Teaser from Steelberry Clones upcoming album
It’s the song Kickflip in a remix version, enjoy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKnFKmW0PA]
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Happy 20 years birthday – S.P.O.C.K
Spent an evening with the old but very happy S.P.O.C.K crew. The event was held in conjunction with the monthly SpaceLab party held in Malmoe, Sweden. On the pic below you will see Mr. Android himself and the former band member Johan (can´t remember what he called himself …noid something I guess, hehe). Too bad Eddie B didn´t show up.
If you want to join future SpaceLab events – you will find them here >>
And of course an old SPOCK video, incl Eddie B:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzXZWJIsJc]
New album with Fixmer/McCarthy in May
The new Fixmer/McCarthy album will come out in may 2008 and called Into The Night. The Label will be Citizen Records, the french label of artist Vitalic! More info soon.
FM are confirmed for this year’s Einhoven based Extrema Outdoor Festival. That Festival will take place on July 19th, 2008.
And this is most likely one of the songs on the new album 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZCe0xrF4cM]
Fixmer/McCarthy is an electronic music collaboration between the French techno producer Terence Fixmer, and British EBM vocalist Douglas McCarthy (of Nitzer Ebb).
The partnership released an album entitled Between the Devil… and toured during 2005, with a notable live performance at the Infest festival during August of that year.
Absolutley awsome – Kitaro played by a 5 year old – a must see !!
The boy Jay plays the Yamaha Electone
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UszvHEI2VQE]
More on Kitaro
Back in Japan Kitaro started his solo career in 1977. The first two albums Ten Kai and From the Full Moon Story became cult favorites of fans of the nascent New Age movement. He performed his first symphonic concert at the ‘Small Hall’ of the Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Shinjuku, Tokyo. During this concert Kitaro used a synthesizer to recreate the sounds of 40 different instruments, a world’s first. But it was his famous soundtrack for the NHK series “Silk Road” which brought him the international attention.
He struck a worldwide distribution arrangement with Geffen Records in 1986; in 1987 he collaborated with different musicians, e.g. with Micky Hart (Grateful Dead) and Jon Anderson (Yes). In 1988 his record sales soared to 10 million worldwide. He was nominated twice for a Grammy award and his soundtrack for the movie “Heaven & Earth” won the award for best original score. He won another grammy award for his album Thinking of You in 2001.
The new single from Elegant Machinery…
…a real summer synthpop hit
Listen and enjoy – and make sure to purchase it, when released, so that we encourage these pioneers to continue delivering good music.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzktzZtWPc]
elegant MACHINERY returns with the hit single “Feel the Silence”
Available at Out Of Line Mailorder:
www.outoflineshop.de
OUT OF LINE Music
Friedrichstr. 200 , 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 
+49-30-5655353-0
Fax: +49-30-5655353-10
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Dopplereffekt to Kontra musik
For those of you who missed Dopplereffekts appearance on February 2nd or perhaps haven´t had a chance to see them yet, make sure to catch up
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrsgQHes6So]
Dopplereffekt are one of the strangest and most mysterious units of the contemporary electronic music scene. There are no interviews and hardly any live appearances. Nobody really knows who they are, their releases have so far only been available on limited vinyl on Dataphysix/Detroit. The composers hide behind strange German pseudonyms whereas the song titles and lyrics are in English and make up a strange mixture of scientific, sexually explicit and political allusions.
Dopplereffekt’s music is also highly eclectic and unusual. Even if at first sight the forefathers Kraftwerk seem to be more than present Dopplereffekt have developed a very own and highly influential sound aesthetic, without which the current electro-hype seems to be unthinkable.
Dopplereffekt also always went an unusual path with their stylish anti-style in cover artwork, which has always been surprisingly and provocatively plain.
The brain behind this mythical group is scientist Heinrich Mueller (Drexciya, Arpanet, Japanese Telecom, der Zyklus etc). They had a great impact on the electro clash sound around 2000 and tracks like Plastiphilia (listen) and Rocket Scientist (listen) are strong soundtracks to this era. What few people know is that the tracks were produced already 5 years earlier, in Detroit…
Today their music is more experimental but at the same time also more daring, mature and interesting. The experimental album Linear Accelerator, released on International Deejay Gigolo was this year followed by their latest release, Calabi Yau Space. This Rephlex release is a beautiful melodic and rhythmic journey in to the world of theoretical physics and string theory (listen).
Great melody, rhythm and harmony begins with sound itself and it is on this level that Dopplereffekt is concentrating. This is ’Techno’ in the sense that the term was originally intended.
Discography:
“Gesamtkunstwek” – Clone Classic Cuts (2007)
“Calabi Yau Space” – Rephlex (2007)
“Linear Accelerator” – International Deejay Gigolo (2003)
“Myon-Neutrino/Z-Boson EP” – International Deejay Gigolo (2002)
”Scientist Mixes EP” – International Deejay Gigolo (2001)
“Scientist EP” – International Deejay Gigolo (2001)
“Gesamtkunstwek” – International Deejay Gigolo (1999)
“Sterilization EP” – Dataphysix Engineering (1997)
“Infophysix EP” – Dataphysix Engineering (1995)
“Cellular 7-inch” – Dataphysix Engineering (1995)
New DVD out with Gary Numan
Finally, Gary Numan’s stunning 1984 Berserker tour comes to life in this full length concert DVD entitled ‘Cold Warning’.
This is the complete and uninterrupted version of this classic 1984 Berserker tour concert, seen for the first time ever as an official release including the previously unseen Berserker concert intro.
The concert, shot at the Hammersmith Apollo, features all of Gary’s worldwide hits and classic album tracks from his massively successful previous 5 years at the top.
Other updated features include a stunning unseen photo gallery and a 2007 updated Gary Numan interview.
The track listing is as follows:
Intro
Berserker
Metal
Me, I Disconnect From You
Remind Me To Smile
Sister Surprise
Music For Chameleons
The Iceman Comes
Cold Warning
Down In The Park
This Prison Moon
I Die:You Die
My Dying Machine
Cars
We Take Mystery (To Bed)
We Are Glass
This Is New Love
My Shadow In Vain
Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
And of course a weekend treat from the good old days:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzvWHwmoVs]
Do you enjoy fat EBM drums…
….than check out this guys. A couple of really nice tracks and an excellent debut album was released last year.
Click the image below to go to their website:
New single with Welle:Erdball due in February
Rumors has it that it will be released on Feb 23rd and it is called “Ich bin aus Plastik”. You can see the cover of the upcoming single here and if you are strong in german, feel free to follow the text and links below
Zwar gibt es leider noch kein offizielles Releasedatum für die neue Welle: Erdball – Single “Ich bin aus Plastik” (ausser das es irgendwann im Februar diesen Jahres sein wird), dafür aber schon folgende Infos über die enthaltenen Gimmicks: Eine Spühschablone, eine Autogrammkarte und ein 3D-Wackelbild. Die limitierte Vinylversion wird zudem in rosa Farbe(!) erscheinen.
Erste Eindrücke des fertigen Coverartworks könnt Ihr hier bewundern: http://www.welle-erdball.de/plastik/
Depeche Mode – back in the studio
The band met earlier this month, and agreed to hit the studio in March.
Martin’s been writing songs, and has already taken his new compositions into pre-production (ie. not just demos), working with Sie Medway-Smith in Martin’s home studio in Santa Barbara.
Dave has also been writing, although details of his progress are scarce.
EMI in Spain let slip that Mute are hoping to have the album ready at the end of this fiscal year, in time for Christmas. A tentative date of “late November” was circulated to retailers and media in Spain, via the IFPI owned operation Promusicae. Sources close to the band tells us to expect a tour to be announced some time in the early fall of 2008, with tickets going on sale in September or October. A tour would probably not start till early 2009, however.
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