The Dutch Enfant Terrible label, who released amongst many other artists for instance some of the first Agent Side Grinder albums, have a present for you!
A free downloadable compilation album!
“To provide you with some nice tunes in these days we curated a compilation which is available online for streaming and free download...
This free digital compilation was curated for this specific moment, during which COVID-19 goes around the world, and consists of some (but not including all) of my personal favorite tracks taken from vinyl records I released in the last few years on my labels. Several of the artists on this compilation have a bandcamp page where you can get the complete release the track featured is taken from. Please support these artists if you can...
This free downloadable compilation is to be found here...
And as it is an official ET release with catalogue number and all it is also to be found here...
I hope you enjoy the compilation... and take care... “
Enfant Terrible
soundcloud.com/enfantterriblenl/sets/various-artists-reality-as-a-stage-set
Erk Aicrag, the well-known frontman of Mexican Aggrotech Devils Hocico, strikes back with his solo project Rabia Sorda and releases a brand new video single "Destruye"!
"Sonically speaking we want to deliver an atomic bomb and I think that's what it is!", Erk comments about "Destruye", "the song is full of forceful sounds and a driving energy. It is the perfect track to get lost into and bang your head to!"
Between Industrial Metal and Harsh Electro, Rabia Sorda initiates a fresh way of combining Electronics and guitar sounds. The Spanish lyrics are telling a very personal story:
"Destruye is a song about burning down the negative experiences of your past and building a future from the ashes of them. The lyrics are dealing with the pain of seeing someone I love drifting into a world of drug abuse."
Watch the video of Rabia Sorda "Destruye" below!
Blutengel and Hocico, have recorded the single 'Obscured' in collaboration!
It was supposed to be the surprise "Living The Darkness" tour. Now the tour that all fans have been waiting for so long needed to be postponed, but the surprise is there nevertheless: Blutengel and Hocico, two of the institutions of dark music, have recorded the single "Obscured" in collaboration! With this single, they would like to distract you until you can finally see them on tour in summer.
At first glance, Blutengel and Hocico may appear to be very different, in fact, they are connected in many ways: both have developed an absolutely unique style and have thus turned the black scene upside down. Both have never been afraid of new influences without diluting their own style. Both are with Out Of Line since the earliest times. It was only logical to join forces with these two bands for the "Living The Darkness"tour.
However, the musicians wanted to go even one step further:
"As it was confirmed that Hocico will tour with us, Erk suggested to do a song together", comments Blutengel singer Chris Pohl, "I thought that this was a great idea, so Racso and I wrote this song within two days."
Hocico frontman, Erk Aicrag, adds: "We know each other for a long time so we decided to give a music collaboration a try. We are very happy with the experience and the tune in itself!" Of course Chris, Erk and Racso couldn't resist to create their very own versions of the song on the single."
Needless to say, Chris, Erk, and Racso insisted on putting their own versions on top of this single. So, until Blutengel, Hocico and all other bands will be allowed to back on stage, you can bring the party into your homes. Or wherever you want to take it.
"Obscured" is now released in a limited and numbered CD-Digipak as well as on all the streaming and download platforms. You are the ones living the darkness – we will meet when the sky turns black again!
Stream "Obscured" here
https://blutengelhocico.lnk.to/Obscured
Pre-order the limited Digipak
https://www.outoflineshop.de/blutengel-hocico-obscured-limited-edition-mcd.html
Tracklist
1. Obscured (Original Mix)
2. Obscured (Club version by Hocico)
3. Obscured (Into The Void version by Blutengel)
4. Obscured (Dark Dance version by Dulce Liquido)
Living The Darkness - Tour 2020
Blutengel, Hocico, Amduscia
°Chrom | *[x]-Rx
03.07.2020 Batschkapp, Frankfurt°
04.07.2020 LKA, Stuttgart°
17.07.2020 Matrix, Bochum*
18.07.2020 Markthalle, Hamburg*
01.08.2020 Werk 2, Leipzig*
Ticket info
https://www.outoflineshop.de/tickets.html
www.outoflineshop.de/blutengel-hocico-obscured-limited-edition-mcd.html
On 4 April 2006, today 14 years ago, Nine Inch Nails released ‘Every Day Is Exactly the Same’ as their third single taken from the album With Teeth. It became NIN 21st official release thus baring the Halo 21 catalogue number.
The radio single reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock singles chart in the Modern Rock Tracks category and #12 in the Mainstream Rock Tracks category. The song also reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, and received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th annual Grammy Awards. Though a planned music video was scrapped in the post-production stage,[2] "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" still topped Billboard's 2006 year-end Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, it has so far spent 94 weeks on the chart.
Every Day is Exactly the Same (US CD EP tracklist)
1 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" – 4:57
2 "The Hand That Feeds" (DFA Mix) – 9:03
3 "The Hand That Feeds" (Photek Straight Mix) – 7:47
4 "Only" (El-P Mix) – 4:22
5 "Only" (Richard X Mix) – 7:25
6 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (Sam Fog vs. Carlos D Mix) – 5:03
Every Day is Exactly the Same (Lyrics)
I believe I can see the future
'Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again, that might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around, oh no
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
(Sometimes)
Sometimes, yet I still pretend
I can't remember how this got started
Oh, but I can tell you exactly how it will end
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
I'll write it on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping, someday, you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I am still inside her
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could've been any other way
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same (every day is the same)
On this day, 18 years ago, Frank Tovey / Fad Gadget died at the age of 45.
Today it’s been already 18 years since Frank Tovey, also known as Fad Gadget, passed away at the age of 45 (°8 September 1956 – † 3 April 2002). He was a pioneer of both (electronic) New-wave and Industrial music. As no other, and we even dare to say upon today, he succeeded in fusing together darkish electro-pop with industrial and noisy experiments.
His sarcastic and darkly humorous view on life reflected his lyrics that were mostly filled with biting social commentary towards subjects such as machinery, industrialization, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion, domestic violence and dehumanization.
In 1978 Frank Tovey sent a demo tape of Back to Nature to Daniel Miller, who had just released his own, and thus first Mute label single, as The Normal.
Tovey signed as Fad Gadget to Daniel Miller's Mute Records made him the first artist to sign to Mute and ”Back to Nature" the second release on Mute Records. The single was recorded on a 8-track recorder and released in 1979. After this successful single release, the follow-up single Ricky’s Hand record was recorded and released. Tovey also began recording a full album, his iconic debut album Fireside Favorites which was released by Mute in November 1980.
In 1981 Tovey released another single “Make Room", featuring the "Lady Shave" on the b-side, the latter went on to become one of his most known and played tracks.
For Tovey the ideas and concepts behind his live performances were just as important as his music. His live appearances quickly became known for his confrontational stage antics.
In total Frank Tovey recorded four albums under the moniker Fad Gadget, four as Frank Tovey and two as Frank Tovey & The Pyros.
After the release and tour from Frank Tovey & The Pyros album Worried Men In Second-Hand Suits (1992) he withdrew from the music scene for almost a decade.
In 2001 he started performing again as Fad Gadget supporting label mates Depeche Mode on their world tour. Fad Gadet was invited by Depeche Mode themselves as they once supported Fad Gadget on tour in 1980.
On April 3rd 2002, only a few days after he had returned home from a Fad Gadget come-back tour through Europe, Frank Tovey died due to a heart failure. Apparently he was aware of the risks of a heart failure that were already diagnosed when he was a chid. This could explain why he called one of the track on his Fireside Favorite debut album the Arch Of The Aorta.
Album Discography
As Fad Gadget
• Fireside Favourites (1980)
• Incontinent (1981)
• Under the Flag (1982)
• Gag (1984)
• The Best of Fad Gadget (2001)
As Frank Tovey
• Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (1984) (with Boyd Rice)
• Snakes and Ladders (1986)
• The Fad Gadget Singles (1986)
• Civilian (1988)
• Tyranny & the Hired Hand (1989)
• Grand Union (1991)
• Worried Men in Second Hand Suits (1992)
• Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey (2006)
