Wydma - Okrucha

With ‘Okrucha’ the Warsaw-based artist mostly leaves behind the darkwave-influences that were present in some of the tracks on the debut from 2023 and steps even further into dark electronic territories, wandering between Techno, EBM and Experimental. While some of the 7 tracks on Mangels latest release are growling and banging rather slow in the line of UVB76, others flirt with breakbeats or even chiptune.

One only can hope Wydma soon will hit the road to bring these tracks to the dancefloors.

Cassette / Digital Album [free download]

Posted on August 1st, 2024 under Releases, ,

Plexi Stad - Siren Dance

Plexi Stad comes around the corner with their second 7”, which is their first release on Mangel.

With broken-down melodies, they insist on rhythms and tones, somehow stubborn and angry. The bass purrs along and the guitar works its way into the rhythm section, while the vocals sit on top, somehow offended, once more whipping the songs forward. Sometimes a melody breaks through and the whole thing becomes catchy and dancy.

7″ / Digital Album [free download]

Posted on May 27th, 2024 under Releases, ,

Walter Frosch - Star 10110

Post-punk / dream pop duo from Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on April 23rd, 2024 under Releases, , ,

Noj - Waxing Moon

Introducing ‘Waxing Moon,’ the debut release from Berlin neo-nihilists, Noj. Waxing Moon takes the listener on a tense trip, pulsating through 9 chunky tweaked out tracks of industrial post punk whose combo of punishing percussion, antagonistic basslines, broken glass guitar and cool, bloodless vocals conjure visions of a cyberpunk version of The Birthday Party with Trent Reznor on synth, produced by a young Rob Zombie.

An undeniably German swagger is present throughout, decorating a chilling Carpenter-esque sense of foreboding. Like sisyphus rolling the stone, each song gathers momentum as if it may build on a promise, keeping the listener in anticipation of some great crescendo or divine reason for being… before abruptly ending with the realisation that the journey was the anticipation, hopes dashed, collapsing new buildings.

LP / Cassette / Digital Album

Posted on November 27th, 2023 under Releases, ,

Überspannung - Holzwege

After a very good cassette, Le miroir aux morts, released on Vague à l’Âme, we are happy to be able to call this next release of Überspannung ours! Overall a bit less spiraling, the synths again meander over the drum machines and under the bass, which sounds like it was recorded straight into the tape machine.

Some songs are more upbeat and skillfully layer their melodies, while others are dominated by hard drum machine beats and energetic, furious vocals. I also sometimes think of Falco! It’s a hit!

Digital Album [free download]

Posted on November 1st, 2023 under Releases, ,