Judith Juillerat – Oneironautics

In early 2005 Judith Juillerat opened her music to the public for the first time, when she won a remix contest for Björk’s « Army of me » put on by Unicef, leaving 600 other contestants in the dust. Then her first album “Soliloquy” was released on the Berlin-based Shitkatapult label, and produced without a computer. She plays with analog synths & beat boxes, micro, bass, acoustic instruments… After co-writing, co-producing, playing synths and singing on the Black Egg’ debut album “Legacy From A Cold World” (aufnahme + wiedergabe) she goes through a period of doubt. In 2016 Judith signs a new album at Lentonia Records called “Nooks & Crannies “.

Today with “Oneironautics” she joins the long list of brillant artists from the label Unknown Pleasures Records. Her new album is a pure masterpiece based on the different phases of sleep, inspired and deep, each sound is in perfect harmony to make you travel to a dreamlike mone which only Judith has the secret. This new record is a pure gem and a a real consecration for this female artist.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on October 28th, 2019 under Releases, ,

Dark Nouveau

Metropolis Records proudly presents Dark Nouveau, a compilation that features 24 diverse bands from around the globe that all share one thing in common, a taste for the dark. While many of these fine bands are often dubbed Post-Punk, Industrial, Synthwave, Goth and Dark Wave, the goal of Dark Nouveau was to bring together these different sub-genres under one banner that showcases both known as well as unknown bands that best define the varied new directions of the dark music spectrum. From the beloved Turkish duo She Past Away to the obscure Argentinian duo Balvanera, each track was carefully chosen to represent the continued growth in the world of dark music. This digital only release is dedicated to the late vocalist Scott Walker (1943-2019).

Digital Album

Posted on October 26th, 2019 under Releases,

BR115 - Server

A hybrid of Hi-NRG, Italo Disco and Synthwave that escaped from the lab and landed on the dance floors.

Server is Andrés Perez and Antonio Ballester. It materialized in 2017 as an electronic duo, but the collective consciousness from which it sprung developed much earlier in the Lima of eurodance combis, in the brutalism of Galerías Brasil, in the gothic clubs of Santa Beatriz and in the sweaty dens where the second Limean surge of hxc punk boiled the blood of a mutant youth.

Server started its operations under the pseudonym VIDEODROME, a tribute to Cronenberg and to the aesthetics of Cine Millonario, a popular Peruvian TV show of the nineties.

Cassette / Digital Album

Posted on October 24th, 2019 under Releases, ,

Da-Sein ‎– Mirror Touch

Da-Sein is a duo consisting of Fernando O. Paino and Kas Visions, who at present reside in Madrid. Their sound can be described as gloomy Analogue Electronics deliberately reduced in form. From danceable to destructive, with distorted, mostly female vocals intoning Polish and English texts.

LP / Cassette / CD

Posted on October 22nd, 2019 under Releases, ,

Pleasure Symbols ‎- Closer And Closer Apart

Australian band Pleasure Symbols enter a new phase in 2019, physically and stylistically with the forthcoming release of their first full length record Closer And Closer Apart. Three years have passed since the release of their debut, self-titled EP through Avant!. The time away being a necessary moment of reflection and regeneration for singer, songwriter and bassist Jasmine Dunn. Joined by fellow musician Steven Schnorrer, the duo began the push towards a more 80’s inspired post-punk sound with a ‘pop noir’ twist.

Deciding to record and produce the album themselves, gave the freedom to take time to grow and explore their new direction as a song writing duo. Despite current trends in popular music, Pleasure Symbols continues to focus on a more guitar based post punk, dream-pop sound, while slowly diverging from a previous minimal wave, synth based musical output. With themes of desire for desires sake and self confrontation, the new musical direction may seem initially harrowing, but look closer and you will see vulnerability and tenderness triumph over the struggle of the human experience.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on October 20th, 2019 under Releases, ,