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Zeigeist release EP and call it a day February 13, 2009 | By: Mkael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Release favourites Zeigeist have called it a day. The band writes: "During the past years, we have put more and more love into Zeigeist, fed her like the Queen she have been. At the end of the day, she has demanded all love within us. We have our personal reasons to kill her." Zeigeist's brand new EP "Neverending Love" contains a Roxette cover, the song "Chasing Your Shadow Around the World" and a remix. French veterans Clair Obscur back at it again February 12, 2009 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon USA) March of this year will see a new album from France's preeminent avante-garde ensemble, Clair Obscur on Optical Sounds Records. "We Gave a Party for the Gods and the Gods all Came" is the first new work by the band since 1994's "Rock". Long regarded as one of the visionary lights of the French cold wave movement of the 1980:s, Clair Obscur's albums have veered all across the musical spectrum from monstrous experimentalism to full on orchestral tomes laden with a uniquely continental sense of despair. In the late 90:s, the band issued an album under the name CO2 which garnered minor notice from the European press but did not have the impact their earlier works easily summoned. A stranger bunch of musical oddballs would be neigh impossible to unearth. As to who is playing in this particular version of Clair Obscur, only two names have been proffered: founders Christophe Demarthe and Nicholas Demarthe. Ladytron help Christina Aguilera February 11, 2009 | By: Mkael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
British quartet Ladytron are currently helping superstar Christina Aquilera with her new album. - We've got a few songs for her. Right now we're still in the studio. One song is a cover of "My Delirium". It's all very interesting work, and new ground for all of us involved, the band says to Radio 1. Amorphous Androgynous remix Oasis February 9, 2009 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden) As you probably know, the lads in the Future Sound of London - Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans - have another project called Amorphous Androgynous. There, the electronic experimentation is replaced by guitar infused psychedelia. This project has a big fan in Noel Gallagher of Oasis fame, and he has now commissioned a remix for Oasis latest single "Falling Down". And the "psychadelic bubble" from Garry and Brian is around 22 minutes long! Should be interesting. Busy days ahead for Hymen records February 9, 2009 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon USA) Keef Baker's new album "Pen Fifteen" is out on February 24 and is preceded by the new record from Marching Dynamics entitled "The Worker's Party of Haiti" on February 13. Add to all of this the forthcoming double album from Hecq "Steeltongued" in April and it's going to be hard to pry ourselves away from our players. Release has covered Hecq for his "0000" double album; he also has done a complete remix album for Release favourites In Strict Confidence. For our readers unfamiliar with Keef Baker, it is the project of one lone Englishman Mr. Keith Baker and last was heard from on album with the superb "Redeye" in 2007. Keef's sound varies from late night escapism to twilight drone and is by turns very colourful and downright urban at points. Contrasting this, Marching Dynamics is generally an all out aural fusillade if their debut "Nailsleeper" is anything to go by. Disturbing in a vein not unfamiliar to label-mate Xanopticon, Marching Dynamics are nearly impossible to listen to casually. Elegant Machinery won Manifest award February 7, 2009 | By: Mkael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Swedish synthpoppers Elegant Machinery won the award for best "synt" album with their "A Soft Exchange" at the independent Swedish Manifest gala last night. The other nominees were Thermostatic - "Humanizer", Zeigeist - "Jade Motel" and Moonlight Cove - "Orphans of the Storm". Portion Control and Red Flag sign with Texas label February 6, 2009 | By: Tobias Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Keeping up their production rate during the last years, British hard electronic music band Portion Control are also working on new material. The new album "Witness" will include tracks from their latest albums and also some new material. They will play live at the upcoming Tinitus festival in Stockholm and are also working on a another new release scheduled for late 2009. MIA US electro act are back February 5, 2009 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon USA) THD or Total Harmonic Distortion have returned after a decade long absense and their new album "Evolution of Our Decay" is already finished. To quote the band: "You can take the boy out of the factory but never take the factory out of the boy". THD, in the 1990:s along with Mentallo and the Fixer, Index and Out Out, put the US on the map electronically with their highly engaging meticulously composed works. After the initial hero-worship of their debut album, the band set out on a course for uncharted, treacherous territory before vanishing in 1999. In the ensuing years of silence, their contemporaries have returned to the fore and it was only a matter of time before this pair followed suit. This is a highly unlikely re-emergence and to say we're stunned does not cover it in the least. Further news as it comes. Kent men show up on Andreas Tilliander CD February 4, 2009 | By: Mkael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Kent's Jocke Berg and Martin Sköld have helped electronica artist Andreas Tilliander on his new album. "Show" is scheduled for May. Depeche Mode single premiere on February 21 February 3, 2009 | By: Mkael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
New Depeche Mode single "Wrong" will be introduced at the 2009 Echo Awards in Berlin on February 21. Watch the show on Das Erste (ARD) from 8:15 pm. Why was the summer Das Boot cancelled? February 3, 2009 | By: Mkael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
A while ago, we told you that the Das Boot summer cruise festival from Stockholm on June 11-12 was cancelled. Now, the organisers explain why. The summer cruise was born because the organisers felt there was a need for a big electronic music event in June. After the cruise was scheduled, several new events popped up. - Suddenly a lot of exciting stuff going was about to happen in Sweden and it's better if we don't compete - we should co-operate instead. Therefore we recommend everyone to go to the Tinitus and Arvika festivals, because we will, Markus Olzon says. It will be business as usual for Das Boot later this year. - Of course, we won't stop now - Das Boot will be back during the autumn, with only electronic live acts again. |
