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MAXI, is a career-spanning collection of 13 tracks from the pioneering Belgian electronic trio Telex.
Surviving members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers have revisited the original tapes to create new Maxi Versions of the band’s best-loved songs. Featuring new mastering with updated mixes, the album stays true to what we know and love about Telex… so no need for the usual remix debate. It includes the extended versions of hit single ‘Moskow Diskow’ as well as their Eurovision Song Contest entry, aptly called ‘Eurovision’.
The band was originally formed by the late Marc Moulin, alongside Lacksman and Moers. This album has been lovingly curated by the two surviving members together with Mute, continuing their collaboration that began with 2021’s This is Telex compilation and the remastered reissues of the band’s catalog.
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Panasonic release their second LP on Blast First, “Kulma” on Monday 27th January 1997.
“Kulma” (meaning “angle”) is a major breakthrough in analogue technological entertainment, and a step forward from the debut “Vakio”. As previously hinted at in the extended play release “Osasto” of this summer, “Kulma” incorporates the cool electronic minimalism for which the group is renowned, but highlights and expands upon those with beats and textures second to none. Compelling and disturbing, the music of Panasonic crosses the boundaries between Techno, Industrial music and Ambient soundscaping to produce a sound that is eternally new, but at the same time, fundamental to the rhythm of life. The one word track titles hint at microscopic imagery of day to day objects and experience, pointing the listener back to the manifesto of futurism, and forward to the sounds of the future. In a world where art and science become one, Panasonic are the documenters of choice.
History
Panasonic live in Turku, Finland. They are now two: ILPO VAISANEN and MIKA VAINIO. The first recording by Panasonic was released as a 12″ by Sahko and sold out immediately. Panasonic were snapped up by Blast First when they played at Disobey New York at the beginning of 1995 and their Vakio lp was released in October of that year. They visited the UK to perform and DJ including memorable events at the Disobey club in London and Manchester.
They also broadcast a live session on Kiss FM, and a session was broadcast by John Peel. Panasonic performed at the end of last year in a car park in London’s East End with an Audio Weapons Armoured Car System featuring a 5k turbo sound PA which was built and developed by Jimmy Cauty. The video for Urania from the LP was made by renowned photographer Brian Griffin (Echo + The Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, Margaret Thatcher and Coca Cola), featured a cone-headed dog, and was premiered at the Royal College of Art when Panasonic performed and also showed SAHKO – The Movie, which was made by Sahko label-mate Jimi Tenor. The Urania video was nominated for The Directors and Art Directors Guild Awards Of Excellence (1996) where it sat calmly alongside the new (and substantially more costly) Rolling Stones video. Mika Vainio also records under the name ż for Sahko. He has just remixed the tune “Headphones” for the new Bjork Remix LP, “Telegram”. Panasonic will be attending a playback of their new album on 6th December (Finnish Independence Day) at the Finnish Institute in London. Panasonic will be supporting SWANS throughout Europe in February and March 1997, and will be playing with Suicide…later.
Specifications
Translations of the LP track titles follows: teurastamo means slaughterhouse, loutain means sounder, vapina means tremble, puhdistas means cleansing, jakso means period, murtoneste translates into break liquid, kylmamasssa means cold bulk, hahmo is guise, aines means matter, -25 means just that (-25), saato means adjustment, kurnutus means croaking, rutina means crackle, and moottori means motor.( Alternative Finnish lesson over ).
It was recorded in their own studio, a small converted sauna in the warehouse district outside of Turku city, using partially home made or old analogue synths and drum machines.
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Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto – hackedepicciotto – release their latest album, LICHTUNG, today on limited-edition candy coloured vinyl, CD and digitally via Mute.
The new album marks a fresh start for Danielle and Alexander, as they end a period of nomadic life, settling in the outer edges of Berlin. This is illustrated by the tectonic, musical layers of ‘Draussen’, a largely instrumental anthem, underpinned by strings and a pulsating bass line, celebrating the newfound certainty of having arrived.
Their new home is on the outer edges of Berlin, close to nature with fields not far from their garden. They explain, “The album is called LICHTUNG, which means a clearing, a place in which you can suddenly see the light in a dark forest, a place to rest. As the world seems to be spinning ever more quickly into a place of madness, being in this quiet place helps us think about how to deal with it all.”
The neighbourhood is close to where Alexander grew up and, crucially, where age 14, a mere 12 months before he joined Einstürzende Neubauten, he began experimenting with electronics. In a perfect circle, this being the first music he’s released since departing Neubauten, both he and Danielle found themselves experimenting with electronics as well as with their usual composition structure, and language. These eight new songs are characterised by a new, elegiac form, with long, interconnected pieces that suggest a larger composition, and the album’s lyrics, written by Danielle, are entirely in German for the first time.
For Danielle, an American who had already lived in Berlin for several decades, (co-founding the city’s famed Love Parade) before setting off on her world tour with Alexander, this was a deliberate challenge that forced her to engage intensively for the first time with the German language and its historical connotations – a stark contrast to the freedom she had grown accustomed to in writing in English. Danielle explains, “I usually read and write in English, but this time I told myself: you have to make it happen: an entire album in German language and syntax. A suite of songs in the language of my adopted home.”
Alexander expands, “I’ve revisited electronic elements, moments of experimental electronic music, just like back then in my childhood bedroom in Lichtenrade, when I was still Alexander von Borsig. And once it was clear that Danielle would be writing lyrics and singing in German, I subsequently moved beyond many of those Anglo-American conventions that we had worked with in the past quite naturally, almost without ever questioning them.”
A sense of place has always been important to the duo, and their nomadic life is marked by each release: Menetekel was recorded in a medieval church in Krems on the Danube; The Current was recorded in Blackpool, on the northwest coast of England; Keepsakes was recorded at Europe’s first recording studio in Naples. Silver Threshold broke from this pattern, and was instead associated with a historical phase – namely, the pandemic.
Alexander goes on to explain, “Back then, we called it ‘the principle of liminality’ – a phase of transformation in which the everyday order, its values, and symbols are temporarily destabilised, suspended, or turned on their head. Without the journey – the trip around the world, the nomadic life – arriving at the clearing, and thus the new album, would never have been possible.”
Looking back, it becomes clear just how much hackedepicciotto, since their inception as a duo, have dedicated themselves to a larger narrative that is as personal as it is romantic, and at the same time worldly and introspective.
hackedepicciotto have announced a series of German and Portuguese dates for spring. The tour will include a celebration of LICHTUNG at Berlin’s Silent Green on 27 June, with very special guests – details below. In addition, Alexander’s biography, BLAST: Distorted Memories from Einstürzende Neubauten to Symphonic Drone has been translated to Polish and he will be presenting the book at Festival Inne Brzmienie (Different Sounds) in Lubin on 4 July and at Poznan on 27 August.
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)
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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)”
