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Here’s the latest EP from Mode in Gliany, a solo synthwave project from Brittany, France. Made with synths, drum machines, guitar and bass. The “Mode in Gliany” (wordplay with the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani) started in 2013 after discovering the work of “November Növelet” the web, “a big blow” as we say. Attracted by the cold colors of their synthesizers and its underground voice, was produced a “slow and painful” style of music.
‘I Tpame I Tvrame’ is a duo, formed in early March, 2016 by Franc Kurti (Tirana, Albania) and Dina Hajrullahu (Prishtina, Kosovo). ‘I Tpame I Tvrame’ is Albanian slang that means “To kill someone with only one look”.
A.D. Mana is a solo artist and producer from the UK, now based in Berlin. He renders skeletal guitar lines, enmeshed in electronics both dense and pristine. Post punk, shoegaze, synth pop, EBM… yes… but not entirely. Beneath the shifting tension of these disparate strains, there is an underlying iridescence to the sound. From a punk and then songwriter background, and having grown frustrated with the tonal limitations of acoustic instruments, A.D. Mana had always been experimenting in electronic production. Through working as a graphic designer at a music software company, he gained access to an array of synths, drum machines and other equipment, as well as the knowledge of how to operate them. However, spending days designing software interfaces and long nights in the East London studio experimenting with gear, eventually began taking it’s toll. After declining health gave him the warning signs something needed to change, A.D. Mana relocated to Melbourne, Australia. He wrote and recorded with various artists there, but had still not defined something that felt like his own work. Relocating again, this time to Berlin, he reconnected with friend and sound engineer, Christian Richardson. Finishing the first eponymous A.D. Mana EP, released on Sentimental Records in 2016. He followed this with the music video for the single ‘Take Hold’, directed by Sally Dige, which took us on a propulsive, paranoid, desaturated Super 8 journey through Berlin. Working with Alex Akers of Forces (Fleisch Records), he has now completed his debut LP ‘First Life’, creating an expansive world racing between celestial freefall and claustrophobic shadow. The record is a bittersweet and sprawling letter to lovers wilfully lost in the onsen of desire, mundanity, heartbreak and hope.
Me and a Box is a minimal wave entity whose the mechanics beats and ambiance transports us in a quiet and strange interior travel.
Buried underground in the cool comfort of the shadows, UIU is a new force channeling inspiration from Dark Wave/New Wave/Cold Wave/Goth/Synthpunk/Synthpop. Influenced by 1980’s acts such as Futurisk, Suicide, Gary Numan and The Human League, the UIU universe encompasses a wide palette of dark, yet melodic sounds – warped into a retro soundtrack for an unknown future… “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP) is an incremental Compilation to be built over the year by Detonic Recordings. Each Month an on-line single will be published with an “A” and “B” side from each of the international artists participating in the project. At the end of the year the complete compilation (Vinyl and CD) will be released featuring the exclusive tracks from each contributor. |
