New CYGNOSIC album:
The new CYGNOSIC album "Fire and Forget" will be released simultaneously via Black Rain (Europe) und DeathWatch Asia (Japan/world) on March 22nd. CYGNOSIC is an outstanding Greek Electro project and became widely known with their predecessor albums "A Diety in Pain" and "Fallen". As much as these two releases were critically acclaimed, CYGNOSIC fans will also definitely love "Fire and Forget".
Listen to a preview sample here
New POLARLICHT 4.1 album:
"A Collection of Blech- und Hausmusik" is the title of the new POLARLICHT 4.1 album which is soon to be released. "A Collection of Blech- und Hausmusik" comes up as a skillfully compiled collection of early POLARLICHT 4.1 tracks. Some of them were composed more than 12 years ago. Moreover you will find exclusive collaborations with FLINT GLASS, WYNARDTAGE and SUPERSIMMETRIA as well as brand-new tracks and rare material. "A Collection of Blech- und Hausmusik" also includes 2 remixes by WYNARDTAGE and ECHORAUSCH and a track from POLARLICHT 4.1´s side project TRANSISTOR. The CD will be released as a limited edition in a 6-page-figifile and also as two strictly limited editions in special wooden boxes - limited to 12 and 66 copies.
Listen to a preview sample here
Jonteknik has done a remix for the forthcoming OMD single 'Metroland', they're also working on new material which they hope to release this winter.
In the meantime you can discover that new gorgeous single by OMD by clicking below.
ILLUSION OF SAFETY started in Chicago almost 30 years ago with their vision of dark & morbid atmospheric industrial music and soon became one of the inventors of what was then called 'Ambient Industrial', the marriage of these two very different styles & approaches.
Since then, IOS never failed to surprise their listeners, going through many musical changes with various live members using elements of improvisation, electro-acoustic music,sound collages, sublime drones (especially in the 90's before it became a well-known notion) and noise (and only imagine that JIM O'ROURKE started his career as the 19-year old live guitarist of ILLUSION OF SAFETY!).
Drone Records are very happy IOS (at this time mastermind DANIEL BURKE only) recorded pieces for our special concept 10" series that again mark a very unexpected change: SWEET DREAMS is an almost 'psychedelic' record, using many incredible acousmatic sounds deriving from field recordings, instrumental sources (such as acoustic guitars) and synths, which build together repetitive pulsing patterns & hypno-loops that suck you in.
But IOS wouldn't be IOS if it weren't for surprising breaks, cut-ups, crackling sounds and other interferences.... To us, this sounds like 70's psych-space tunes transformed by today's experimental & compositional consciousness..
Three pieces, 22+ mins, mastered by THOMAS DIMUZIO, 500 copies pressed on beautiful & unique 3-colour (green, blue & white) vinyl & with artwork by Berlin-based designer TILMANN BENNINGHAUS.
Also out on Drone Records: MIND-02: DRONE-MIND//MIND-DRONE Vol. 2 LP
This LP-series from Drone Records is dedicated to the Drones of the World, and the Drones of our Minds. A kind of continuation of the Drone 7"-series but on a more user-friendly format. Each LP features four artists from the international drone-scene and is limited to 500 copies and pressed on four different vinyl-colours.
Each LP artwork will feature paintings by British painter PETE GREENING. This series shows the various sides of todays experimental drone-music. The title symbolizes the interaction between sound of the Eternal and our psyche and raises questions: Can Drones (or sound per se) be regarded as "intelligent"? Does every mind produce a Drone? Isn't it possible that any organic or non-organic entity produces a Drone?
Drone Music is seen as more than a mere 'music style', it expresses an approach to perceive & understand the world. DRONE-MIND and MIND-DRONE build a circle of diverse inter-relations. The Drone as a metaphor for everything that vibrates, that releases energy -
Moji Moji are a post-rock/electronica treat from Argentina who are releasing their second album as a CD on Oxide Tones.
The band is a one man show, which you will hardly believe when listening to the album.
The next release on Str8Line Records is a double cd box set named "Terres Neuves"
TERRES NEUVES is a project conceived by French photographer Jérôme Sevrette. Based on 25 serial colour Polaroid, about thirty musicians, songwriters & writers were asked to bring their music, poetic and
literary vision inspired from these pictures. The result will be a collection of original music and texts in a sized-vinyl album opening into three parts.A hybrid and complete collector's item both portfolio, book and record.
cd1 :
BLOOD ON THE SNARE
ASWEFALL
BRUNO GREEN
FREDERIC TRUONG
TUE LOUP
KRAMIES
ME Vs YOU
ULAN BATOR
SIEBEN
COMPLOT
BAND OF GHOSTS
Morthen Vlad Art
JULIENGB
IAMBWOOL
LES MARQUISES
RICHARD PINHAS
cd2:
A SINGER MUST DIE
AND ALSO THE TREES
THAT SUMMER
GD LUXXE
PASCALE LE BERRE
19 NEW PROJECT
PRESS GANG METROPOL
MOKROÏE
A SECOND OF JUNE
OLIVIER MELLANO
RENAUD-GABRIEL PION
ELLIS ISLAND SOUND
MECHANISM FOR PEOPLE
SIBELIAN
LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT
FRANTIC
For the text part:
Unpublished texts from the authors :
AMINE BOUCEKKINE
MARIE MOOR
XAVIER PLUMAS
DANIELLE ROBERT-GUEDON
