MachineKUNT – new exciting female electro label
MachineKUNT is a new record label for female noise, electronic, and industrial musicians. Our mission is to encourage women all over the world to create electronic music. MachineKUNT was founded by Rachel (Experiment Haywire) who noticed we were strongly missing the element of independent females in the darker subcultures. She created MachineKUNT so she could connect with people: both musicians and listeners: who were ready to bring on some change.
MachineKUNT is ready for its first explosion with the upcoming release of its first compilation “Extreme Women in the Dark Future” featuring Chiasm, Neikka RPM, Noizekatt, Eva 3, Experiment Haywire, Aluminum Voyage, and Genocidio 1968 just to name a few.
Dyko, Yamo, Model >> Ring a bell?
…well they are all living evidence that Wolfgang Flur has not finished his music career after Kraftwerk. For those of you who still have not come to enjoy Dyko – make sure to check them out 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHVAlXv2XY]
…and for those of you who always wondered what happended to “Das Model”, well here’s Flur’s take on it, not new but clearly worthwhile watching:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KgTZbJrt5k]
…and Yamo, well go check it out for yourself >>
…and the reason I am posting this — I have started to re-read “I was a robot” and got inspired, hehe
Cheers
Firefox AK – Singer/song writer goes electro/synthpop – NICE!!
Make sure to check her out and support her new electro album which from a pure electro music perspective has a very nice production going and the choice of sounds is really nice. Maybe a bit too sweet for many of you, but then again at some time point you will need to do some chilling when the EBM smoke has faded..
Btw It seems that her stay in Berlin has made some impressions – to the better, hehe
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kKs5otxLUY]
Have a great weekend
Going to Germany in April?? Well perhaps you should…
…in April Steve Naghavi and the rest of the And One crew will head for a short German tour visiting 6 cities.
The first big news from these guys since the so and so OK album release Bodypop.
Special guest during this tour will be Alexander Marcus, let’s see how the ebm grufties will receive him… Visit www.alexander-marcus.de to hear some tunes.
Here are the confirmed dates:
- 04.04.2008 Leipzig, Anker
- 05.04.2008 Dresden, Straße E
- 11.04.2008 Hannover, Capitol
- 12.04.2008 Duisburg, Pulp
- 18.04.2008 Berlin, Columbiahalle
- 26.04.2008 Hamburg, Docks
And One, the popular synth-pop band from Germany, formed in 1989 after Chris Ruiz and Steve Naghavi met in a Berlin disco. They were both fans of Belgian EBM music, so they decided to play together, using only a drum machine and two keyboards, like their musical idols Depeche Mode had. Working together they compiled a demo tape that producer Jor, who was planning on starting a sub-label off of Modern Music, happened to like. The duo met success rather quickly after that, as they were the first signed band to Machinery Records. In 1990 they released their first single, «Metalhammer».
New album from Colony 5
An album clearly worth checking out, especially since we have not been treated with much new stuff from these two guys in ages, apart from a hardly worth purchasing remix album – unless you are truly hooked
Free listening and download (pay) >>
The first single taken from the album – “Knives” – made it to #10 on the German Alternative Chart [DAC] in a very short time. On “Knives” Colony 5 presents a track that is much harder than we are used to from the band. Sure enough, “Buried Again” presents you with some harder tracks such as “Knives” and “Get Off My Back”.
But old fans should not despair! “Buried Again” is a varied album bringing you everything from EBM-inspired tracks to more danceable futurepop with dynamic and powerful refrains in tracks like “Pills” and “Ghost” and the beautiful downtempo track “Imaginary Girl”– the way we are used to from earlier Colony 5 releases.
One of my old favorite tracks:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Yijn12xKM]
Teaser from Steelberry Clones upcoming album
It’s the song Kickflip in a remix version, enjoy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKnFKmW0PA]
C=iao
New Seabound Video for Contact + mind.in.a.box
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcZpIkG4KI]
…and better yet do not miss out on mind.in.a.box’ new C64 remix – it is strkingly cool, God I wish I could getmake such a nice crispy bass line. The original song was called Lightforce and was made by Ron Hubbard.
C=iao
Promote your music here?
Today this blog has approxiamtely 500-700 readers per day and over 25.000 unique visitors.
Are you making/producing your own music within the field of electro, electronic music, synthpop, bitpop/chip music, EBM and the like and want others to listen to what you do and get quality reviews on it.
Then take the opportunity to e-mail me your MP3’s and I will post them here on this site and allow myself and others to give you feedback on your work and promote them to a wide audience of music lovers who enjoy the same type of music and are using the same tools, whether it be software or hardware based.
In the e-mail make sure to include:
Band name
Web site/MySpace
Image of your self/band logo/cover art
Contact info (will not be published on the blog, unless you want me to)
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NOTE: In your e-mail you need to state that you own the copyrights to the posted material and that it is not material that is owned by a third party. Simply stated you have made it yourself.
Promotion:
1. If we really like what you do we will post it as a blog entry on the first page
2. There will be an exclusive demo room where all songs will be listed
3. There will be RSS feeds and a listing of the latest entries in the sidebar of the blog on the first page
So why hesitate go on and send me your music
C=iao
New album from Herr A and Herr B
Swedish duo Herr A and Herr B aka System was nominated for best electronic album in 2006 for their album “Sample and Hold”. March 26 marks the release of their third CD “Self Organising System” (will also be released as a double CD in a limited edition).
About them
SYSTEM was formed in the early nineties from the ashes of the group Die von Kempelens (DvK). DvK took their name from a hungarian inventor from the 18th century and programmed up-beat minimal synth pop. DvK never released anything officially but got a small underground hit with their song “Machines in Love” which was played rather frequently at the clubs in Stockholm at the time.
Later DvK slowly shifted into SYSTEM and Herr A and Herr B, the two former members of DvK and now, the members of SYSTEM, started working in a slightly different direction. Where DvK was a hobby band, SYSTEM was for real. And where DvK songs, although being very good, were badly and sometimes sloppily produced and thought through, SYSTEMs songs were the opposite.
The two gentlemen A and B locked themselves in their laboratory for quite some time and soon a couple of demoes saw the light of day. The demoes were called (in chronological order): “Music for machines”, “Artificial intelligence”, “Human/Machine interface”, “Fuzzy logic” and “Silicon based EP”. These demoes were, however, not distributed commercially in any way and the number of copies of each is very low (probably below 10 copies/demo). Then suddenly one day someone who was organising a concert happened to hear one of the demos and he got so excited with what he had heard that he insisted on that SYSTEM should come and play at his venue – which they did.
Since this last release SYSTEM has been busy with touring and has also contributed tracks to a number of compilations both in Sweden and abroad.
Client to Debaser Feb 22nd…
…fully equipped with their new fat single “Its not over” – should be a promising event I believe, Check out their new single below:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C86Vc64swc]
Client’s uniform image is always inspiring and a departure from the norm, maybe a bit too obvious for the sensibilites of some who think they’re exploiting their style. Take this picture for example, the trio are obviously pushing it, but is it done in an ironic way? or is it mere titilation?
Anyhow, S’Express mainman Mark Moore and top remixer ‘Kinky’ Roland Faber have turned in a very disco-danceable housey remix that ticks all the boxes.
mp3: client – it’s not over (mark moore & kinky roland remix).
DATAMASKIN
