Since the beginning of the so called „80s“ the term „Electronic Body Music“ has established itself as a part of the global electronic music movement. Pulsating basses and machine like rhythms have become the trademark of a whole music scene. Bands like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 or Pouppee Fabrikk are named to be the pioneers of this movement. „Orange Sector“ are part of the so called „second wave“ of the EBM scene with a history of 23 years, 12 album releases, several E.P.s and singles. The new „Monoton E.P.“ is the first part of a planned trilogy featuring 4 songs and 3 remixes (by NZ, Agrezzior and Celluloid). This new 7 track CD is by far the most strong release by Martin Bodewell and Lars Felker to date. Tanzbefehl!
Tracklist:
1.) Monoton
2.) Es ist so wie es ist
3.) Alles ist falsch
4.) Ich bin keine Maschine
5.) Monoton (NZ Remix)
6.) Monoton (Agrezzior Remix)
7.) Monoton (Celluloide Remix)
Infacted is proud to announce the new SINGLE "I want to live" by swedish synth pop/futurepop act VANGUARD!
Tracklist:
01 I Want To Live
02 Alive Inside
03 Rising Phoenix
04 I Want To Live (KC Killjoy vs ExoSun Starsign Mix)
05 I Want To Live (Torul Remix)
06 I Want To Live (Interface Remix)
07 I Want To Live (FGFC820 Remix)
Hand Of Dust is one of the most interesting acts going on right now in Copenhagen and they’re finally delivering their first full-length album.
After singer and songwriter Bo Høyer Hansen officially joined Marching Church in the past few months, the band took its time to refine the style already shown on the Walk In White single (released by Avant! last year) and the wait has been rewarded in full.
The dark folk/rock sound of their first two EPs has now come to a perfect, extended formula withLike Breath Beneath A Veil. Ten new songs defined in martial stomps, semi-acoustic guitars drenched in reverberation and throbbing, vibrant bass lines. A fistful of murder ballads pregnant with tragedy and unavoidability. There’s no fanfarelike hyperbole here, only a raw, solemn gait marching onward to god-knows-where.
“for your seeds and your soils / they’re hollow / your torment and your toils / they’re hollow / of ilk hollow” – Apocalyptic folk in the literal sense.
RIYL: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Wreckery; Lower, Marching Church, Icegae.
LP comes housed in UV glossy jackets with a 16-page lyrics booklet. Vinyl out Oct 5, digital out Oct 12.
Amateur Best is the alias of Birmingham-based “personal pop” musician, songwriter, and producer Joe Flory.
After releasing debut album No Thrills via Double Denim Records (Empress Of, Tei Shi, Kero Kero Bonito) in 2013, Amateur Best returns with The Gleaners, his second full-length, due on October 2nd via Brille Records (The Knife, Gwilym Gold, John Wizards).
Flory has come a long way since his beginnings making major label pop music as Primary 1. Following the release of No Thrills and tours of Europe playing drums with Chilly Gonzales & the Kaiser Quartett, Flory made a move from the bustle of London to his current home in Birmingham in order to hone his songwriting and production talents, perfecting a melodic, crystal clear style of vocal pop. It’s a style that draws on the electronica of Cassius’s Au Reve, the soundtrack work of Michael Nyman, the intricate layering of The Avalanches, and the experimental pop of David Sylvian and Ryuchi Sakamoto while sounding like no one else but Amateur Best.
The result of three years writing and recording, the 10 tracks that make up The Gleaners straddle the fine line between outright ecstasy and muted melancholy. Initially envisioned as a concept album about a charity shop-bought doll’s house, it mutated into a full-on dance record. “In the end, I realised that I just wanted to write songs about my own life set to the most exciting music and production I could come up with,” Flory says.
Where No Thrills drew its influences from the warm, pastoral techno of artists like James Holden and his Border Community label, The Gleaners feels like more of a step into the unknown. Produced and mixed entirely by Flory, the album uses a huge array of instrumentation and hardware to arrive at its unique and varied sound. Flory would buy old drum machines and synthesizers, make a song, and then sell it to buy the next piece of kit. “Mixing it myself made me slightly crazy, but I love the sound of something that has been entirely directed by one person.”
Like all the most personal albums, The Gleaners is a record that reveals itself to the deeper listener. Urgent and immediate moments like ‘Marzipan’ contrast with the luscious, slower grooves of ‘No Sleep’, while pristine electronic pop belters like ‘They Know’ sit alongside rawer songs like album opener ‘Rely’ (which was recorded completely live, with keyboards from Spencer Zahn and strings from the Kaiser Quartett). Additionally, Chilly Gonzales – who guested on No Thrills – returns for more on The Gleaners and laid down the piano on ‘19’.
“There are moments on this album where I feel like the music, lyrics, and production just gel completely,” Flory says, “With the way I make music - which is to do everything at the same time, and everything alone - getting that moment of total clarity in lyrics, melody, and production is quite a unique feeling, and probably the reason I enjoy making music so much. I called it The Gleaners because it's my way of taking little snippets of all the stuff I like and reinterpreting it.”
The Gleaners is testament both to Flory’s commitment to making music on his own terms, and to the sheer joys of making music full stop.
Tracklisting:
1. Rely, 2. 19, 3. The Double, 4. Marzipan, 5. They Know, 6. Part Timer, 7. Hey Darin’, 8. Night Shifter, 9. Leviathan, 10. No Sleep
Here is the brand new clip of Solar Fake, read the interview here!
