In 2009, NO TEARS gave many concerts, from Brussels to Napoli in Italy, via Paris, Roma... This release is a witness of one great year. Sounds were caught directly from the live mixing tables during 2 concerts in Belgium and France. It's the opportunity of revisit tracks from the 3 NO TEARS previous albums "Borderline", "Obsessions" and "Fragments" , and several unpublished tracks only played live.

Track list :

1.Intro (Le Klub version)

2.Void

3.Paradoxe

4.Possession

5.Afraid Of

6.The Last Day Of Joy

7.Robert’s Eyes

8.Your White Face With The Red Lips

9.12 Drummers Drumming

10.Feast

11.Senso (Bunker Strasse cover)

12.J’Appelle (Neutral Project cover)

13.A Wonderful Day

14.L’Amour Froid

15.Burnt Offerings (Christian Death cover)

16.In[can]décence

Indiana based composer Rob Funkhouser was given the source material for the Drekka LP, 'Unbeknownst to The Participants at Hand' (2015, Dais Records), in addition to various live recordings containing proto evolving versions of the works which form the LP.

Funkhouser extensively reworked and embellished these source materials into an entirely new work.

Funkhouser says of the project:

"Approaching the work of Drekka is an exercise in sifting through layers. In the files he sent me, it became apparent that there was a whole sonic universe hiding in the realm of near-silence that has characterized much of his recent work.

Thus in many ways the beginning of this project was my attempt to view and ultimately get inside this universe without destroying it in the process. I eventually got lost within it and as a result the project feels like a map back to my own musical space.

There are times in these pieces where I cannot tell you what I made and what came from the source material without having the original file in front of me. This makes these special. I still can’t seem to get home without a map."

Much of the power of the best films by the cult director John Carpenter can be attributed to their use of music — music that, more often than not, was composed and performed by Carpenter himself. What began as a necessity for the low-budget productions by Carpenter became a major part of his aesthetic, and established him as a pioneering figure in genre- film score work as well as electronic music in general. Now, flanked by his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, and with two albums (Lost Themes and Lost Themes II) of non-soundtrack material under his belt, Carpenter has decided to revisit some of his most beloved themes.

Halloween was Carpenter’s breakthrough as a feature film director. Made for $300,000, it was the most profitable independent movie of its day, and to date has spawned several sequels, becoming an renowned franchise; its stories, characters and scores known the world over. The film’s pulse is the eerie 5/4 piano theme that Carpenter places at the center of its pivotal scenes. It’s a classic theme that stands tall alongside Psycho, Jaws, and The Exorcist as one of the most famous – and greatest – in horror movie history.

The dystopian action thriller Escape From New York is another Carpenter classic, uniting the director with his greatest muse, Kurt Russell. The minimal synthesizer theme that tracks Snake Plissken’s journey across this ravaged vision of NYC is one of Carpenter’s defining works as a composer.

Assault on Precinct 13 was the first feature film Carpenter made after film school, and he made it partially as an urban reimagining of Rio Bravo, a film by his idol, Howard Hawks. Assault is a classic, not least of all because it has perhaps Carpenter’s best-loved theme. The theme’s main synthesizer line, partly inspired by the score to Dirty Harry and Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” is catchy and dread-inducing in equal measure.

Carpenter’s theme for The Fog is one of his finest, and creepiest. The spooky synthesizer tone in Carpenter’s composition evokes the advance of the fog itself, helping to make this a quintessential horror score for a classic horror movie.

These 12" releases include the themes to Halloween b/w Escape From New York and Assault on Precinct 13 b/w The Fog, newly rerecorded by Carpenter and his Lost Themes bandmates. May it serve as a bridge between the Horror Master’s legendary, still relevant past and his remarkable present.

Each double A-sided 12' will be available in deluxe limited edition mylar mirrorboard sleeves and as picture discs.

Watch the live studio video for "Escape From New York" below, directed by Carpenter himself. It was filmed at The Village Recorder studio in Los Angeles and offers a preview of The Horror Master’s forthcoming historic debut live performances.

In the clip, he is accompanied by his son Cody Carpenter on synthesizer and his godson Daniel Davies on guitar, with John Spiker on bass, John Konesky on guitar and Scott Seiver on drums.

John Carpenter's US tour kicks off this month! Special blue and red vinyl editions of these 12"s will be available exclusively at the live performances. See full 2016 tour dates below.

John Carpenter live dates:

May

27 Greece, Athens – Piraeus Academy

28 Greece, Athens – Piraeus Academy

30 Denmark, Copenhagen - Koncerthuset - Koncertsalen

June

02 Spain, Barcelona – Primavera Sound

14 US, Seattle – Paramount

15 US, Portland - Arlene Schnitzer

17 US, Oakland - Fox Theatre

18 US, Los Angeles – Orpheum

19 US, Phoenix – Mesa Center for the Arts

21 US, Denver - Gothic Theatre

23 US, Austin - Moody Theatre @ ACL LIVE

24 US, Dallas - Majestic Theater

July

03 Iceland, Ásbrú ATP - Iceland

06 Switzerland, Neuchâtel - International Film Festival

08 US, New York - Playstation Theatre

09 US, Philadelphia – Keswick Theatre

10 US, Pittsburgh – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall

12 US, Washington DC - Lincoln Theatre

15 US, Detroit - The Masonic Temple

16 US, Chicago – Thalia Hall

18 US, Milwaukee – Pabst Theatre

August

26 Italy, Turin – Today’s Festival

28 Italy, Rome - Auditorium Parco Della Musica / Santa Cecilia Hall

October

23 UK, Bristol - Simple Things Festival

28 UK, Manchester - Albert Hall

29 UK, Manchester - Albert Hall

31 UK, London - Troxy

Appearing prominently on many of DREKKA's releases, including both recent DREKKA LPs for DAIS RECORDS, Belgian singer, ANNELIES MONSERÉ has long been a collaborator, muse, and source material for DREKKA’s sonic explorations and dream-cinema soundscapes.

Primarily the work of Mkl Anderson, DREKKA's sound owes debts to the poetic soundscapes of CINDYTALK or COIL, to the ARTEMIEV soundtracks for the films of TARKOVSKY, and to the gravity of early industrial acts such as EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN.

To form his cinematic soundscapes, Anderson often delves into his archive, digging up forgotten snippets of the voices of friends, some long gone and some present still. Listening to DREKKA is like observing the process of remembering. Each old cassette handled, each sound manipulated is a snippet of memory, an association made.

Although sourced from the original recordings that Annelies Monseré made for her second album, 'Marit' (2009, Auetic), this is not a record of remixes. Anderson reworked and embellished the original recordings in Ghent, Belgium and Bloomington, Indiana over the course of six years, beginning three years before ‘Marit’ was even mixed or released.

The result is a novel kind of collaboration. Monseré's plaintive, intimate vocals are couched in Anderson's extremely textural, almost somatic collages, leaving us with the sense of a daydream, comfortable and somehow nostalgic. Monseré's haunted piano, occasionally sounding like it was lifted from the most elegant HOWARD SHORE film score, is a patient voice in an urgent scene. VERJAARDAG feels like a lost record, long forgotten to be rapturously rediscovered, although it has only just been made.

The album features guest appearances by NATHAN AMUNDSON (RIVULETS), JESSICA BAILIFF (KRANKY RECORDS) and JUSTIN VOLLMAR.

This release is part of the BLUESANCT ‘art vinyl’ series; presented as 22 minute EP on SIDE A with a beautiful screenprint of Annelies' handwritten liner notes printed on SIDE B. It comes in a full-color jacket with printed insert and download code and is limited to 250 copies.

Previous releases in the BLUESANCT art vinyl series have included CINDYTALK, MOUNT EERIE, BODUF SONGS, and PANTALEIMON.

The album will be avant-premiered on May 28th between 2PM and 6PM in presence of the artists at de Kleine Hedonist, Sint Jacobsmarkt 34, 2000 Antwerpen !

Again an unique compilation by leading Belgian re-release label Walhalla Records, specialized in Minimal synth. Following the widely acclaimed – and sold out - Underground Wave series, 4 albums released so far, and counting, there is now Volume 5 with mainly Belgian bands but this time as well with a strong international presence by Kunzsysteem (Netherlands), Analysis (UK), No Unauthorized (France) en Dead Man Industry (USA)

Side 1 contains original 80’s work, previously only released on cassette or obscure and ultra rare 7”s. Side 2 contains new work in the minimal synth tradition with a.o. an exclusive new track by the legendary Vita Noctis.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Victims (7 A Nou)

2. So You (RDP)

3. Gravity Dance (Analysis)

4. J’attends (No Unauthorized)

5. Robot Robot (Nacht und Nebel)

6. Desorientation in Grey (Dead Man Industry)

Side 2

1. Deceived (Schicksal)

2. Defaced Places (Unidentified Man)

3. Galoppin’ Gertie (Breast Implosion)

4. All Nymphs are Volcanic (Man Without World)

5. Hymn (Vita Noctis)

6. Brighter than Light (Kunzsysteem)