out now: Laibach feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson – The Engine Of Survival [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson

 

Title:
The Engine Of Survival

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
MUTE664

 

Release Date:
07th September 2023

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
The Engine Of Survival

02.
The Engine Of Survival
(Single Version)

03.
The Engine Of Survival
(Pas De Deux)

04.
The Engine Of Survival
(Instrumental)

 

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“The Engine Of Survival”

 

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out now: Laibach – Love Is Still Alive EP [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach

 

Title:
Love Is Still Alive EP

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
MUTE653

 

Release Date:
20th January 2023 (CD & digital)
03rd March 2023 (vinyl)

 

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Love Is Still Alive I (Moon, Euphoria)

02.
Love Is Still Alive II (Venus, Libidine)

03.
Love Is Still Alive III (Mercury, Dopamine)

04.
Love Is Still Alive IV (Neptune, Oxytocin)

05.
Love Is Still Alive V (Uranus, Prolactin)

06.
Love Is Still Alive VI (Saturn, Insomnia)

07.
Love Is Still Alive VII (Jupiter, Tristitia)

08.
Love Is Still Alive VIII (Mars, Dysphoria)

 

Press Info:
LAIBACH have shared the first piece of an 8-track EP due out on CD and digitally on 20 January 2023 (with the vinyl following in March), before the Slovenian collective embark on The Coming Race tour later this month (full details below).

Watch the video for ‘Love Is Still Alive I (Moon, Euphoria)’ below.

This is the dawn of the third millennium of Mankind. The planet Earth, which we once knew as our home, is now nothing but a dead rock floating in space, destroyed by wars, pandemics and all the evil that men do. So is the Moon, which once served as the stepping-stone into the vast universe, but later turned into a refuge for the last of us. Now, the remnants of mankind are hurling across the Universe on a single spacecraft, carrying the lucky few who have been saved from annihilation. They are heading for Mars, where all life once originated. They might have lost their history and their planet, but as long as they have a glimmer of hope and a guiding red light shining in the darkness, they will boldly go where no one has gone before – as long as love is still alive. 

The Love Is Still Alive EP tracks the survivors’ journey through our solar system, andt this trip is also a journey through some of the more ‘space’ music genres of recent decades. The EP is an extension of music created for the film, Iron Sky – The Coming Race (dir. Timo Vuorensola, 2019), a hidden sequel. Laibach’s music for Iron Sky – The Coming Race is scheduled for release in 2023, alongside a specially created video game.

Laibach formed in the then-Yugoslavian industrial town Trbovlje. Founded in the year that the country’s founding father Tito died, the band rose to fame to become one of the most internationally acclaimed bands to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe, recently becoming one of the first bands to perform in North Korea. In 2019 they released a Laibachian interpretation of The Sound of Music, conceived during their trip to North Korea and in 2020 celebrated four decades with Laibach Revisited. An album of music from the acclaimed theatrical production Wir sind das Volk (ein Musical aus Deutschland) based on the writings of Heiner Müller (1929-1995) followed in 2022 and the band announced recently that diplomatic negotiations are underway for a performance in Tehran of Alamut, an original symphonic work composed in collaboration with Iranian composers and performers.

 

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Video:
“Love Is Still Alive I (Moon, Euphoria)”

 

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Laibach’s “The Future” on Mute
Laibach’s “Spectremix” on Mute
Laibach’s “Spectre” on Mute
Laibach’s “Reproduction Prohibited” on Mute
Laibach’s “Iron Sky Soundtrack” on Mute
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out now: Laibach feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson – The Future [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson

 

Title:
The Future

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
MUTE659

 

Release Date:
30th November 2022

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
The Future

02.
The Future
(Alternate Mix)

03.
The Future
(Blast From The Past Remix)

 

Press Info:
Laibach pay tribute to Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) with a reinterpretation of Cohen’s pre-apocalyptic track, ‘The Future’. This Laibachian version of the track, originally on Cohen’s 1992 studio album of the same name, makes it abundantly clear that the future Cohen predicted is very much our present.

 

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“The Future”

 

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out now: Laibach – Spectremix [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach

 

Title:
Spectremix

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
iRSTUMM358

 

Release Date:
30th March 2015

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Eurovision
(Torul Remix)

02.
The Whistleblowers
(Marcel Dettmann Remix)

03.
The Whistleblowers
(Diamond Version Remix)

04.
Koran
(Alex Smoke Remix)

05.
Resistance Is Futile
(Function Remix)

06.
Koran
(iTurk Remix)

07.
We Are Millions and Millions Are One
(Konstantin Sibold Remix)

08.
Eurovision
(Marcel Dettmann Remix)

This remix package is also part of the digital deluxe edition of “Spectre” which will be available on the 30th March too.

 

Adapted Press Info (English):
The Dettmann remix, you can listen to below, is taken from Laibach’s forthcoming remix album “Spectremix” which is also part of digital deluxe edition of “Spectre”. Both are out on 30th March 2015.

As well as Marcel Dettmann, SPECTREMIX will feature mixes from labelmates Diamond Version (aka Olaf Bender and Carsten Nicolai), Sandwell District’s Function, longtime collaborator iTurk, Slovenian electro-pop band Torul, Scottish DJ and producer Alex Smoke, German DJ, producer, mastering engineer and co-founder of the Common Sense People event series, Konstantin Sibold and Slovenian producer, DJ and musician Gramatik.

 

Adapted Press Info (German):
Am 27.03. erscheint das Remix-Album “Spectremix” von Laibach welches ebenso Teil der digitalen Deluxe-Version ihres letztjährigen Studioalbums Spectre sein wird.

SPECTREMIX birgt Remixe von Marcel Dettmann, Diamond Version (alias Olaf Bender und Carsten Nicolai), Sandwell Districts Function, iTurk, der slowenischen Electropop-Kapelle Torul, dem schottischen Produzenten Alex Smoke, Konstantin Sibold und DJ Gramatik.

 

Listen:
soon

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Eurovision (Marcel Dettmann Remix)”

“Koran (Alex Smoke Remix)”

 

Videos:
“The Whistleblowers (Diamond Version Remix) ”

“Koran (iTurk Remix)”

 

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album “Spectre”

 

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album “CI” by Diamdon Version on Mute
album “Incubation” by Function on Ostgut Ton
album “II” by Marcel Dettmann on Ostgut Ton

 

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out now: Laibach – Spectre [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach

 

Title:
Spectre

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
STUMM358

 

Release Date:
28th February 2014

 

Format:
CD+Hardbook, CD, vinyl+CD & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
The Whistleblowers

02)
No History

03)
Eat Liver!

04)
Americana

05)
We Are Millions And Millions Are One

06)
Eurovision

07)
Walk With Me

08)
Bossanova

09)
Resistance Is Futile

10)
Koran

11)
The Parade

12)
Love On The Beat

13)
Just Say No!

14)
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Track 11 – 14 are only available with the CD editions.

 

Press Info (English):
A Spectre is haunting the World – the Spectre of Laibach …

LAIBACH release a brand new album, SPECTRE, on CD, vinyl and download on 3 March 2014. The deluxe edition of the album will come with four extra tracks plus the SPECTRE Partybook: a laminated linen bound party membership book with SPECTRE’s manifesto and an invite to register your allegiance to its thesis.

SPECTRE follows the band’s widely acclaimed conceptual album VOLK (2006) – where Laibach interpreted national anthems of historically imperialistic nations – and the release of the side projects LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE (2008) and IRON SKY: The Original Film Soundtrack (2012), watch a trailer for the new album below.

SPECTRE’s release will be followed by a worldwide tour, which includes dates at KOKO, London as well as the band’s first foray into China: a live date on 22 March will be preceded by a Laibach Kunst exhibition (17 January-20 March), plus a Laibach Seminar at the City University of Hong Kong on 21 March.

Laibach has once again ‘re-invented’ itself in a newly born, yet polished and solid, formation. And, as is now customary, Laibach calls into question all the rigid and cemented interpretations (and prejudices) about itself, about its music, intentions, philosophy and ideology. Laibach are masters of escape, true escape artists. And yet, despite everything, SPECTRE resonates as a real and full-blooded Laibachian work and nothing else.

With SPECTRE Laibach has created a big, important, and almost dangerous step forward; it seems that this time it has fatally crossed the Rubicon. On this album the group – which has never defined itself politically, but has, nevertheless, constantly analysed politics through its work – comes across as politically engaged as never before. SPECTRE literally sounds like a political manifesto manifest in poetic form. Titles and lyrics couldn’t be more direct. With these lyrics and songs, Laibach, who has always given a controversial impression – or an impression of controversy – especially in terms of its political orientation, is now very clearly taking a position on the political spectrum and probably irreversibly abolishing its own (to some extent quite comfortable) political ‘freedom’ and neutrality.

The album opens with The Whistleblowers, a contagiously optimistic piece of classic “militant & symphonic” Laibach, sounding like the sequel to Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts’s 1914 “Colonel Bogey March”. This rousing whistle along track – “From North and South / We come from East and West / Breathing as one / Living in fame / Or dying in flame”” alludes to the heroism of the new, ‘digital’ Prometheans of freedom – Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange.

No History, knows no mercy, and leaves no doubt: Laibach require uncompromising action, they demand bravery and boldness and seek heroes “who will be the creed of a new political faith”. And, in one of the verses of this song, listeners can find a mini-‘manifesto’ about the album itself, its sonic expression, and the position of the group in relation to its own history.

In amongst these rallying calls from the band, sits a rare Laibach love song: We Are Millions And Millions Are One deals with love in today’s impossible times, times which are dangerously close to the fictional reality of classic anti-utopian novels such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (??), Laibach’s inspiration for this song.

Ending the album is the elegant utopian song Koran a track that shows the possibility of a better and fairer world – on Earth or in the hereafter. Koran – which literally means ‘recitation’ (also another key Laibachian trait) –, of course, to some extent also refers to the series of uprisings, revolutions and wars in the Arab world that have been taking place in the past few years and which refuse to sink. Consequently, the album ends with the (in)complete, open, unfinished sound of a piano key…

 

Press Info (German):
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa, das Gespenst von Laibach.

Acht Jahre nach ihrem letzten Studioalbum veröffentlichen Laibach mit Spectre ihr bis dato womöglich spektakulärstes Album, das vieles auf den Kopf stellt, was man über das slowenische Musiker- und Künstlerkollektiv zu wissen glaubte. Bislang bewegte sich die Gruppe immer im diffusen Nebel der Zweideutigkeit, galt als scharfzüngiger Beobachter von Pop und Politik, ihrer Mechanismen und Gefahren. Doch die Zeiten ändern sich. Immer schon höchst ideologisierte Werte wie Freiheit zerbröseln vollends unter den allgegenwärtigen Augen der Geheimdienste, während die Armutsschere weltweit immer weiter auseinanderklafft und Europa und die Welt durch die Finanzkrise am Abgrund taumelt. Es sind Zeiten, in denen Freund und Feind verschwimmen. Zeiten, die nach Direktheit verlangen. Eine Deutlichkeit, die Laibach nach über 30 Jahren ideologischen Verwirrspiels und Spekulationen über ihre Motive mit Spectre für sich in Anspruch zu nehmen scheinen.

Spectre markiert den Übergang vom Abstrakten zum Konkreten, ohne den Atem banaler Agitation zu verströmen. Die elektrisierenden Songs kommen zum Punkt, ihre Rhythmen versprühen zügellose Energie. Gleich zu Beginn wird der moderne Heldentypos, der „Whistleblower“, besungen. Jener Prometheus, der westliche Werte wie Freiheit und Humanität ad absurdum führt. Typisch Laibach, die ihr Publikum in teuflischer Manier immer wieder vom Baum der Erkenntnis naschen lassen. Die Schäfer getarnt als Wölfe. „Das Album handelt von Politik und der Bildung politischen Bewusstseins“, sagen Laibach. „Die Menschen haben genug vom politischen und ökonomischen Establishment und wollen die Macht in die eigenen Hände nehmen, um Würde und Solidarität in ihr tägliches Lebens zu bringen.“

Die krisengeprägte Gegenwart ist für die Band, die sich auf der internationalen Bühne ebenso heimisch fühlen wie in den renommiertesten Galerien, natürlich ein gefundenes Fressen. Ihre Musik war ohnehin immer ein williges Vehikel für präzise Analysen kultureller und politischer Prozesse, die sich durch sämtliche Aspekte von Laibach Kunst zog. Das Kollektiv stellte die richtigen Fragen, nämlich jene, die zu Antworten führen. Auf Spectre dagegen scheint das Prinzip Frage/Antwort sich gegenseitig zu durchdringen, die notwendigen Schlüsse liegen in den Lyrics. Spectre ist der Aufruf zur Revolution angesichts bedrohlicher Zeiten. Ein unverbindlicher Handlungsvorschlag, der sogar auf mögliche Strategien zum Wandel hinweist („Americana“).

„In der Vergangenheit begannen in krisengeprägten Zeiten wie diesen normalerweise folgenreiche Kriege und das könnte leicht wieder passieren.“ Laibach warnen vor dem Scheitern Europas als Friedensprojekt. „Europe is falling apart“, heißt es in „Eurovision“, einem der zentralen Stücke auf Spectre. „Die Menschen in Europa brauchen eine neue Identität, die für sie Bedeutung hat und sie Begeisterung für die Zukunft spüren lässt. Die Revolution muss von den Straßen in Hamburg und Berlin, Paris und Athen, Istanbul, Kiew, Barcelona oder Ljubljana kommen. Die Antwort auf die Krise muss internationalistischer und universeller sein als die Universalität des globalen Kapitals.“

So weht durch Spectre nicht nur ein unbändiger Hauch von Revolution musikalischer wie ästhetischer Natur, sondern das Album versprüht den reizvollen Charme der Utopie. Es ist die Sehnsucht nach einer besseren Welt, welche die Revolutionen antreibt, die in „Eat Liver!“ oder „Walk With Me“ angedeutet werden. Doch Laibach wissen auch, dass die Utopie an sich ein Paradoxon ist. „Als eine Idee und Motivation, um unser Leben zu verbessern, brauchen wir sie unbedingt. Aber jedes Mal, wenn wir versuchen, sie im großen Stil zu verwirklichen, erreichen wir das katastrophale Gegenteil. Und alle Utopien stehen vor einem Problem: Was macht man mit denjenigen, die nicht der gleichen Meinung sind?“ Dabei haben Laibach mit dem virtuellen NSK Staat, in dem die Neue Slowenische Kunst 1992 aufging, bereits einen utopischen Entwurf vorgelegt. Letztlich kann Laibach niemand entkommen, wie sich in dem selbstreferentiellen Song „Resistance Is Futile“ offenbart. Dennoch endet „Spectre“ offen mit der Frage nach einer besseren und gerechteren Welt und Laibach überlassen es dem Hörer, die richtigen Schlüsse zu ziehen. Schließlich haben Laibach in all den Jahren die Welt verschieden interpretiert. Nun käme es darauf an, sie zu verändern.

 

Teaser:

 

Listen:
“Resistance Is Futile”

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Full Track Streaming:
Stream it in full at The Quietus

 

Videos:
“The Whistleblowers”

“Eurovision”

“No History”

“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”

“We Are Millions And Millions Are One”

 

Related Release:
EP “S”
album “Spectremix”

 

Tour Dates:
06.03.2014 CH-Luzern, Schüür
07.03.2014 DE-Weinheim, Café Central
08.03.2014 FR-Paris, Trabendo
10.03.2014 BE-Leuven, Het Depot
12.03.2014 UK-London, KOKO
13.03.2014 NL-Amsterdam, Melkweg
14.03.2014 DE-Köln, Stollwerk
15.03.2014 DE-Schorndorf, Manufaktur
16.03.2014 DE-München, Technikum
22.03.2014 CN-Hong Kong, The Vine Center
02.04.2014 IT-Rome, Orion Club
03.04.2014 IT-Trezzo, Live Club
04.04.2014 DE-Frankfurt am Main, Mousontrum
05.04.2014 DE-Dresden, Reithalle
07.04.2014 DE-Berlin, Volksbühne
08.04.2014 DE-Hamburg, Uebel&Gefährlich
10.04.2014 SE-Malmö, Babel
12.04.2014 PL-Poznan, C.K. Zamek
13.04.2014 PL-Gdansk, B90
15.04.2014 AT-Wien, Arena
16.04.2014 HU-Budapest, A38
18.04.2014 CZ-Praha, Archa Theatre
09.05.2014 HR-Zagreb, TvornicaKulture
16.05.2014 SI-Ljubljana, Krizanke

 

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“Iron Sky Soundtrack”

 

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