Mannequin Records is elated to present a 12’’ EP with two unreleased 1986 tracks of the mexican New Wave band Casino Shanghai, with a killer analog modular remix by In Aeternam Vale on the B Side.
Asking Laurent Prot to rework Casino Shanghai was more than logic. Permeated by a strong mitteleuropean dark pop atmosphere, here emphasized by the french lyrics (“Le Tombeau D’Edgar Poe” is using a poem by the french writer Stephane Mallarmé), Casino Shanghai were the pulse of Mexico City underground scene of the 80’s. The band was founded by Ulalume, Carlos Robledo and Walter Schmidt. Prior to Casino Shanghai, Ulalume was the lead singer of punk band The Casuals & DenseUndergrowth, and both Carlos and Walter were members of the post punk band Size and the more experimental Decibel.
Their first album “Film” for the Comrock/ WEA label was released in December of 1985.
Casino Shanghai was part of a great cultural change in Mexico and its music scene.
* Limited edition of 300 copies, red vinyl
* Mastered by Rude 66
Nadja’s Aidan Baker and Thisquietarmy’s Eric Quach are both prolific sonic alchemists and have collaborated together on several occasions in the past. Now they’ve decided to join forces to create the Hypnodrone Ensemble, teaming up with no less than three drummers, Felipe Salazar (Caudal, Muerte En Pereira), Jérémie Mortier (Alice in the Cities, Lady Shot from a Tree), and Dave Dunnett (Man Meets Bear) to forge some spacey and atmospheric guitar drones over an exciting polyrhythmic drive.
The newly founded ensemble premiered their musical explorations last May at N.K. in Berlin and such magical performance was committed to tape and masterfully mastered by James Plotkin.
Set for release next Monday via Consouling Sounds to coincide with Aidan Baker performance at this year’s Incubate Festival, Hypnodrone Ensemble reveals yet another facet of these two prolific and extremely gifted musicians.
THE FLAMING LIPS have announced details about the track-listing and special guests featured on their upcoming Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band tribute album, With A Little Help From My Fwends, which is due 3rd November on Bella Union in the UK/Europe (28th October in the US on Warner Bros. Records). The band has recorded their own versions of each track on The Beatles’ 1967 classic in their own inimitable style, with help from special friends Miley Cyrus, Moby, My Morning Jacket, J. Mascis, Dr. Dog, Phantogram, Tegan and Sara, Grace Potter, Electric Würms (The Lips side project who recently released their 6-song debut album, Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk) and many others.
With A Little Help From My Fwends, is now available for pre-order at all participating retailers. Those who pre-order will receive a pair of instant downloads including “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” featuring Miley Cyrus and Moby and “Fixing A Hole” featuring Electric Wurms.
All proceeds from sales of With A Little Help From My Fwends, will be donated to The Bella Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the band’s hometown of Oklahoma City that assists low-income, elderly, or terminally ill pet owners with the cost of veterinary care.
With A Little Help From My Fwends will be released 3rd November on Bella Union (28th October in the US on Warner Bros. Records). Album artwork and tracklisting below:
The track-listing for With A Little Help From My Fwends is as follows:
01. SGT. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
MY MORNING JACKET & FEVER THE GHOST & J. MASCIS
02. With A Little Help From My Friends
THE FLAMING LIPS & BLACK PUS & THE AUTUMN DEFENSE
03. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
THE FLAMING LIPS & MILEY CYRUS & MOBY
04. Getting Better
DR. DOG & CHUCK INGLISH & MORGAN DELT
05. Fixing A Hole
ELECTRIC WÜRMS
06. She’s Leaving Home
PHANTOGRAM & JULIANNA BARWICK & SPACEFACE
07. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
THE FLAMING LIPS & MJ KEENAN & PUSCIFER & SUNBEARS!
08. Within You Without You
BIRDFLOWER & THE FLAMING LIPS & MORGAN DELT
09. When I’m Sixty-Four"
DEF RAIN & THE FLAMING LIPS & PITCHWAFUZZ
10. Lovely Rita
TEGAN AND SARA & STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS
11. Good Morning Good Morning
ZORCH & GRACE POTTER & TREASURE MAMMAL
12. SGT. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
FOXYGEN & BEN GOLDWASSER
13. A Day In The Life
THE FLAMING LIPS & MILEY CYRUS & NEW FUMES
You may not know the band yet but you know many of the players. Prude is a vicious agglomeration of disparate talents working together, fronted by legendary loud mouth and conceptual terrorist Jared Louche from the seminal Machine Rock band CHEMLAB. Industrial agitator Matt Fanale from the sarcastic CAUSTIC brings blistering noise, white light guitar star Marc Olivier from London's PLASTIC HEROES is the essence of rock'n'roll, electronics guru Phil DiSiena (Infocollapse/Cyanotic) provides sleazy grooves, and producer supreme Howie Beno (13mg/Ministry/Blondie/DM) weaves it all into a merciless Molotov.
Prude's debut album 'the dark age of consent' is a wild, acid-tripped puree of 1970's New York punk and glam retrofitted with a harsh, damaged electronic edge. It's a late night, post-rock, electro-experimental punk record of distorted proportions. It's Iggy and The Stooges, Nine Inch Nails, The New York Dolls, T-Rex, 1000 Homo DJs, Roxy Music, George Bataille, Salvador Dali, and Robert Mapplethorpe all filtered through Louche's blast furnace writing. The album was recorded and produced over three years and three continents and mastered at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios by Sean Magee. It's going to blow your skull in two and have you begging for more.
Get ready to ride the radiation rocket buzz
01. PLUSism.
02. great eraser (in the sky).
03. darkroom.
04. plague star (black light returning).
05. cigarette burn heart.
06. airlock.
07. brief history of fire.
08. scatterbrain.
09. knife on mars.
10. sniper (at the gates of dawn).
11. kings of the republic of nowhere.
Sequential Access is an Old school EBM collaboration between Marco Defcode (Decoded Feedback) and Claus Larsen (Leæther Strip/Klutæ). Fittingly titled "Sex Addicts Anonymous", the resultant album is 13 tracks of pure golden era electro-industrial. Percussive dance rhythms and arpeggiation are overlaid with catchy lyrics and melodies. "Sex Addicts Anonymous" finds Marco and Claus cranking out a brand of EBM that stomps one foot firmly in the present, one in the halcyon days of the old school European EBM movement of the 80's and 90's
01. Contagious
02. Du tog min tid
03. The Walls Come Tumbling Down
04. Where Are You
05. Grow Some Balls
06. Seig Oder Tot
07. The Ghost Of Me
08. Der Musik
09. Black Mirror
10. Let Me Abuse You
11. Sleepless
12. Restrained
13. We Belong Dead
