out now: New Order – Music Complete [Mute]

 

Artist:
New Order

 

Title:
Music Complete

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
STUMM390

 

Release Date:
25th September 2015

 

Format:
CD, clear Vinyl, black vinyl, digital & limited 8x Vinyl box

 

Tracklist:
01.
Restless

02.
Singularity

03.
Plastic
[feat. Elly Jackson]

04.
Tutti Frutti
[feat. Elly Jackson]

05.
People On The High Line
[feat. Elly Jackson]

06.
Stray Dog
[feat. Iggy Pop]

07.
Academic

08.
Nothing But A Fool

09.
Unlearn This Hatred

10.
The Game

11.
Superheated
[feat. Brandon Flowers]

 

Tracklist Japanese Edition:
01.
Restless

02.
Singularity

03.
Plastic
[feat. Elly Jackson]

04.
Tutti Frutti
[feat. Elly Jackson]

05.
People On The High Line
[feat. Elly Jackson]

06.
Stray Dog
[feat. Iggy Pop]

07.
Academic

08.
Nothing But A Fool

09.
Unlearn This Hatred

10.
The Game

11.
Superheated
[feat. Brandon Flowers]

12.
Restless
(Extended Bonus Mix)

 

Press Info (English):
New Order have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on 25 September 2015.

The long awaited album will be New Order’s first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call, and their debut for Mute. Music Complete finds the group revitalised, refreshed and razor sharp, looking to their past while forging forward. Where the group has previously pushed toward synthesisers or guitars, here the two are in balance. Music Complete also marks a return to the studio for Gillian Gilbert, this is her first album with New Order since 2001’s Get Ready.

The album will be released on CD, download and limited edition clear vinyl. In addition, there will be an exclusive 8-piece deluxe vinyl collection that includes the album plus extended versions of all 11 tracks on coloured vinyl

New Order are: Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham.

Music Complete is produced by New Order, except ‘Singularity’ and ‘Unlearn This Hatred’, produced by Tom Rowlands, who also worked on ‘Tutti Frutti’. ‘Superheated’ features additional production by Stuart Price. Long-term collaborator Peter Saville provides art direction.

Additional Information:
Following the announcement of their first full studio release in a decade, Music Complete, out on 25 September 2015, New Order have announced details of the very special guests on the album: Brandon Flowers, Iggy Pop and Elly Jackson (La Roux) and have released the third in a series of album trailers. See below to hear three different sides of what you can expect from the new album.

Brandon Flowers named The Killers after the band in New Order’s video for ‘Crystal’, and has become a good friend of the band. Here on Music Complete he lends his unmistakable vocals on ‘Superheated’, giving the album a fittingly epic closer.

Following an enthralling guest appearance performing ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ at the Tibet House benefit in New York last year, Iggy Pop now applies his unique tones to ‘Stray Dog’, creating a brooding track that blends perfectly with the eclectic array of sounds on Music Complete.

Featuring on ‘Tutti Frutti’ and ‘People On The High Line’ and providing backing vocals on ‘Plastic’, Elly Jackson first supported New Order on their 2014 tour with her band La Roux, starting a mutual appreciation of each other’s work.

 

Press Info (German):
Das lang erwartete neue Album von New Order wird das erste Studioalbum der Band seit dem 2005 veröffentlichten Album Waiting For The Siren’s Call sein und ist außerdem das Debütalbum der Band bei Mute.

Energetisch, frisch und messerscharf klingen New Order auf Music Complete. Ihr musikalisches Erbe trifft auf einen neugefunden, unbändigen Willen, nach vorn zu schauen.
Gaben sie bisher dem Synthesizer den Vorzug über die Gitarre, sind auf dem neuen Album beide Stimmen gleichberechtigt vertreten. Music Complete markiert zudem die Rückkehr von Gililian Gilbert zur Band. Zum ersten Mal seit dem 2001 erschienenen Album “Get Ready” hat sie bei der Studioarbeit aktiv mitgewirkt.

Das Album erscheint auf CD, als Download und auf Vinyl in einer limitierten Auflage in klarem Vinyl. Außerdem wird es exklusives 8 LP Boxset geben, in dem sowohl das Album, als auch extended versions aller 11 Albumtracks auf unterscheidlich koloriertem Vinyl erscheinen wird.

New Order sind: Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham.

Music Complete wurde von New Order produziert, bis auf die Stücke „Singularity“ und „Unlearn This Hatred“, die von Tom Rowlands produziert wurden, der auch an dem Track „Tutti Frutti“ mitwirkte. „Superheated“ wurde von Stuart Price produziert. Peter Saville, der langjährige Kollaborateur von New Order, hat auch diesmal wieder das Artwork gestaltet.

Ergänzung:
Der Ankündigung der Veröffentlichung ihres neusten Studioalbums lassen New Order nun die Gästeliste des Werkes folgen: Brandon Flowers (The Killers), Iggy Pop und Elly Jackson geben sich die Ehre. Zudem gibt es einen neuen Trailer zu sehen, der eine weitere Facette von Music Complete spiegel (siehe unten “Music Complete: 3”).

Brandon Flowers benannte seine Band The Killers nach der fiktiven Band in New Orders Video zur 2001er Single “Crystal”- und ist über die Jahre zu einem guten Freund geworden ? er leiht dem epischen Schlussstück des Albums, “Superheated”, seine unverwechselbare Stimme

Nach einem packenden Livemoment mit New Order im New Yorker Tibet House im letzten Jahr, bei dem Iggy Pop “Love Will Tear Us Apart” sang, sprechtsingt der “Godfather des Punk” nun die Stimme bei “Stray Dog”, einem brodelnden 80-Wave-Pop-Spoken Word-Anthem.

Mit Feature-Performances bei “Tutti Frutti” und “People On The High Line” und Background-Gesang bei “Plastic” empfiehlt sich Elly Jackson. Ihre Band La Roux und New Order waren im letzten Jahr miteinander auf Tour – der Beginn einer gegenseitigen Bewunderung.

 

Details Limited Vinyl Box:
8 piece deluxe vinyl collection.
New album on double clear vinyl.
Extended versions by Gareth Jones (4x), Steve Dub (2x), Richard X (5x) of all tracks on 6 vinyls.
Red / Blue / Yellow / Grey / White vinyl 12”s plus 1 sided black etched vinyl.
Art Direction by Peter Saville.

200 copies will be signed by all 5 members of New Order; the signed editions will be dispatched at random and are exclusive to the New Order store.

 

Listen:
@ Amazon

 

Full Track Streamin:
“Restless”

“Plastic”

 

Teaser:
“Music Complete: 1”

“Music Complete: 2”

“Music Complete: 3”

 

Videos:
“Restless”

“Tutti Frutti”

 

Related Releases:
“Restless (Remixes)”
“Tutti Frutti (Remixes)”
“Singularity (Remixes)”

 

Video Special:
“Live In Berlin 2012”

 

EU Tour:
04th November 2015 – Paris, Casino de Paris
06th November 2015 – Brussels, Ancienne Belgique
08th November 2015 – Stockholm, Annexet
11th November 2015 – Berlin, Tempodrom
16th November 2015 – London, Brixton Academy
19th November 2015 – Glasgow, Academy
21st November 2015 – Liverpool, Olympia
24th November 2015 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall

 

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Websites:
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© Photo by Nick Wilson

out now: Henning Baer – In Pursuit Of Myself [Sonic Groove Records]

 

Artist:
Henning Baer

 

Title:
In Pursuit Of Myself

 

Label:
Sonic Groove Records

 

Cat#:
SG 1570

 

Release Date:
22nd June 2015

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Say Nothing To No One

02)
Empire Down

03)
On Craft
(SFT Mix)

04)
Everyday Life

 

Press Info:
The head of Grounded Theory Berlin returns to Sonic Groove with his strongest outing on the label to date. Henning Baer brings forth a rough and tough diverse four cut EP of chunky rhythmatic techno. Recording the songs during live jams and using a previously decided pool of hardware this EP has a nice old school vibe. The sound production however is very much in the modern day with it’s well crafted mix downs. This release has strong mass appeal for the purist techno connoisseur!

 

Listen:

 

Video:
“On Craft (SFT Mix)”

Video created by the29nov films.

 

Special:
“FABRICLIVE x Hessle Audio Mix”

 

Video Special:
“Tales From The Underground” (a documentary by DJBroadcast)

 

Recommendation:
“Drop Out EP” on Sonic Groove
“Seltene Erden EP” on Sonic Groove

 

Buy Vinyl:
Hardwax
Deejay.de
Decks.de
Juno
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Clone
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HHV
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Buy Digital:
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more soon

 

Booking:
Triangle Agency

 

Websites:
Henning Baer
Sonic Groove

 

already available: Zeigeist – The Jade Motel [Spegel / Electro-Shock-Records]

 

Artist:
Zeigeist

 

Title:
The Jade Motel

 

Label:
Spegel / Electro-Shock-Records

 

Cat#:
tba

 

Release Date:
2008

 

Format:
CD & digital

 

Styles:
elctro-pop

 

Tracklist:
01)
Humanitarianism

02)
Tar Heart

03)
Wrecked Metal

04)
Room 25

05)
Bunny

06)
Black Milk

07)
Cuffs

08)
The Lake

09)
Pressurized Chamber

10)
Fight With Shattered Mirrors

11)
4th Floor

12)
Dawn/Night

 

Press Info (English):
Zeigeist started as a creative project in Sweden 2005. The idea was to find a meeting between the different members profession, and experience how the different subject fields could be vitalized with help from each other: stage performance, storytelling, film and photography, publicity, fashion, styling, graphic design and composition/music.

During the last 2,5 years the project has developed in different ways, and the part of Zeigeist as a music live act with visual elements has been fortified. With influences like Matthew Barney, Comme des garçons, Peter Greenaway, Andy Warhol, David Lynch and Alexander McQueen they have made performances – from small club events with experimental elements to big festival performances with dramatic lines and stories. ”Like a degenerated children’s party with paint, blood, feathers and confetti, mixed with haute couture, video projections, strobe and punchy pop music”. The goal is to make the performances in constant development; the audience shall never know what they can expect.

With focus on the music, Zeigeist has provided themselves a style influenced by the greatest hits through the pop history with a starting point in the 80’s well-produced pop, mixed with lyrics and stories with dystopian undertones. The colorful singer, Princess, has best been described as “this century’s perfect hybrid of Kate Bush and Cyndi Lauper”. Zeigeist became a name when Tar Heart – their newordervisage-influenced song about a young lovers nightly secrets – got in focus in magazines, blogs, TV and radio. Among others Pitchfork Media (US) listed the unmastered demo version as one of the best tracks 2006.

The debut album “The Jade Motel”, with ten stories about longing, destructivity and unconditional love, with the music as a glaring colored fond; will be released in Sweden 30th of April on the label Spegel.

 

Listen:

 

Videos:
“Tar Heart”

“The Lake”

 

Video Special:
“Wrecked Metal (Live at Swedish TV)”

“Humanitarianism (Live at Swedish TV)”

“Humanitarianism (Live at Swedish TV)”

 

Buy CD:
Electro-Shock-Records Shop
more soon

 

Buy Digital:
Amazon
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more soon

 

Websites:
Zeigeist
Electro-Shock-Records

 

out now: Dat Politics – No Void [Shitkatapult]

 

Artist:
Dat Politics

 

Title:
No Void

 

Label:
Shitkatapult

 

Cat#:
STRIKE154

 

Release Date:
26th June 2015

 

Format:
CD, Vinyl & digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Junk Funk

02.
Repiloid

03.
Vibrator

04.
Black Hole

05.
Pyromaniac

06.
Echo Radio

07.
Small Cell

08.
Krystal Krank

09.
The Wave

10.
All Long

 

Press Info (English):
“We’re big fans of French synthpop like Jacno, Deux, Ruth and Serge Blenner. This kind of playful synthetic sound mixed with weird and sometimes depressing poetry had a big influence on us as kids and as musicians,” reveal the French duo DAT POLITICS. Since 1999, Claude Pailliot and Gaetan Collet have been working on music shaped by those influences, without referring to them directly. The initial spark that led to the founding of DAT POLITICS happened during the mid 1990s. The two met for the first time at a party somewhere in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France and then started DAT POLITICS in the garage of Gaetan’s parents.

A lot has happened since then. The duo grew into a four-man band and subsequently shrank back into the duo it is today. In these formations they recorded various albums and EPs for labels such as FatCat Records, A-Musik, Chicks On Speed Records and Sub Rosa. DAT POLITICS also toured frequently around the globe with their ecstatic live show. The previously mentioned influences were integrated into their moving sound in every aspect, with an individual touch. But their work was not only influenced by synthpop. Drone, noise and musique concrète are points of reference that clearly come through in their electronic songs to this day and are also closely related to pop music. Their new album ‘NO VOID’ is now being released on SHITKATAPULT, whose label slogan ‘Special Musick for Special People’ fits perfectly to the often euphorically rocking music of the French duo. DAT POLITICS themselves refer to their latest LP as a “hallucinating ride in a space roller coaster: scary and funny!”

This time around, their songs took shape once again under influences outside of music such as astronomy, philosophy and programming language as well as surrealism, fantasy films and their own dreams. The nine tracks, all of them created last winter in a small cabin in northern France, occupy an eclectic territory that includes catchy melodies, versatile singing with pop appeal, and playfully rocking chiptune, synthwave and electro. The whimsical tour de force was recorded using computers, old beat-up synthesizers, worn out keyboards, samplers, voice boxes and kids’ play instruments. Claude and Gaetan whisper into the microphone in French and English, their voices naked or distorted by a vocoder, at times using both languages in the same song, as the track ‘Reptiloid’ demonstrates with poignant levity. Both of them grew up in the 1980s to the music of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, OMD, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jacno and Kraftwerk, and this can be perceived just as much as their love for the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and the soundtrack worlds of Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder and John Carpenter.

Yet DAT POLITICS is not a band that repackages its personal preferences. The duo acts rather as a human filter for all forms of art, which is later transformed into something totally autonomous using a creative ‘cut-up’ method as practiced by Williams S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Although you don’t notice it at first, the laid-back, undulating song ‘Black Hole’ is influenced by the comics of American artist Charles Burns. But if you are familiar with the work of the cartoonist, the lyrics will give you a sense of the existential weight that make his comics so special.

In any case, the lyrics of DAT POLITICS never refer directly to anything tangible. They are instead a combination of surreal stories, hidden meanings and a search for clues within one’s own subconscious. They are always written after the music has been composed. And since DAT POLITICS seeks mainly to electrify in a live setting, every new track begins with bass and rhythms. Despite the atmospherically dense interplay between melancholy and joy, this approach is what makes ‘NO VOID’ above all an album intent on rocking it in high style.

 

Press Info (German):
„We’re big fans of French Synthpop like Jacno, Deux, Ruth and Serge Blenner. This kind of playful synthetic sound mixed with weird and sometimes depressing poetry had a big influence on us as kids and as musicians.“ verrät das französische Duo DAT POLITICS. Seit 1999 verarbeiten Claude Pailliot und Gaetan Collet jene Einflüsse in ihrer Musik, ohne wirklich direkt auf sie zu verweisen. Die Initialzündung zur Gründung von DAT POLITICS fand Mitte der 1990ern statt. Damals trafen sich beide erstmals auf einer Party irgendwo in der französischen Region Champagne-Ardenne und gründeten anschließend in der Garage von Gaetans Eltern DAT POLITICS.

Seit dem ist viel passiert. Aus dem Duo wurde eine vierköpfige Band, die heute wieder zum Duo geschrumpft ist. Zu Zweit oder im Bandformat wurden diverse Alben und EPs für Labels wie FatCat Records, A-Musik, Chicks On Speed Records oder Sub Rosa eingespielt. Um den Globus tourten DAT POLITICS ebenfalls öfters mit ihrer ekstatischen Live-Show. Die zu Anfang erwähnten Einflüsse wurden bei allem mit individueller Note in ihren bewegenden Sound integriert. Aber nicht nur Synthpop beeinflusste ihr OEuvre, auch Drone, Noise und Musique concrète sind Referenzpunkte, die bis heute spürbar durch ihre elektronischen Songs spucken und sich auch mal mit Pop verbrüdern. Ihr neues Album „NO VOID“ erscheint nun auf SHITKATAPULT, dessen Label-Credo „Special Musick For Special People“ perfekt zur oft euphorisch rockenden Musik der Franzosen passt. DAT POLITICS selbst bezeichnen ihren jüngsten Longplayer als „hallucinated drive in a space roller coaster: scary and funny!“.

Auch diesmal waren für Entstehung ihrer Songs wieder außermusikalische Einflüsse wie Astronomie, Philosophie und die Programmiersprache, sowie der Surrealismus, Fantasy Filme und die eigenen Träume wichtig. Musikalisch bewegen sich die neuen Stücke, die alle im letzten Winter in einer kleinen Hütte im Norden Frankreichs entstanden, charmant zwischen einprägsamen Melodien, vielseitigem Gesang mit Popappeal und spielerisch rockendem Chiptune, Synth-Wave und Electro. Eingespielt wurde die spielerische Tour de Force mit Computern, alten ausgeleierten Synthesizern, abgenutzten Keyboards, Sampler, Voice Box und musikalischem Kinderspielzeug. Ins Mikrofon hauchen Claude und Gaetan zudem bilingual auf Französisch und Englisch – mal pur, mal vom Vocoder verzerrt und zuweilen zweisprachig im gleichen Lied wie das Stück „Reptiloid“ mit ergreifender Leichtigkeit zeigt. Dass beide in 1980ern zur Musik von Depeche Mode, Yazoo, OMD, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jacno und Kraftwerk aufwuchsen, ist ebenso spürbar wie ihre Liebe zur Musik von Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze und den Soundtrackwelten eines Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder und John Carpenter.

Dennoch sind DAT POLITICS keine Band die persönliche Vorlieben neu verpackt. Das Duo agiert eher als menschlicher Filter für jede Form von Kunst, die später mit einer kreativen „Cut-Up“ Methode à la Williams S. Burroughs und Brion Gysin in etwas völlig autonomes verwandelt wird. Dass ein Song wie der lässig rollende „Black Hole“ von den Comics des US-amerikanischen Künstlers Charles Burns beeinflusst ist, fällt im ersten Moment nicht auf. Wer sich in der Welt des Comiczeichners auskennt, wird in den Lyrics aber jene existentialistische Schwere entdecken, die seine Comics so besonders macht.

Ohnehin sind die Lyrics von DAT POLITICS nie ein direkter Verweis auf gelebtes. Eher ein Mix aus surrealen Geschichten, versteckten Bedeutungen und der Spurensuche im eigenen Unbewussten. Verfasst werden sie immer erst nachdem die Musik komponiert wurde. Und da DAT POLITICS vor allem live elektrisieren möchten, stehen Bass und Rhythmus stets am Anfang jedes neuen Tracks. Eine Vorgehensweise, durch „NO VOID“ trotz eines atmosphärisch Dichten Wechselspiels aus Melancholie und Heiterkeit vor allem ein Album ist, das mit viel Style rocken will.

 

Listen:

 

Video:
“Reptiloid”

 

Free Download:
“Reptiloid”

 

Special:
“Kosmische Musik Mixtape 1”

 

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Websites:
Dat Politics
Shitkatapult