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A collaboration between musician Tom Shear (Assemblage 23) and vocalist Mari Kattman (Day Twelve, Mari and The Ghost), Helix is a genre-defying sonic tapestry of electronics, organic elements and haunting vocal harmonies. Trip-hop, dub, dream pop, synth-pop, and lofi combine ...

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Ashbury Heights - The Victorian Wallflowers

Lighter and fresher, Ashbury Heights. Three years after "The Looking Glass Society", the Swedish electro-pop duo returns with "The Victorian Wallflowers" and adds a diamond to their discography. This time, Anders Hagström and Tea F. Thimé went all out ...

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Tragedy Of Mine - Tenebris

Tragedy Of Mine mixes melody and heaviness and combine influences from In Flames, As I Lay Dying, Arch Enemy, Lamb Of God and Trivium in a completely tasteful way into their entire debut album. Impulsive Riffs, pounding punches, and ...

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Scapa Flow - The Core (News)
Ego Likeness - Songs From A Dead City (News)
Psyclon Nine - Icon of the Adversary (News)
Lord Of The Lost - Thornstar (News)
Panic Lift - End Process (News)

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Castle Party 2018

Dearest, Castle Party 2018 is already a part of history and honestly I don’t know how it happened. It seems like every year it goes faster. We’ve just arrived and here we are sharing our memories. This year’s edition was a bit different than previous ones. There were some changes made. On the other hand it is still our celebration and Bolków remains a place with friendly atmosphere where everybody ...

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Vanguard - Retribution

Synthpop is a genre represented in large number in Sweden, inter alia by Hjärta, Melody Club, Page, SPOCK and many others. VANGURAD in another band from this country, that fits very well to the '80 atmosphere of electronics. The last day of February 2014 brought us a new album from Gothenburg duo, Jonas Olofsson (synthesizers) and Patrik Hansson (vocal). Released by Conzoom Records "RETRIBUTION" refers to the previous projects of ...

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Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament

And so it happened!. After 7 years of waiting, gentlemen's from Einstürzende Neubauten released a new album. Is it on the same level as the previous ones? Yes and no ….... Why? Avant-grade works has always been difficult to review. They try to overcome certain adopted conventions and for this reason, their reception is always mixed - some hate it and some love. The difficulty of rating was, so to speak, directly ...

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Job Karma - Society Suicide (Music reviews)
Interview with Schnittmuskel (Interviews)
Angelspit - The Product (Music reviews)
Castle Party 2017 (Live reports)
Golden Apes - The Langsyne Litanies (Music reviews)

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Roni Size in Poznań!

Go Ahead agency invates You to live show of the Roni Size! A well known artists, one of co-founders of the Full Cycle Records, also known from cooperation with DJ Krust, which have begun already in 1992.

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Algiers in Poznań!

On 8 November Go Ahead agency invites you to autumn's concert of the Algiers band in Poznań in Meskalina club! Algiers is a band that cannot be labelled by one specific music genre. Drawing inspirations from rock, post-punk, industrial ...

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AnimeCon Halloween in Poznań!

Already at the end of October (27 - 29) in Poznań there will be the first manga and anime convention, organized by Anime24 editorial portal. Although the facebook event has already gathered more than 7,000 interested, so far the exact ...

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Algiers (Events)
Dotan Solo Tour (Events)
Stu Larsen (Events)
I Am Giant - Playing With Fire Tour (Events)
Full schedule of Castle Party (Events)

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Recent publishing

2018-09-21

Empirion
I Am Electronic/Red Noise
(EP)
2018-09-21

I:Scintilla
Swayed
(CD)
2018-09-21

Halo in Reverse
I Am Become Death Destroyer Of Worlds
(CD)
2018-09-07

Cocksure
Be Rich
(CD)
2018-09-07

Trash Deity
Cross & Divide
(CD)
2018-08-31

Solar Fake
You Win. Who Cares?
(2CD)
2018-08-31

Blutengel
History - The Vinyl Collection - Vol. 2
(10LP Box)
2018-08-24

Helix
Twin
(CD)
2018-08-24

Ashbury Heights
The Victorian Wallflowers
(CD)
2018-08-24

Ego Likeness
Songs From A Dead City
(CD)
2018-08-24

Psyclon Nine
Icon of the Adversary
(CD)
2018-08-24

Panic Lift
End Process
(CD)
2018-08-17

Tragedy Of Mine
Tenebris
(CD)
2018-08-17

Scapa Flow
The Core
(CD)

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