Gooiland Elektro: Popsimonova 12 inch

Popsimonova is the new upcoming queen of cold electro (wave) … her tracks are cold but with lots of energy… intelligent constructed tracks to make you move but also to make you take a step back and let the music work on you in different ways… this is what they call electro beyond the former Iron Curtain… and this is what we move to on any good electro party…

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Posted on September 3rd, 2013 under Releases, , ,

aufnahme+wiedergabe: Modern Movement- The Compilation

Limited to 400 hand numbered copies.   47 beautiful portraits of Modern Movement’s finest creatives – musicians and artists – captured by London’s magnificent Tom Kavanagh in Berlin. The Modern Movement book is also accompanied by an 18-track CD compilation of artists in the publication – curated and produced by Jen Ellerson and aufnahme+wiedergabe.

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a+w MM: The Modern Movement Book + CD
limited to 400 handnumbered copies:
www.aufnahmeundwiedergabe.de/modernmovement 

47 beautiful portraits of Modern Movement’s finest creatives – musicians and artists – captured by London’s magnificent Tom Kavanagh in Berlin. The Modern Movement book is also accompanied by an 18-track CD compilation of artists in the publication – curated and produced by Jen Ellerson and aufnahme+wiedergabe.

Posted on August 22nd, 2013 under Releases, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

(T)reue um (T)reue: Modern Witch- Hollywood

The story of Modern Witch began 6 years ago in Denver, Colorado, when graphic artist Mario Zoots, singer Kristy Fenton and house veteran Kamran Khan started recording experimental music together on an old VHS camera. In the space of a few years, a couple of very limited tape and CD/R releases on labels such as Disaro and Clan Destine Records, and a series of spooky performances both in Europe and on the American continent, the trio has become a true underground reference for creepy, ritualistic dance music, in the muddy but oh so fascinating waters between Witchhouse and Minimal Synth.

Treue um Treue is very proud to present a selection of their best tracks for the first time on vinyl, on two twin-LPs of which this is the first. Drunk on 80′s cold wave, bathed in suburbian occult decadence and haunted by dead celebrities, “Hollywood” is a feast of thaumaturgic synth lines, nonchalant but captivating mpc 1000 – sequences, drugged-out spoken words and ghostly voices. American Angst or Minimal Doom electronics at their best!

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Posted on August 11th, 2013 under Releases, ,

(T)reue um (T)reue: ADN’ Ckrystall- Musique Atomique Sans Surveillance

ADN’ CKRYSTALL aka Erick Moncollin surely does not need much of an introduction. Every self-respecting minimal wave fan and synth nerd will have heard of the French synth-wizard who jammed with Tim Blake and Vangelis on a MS-20 prototype in the late 70s and whose 1982 cult album “Jazz’Mad” is considered a landmark in the history of underground electronic music. After a pause in the 90s (during which Moncollin became active in the trance and ambient-techno scene under the name Dr. STRANGE), several brilliant albums were released in the 2000s on Anna Logue Records, La Forme Lente and Erick’s own ADN and Ysil’Prod labels. Treue um Treue is honoured to present the project’s sixth full-length.

“Musique Atomique Sans Surveillance” is a highly skilful, playful yet authentic blend of 70s prog synth, early 80s minimal electro and 90s techno, flowing with ease from library lounge music to spacey weird-wave to electronic exotica, reminiscent at times of BERNARD SZAJNER and CLAUDE LARSON. The spiciest note of this delicious psychotropic cocktail is of course Erick’s unmistakable, demented yet committed Deutsch-Frenglish lyrics, which make of ADN’ CKRYSTALL such a unique experience.

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Posted on July 29th, 2013 under Releases, ,

Mannequin Records: Light House- In Their Image

Mannequin Records is simply elated to present the debut 12” EP from Light House.

Light House have been kicking around Portland for two years. The band contains Chris Relyea, an ex member from The Rapture, Dawn Sharp and Brooks Blackhawk from Atriarch. Excellent dark wave with spacious mixes, minimal synths, reverb drenched guitars and eerie malevolent vocals that either pierces your heart or your spinal cord (I haven’t decided which as yet, but Dawn Sharp is most excellent).

Originally released in United States by Freee record label in 2012 and recorded on pure analog tape, ‘In Their Image’ EP illuminates the romantic and elemental nature of Light House’s dreamlike sound, a moody, theatrical dirge which brings to mind classic 4AD acts such as Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil.

To celebrate this relaunch Light House will be touring America and Europe, hitting the West Coast in mid June to coincide with Warm Leatherette in San Francisco, then onto New York and making their way along the East Coast.

Light House is music that lulls the Etheric body awake, in a hypotetical world where Tropic Of Cancer meets Soft Metals.

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Posted on July 14th, 2013 under Releases, ,