News editors: Niklas Forsberg and Mikael Kahrle

The Mobile Homes to Subspace

The Mobile Homes, the 80's version.

• Swedish synth veterans The Mobile Homes have signed with Subspace Communications. The first release on their new label will be the single "Nostalgia" on February 5 next year, followed by the album "The World Will Listen" a month later on March 5.
Other Subspace news reveal the founding of a new sublabel called Zvezda, which will focus on more experimental and dance friendly music. Daggan Stamenkovic, former Frequent Frenzy and Beverage label manager, will run Zvezda. /Niklas Forsberg

More Foetus delays
• The new Foetus album "Flow" has once again been delayed, and is now expected to be released next spring. Meanwhile work has begun on the album's remix companion "Blow", with Kid 606, Franz Treichler of The Young Gods, DJ Food and Amon Tobin among the remixers. /Kristoffer Noheden

Primal Scream remix Finley Quaye
• Primal Scream have made a remix of singer Finley Quaye, to be featured on his new single that will be out on November 27. /Kristoffer Noheden

Arab Strap back on Chemikal Underground
• After having released their latest album "Elephant Shoe" on Universal sub-label Go! Beat, moody Scots Arab Strap are now back on Chemikal Underground. They are currently working on a new album, to be released early next year. /Kristoffer Noheden

Bartos back behind the synths

• Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos, whose last release, "Elektric Music", was guitar pop based, has returned to his electronic roots. His new single "15 Minutes of Fame" is melodic synthpop with that special Kraftwerkian sound. The Karl Bartos single is out now on Orbit. /Niklas Forsberg

New The Orb album on its way
• Ambient veterans The Orb release their sixth album, "Cydonia", on January 29 next year. The album will be preceded by a single featuring remixes by among others ex-KLF member Jimmy Cauty. /Kristoffer Noheden

Rare Sopor Aeternus material made available online
• The albums "Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh" and "Voyager - the Jugglers of Jusa" will be available as mp3 files on the official Sopor Aeternus website. Their new album "Songs from the Inverted Womb" is expected to hit the shelves on February 2 of 2001. /Niklas Forsberg

Green Court featuring De/Vision

• De/Vision vocalist Steffen has, together with Marc of the band Green Court, released a single by the name of "Shining" this past Monday. With a dance friendly, club oriented sound the collaboration is hoping for high chart entries.
The next De/Vision album is planned for a 2001 release and will be the first one as a duo, since Markus left the band earlier this year. /Niklas Forsberg

New Massive Attack song for limited time only
• Massive Attack made their new song "The Nature of the Threat" available on ten different sites on the net this past Wednesday. It will be available for a limited time only, so fans may want to put som effort into the search for it. We don't have the adresses to those pages though, but maybe a good start is their official site?
The new Massive Attack studio album will see daylight some time next year. /Niklas Forsberg

VNV Nation re-release

• The out-of print debut album by VNV Nation, "Advance & Follow", will be available in January of 2001 in a reworked edition. It is said it will be a limited item, so later fans of VNV Nation might want to get ready. "Advance & Follow" (above) originally saw daylight on Discordia back in 1995. Band member Ronan Harris says that this new version of the album will sound the way he initially wanted it to. Parts of it will be re-recorded and re-mixed. /Niklas Forsberg

Seabound new on Dependent
• Eskil Simonsson, Covenant frontman, may be the one to produce newcomers Seabound and their new single "Travelling", due out in February of next year on Dependent. Not only will they be the first new band on Dependent, but also the first German band in the label line-up. Eskil is rumoured to have expressed his praise for Seabound, saying that it's one of the best electronic bands he's heard in along time. /Niklas Forsberg

Recoil wins award

• Alan Wilder, sole member of Recoil, has won an award for his latest album, "Liquid", The Grand Prize 2000. The Charles Cros Academy, consisting of influential French press, tv and radio members, has cast its vote. An award ceremony will be held at the Masion de Radio in Paris on November 28. /Niklas Forsberg

Cetu Javu comeback
• We told you earlier about the reunion of Boytronic. It seems other bands in the same genre want to do the same. Cetu Javu, the Spanish-German synthpop band with hits like "Situations", Have in Mind" and "Dame tu Mano", are now working on new material again. They are still to decide if they will release the new stuff on their own or if they will contact other labels. They also have a new site up. /Niklas Forsberg

New Tabloid demo
• Stockholm based synthopop band Tabloid has released a new demo entitled "Naked/Unreal" and is currently looking for a record deal. The sound on their new demo is a bit more modern and significantly better than their previous one. More info on Tabloid here. /Niklas Forsberg

Depeche Mode approaching mixing phase

Photo by: Jonathan Kessler

• Depeche Mode and producer Mark Bell have now been joined by drummer Christian Eigner in the studio. He is reported to have participated in a few songs already. The band is hard at work on the new material, which will go into mixing phase on November 20.
The spirit is high and they hope for the new album, for which they have recorded eleven or twelve new songs, to be mixed before Christmas time. A rumour says that one of the songs is called "Sweetest Condition".
Anton Corbijn, who has worked with Depeche Mode visually for many years has also paid them a visit with his camera. /Niklas Forsberg

Ministry appear in "A.I." movie
• Surprisingly, sinister industrial rockers Ministry will make the soundtrack for Steven Spielberg's next film, "A.I.", as well as appearing in the actual movie. "A.I." was one of the projects director Stanley Kubrick was working on before his tragical demise, and Spielberg has now decided to pursue the film. /Kristoffer Noheden

Air work on new album
• French duo Air work on a new album, to be released next spring (Astralwerks). It will feature collaborations with both Beck and odd pop band Buffalo Daughter. /Kristoffer Noheden

New Bloodline signing
• Bloodline, the label that seems to release new material every week, has increased its line-up by yet another band. Re/Work is the name, a duo consisting of Ahmed Tan and Markus Schäfer. Their music is described as dark, electronic and club friendly with non-distorted vocals. /Niklas Forsberg

"Expo 2000" remix single
• Not only have Kraftwerk managed to release only one new song after an eternity. Now they will also release a remix EP with that very song. The "Expo 2000" remix EP will be out on November 13 in Germany, and among the remixers are Orbital to be found. /Kristoffer Noheden

Funker Vogt double CD in November

• German EBM giants Funker Vogt has a new double CD ready for release on November 27. Simply called "t", (above) it holds new material and remixes from their last album "Maschine Zeit". /Niklas Forsberg

Antiloop played for 60 000 in the Red Square
• Sweden's leading techno act, Antiloop, will release the single "Catch Me" later in November. It features rapper Timbuktu and the song is remastered (compared to the album version). In September Antiloop played at an Adidas festival in Moscow's Red Square in front of 60 000 people.
- It was really cool and we were the only foreign act. We also did some other stuff, like Russian MTV and Moscow is a fascinating city, Antiloop's Robin Söderman tells Release.
Antiloop also visited Estonia and Bulgaria that month.
- At the press conference in Sofia we were told we had sold half a million records and we had no idea. It's all about the blackmarket, Söderman says.
Antiloop has embarked on a Swedish DJ tour and plans to play several gigs in the UK as well, since they just signed a DJ managing deal there. They are also busy with remixes (Tom Jones), a forthcoming radio show on Swedish national radio, a video recording and promotion activities.
Antiloop started back in the mid-nineties. Even though their first single was named "Not Suitable for Mass Consumption", the success was almost immediate. Since then, they have released a long row of hit singles ("In My Mind", "Believe", "Only U", for example) and two albums. They have won a Swedish Grammy and several other rewards. /Mikael Kahrle

XPQ-21's "Belle Epoque" now released
• Bloodline band XPQ-21 has now released their second album "Belle Epoque", containing a mixture of techno, electro and crossover. A rumour also said that XPQ-21 was supposed to support Moby on tour, but an agreement couldn't be reached with the English management. /Niklas Forsberg

New Project Pitchfork album next year
• A brand new Project Pitchfork album will come out early next year, probably in February. More News on this as soon as we know more. The band will go on tour next year too, with goth newcomers Zeromancer as support. /Niklas Forsberg

Delayed Ravenous single

• The new Ravenous single, "Frozen Tears" (above), has no release date as of yet, because of a part in the title song where the band "borrows" a passage from a well-known musical. Until this issue is cleared, the single will remain unreleased.
In other Ravenous news, "Mass Mental Cruelty", the band's out-of-print debut album, will be reworked with bonus material for a release in early 2001. /Niklas Forsberg

Mesh leaves Memento Materia for German Orbit

• English trio Mesh (above) signed a deal with German label Orbit Records on October 5. This means that they will leave their old Swedish label Memento Materia and the German licensor SPR. The departure from Memento was on friendly terms as they recognized the band's belief in a future with a major company. Orbit is a big, successful label with artists such as Alice Deejay, The Tamperer, Mark'Oh and recently also Karl Bartos.
The first Mesh release on Orbit is a single on November 13 and it will be a collaboration with Mark'Oh, Claus Hagel and the London Session Orchestra. The single is a cover of Blancmange's "Waves" and will include a Mesh remix and a dance remix as well as an exclusive track called "You and Me", written by Mesh and Marko Albrecht (Mark'Oh).
The video for the single was recently shot on the island of Fuerteventura, one of the Gran Canaria Islands. As if this wasn't enough, the band's last album "The Point at Which it Falls Apart" will be released in the US through Metropolis on November 14. /Niklas Forsberg

Massive Attack collaborate with The Dandy Warhols and work on new album
• Massive Attack have relocated to Barbados to continue the work on their forthcoming album, scheduled for release next autumn. Massive Attack's 3D recently did a remix of A Perfect Circle's forthcoming single, "3 Libras".
The Dandy Warhols have also, surprisingly, collaborated with Massive Attack. This summer, the two bands recorded a track together, with the working title "House of Yes", to be included on some future Dandy Warhols release. /Kristoffer Noheden

Chrom takes a break
• German label Chrom, home of Deine Lakaien, Silence and Distain! etc, will not release anything until the band NIOWT delivers new material in February. The break will be used to reorganize the label. /Niklas Forsberg

Mute signs Looper
• Scottish band Looper has signed a deal with Mute. Looper is a quartet led by Stuart David, co-founder of Belle and Sebastian and Looper has released two albums prior to this record deal. Daniel Miller of Mute seems to be very pleased with the signing. Looper will go into the studio soon to record their first Mute album, due out next year. /Niklas Forsberg

Dark rock legends The Mission back on track
• The Mission's first real studio album in years is getting closer.
- It will hopefully be finished in February to be released in May with a single, probably 'Mesmerised' - to precede, Wayne Hussey tells Release.
However, it seems the reunited band is doing its best to stay out of the studio, considering they're still on their "Recon 2000" tour that started in April. So far, it stretches over 17 countries and 72 gigs. A live album from the tour - "Everafter" - was released on Trojan in August. Several gigs in Scandinavia, for example, remain. What can we expect from them?
- A little less hair (on Craig at any rate) and various shades of nail polish. Some new songs, some old, some very different songs and one or two surprises, Hussey says.
The Mission actually quit in 1996 with farewell gigs and all, but changed their mind last year and put together the "Resurrection" compilation for Eagle Records (Gary Numan, Deep Purple). Does Hussey enjoy playing as much as he used to?
- Probably more so. I'm a little more coherent these days and one other factor is that I never thought I'd get the chance to do this again so it's not something I take for granted. /Mikael Kahrle

All-star band with Alphaville singer
• The Alphaville vocalist, Marian Gold, is working on a new project with a few friends from other bands. The all-star band, called Sputnik Roadhouse, will consist of Marian, Klaus Schulze (former Tangerine Dream member) and Effjot Krueger (former Ideal member). The band's first offering will be a cover version of "Those Were the Days My Friend" and it will be included in a movie soundtrack. A movie in which the band itself will perform. /Niklas Forsberg