With their debut album “Strange Encounter” Dirk Lakomy (ex Umbra Et Imago, In My Rosary, producer of Derriere Le Miroir) and Tobias Birkenbeil (DNS, Cytron, composer of movie scores) demonstrate that music influenced by electronic new wave in addition to electroclash, punk and EBM is still able to be great fun in times of a musical sensory overload of the genre without sounding too stale.
Music to dance to (“Amygdata”), song-oriented, hypnotic (“Sebastiane”), sometimes dark-melancholic, with a driving beat (“Crimetime”), but also catchy-trendy (“Cairo”) accompanies the listener throughout the ten album songs. In addition to Tobias Birkenbeil’s charismatic vocals, guest vocalist Stella B. rounds off the singing part which combination in certain songs is reminiscent of the best times of “Derriere Le Miroir” (“That’s All”, “Sleeper”).
The album’s musical range is completed by the last track “Push It To The Max” featuring a symbiosis of dark minimal electro and “A Flock Of Seagulls”.
Music art exhibition ft. Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses
The Movie Poster Art Gallery is pleased to announce a fascinating exhibition of original and rare music posters entitled “The Manchester Connection, a celebration of Manchester's legendary renaissance in musical and design creativity that exploded in the wake of the Sex Pistols' legendary 1976 Free Trade Hall gig.
The exhibition runs from 12th-25th November at the Movie Poster Art Gallery, 1 Colville Place, London, W1T 2BG.
The art exhibition highlights some of the great designs Factory commissioned from Peter Saville, Central Station Design, Ben Kelly and 8vo, along with the equally inspired design concepts of Morrissey for The Smiths, and the Stone Roses' guitarist John Squire.
Highlights include rare original music posters from The Smiths, New Order, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Haçienda, plus an ultra rare poster of Joy Division's debut album Unknown Pleasures, rare sleeve proofs of The Smiths, A Certain Ratio, New Order, and a unique Morrissey hand-annotated sleeve proof for his album "Your Arsenal," plus rare artefacts including the original FAC51 embosser used at the HAÇIENDA, the original "Gay Traitor" bar menu poster from the HAÇIENDA.
DISTORTED MEMORY are going to fulfill the most fervent wish of their fans.
After the great 2011 album "Swallowing the Sun", DISTORTED MEMORY will re-release the early demo EP "Left Alone to Die".
The new CD is called "Archive" and will not only come up with the early tracks created before their debut "Burning Heaven", but will also contain previously unreleased songs.
With a total of 77 minutes and 16 tracks, "Archive" is limited to 500 copies and will be released on 21st October.
Don't miss BODY FARM FESTIVAL this Friday 14 Oct 2011 !!!!
Location : Botanique / Orangerie – Brussel
Live : PARADE GROUND / UNDERVIEWER (Front 242) / DIVE / NOTHING BUT NOISE (Front 242) / TZII / MORPHEUS SECRETS
Afterparty with DJ BORG (Body Beats) / DJ H8RED / DJ PICKAERT.
The party will start at 19h30. Be there!
MiseryLab is the solo project of Porl King, formerly of Rosetta Stone fame.
New album "void of life" is out NOW and available only for a very limited period on CD.
It looks like MiseryLab will run a batch of CDs based on the pre-order, and that's it. And the deadline for ordering is 15 October 2011
That's right - 5 days time.
