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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions is an indie alt band composed of Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star and Colm Ó Cíosóig of My Bloody Valentine. This 10" is a two track black vinyl piece with the lead single 'Let Me Get There featuring Kurt Vile'. The lead track will be off the upcoming studio album, Until the Hunter, while the B side is exclusive to this release.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' new studio album, Skeleton Tree, will be released globally on vinyl, CD and across all digital platforms on 9th September 2016. This follows the Bad Seeds' most critically and commercially successful release of
recent times, Push the Sky Away (2013).
The LP comes in a rigid sleeve with thick black lined board and includes a download card. Skeleton Tree began its journey in late 2014 at Retreat Studios, Brighton, with further sessions at La Frette Studios, France in autumn 2015. The album was mixed at AIR Studios, London in early 2016.
The first opportunity anyone will have to hear any of the songs from the album will be to watch One More Time With Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly). The film will screen in more than 650 cinemas across the world on 8th September 2016, immediately prior to the release of Skeleton Tree the following day.

'Trip. A simple arrangement of four letters that has many associations: a trip to the seaside, a drug trip (and so a journey into the unknown), a trip is to suddenly fall. 'The Soft Bounce' is a trip album in the widest sense: containing nearly 45 minutes of carefully programmed music, it sets off into to the unknown, it contains pleasure and pain, doubt and transcendence, and it ends somewhere that is different from where you started.
- 'Beginning with expansive synth washes and 'Love To Love You Baby'-style oohs, 'Delicious Light' is immediately uplifting: we're off on a switchback journey that will pass from light through darkness and confusion and pain to transcendence and acceptance. Darkness of a sort is forged in explosive motion ('Iron Age') before passing through sunshine pop ('Creation'), first wave UK psych ('Door To Tomorrow' with its invocation of Emily, beloved of both the Pink Floyd and the Piccadilly Line), and the blissful Balearic emotion of 'Diagram Girl'. This passes into the American Gothic of 'Black Crow' - that traditional avian harbinger of doom - and then we're down the rabbit hole.
- ''Tomorrow, Forever' begins in the sound of nothingness and slowly unfolds into beatless cloud reveries that are at once solemn and hopeful. Weightless, blown with the wind, you come down to earth with the skipping afro beat of 'The Soft Bounce': a soft female voice pleads for connection, but she is almost swamped by the stinging, shocking guitar reverb. The positive moods of 'Finally First' and 'Triumph' put everything back together before the all-out acid assault of 'Third Mynd': from life to death to rebirth, 'you throw the sticks up in the air, and they come down in a different pattern.'
- 'Is it the history of human kind or a personal, individual odyssey With guest appearances from Blaine Harrison (Mystery Jets), Euros Childs (Gorky's Zygotic Mynci), Jane Weaver, Holly Miranda and Hannah Peel, Erol Alkan and Richard Norris have constructed an album that is both highly enjoyable and on a deeper level, perceptual and psychological. Growth is necessary, as is adaptation to change: neither are achieved easily or without some kind of sacrifice. Operating on a level that can be verbal but is more often nonverbal, music can ease that passage.' - John Savage.
- Vinyl format is pressed on transparent vinyl and includes a digital download code.

Peripheral Minimal is welcoming Doric to their quarters. Doric is the moniker of the purist, Stathis Leontiadis (Human Puppets, Exetix, Plexiglas). Being involved in various avant garde/new wave music projects since 1996, intrigued by the 'all' analogue mentality of the late '70s - early '80s music field, he is passionately committed to vintage synths and machines, creating a very distinctive and specific style and considered by many as a "specialist". On this release,the main subject of the record is creative interplay. The first side (the "Asleep"side), includes songs, written by the artist alone, using sleep as a metaphor of loneliness and seclusion from the oppressive, everyday society that smothers anything unique under the struggle of daily routine. However, on the second side, Doric mutes his skeptic, internal monologue for a bit and collaborates with two very talented and like-minded artists, Pascal and Valisia Odell. Pascal (Foucault, Noisetoy, Ludmilla) is an ingenius multi-instrumentalist and an old friend of Doric and Valisia Odell (Phoenix Catscratch, Strawberry Pills, Father Breath) is one of the most charismatic voices in Greece, with a very distinctive and enchanting vocal hue.This friendship results to the second side (the "Awaken" side), a critical view of what our society translates into artistic and life success in general. A simplified formula that often leads to bury our most creditable truths, in order to become a pattern, easily readable and understandable by the masses.The overall essence of this record however concludes to a rather optimistic dream of a utopian reality,where everyone can create unobscured. The value of each effort can only be appreciated through time. Limited to 300, black copies with the distinctive "Doric" handmade artwork,a homage to the D.I.Y. Ethos, an infusion from the past but a promise of a future.

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If you love contemporary minimal music, then you are certainly familiar with the Greek artist Stathis Leontiadis. With his bands Human Puppets, Exetix and Plexiglas this musician became one of the stars of the genre. Now he is back with Doric. With this solo project he already released a single and an album on Fabrika and a 10" on Domestica. The new release is once again a 10", this time on Peripheral Minimal.

Doric uses a special concept. The A-side is the so-called Asleep side and is about loneliness: music that sounds paranoid. Sleep Of Reason is almost unbearable, it's madness driven by minimal electronics. Everything is very danceable, but this is the dance of madness. The minimal sound comes straight from the 80s. Over My Dreamssounds a bit like the early Parade Ground. Simply great! Head Against the Wall (a title that needs little explanation) is slow and compelling.

The three tracks on the B-side are the Awaken side for which Stathis worked together with Pascal (Foucault, Noisetoy, Ludmilla) and Valisia Odell (Phoenix Catscratch, Strawberry Pills, Father Breath), two musicians who are no strangers in the Greek underground.

Exposing Vanity and Life In Reverse do not sound cheerful, but you hear a different dimensionn of Doric. The lyrics are about the malaise of the society we live in. Not that you will understand Stathis' words, but music is a language in itself.

Do not hesitate, just buy this!

People don't put this much of themselves into a piece of music just to show they can; to find out if they can, that's another question."
Greil Marcus on VEXX, Real Life Rock Top Ten

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Recorded immediately following on from their truly epic European tour last Summer, 'Wild Hunt' by VEXX is a deliriously hot-wired mini-LP. Showcasing the band utterly consumed in the moment, these six tracks blaze with giddy abandon, raging mere heartbeats away from oblivion.
Recorded by Hayes & Sam at Dub Narcotic in Olympia, mastered by Golden Mastering. This LP is a one-time pressing (on black vinyl) in collaboration with our good friends at M'Lady's Records, with incredible artwork drawn by Maryjane herself depicting the supernatural Wild Hunt in hot pursuit.
 

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed in the VIV

"Lässt Los, Jeder Immer" is the remix of the Jung An Tagen soundtrack for "Embargo" a video by Johann Lurf

Artwork & layout by Milica Balubdzic & J. Fröhnel Mastering by Brian Pyle Bust by Hanno Schnegg

Please direct all inquiries to S. Juster, Sekretariat Berggasse, Virtual Institute Vienna

Jung An Tagen is the primary music act operating inside the Virtual Institute Vienna. 'By using substractive synthesis and sampling techniques Jung An Tagen builds aleatoric arrays, repetitive figures & polyrhythmic moires circulating around distinctive timbres and haptic fragments, resulting in a vision of morphing movements between high energy and zero gravity states. 'Due to the synaesthesian nature of the VIV, Jung An Tagen is bound very closely to a specific visual grammar and is intertwined with video art, even though the performative settings are usually reduced to music only. Previously, Stefan Juster was mainly present with different bands & monikers on labels like NotNotFun, Blackest Rainbow, 100% Silk or his own imprint SF Broadcasts.

"All I need is a million monikers to cover myself from the world. ...glad he's back to flush out my woes, making music as Jung An Tagen ...ready to become one with your psyche." TinyMixTapes

"Jung An Tagen sees energetic looped illusions play with an overwhelming array of fantastical beats and manic patterns. It all cultivates into an extraordinary color wheel of acid drenched avan­kraut­pop brilliance. A minimal electronic rabbit hole that dabbles in clap­track danceable workouts. This is something to get excited about"' AdHoc

Industrial space rock recorded in a bedroom in Beckenham one weekend in the winter of 1981 on a hired Tascam Portastudio and Korg synth with borrowed guitar, bass and FX pedals. Cut by Jason Goz, London, February 2016. Cover image and text by Paul H Williams.

Paul H Williams writes: "A December weekend in 1981 was approaching; the first time that a mate and I would make our own recordings on cheap hired equipment in his bedroom...;

I'd been talking to Damon Edge of the San Francisco-based acid punk band Chrome over the phone, late at night from the kitchen in my parents' flat, since the release of "Alien Soundtracks" in the late 70s. He was a glimpse of another magnificent alien world.

I was bathed in the Industrial culture of the time: Throbbing Gristle, SPK, William S Burroughs and JG Ballard. Making my own cut-ups and finding meaning in the collision of medical and science texts with newspapers and magazines; photographing Thamesmead, Heathrow Airport and Dungeness Power Station on Saturday afternoon explorations.

The weekend was a thrill. We each took turns to create our own music. There were four tracks on the Tascam Portastudio to play with and - after tweaking a Korg synth I had no idea how to use, re-wiring my mate's electric guitar with multiple versions of the same string because I'd read somewhere that Glenn Branca had done it and discovering the joy of turning the cassette over so you could record in reverse - I'd produced four chunks of sound. It felt like a glorious creative haemorrhage of emotion and noise.

Clutching a cassette master of the weekend's work I went home to my bedroom to listen to what I'd done wondering where it had all come from. And then at 10.15pm on BBC2 that Sunday evening I watched Nic Roeg's "The Man Who Fell To Earth" for the very first time. I was transfixed by David Bowie's performance and completely identified with the alien Thomas Jerome Newton trying to navigate his way on planet Earth. Right then I knew that I had to call the music on that cassette "Fallen To Earth".

Following the early 2016 unveiling of his widely acclaimed new tracks After the Glow' and Repeat', Jesse Mac Cormack is announcing today that his third EP, After the Glow', will be released on September 16th via Secret City Records. The EP will include both of the above-mentioned tracks. Jesse sums up his latest EP in these few words: After the Glow' was auto-produced in my mum's garage which I like to call my studio. It reunites five very personal songs that I think a lot of people could relate to. Influences and music change over time. These pieces are for me summer 2015.' This year has already seen song premieres by CLASH Music (UK) and The Line of Best Fit (UK) as well as video premieres by Les Inrocks (France) and The Fader (USA) . Having generated more than 1.8 million streams, raving reviews from here and abroad, Jesse Mac Cormack could very well become the new hero of modern folk' (Les Inrocks). Jesse has spent his downtime producing records for the local Montreal scene including the debut record by Emilie & Ogden. He has already shared the stage with Half Moon Run, Lou Doillon and Sophie Hunger to name a few, and will be supporting Cat Power and Shakey Graves this summer. His first EP, Music For The Soul (2014), delivers a personal acoustic sound, while his second EP, CRUSH (2014), encompasses electric guitar and a full band. His heartfelt vocals and lyrics arise from his personal journeys, where his warm influence emerges from his surroundings. Guided by increasingly complex arrangements, rhythmic progressions within both the acoustic and electric realm, Mac Cormack's impassioned vocals belie their owner's youth.

Following the early 2016 unveiling of his widely acclaimed new tracks After the Glow' and Repeat', Jesse Mac Cormack is announcing today that his third EP, After the Glow', will be released on September 16th via Secret City Records. The EP will include both of the above-mentioned tracks. Jesse sums up his latest EP in these few words: After the Glow' was auto-produced in my mum's garage which I like to call my studio. It reunites five very personal songs that I think a lot of people could relate to. Influences and music change over time. These pieces are for me summer 2015.' This year has already seen song premieres by CLASH Music (UK) and The Line of Best Fit (UK) as well as video premieres by Les Inrocks (France) and The Fader (USA) . Having generated more than 1.8 million streams, raving reviews from here and abroad, Jesse Mac Cormack could very well become the new hero of modern folk' (Les Inrocks). Jesse has spent his downtime producing records for the local Montreal scene including the debut record by Emilie & Ogden. He has already shared the stage with Half Moon Run, Lou Doillon and Sophie Hunger to name a few, and will be supporting Cat Power and Shakey Graves this summer. His first EP, Music For The Soul (2014), delivers a personal acoustic sound, while his second EP, CRUSH (2014), encompasses electric guitar and a full band. His heartfelt vocals and lyrics arise from his personal journeys, where his warm influence emerges from his surroundings. Guided by increasingly complex arrangements, rhythmic progressions within both the acoustic and electric realm, Mac Cormack's impassioned vocals belie their owner's youth.

It's rare for an artist to bridge the divide between critical acclaim and dedicated fan engagement. Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose body of work has resonated deeply with these seemingly disparate milieus. Her bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of her life in song has long appealed to those listeners who crave authenticity. Now, five years coming, she shares with us another powerful entry in her life's work, her sixth release, the aptly titled, Back in the Ring.

Chris's elegant emotionality as a vocalist, and her flair and immediacy as a lyricist have garnered her favorable comparisons to Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. She's earned accolades from such distinguished taste-making outlets as The New York Times, Paste, Magnet, Billboard.com, and The AllMusic Guide. She's shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as Dar Williams, The Lumineers, The Cowboy Junkies, Gregory Alan Isakov, Martin Sexton, and Ani DiFranco. Along the way, Chris has remained fiercely independent, selling nearly 50,000 albums through her own label, Sad Rabbit Records.

Chris's journey in music mirrors her path toward self-discovery. At 16, writing songs became a way of journaling. I was shy and introverted, and songwriting was a very personal process. I never had any intention of performing,' she shares. Post high school, she went on to complete a biology degree at Wesleyan University, and afterwards, worked in a microbiology research lab at Smith College. Meanwhile, she established a music career parallel to her biology work through touring and issuing a clutch of well-received indie releases. In 2006, when Chris found herself turning down too many opportunities as a musician, she shifted her priorities to become a full-time artist.

Her latest album, Back in the Ring, is Chris's first studio full length since 2010's critically acclaimed How I Learned to See in the Dark. I'm not interested in releasing songs I can't get behind or records I don't love,' she says of the five-year span between albums. The title of her latest playfully suggests something of an artistic comeback, but it also references the album's themes of relationship conflict and making the decision to fight back against dark inner demons.

My music is the outward expression of the work I'm doing internally. What I do comes from my experiences, and I strive to express these experiences authentically. Speaking my truth, and being myself, is the way that I connect with people,' Chris confides. Her rise as an esteemed artist with captivating emotional integrity has been organic and always on her own terms. For someone who never had an intention of being a professional musician, it's been a life of far-reaching changes and unexpected rewards.

Montreal's The Luyas return with the release of Says You, the first new recordings since their 2012 album, Animator. The lyrics are funny and smart, at times even touching. The music is playful, and diverse: ranging from cacophonous piles of synth, to woven patterns of interlacing melody. There are pads of horns mimicking some great, imagined organ, and layered rhythms egging each other along.

Each of the EP's five songs is a little world of its own characters, particular sense of humour, rules of physics, blue skies and acid rain. Like sitting down at a table with a friend, Says You bounces from the banal, to the absurd. It cuts a joke, it empties its wallet, it promises to get the tip next time, and when you smile, it smiles back. Listen to it and see if you like it.

The ever-mercurial Bobby Gillespie wasn't content to bridge techno and indie with the wildly popular acid-house foray Screamadelica. No, he carried on as if it didn't happen. As suggested by the album cover, which features a photo (titled Troubled Waters) by seminal Southern photographer William Eggleston depicting a confederate flag, 1994's Give Out But Don't Give Up finds Primal Scream drawing upon rock forms baked in the American South, the nationalistic Britpop climate be damned.

A debt to The Rolling Stones held over from Primal Scream inflects the tender balladry on '(I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind,' while 'Funky Jam' is self-explanatory and the hit single 'Rocks' trades, not surprisingly, in roadhouse rock 'n' roll bravado. On the title track, George Clinton himself arrives to trade verses with the unflappable soul vocalist Denise Johnson atop a dour and hard funk groove.

Like Primal Scream's broader discography, Give Out But Don't Give Up is an assortment of freewheeling exercises—all of which deftly connect.

Subtle, elliptcal and ambiguous, 'Suppose' is the debut full-length from London based duo Blue House.
Released on August 27th 2016 via Whipped Cream Records (Loose Meat, Super Best Friends Club, Bas
Jan,) the album presents us with a world of haunted pop — songs about people just departed, places
just lef, and events just witnessed. It is a world in which an under-the-surface quotdian terror might
make strange all sorts of objects: playstaton games, postcards, grasshoppers, euphoniums all fnd their
way on to the record.

The band in earnest probably began with a drunken duet of Patsy Cline's 'Walking In The Moonlight',
sang on top of a rickety table at a house party in 2015. Something of that country sensibility remains
in songs like 'Ear To The Door', that has Ursula and James harmonise a song about domestcity and
wandering, a theme that resurfaces throughout the record ('John the Unready / had a litle baby girl
last night / now he's halfway across the countryside / saying something's calling me.')

'Suppose' is rarely an obvious beast, the fragile balance of atmospherics and presence permeatng the
record with an understated and endearing numinousness throughout. Leaving no stone unturned, the
duo wilfully explores the intricacies of pop, with an emphasis on def poetcs and quality songwritng.
Whilst debut single 'Hot Air Balloons' brims with jangling 90's chords, its follow up 'Simple Song' is a
delicate afair — a 70's folk-revival lullaby, radiatng with simplistc charm. The newly founded Whipped
Cream's philosophy of unifying an emerging generaton of English musicians with the means to remain
independently-minded makes their label a ftng home for 'Suppose'.
'A gorgeous debut' The Line of Best Fit
'Intriguing and forlorn' Loud & Quiet
'The understated delivery enhances the power of the songwritng' Clash

Irish duo St Francis Hotel met in London afer emigratng from Dublin during the recession. They have
been making music ever since. This is their debut single.
'Mondello' is Powerfully hauntng yet subtle. It hints of the great things to come from this mysterious
pairing.
Gently plucked guitars combine with a smooth falseto and washed out harmonies to create a blissful
but deeply personal and melancholic track.
It is an excitng frst ofering that inspires nostalgia and longing. It will win over fans of Broken Bells, TV
On The Radio and Midlake.

Oblique pop ensemble Vanishing Twin formed in 2015 over a love of unusual instruments, freaky
records and the irresistble seducton of A Good Groove. Founder Orlando, afer releasing a string of
conceptual cassetes on her own RAM* label, put a band together and named it for her other self, a
twin absorbed and internalised in utero when they were both stll a cluster of cells. She is joined by
drummer Valentna Magalet (Tomaga, Shit and Shine, Raime, Neon Neon), bassist Susumu Mukai
(A.K.A. primitve electronic producer Zongamin), library music head Phil M.F.U. (Man From Uranus) on
strange sounds, and flm-maker and visual artst Elliot Arndt on fute and percussion.
Last year the band teamed up with producer Malcolm Cato (Heliocentrics, Gaslamp Killer) and
wrapped their songs in layers of otherness and sub-aquatc obscurity. The resultng debut LP will be
released on Soundway in September 2016.
Championed by Gilles Peterson, The Quietus and Wire, the band played widely in 2015, conjuring
otherworldly grooves and esoteric euphony in a show that is equal parts crafed sound and improvised
delirium.

* First time on vinyl
* Gatefold 2xLP with postcard
* Remastered from OG tapes


"I was obsessed with this record when it was first released and it still blows my mind -- a forgotten classic of American underground rock" -- Mark Lanegan

"Caustic Resin made a bunch of great f***ing records and The Medicine Is All Gone was one of their best. The riff (and everything else) of the lead track 'Cable' is from one of the finest songs not only of 1998, but ever. You need this record." -- Dylan Carlson (Earth)

Caustic Resin announce the deluxe reissue of their celebrated 1998 album The Medicine is All Gone. Recorded in 1998 with engineer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Modest Mouse, Built To Spill), the album was a highpoint both sonically and in terms of songwriting in the 15 year career of the Boise rock trio.

Initially released on Alias Records, after many years of the album's high repute passing, largely by word of mouth, the calls and campaigns for this landmark album to be released on vinyl have finally been heeded.

Even after over a decade and a half The Medicine Is All Gone still sounds remarkable. The album is an intoxicating ride through the heaviest of psychedelic trips, its avalanche of layered guitars cascading into fathomless waters of calm respite before the white knuckle ride rises again and again. Its vocals and lyrics sound as though they are the last gasp scream uttered by a man who stands at the precipice of his own mortality. And indeed he might have been.

Caustic Resin vocalist/guitarist Brett Netson is also a longtime member of indie rock heroes Built To Spill and currently plays in drone legends Earth as well as fronting his own Brett Netson and Snakes.

Weight of Matter, the band's second full-length, is a Neil-Young & Crazy Horse guitar-inspired album, dialing in tones akin to Mercury Rev and The Walkmen while maintaining the airy psychedelia of early Flaming Lips.

Whereas lead songwriters Kate Perdoni and Adam Hawkins took turns to provide drums, keys, guitars and other instrumentation on the band's first record, they were joined in their home studio by new members Alex Koshak (drums), Mitch Macura (keys) and Ryan Spradlin (bass) on new full length 'Weight of Matter', continuing an exploration of sonic landscapes while creating space for each individual member's contribution to shine through.

First single, Rxx," calls to mind dozens of missed moments in rock and roll history set against a backdrop of pop hooks and mayhem, while Bop Shoo Bop" pays homage to legendary Tropicalia ensemble Os Mutantes. Repose and the cosmos dance on point throughout the track list, providing a contemplative backdrop of harmony and keen melodies to a sometimes brusque outlook. The group borrows popular country standard Cry," adding a Casio backbeat and shoe gaze twist, then treads the waters of thematic love and loss on the heartbreakingly emotive title track.

Operating in the realm of the heart, Perdoni and Hawkins' lyrics and subsequent delivery manifest the sight of creative intuition, bringing awareness of unexplored possibilities to light and letting the listener know that the journey is possible.

Eros and the Eschaton began as the experimental two-piece recording project of Kate Perdoni and Adam Hawkins in 2012, weaving magic into shoegaze pop" (SPIN). Perdoni and Hawkins spent that year exploring the sound frontiers in the master-bedroom-turned-studio of a swampy North Carolina rental, set against an outlaw country scape of kudzu, atrocious spiders, wild mammals, and copperhead snakes, writing and recording, self-releasing two singles and touring whenever possible before catching the ears of Bar/None through a video session with Love Drunk.

25th anniversary reissue of "Leisure" on turquoise coloured vinyl !

Since Caveman first formed in 2010 they've claimed a spot for themselves at the center of the New York music scene, become in-demand DJs, toured the world (sharing stages with The War on Drugs, Jeff Tweedy, and Weezer), and received critical praise from the most prestigious media. Now the band-Matthew Iwanusa, lead guitarist James Carbonetti, bassist Jeff Berrall, keyboardist Sam Hopkins and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Prescott Clark-is aiming higher.
Caveman have their sights set on bigger goals, so on their third time around they made their biggest-sounding, most ambitious album yet.
Otero War was created over the course of three years, completely inverting the ramshackle methods used to make 2011's CoCo Beware and their 2013 self-titled LP. This time frontman Matthew Iwanusa has taken the wheel of the creative process, bringing to it a level of patience, precision, and quality that exceeds anything he's ever done before. Iwanusa wrote most of these songs in the back of tour vans with a laptop and a portable keyboard, then spent years rewriting, examining every part to make sure it was exactly right, and eventually abandoning an album's worth of insufficiently killer songs before hitting the studio with the band. To help achieve the grander sound they were after, they brought in ideal mixer, Michael Brauer (Coldplay, My Morning Jacket) to elevate the album even further.

Hailing from Montreal, Gulfer have been on constant rotation on the BSM office stereo for months now, so we're delighted to be giving their brilliant record What Gives it's first ever vinyl press.
For fans of Algernon Cadwallader, Maps & Atlases, Delta Sleep, TTNG et al, Gulfer tour the UK and Europe this summer, including an appearance at ArcTanGent Festival.

This 10" Vinyl EP is the first manifestation of an exciting collaboration between London based music producer / performing artist Gaudi and the ever classy champions of genre-bending and experimental contemporary music, RarenoiseRecords. This hot-off-the-press taster, which will also be available in multiple DL formats, is an introduction to the forthcoming full length release, to be titled Magnetic, due to be released late Spring 2017 MUSICIANS: GAUDI : Minimoog, Korg, Theremin, Programming COLIN EDWIN/BILL L ASWELL/LORENZO FELICIATI : Bass TED PARSONS/STEVE JANSEN : Drums ERALDO BERNOCCHI : Guitars ALESSANDRO GWIS : Piano MERZBOW : Noise, Power Electronics BRIAN ALLEN : Trombone COPPE' : Voice

Late Night Tales and Bonobo were pretty much made for each other, it just took them a while to both realise it. Stepping forward into the compilers spotlight for the 33rd edition was Simon Green - aka Bonobo - a musician, producer and DJ perfectly suited to soundtrack an evening spent reclining to some parallel beats, For 2014s RSD we have made Bonobo's exclusive Late Night Tales cover version of Donovan's 1968 'Get Thy Bearings' as a limited clear vinyl 10'

Rock and Roll has lost her way, that free spirited good time girl with an eye for a cheap drink and an ear for a tune settled down too early and now sits in Tesco behind a fake smile and too much makeup contemplating where it all went wrong. What happened to the energy - the edge - what happened to the ROCK

So it's left to three London reprobates Chris Carr (bass and Vox), Greg Baker (drums) and Martin Minz' Inman (guitar) to put things right. Introducing DIRTY FALCON - Long time compatriots and music scene misfits the band formed as a 3 piece in 2012 with 1 remit - "play it hard and loud". Fortunately the day jobs in Landscape Gardening and construction see this power trio only too happy to oblige and on balanced diet of grunge and 70s rock they're pretty regular when it comes to a belting out a tune. 
But this isn't mere imitation or flattery to deceive - this is a realisation of what made Rock so great in the first place - a drummer dropping bombs like Bonham, a singer ripping through vocal chords like the lives of a reckless cat and a guitarist stripping the whole scene back to bare wood with Sonics that echo the Rock Gods of old. This is the real deal - it's why kids start bands. It's why just maybe good lady "Rock" can hold her head up, tell the boss to "f@&, off" and start living again - who knows maybe her best years are still ahead of her...

Family Fodder, best known for their string of idiosyncratic, playful experimental post-punk singles such as Debbie Harry, Savoir Faire, Film Music and Playing Golf, have had a slew of recent activity.
The early recordings have been given respectful reissue treatments on CD and LP by German label Staubgold.
Then US band YACHT released a souped-up electro-pop cover version of 'Fuck You Til I'm Dead', causing worldwide news items with an ill-judged video 'Sex Tape' shock tactic.
Now, the lost album 'Foreverandever' is being renovated for CD and digital release, along with a 7' EP 'Sex Works'. In recent years Fodder godfather Alig Fodder has collaborated with Psapp and David Shrigley, toured Europe with a revived Fodder line-up, and issued new Family Fodder albums together with vocalist Darlini Singh Kaul, daughter of original Fodder singer Dominique Levillain, on The State 51 Conspiracy label.

Primal Scream released their 11th studio album, 'Chaosmosis', recently, on the band's own First International label through Ignition Records. Recorded in London, New York and Stockholm and written and produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes, 'Chaosmosis' is the freshest sounding album the band have ever made. Taken from the critically acclaimed 'Chaosmosis' and featuring Haim, '100% Or Nothing' was produced by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes and follows the huge radio hit 'Where The Light Gets in'. Fresh off the back of six incendiary, sold out dates in April Primal Scream have a packed summer full of festival dates ahead. This 12' clear vinyl single also includes a nine
minute psychedelic dub remix of the track by Anton Newcombe of Brian Jonestown Massacre. Bobby Gillespie says of the remix, Anton's mix brings out all the slow motion, claustrophobic,
endlessly crushing, paranoid dread of 'living together, alone, apart'... we love it, thank you

Anton.'

Since the beginning of spring Blondage have impressed music fans and industry worldwide with strong
singles and beautful music videos of the highest quality. As a result the singles has seen streams in
the millions, hundreds of radio plays and Blondage have club and festval concerts lined up in most of
Europe to support the EP release and their rapidly growing fanbase.
Blondage is Pernille Smith-Sivertsen and Esben Andersen. They have previously made music under
the name Rangleklods. With the name change to Blondage the two has completed the transformaton
from a experimental solo project to a full- blown electronic pop duo with thousands of fans around the
world.
The alternatve pop universe of Blondage is made from catchy hooks and melodies, incredibly and
playful producton skills and a stunning visual identty.

Einfach mal ganz erwartungsfrei an die Sache herangehen - das war für A Day To Remember der Ansatz für ihr neues Album "Bad Vibrations". Das Ergebnis zeigt: Eine super Idee, die zu ihrer stärksten Platte seit ihren Anfängen in Ocala, Florida im Jahr 2003 geführt hat. Der Weg seitdem war lang und hart, die Band eigentlich ständig auf Tour und doch immer auch mit kraftvollen neuen Songs am Start. Der einzigartige Sound von ADTR, der Pop-Punk, Hardcore und Metal verbindet, wurde von ihren Fans liebevoll als "Pop-Mosh" bezeichnet. Arbeit und Ausdauer haben sich ausgezahlt: Im Laufe ihrer Karriere haben ADTR ganze Touren ausverkauft, mehr als 2,1 Millionen Alben verkauft und zwei Goldene Schallplatten eingeheimst. Sie sind absolute Größen in ihrer Szene. Mit dem Self Help Fest haben sie 2014 ihr eigenes Festival erfunden, im März dieses Jahres kamen über 17.000 Fans zur dritten Auflage. Über das neue Album "Bad Vibrations" sagt Frontmann Jeremy McKinnon, es sei sehr organisch entstanden: "Wir haben uns Zeit genommen, und plötzlich kamen die Stücke wie aus dem Nichts!" Aufgenommen und produziert hat dieses Meisterwerk Bill Stevenson von den Descendents in Colorado. Über sechs Millionen Mal wurde die erste Single "Paranoia" schon gestreamt. Im Januar und Februar 2017 kommen A Day To Remember erneut auf großen Hallentour nach Europa.

Einfach mal ganz erwartungsfrei an die Sache herangehen - das war für A Day To Remember der Ansatz für ihr neues Album "Bad Vibrations". Das Ergebnis zeigt: Eine super Idee, die zu ihrer stärksten Platte seit ihren Anfängen in Ocala, Florida im Jahr 2003 geführt hat. Der Weg seitdem war lang und hart, die Band eigentlich ständig auf Tour und doch immer auch mit kraftvollen neuen Songs am Start. Der einzigartige Sound von ADTR, der Pop-Punk, Hardcore und Metal verbindet, wurde von ihren Fans liebevoll als "Pop-Mosh" bezeichnet. Arbeit und Ausdauer haben sich ausgezahlt: Im Laufe ihrer Karriere haben ADTR ganze Touren ausverkauft, mehr als 2,1 Millionen Alben verkauft und zwei Goldene Schallplatten eingeheimst. Sie sind absolute Größen in ihrer Szene. Mit dem Self Help Fest haben sie 2014 ihr eigenes Festival erfunden, im März dieses Jahres kamen über 17.000 Fans zur dritten Auflage. Über das neue Album "Bad Vibrations" sagt Frontmann Jeremy McKinnon, es sei sehr organisch entstanden: "Wir haben uns Zeit genommen, und plötzlich kamen die Stücke wie aus dem Nichts!" Aufgenommen und produziert hat dieses Meisterwerk Bill Stevenson von den Descendents in Colorado. Über sechs Millionen Mal wurde die erste Single "Paranoia" schon gestreamt. Im Januar und Februar 2017 kommen A Day To Remember erneut auf großen Hallentour nach Europa.

Einfach mal ganz erwartungsfrei an die Sache herangehen - das war für A Day To Remember der Ansatz für ihr neues Album "Bad Vibrations". Das Ergebnis zeigt: Eine super Idee, die zu ihrer stärksten Platte seit ihren Anfängen in Ocala, Florida im Jahr 2003 geführt hat. Der Weg seitdem war lang und hart, die Band eigentlich ständig auf Tour und doch immer auch mit kraftvollen neuen Songs am Start. Der einzigartige Sound von ADTR, der Pop-Punk, Hardcore und Metal verbindet, wurde von ihren Fans liebevoll als "Pop-Mosh" bezeichnet. Arbeit und Ausdauer haben sich ausgezahlt: Im Laufe ihrer Karriere haben ADTR ganze Touren ausverkauft, mehr als 2,1 Millionen Alben verkauft und zwei Goldene Schallplatten eingeheimst. Sie sind absolute Größen in ihrer Szene. Mit dem Self Help Fest haben sie 2014 ihr eigenes Festival erfunden, im März dieses Jahres kamen über 17.000 Fans zur dritten Auflage. Über das neue Album "Bad Vibrations" sagt Frontmann Jeremy McKinnon, es sei sehr organisch entstanden: "Wir haben uns Zeit genommen, und plötzlich kamen die Stücke wie aus dem Nichts!" Aufgenommen und produziert hat dieses Meisterwerk Bill Stevenson von den Descendents in Colorado. Über sechs Millionen Mal wurde die erste Single "Paranoia" schon gestreamt. Im Januar und Februar 2017 kommen A Day To Remember erneut auf großen Hallentour nach Europa.

Einfach mal ganz erwartungsfrei an die Sache herangehen - das war für A Day To Remember der Ansatz für ihr neues Album "Bad Vibrations". Das Ergebnis zeigt: Eine super Idee, die zu ihrer stärksten Platte seit ihren Anfängen in Ocala, Florida im Jahr 2003 geführt hat. Der Weg seitdem war lang und hart, die Band eigentlich ständig auf Tour und doch immer auch mit kraftvollen neuen Songs am Start. Der einzigartige Sound von ADTR, der Pop-Punk, Hardcore und Metal verbindet, wurde von ihren Fans liebevoll als "Pop-Mosh" bezeichnet. Arbeit und Ausdauer haben sich ausgezahlt: Im Laufe ihrer Karriere haben ADTR ganze Touren ausverkauft, mehr als 2,1 Millionen Alben verkauft und zwei Goldene Schallplatten eingeheimst. Sie sind absolute Größen in ihrer Szene. Mit dem Self Help Fest haben sie 2014 ihr eigenes Festival erfunden, im März dieses Jahres kamen über 17.000 Fans zur dritten Auflage. Über das neue Album "Bad Vibrations" sagt Frontmann Jeremy McKinnon, es sei sehr organisch entstanden: "Wir haben uns Zeit genommen, und plötzlich kamen die Stücke wie aus dem Nichts!" Aufgenommen und produziert hat dieses Meisterwerk Bill Stevenson von den Descendents in Colorado. Über sechs Millionen Mal wurde die erste Single "Paranoia" schon gestreamt. Im Januar und Februar 2017 kommen A Day To Remember erneut auf großen Hallentour nach Europa.

'Band Of The Future' is Ausmuteants' fourth album and probably their best to date. The band's previous albums have been released in the US on Goner Records and they last toured the US in support of their previous album 'Order Of Operation' in 2014. Ausmuteants are not the band of the future or the past. Ausmuteants are just a band. Not punk, new wave, hardcore, boogie, darkwave, oi, hyphenaterock or pet rock. Not drug users and not straight edge. Ausmuteants are regular dudes practising the sound of things falling apart.

Blind Pilot's Israel Nebeker turns loss into inspiration on its new album. Written and composed by Nebeker over the course of three years, the record is a transcendent, cathartic response to the loss of his father and end of a 13-year relationship. 'Lions' is Blind Pilot's most exhilarating album to date, a lush 10-song collection that is resilient, uplifting and often majestic in the face of tragedy. Blind Pilot teamed up with producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Neko Case, My Morning Jacket) and the album was mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol, Kurt Vile). They completed the record at Nebeker's studio on Oregon's north coast, in the town of Astoria. 'Umpqua Rushing' was the first song written for the album, Israel's reflection on the end of a long relationship. The Umpqua River in Oregon holds memory for him and becomes a metaphor for the pulling current of his relationship. Much of the songwriting took place after Israel's father was diagnosed with cancer. 'Seeing Is Believing' was written as a song of encouragement for his dad as he was battling sickness and Israel moved home to help him. Says Israel, I think of this album as a conversation about different kinds of loss and the courage we find when we face loss honestly, cracked open and unsure of what we will become. Which is the only real way to face it.' After his father died, Israel wrote 'Like Lions', which would become the album's finale. The title comes from a story about Israel's nephews, who stood up to a bully by standing like lions,' as they told it. Lions play a central role on the album, Israel's father painted the lion flagon the album cover as a boyhood gift to his son. Israel shared 'Joik #3' from the record with NPR's All Things Considered over Thanksgiving. A joik is a 'song' in the Sami (an indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic) tradition, Israel's paternal heritage. Blind Pilot have performed on 'Ellen' and 'The Late Show With David Letterman', at the Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. The group has shared stages with The Shins, Andrew Bird, Calexico and more. The project began in 2007 when Israel and co-founding member Ryan Dobrowski went on a West Coast tour via bicycle. Vinyl format includes a digital download code.

Brett Newski ist ein "nomad" und "songman". So steht es zumindest auf der Website des US-amerikanischen Singer/Songwriters geschrieben, was wiederum einen Rückschluss auf dessen Musik zulässt. Und in der Tat bringt der Neo-Folker, der mit 25 all seine Gelegenheitsjobs hinschmiss, nach Vietnam auswanderte und sich dort vollkommen dem Musikmachen verschrieb, vertonte Geschichten zu Gehör, die das Leben auf der Straße so mit sich bringt - die Gitarre immer im Anschlag und die Musikhistorie im Hinterkopf. Damit reicht "Land Air Sea Garage" vom College Rock der Endachtziger à la Lemonheads und Violent Femmes über den hymnischen Indie-Folk von Bands wie Soul Asylum und aktuell Mumford & Sons bis zum klassischen Songwritertum eines Bob Dylan und Saint Thomas. Das insgesamt sehr abwechslungsreiche und kurzweilige Album, das mit "Garage" und "Mind At Large" zwei potentielle Indie-Hits am Start hat, wurde in einem Surfcamp in Sri Lanka sowie in Newskis Zuhause in Wisconsin aufgenommen. Es handelt davon, ohne Sicherheitsnetz in die Welt einzutauchen und - dennoch - auf beiden Füßen zu landen. Irgendwie erinnert das alles an Jonathan Richman, Mountain Goats, Frank Turner und Elliot Smith, was als großes Kompliment gemeint ist!

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Messers aktuelles Album "Jalousie" ist wie eine Sammlung von kurzen, schnellen Erzählungen, die aus albtraumhaften Untiefen plötzlich in die Welt katapultiert wurden. Eine Reise durch die sich stetig verändernden Szenarien, die beinahe körperliche Spuren hinterlässt. Das meisterhafte Quartett singt von Liebe, von Leidenschaft und Angst - so beeindruckend und einzigartig, wie es nur diese Band kann. Messer haben sich für ihr drittes Album viel Zeit genommen. Nach der Veröffentlichung des Debüts "Im Schwindel" (2012) und dem Nachfolger "Die Unsichtbaren" im Jahr darauf, spielte die Band zahlreiche Konzerte, reiste nach China und ließ sich auf Begegnungen mit dem Theater ein. Auch personell und musikalisch orientiere sich die Formation neu. Sänger Hendrik Otremba hat zu mehr Melodie gefunden und lässt in seinen Texten eine gereifte, literarische Stimme sprechen. Die Gruppe hat sich entwickelt und so sind die Songs auf "Jalousie" vielschichtig, musikalisch verspielt, machen komplexe Motivwelten auf und lassen immer wieder neue Entdeckungen zu. Das Album wurde zum Großteil auf einem alten Rittergut im Münsterland aufgenommen. Als Gäste sind Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten), Micha Acher (The Notwist), Stella Sommer (Die Heiterkeit) und Katarina Maria Trenk (Sex Jams) dabei.

Was für ein Debüt! Mit ihrem ersten Album "Im Schwindel" setzte die Band Messer 2012 neue Maßstäbe für dichte, ausdrucksstarke Songs, die tatsächlich noch immer schwindelerregend sind. Was sie auf dem Nachfolger "Die Unsichtbaren" und der aktuellen Veröffentlichung "Jalousie" verfeinern, ist hier schon alles angelegt: Tiefer, düsterer Gesang und die lyrischen Texten von Hendrik Otremb, der minimalistische und doch ungeheuer mitreißende Sound, der irgendwo zwischen Post-Punk und Indierock wurzelt und doch schon hier einen ganz eigenen, düsteren Charme entwickelt. 2010 hatte sich die Gruppe in Münster formiert, neben Otremb zählten Bassist Pogo McCartney, Gitarrist Pascal Schaumburg und Schlagzeuger Philipp Wulf zur Urbesetzung, die "Im Schwindel" einspielte. Produziert hat Christoph Bartelt diesen Urknall, der für einen Erstling nahezu unverschämt grandios ausfällt

"Die Unsichtbaren" ist mehr als ein Zwischenschritt. Mit ihrem zweiten Album nach dem bahnbrechenden Debüt "Im Schwindel" (2012) setzte die Band Messer im Jahr darauf einfach noch einmal zum ganz großen Hieb an. Genauso scharf und dicht wie beim Erstling sind die Songs, die Mittel haben sich weiter entwickelt, die Stärken sind geblieben. Was Messer auch auf der aktuellen Veröffentlichung "Jalousie" ausmacht, ist hier schon gegenwärtig. 2010 hatte sich die Gruppe in Münster formiert, neben Sänger und Texter Hendrik Otremb zählten Bassist Pogo McCartney, Gitarrist Pascal Schaumburg und Schlagzeuger Philipp Wulf zur Urbesetzung, die auch das zweite Album einspielte. Koproduziert hat Tobias Levin, der als Musiker und Produzent seit den Tagen der Hamburger Schule die innovative, deutsche Independent-Szene geprägt hat wie kein Zweiter. "Die Unsichtbaren" blieben alles andere als unauffällig: Magazine wie Visions oder Spex feierten Messer dafür, gleichzeitig berichtete auch Medien wie die Taz oder Spiegel Online ausführlich - und zu recht begeistert.

One of the most distinctive voices in British music, Jamie T releases his hugely anticipated fourth album 'Trick' on September 2nd on Virgin EMI.
Trick arrives after a gap of less than two years shot through with the kind of vigour and vibrancy that can only come from a man who's rediscovered his love of writing, recording and performing. Spearheaded by lead single 'Tinfoil Boy', the track was Annie Mac's Hottest Record and has since been added to Radio 1, 6 Music and Radio X.
Recorded in London and Detroit, Michigan, Trick features co-production and all instruments played by Jamie and long-time creative partner James Dring and is the kind of brave and eclectic rock/punk/reggae/rap/pop celebration that only Jamie T could make. Inspired by claustrophobic London Summers, the album is a proud, punchy summing-up of all Jamie's unique signatures - Clash-like anthems, youthful reminiscence, high-speed raps, earworm choruses and snarky humour.  It follows the triumphant success of 2014's comeback album Carry On The Grudge.

Ellis Island war in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts das Tor zu Amerika. Mehr als zwölf Millionen Menschen kamen hier vor den Toren New Yorks an und hofften, die USA bald Heimat nennen zu dürfen. Der französische Künstler, Regisseur und Fotograf JR, dessen Identität bis heute unbekannt ist, greift mit seinem 15-minütigen Kurzfilm "Ellis" und der Geschichte eines Migranten diesen Faden auf.

Mit Robert de Niro in der Hauptrolle, führt "Ellis" durch die bröckelnden Hallen des verlassenen Krankenhaus-Komplexes von Ellis Island, der heute JRs Kunstinstallation "Unframed" beherbergt.

Es ist ein Ort, der die Hoffnungen und Ängste jener, die ihn durchschritten, zurückstrahlt - und deren Echos heute lauter denn je zurückhallen. Verschlungen mit dieser Erzählung ist eine Filmmusik, die von dem französischen Songwriter Yoann Lemoine aka Woodkid komponiert und von Nils Frahm aufgeführt und mitverfasst wurde.

Die zarten Klavier-Motive von "Winter Morning I" vollenden sich in einem Crescendo von Streichern, während das schwellende Harmonium von "Winter Morning II" das Fundament für de Niros Geschichte bildet: eine Lobrede auf jene, die das moderne Amerika schufen.