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Mnemony is a record label and an art space that seeks an alternative approach to the tried-and-true club format by connecting experimental electronic music with visual art and dance ritual. We offer a platform for artists to cross-pollinate and operate outside the demands of single-genre club night monotony. Our aim is to break the wall of isolated listening and engage the individual in a deeper, connective musical and visual experience that animates the mind and body.
Mnemony’s `Fragments’ series put artists in the position to experiment with sounds and work on production in a playful way. They can discover electronic music beside the dancefloor. There is only one rule: the tracks have to be developed during live sessions.
If the sounds are ambient, drone or dj tool doesn’t matter, but they are direct and show the magic of the first moment. Follow Mnemony’s discovery of dreamy and hypnotising soundscapes.
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After the great KOBOI EP and the internationally acclaimed song and videoclip “It’s Happening”, the transmedia artist KnoR presents his new project entitled “Don’t Go”. The 3 tracks music release features a music video and a mobile app. As a modern storyteller, KnoR reaches from pop music to virtual reality (VR) to spread a message of freedom. No less.
KnoR’s new EP „Don’t Go“ is composed of two original tracks and a remix by Canson. The title track „Don’t Go“ is a rich and surprising song: as the beat brings the listener back to the club, KnoR’s lyrics are floating on a warm bass melody and are surrounded by a soundscape of rhythms with a very natural feel.
The message of freedom articulated in the song is reinforced in the music video realized with Berlin based filmmaker Xaver Xylophon. The movie invites the audience to step back and think . Walking through his life, KnoR questions his relationship to this place we call home: a place with borders and a name. A place where we are often too easily fooled.
The cornerstone of the release is the VR application developed with the computational artist Mativa and the Geneva based interactive studio apelab. “Don’t Go” becomes a virtual hideaway where the user can immerse in a surprising experience of audiovisual perception to forget his fears and the influence of daily media propaganda.
Don’t Go. It’s easy to get in, but will you be able to get out?
B) The Sparrow And The Nightingales (Ancient Methods ‘Ode To The Night’ Remix)
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Wolfsheim are a synthpop duo from Hamburg, Germany consisting of Markus Reinhardt (music) and Peter Heppner (lyrics and vocals). The band was founded in 1987 by Markus Reinhardt and Pompejo Ricciardi and was named after Meyer Wolfsheim, a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’. Ricciardi soon left the band and was replaced by Peter Heppner, a childhood friend of Reinhardt’s. Together they produced their first demo tape, “Ken Manage”, in 1988.
After making a second demo tape, “Any But Pretty”, in 1989, Wolfsheim applied at various labels until they caught the attention of independent record label Strange Ways Records. They are best known for their debut breakthrough single, “The Sparrows and the Nightingales”, the first single to be released on Strange Ways in 1991. The band’s musical style takes cues from the 1980s New Romantics, new wave, synthpop, and darkwave. The track’s sombre synths were produced by Carlos Peron of Yello. Reinhardt says the lyric was inspired by ‘The Great Gatsby’, “in the ‘onomatopoeic tension’ between predator and security.” Over six minutes, the narrator describes being lost, unsure of where his life is heading, using highly metaphorical language. On the flip is a brand new remix by German producer Ancient Methods, a pseudonym of Michael ‘Trias’ Wollenhaupt, who provides a driving, EBM-leaning, amphetamine-laced club ready cut.
All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Designer Eloise Leigh has updated the record’s original design with two sparrows
enclosed in a blood moon circle against a deep black purple backdrop. Each copy comes with a black and white photo postcard notes by Carlos Peron and the song’s lyrics. This release comes in time to celebrate the single’s 25th anniversary.
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“The Sparrow And The Nightingales (Ancient Methods ‘Ode To The Night’ Remix)”
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Lemonsoul´s ´I´m Cold´ single is yet another beautiful song. With Jamez´s remix it just gets better. Electro synths and pounding techno spheres collide and the voice of John perfectly integrates with the instruments. Get warm with I´m Cold. Rough Cut Records is a sublabel of Touché Records
