Louann (batterie, guitare, synthé) + Inès (synthé, guitare, batterie) + Charlotte (guitare, synthé, batterie) + Michèle (guitare, batterie) = all singing

Rose Mercie - Spring And Fall

SAINT LAURENT / COLLECTION V
WOMEN FALL WINTER 13
MARCH 4TH 2013 20H

MUSIC FOR SAINT LAURENT
RECORDED ON THE ROAD IN AUSTRALIA AND ASIA 
"TIDAL WAVE '13" BY THEE OH SEES

WATCH THE FULL SHOW ON : http://www.ysl.com
ARTWORK : THEODORA ALLEN 

"TIDAL WAVE '13" BY THEE OH SEES

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