aufnahme+wiedergabe: La Fete Triste/The Harrow- Giant/Axis Split

Giant / Axis

La Fete Triste is sometimes instrumental, sometimes with vocals. Taking main influences from the french new/cold wave and the early british dreampop sound.

Like the Kafka story that inspired their name, Brooklyn post-punk/dream pop band The Harrow walk a fine line between the alluring and the surreal. Driving, club-centric electronics nestle against lush organic instrumentation, woven with vivid songcraft. The result is a hauntingly familiar sound that is never complacent in scope.

Limited edition of 300 handnumbered copies, white vinyl, comes with download code.

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Posted on July 15th, 2014 under Releases, , ,

Desire Records: A G E N D E R- Fixations

A G E N D E R - Fixations

A G E N D E R started out as a solo, lo-fi punk excursion for Romy Hoffman (Macromantics, Romy),  and has since morphed into an all girl 3 piece, known for their intense, fast, tight knit punk shows. A G E N D E R play a unique blend of schitzo synthy paranoid punk. The first record “Self (en)titled” was entirely written, recorded, played and mixed by Romy Hoffman, with additional mixing and mastering by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control). A G E N D E R’s sophomore album ‘FIXATIONS’ was recorded onto 2″ tape, at Head Gap studio’s in Melbourne, Australia, by Casey Rice (Liz Phair, Red Red Meat, The Dirty Three). It was co-produced by Rice and Hoffman. The songs on this record are fixations on, and fetishes with femininity, and explore the desperate/ disparate nature of queerness, sexuality and obsessive, dysmorphic desire. SIDE A of the record, is a synth heavy post punk affair, while SIDE B is a raw onslaught of classic punk brashness. Some of the songs on this side were recorded in one take.

‘FIXATIONS’ is a spillage of sexual secrets and the purging of perversions. It’s being released by DESIRE Records on June 9th, 2014.

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Posted on July 12th, 2014 under Releases, ,

Desire Records: Cold Name- Eat Your Name

Cold Name- Eat Your Name

Cold Name is the solo project (started in January 2013) of Nobuyuki Sakuma from Jesse Ruins.

Cold Name released its first cassette ‘Not In Love’ on Living Tapes in April 2013. A second cassette is due to be released also on Living Tapes later in 2014.

LIMITED EDITION – 300 COPIES – SOLID WHITE VINYL – 350g SLEEVE WITH GLOSS LAMINATE FINISH – DOWNLOAD CARD.

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Posted on July 10th, 2014 under Releases, ,

Desire Records: Orphan Swords- Risk In A New Age

Orphan Swords- Risk In A New Age

Brussels-based Orphan Swords is a duo between Yannick Franck aka Räum, sound experimentalist & founder of Idiosyncratics label and Maze, producer & Bozar Electronic Arts Festival curator. Previously described as “industrial-slanted techno” or “new school industrial” by XLR8R or The Quietus, Orphan Swords’ music results of the collision between Räum & Maze’s widely different influences, including techno, noise or cold wave.

Orphan Swords has been recently remixed by SHXCXCHCXSH, Dwellings, Paul Purgas (Emptyset) and Exoteric Continent and collaborated with Ike Yard’s Stuart Argabright.

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Posted on July 8th, 2014 under Releases, ,

AVANT! Records: NUN- Self-titled

NUN LP

One of the most powerful bands Melbourne has ever produced, presents their dark-yet-somehow-vibrant vision of electronic pop with their debut self-titled album.

Employing the weight of gnarling basslines, shimmering analogue synthesiser, punishing drum machine and the scathing lyrical vision of Jenny Branagan, Nun’s sound flows from sinister drone-orgy and hyperkinetic synth-punk to saturated new wave worship.

An unrelenting aesthetic sense penetrates every aspect of this record, resulting in a remarkably cohesive work of art. Song structures are simple, considered and direct – everything is fine-tuned to ensure maximum sonic devastation. The music is danceable and poppy, it’s sad and incisive, it’s fun, aggressive and heavy as hell. Most impressive of all is its immense force; the effortless delivery belying an overwhelming sense of something very heavy and unpleasant looming just beneath the scintillating pop surface.

Co-released with Aarght Records from Australia, LP comes in printed innersleeve housed in thick, reversed jackets.

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Posted on July 5th, 2014 under Releases, ,