Black Coal, Thin Ice by Diao Yinan with Liao Fan , Gwei Lun Mei, Wang Jinchun , Ailei Yu , Wang Xuebing.

An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.

My choice for Best Film at the Ghent Film Festival : BLACK COAL , THIN ICE ( China). Diao Yinan Has Made a master piece...

BRET EASTON ELLIS , President of the Jury at Flanders International Film Festival Ghent , on Twitter

The spirit of Raymond Chandler haunting Black Coal , Thin Ice. On rake manner Diao Yinan typifies the gloomy atmosphere of a country in evolution though he counters the tightness with humor.

TOMORROW ★★★★

If you look past the language barrier, 'Black Coal, Thin Ice' is almost as accessible as an average American genre film with all the elements that the genre demands : a mysterious murder , a detective on the bottle, a femme fatale...

METRO ★★★

Second VARSOVIE album, L'Heure et la Trajectoire has been recorded by the founding core in summer 2013 at Drudenhaus Studio – Bretagne. This follows the État Civil album – 2010 – and the Neuf Millimètres EP – 2007 – and a hundred concerts in Europe.

Still in a rock / post-punk style, but in a more radical way, those 10 new songs reformulate the wounds and the vertigos of the epoch through some emblematic figures – fictional or not – or historical crisis. No message to deliver, except an attempt to give again a meaning with the available weapons.

Xymox, later known as Clan of Xymox, was founded in Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands, in 1983 by Ronny Moorings (vocals, guitars, synthesizers) and Anka Wolbert (vocals, bass). Ronny saved up to buy a TEAC 144 4-track tape recorder and the duo relocated to Amsterdam in april of 1983. They began to record songs utilizing a Yamaha CS-15, Korg MS-10 and MS-20, a BOSS Dr. Rhythm DR-55, guitar and effects pedals. Layering drone-like tones of monophonic synthesizers over tape loops, rhythm tracks, guitar, and bass, they created a unique fusion of lush psychedelia and dark, angular atmospherics. The result was a 5-song ep, 'Subsequent Pleasures', was released in 1984 and limited to 500 vinyl copies.

It was a precursor to the darkwave sounds of their self-titled debut LP on 4AD Records, which was released the following year. At the time, Anka was designing silk-screened posters for a music venue called Oktopus. She based the sleeve design on a drawing she had done of Ronny lying in the grass that summer and used some cutouts and details of other photos. Today, the record is highly sought after by collectors. One song from the ep, "Muscoviet Musquito", was later re-recorded for the compilation album 'Lonely Is An Eyesore' released by 4AD in 1987. All jackets have been silk-screened with pink and grey paint, using the original plates Anka created in 1984. Each copy includes a fold-out pink newsprint poster with never before seen photos of the band, lyrics and liner notes by Anka and Ronny. See the colors and waves in this deluxe 30th anniversary edition of a classic piece of Dutch history.

Now out on Dark Entries.

'Uno' is a collection of early recordings from seminal Italian electronic act Kirlian Camera. Keyboardist/vocalist Angelo Bergamini founded the project in Parma in 1979, initially naming it Suicide Commando, before discovering another project using the same name. By 1980, Angelo had recruited singer Simona Buja, keyboardist Fabrizio Chiari and bassist Mauro Montacchini. Their demo cassette, 'Dawn', attracted the attention of Italian Records, a popular independent label.

The following year, Mauro left the band and was replaced by Giorgio Vecchi, and the band recorded their first mini-LP, 'Kirlian Camera'. 'Uno' compiles the 4 songs from the mini-LP on Side A and the 6 songs from the demo cassette on Side B. Also included is the bonus track "Minitech", originally recorded in 1981, presented for the 1st time on vinyl as a gold-stamped flexi-disc. Kirlian C amera's clean, minimalist new wave is marked by strong haunting melodies, slow moving synth washes, and stark, dramatic vocals. Housed in the original jacket featuring a painting of a royal Italian noble on the front and black and white photos of the band on the back. Each copy includes a 2-sided postcard with a never before seen photo of Angelo and Simona taken from an early concert

Conzoom Records will re-release the sold out debut album by Parralox as a limited 2CD "Electricity (Expanded)" on October 31st. This new double CD edition is limited to 500 units and features the original 15 tracks of the album plus previously unreleased material and extended versions from that time including the unreleased and exclusive demo versions of the songs "I Fell In Love With A Drum Machine", "Factory Friends" and enjoy "Eastern Wall" as bonus tracks. 

Furthermore included on the limited edition are 8 unreleased extended Versions of the classics and of Parralox fans beloved songs "Europe", „Black Jeans", "X Minus One", "Underground", "Lovely", "Should Not Be" and "I Heart U". Also unreleased and exclusive to this limited second CD are still the original demo version of "Footsteps" as well as other exclusive remixes.