Michel Banabila - Early Works. Things popping up from the past

2016-06-26 (News)

Michel Banabila, born 1961, is a sound artist, composer, and producer. Banabila releases music since 1983 and has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. This album collects 11 songs from his early years, released on tape, vinyl EPs or limited CD editions: beautiful minimal loop-based electronica, neo-classical pieces and ambient drone music.

Hexadiode - Ibex

2016-06-25 (News)

The Hexadiode's supremacy is perceptible from the first listen. Anyone who comes into contact with their songs will find in them a strong differentiation from the usual electronic schemes. This super duo-act coming from Ohio is a great revelation, something concretely innovative and stylistically exciting in the worldwide technological music scene. The sounds created by Tim Krug and Jonas Miseh are built through obscure harsh-aggressive vocals that destabilize your mind, combined with mechanized drumming and to sonic structures that interpret in an absolutely original way the traditional oldschool EBM concepts, introducing within them electro-industrial complements addressed mainly to the dancefloors. All these features are integrated in the twelve tracks of the debut album entitled "Ibex".

Penny Rimbaud’s L’Académie Des Vanités - Yes Sir, The Truth Of Яevolution

2016-06-24 (News)

CRASS’ album, ‘Yes, Sir, I Will’, was in 1982 possibly the most angry and hard hitting attack on the political/military/industrial complex ever consigned to vinyl. In 2014, Rimbaud was asked to participate in the Rebellion Festival, which caused rewriting the album by replacing screams of anguish with laments of love. Retitled as ‘Yes, Sir, the Truth of ᴙevolution’, Rimbaud was joined by CRASS’ lead vocalist Eve Libertine plus a group of leading musicians from the London jazz scene with whom they’d worked extensively in the past, named ‘L’Académie des Vanités’. The live recording of that show, presented here, captures all the tense excitement created by presenting a primarily punk audience with complex poetics of love, accompanied by equally demanding freeform, improvised jazz. However, as had generally been the case with CRASS’ output, wild and worrisome, it would be wise to expect the unexpected.
‘We are poets, armed with the cobblestones of love, unconditional, uncompromising, beyond need of proof.’

Psyche - Unveiling the Secret + Bonus

2016-06-23 (News)

Psyche's "Unveiling the Secret" is in many ways the quintessential underground 80’s synthpop achievement. Lauded by fans and praised by generations of musicians, including Sven Vath, Joris Voorn, and Eskil Simonsson, the album's title track has attained that rare status of an enduring cult-classic. Tracks like "The Saint Became A Lush", equally a powerful dance classic itself, and "Prisoner to Desire", is as good as the genre gets. It is no wonder this record of all Psyche's records is consistently said to be the greatest. On this record Darrin Huss really perfected his vocal style and range, from the sublime melody on "Prisoner to Desire", to the controlled chaos of the masterful "Lord Unleashed", to the explosive punk delivery of "Caught in the Act", or even the balladesque "Taking Chances". It is one of those albums that blows you away anew each time, and yet feels like a new album no matter the passing decade.

Project Pitchfork - Wonderland / One Million Faces

2016-06-22 (News)

The worth of the endeavour founded by Peter Spilles in 1991 is bigger than ever, the role as a pioneer, as a true icon rests calmly on his shoulders. Although Project Pitchfork are in the spotlight for a quarter of a century now, there's still a lot to discover in this influential discography. A dive into the past reveals records whose rediscovery is as rewarding as revisiting a place that holds a particular emotional connection. For Peter Spilles and countless of his fans, the record "Wonderland / One Million Faces" is such a place, a cathedral of remembrance, a holy shrine of musical longing. Well into the anniversary year Peter Spilles returns to this immensely important piece of work. What he did was a production facelift, a musical and visual upgrade in a way only someone dearly attached to these tracks can do. To classify this enterprise as a mere re-release would not do any justice at all to the effort and passion Peter Spilles put into it.

Psyche - Mystery Hotel + Bonus

2016-06-21 (News)

Following the success of "Insomnia Theatre" and "Unveiling the Secret", Psyche turned to a classic wave sound on their third and most polished album, "Mystery Hotel". While the industrial influence heard on earlier material is less pronounced, "Mystery Hotel" is in many ways the darkest Psyche album. The demons are alive on tracks like "Wake the Flood Unconscious", "Nocturnal Passenger" and "The Outsider", and even poppier numbers like "Eternal" and "Insatiable" are, at their core, still melancholia at its finest. But the tone of this record, and the key to its brilliant longevity, is the blues influence which is sometimes hidden but sometimes, like on the opener "Make No Mistake". "Insatiable" is an earworm. And then there's the brooding, dense marshland that is "The Outsider", a synthpop track that borders on psychedelia and shimmers with a brilliance that is possibly unmatched in the Psyche catalogue.