out now: Laibach – Reproduction Prohibited … An Introduction To … [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach

 

Title:
An Introduction To… Laibach / Reproduction Prohibited

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
MUTEL23

 

Release Date:
03rd September 2012

 

Format:
CD, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01)
Warme Lederhaut

02)
Ballad Of A Thin Man

03)
Germania

04)
Anglia

05)
Mama Leone

06)
B Mashina
(Remixed Version)

07)
Bruderschaft

08)
God Is God

09)
Final Countdown

10)
Alle Gegen Alle

11)
Across The Universe

12)
Get Back

13)
Leben Heisst Leben

14)
Geburt Einer Nation

15)
Opus Dei

 

Press Info (English):
Laibach release An Introduction To… Laibach / Reproduction Prohibited, on 3 September 2012. The album release follows their recent Iron Sky OST release, the Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde show at the Tate Modern and coincides with a series of European dates.

Opening with their interpretation of Mute’s first release, The Normal’s Warm Leatherette (here translated as Warme Lederhaut, Laibach premiered the track at the Short Circuit presents Mute festival, Roundhouse in May 2011), the tracklisting demonstrates Laibach’s unique take on the cover version.

From the sublime, Laibach’s interpretation on The Beatles Across The Universe would melt even the toughest of hearts, to their bombastic cover of Europe’s Final Countdown, this is a window into Laibach’s own view of pop music, and to the humour that permeates their work.

Reproduction Prohibited features two tracks from Volk (2006), Laibach’s album of reinterpretations of national anthems which uncovers the violence and the pop intrinsic in the national anthem, surely the ultimate pop song. Here Germania reinterprets Das Lied der Deutschen, originally written in 1797 and used after World War I as the national anthem of the German Empire at the time of the Weimar Republic, while Anglia uses John Bull’s God Save The Queen as its inspiration.

Mama Leone, perhaps not familiar to many in its original version, sold over 20 million copies when it itself was covered by Bino in the late 70s. B Maschina, written and performed by popular Slovenian rock group Siddharta, who asked Laibach to remix or remake their song, was originally released on 2003’s WAT. An additionally remixed version is also featured in the soundtrack to IRON SKY (directed by Timo Vuorensola), a dark science fiction comedy about Nazis invading earth in 2018, after escaping to the Dark Side of the Moon in 1945.

Pop references itself when Laibach take on Juno Reactor’s God Is God, which was itself influenced by Laibach’s cover of Austrian group Opus’ Live Is Life, included here in English ‘symphonic’ version (titled Opus Dei), and in German version, translated as Leben Heisst Leben. Laibach’s version of God is God was also released before Juno Reactor’s released their own, so many people still believe that Laibach’s version is the original one and Juno’s version a cover.

Elsewhere on the album, Laibach tackle The Beatles and Queen. Taken from Laibach’s album Let It Be, Across The Universe and Get Back both feature, and Queen’s hit song One Vision is here translated into a German Geburt Einer Nation (The Birth of the Nation). The choice of a language, title as well as the genre of interpretation here all reveal themselves as powerful instruments!

Bruderschaft, written by Laibach is included here as a double twist cover. Laibach were invited to cover a Kraftwerk song for a compilation. But instead doing a straight Kraftwerk cover, the band decided to rearrange Laibach’s own – original – song from 83’, known as Brat Moj (Brother of Mine) in German, with the carefully reconstructed Kraftwerkian sounds.

“The cover version can be seen as a cynical populist tactic by artists lacking in originality, a gesture of contempt or as a respectful example of good taste and seriousness. Laibach’s open rejection of originality makes the first view irrelevant and the new originals are too ambivalent to be either entirely contemptuous or totally respectful. A Laibachised song is sometimes more kitsch, sometimes more serious and sometimes more emotional than the “old original” it is based on. Laibachisation re- and de-animates a song, reviving it for long enough to dispatch it again.” – Alexei Monroe, author of Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK, from the Reproduction Prohibited sleevenotes

The CD cover art of the ‘An Introduction To…Laibach’, titled ‘REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED’ was painted by member(s) of the group in 1981 as the interpretation of the famous Rene Magritte’s work, ‘Not to be Reproduced’, from 1937.

The mirror, a fragile and sometimes distorted reflection of reality, was of great interest to Magritte, as it is to Laibach. When viewing one of his images, or when listening to Laibach’s covers, there is a sense that a content, placed within a frame/the context, might, by a twist of perception, be seen as a reflection in the mirror, a perception that suddenly turns the space of the picture/song inside-out.

By quoting and interpreting this significant work by Magritte, Laibach offer a clear tool, if not a perfect key, how to solve the riddle of understanding their method, their philosophy and their humour in cover versions, as we hear them on this album.

 

Press Info (German):
Laibach veröffentlichen in der Mute-Reihe “An Introduction To…” eine Compliation, die einen Einstieg in und einen groben Überblick über das Schaffen des Slowenischen Kollektivs geben wird.

Das Album, in voller Länge betitelt “An Introduction To… Laibach / Reproduction Prohibited”, folgt dem Soundtrack-Album zur finnischen Nazi-Trash-Komödie “Iron Sky” und der monumentalen und gefeierten Show in Londons Tate Modern. Pünktlich zum Release gehen Laibach auch auf Tour durch Europa (Termine unten).

Eröffnet wird die Introdution To… von einer Neunterpretation des ersten Mute-Release überhaupt: “Warm Leatherette”, im Original von The Normal und hier “Warme Lederhaut” betitelt.

Von der erhabenen Version des Beatles-Klassiker “Across The Universe”, die auch die schwärzesten Herzen ein wenig aufhellt, bis hin zum über-bombastischen Cover von Europes “Final Countdown”, der Laibachs Pop-Humor enttarnt, der ihre Arbeit durchdringt.

Reproduction Prohibited enthält zwei Tracks von “Volk” (2006). Dieses Album, bestehend aus Interpretationen verschiedener Nationalhymnen, legt die Gewalt UND den Pop-Appeal frei, die solchen Hymnen oft zu Grunde liegen. Hier steht “Germania” für das Deutschlandlied, im Original von 1797 (mit Text von 1841 und seit der Weimarer Republik als Nationalhymne in Gebrauch), während “Anglia” eine Interpretation des Britischen “God Save The Queen” ist.

Von “Mama Leone”, den wenigsten im Original bekannt, verkauften sich über 20mio Exemplare in einer Version von Bino, Ende der 70er Jahre. Auch Laibach spielten eine Version ein. “B Maschina” stammt von der bekannten Slowenischen Band Siddartha, die sich einen Remix oder ein Remake des Songs von Laibach gewünscht hatte.

Pop wird selbstreferenziell auf Reproduction Prohibited, wenn Laibach Juno Reactors “God Is God” neu auflegt – Inspiration für diesen Track war wiederum Laibachs Version des ‘Fetenhits’ “Life is Life” von Opus (“Opus Dei” in der Englischen, “Leben Heißt Leben” in der Deutschen Version).

Der Queen-Hit “One Vision” wird bei Laibach zur “Geburt Einer Nation” – und so wird Sprache zum wohl mächtigsten Instrument bei Laibach.

“Bruderschaft” ist der Album-Gag. Als Laibach gefragt wurden, ob sie für eine Kraftwerk-Tribute Compilation einen Kraftwerk-Song covern würden, entschied die Band sich, stattdessen einen eigenen Song neu zu arrangieren – im Stile und mit typischen Sounds von Kraftwerk!

“Das Covern kann zynisch als Taktik von Interpreten gesehen werden, denen es selbst an Originalität fehlt, als Ausdruck von Verachtung, oder aber als ein respektvolles und ernsthaftes Bekunden von gutem Geschmack”, heißt es in den Sleeve Notes. “Laibachs offene Ablehnung von Originalität macht die erstgenannte Sichtweise irrelevant. Gleichzeitig sind die Versionen von Laibach zu ambivalent, um entweder verachtend oder wirklich respektvoll genannt zu werden. Ein Laibacherisierter Song ist manchmal kitschiger, manchmal ernster und manchmal emotionaler als sein ‘altes Original’. Laibachisierung reanimiert oder zerschlägt einen Song – im letzteren Falle wird er aber lang genug am Leben erhalten, um ihn wiederholt zu zerstören”, sagt Alexei Monroe, der Autor von “Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK” weiterhin.

Das Artwork von “An Introduction To…Laibach”, betitelt “Reproduction Prohibited” wurde von Bandmitgliedern bereits 1981 entworfen. Auch dieses ist eine Cover-Version. Das “alte Original” ist “Not To Reproduced” von René Magritte (1937).

Das Spiegelbild, eine zerbrechliche und beizeiten verzerrte Version der Realität, war für Magritte von größtem Interesse – ebenso für Laibach. Die Gemeinsamkeit der Werke Magrittes mit den Laibach-Covers liegt in dem das Publikum beschleichende Gefühl, dass innerhalb eines schlüssigen Kontextes irgendetwas verkehrt ist.

Durch das Zitat des signifikanten Gemäldes Magrittes geben Laibach einen Hinweis auf ihre Methode, ihre Philosophie und den Humor ihrer Cover-Versionen, wie wir sie hier zu hören kriegen.

Mit einem von Laibach ausgewählten Tracklisting ist Reproduction Prohibited die neueste Erscheinung in der Introduction To…-Serie. Weder eine ‘Best of’ noch ein ‘Greatest Hits’-Album wird hier angeboten, sondern vielmehr eine Serie, die einen Einblick in die (Ideen-)Welt von Mute gibt.

 

Snippets:

 

Trailer:

 

Videos:
“Warme Lederhaut” (Official video)

“God Is God” (official video)

“Anglia” (official video)

“Final Countdown” (official video)

“Across The Universe” (official video)

“Ballad Of A Thin Man” (fan video)

“Bruderschaft” (fan video)

“B Machina” (Fan video)

“Mama Leone” (Live video)

 

European Tour Dates:
08.09.2012 – Slovakia, Bratislava, Majestic Music Club
09.09.2012 – Austria, Vienna, Arena
10.09.2012 – Germany, Munich, Backstage
11.09.2012 – Germany, Frankfurt, Batschkapp
14.09.2012 – Sweden, Stockholm, Nalen
15.09.2012 – Denmark, Copenhagen, National Gallery
16.09.2012 – Netherlands, Tilburg, Incubate
17.09.2012 – Belgium, Oudenaarde, Qubus
18.09.2012 – Germany, Bochum , Matrix
19.09.2012 – Germany, Berlin, Berghain
20.09.2012 – Poland, Wroclaw, Eter
21.09.2012 – Germany, Leipzig, Schauspielhaus
18.10.2012 – Austria, Graz, Helmust List Halle

 

Special:
John Peel’s wife Sheila Ravenscroft introduces Laibach

 

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out now: Motor feat. Billie Ray Martin – Hyper Lust [CLRX]

Artist:
Motor featuring Billie Ray Martin

 

Title:
Hyper Lust

 

Label:
CRLX

 

Cat#:
CLRX02

 

Release Date:
30th July 2012 (Beatport)
24th August 2012

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Hyper Lust
(Pfirter Remix)

02)
Hyper Lust
(Monoloc Remix)

03)
Hyper Lust

 

Press Info:
For our new CLR release two artists from the CLR family went on individual missions to remix the MOTOR track Hyper Lust (feat. Billie Ray Martin), taken from the recently released and critically acclaimed album Man Made Machine. One of them is Monoloc, a very talented dj and producer who is currently finishing his debut album for the upcoming release on CLR. The other one is Juan Pablo Pfirter, an internationally respected Techno ambassador from Buenos Aires who has been working with the label for years. Each one of them has taken this honorable task as serious as anyone could imagine, and each one of them has created a unique, exiting and dignified remix of the original track.

Monoloc’s take is a rather slow half-beat approach with a thick and well-defined bass, chopped up vocals and innovative effects. It shows much of his characteristic trademark style and has a simultaneously pleasant and slightly alarming vibe. Pfirter delivers the straight forward, yet atmospheric and groovy Techno mix of this EP, and just like Monoloc he does it with excellence. The choice of sounds, the highly creative programming and the quality of the mix are simply faultless.

The album release of Man Made Machine has crowned the launch of CLR’s new sub-label CLRX, and like the recently released remixes of the title track by Radio Slave, Black Asteroid, Chris Liebing and Luke Slater’s Planetary Assault Systems, this brand new release also pays massive respect to the work of this pioneering Techno duo by the name of MOTOR.

 

Listen:
@ deejay.de

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Hyper Lust (Monoloc Remix)”

 

Related Release:
Motor album “Man Made Machine”

 

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out now: Dive – Dive Box [Out Of Line]

 

Artist:
Dive

 

Title:
DIVE-Box

 

Label:
Out Of Line

 

Cat#:
OUT558|OUT558

 

Release Date:
20th July 2012

 

Format:
8CD Limited Book Box

 

Tracklist:
CD1-01)
Infected

CD1-02)
There’s No Hope

CD1-03)
Dead or Alive

CD1-04)
Right

CD1-05)
So Hard

CD1-06)
Attack

CD1-07)
Turn Me On

CD1-08)
Run

CD1-09)
Ghostcity

CD1-10)
31

CD1-11)
Menticide

CD1-12)
Final Report

CD1-13)
We Rule the World

CD1-14)
Go Overhead

CD1-15)
Mercy

CD1-16)
Ritmo Montana

CD1-17)
On Your Knees

CD1-18)
Wake Up Screaming

CD1-19)
Are You Real

CD1-20)
ABO

CD1-21)
Bloodmoney

CD1-22)
The City Never Sleeps

CD2-01)
Slippin’ Away

CD2-02)
Mindtorture

CD2-03)
39 Stitches

CD2-04)
Crosses Are Burning

CD2-05)
Take Your Dreams Away

CD2-06)
Broken Meat

CD2-07)
Mother

CD2-08)
Welcome to Hell IV

CD2-09)
Concrete Jungle

CD2-10)
Lust

CD2-11)
In The Glasshouse

CD2-12)
Sick In Your Mind

CD2-13)
Isolation

CD2-14)
Baby Oh Baby

CD2-15)
Heartbeat

CD2-16)
Back To Nature

CD2-17)
Hall Of Mirrors

CD3-01)
Running Circle

CD3-02)
Viscious Bitch

CD3-03)
Power Of Passion

CD3-04)
Man In The Mirror

CD3-05)
Sickness

CD3-06)
Automatique

CD3-07)
No Pain No Game

CD3-08)
Killing Time

CD3-09)
Rocket USA

CD3-10)
Welcome to Hell Part 2

CD3-11)
Nightshift

CD3-12
Burning Skin

CD3-13)
Eye Of The Past

CD3-14)
Back To Back

CD3-15)
Time Zone

CD3-16)
Shadows Of You

CD3-117)
Sparks

CD3-18)
Homeless

CD3-19)
Kick Your Head

CD3-20)
Lost Horizon

CD4-01)
Dunes Of Rust

CD4-02)
Grinding Walls Part 1

CD4-03)
The Infinite Shades Of Disgust

CD4-04)
Blood Feast

CD4-05)
On Small Foetuses Black Souls Dance And Cry Their Triumph

CD4-06)
Grinding Walls Part 2

CD4-07)
Inside My Spine Stones of Death Are Threading Like Pearls

CD4-08)
Flesh Extreme Leap

CD4-09)
Small Paper Man

CD4-10)
And the Power Weaves Its Death Curtain with Our Dribble’s Thread

CD4-11)
Blue Waters

CD4-12)
On The Future Path Is Now Leading The Cripple Mark

CD4-13)
Obsession

CD4-14)
Twilight Fields

CD4-15)
Ars Moriendi Part 2

CD4-16)
Glow In The Dark

CD5-01)
Snakedressed

CD5-02)
Growing Deep Inside

CD5-03)
Where Were You

CD5-04)
Machinegun Baby

CD5-05)
Wheeping In The Dark

CD5-06)
Bloodshot Eyes

CD5-07)
Throw Myself Away

CD5-08)
Dark Room

CD5-09)
I Was There

CD5-10)
Sufferhead

CD5-11)
Growing Deep Inside
(Demo Version)

CD5-12)
Reported
(Numb Mix)

CD5-13)
Reported
(Monolith Mix)

CD5-14)
Reported
(Die Krupps Mix)

CD5-15)
Reported
(Hybryds Mix)

CD5-16)
Reported
(:wumpscut: Mix)

CD5-17)
Reported
(Leæther_Strip Mix)

CD5-18)
Reported
(Templebeat Meathead Mix)

CD5-19)
Reported
(Starfish Pool Mix)

CD6-01)
True Lies One

CD6-02)
Sidewalk Sinner

CD6-03)
Breathing

CD6-04)
Give It To Me

CD6-05)
Two Faced Man

CD6-06)
Be Yourself

CD6-07)
Dreamhunter

CD6-08)
Voodoo Child

CD6-09)
Are You Awake?

CD6-10)
True Lies Two

CD6-11)
Waiting And Burning

CD6-12)
Blindness

CD6-13)
Two Faced Man
(Monolith Mix)

CD6-14)
Command Him

CD6-15)
Insanity

CD6-16)
Lies In Your Eyes

CD6-17)
Under Attack

CD6-18)
Poison Kiss

CD6-19)
Lies In Your Eyes
(V2)

CD7-01)
Your God

CD7-02)
Lost Inside You

CD7-03)
This Is Me

CD7-04)
Behind The Sun

CD7-05)
Nobody Else
[feat. Ms Poly-Ester]

CD7-06)
No, Nothing

CD7-07)
Not Alone

CD7-08)
Heart And Soul

CD7-09)
Deadman

CD7-10)
This Is The World

CD7-11)
Frozen

CD7-12
Do You Believe It?

CD7-13)
Frozen
(Numb Mix)

CD7-14)
Dead End Street

CD7-15
Frozen
(Leæther_Strip Mix)

CD7-16)
Do You Believe It?
(Combichrist Mix)

CD7-17)
Everything Is Fine

CD7-18)
Frozen
(Inure Mix)

CD8-01)
Too Late

CD8-02)
Tressure

CD8-03)
The Human Race

CD8-04)
Cheree

CD8-05)
Obsession

CD8-06)
Moving Hands
(Live)

CD8-07)
Warm Leatherette
(Live)

CD8-08)
Ghostrider
(Live)
[feat. Jean-Luc De Meyer]

CD8-09)
Skullscraper

CD8-10)
No, Nothing
(Live)
[feat. Geistform]

CD8-11)
Reported
(It Mix)

CD8-12)
Reported
(Sigillum S Mix)

CD8-13)
Bloodmoney
(Substanz T Mix)

CD8-14)
Lost Inside You
(Die Krupps Mix)

CD8-15)
Power Of Passion
(Bahntier Mix)

CD8-16)
Lost Inside You
(Snow In China Mix)

CD8-17)
Behind The Sun
(K-Bereit Mix)

 

Info (English):
The complete works of an Electro legend are released as a classy box set in book form, handnumbered and limited to 1000 copies and including a deluxe photo booklet with many previously unseen images! All albums and EPs, many of them long-deleted and rare, plus previously unreleased remixes, cover versions and live tracks. 148 tracks on 8 CDs – a legendary box set for a legend!

There are few Electro-pioneers of the first wave that are still active and successful. Belgian artist Dirk Ivens is one of them, inspiring a lot of acts to follow in the past three decades – be it as part of Absolute Body Control, The Klinik or Sonar, or with his solo project DIVE. Therefore, an 8-CD box set containing the entire back catalogue of his one man project, from 1990 until now, is destined to stir up some waves. It contains all official releases, many of them deleted for a good number of years and therefore highly collectible (and pricey) rarities, bundled in a lavish box set in book form, hand-numbered and limited to 1000 copies, with a classy photo booklet that contains many previously unseen photos. Next to all the classics, like the self-titled debut album, “Concrete Jungle”, “Snakedressed” and all EPs, among them the extremely rare “Images” and “Extended Play”, there are stylistically versatile collaborations with Kirlian Camera, Jean-Luc de Meyer (Front 242), Controlled Bleeding and Diskonnekted, plus remixes from Combichrist, Numb, Die Krupps or Leætherstrip. Rounding off this massive package and making it all the more exclusive and indispensable is a bonus disc containing previously unreleased live material, cover versions and remixes. 148 tracks on 8 CDs – a legendary box set for a legend!

 

Info (German):
Das Gesamtwerk der Electro-Legende erscheint als edle, auf 1000 Stück limitierte und handnummerierte Buchbox mit deluxe Fotobooklet mit vielen nie gesehenen Bildern! Alle lange vergriffenen Alben & EPs, sowie unveröffentlichte Remixe, Coverversionen und Live Tracks! 148 Tracks auf 8 CDs. Eine legendäre Box für eine Legende!

Nur wenige Electro-Pioniere der ersten Stunde sind heute noch musikalisch aktiv und dabei auch erfolgreich. Der Belgier Dirk Ivens ist eine dieser Ausnahmeerscheinungen: Seit über drei Dekaden inspiriert er unzählige Acts maßgeblich – sei es als Teil der Bands Absolute Body Control, The Klinik oder Sonar und nicht zuletzt mit seinem Solounternehmen DIVE. Wenn nun also eine 8-CDBox mit dem kompletten Backcatalogue seines seit 1990 bestehenden Einmann-Projektes erscheint, ist die Aufregung entsprechend groß. Alle offiziellen Veröffentlichungen, von denen ein Großteil seit Jahren komplett vergriffen ist, werden Fans und Interessierten wieder zugänglich gemacht, auf einen Schlag und gebündelt in einer edlen, auf 1000 Stück limitierten und handnummerierten Buchbox mit speziellem Fotobooklet mit vielen bis dato unveröffentlichten Bildern. Zu Klassikeralben wie dem selbstbetitelten Debüt, „Concrete Jungle“ oder „Snakedressed“ und allen EPs, darunter die absoluten Raritäten „Images“ und „Extended Play“, gesellen sich stilistisch ausgesprochen vielfältige Kollaborationen mit Kirlian Camera, wie Jean-Luc de Meyer (Front 242), Controlled Bleeding und Diskonnekted sowie Remixe von Combichrist, Numb, Die Krupps oder Leætherstrip. Um das großzügige Package rund, noch exklusiver und damit unverzichtbar zu machen, wurde eine Bonus-CD addiert, die nie zuvor veröffentlichtes Livematerial, Coverversionen und Remixe enthält. 148 Tracks auf 8 CDs – eine legendäre Box für eine Legende!

 

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Trailer:

 

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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

 

Buy:
Recoil
Alfa Matrix (deluxe edition)
Alfa Matrix (red edition)
PopOnaut (red edition)
InfraRot (red edition)
WOM (red edition)
Out Of Line Shop (red edition)
StormingTheBase.com (red edition)
MusivNonStop (red edition)
Amazon GER (red edition)
more soon

 

Websites:
Recoil
Alfa Matrix

 

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:

Buy:
CarolineTrueRecords (vinyl)
iTunes (digital)
7Digital (digital)
Amazon GER (digital)
Amazon UK (digital)
more soon

Websites:
Poppy & The Jezebels