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The Human League "Dare" to tour more Sep 13 2007 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Human League are adding new dates to the latest row of "Dare" gigs, where they play the classic synthpop album in full. Today a Stockholm concert was revealed (at Berns, on December 20) and their long list of dates in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Denmark fill up the last part of November up until Christmas. The last time The Human League visited Sweden (picture), they performed a short singback performance without any instruments on stage even though they had done full live shows elsewhere recently. - I expect them to play live. Anything else wouldn't be such a good idea, press manager Kristina Börjeson from organiser EMA Telstar tells Release. Album in the works for Rex the Dog Sep 13 2007 | By: Tobias Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Meyer's Destroid unveil their "Loudspeaker" Sep 13 2007 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon, USA)
Still no new albums from S'Apex or Dots&Dashes. No releases appear to be planned for these projects either: Myer, Hexer, Aktivist. It's all 4/4 all the time. Rejoice clubgoers. In further Haujobb news, the much-anticipated new album has now been given the name "Broken Heart Robot" although no release date has been set for it. 2008 also is slated to be the year the band cease activities. Robert Smith anyone?
Classic John Foxx album re-released Sep 11 2007 | By: Tobias Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
“Metamatic” was the first solo album from John Foxx after he quit Ultravox, which he started in 1975. It came out in 1980 and was one of the first albums that legendary producer Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Einstürzende Neubauten etc) worked on. New Birthday Massacre produced by Dave Ogilvie Sep 11 2007 | By: Peter Marchione (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Toronto based eighties-retro-disco-goths return with the brand new album “Walking with Strangers” on September 21. This new release was produced by well-known Dave “Rave” Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, NIN, Marilyn Manson) and the band is currently on an extensive tour. A Spotlight feature will be presented here at Release Magazine in connection to the album release.
Slagsmålsklubben headline Rookie Festival Sep 10 2007 | By: Tobias Eliasson and Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Since a couple of years back the people behind the Swedish Hultsfred Festival organizes a small indoor festival every autumn; Rookie. As you can tell by the name, it’s mainly aimed at giving smaller bands a chance to show what they have got. Every year the festival is headlined by some major bands. This year Slagsmålsklubben is one of these bands, together with Sahara Hotnights, Dia Psalma and Neverstore. The venue is Rock City in Hultsfred and the date is October 26-27. The EMI band is currently touring Sweden and will also visit Spain (Barcelona, September 15) and Denmark (Aarhus, November 3). ESA astronaut appears on Adolphson & Falk single Sep 6 2007 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Swedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who visited ISS last year, is featured on new Adolphson & Falk acoustic single "Tyngdlös" (weightless). He talks about the experience of being weightless. ESA has approved his participation and his revenue is channeled to research. The song is originally from future-themed synthpop album "Över tid och rum" from 1984. The 3-track single is out in digital (weightless...) form and will be released in physical form on Monday the 10th. Robert Smith, Peter Hook and Frank Black set to judge International Songwriting Competition Sep 3 2007 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK) The International Songwriting Competition has finalised its judges for the panel for 2007, and as the headline states, Robert Smith (The Cure), Peter Hook (New Order) and Frank Black (The Pixies) are among a plethora of high profile names who will act as the panel of judges. The competition, known as the ISC, is one of the largest songwriting competitions in the world - giving away over $150 000 in cash and prizes. Its major attractive point though has to be the quality of its judges, offering entrants the possibility to not just recieve valuable media and industry exposure, but the chance to be heard by some of the biggest names in the industry, including some heroes of ours over here at Release. The competition is open to everyone from amateur to professional musicians, artists and songwriters, in a range of different categories, but be warned - if you are interested in actively participating, the deadline is imminent - so check the website www.songwritingcompetition.com for details of submission forthwith! Underworld release first new studio album in five years Sep 1 2007 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK)
"Oblivion with Bells"', the first studio album from Underworld in five years, is set to be released through Side One Recordings on October 16. Fans of the band, as well as Release readers, will already know that this period hasn't been one of inactivity. Their work during the last five years has included two film scores and a series of groundbreaking digital-only releases, among many other fascinating projects. This though, is their fifth actual studio release, and will not only act as the follow-up to 2002's "A Hundred Days Off", but will also start off a period of intense live touring - starting on September 7 in San Francisco, continuing into the UK and Europe through October, before climaxing with three dates in Japan towards the end of November. For more information, as always head over to their official site www.underworldlive.com. Finally, the album is preceded by the first single "Crocodile" - which is available now. New Dismantled album coming up Sep 1 2007 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden)
Check out new songs here: http://www.myspace.com/dismantled. Gary says in his Livejournal that he's going to focus on his other projects for a while now, such as NNN (No.Not.Never) and Aerodrone. Side-Line down after hacker attack Sep 1 2007 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden) The website of our Belgian colleagues at Side-Line Magazine was down for two days after a vicious hacker attack on August 28. Editor-in-chief Bernard van Isacker says they had backups so fortunately no great damage was made, and the site came back to life on August 30.
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Rex the Dog has not only remixed bands like Depeche Mode, The Knife, Röyksopp and Client; he has released three singles on German label Kompakt. And now a fourth one, “Circulate” will be released on September 17, this time on French label Kitsuné Maison. An album is also in the works; he is aiming for a November release.
Daniel Myer's latest foray into dance music, Destroid, are due to release their new album "Loudspeaker" on October 26 via Scanner/Dark Dimensions. One of the new tracks by this project has been getting played on the "final" Haujobb tour and appeared to garner good audience response at the Portland show despite it being cued from a lap-top. 
The classic “Metamatic” album from John Foxx is out now, in a new double disc edition. The bonus disc contains all the B-sides from the singles, some extra tracks that only have been available on very hard-to-find records and also three unreleased tracks.
