Label:
Planete Rouge Records | Metropolis Records | Synthetic Symphony
Cat#:
PLR0401 | MET328 | SPV085-63742
Release Date:
July 2004
Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist: 01. Freefall
02. Come Inside
03. Splitter
04. Through A Screen
05. I Run
06. By Any Other Name
07. You Don’t Know Me
08. Tight Fit
09. Destroy
10. Nutsplit
11. Spinner
12. You Want It
Press Info:
When Mute Records asked world famous techno artist, Terence Fixmer, to remix Nitzer Ebb in 2002, they had no idea that this venture would lead to the formation of a new project: Fixmer/McCarthy, especially since Douglas McCarthy, former singer of Nitzer Ebb had been out of the music scene for nearly seven years. None the less, this collaboration has brought together two talented artists from vastly different backgrounds to create a refreshing and exciting new electronic sound as well as an amazing stage presence.
For ten years Terence Fixmer has been involved in the techno scene, but it wasn’t until 1998 that he was signed to Gigolo Records. With this record deal, Fixmer was able to produce many hits including “Electrostatic,” “Body Pressure,” and “Electric Vision” and his album Muscle Machine was voted as one of the top three albums of the year by Groove Magazine. He has remixed tracks for Sven Vath, Dave Clarke and Hell, but his popularity has been attributed mainly to his awesome live performances which combine both techno and EBM. Besides appearing at the best known techno clubs around the world, Terence Fixmer has also played at a number of the world’s largest music events and festivals including I Love Techno, May Day, Nature One, Pukkelpop, Dour Festival, and Benicassim.
In the mid to late 90s, while Terence Fixmer was immersed in the techno scene, Douglas McCarthy was for the most part out of the music industry, focusing on film and design in Cambridge, England. But such was not the case for McCarthy during the 80s and early 90s. In 1982 McCarthy founded Nitzer Ebb, an avant-garde electronic band, which released several global club hits prior to signing to Mute Records in 1986. The band, like Terence Fixmer, was known for their incredible stage presence, with McCarthy’s voice bringing power and popularity to their performance. The band toured almost nonstop to promote the five albums they released from 1987 to 1995, but after the last US tour for the 1995 album “Big Hit,” Nitzer Ebb called it quits. Douglas McCarthy worked with Alan Wilder from Depeche Mode after the band split, but decided to take a break from the music scene for a while to concentrate on studying film and design. In 2000, McCarthy moved back to London to work as a director and assistant director in advertising.
Then Fixmer and McCarthy met in 2002 and the rest is, as they say, history.
With their combined musical knowledge, Fixmer/McCarthy are poised to unleash their electronic assault on the unsuspecting masses. Corrosive, explosive beats, infectious sequences, and aggressive melodies are sure to disintegrate any dance floor.
Label:
Tatra | Metropolis Records | Pitch Black Drive Productions
Cat#:
TATCD053 | MET203 | tba
Release Date:
11th December 2000 (original release date)
12th June 2025 (digital release)
Format:
CD, download & streaming
Tracklist : 01. Kathy’s Song (Ferry Corsten Remix)
02. Kathy’s Song (Single Version)
03. Kathy’s Song (Victoria Mix by VNV Nation)
04. Kathy’s Song (Beborn Beton Remix)
05. Kathy’s Song (Ferry Corsten’s 12″ Remix)
06. Kathy’s Song (C-64 Version)
Press Info:
25th Anniversary of the release of “Kathy’s Song (Come Lie Next To Me)” this year, so we give you the original Tatra Records CD-Maxi version in digital format. On the 12th. June 2025 it will also be released on all other digital platforms and streaming services!
Press Info:
As Ronan describes the album : “Electric Sun resonates deeply with me. There have been revelations and epiphanies in its making. There are sides to it where I’ve expressed things in ways I hadn’t until now. It’s allowed me to explore and reach new levels in the kind of music I make. I said on stage a few times that the next one would be darker. It was more a feeling than a conscious choice. Now, I don’t mean darker in an ‘alone in a concrete cellar at 2am on a Saturday’ or ‘my hunchback brother fell down a well and now I’m sad’ kind of way. You don’t plan creativity but you can curate and guide it. You are a vessel for it and, if you’re like me, you let it do its thing. It’s not the tools themselves but what they enable you to do. I find this album to be more emotive than usual, at times reaching some intensity. A lot was waiting to come out, I guess. I think you’ll understand what I mean once you’ve heard it. From the title track ‘Electric Sun’ to songs like ‘Prophet’, ‘Run’, ‘Sunflare’ and ‘At Horizon’s end’, there’s a cinematic-size scale to what I’ve made here. If you want, the album will make you dance, or ask you to think or make you smile and, at times, it might well put dust in your eye. I find it hard to grasp what I’ve achieved on this and I can’t wait for you to hear it.”
Tracklist: 01. Headhunter (Front Line Assembly Mix)
02. Headhunter (Aqualite Mix)
03. Headhunter (Haujobb Mix)
04. Headhunter (Beefcake Mix)
05. Headhunter (Xingu Mix)
06. Headhunter (Talla 2XLC Mix)
07. Headhunter (Doug Laurent Mix)
08. Headhunter (Noisex Mix)
09. Headhunter (Substanz T. Mix)
10. Headhunter (Apoptygma Berzerk Mix)
11. Headhunter (Leaether Strip Mix)
12. Headhunter (Funker Vogt Mix)
13. Headhunter (Empirion Mix)
14. Headhunter (The Galan Pixs Mix)
15. Headhunter (Resistance D Mix)
16. Headhunter (Suspicious Mix)
17. Headhunter (Space Frog Mix)
Press Info:
Double EP features remixes of the classic club hit by Apoptygma Bezerk, Funker Vogt, Aqualite, Spacefrog, Front Line Assembly, Haujobb, Xingu Hill, Xingu Hill, Leatherstrip, Empirion, Substanz T, Beefcake, Noisex, Resistance D, Doug Laurent, andThe Galan Pixs.
