The first new album in 9 years! Founded by Michael Popp (Deine Lakaien) and Sigrid Hausen (Qntal), Estampie from 1990 until 2004 released 8 albums that were all very successful both in the alternative/dark/wave- and the traditional, classical scene.
Their pieces narrate stories of trolls, kings, enchanted nightingales and dancing bears... This new opus is dedicated to Europe’s Northern territories and its sagas and fairytales.
As on their 8 previous albums, Estampie again use a lot of traditional, medieval- and ethnic musical instruments, without sounding ‘intellectual’ or ‘academic’.
Sought-after Vinyl-only release from the US-Label ‘Sonic Groove’. This exclusive vinyl includes 5 cuts of future EBM from the legendary band Pankow. Formed in Italy in 1979 Pankow released an impressive onslaught of stripped down hard pounding EBM industrial music.
Pankow has released on such seminal labels as Contempo, Wax Trax, Roir, Play it Again Sam, KK, Zoth Ommog and Minus Habens. Without question Pankow has influenced the sound and feel of EBM industrial music. With often humorous and political vocals meshed with hard drums and minimal yet funky synth production Pankow not only defined their own sound, but also over and over again redefined that sound. After a forced break in 1993 they returned to the scene with a fresh new sound.
Here Pankow has given 5 cuts of dark thought provoking songs that are deeply hypnotic and powerful with messages of life and situations we have all experienced. Warm textured rhythms over stark minimal melodies to express life a! lone in a barren world of stone and cold steel isolation.
The first Single from the new Album by ex-KRAFTWERK member KARL BARTOS! No other edifice in Europe symbolizes the rise and fall of atomic power quite as dramatically as the Atomium. This gigantic model of an iron crystal, erected for the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels, finds its musical voice on the first single lifted from the new Karl Bartos album “Off the Record”.
But what does iron crystal music sound like? Karl Bartos combines variable metrics and intelligent rhythmicity with calculated noise and the elegant weightlessness of his melodies – neoclassicism meets avant-garde electronica. To achieve this, he delves deep into his music archives.
Fans of the band have been clamoring for a new Porcupine Tree release. The wait ends this November with the release of Octane Twisted¸ a double disc live set recorded in Chicago during the tour that supported The Incident, the band's most recent album.
The Incident went top 30 in both the UK and USA, and the world tour climaxed with sold out shows in October last year at Royal Albert Hall in London and Radio City Music Hall in New York.
The album marked another step forward in the incredible journey of the band from a solo studio project created by Steven Wilson in the late eighties to a Grammy nominated act and one of the world s most revered live bands.
After announcing their new live DVD, Nitzer Ebb will drop a double-LP featuring the audio from the DVD mastered for vinyl and limited to only 400 copies worldwide.
This beautiful set comes in transparent vinyl housed in a gatefold full-print sleeve and includes outstanding versions of Nitzer Ebb's biggest hits, "Let Your Body Learn", "Murderous", "I Give To You" and more! Essential for collectors, a must for EBM fanatics
