Psyche have announced a four-track EP, revisiting their first 12″ single, “Thundershowers (In Ivory Towers).” The lead track appears in extended and radio edit mixes, together with two remixes of the original B-side, “Lead Me Astray.” Both digital download and a physical vinyl release are available. Follow the link below for ordering information.
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Parralox have announced two special performances in Berlin. The Anglo-Australian poptronica outfit last wowed European audiences warming up for Erasure at the end of 2014. On October 1, Parralox headline a show at Marie-Antoinette. The following day, October 2, they will be supporting Little Boots at the legendary Berghain club. Exclusive merchandise is on offer for these shows.
Parralox at Marie-Antoinette: Facebook event page
Parralox with Little Boots: Facebook event page
Norway’s Juno came onto our radar through Kine Sandbæk Jensen’s involvement in Karin Park’s live band. Providing vocal, synth and percussion support, she was an excellent fit for Park’s show, and our curiosity was piqued by the information that she had a musical project of her own. The releases we were able to find online, under the name Pieces of Juno, intrigued us with leftfield electronics. Now comes the welcome news that a new track, “Same to Me,” produced by Oxóssi, has been given a video to accompany it. The song is leftfield and quirky, but also warm and engaging. Just the thing for a Fall soundtrack.
Emmon, the highly-regarded poptronica act from Gothenburg, have released a new video for a track lifted from their 2014 album, Aon. “Felix Baumgartner” is a darkly melodic synth track, celebrating the daredevil of the song’s title, who famously jumped from a capsule 39 km in the sky back in 2012. You’d have to be slightly odd to do something as dangerous as Baumgartner, but you’d have to be even stranger not to find this track, featuring Emma Nylen’s magnificent vocals, entirely compelling.
One of Cold War Night Life‘s favourite artists, Jennie Vee, is planning a tour of the US and Europe. As with Laibach’s recent tour of the US, Vee and her band have launched a crowdfunding campaign to get the bus moving. They are offering a range of sponsorships, starting with an Access Pass that includes Vee’s Die Alone EP and bonus content, moving through autographed posters and Skype chats, and culminating with exclusive living room shows. Things get really interesting however, with the offer to have Vee or her band members, Richey and Naomi, play on your own track. Given the immense quality of Vee’s output to date, that is worth saving up for!
The campaign is live now on PledgeMusic.
As a reminder, here are a couple of the tracks we raved about from Die Alone:
The talented multi-instrumentalist, Hannah Peel, has revealed the video for “Palace,” a Wild Beasts cover taken from her last EP, Rebox 2. A member of John Foxx & The Maths, Peel is well-known to electronic music fans, but her solo work in other styles has been as charming and iridescent as this track. Peel plays in London next on 17 September 2015.
New Order have unveiled the first of their tracks recorded for Mute. “Restless,” which is taken from the forthcoming Music Complete album, is a breezy MOR rock song that certainly sounds like late-stage New Order but lacks the crackling electricity of their best work. Some fans have put this down to the absence of bassist Peter Hook, who is in permanent exile, but much of Bernard Sumner’s songwriting fits into this groove. The question is what is being held back for the release of the album on the 25th of September.
Michael Rother, the collaborator of Dieter Moebius, has announced his passing this evening.
The name of Dieter Moebius is inseparable from the history of post-war European electronic and experimental music. In 1969, he founded Kluster together with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler in West Berlin. The group came together in the Charlottenburg social scene, and after a short rehearsal they famously played a twelve-hour show. With time, Kluster became Cluster (with the departure of Schnitzler), then Harmonia (with the addition of Michael Rother of Neu!), and collaborations with the likes of Brian Eno, Holder Czukay and Conny Plank saw additional evolution of both organisation and form.
Although Cluster reformed in 2007, by 2010 it was off again and Moebius put his focus onto his solo work and a series of collaborations. His death follows the untimely passing of friend and producer, Conny Plank (pictured together with Moebius in the main photo).
The members of DAF have announced that they have resolved their differences, and that DAF will continue to perform live for the foreseeable future. Their current set of dates had been billed, informally, as a farewell tour, but both Robert Görl and Gabi Delgado have posted to their Facebook followers that there is more DAF to come. Delgado wrote:
Late News…Good News…
Robert Goerl & Gabi Delgado have agreed to carry on with the DAF project !!! Amigos Freunde Friends you can look forward to more exciting DAF concerts in the next years !!!
I am very happy that everything is sorted out now !!!
Immer weiter bis zum sieg – hasta la victoria siempre……
DAF fuer immer !!!
Both Görl and Delgado have solo projects, besides their DAF collaboration. Görl is writing his memoirs and has a new solo album in the pipeline, while Delgado has been busy making dance music. The news of their continued cooperation will be warmly received by their fans.