New Order - Restless

2015-09-29 (News)

New Order have announced the first single release to be taken from their latest album, "Music Complete". This is the first full track to be unveiled from the album and is available digitally. ‘Restless’ finds the group contemplating life in the modern world. It is a classic New Order track, enticing the listener in, setting the tone perfectly for the rest of "Music Complete". ‘Restless’ will be supported with a full remix package. 'The Agoria remix' and the 'Extended 12" mix' feature alongside further remixes from xxxy, RAC and long-term collaborator Andrew Weatherall. The 12" green vinyl features both the Agoria and Weatherall remixes, along with the Extended 12" Mix and a download code for access to the full remix bundle.

Halo Effect - Life Is Perfect

2015-09-28 (News)

Considered as one of the best Italian technological-projects, Halo Effect possess the rare ability to involve listening through a portentous combination among futurepop, electropop, EBM and darkwave, characterized by increasing rhythms and 'very-catchy' / super-danceable harmonies. Reached by now a well-established soundness built since the year 2001, the band publish its fourth album entitled "Life Is Perfect", with the aim of conquer the masses of electro-followers.
The new full-length is a real, efficient generator of energy and melody, concentrated in sixteen songs in which the vocalist spreads atmospheric, passionate intonations, while the propulsion of drum-programming draw geometric traces and synths adorn the structures by avant-garde modulations, all in a fantastic triumph of futurism, meaningful lyrics and highly seductive electronic musicality. Halo Effect prove to have assimilated only the best from the European techno-pop, conceiving and materializing impeccable architectures in a complete, authoritative album of strong resonance, inevitably destined to an unprecedented success. Make you drag without delay by the extraordinarily evolved formulations of "Life Is Pefect", a release that will enchain you from the first track to the last, in a succession of irresistible dynamism, intelligence and futuristic euphonies.

Death In June - Best Of Lounge Corps

2015-09-27 (News)

"Best Of Lounge Corps" presents eleven piano instrumentals personally chosen by Douglas P from a collection of Death In June tracks arranged and performed by Miro Snejdr. The collection includes four pieces from Death In June’s last studio album, "Peaceful Snow", and seven timeless classics spanning Death In June’s career. This is the first time Miro’s arrangements have appeared on vinyl. The pressing is limited to 506 numbered copies: 358 on blue vinyl and 148 on green vinyl. The green vinyl copies are reserved exclusively for Soleilmoon mailorder customers and select wholesale clients. An included download card provides DIJital access to the album and 19 more "Lounge Corps" instrumentals in MP3, FLAC and WAV format.

Darkstar - Foam Island

2015-09-26 (News)

"Foam Island", the third studio LP from Darkstar, is a beautiful contemporary electronic pop album, dealing with powerful themes of ambition and hope against the odds in the 21st century.
Since their debut, Darkstar have been an influential force in the UK’s electronic scene. With the release of "Foam Island" they prove, as we move into the second half of the decade, that they remain at the cutting edge of artists pushing its form. "We wanted to talk about life for people in their late teens and early 20s in 2015, but avoid that ‘grim-up-north’ clichéd perception," Young explains. "We wanted a full picture, not just something that was heavy on the heart, but something that reflected a positive as well as an ambivalent side to how young people feel right now. These themes should be recognizable to anyone in the world right now."
Similarly, thematically it cycles through motifs of disillusionment, political isolation and apathy, alongside hope, happiness and pride. It creates a world in which there is a definite stoic comfort in routine, tradition and community, but in which there is also anger at a lack of opportunity for personal progression and a lack of investment in their collective futures. Final writing on the album took place in May 2015, with the lyrics to closing track ‘Days Burn Blue’ written as the UK election votes were being counted, and ’Cuts’ pieced together in the weeks following. 
With "Foam Island" Darkstar have created an album which could only have been made in 2015; an album with a voice that encourages a generation to stand up and be counted.

Acylum - Hate

2015-09-25 (News)

Beside "Pest", the most club oriented song "Born To Be Hated" gets delivered in 5 new versions ranging from Venal Flesh’s tortured somber elektro retake to DJ Simon Carter’s banging club mix! Add to this two remixes of each, "My Knife" and "Pest", and you rapidly realize that this doppelganger comes highly recommended to all dark elektro DJ’s and the true Acylum militants. Other featured remixers include Llumen, VV303, Project Erratic, Xentrifuge, First Black Pope & Viscera Drip.

Schwarzblut - Judas

2015-09-24 (News)

This EP features a fine selection of interpretations of Schwarzblut’s music from all around the globe. From a geeky Commodore 64 remix, to the metal guitars of Hell:Sector. From the prophecy of doom by Cardinal Noire, to the haunted hypnotic chants of Pre:Emptive Strike 0.1. The EP also features two loud-and-proud remixes by Binary Division and Noise Junk, that made them the winners of Schwarzblut’s remix contest. Putting Schwarzblut’s raw recordings in the hands of others resulted in a broad variety of remixes that makes the 10-track "Judas" EP reflect the band's approach to music: wholehearted, unrestricted, tying old words to the current state of affairs. A full conceptual work again from this unique collective work of art Schwarzblut, whose work is based on historic German poetry and carried by organic-electronic music and which is constantly outlined by a haunting visual context of imagery in their artwork and live performances.