Principe Valiente - Strangers In The Night

After their outstanding self-titled debut album (2011) and the breathtaking subsequent album “Choirs of Blessed Youth” (2014), the Swedish post punk / shoegaze band lead by Fernando Honoratio, true to their vision, continues to carve out its own unique musical path.

As a first glimpse of their new album “Oceans”, to be released in early May, the new song and video “Strangers in The Night” was revealed on March 10th. The song is produced and mixed by the band themselves and the accompanying video is made by Swedish director Jacob Frössén, who among other things created the acclaimed documentary films “En film om Olle Ljungström” and “Henric De La Cour” in Sweden.

As B-sides to the single, there are two remixes made by the Swedish synth producer Mister Monell, and by the dark pop/electro band New Canyons Chicago who made the song ready for the dancefloor.

Digital Album

Posted on February 23rd, 2017 under Releases, ,

ManMachine

Call it New Wave, call it Synthpop, call it Electropop, call it what you like. ManMachine is Roland XP50 and Goran Uroich, from Zagreb, Croatia.

12″ / Digital Album

Posted on February 21st, 2017 under Releases, ,

Di​spi - Chansons d'Espoir

“Dispi” (despair in Breton) is the latest compilation from Distag Records, an independent micro-label based in Brittany, France. 100% French synthpop / synthpunk.

Cassette / Digital Album

Posted on February 19th, 2017 under Releases,

QUAL - Cupio Dissolvi

Lebanon Hanover’s bassist William Maybelline is back with his solo project. After the debut album Sable from 2015, Qual strikes back with a three-track 12” maxi-single.

Each one of these new songs explore a different dimension of Maybelline’s approach to Body/Wave electronics. The title-track Cupio Dissolvi is what we may already call classic Qual: gloomy and throbbing, synth-driven and labyrinthine. A Bloody Blob explores new martial slants, with war-like timpani and a marching robot gait. Rape Me in the Parthenon is a 8 minute long dancefloor mayhem anthem scanned by some pounding techno drumbeat and EBM snare and pads. The most alert of you already checked this in some Ancient Methods DJset. By far the most extreme track Qual recorded so far.

“Buried in flowers with hands of gold / Buried together we’ll never mold” shall be thy epitaph here, as well as your message engraved on virgin vinyl.

12″ EP / Digital Album

Posted on February 17th, 2017 under Releases, ,

Unruhe

The Gooiland Elektro compilation “Unruhe” is a showcase of contemporary acid techno… spacey and trippy in the hands of Zarkoff and distorted and freaked out by Roberto Auser… but also rather industrial when done by FOQL or pushed to the extreme by The Untitled… this is acid as it should sound… edgy and daring tracks for illuminated heads instead of easy and boring sounds suitable for the masses… and as with all Gooiland Elektro releases this one is equally intense on the dance floor as with headphone playback…

12″

Posted on February 15th, 2017 under Releases, ,