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Second Monaco album to be released on Monday
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The second album from Monaco, simply called "Monaco", arrived to the office today. It contains ten New Order-ish pop songs in the dance rock vein. The release date is set to Monday, September 4 and the tune "I've Got a Feeling" is currently spinning on radio stations.
The duo is hoping for a hit of the same calibre as their classic "What Do You Want from Me".
- We spent half our
time trying to write another "What Do You Want from Me", Peter Hook explains. And then the other half trying to avoid writing another "What Do You Want from Me". In the end we decided to step back and just write what comes naturally - and "Monaco" is the result.
Monaco was formed by New Order's Peter Hook together with tape operator David Potts in 1990.
The debut album "Music for Pleasure" went gold in the UK and sold several hundred copies in USA.
- What a laugh, says Peter Hook. I've been doing this for nearly 25 years. I still can't tune a guitar to save my life and look at me! Car, motorbike, wife, kids, new record. I still think someone's going to come round and say, hey you, you're having too much of a good time. It's got to stop.
/Mikael Kahrle
Industrial legends Coil and Foetus co-headline London show
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On September 19, Coil and Foetus will perform a mutual show at the prestigious
and enormous
Royal Festival Hall on London's South bank complex. The overall
title for the event is "Persistence Is All". This could very well be a once in a lifetime event.
Coil have hardly played live at all throughout their entire carrier, and have
promised to deliver a faster, harder and darker show than their recent couple
of more hypnotic, ambient performances. Foetus on the other hand, plan to perform songs from the upcoming album “Flow”, as well as some old tracks
never played live before. See you in the front row...
A limited edition Coil album, in a pink clamshell, is being recorded and
will be released to coincide with the concert. It's called "Constant Shallowness
Leads to Evil". In marked contrast to the recent "Time Machines" piece, this
outing will be more extreme, more musical and more vocal.
/Kristoffer
Noheden, Erik Almgren
Original And One member launches industrial band
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Ex-member and co-founder of And One, Chris Ruiz (in the back of the picture), now reports back after many years in
the silent. His new project is called Crushing State. He left And One after the first records, "Anguish", "Flop" and "Monotonie EP". He has brought two other persons on board in Crushing State: Daniel Nowak (ex-drummer of Blind Passengers) and a musician called Sley.
Crushing State sounds unusually independent and leans strongly towards American industrial acts like NIN, Ministry and Korn. The album "Skalka" is completed and contains ten varied tracks.
/Jens Krause
Darkness and aggression on Red Snapper's new album
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Red Snapper, the Warp Records signed jazz-dance fusion-ists, will release
their new album "Our Aim Is to Satisfy Red Snapper" on October 9.
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it's deeper in a really soulful way, explains programmer Richard Thair. We've had a lot of bad luck over the last couple of years, so there's a lot
more passion and soul in this one. It's funkier; the darkness and
aggression has come out naturally.
Red Snapper first garnered acclaim with the release of their debut single
"Hot Flush" in 1995. Backed up with the guitar landslide of "Wesley Don't
Surf", both became anthems at the club Heavenly Social, before criticism arrived with
the band's second album, "Prince Blimey".
/Erik Almgren
Single maniac Moby releases duet with Kelis
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The Moby single "Honey", originally featured on his platinum selling
album "Play", has been re-recorded as a duet with R&B superstar Kelis. It will be released on October 9 (Mute) in the endless row of "Play" singles. /Erik Almgren
Blind Passengers book in connection with new album
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The guys in the German electro band Blind Passengers are currently working hard in their studio with new songs for a forthcoming album. Eight pieces are completed and the first taste of the new material will be in the form of a single in the Spring of 2001. Shortly thereafter, the new album will arrive. This concept album will first show up in a limited edition together with a book written by mastermind Nik Page. /Jens Krause
Skinny Puppy reunion gig a great success
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I'm back from my trip to Germany and The Czech Republic and here's the first News edition. Expect lots of updates in the coming days in our News, On Record, On Stage, Message, Spotlight and Competition depts. I visited, among lots of things, Expo 2000, Berlin and Prague clubs and the Doomsday Festival in Dresden.
Skinny Puppy's famous reunion concert at the end of Doomsday turned out to be a great success. An impressively large crowd with visitors from all over the world watched a drumming Cevin Key a
theatrical Nivek Ogre do a classic Puppy show with pyrotechnics, a puppet, blood, screens and an extravagant lightshow. Hits like "Smothered Hope", "Choke", "Worlock" and "Testure" were lined up in versions close to the original ones.
Stand by for a Doomsday report and more News on the future plans of Skinny Puppy.
/Mikael Kahrle
Primal Scream and David Holmes to score movie about Charles Manson
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Primal Scream and David Holmes are being considered to write the score for
"The Family", a film about the infamous Charles Manson and his followers.
Holmes, who was one of the first musicians to be approached about the film,
contacted The Scream's Andrew Innes for a possible collaboration.
Meanwhile, Primal Scream issue the single "Accelerator" - the final release
on Creation Records - on September 11.
/Erik Almgren
New NIN remix album and live video in October
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The official Nine Inch Nails website has announced that the forthcoming
remix album "Things Falling Apart" is scheduled for an October 10 release.
The record contains ten tracks of unreleased material and new remixes by
Adrian Sherwood, Dave Ogilvie, Charlie Clouser, Keith Hillebrandt, Danny
Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv, Trent Reznor/Alan Moulder and more.
It was also announced that NIN is
currently at Nothing Studios, New Orleans, working on audio mixing and
video editing for the November live DVD/VHS of the "Fragility v2.0 Tour".
/Erik Almgren
Melotron to headline important Depeche Mode event
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The electro-freaks Melotron will publish a new EP in the middle of September. They will also headline the Hamburg Depeche Mode "Party for the Masses" on September 30. This is one of the world's largest Depeche Mode events and takes place twice a year in Hamburg's Markthalle. It's not only an important party for German Depeche Mode fans, but for fans from all over Europe. /Jens Krause
U2 single and album now set for late October
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U2's new album will be called "All That You Can't Leave Behind" and is to
be released in late October. The eleven-track follow-up to 1997's "Pop" album
was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and will be preceded by the new
single "Beautiful Day" on October 9, which has also been reworked into a
house tune by DJ Paul Oakenfold.
The single will feature two brand new U2 extra tracks in the form of "Summer Rain" and
"Always", as well as live versions of "Discotheque" and "If You Wear That
Velvet Dress". Both the latter are taken from "Pop" and were recorded live in
Mexico City.
/Erik Almgren