Danzig - Skeletons

2015-11-24 (News)

You know it’s Danzig the moment you hear him. It’s not just that inimitable voice either. It’s the thick airy guitars, bluesy swagger, and "come hither" evil that placed him at the forefront of a number of musical revolutions. Due to his ingenuity, horror and punk formally collided with The Misfits’ genesis in the seventies. A labor of love that dates back to 1979, he pulls back the curtain behind his influences with a collection of ten covers spanning artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, ZZ Top, and Aerosmith to Black Sabbath, The Troggs, The Everly Brothers, and more. Recording intermittently between 2012 and 2015 in Los Angeles, he quite literally reveals the bone structure for his own style.
"These are my skeletons," he affirms. "You may or may not know that I dig these songs. You could say that some of this music is the actual basis and skeleton of what I listened to growing up—ultimately informing the kind of music I like. It’s the foundation. If you took Elvis and Sabbath out of my life, I probably wouldn’t be the Glenn Danzig you know! I’m glad both sides are represented on this record."

The Sexorcist - Klangkörper

2015-11-24 (News)

With the debut album of his new project The Sexorcist, Chris L., of Agonoize-fame, effectively demonstrates how EBM should be sounding today: Hard, uncompromising, tongue-in-cheek and accompanied by the most massive electronic inferno today's technology can provide. Anyone who names his album "Klangkörper" (=body of sound) should also deliver some sort of physical experience. The title fits the debut of The Sexorcist, the new project of Agonoize front man Chris L. and his partner in crime Gunnar Kreuz hand in glove. Not only do minimalist, direct and bass-laden sounds that have imbibed the feeling of the good old EBM dominate the songs, but the album as a whole is nothing less than pure sex, molded into electronic sounds. Garnished with a solid portion of modern harshness, a lot of tongue-in-cheek provocation, a ton of surprises and a lot of raw hit potential, "Klangkörper" offers up the hottest collection ever put on disc. This is Erotic Body Music: total electronic satisfaction. Or to put it differently: "Klangkörper" is twerking for professionals. The album's limited first edition comes as a deluxe double CD.

Solitary Experiments - In Motion (Live In Berlin)

2015-11-23 (News)

In October 2014, the most important German Melodic-Electro-band celebrated its first two decades with a one-off concert event. The long-awaited recording of this special concert is now being released as a classy DVD/CD set in a hand-numbered Digipak long box, limited to 1000 copies, worldwide. Grand jubilees require an adequate form of celebration. Henceforth, Solitary Experiments decided to organize a mini festival in the renowned concert hall Huxley's Neue Welt in Berlin, on October 25th, 2014, in honor of their 20th anniversary. Show was recorded with 5 cameras and multi-track-audio. Now, roughly one year after this grand happening, this recording has been fashioned into a mesmerizing concert film on DVD, which contains an exquisite selection of the band's greatest hits and fan favorites, featuring a massive 5.1-surround-sound-mix that effectively projects the band's unique live atmosphere into your living room. As a special bonus, the limited set also contains the show on CD as a stereo mix for listening on the road.

Para/Normal - The Cold Room

2015-11-22 (News)

The Mexicans Para/Normal add another sensational masterpiece to their discography with the new full-length entitled "The Cold Room", strongly sure to get even higher awards in terms of artistic prestige, increasing the number of fans.
Eleven powerful songs are just waiting to surprise you with high dosages of danceable energy, combining a whole of electronica, synthpop, darkwave and EBM that will captivate you entirely: shadowy, futuristic melodies, pulsing-symmetrical percussiveness and harmonious flow of synths, form the sound structure of the tracklist. Mixed by Rob Early of Retrogramme, and mastered by the legendary Claus Larsen, aka Leæther Strip, the release offers sonic performances of great professionalism that enrich superbly the playlist of alternative D.J.'s, satisfying fully even the most exigent devotees of the electro genre. Polarizing sonorities, suggestive vocal formulas, super-dancing rhythms.

Die Form - Musique Concrete

2015-11-21 (News)

From the adventerous and bold mind of Philippe Fichot, mastermind and uncompromising head of the cult fetish Industrial/Electro outfit Die Form, comes a riveting new undertaking. "Musique Concrete" is the new experimental, instrumental, cinematic, ambient solo-project of this French avantgarde Industrial pioneer, containing songs composed from 2013 to 2014.The tracks were completed, improved and mixed in studio in 2015. For this extraordinary project of Die Form mastermind Fichot, many different sources have been elaborately used and put to action: analogue and digital electronic tools in harmonic unison as well as noises and various tapes stemming from obscure sources – hence the "musique concrète" reference – as well as some natural and artificial voices to further build on the thin red line between the organic world and the realm of technology. This bold and courageous enterprise could be regarded as a transition between the past and the future, between man and machine, perpetually inspired by silence and meditation. When words fail, it is the music that prevails. Graced with a stunning artwork placed on the borderlands between dream and nightmare, set in a labyrinthine world of flesh and cables, that exquisitely echoes the musical mood of these unique tracks, "Cinema Obscura" is a speechless dictionary of human emotions. Of wrath, of anger, of loss, of failure, of despair. But also of hope, lingering in unexpected places. Of memories, of love. Sometimes, we don't need words to express what we feel. We just need to play records like this.

The Beauty of Gemina - Anthology Vol. 1 [2007-2015]

2015-11-20 (News)

A first "Anthology" for the popular Swiss act, covering the years 2007 to 2015, thus starting with tracks from their brilliant debut 'Diary of Lost' (2007) until today!The CD is not just a collection of already famous tracks, but also features a number of rarities, live- and acoustic tracks! The Beauty of Gemina band composes a very eclectic sound, merging elements of gothic, electronics and wave. They don't really belong to any kind of definable style, and as a result they have become successful in a broad range of 'scenes', from Electro & Wave to the Gothic scene! The balance between electronics and guitar has always been remarkable while some dynamic drums are leading the listener into a frenetic dance. The Beauty of Gemina produce a kind of new-wave sound transposed to a real modern and progressive style.