:Wumpscut: mastermind Rudy Ratzinger returns in 2013 with the latest offering from the bunker, Madman Szpital (Szpital is Polish for ‘Hospital’).
Dark, menacing and evil as ever, Wumpscut is one of the most prolific and popular bands in the dark Electro music scene, and Rudy Ratzinger has established one of the strongest and most reliable fan bases out of any band in the genre, and Madman Szpital demonstrates exactly why!
Having met in 1991, Bristol UK based Mark Hockings and Richard Silverton formed Mesh, and released their first EP in 1994.
Since then, the band has become one of the most beloved acts in the synthpop scene. Being unafraid to experiment, the band excels at pushing themselves musically while staying true to the Mesh sound. The long-waited new album Automation Baby is yet another giant step forward for Mesh.
The album has a huge sound and big songs. It’s fresh, cutting-edge, complex, deep and emotional. Featuring the duo’s newest single “Born To Lie”, Automation Baby is one of the most anticipated releases of the year!
2013 collection of remixed tracks from Bjork's critically-lauded 2011 album Biophilia. Bastards includes some of the remixes released in an eight-part series earlier this year, remastered for this album by Grammy-nominee Mandy Parnell, and features collaborations with Current Value, Death Grips, Hudson Mohawke, Alva Noto, Matthew Herbert, Omar Souleyman, 16-bit, These New Puritans, and The Slips.
Bjork also worked with her sound engineer Curver Thoroddsen to isolate a specific chapter of Matthew Herbert's Sacrifice' remix on the Pins & Needles' Mix found on the album.
Hardback book bound in linen with 32 stitched-in pages, containing beautifully reproduced hand typed lyrics & band imagery. Includes album CD plus DVD with specially created visuals by artists Iain Forysth & Jane Pollard. At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick's songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album's mysterious and ambiguous cover.
The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artifact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries "whether they're true or not".
These songs convey how on the internet prof! oundly significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities sit side-by-side and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what's genuinely important. The album has a clarity and sweet strangeness that's built upon the refusal to accept limitations, whether they be the traditional uses and sounds of musical instruments, lyric styles, or diminished spiritual horizons. It's not always apparent what instruments the band is playing: they may be traditional musical instruments but other sounds are clearly generated by objects unrelated to musical instruments.
What's being created is a collective musical language that's rich and complex. "Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat." - Nick Cave.
Good news from Sheffield! IN THE NURSERY's new album THE CALLING is available for pre-sale NOW direct from the ITN website.
Orders will be shipped from 25.01.13
It's a thematic soundtrack, inspired by and, to accompany the Hunter series of books by international bestseller Simon Beckett.
The soundtrack will be a mixture of new music, binaural field recordings, sound design and include readings by the author.
Another version of this project will be Verwesung, a special German edition of Calling of the Grave, featuring ITN's soundtrack CD.
