The Monochrome Set has a brand new album out on Tapete Records: Cosmonaut
At the end of the 70s, The Monochrome Set were part of the first wave of post punk bands. Right from the beginning, the band earned a solid reputation as purveyors of fine pop, gaining praise from 80s contemporaries such as Morrissey and Edwyn Collins. Importantly, in later years this praise has continued with artists such as Franz Ferdinand, The Divine Comedy and Graham Coxon, all citing the band as a key influence on their own work.
The Monochrome Set sound has often been described as timeless, and that alone explains why, over the years, the band has continued gaining admirers. "Cosmonaut", the band's 13th album, is a perfect example of this exhilarating mix. The title track opens with a Theremin cyber fly buzzing towards your skull before the song hits, launching you into a mirror dimension that is both familiar and alien. The whole album is a trip that starts with a hallucinating cash-till lady, then travels through dream-sets involving cannibalism, disaffected squirrels, strange gods, dying sweethearts, sexual depravity, Alzheimer's, backward evolution, and ends in an operating theatre, amid a sea of medical tentacles.
Electrogenic is excited to be a part of the very first official tribute to Apotygma Berzerk.
Put together by Electrozombies, the projects "Apop We Love You" will be relesaed July,15 2016 and includes a a bunch of well-known musicians and bands like Electrogenic, Machinista, Vogon Poetry, Twisted Destiny, IIOIOIOII, Technomancer Feat. Angst Pop, and many more.
By the way: Angst Pop is Per Aksel Lundgreen who is a former member of Apoptygma Berzerk.
Achim Windel, one of the founding members of Placebo Effect passed away. Together with Axel Machens and Christoph Kunze, he founded this band that soon became a household name in the dark electro scene with Galleries of Pain being their most known album.
Two years ago the band reunited for the Wave Gotik Treffen festival in Leipzig. Peek-A-Boo extends its deepest sincere condolences to Achim’s family.
The very fine German label Young & Cold Records has just released its brand new sampler. Be quick as it's pressed on 200 copies, click below for the link and here's the gorgeous tracklist....
1. Alles - NIE SPIE - 4:15
2. Kinder aus Asbest - Electric Evolution - 3:01
3. Second Planet - Birkeland - 4:11
4. Mängelexemplar - Gedanken sind frei - 2:40
5. Nao Katafuchi - Masks - 3:18
6. Vita Noctis - Hymn - 4:24
7. SOFT RIOT - Lovers in a dangerous time - 4:10
8. Low Factor - Endgame - 3:08
9. Ben Bløødygrave - Ich Schau in dein Gesicht (Telekoma Cover) 2:08
10. XTR HUMAN - In Circles - 3:49
11. Dividing Lines - Self destruction - 2:47
12. Totenwald - Shadows in paradise II - 2:32
13. Zwarte Poëzie - De Laatste Dagen - 3:39
14. Paradox Sequenz - Invano - 4:19
15. Werner Karloff - 1984 - 3:33
16. Endlose Emotion - Sperrstunde - 4:20
17. Adam Usi - Shili - 3:08
18. NachtAnalyse - Grenzgänger - 4:15
19. GBS. - Quiet - 3:55
20. Tränen der Sehnsucht - Colourful Death - 3:36
Dismantled presents The Hero EP, a preview of the forthcoming album "Natural Selection" this brooding, driving track is complimented by several B-sides, showing the breadth of Dismantled's sound. There are also remixes from label mates Rotersand, Psyclon Nine, Dawn Of Ashes, and more, giving the title track new takes ranging from electronica to seethingly guitar-tinged to anthemic club fodder.
01. Hero
02. The Hero (Noonattac Club Mix)
03. The Hero (FEED.RMX)
04. Suicidal
05. Dead On Impact (Dawn Of Ashes RMX)
06. Hero (Sleepless Droids RMX)
07. The Hero (Rotersand Rework)
08. Trapped
09. Hero (Psyclon Nine RMX)
10. The Underneath
