There is in the press kit that musically S’s is highly influenced by Pixies, Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal, Kraftwerk, and takes inspiration from bleak sci-fi films such as Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977), THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971), Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985), Blade Runner (Ridely Scott, 1982). But forget the Pixies! It’s mistake, this is pretty hard electro-noise, maybe he has intended to write Pigface. Xiu Xiu is also comparable to him. The most relevant parallel act is Foetus (most important alter-ego of J. G. Thirlwell, aka Clint Ruin).

Exploded View of Love is a concept album, about indifference of selfie, corporate and online social lifeforms, a dystopia about the world of Homo Leviculus.

Chris Imler was one driver of German satiric electronic duo Driver & Driver. He mix traditional one-man band guitar’n’drums sound with electronic music and some special instruments. „I Used To Too” comes D.A.F., Urban Junior and Quintron to my mind. His moustache is a broad hint at Boris Blank (Yello)

Nervös album on Staatsakt Records (Germany)

New York City is a world of shadows, thieves and con men, its chilling concrete landscapes are a fitting filmic backdrop for the aural futuristic pleasures of NOIR, a band whose deep electronic rhythms fuel darkened beats that conjure stark cinematic images from yesteryear merged with the cold machinery of the future. Conceptualized by vocalist Athan Maroulis, veteran of the pioneering electronic industrial act Spahn Ranch, NOIR is a sensuous electronic return to form for Maroulis, who also fronts dark cabaret legends Black Tape For a Blue Girl. The result was the 2013 critically acclaimed release Darkly Near. It all sounds like revealing his deepest inner thoughts transposed into electronic grace, musical poetry and simply finesse. NOIR’s latest release RE:MIT:TENT offers 20 remixes of songs from Darkly Near featuring a disparaging list of names from all over the electronic music field including ManMadeMan, Assemblage 23, Dead Voices On Air, Ludovico Technique, Decoded Feedback and many others. (Metropolis Records, US)

A read along 7” book/vinyl called ‘What Did the Hippie Have in His Bag?’ Internationally renowned sleeve artist and illustrator Nick Edwards (4AD, XL) went wild with Cornershop’s Tjinder Singh’s quirky lyrics & together they have created a wonderful world of mountains, spacecraft, dragons, Kurt Vonnegut… needless to say this is not your everyday journey. Original, Colourful, Educational, Singh-alongable, Memorable, Funkyful, and of course Collectable. (Ample Play Records, UK)

SCIENCE FICTION PARK BUNDERSREPUBLIK

West-German home recordings from the 80s. Compiled by German sound futurist Felix Kubin. This eccentric compilation features 25 rare and mostly unheard tracks by bands like Plastiktanz, Neros Tanzende Elektropäpste, chbb, Holger Hiller and Pyrolator, as well as several one hit wonders by the rural tape label Pissing Cow Tapes.

In Germany especially, that neurotic country whose dark Nazi past and subsequent East/West division filled its closet with skeletons, the electro-industry’s advance falls on fertile ground. The four-track tape studio becomes the medium of the collective unconscious; becomes the embrasure, the lighting rod and the magnetic witness to the fears of an imminent nuclear war. They are eruptions out of the crater of a society that had reached a deadlock during the so-called German Autumn with its failed RAF movement. Everyone was waiting… But for what? For the end of the world, approaching via an insane arms race? A new youth movement? A new kind of ice cream?
In their freshly established home studios the protagonists practice the new underground music, the “undirected aggression of liberated sounds”. Everything that isn’t nailed or riveted down is used as an instrument: baking trays, cartons, room lamps, toys, wooden flutes, whistles, cans, trays, record players, televisions, a doorbell, a telephone. Out of the living rooms of the nation drones an obsession with noise, sparing not even the children. (Finders Keepers Records, UK)

The debut LP of The No Tomorrow Boys (<< listen!) from Portland. Wild’n’frantic rock’n’roll. Sounding like the rabid love child of Little Richard and The Cramps with a healthy dose of Rip Off Records garage gunk shot straight to the jugular. (Hound Gawd Records, Germany)

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem (US) present Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras „Catholic” 2LP. Featuring over 80 minutes of music, never before released on vinyl, this compilation contains two bonus tracks not on the CD.

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the cannon of disco music, Patrick Cowley created his own brand of Hi­NRG dance music coined „The San Francisco Sound.” He moved to San Francisco and met Jorge Socarras in 1973. Patrick, who played drums, guitar and keyboards, provided the perfect match for Jorge’s vocal talents. Between 1975 and 1977 they recorded an album’s worth of material. In 1979, the duo would re­record some of the “Catholic” songs with Patrick’s newly accumulated equipment.  “Catholic” is a genre­bending concept album that ranges from minimalistic proto­techno to synth­driven post­punk, pre­dating the dance punk acts LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture by almost 30 years. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos, the Velvet Underground and Roxy Music, “Catholic” fills in the gaps between these artists and preempts bands like Talking Heads, Units, The Human League or Chris & Cosey. Patrick forges his unique electronic sound from his collection of synthesizers, modified guitars and self­constructed equipment while Jorge’s vocals go from hypnotic to camp, singing about gay love juju and tackling classics by Donovan and Stoller & Leiber. Soundclips

Electro-punk Swiss one-man band Urban Junior is moving somewhere between Quintron and Digital Leather (he said: D.A.F. meets The Sonics).

„Stehaufmannchen” and „Jetz” from his new concept album „Dr.S & Mr.P”

on Voodoo Rhythm Records

Story: Mr. P(rimitive), hyperactive, apathetic, addicted to sex, vice and full attention is being hunted to death by Dr. S(ensitive), his inner voice. Of course Mrs. L(ove) is involved on Mr. P’s Hellride to insanity.

Mr U. started his music career as a member of pop group HNO in the early 2000s. He has turned himself inside out in 2005 with his first album Music For The Asses.

Belgian post industrial country and western mixed with flamenco. „For anyone familiar with the works of the Flemish bard Willem Vermandere, Embers has been described as „Willem Vermandere from hell”

Lichtzwart from the album „Kout” on Enfant Terrible (NL)

more Embers’ music

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Same thing in other manner. No wavy noise rock by Exhaustion from Australia

Biker LP on Aarght Records (AUS)

New Yorker punks Parquet Courts is coming back under a little different name with a little different style: Parkay Quarts

„Content Nausea” album with Nancy Sinatra and 12th Floor Elevator covers
on What’s Your Rupture (US) on Nov 11th Digitally and Dec 2nd on CD/LP

Parquet Courts on RNR666

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At 12 he found a camera and started taking photographs. 17: bought a synthesizer in order to make music for his images. 23: Laurent Garnier bought a car from Mr. Oizo‘s father, and there was a cassette…  Do you remember him? Yes or no, this was his first hit in 1999.

The Church album on Brainfeeder Records (US)

Mr. Oizo (Quentin Dupieux) also is a film director. In his first movie (Rubber) a tire comes to life and kills people, and so on…

The English Burning Alms duo plays noise rock. I think Fugazi, Helmet, Sonic Youth and black metal; others mentioned e.g. Glenn Branca and Swans as influence.

debut album „In Sequence” on Smalltown America Records (Northern-Ireland, UK)

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Elzo Durt is Belgian graphic artist who made many cover arts for such bands as Thee Oh Sees, Magnetix, Jack of Heart, PyPy and many more. On the occasion of his Parisian exhibition, Born Bad Records have released a single with really various artists: Cheveu, Pierre & Bastien and Violence Conjugale

Elzo is co-founder of Teenage Menopause Records

At the time, back in the early seventies the Vietnam war was still raging, Susan Dietrich and her husband Joel and their tiny daughter were political exiles, living like refugees in the States. Joel would be imprisoned for having resisted the draft. For nine years they had subsisted on spare change and meager sales of their artwork on the streets. Finding a dilapidated, old accordion in a junk store was the major cause in turning her life around.  And “the Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, she invested in a then-new Casio keyboard…” and plays minimal prog lo-fi space pop.

EURO TOUR SEPT – OCT

10.09. HU Budapest – Kontra Club + 11.09. AT Vienna – Rhiz + 13.09. CH St. Gallen – A-Synth Fest + 16.09. BE Brüssel – Les Ateliers Claus + 18.09. NL Tilburg Incubate Festival + 19.09. BE Antwerp – Het Bos + 20.09. NL Amsterdam – OCCII + 21.09. DE Darmstadt – Oetinger Villa + 24.09. SE Malmö + 25.09. SE Stockholm – Mother Shows + 26.09. SE Göteborg – Koloni + 29.09. DE Berlin – Marie Antoinette + 01.10. F Paris – Le Chinois + 02.10. + F Paris – Espace B + 03.10. F Nantes – Le Lieu Unique + 07.10. ES Barcelona – Heliogabal

Sept 10, Budapest, Kontra Klub with

Maria Violenza  (I, lo-fi dark arabesque synth punk)
Alone (Srb, Nikola Vitkovic graphic artist’s dark-electro project)
Szentcsalád Oral Orchestra (H, urban blues by an RNR666 founder)

Since his previous EP the music of Orlando Furious moves forward from junk pop toward electro rubbish. It’s relished with a little hip-hop. And he is still better than Xiu Xiu.

High And Mighty EP – cassette and digital on Cinnamon Records (Aus)

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One from British surf punk band Sex Beet has moved to Stockholm. Lucern Raze is his personal project. French mode easy garage rock

Debut 7″ before the album by PNKSLM Records (UK & Swe)

Barbara Lehnhoff didn’t want to become a musician – like so many other individuals, but her debut album of this year under moniker of Camilla Sparksss is better than the new Laibach. You can find danceable technoid rhythms and electro-industrial punk tunes on it.

Vinyl     CD     Cassette     Fashion     RNR666 interview

These songs are like the cross of (Dutch folk punk) The Ex and The Breeders. Free download.

„No more time for my beloved laziness”- said Joel Gion, the crazy tambourine man of serious psychedelic rock band Brian Jonestown Massacre, and after his solo single now here is the album which was recorded with a bunch of his friends. Joel thinks a lot of people are going to be surprised by this album. „Psych, Mod, Britpop, Shoegaze and Post Punk are just some of the sounds that come into play on this very unique record.” A lazy psychedelic britpop

Apple Bonkers – LP, CD and digital on Reverberation AS and The Committe TKME, cassette on Burger Records (US)

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Techno in minimal electro industrial style by Hayden Payne from Berlin, debut EP

Phase Fatale – 12″EP on Avant! Records (Italy)

Drew Daniel (Matmos) under the name of The Soft Pink Truth has made a very funny album with a bunch of aberrant electronic covers of black metal classics. Now here is a mix of black metal intros/outros by him in order to hype his album.

Intros:  Sodom – In the Sign of Evil, Beherit – Tireheb, Blasphemy – Winds of the Black Gods, Celtic Frost – Human, Striborg – Foreboding Silence (Intro 1.), Beherit – The Oath of Black Blood, Blasphemy – Ross Bay, Bathory – Storm of Damnation, Striborg – Black Desolate Winter, Negura Bunget – Ceasuri Rele, Rotting Christ – Ach Golgotha, Striborg – Foreboding Silence (Intro 2), Striborg – Embittered Darkness / Isle De Morts,  Mayhem – In Memoriam, Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
Outros: Sodom – In the Sign of Evil, Sarcofago – INRI, Mortiis – Unreleased, Striborg – Foreboding Silence, Striborg – Black Desolate Winter, Apathia – Sepulcrum,  Mayhem – The True Legends in Black, Bathory – The Winds of Mayhem

about the album + original tracks