Press Info:
Following his recent appearance on Blueprint, Mark Broom returns to the label with a unique project, revisiting the work of techno pioneer Regis. Entitled “Power Is Neutral”, the release sees Broom rework a selection of seminal Regis recordings originally released on Downwards
Records across the albums Gymnastics (1996), Delivered Into The Hands Of Indifference (1998) and Penetration (2001).
Known as one of the key architects of the Birmingham techno sound, Regis (Karl O’Connor) helped shape British techno through his work as co-founder of Downwards Records and a catalogue that continues to influence generations of artists.
For Mark Broom, few artists embody British rave culture quite like Regis. Drawing on source material that has long stood as a cornerstone of UK techno, Broom approaches these edits with
both respect and imagination. As he puts it, “Mark Broom is like some modern day Bagpuss… he has fired up his techno mouseorgan and polished old relics to make them all shiny and new.”
Power Is Neutral delivers six expertly crafted reinterpretations that bridge the raw energy of Regis’ original works with Broom’s unmistakable contemporary dancefloor sensibility, bringing
these timeless tracks to a new generation of listeners.
Title:
Gold Is The Metal (With The Broadest Shoulders)
Label:
Mute
Cat#:
COIL3
Release Date:
30th October 2026
Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming
Tracklist: 01. The Last Rites Of Spring (2026 Remaster)
02. Paradisiac (2026 Remaster)
03. Thump (Live – 2026 Remaster)
04. Coil – For Us They Will (Live – 2026 Remaster)
05. The Broken Wheel (2026 Remaster)
06. Boy In A Suitcase (2026 Remaster)
07. Golden Hole (2026 Remaster)
08. Cardinal Points (2026 Remaster)
09. Red Slur (2026 Remaster)
10. …Of Free Enterprise (2026 Remaster)
11. Aqua Regalia (2026 Remaster)
12. Metal In The Head (2026 Remaster)
13. Either His, Or Yours (2026 Remaster)
14. Chickenskin (2026 Remaster)
15. Soundtrap (Live – 2026 Remaster)
16. The First Five Minutes After Violent Death (2026 Remaster)
Press Info:
Mute – in conjunction with Threshold House – have announced a partnership that launches with four early, often overlooked, works by Coil – remastered and released with restored artwork, previously unseen imagery and new sleeve notes.
Originally conceived by John Balance, Coil swiftly became a duo with Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle) and after their 1984 debut release, the one-sided 12” single How to Destroy Angels, they were joined by a young Stephen Thrower. On the recordings in the series, Coil are John Balance (1962-2004), Peter Christopherson (1955-2010) and Stephen Thrower.
The series launches with 1987’s Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), the third in a trilogy that began with Scatology and Horse Rotorvator. Where Scatology and Horse Rotorvator are revered, the period immediately after is sometimes skipped over, but these years were enormously potent moments in their history, ones where sex and sexuality, as core engines of their work, were cast under increasing shadow by homophobia and the fear of AIDS, both of which were deliberately fanned and propagated by the mainstream media.
Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) draws on work that had been sidelined during Horse Rotovator’s sequencing. It takes textural and instrumental pieces and shapes them into a fully-formed album. Thrower explains that this is much more than “a round-up of wraiths and strays”, describing it as “the culmination of a ‘magnum opus’ in the artistic sense, the closure of a trilogy – Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Gold is the Metal – rounding up even our most jagged, cryptic, frictional, intemperate materials into a final balanced form”.
It honed what Thrower calls “electro-erotics of sound”, with a collage structure inspired by The Faust Tapes.Notable are its field recordings – a drunken brass band captured in Mexico, a snippet of a TV documentary about young British boxers, and a Thai boxing arena recorded by Christopherson. There is also accident and serendipity at play: ‘Metal in the Head’ contains the sound of their hired Fairlight sampler malfunctioning, when it began to randomly rearrange and distort the music. Words become less important for this record: it is instead about the creation of an enveloping continuity, atmospheres where barbarism lurks, unspoken but detected, alongside the euphoria of intoxication and the Rites of Spring.
For this reissue its artwork has been painstakingly reconstructed by Thrower and his partner Ossian Brown (a member of Coil from 1999-2004), expanding upon its original concept with additional archive material, including artefacts, photographs, artworks, and personal notes made by John Balance.
Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) will be followed by Coil’s soundtrack for Derek Jarman’s The Angelic Conversation, the unreleased music for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, and the compilation Unnatural History.
Threshold House was Coil’s own imprint, set to release Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) and nowreactivated by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown as a vehicle to release the early Coil albums in partnership with Mute, and in association with the estates of John Balance and Peter Christopherson.
Snippets: soon
Full Track Streaming:
“Cardinal Points (2026 Remaster)”
Press Info:
“A Love Letter is an interpretation of an intense attraction to a person, lots of fantasies and a feeling of a deep connection. You’re under Cupid’s spell! Be careful – it might be an illusion.”
It’s a love letter from us to all of you beautiful souls out there who experienced this feeling at least once
This is a limited 10″ vinyl release – made for your heart and the moments you dance together.
Press Info:
‘Paired Works’ is a double EP by Justine Perry and Paula Koski, developed in parallel within the same time and environment. Evolving through years of shared surroundings and creative exchange, the record emerges as a natural extension of that connection.
Produced separately, the tracks reflect two inner worlds shaped in close orbit. Justine Perry leans into deep, hypnotic forms, unfolding in layered, kaleidoscopic patterns, while Paula Koski navigates dubby and spacious structures, letting texture and tension take the lead.
Justine Perry is known for her fast-paced, deep and hypnotic sound. Her productions combine trippy, evolving structures with a strong sense of propulsion, with releases spanning labels such as Dynamic Reflection and X/Y/Secret. The Finnish-born, Berlin-based Paula Koski works in the space between hypnotic and driving techno with previous releases on Soma Records and On Board Music. Her contribution to ‘Paired Works’ moves through spacious tension, dub-inflected weight and stripped-back detail.
Across four sides, ‘Paired Works’ moves between focused, forward-driving passages and more suspended, atmospheric moments, creating a subtle yet persistent push and pull. Rather than attaching itself to one singular moment on the dancefloor, the record draws a wider arc — stripped-back, bleepy openings, heavier immersive zones and high-pressure peaks. It stretches across the shifting phases of a long club night without settling into just one.
On the A side, Justine sets the tone with dreamy, fluid constructions that gradually lock into rhythm. The B side sees Paula deepen the space, stretching time through dub-inflected weight and detail. By the C side, the energy sharpens into driving, high-impact techno. The D side closes the journey on a more suspended note, paced steadily and shaped through spacious tension and subtle melodic detail, suited for the slower drift of morning hours on the floor.
The abstract and textured artwork by Antoine Paikert (Esquive Studio) further extends the record’s atmosphere visually. The French-born multidisciplinary artist’s work draws from subtle and often overlooked human emotion.
Timeless and focused in its approach, ‘Paired Works’ marks the debut release on Ostgut Ton for both artists. ‘Paired Works’ will be released on 24 July 2026 via Ostgut Ton.
Words by Theresa Baeumel
Snippets:
Full Track Streaming: soon
Specials:
Justine Perry – “#020 – Radion March 2026”
