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  • 01. Gone
    02. Lighthouse
    03. Astronomy
    04. Faces Dissolve
    05. It Glows Behind The Trees
    06. Meat And Flies
    07. Long Time Coming
    08. Chimera
    09. I Was A Boy And Not A Statue
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    LES ATTITUDES SPECTRALES

    Vampire In The Summer

    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    27.03.2020
     
  • 01. Nichts Ändern
    02. Zu Nah
    03. Rote Lippen
    04. Alles Blau
    05. Erinnerung
    06. Poly M
    07. Nackt
    08. Stroboskop
    09. Pflaster
    10. Staub
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    LEVIN GOES LIGHTLY

    Nackt

    Die Hülen fallen lassen. Den Schutzpanzer ablegen. Nackt sein. Levin Stadler bricht mit dem Gewohnten. Dabei hätte doch alles beim Alten bleiben ko?nnen. Sein Projekt Levin Goes Lightly hat schließlich in letzter Zeit viele Adelungen erhalten: Die Cover-Version, die Levin von Iggy Pops „Nightclubbing“ eingespielt hatte, drang bis zum Meister selbst durch und dieser spielte sie prompt in seiner BBC-Radioshow. Neulich meldete sich dann Trentemøller, um den Song „1989“ auf einer von ihm herausgegebenen Compilation verwenden zu dürfen. „Nackt“ trifft uns genau dort, wo wir in diesem Zeitalter des virtuellen Versinkens am verletzlichsten sind, bei der realen Nähe, bei der es kein digitales Verzerren, kein Beschönigen gibt. Levin entledigt sich dabei selbst seines Schutzpanzers, kann sich nicht mehr hinter englischen Texten verstecken. Greifbar oder gar konkret wird dadurch aber nichts: Levin Goes Lightly bleibt eine androgyne Erscheinung zwischen der faszinierenden Kälte eines Ziggy Stardust und der tro?stenden Intimität eines Crooners vergangener Zeiten.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    26.04.2019
    EAN
    EAN 4015698025736
     
  • 01. Liebhaber
    02. Sieh mich an
    03. Romantik
    04. Earrings
    05. Geschichten
    06. Flirren
    07. All Cats Are Beautiful
    08. Drama
    09. Knowing Me, Knowing You
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    LEVIN GOES LIGHTLY

    Rot

    Sehnsucht nach Berührung, Ekstase, Nähe, Lärm. Musikalisch ist das mehr als zwei Jahre nach dem Vorgänger „Nackt“ erscheinende Album „Rot“ von Levin Goes Lightly epischer und filigraner zugleich. Levin wollte endlich weg vom Ein-Mann-Band-Image, und träumte vor allem während der Isolation der Corona-Zeit – ohne Auftritte und gemeinsamen Proben – von lauter treibender Live-Musik mit epischen, großen Momenten, lauten Gitarren, echten Drums, tieferen Bässen. Kollektiv als Band wurde kontinuierlich mit Thomas Zehnle und Paul Schwarz, soweit es pandemie-bedingt möglich war, an den Songs gearbeitet.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    05.11.2021
    EAN
    EAN 4015698025736
     
  • 01. Child Of Love
    02. Don't Forget To Breathe
    03. Festival Sun
    04. The Golden Sea

    LIKE ELEPHANTS

    Home

    Die Band spielt verträumten Indie-Pop, welcher durch ein großzügiges Hallmeer im Sound an Dream Pop Produktionen der letzten Jahre und New Wave/Post-Punk a la New Order erinnert. Lebensbejahende Songs geben dunklen, melancholischen Stücken stimmig die Klinke in die Hand. Limitiert auf 300 Kopien.
    Format
    7" lim
    Release-Datum
    08.05.2015
    EAN
    EAN 9006472027706
     
  • 01. Parasympathikus
    02. Hear The Summer
    03. Mesmerize
    04. Funeral
    05. Red Socks Penguin
    06. One Of Us
    07. Forest
    08. Daydream
    09. Run Away
    10. Follow Me
    11. Wake Up

    LIKE ELEPHANTS

    Oneironaut

    Nach der im Vorjahr erschienenen EP „Home“, veröffentlichen Like Elephants nun ihr erstes Album mit dem Titel „Oneironaut“. Von den synthetischen Klängen des Intros „Parasympathikus“ geleitet, taucht man behutsam ein ins Ungewisse. Die Lider werden schwer, der Traum beginnt. Verhallte Gesangs- und Gitarrenmelodien, umhüllt von wärmenden Synthesizer-Harmonien und einem richtungsweisenden Bass, zeichnen in Symbiose mit einem gnadenlos vorantreibenden Schlagzeug eine Atmosphäre, die neben ihrer Farbenpracht vor allem durch ihre Ambivalenz glänzt. Man durchwandert helle, sonnendurchflutete Wiesen und Felder, um sich einige Augenblicke später in einem dunklen Tal mit den Schatten seines Daseins konfrontiert zu sehen. Ungefähr zur Hälfte des Albums spricht das Lied „Forest“ von einer hektischen, urbanisierten Umgebung. Verwirrt geistert man durch die einschüchternde Kulisse einer bedrohlichen Großstadt, auf der Suche nach dem Wald als Lebensraum, wie man ihn mittlerweile nur noch durch ein trübes Bild in seiner Erinnerung kennt. „We are living in the forest of the ghost“ – Manchen Geistern müssen wir uns erst im Traum stellen. Die einzelnen Titel spielen mit der Phantasie der Zuhörer und erzeugen ein Wechselbad aus melancholischen, euphorisierenden und berauschenden Fragmenten, die stets dazu verleiten das erlebt geglaubte zu überdenken. Kein Traum ist in Stein gemeißelt. Alles kann sich jeden Moment wenden, alles fließt. Das Charakteristische an einem Oneironaut ist, dass er sich seines Träumens bewusst ist und aktiv in das Erlebte eingreifen kann. Er steuert die Eindrücke in die von ihm gewünschte Richtung. Lebensfreude und Melancholie, beides ist nur einen Gedankensprung entfernt. Am Ende wacht man auf, verlässt die Traumwelt und findet sich in der Realität wieder. Doch die nächste Reise kommt bestimmt. Auflage 300 Stück
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    07.04.2016
     
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    LITTLE GOLD

    On the knife

    Neues von Meneguar, natürlich nicht komplett. Christian DeRoeck hat eine neue Band Little Gold und via Adiago 830 wird das erste Album veröffentlicht.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    03.10.2009
     
  • 01. Soundhead
    02. Straight To Your Heart
    03. Forever
    04. Heaven's End
    05. Too Real To Feel
    06. Fix To Fall
    07. Head On
    08. Carry Me
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    LOOP

    Heaven's End

    [engl] Heaven's End is the debut album.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    30.10.2017
    EAN
    EAN 5021289400317
     
  • 01. Soundhead
    02. Straight To Your Heart
    03. Rocket USA
    04. Pulse
    05. This Is Where You End
    06. Collision
    07. From Centre To Wave
    08. Afterglow
    09. Sunburst
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    LOOP

    Wolf Flow - The John Peel Sessions (1987-90)

    [engl] All three LOOP John Peel sessions collated on one vinyl album from 1987 – 1990, these are some of the best recordings by LOOP. Remastered by Kevin Metcalf when the CDs were reissued in 2008, REACTOR has decided to reissue the famed WOLFFLOW 2LP for RSD 2017. In a new / updated sleeve, with new printed innerbags. Wolf Flow captures LOOP in their ascendency in the the late 90s, featuring tracks from all three of their albums, a cover of Rocket USA and the track Sunburst (b-side of Arc Lite)…theres a 10 minute version of Straight To Your Heart! Essential!! Recorded live at MAIDA VALE STUDIOS.
    Format
    DoLP
    Release-Datum
    30.10.2017
    EAN
    EAN 5021289400317
     
  • 01. My Favourite Part Of You
    02. Boxing Clever
    03. An Ordinary Street
    04. I Picked A Flower In Ispahan
    05. Le Voyageur
    06. Sweet Dollar Bill
    07. Wonderfull
    08. Wichi Tai To
    09. Delta Kiss
    10. L'Hiver Te Va Bien
    11. I Can't Own Her
    12. An Ordinary Girl
    13. Wild-eyed And Dishevelled
    14. Lights Were Dancing On The Ceiling
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    LOUIS PHILIPPE

    Sean O'Hagan Presents: The Sunshine World Of Louis Philippe

    [engl] Louis Philippe is living the big dream: He's a famous football journalist AND a pop star. He writes, arranges, sings and plays the most elegant pop songs on our side of the Atlantic, he released on the legendary label él Records and his influence on the great Japanese Shibuya sound cannot be underestimated. So we are very pleased to present a long overdue compilation of some of the greatest Louis Philippe songs from the years 1994- 2007. Many of these songs are from albums that have been out of print for a long time, and some of them are being released on vinyl for the first time The album was expertly compiled by Louis Philippe's friend and sometime musical partner Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas), who also wrote the liner notes. In them O'Hagan writes and recommends: „Lose yourself in this record and let me warn you. You ?ll be humming the tunes and reliving the chorus ?s and key changes for an age, and if you ?re a songwriter you will probably be lifting the melodies without realising is. That ?s the sign of a timeless classic.“ Anyone who knows the works of Louis Philippe will immediately agree with O'Hagan. Those who do not yet know Louis Philippe will agree with O'Hagan at the latest after listening to this album for the first time. They say that when Smokey Robinson sings, you hear violins. And when the great Louis Philippe sings, the sun rises, even on 21 December at midnight.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    11.11.2022
    EAN
    EAN 4015698790979
     
  • 01. The Sound Of The Streets
    02. Stop!
    03. When The Lights Went Out
    04. Lions
    05. Sit Me Down Woman Blues
    06. The Gypsy's Daughter
    07. Your Money Or Your Life
    08. House Of Cards
    09. Pound For Pound
    10. Not For The Fainthearted
    11. Red Letter Day
    12. Sunshine
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    LOVEDAYS, THE

    The Key To The Trapdoor

    [engl] Back in the heady days of 2007, long before social media was the reigning king of entertainment, when people still picked going out to live shows over streaming movies, there was a band that made a little blip on the heart monitor of the Medway music scene before disappearing almost as quick. The Lovedays were a British pop band, in the retro meaning of the word "Pop". With influences ranging from Brian Wilson and The Who, to Steve Winwood and Roy Wood, The Lovedays aspired to be part of the next generation of classic pop purveyors. Their eponymous debut received 5-star notices as far afield as the US, with only self-distribution and promotion, along with noted appearances at The Cavern Club in Liverpool and Kennys Castaways in New York in 2009. They took hiatus in 2010, for pastures new. Ben Jones, the frontman and leader of the band, moved to Austin, TX, where he is part of the roots duo, Beat Root Revival.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    19.02.2021
     
  • 01. Intro
    02. J'ai un problème avec les détails
    03. Sexe de brume
    04. Inutile
    05. La péniche secrète
    06. Crise d'angoisse à la foire aux synthés
    07. Le garçon froid
    08. Berçeuse de Michel
    09. Allô Papa
    10. Boule de seum
    11. La Gosse Bizarre
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    MARIE KLOCK

    Marie Klock

    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    08.05.2020
     
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    MARIETTA

    Basement dreams are the bedroom cream

    [engl] Marietta is the new project of Guillaume Marietta after The Feeling Of Love.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    19.05.2015
    EAN
    EAN 3521381532050
    Format
    CD
    Release-Datum
    19.05.2015
    EAN
    EAN 3521383432044
     
  • 01. La Carte
    02. Nos Ventre Nus
    03. La Grande Ville Malade
    04. L'électricité
    06. La Boucle Du Vent
    07. L'insecte Dans Ma Bouche
    08. Livide Est La Nuit
    09. La Passagère
    10. Maud La Nuit
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    MARIETTA

    La passagère

    [engl] Sophomore album by Marietta, La Passagère follows Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream (Born Bad Records, 2015), which was lauded by French daily newspaper Liberation, magazines Les Inrockuptibles, Magic, New Noise and online magazine Noisey. After touring with his band for two years and playing well-received concerts at Villette Sonique, Rock en Seine, Levitation Festival, Musiques Volantes, Bars en Trans, laureate of leading French development prize Fair 2017 Guillaume Marietta has come back with nine songs written in French for the first time. The album was recorded in Los Angeles by Chris Cohen, singer-songwriter and producer extraordinaire, with two albums signed on Captured Tracks and past member of Deerhoof and The Curtains. Mixed by Kenneth Gilmore, permanent member of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, who counts in his mixing catalogue Front Row Seat To Earth by Weyes Blood and My Dreams Dictate My Reality by SOKO. A carnal, sensual, hallucinating and melancholic record, fed by representations of the woman, the modern city, self-abandon, paranoia and redemption. La Passagère is inhabited by the ghosts of Syd Barret and Lou Reed, and nods to contemporary productions by Kurt Vile, Cate Lebon, Tim Presley, Kevin Morby, and of course Chris Cohen.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    25.08.2017
    EAN
    EAN 3521381544435
    Format
    CD
    Release-Datum
    25.08.2017
    EAN
    EAN 3521383444429
     
  • 01. Aluminium
    02. Ether Ok
    03. Hump Bump Dump Jumpin
    04. Ellie Jane #2
    05. Dmpa
    06. Hey Void
    07. Prazepam Street
    08. The Jordan's Rules
    09. Pajo
    10. Cablé Au Plastique
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    MARIETTA

    Prazepam St.

    [engl] In 20 or 30 years, we’ll talk about Guillaume Marietta the same way we talk about Arthur Russell or Robert Johnson today – people ignored by their contemporaries and rediscovered later in prestigious anthologies or picaresque documentaries. Future being rather incertain these days, it would maybe be better if you didn’t lose any time and enjoy Marietta right away. Sure, it won’t be easy to map Marietta’s journey – one of the key players of the GrandeTriple Alliance De l’Est, an anarchic scene which exploded between Metz and Strasbourg in the early 2000s, fronting bands such as A.H. Kraken, Plastobe?ton and The Feeling Of Love. In 2015 he released his first solo album, Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream, an amazing collection of 4-track twisted lullabies who got him comparisons with Syd Barrett and John Frusciante. Then comes his second LP and suddenly you lose the track – footprints have been covered – no more of that sweet demo sounding folky weirdness : La Passage?re is recorded in Los Angeles with Chris Cohen and it’s a lush and mesmerizing record, like Berlin with windows wide open or a sun-drenched The Idiot. A record that gives Marietta’s music new layers of depth and complexity – even if he loses part of his audience in the process. Following this would be tough – and hazardous No studio sessions in LA, no 4-track demos, Prazepam St. has been recorded with cracked computer music software. Richer and fuller than the two previous records, this new LP is also, paradoxically, unbashed and easier to grasp. “I wanted to have fun,” says Marietta. Build a dark and bright world with my little hands and raw material, like David Lynch when he did Eraserhead “- one of the main keys to the album. It is also, more involuntarily a synthesis – there’s the raw side of the first album, that more flamboyant and ambitious of the second, but also small pieces of AH Kraken, Feeling Of Love and even Funk Police. Marietta went back to some of his teenage years fovorite records – Sonic Youth, Beck, Nirvana, the Beastie Boys, but also Jim O’Rourke or David Pajo – “Pajo” is a nod to te guitarist from Slint whose solo project Papa M is a mainstay on Guillaume’s record collection. Prazepam St. is also a dark and twisted record, as its title shows – a reference to an anxiolitic used for severe depression. “I have often tried to speak in my lyrics of the way the human mind works, of our contradictions, of our inner darkness, explains Marietta. And this time I wanted to bring the lexical field of drugs into my texts. Our body and mind are shaped by these substances that we use and abuse and I wanted to play with that. It’s a chemical album. » Proof made with « Dmpa », a molecule used as a chemical castrator on American sex offenders, transformed here into a battered folk song crushed by samples, rhythm machines and breaks from outer space. Or « Aluminum”, a solid and shiny but highly harmful element, like the incandescent ride full of rumbling synths, which opens the album – not an innocent choice: “Aluminum fairly well reflects our ability to accept all the things that we are presented with as being necessary for our daily life, concludes Marietta. Despite the experience, we always do the opposite of what is good for us. ” Like ignoring Marietta records, for exemple. Awaiting for 20 or 30 years to praise them. But you know what? He’s here. Right now. Enjoy.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    19.06.2020
    EAN
    EAN 3521381560466
    Format
    CD
    Release-Datum
    15.07.2020
    EAN
    EAN 3521383460450
     
  • 01. Snail
    02. Free Field
    03. Trap
    04. Flaw
    05. I Have Ideas, Too
    06. No, No, No
    07. Void
    08. Seance
    09. Clowns
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    MELLIE

    I have ideas, too

    [engl] Mellie’s first EP „Have Head“, released in spring 2020, was a small manifesto of brooding. While the urban zeitgeist wants to shake this off once and for all in order to just get things done and be even more productive, Mellie explicitly appreciates the permanent thinking-things-through. The whole thing comes with a melancholic, opaque sound which is shaped by sometimes discordant, often catchy guitar riffs and repetitive, almost paralyzing basslines. The trio‘s sound is anything but forced or exhausting, on the contrary: Mellie’s music is in many places subtle, in the very best sense of the word, sometimes even shy. Krautrock-like, repetitive passages bring a reduced version of early Stereolab to mind. „First Fridge“ calls up memories of Sonic Youth’s brighter and poppier songs.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    20.12.2022
     
  • 01. Black Magic For Hidden Souls
    02. Altar
    03. The Blacktop
    04. Not To Spill Blood, That Is The Law!
    05. Headhunters Grand Parade
    06. The Unnamable
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    MESA OF THE LOST WOMEN

    Les Tables Noires

    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    28.02.2020
     
  • 01. FNWO
    02. Regular Houdini
    03. Float
    04. Quest
    05. Chant
    06. Form
    07. Deep
    08. Chemtrails
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    MIGHTY ZAZUUM

    Into the Unknown

    [engl] Long-awaited debut album from progressive and psychedelic rock band from Pula, Croatia, offers a berserk kick start into their world of music. Influenced by Kyuss, The Mars Volta and Tool.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    02.02.2016
    EAN
    EAN 8606102083778
     
  • 01. Tu E Leu
    02. I A De Sers
    03. Me Demandes Pas
    04. Lo Baranguet
    05. La Targa
    06. Palunaia
    07. Les Colonies
    08. Lei Filairas
    09. De Bon Matin
    10. Magali
    11. Retorn
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    MIQUELA

    I A Des Sers

    [engl] Weaving a fragile thread through collectible outsider genres such as acid folk, French jazz, Braziliana and world music it is virtually incomprehensible that this incredible one-off solo album by mononymous Occitan language singer, songwriter and activist Miquela has managed to evade notoriety and wider affection zover five decades. Captured via a humble makeshift studio set-up in a classroom in 1977, this startlingly crystalline recording is one of the best examples you are likely to hear, not shying from ambitious small string arrangements and intimate Gallic jazz infusions this LP represents the quiet storm erupting from the pride and protection of the ancient “romance” language known as Occitan, as spoken by less than 1.5 million people in Southern France (as well as parts of Italy and Spain). Naturally combining a wide range of influences, and fuelled by the same impassioned fervour found in privately pressed minority language records from Britanny, Catalonia and Wales, Miquela’s first and only solo record was recorded by request of poet Ives Roqueta for his exclusively Occitan language label Ventadorn. Including players from Miquela’s surrounding area of Toulon the album also enlisted arrangements from important musicians such as co-author Jean-Michel Mariou, jazz contrabass player Didier Capeille (later affiliate of Marseilles’ Etron Fou Leloublan), and guitarist Gilles Cardon, who would regularly play for Britanny based label Nevenoe (knotting the ties between both French language rehabilitation movements). Released and well-received by a supportive and emotional Occitan fan base, this would be Miquela’s only ever solo LP (preceded by a 7? picture sleeve EP, drawing similarities to Welsh label Sain) and laid the foundations for future releases with her folk rock girl group Lei Chapacans (The Vagabonds) which led to tours as far as Sardinia, Yemen and Moscow. As a vital forerunner of a maligned genre of Occitan femme-folk singers such as Estela, Nicòla, Jacmelina, Rosina De Peira E Martina and Claudia Galibert, this LP marks the start of a journey that would eventually find its beloved protagonist at the heart of the galvanised Occitan language media.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    01.12.2019
    EAN
    EAN 5060099507298
     
  • 01. Au jardin
    02. Siau pas poeta
    03. Play
    04. Seek
    05. Tu e leu
    06. A cantar
    07. Dizco rural
    08. Basta (Naima)
    09. La pub
    10. Tais-toi
    11. Dialogue
    12. Airplane
    13. Leberon
    14. Me demandes pa
    15. A la guerra
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    MIQUELA E LEI CHAPACANS

    s/t

    [engl] The first progressive girl group of the French Occitan language pop scene bring you folk funk, sun-baked bossa, Coltrane jazz and their own brand of punky Dizco rural against an untouched French Balearic backdrop spanning the late 70s and 80s. If even the most assiduous of European record collectors consider the Occitan language music scene to be France’s best-kept secret then it’s as fair to say that the incredible multifaceted recordings of langue d’oc prog girl group Lei Chapacans has spent the last four decades hiding in plain sight. In all fairness this overlooked treasure chest of minority language excursions into folk funk, Balearic, bossa, John Coltrane penned jazz, baroque psych, Palestinian poetry, comedic synth skits (and even the rawest form of femme-fronted multiingual punky disco) has been stowed away in inconspicuous photographic record sleeves, falsely evoking something closer to contemporary C&W while oft-misplaced in record shop cassette racks alongside “traditional” spoken-word and scholastic albums. So for the uninitiated, don’t be too hard on yourself. The fun starts here. For those who are familiar with the rare and sought-after one-off solo album by Occitan singer Miquela and have craved for more, then you’ve come to exactly the right place. Lei Chapacans (a name that roughly translates to The Vagabonds) is the all-girl vocal group assembled by Miquela herself just two years after her debut release, having toured the word and snubbed major label record deal offers with a steadfast allegiance to the protection of the Occitan language in which this album is primarily penned and performed (minus a small amount of German and sarcastic English in one rebellious instance). For European collectors with a penchant for French savoir faire, but have further yearnings for folkloric femme funk, then it’s time to look towards the Occitan sunset where you will meet Lolo, Miquela, Sophie, Irena and Denise. These amazing, and undeniably culturally important recordings might have taken some time to find a wider audience, but for music lovers, crate diggers and vinyl vultures alike there are still a lot of tasty morsels out there to be scavenged and devoured, ask any self-respecting Chapacan and they’ll concur wholeheartedly.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    14.10.2022
    EAN
    EAN 060099507830
     
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    MITOTE

    Starter

    Turbostaat beim Feind, Muff Potter langweilig geworden, da hilft diese Platte. Wikrlich guter deutschsprachiger Punk für all die Fans von Kettcar, .. But Alive oder dem was die ersten beiden in ihrer Jugend verbrochen haben. Dicker, edelster Karton im Krokoleder-Style mit dreifarbigen Siebdruck; jeder Platte liegt die CD bei! 16 Songsin 50 Minuten!
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    29.11.2007
     
  • 01. Occupants
    02. Niki
    03. Driving
    04. The Sun
    05. Fourth Stage
    06. The Horizon
    07. Starting Point
    08. Standing Still
    09. In The Rain
    10. Glass Harmonica
    11. Clearer Path to Hutton Street
    12. Disco Hotel
    13. Changing Lights
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    MODAL MELODIES

    s/t

    [engl] Thirteen perfectly balanced, keyboard saturated songs 7lutter like 7lags threaded on a string: a collection of 7leeting thoughts stirred by the winds of Eighties pop. Riffs soar, the drum machine gallops and vocals are as carefully blended as a mango smoothie on a white-sky day. Modal Melodies is the duo made up of Violetta Del Conte-Race (Primo! / The Glass Picture) & Jake Robertson (Alien Nosejob, etc.) The group stemmed from a loose chat at Geelong’s Jerkfest in early 2021, where they made plans to help each other complete some un7inished demos. After emailing ideas back and forth through lockdown, they were soon able to be in the same room together to structure their quickly blossoming songs. Vio added vocals from home and Jake mixed them into their sessions. Six to eight months after making their 7irst arrangements, Modal Melodies had matured into this debut record. There’s something about a duo - something intimate and serious: it requires full trust and an act of balance. These are people who have listened to so much music they know how to make tunes in a way that seems intuitive. Karen Marks, Saada Bonaire and Lena Platonos have been mentioned as influences, but it seems like the biggest inspiration to cite came from each other. There’s an untamed instinct for melody, and layers like clouds, slowly rolling in. Drenched with colours and understated tension in parts, coupled with reckless joy, this album speaks to this moment.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    13.05.2022
    Format
    LPcol
    Release-Datum
    13.05.2022
     
  • 01. Love Zombies
    02. Adeste Fideles
    03. 405 Lines
    04. B-I-D Spells Bid
    05. R.S.V.P.
    06. Apocalypso
    07. Karma Suture
    08. The Man With The Black Moustache
    09. The Weird, Wild And Wonderful World Of Tony Potts
    10. "In Love, Cancer?"
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    MONOCHROME SET

    Love Zombies

    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    03.04.2020
    EAN
    EAN 4015698013795
     
  • 01. Iceman
    02. Fantasy Creatures
    03. Avenue
    04. Oh, You're Such A Star
    05. Ran Check
    06. When I Get To Hollywood
    07. The Z Train
    08. The Scream
    09. In A Little Village
    10. Spaces Everywhere
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    MONOCHROME SET

    Spaces Everywhere

    [engl] "On one hand, the music is very melodic and cheerful. The lyrics, however, deal with death, decay, change ... no wonder we are rather popular with the undead," says singer, guitarist and songwriter Bid of the new THE MONOCHROME SET album "Spaces Everywhere". A very particular humor. And a very unique sound: Although this time banjos, Hammond organ, female backing vocals and even flutes can be heard on the new album, experts and laymen alike will recognize: This is THE MONOCHROME SET. Undistorted, nervous guitars, like the soundtrack to a Nouvelle Vague film ... but one featuring Michael Caine, Louis de Funès and Belmondo (directed by Andy Warhol).
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    13.03.2015
    EAN
    EAN 4047179995115
     
  • 01. The Monochrome Set (I Presume)
    02. The Lighter Side of Dating
    03. Expresso
    04. The Puerto Rican Fence Climber
    05. Tomorrow Will Be Too Long
    06. Martians Go Home
    07. Love Goes Down the Drain
    08. Ici Les Enfants
    09. The Etcetera Stroll
    10. Goodbye Joe
    11. The Strange Boutique
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    MONOCHROME SET

    Strange Boutique

    [engl] Released in February 1980, their first album "Strange Boutique" – featuring the band's percussion-heavy theme song (predating Adam & The Ants' "Kings of the Wild Frontier" by months) and the Johnny Marr-anticipating "Love Goes Down the Drain" – caught The Monochrome Set in full flight, quickly followed by the equally taut, funny and adventurously dynamic "Love Zombies".
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    03.04.2020
    EAN
    EAN 4015698013764