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out now: Various – Panorama Bar 04 Vinyl [Ostgut Ton]

Artist:
Various

Title:
Panorama Bar [04] Vinyl

Label:
Ostgut Ton

Cat#:
O-TON 56

Release Date:
25th June 2012

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
The Mole
Hippy Speedball

02.
Dexter
X7D

03.
Matthew Styles
Liquid Sky

04.
Jon McMillion
T-Station

Press Info (English):
Compiled by one of Panorama Bar’s key residents Nick Höppner, the 12-Inch sampler for “Panorama Bar 04” mix CD perfectly illustrates both the club’s sound and Höppner’s DJ style. All four previously unreleased exclusive tracks are stand out productions selected by Nick Höppner: Canadian ex-pat The Mole immediately sets the groove with the funky bassline of “Hippy Speedball”. The track combines a classic deepness with upfront experimental percussion. Steffi’s Klakson collaborator Dexter turns up the bass drum and melodies on “X7D” for an uplifting detroitish house cut straight out of the Netherlands. Englishman Matthew Styles adds some deep techno feelings to the 12” with his production “Liquid Sky”. He combines a dubbed out sound with a vocal sample that keeps it well within the house mood of the EP. The Jon McMillion track “T-Station”, which also opens Nick Höppner’s “Panorama Bar 04” mix CD, takes it even deeper; a new kind of a smooth roller with half whispered male vocals, a killer distorted synthline and – unexpectedly – some people screaming at each other somewhere in the background near the end of the track. McMillion puts Seattle firmly on the map, topping off a perfectly varied mini sampler.

Press Info (German):
Zusammengestellt von Panorama Bar Resident Nick Höppner, repräsentiert der 12-Inch Sampler für die “Panorama Bar 04” Mix CD zum Einen den typischen Panorama Bar Sound, zum Anderen aber auch Höppners ganz eigenen DJ-Stil. Alle vier vorher unveröffentlichten Exklusiv-Tracks wurden von Nick für die Mix-CD ausgesucht: Der in Berlin lebende Kanadier The Mole rollt mit “Hippy Speedball” zu Beginn einen unwiderstehlichen Groove mit einer funky Bassline aus. Der Track kombiniert eine klassische Deepness mit experimenteller Percussion. Steffis Klakson-Kollege Dexter schraubt auf “X7D” die Bass Drum und Melodien hoch und liefert einen upliftenden House-Cut inclusive Detroit-Reminiszenzen direkt aus den Niederlanden. Der Engländer Matthew Styles steuert der 12” im Anschluss eine eher deepe Techno-Note bei. Dabei jubelt er seinem Dubtechno-Sound noch ein paar Vocal-Samples unter, so daß sich “Liquid Sky” elegant in die House-Vibes der EP einfügt. Der Jon McMillion Track “T-Station”, der auch Nick Höppners “Panorama Bar 04” Mix-CD eröffnet, legt sich selbst nochmal etwas tiefer und kommt smooth aber unkonventionell mit einem halb geflüsterten Vocal und einer verzerrten Synthline auf den Punkt. McMillion zeigt, was Seattle zu bieten hat und rundet diesen abwechslungsreichen Mini-Sampler perfekt ab.

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Related Release:
Panorama Bar [04] Mix-CD

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out now: Recoil – A Strange Hour In Budapest [Alfa Matrix]

Artist:
Recoil

Title:
A Strange Hour In Budapest

Label:
Alfa Matrix

Cat#:
AM2185DVD

Release Date:
01st June 2012 (pre-order start)

Format:
Blu-Ray & USB stick

Content Blu-Ray:
01)
A Strange Hour In Budapest

02)
Promotional Films

02a)
Want (Renegade of Noise 808 Remix)

02b)
Prey (Shotgun Mix)

02c)
Allelujah (subHuman Album Version)

03)
Live Projections

Content USB stick:
01)
Full 84 minute stereo soundtrack – choice of 24bit wav, 16bit Apple Lossless, FLAC or 320 kbps mp3

02)
3 x ‘A Strange Hour 2′ reconstructions – stereo audio – choice of 24bit wav, 16bit Apple Lossless, FLAC or 320 kbps mp3

03)
Extended trailer for ‘A Strange Hour In Budapest’ – approx 5 minutes : 1080p HD mp4

04)
24 page Blu-ray Art booklet including additional spreads – PDF format

05)
Over 100 x high res Recoil live photographs and film stills

06)
Project wallpapers for smartphone, iPad and computer screen

Info:
On June 1st, in conjunction with Umatik Entertainment, Recoil will release the concert film ‘A Strange Hour In Budapest’ on Blu-ray. This is a full HD production with 5.1 surround sound & stereo audio mixed by Alan Wilder and Paul Kendall.

‘A Strange Hour’ was presented during 2010 & 2011 in 52 cities across the world as part of the ‘Selected Events’ tour to celebrate 25 years of the Recoil project.

Directed and edited by Attila Herkó, ‘A Strange Hour In Budapest’ will be delivered as a Blu-ray only format, presented in two editions: a ‘Red edition’ black case with twin-option reversible cover, and a limited DVD-sized deluxe digi-pack. Each contains a 16-page booklet packed with information & photo manipulations by Ákos Szénási. With the first 1000 copies individually numbered, both editions feature extra promotional films & live projections.

Pre-order NOW via the Recoil Official Store (http://www.store.recoil.co.uk). All on-line orders are dispatched with an exclusive code to receive downloadable extras such as a PDF art booklet with extra spreads, a soundtrack sampler, Recoil ‘live’ photographs and project wallpapers.

Following endless requests to release the stand-alone soundtrack for ‘A Strange Hour In Budapest’, also available is a special edition Recoil USB stick which has been custom-designed with 8 gigabytes of memory and has assets pre-loaded. The stick is finished in stainless steel with Recoil’s Blu-ray catalogue number printed along the edge and comes in a white magnetic seal box.

Alan Wilder’s years in the music industry have seen him go from studio assistant to session keyboard player, but it was his 14 years as a member of Depeche Mode where he really honed his skills. With his attention to detail in the studio, Wilder pushed the boundaries even within the restrictive climate of commercial pop. As an antidote to the demands of the Mode, his studio project Recoil was born in the mid-eighties. Two albums were released: ‘Hydrology’ (1988) and ‘Bloodline’ (1990) both giving an indication of his expanding horizons. After his departure from Depeche Mode in 1995, Wilder resurrected Recoil full-time and has since released ‘Unsound Methods’ (1997), ‘Liquid’ (2000) ‘subHuman’ (2007) and ‘Selected’ (2010).

During his Recoil tenure, Wilder has worked with a varied selection of vocalists including Diamanda Galás, Joe Richardson, Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb), Nicole Blackman, Samantha Coerbell, Toni Halliday (Curve), Maggie Estep, and more recently Shara Worden and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Says Alan: “The idea to take Recoil out on the road evolved during the release of ‘Selected’ in 2010. The events were not so much ‘live’ band but more art installation featuring stripped down, edited sections from many Recoil remixes and alternative versions. For the presentations, I managed to gather together filmmakers from as far as Russia, via the Czech Republic and Hungary, all the way to Argentina.

One of the most memorable moments of the entire tour came about, strangely enough, through adversity. Who can forget ‘Eyjafjallajökull’ and the major headaches and logistical nightmares it caused? Back in April 2010, the Icelandic mountain awoke, spewing its contents into the stratosphere and reaping havoc on the very same day Recoil was due to fly from London to Budapest. After an eternal struggle via airports, train stations, traffic jams, manic phone calls and confusion all round, 12 hours after leaving home my team and I found ourselves back on my own doorstep having got precisely zero kilometers towards the Hungarian capital. The last resort and only option was to drive (in my own car) through the channel tunnel and no less than 7 countries from West Sussex to Diesel club, Budapest – a journey of some 21 hours non stop. Word got around (while others were canceling shows left, right and centre) that, against all the odds, we were on our way – and when we arrived with about 1 hour to spare, what greeted us was one of the most vociferous and appreciative crowds on the whole tour.

To cut a long story short, we wanted to come back, not least to finally see a little of this beautiful city, but most of all to play once again to the warm Hungarian public. The second Budapest presentation and last of 2010 was held in the beautiful newly-renovated Szikra venue. To celebrate this end of year special show we decided to install an extra large fully professional cinema screen and projector. The screen measured a giant 8 x 5 meters and covered the entire stage area.

The performance was filmed using the latest high-definition technology in order to capture the event in its full glory. For this (with the help of the local promoters), the team from Umatik was recruited, headed up by director Attila (‘Atus’) Herkó, and in a similar way to the stage projections, we worked remotely on the editing – I gave feedback to rough edits which Atus sent to me whilst Paul Kendall & I simultaneously worked on the surround sound mix, and everything was refined from there. I think you will agree Attila’s film is stunning and offers a captivating and exhilarating document of ‘A Strange Hour’.”

Videos:
Trailer

Teaser

A Director’s View

The Print House

Public Screening:
01st September 2012 Bio Roy, Gothenburg (Sweden)
21th September 2012 Moods im Schiffbau, Zurich (Switzerland)
28th September 2012 Toldi Mozi, Budapest (Hungary)
29th September 2012 Kino Lucerna, Prague (Czech Republic´)
more dates e.g. in Berin (Germany) to be confirmed

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out now: Poppy & The Jezebels – Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out [Gumball Machine]

Artist:
Poppy & The Jezebels

Title:
Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out!

Label:
Gumball Machine (digital) / CarolineTrueRecords (vinyl)

Cat#:
tba (digital)
CTRUE14 (vinyl)

Release Date:
out now

Format:
digital & vinyl

Tracklist:
01)
Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out!
(Original Richard X Production)

02)
Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out!
(Richard X Meets Larry Least Mix)

03)
Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out!
(Substantial Error Remix)

04)
Signed Out (The Outer Circle)
(Richard X Remix)

Tracks 3 and 4 are digital-only.

Info:
Birmingham’s Poppy & The Jezebels are back with a new single on their own Gumball Machine label on the 28th May 2012.

The band emerged with the ‘Underage’ scene while still at school when they travelled from Birmingham to play alongside The Horrors at the opening night of the original Underage Club at The Coronet in London’s Elephant and Castle. Seriously adept at social networking, the girls were sharing bills with SCUM and Shonen Knife before Mollie’s fourteenth birthday. The band signed a publishing deal with Mute and released two critically acclaimed indie seven-inch singles, establishing their own label – Gumball Machine.

Having left school to concentrate on the band full time, the girls realised that their charming but lo-fi and DIY approach would never support their dreams of real pop immortality, and enlisted the help of top pop producer Richard X to re-emerge now as Poppy & The Jezebels mark 2!

‘Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out!’ was produced and mixed by Richard X (Sugarbabes, Kylie, M.I.A.). Along with a ‘Richard X Meets Larry Least mix’ by Richard X and Daniel Miller, the single also features remix from Substantial Error. The song addresses matters current on teen earth and suggests alternatives to the crushingly conventional pathways on offer today.

The collaboration with Richard X came about when, smitten with his pop philosophy and intrigued by his remixes and ‘re-productions’ of Soft Cell and Saint Etienne, the girls approached the producer with their rehearsal room demos. He agreed and the single was completed in January.

Poppy & The Jezebels met and started playing together at the same Birmingham comprehensive school when Mollie Kingsley (Vocals, Bass), Dom Vine (Keyboards, Vocals) and Amber Bradbury (Guitars, Vocals), then in year nine were joined by Poppy Twist (Drums, Vocals), a year older at fifteen.

The band are set to announce a handful of UK dates in the very near future.

Poppy & The Jezebels listen to classic pop from (Phil) Spector to Spears. They swear by The Slits yet retain a place in their hearts that is forever Spiceworld.

They are clever, funny and devastatingly cool – and they don’t sound like anyone else. The Guardian

Well, aren’t they just a big pile of charisma? We’ll keep banging on about how we liked them first… are Poppy & The Jezebels going to be the best thing to happen to girls and music and life in general? (Yes!) Sugarscape

A whirling airy, big sounding single from the teenage uberfraus… NME (Track of the Week)

Like something from the golden days of Smash Hits – Poppy & The Jezebels have the freshest girl group sound I’ve heard since the days when Destiny’s Child were still good. The Guardian Guide

Listen:
“Original”

“Richard X meets Larry Least Mix”

“Substantial Error Remix (Radio Edit)”

Video:

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out now: Tuff City Kids – Bobby Tacker EP [Unterton]

Artist:
Tuff City Kids

Title:
Bobby Tacker EP

Label:
Unterton

Cat#:
U-TON02

Release Date:
09th July 2012 (vinyl)
20th August 2012 (digital)

Format:
12" & digital

Tracklist:
01)
SFS

02)
Bias

03)
Begger

Info:
Gerd Janson (head of Running Back) and Phillip Lauer (DJ, producer and 50% Arto Mwambe) step out of remix mode and release their first 12“ of original tracks as Tuff City Kids. The EP is released as a hand stamped yellow label in a green generic paper sleeve and is the second release on Ostgut Ton’s new sublabel Unterton.

Listen:

Video:

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out now: Diamond Version – EP1 [Mute]

Artist:
Diamond Version

Title:
Technology At The Speed Of Life / Empowering Change

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
DVMUTE1

Release Date:
21th September 2012

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Technology At The Speed Of Life

02)
Empowering Change

03)
Empowering Change
(Version)

Info (English):
Mute are delighted to announce a special collaboration with Raster-Noton: the release of Diamond Version’s Technology At The Speed Of Life/ Empowering Change on 23 July, the first of a sequence of five 12″ EPs throughout 2012, culminating in an album in 2013.

Diamond Version is a collaborative project between two of the most groundbreaking, experimental and forward thinking creators in modern music, Byetone and Alva Noto. As joint heads of the German-based label Raster-Noton, and with solo projects Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and Byetone (Olaf Bender), they have been releasing work that spectacularly blurs the lines between the visceral and the conceptual, bridging the gap between gallery and dancefloor.

The release will be supported by audio-visual live performances with featured special guests and the premiere of Diamond Version TV, at Sónar 2012 on Saturday 16 June will feature Atsuhiro Ito. Details here.

Opening the EP series is Technology At The Speed Of Life / Empowering Change. The combined effect of these tracks’ crisp, synthetic surfaces and the slogans hyperreal imagery is twofold, drawing attention to the sinister utopias the titles suggest, while also hinting at their inherent absurdity.

“Diamond Version is a project born out of a live situation. We occasionally performed encores together after our solo sets. These spontaneous and improvised tracks always had a kind of “special energy” which we missed in our solo works.”

“Diamond Version tries to capture this energy and combines it with conceptual ideas: every day we are exposed to the Daily Short Message Information Culture (DSMC), the aesthetic of this information system became a strong topic and a Blueprint of the visual identity of the Diamond Version project.” explains Diamond Version.

Diamond Version’s aesthetic is charged with surreal and subversive humour, drawing titles and iconography from a host of corporate slogans which are used as track titles across the releases. “We both are obsessed with company logos,” says Nicolai. “We collected these slogans and started reading them, without knowing the companies. In this amount and concentration they become absurd.”

The duo have known one another since they were teenagers growing up in Germany. A common ground proved intuitively easy to tap into. “Carsten and I share a strong interest in rhythmic music. We also share an idea of general aesthetic, as in design, and prefer even in music, more and more roughness. With Diamond Version we will follow this rough rhythmic direction, we are not DJs and we’re less interested in delivering a functional music to a social situation,” Bender explains, though he’s keen to emphasise that despite its very powerful presence, Diamond Version is not simply a project aimed at club floors. “It’s a bit harsh, and a bit more noisy [than our solo projects], but this is not the main focus.”

The forthcoming Modeselektor compilation, Modeselektion Vol.2 out on Monkeytown Records will feature Diamond Versions track, “Mode Operator (Beispiel A)“.

Raster-Noton and Mute have collaborated previously in the past with the Short Circuit Festival at the Roundhouse London in 2011 and the Raster-Noton 15th Anniversary event at Berghain, Berlin.

Info (German):
Mute ist stolz darauf, das Ergebnis einer besonderen Zusammenarbeit mit Raster-Noton ankündigen zu dürfen: Die Veröffentlichung der ersten aus einer Serie von fünf 12” EPs von Diamond Versions “Technology At The Speed Of Life / Empowering Change”, denen 2013 ein komplettes Album folgen wird.

Diamond Version ist eine Kollaboration zweier Innovatoren moderner Musik, Byetone und Alva Noto. Als führende Köpfe des Chemnitzer Labels Raster-Noton und mit ihren Solo-Projekten Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) und Byetone (Olaf Bender) arbeiten die beiden seit geraumer Zeit an der Grenze von intuitiver und konzeptueller Kunst, einer Verbindung Galerie und Dancefloor.

Die Veröffentlichung wird von audio-visuellen Live-Performances und Special-Guests unterstützt – die Premiere von Diamond Version TV findet am 16. Juni auf dem Sónar Festival statt, Gast ist Atsuhiro Ito, mit seiner Optron genannten Leuchtstoffröhre. Details hier.

“Diamond Version ist aus der Live-Situation heraus geboren. Wir performten bei passenden Gelegenheiten zusammen Zugaben nach unseren Solo-Sets. Diese spontanen und improvisierten Tracks hatten immer eine ganz spezielle Energie, die wir in unseren Solo Projekten vermisst hatten”, erklären Nicolai und Bender. “Mit Diamond Version versuchen wir, diese Energie einzufangen und sie dabei gleichzeitig mit unseren konzeptuellen Ideen zu kombinieren. Zum Beispiel sind wir jeden Tag mit der Daily Short Message Information Culture konfrontiert. Die spezielle Ästhetik, die in diesem System herrscht, wurde ein starkes Thema für uns und eine Art Blaupause für die visuelle Umsetzung des Diamond Version Projekts.”

Die Ästhetik von Diamond Version offenbart sich folglich aufgeladen mit surrealem und subversivem Humor, was sich durch eine an Werbe-Slogans und Marken-Logos angelehnte Ikonographie äußert. “Wir beide sind geradezu besessen von Logos!”, sagt Nicolai. “Wir sammelten Slogans und lasen sie, ohne zu wissen, was für Firmen hinter ihnen stecken. Aber ab einer gewissen Menge und Konzentration wurden sie ohnehin einfach absurd.”

Folgerichtig eröffnet die EP-Serie mit den Titeln „Technology At The Speed Of Life“ und „Empowering Change” in denen das Auditive, das Visuelle (siehe auch das Mission Statement) und das Sloganhafte unmittelbar miteinander verschränkt ist. An der crispen, synthetischen Oberfläche der Songs spiegelt sich die brutale Realität der Slogans und macht deren bedrohlichen dystopischen Gehalt – und ihre Absurdität – sichtbar.

Das Duo ist seit Chemnitzer Teenager-Zeiten miteinander bekannt. Eine gemeinsame Basis war schnell gefunden. “Carsten und ich teilen ein starkes Interesse für rhythmische Musik. Und wir haben einen gemeinsamen Geschmack, was Ästhetik im Generellen angeht, und auch in Puncto Design. Wir stehen beide auf einen gewissen Grad von Roughness. Mit Diamond Version folgen wir diesem Pfad. Wir sind keine DJs und allein von daher schon ist es nicht unser Anspruch, Anbieter einer Musik für soziale Situationen zu sein”, erklärt Bender.

Die folgende Modeselektor Compilation, Modeselektion Vol.2 (Monkeytown Records) wird einen Diamond Version Track featuren, “Mode Operator (Beispiel A)“.

Raster-Noton und Mute haben in der Vergangenheit bereits während des letztjährigen Short Circuit Festivals in London erfolgreich zusammengearbeitet, ebenso wie auf dem Raster-Noton 15th Anniversary Event im Berliner Berghain.

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