Dolina - Four Crystals

Once upon a time… the french-belgian trio is back again with 2 new songs.

The sophisticated experience of « Crystal » and the broken melancholy of « Lettre posthume » are there to whisper the sounds of an endless story called: DOLINA.

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Posted on June 19th, 2015 under Releases, ,

Alone - Coast

Alone is a project from Belgrade run by Nikola Vitković (also member of Konvoj Bonton Bajkera, Alone in heaven..). Hiding away from public sight, Alone spends his years in his mono utopia, reinventing the alternative history of industrial and melancholic synth pop. His melody is gentle but dark, his beats are slow but hard, his synthesizer is foggy but sharp. Over last 20 years, he has released 6 albums on N.A.U.K., Treue um Treue and Cold trinity.

This new LP on Spielzeug Muzak delivers a collection of 8 gloomy synthetic lullabyes and scientific love songs from a coast / limit / end of the world, a misty place where all boundaries melt: land, sea and air, inner and outer world, self and non-self. This is the most sleepy and foggiest Alone album thus far, emotionally calm but sonically colourful as ever. It introduces the lead vocals by Igor Petrušić and Draginja Marić mixed with the familiar voice of Nikola.

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Posted on June 17th, 2015 under Releases, ,

Cellule 34 - Self-titled

Collection of otherwise erratically released tracks by this brussels-based minimalist post-punk artist. some have been on compilations or only available online. Blue cassette with offset printed O Card, includes insert and download. Limited edition of 100 split release with Spielzeug Muzak.

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Posted on June 15th, 2015 under Releases, ,

Unur - The Key Broke Off In The Lock

A new offering from Unur. Based primarily on isolation and eradication. Four songs. One new, industrial-tinged serving of synth punk. An oddly cryptic cover/reinterpretation. A more improvised all synth version of “Meanwhile…”. And finally, an instrumental edit of a live recording on an EMS Synthi and modern modular synth.

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Posted on June 13th, 2015 under Releases, ,

Froe Char - Foreigner Skin

New EP of Christina’s patented dark, noisy, catchy minimal synth. Paris’ finest delivers yet again. Split release with Spielzeug Muzak. Limited edition of 100 cassettes.

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Posted on June 11th, 2015 under Releases, ,