[Special]: NovaFuture Blog Contest with Electric Deluxe – Win 2 free ticket for the EDLX event at 5 Days Off

 

NovaFuture Blog is happy to work again .. again with Electric Deluxe to give you the chance to get free tickets for Electric Deluxe night at the 5 Days Off festival. So we have 1x 2 free tickets for the amazing event in March (details see “Related Event”), sponsored by Electric Deluxe.

You just have to send the answer for the following question plus your details (name, address, age etc) to blog -at- novafuture -dot- biz (deadline: 25th February) … The winner will be selected by random (for sure she/he has to send in the right answer).

Question: Which prefix used Electric Deluxe head Speedy J for his novamute releases he did in co-operations with different artists like George Issakidis, Chris Liebing, Literon and Adam Beyer?

Note: the data of the winner (like name, address, email, age etc) will be sent over to Electric Deluxe, so they can put she/him on the guestlist etc. The winner will only get the permission to enter the party – no hotel, no travel costs etc. Participants must be 21+

Update: thanks everyone. It is closed now. We selected the winner and sent him/her an email. @winner: Enjoy!

 

Related Event:
“Electric Deluxe presents @ 5 Days Off”

 

Websites:
Electric Deluxe
5 Days Off

 

[News]: Luke Slater of Mote-Evolver launched radio show “The Spacestation”

 

Notes:
Luke Slater, head of Mote-Evolver and techno pioneer, started a new radio show to introduce stuff he likes, plays and also gives some previews for records that will be released on his own label.

 

Listen:

 

Recommendations:
all releases on Mote-Evolver we featured

 

Websites:
Luke Slater
Luke Slater (fanpage)
Mote-Evolver
Mote-Evolver (fanpage)

 

06th March 2014: Electric Deluxe presents … 5 Days Off @ Melkweg, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

 

Electric Deluxe presents …

 

Event:
Electric Deluxe presents 5 Days Off

 

Date:
6th March 2014

 

Location:
Melkweg, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

 

Line-up & Time Table:
The Max
10:00pm – 12:00am Jean Pierre Enfant
12:00am – 02:00am Marcel Fengler
02:00am – 06:00am Collabs 3000 (Speedy J + Chris Liebing)

Oude Zaal
11:00pm – 12:00am Will & Ink live
12:00am – 02:30am Truss
02:30am – 05:00am Abdulla Rashim

 

Admission fee:
about 22 EUR presale

 

Info:
Techno fans heading to 5 Days Off this year are in safe hands once again because Electric Deluxe are back on the bill with a patented all star cast in tow. Taking over day two of the much-loved Amsterdam music festival, be prepared for some first class entertainment from talents cherry picked from across Europe.

Berghain resident Marcel Fengler has been turning his skills to all sorts since the release of Fokus back in July, his long-awaited debut album. Known for his slightly skewed but never disappointing selection, Fengler is always a delight behind the decks. He’ll be joined by Truss, AKA MPIA3—or Donor / Truss when in tandem with his transatlantic partner, Greg Schappert. Real name Tom Russell, this hardworking, harder-hitting DJ and producer from London has been rising to the fore with releases on R&S, Perc Trax and Our Circular Sound, with ever fervour intent.

Next: Abdulla Rashim—the person—might be a slight enigma, but his music on Prologue and Semantica (outside his own Abdulla Rashim Records) speaks for itself. The young Swede has already amassed a legion of fans. And his live shows are not to be missed. Will & Ink are another formidable live act. Having debuted on record with their eponymous Delsin sublabel—and one killer EP—the Amsterdam-based duo have been impressing with their keen sound design and custom-made set ups.

Jean Pierre Enfant, resident DJ at TrouwAmsterdam and founder of the infamous Les Enfants Terribles parties, almost concludes the bill. But it wouldn’t be an EDP party without a member from the extended family. And so it’s with great privilege we welcome Chris Liebing to the line up, one of EDLX’s founding collaborators and long time associates.

As ever, host, chief and ELDX mastermind Speedy J will take a turn behind the decks, this time together with Collabs partner and long-time label affiliate Chris Liebing. Their set will be supported by specially commissioned visuals created by artist Florence To. Synched to different frequencies in Speedy J’s set, Florence To’s audio-visual installation promises to be a deep immersive and spatial-altering experience. You’ve been warned..

Event @ Facebook
Event @ Resident Advisor

 

Listen:
Speedy J + Chris Liebing aka Collabs 3000

Marcel Fengler

Truss

Abdulla Rashim

Will & Ink

Jean Pierre Enfant

 

Trailer:

 

Tickets:
Ticketmaster

 

Competition:
Win 1 x2 Tickets

 

Websites:
Electric Deluxe
5 Days Off

 

out now: Laibach – Spectre [Mute]

 

Artist:
Laibach

 

Title:
Spectre

 

Label:
Mute

 

Cat#:
STUMM358

 

Release Date:
28th February 2014

 

Format:
CD+Hardbook, CD, vinyl+CD & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
The Whistleblowers

02)
No History

03)
Eat Liver!

04)
Americana

05)
We Are Millions And Millions Are One

06)
Eurovision

07)
Walk With Me

08)
Bossanova

09)
Resistance Is Futile

10)
Koran

11)
The Parade

12)
Love On The Beat

13)
Just Say No!

14)
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Track 11 – 14 are only available with the CD editions.

 

Press Info (English):
A Spectre is haunting the World – the Spectre of Laibach …

LAIBACH release a brand new album, SPECTRE, on CD, vinyl and download on 3 March 2014. The deluxe edition of the album will come with four extra tracks plus the SPECTRE Partybook: a laminated linen bound party membership book with SPECTRE’s manifesto and an invite to register your allegiance to its thesis.

SPECTRE follows the band’s widely acclaimed conceptual album VOLK (2006) – where Laibach interpreted national anthems of historically imperialistic nations – and the release of the side projects LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE (2008) and IRON SKY: The Original Film Soundtrack (2012), watch a trailer for the new album below.

SPECTRE’s release will be followed by a worldwide tour, which includes dates at KOKO, London as well as the band’s first foray into China: a live date on 22 March will be preceded by a Laibach Kunst exhibition (17 January-20 March), plus a Laibach Seminar at the City University of Hong Kong on 21 March.

Laibach has once again ‘re-invented’ itself in a newly born, yet polished and solid, formation. And, as is now customary, Laibach calls into question all the rigid and cemented interpretations (and prejudices) about itself, about its music, intentions, philosophy and ideology. Laibach are masters of escape, true escape artists. And yet, despite everything, SPECTRE resonates as a real and full-blooded Laibachian work and nothing else.

With SPECTRE Laibach has created a big, important, and almost dangerous step forward; it seems that this time it has fatally crossed the Rubicon. On this album the group – which has never defined itself politically, but has, nevertheless, constantly analysed politics through its work – comes across as politically engaged as never before. SPECTRE literally sounds like a political manifesto manifest in poetic form. Titles and lyrics couldn’t be more direct. With these lyrics and songs, Laibach, who has always given a controversial impression – or an impression of controversy – especially in terms of its political orientation, is now very clearly taking a position on the political spectrum and probably irreversibly abolishing its own (to some extent quite comfortable) political ‘freedom’ and neutrality.

The album opens with The Whistleblowers, a contagiously optimistic piece of classic “militant & symphonic” Laibach, sounding like the sequel to Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts’s 1914 “Colonel Bogey March”. This rousing whistle along track – “From North and South / We come from East and West / Breathing as one / Living in fame / Or dying in flame”” alludes to the heroism of the new, ‘digital’ Prometheans of freedom – Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange.

No History, knows no mercy, and leaves no doubt: Laibach require uncompromising action, they demand bravery and boldness and seek heroes “who will be the creed of a new political faith”. And, in one of the verses of this song, listeners can find a mini-‘manifesto’ about the album itself, its sonic expression, and the position of the group in relation to its own history.

In amongst these rallying calls from the band, sits a rare Laibach love song: We Are Millions And Millions Are One deals with love in today’s impossible times, times which are dangerously close to the fictional reality of classic anti-utopian novels such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (??), Laibach’s inspiration for this song.

Ending the album is the elegant utopian song Koran a track that shows the possibility of a better and fairer world – on Earth or in the hereafter. Koran – which literally means ‘recitation’ (also another key Laibachian trait) –, of course, to some extent also refers to the series of uprisings, revolutions and wars in the Arab world that have been taking place in the past few years and which refuse to sink. Consequently, the album ends with the (in)complete, open, unfinished sound of a piano key…

 

Press Info (German):
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa, das Gespenst von Laibach.

Acht Jahre nach ihrem letzten Studioalbum veröffentlichen Laibach mit Spectre ihr bis dato womöglich spektakulärstes Album, das vieles auf den Kopf stellt, was man über das slowenische Musiker- und Künstlerkollektiv zu wissen glaubte. Bislang bewegte sich die Gruppe immer im diffusen Nebel der Zweideutigkeit, galt als scharfzüngiger Beobachter von Pop und Politik, ihrer Mechanismen und Gefahren. Doch die Zeiten ändern sich. Immer schon höchst ideologisierte Werte wie Freiheit zerbröseln vollends unter den allgegenwärtigen Augen der Geheimdienste, während die Armutsschere weltweit immer weiter auseinanderklafft und Europa und die Welt durch die Finanzkrise am Abgrund taumelt. Es sind Zeiten, in denen Freund und Feind verschwimmen. Zeiten, die nach Direktheit verlangen. Eine Deutlichkeit, die Laibach nach über 30 Jahren ideologischen Verwirrspiels und Spekulationen über ihre Motive mit Spectre für sich in Anspruch zu nehmen scheinen.

Spectre markiert den Übergang vom Abstrakten zum Konkreten, ohne den Atem banaler Agitation zu verströmen. Die elektrisierenden Songs kommen zum Punkt, ihre Rhythmen versprühen zügellose Energie. Gleich zu Beginn wird der moderne Heldentypos, der „Whistleblower“, besungen. Jener Prometheus, der westliche Werte wie Freiheit und Humanität ad absurdum führt. Typisch Laibach, die ihr Publikum in teuflischer Manier immer wieder vom Baum der Erkenntnis naschen lassen. Die Schäfer getarnt als Wölfe. „Das Album handelt von Politik und der Bildung politischen Bewusstseins“, sagen Laibach. „Die Menschen haben genug vom politischen und ökonomischen Establishment und wollen die Macht in die eigenen Hände nehmen, um Würde und Solidarität in ihr tägliches Lebens zu bringen.“

Die krisengeprägte Gegenwart ist für die Band, die sich auf der internationalen Bühne ebenso heimisch fühlen wie in den renommiertesten Galerien, natürlich ein gefundenes Fressen. Ihre Musik war ohnehin immer ein williges Vehikel für präzise Analysen kultureller und politischer Prozesse, die sich durch sämtliche Aspekte von Laibach Kunst zog. Das Kollektiv stellte die richtigen Fragen, nämlich jene, die zu Antworten führen. Auf Spectre dagegen scheint das Prinzip Frage/Antwort sich gegenseitig zu durchdringen, die notwendigen Schlüsse liegen in den Lyrics. Spectre ist der Aufruf zur Revolution angesichts bedrohlicher Zeiten. Ein unverbindlicher Handlungsvorschlag, der sogar auf mögliche Strategien zum Wandel hinweist („Americana“).

„In der Vergangenheit begannen in krisengeprägten Zeiten wie diesen normalerweise folgenreiche Kriege und das könnte leicht wieder passieren.“ Laibach warnen vor dem Scheitern Europas als Friedensprojekt. „Europe is falling apart“, heißt es in „Eurovision“, einem der zentralen Stücke auf Spectre. „Die Menschen in Europa brauchen eine neue Identität, die für sie Bedeutung hat und sie Begeisterung für die Zukunft spüren lässt. Die Revolution muss von den Straßen in Hamburg und Berlin, Paris und Athen, Istanbul, Kiew, Barcelona oder Ljubljana kommen. Die Antwort auf die Krise muss internationalistischer und universeller sein als die Universalität des globalen Kapitals.“

So weht durch Spectre nicht nur ein unbändiger Hauch von Revolution musikalischer wie ästhetischer Natur, sondern das Album versprüht den reizvollen Charme der Utopie. Es ist die Sehnsucht nach einer besseren Welt, welche die Revolutionen antreibt, die in „Eat Liver!“ oder „Walk With Me“ angedeutet werden. Doch Laibach wissen auch, dass die Utopie an sich ein Paradoxon ist. „Als eine Idee und Motivation, um unser Leben zu verbessern, brauchen wir sie unbedingt. Aber jedes Mal, wenn wir versuchen, sie im großen Stil zu verwirklichen, erreichen wir das katastrophale Gegenteil. Und alle Utopien stehen vor einem Problem: Was macht man mit denjenigen, die nicht der gleichen Meinung sind?“ Dabei haben Laibach mit dem virtuellen NSK Staat, in dem die Neue Slowenische Kunst 1992 aufging, bereits einen utopischen Entwurf vorgelegt. Letztlich kann Laibach niemand entkommen, wie sich in dem selbstreferentiellen Song „Resistance Is Futile“ offenbart. Dennoch endet „Spectre“ offen mit der Frage nach einer besseren und gerechteren Welt und Laibach überlassen es dem Hörer, die richtigen Schlüsse zu ziehen. Schließlich haben Laibach in all den Jahren die Welt verschieden interpretiert. Nun käme es darauf an, sie zu verändern.

 

Teaser:

 

Listen:
“Resistance Is Futile”

more soon

 

Full Track Streaming:
Stream it in full at The Quietus

 

Videos:
“The Whistleblowers”

“Eurovision”

“No History”

“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”

“We Are Millions And Millions Are One”

 

Related Release:
EP “S”
album “Spectremix”

 

Tour Dates:
06.03.2014 CH-Luzern, Schüür
07.03.2014 DE-Weinheim, Café Central
08.03.2014 FR-Paris, Trabendo
10.03.2014 BE-Leuven, Het Depot
12.03.2014 UK-London, KOKO
13.03.2014 NL-Amsterdam, Melkweg
14.03.2014 DE-Köln, Stollwerk
15.03.2014 DE-Schorndorf, Manufaktur
16.03.2014 DE-München, Technikum
22.03.2014 CN-Hong Kong, The Vine Center
02.04.2014 IT-Rome, Orion Club
03.04.2014 IT-Trezzo, Live Club
04.04.2014 DE-Frankfurt am Main, Mousontrum
05.04.2014 DE-Dresden, Reithalle
07.04.2014 DE-Berlin, Volksbühne
08.04.2014 DE-Hamburg, Uebel&Gefährlich
10.04.2014 SE-Malmö, Babel
12.04.2014 PL-Poznan, C.K. Zamek
13.04.2014 PL-Gdansk, B90
15.04.2014 AT-Wien, Arena
16.04.2014 HU-Budapest, A38
18.04.2014 CZ-Praha, Archa Theatre
09.05.2014 HR-Zagreb, TvornicaKulture
16.05.2014 SI-Ljubljana, Krizanke

 

Recommendations:
“Reproduction Prohibited”
“Iron Sky Soundtrack”

 

Commercial Streaming Services:
soon

 

Buy CD Deluxe:
Laibach Store
MuteBank
PopOnaut
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Buy CD:
Laibach Store
MuteBank
PopOnaut
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Buy Vinyl:
Laibach Store
MuteBank
PopOnaut
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iTunes
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Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook

 

out now: Sawlin & Subjected – Foreign Awake Part 2 [Electric Deluxe]

 

Artist:
Sawlin & Subjected

 

Title:
Foreign Awake Part 2

 

Label:
Electric Deluxe

 

Cat#:
EDLX035

 

Release Date:
27th February 2014

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Texture 1.1

02)
Texture 1.2

03)
Texture 5

 

Info:
‘Foreign Awake Pt.1’ set the tone with a series of strung out, spacy vistas. Three chillingly subtle and pensive pieces, far removed from the pair’s usual brew of anxious, distortion-heavy techno productions that can be found on their co-run Vault Series outlet. Using EDLX to step away from the dancefloor a little, ‘Foreign Awake Pt.1’ saw the Berlin-based duo tap into headier climes using loops and tingling atmospheres with the faintest of heartbeats. ‘Foreign Awake Pt.2’ picks up the pace, however, with three more “Textures” halfway between ‘Pt.1’’s ethereal wanderings and the pair’s deeper Vault Series offerings.

On the A-side “Texture 1.1” and “Texture 1.2” wraps typical Vault tropes with acid-washed melodies and grainy distorted pads, turning two rusty, hydraulic workouts into weirder and warmer dancefloor reliefs. “Texture 5” then, on the B-side, concludes with more yin and yang experiments, pooling ‘Foreign Awake’’s gentler, dream-like sentiments together with punishing bass, splices of hats and mechanical modulations that keep the reverie in check; a must for Sawlin & Subjected fans, and anyone who likes their techno a little on the stranger side.

Sawlin & Subjected – Textures – by EDLX’s in-house designer Jan Willem van den Ban
Consistent with their music and profile, the artwork for the Sawlin & Subjected releases had to be similarly dark and enigmatic. Revealing little of what’s inside, the cover gives only the slightest hint, but just enough to trigger curiosity. Dark and underground aren’t necessarily synonymous with black, so the insides reveal a world rich of sound and colour, step by step.

 

Listen:

 

Related Release:
“Foreign Awake Part 1”

 

Special:
Sawlin & Subjected – Inverted Audio Mix 119

 

Recommendations:
“Valut Series 10.0”
Subjected’s album “Zero” on Valut Series

 

Buy Vinyl:
Electric Deluxe Shop
Clone.nl
Juno
deejay.de
decks.de
more soon

 

Buy Digital:
Electric Deluxe Shop
JunoDownload
Beatport
more soon

 

Websites:
Subjected
Sawlin
Electric Deluxe