Gabe Knox - ABC

Following 1 or 2 small run / mailorder lathe cuts, Polytechnic Youth follow it’s hugely successful Popcorn Lung label compilation LP, with it’s first full length of the new year, and man… this one is just wonderful! A mighty record to kick off what promises to be another hugely productive, constantly busy year for the Crouch End based synth label.

ABC represents a compilation of the best songs of the first three EPs, subtly remixed and remastered to best suit vinyl. This really is a remarkable record. Displaying all the PY traits of icy cool blasts of minimal synth, motorik grooves, melodic pop via passing nods to early Mute and Sky records. Think the drive shaft of Neu!, the punishing low end of King Tubby, the interleaved melodic lines of Vince Clarke, the melancholic, otherworldly whimsy of Raymond Scott and Delia Derbyshire, the hypnotic drone of Spacemen 3, and the analogue intimacy of Le Car.

LP

Posted on May 15th, 2019 under Releases, ,

Ela Orleans - Movies For Ears

Movies For Ears is a retrospective collection of works by Polish-born, Glasgow-based artist Ela Orleans which navigates almost two decades of songwriting in the heart of the global pop underground. This remastered collection casts an ear over what Orleans might call the ‘pop sensibility’ within her back catalogue. Released previously on a number of small DIY labels, Orleans’ music coincided with the explosion of auto-didactic musicians finding their voice in the age of the blogosphere, artists emboldened by the democratisation of music-making afforded by the internet. From the outset, Orleans’ childhood studying formal music mixed with cut-up techniques, sampling, sound-art and experimentation to create a distinctive signature cloaked in an innate melancholy and playfulness. Fully remastered by James Plotkin, featuring extensive sleeve-notes and rare photos from Orleans’ archive, Movies For Ears presents an appraisal of the musician’s work, painting a portrait of an artist with an uncanny ability to evoke emotions and ghosts of memories in the listener.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on May 13th, 2019 under Releases, ,

December - Night Of Nights

The newest offering on Pinkman Broken Dreams: Rough, noisy and cataclysmic machine music, seasoned with industrial and EBM influences, by Frenchman December. Every single bit as uncompromising and assertive as his previous output on Mannequin or Jealous God.

12″ / Digital Album

Posted on May 11th, 2019 under Releases, ,

Claus Comedi - La Historia De Tu Alma

Claus Comedi is the French duet behind Waving Hands.

Recorded at home in Porspoder (FR) during 2018 using Korg MS-20 & LP-10, Roland CR-8000 & TR-606, The Human Comparator SY-1 and Yamaha Portasound PSS-560.

7″ / Digital Album

Posted on May 9th, 2019 under Releases, ,

Unidentified Man

Memento Mori is a common project and collaboration between Unidentified Man and Francois Ducarn aka Chroma Carbon (singer of the french cold wave band Factice Factory and co-singer of the synth project Sine Silex).

Unidentified Man is an analogue synth project, founded in 2013 somewhere in Belgium. With no musical skills, but strongly encouraged by DIY ethics he starts experimenting with analogue instruments and a field recorder. His music is inspired by a wide range of electronic underground and pop music that flourished between the late 70′s to the mid 80′s… He released two cassette albums Remedy For Melancholy and ‘Dissociative Identity” (Wool-E Tapes) and a CD ”Identify Yourself” on Daft records and appeared on several compilations.

His collaboration partner in crime Chroma Carbon is the lead singer of Factice Factory, a french post-punk and cold wave project that released three albums so far, ”The White Days” (Manic Depression), ”Nada” (Holy Hour Records) and ”Lines & Parallels” (Wave Tension Records). He also collaborated to the band Sine Silex with the Greek singer Kriistal Ann and released one common album ”Schachmatt” (Werkstatt Recordings).

Digital Album

Posted on May 7th, 2019 under Releases, , ,