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Maneuvers In The Dark - OST out today!
Hipp horray! Today we're presenting Moptaco Dics 32, a soundtrack album by Daniel Fagerström, main head behind Optic Nest. The music is the sum of a near year of working together with filmmaker and director Maria Ramström. Her film Maneuvers In The Dark is a close and uneasy look at North Korea through the eyes of three young jeans designers. Filmed on location in North Korea, Beijing and Stockholm it's a tale of marketing, diplomacy and fabric. The music is based on navie melodies on synthesizers and wurlitzer piano, and kinda moves towards the library music of Bernard Fevre in a way. All download!!
Landcrabs out NOW! And Optic Nest makes a move!
Finally the Landcrabs tape is out. After mixing and trixing in the Årstabunker their debut masterpiece is clearly kicking 2012 in the teeth. After spending years and years in their old orchestra Knife And Ape, these three dudes are no strangers to filthy rock-riffin, straight drum machines and synthesized mallet beats. Their greatness will be forever told. Apart from working hard on a new LP, entitled »Ride On Silver«, Optic Nest crossed the line together with Landcrabs to unidentified territory, hitting Spotify, iTunes, Wimp and Google Music today. Isn't that something.
Crabs of the Land!
Ending 2011 in style, we have a bunch of stuff clearing our minds about 2012! Landcrabs are out first with their debut C20 tape »Landcrabs« hitting the streets and the streaming clouds on January 12th. Latest news just came in, that we've singed another great artist to the rooster. Per. A magix man for sure. The new year will also bring stuff from Time Deleters and Gina J.
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Maneuvers In The Dark - Original Soundtrack
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Landcrabs
This band has been around for quite some time, and after about two years without a proper band name, the term »Landcrabs« talk about them; the crabs creeping the land. Landcrabs come from another place. Another time even. A trio spraying out their fanatic and frustrated sci-fi rock like none other. They are kind of grabbing their sound from a time machine that just came back from rehearsals with undiscovered mid 80ies Ralph Records-type bands. With a slight mallet funk and neanderthal loose rock n roll added, Lancrabs are here for all of us! Also available on the various streaming facilities and internet music sale sites available on the web!
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Homecoming
Homecoming, the long process of making the perfect album. CMG's last five years of simple rythmic pop songs, discoesque strings and freak out synth pads made it impossible for us not to release this fantastic gem. Spending too much time in the micro studio, just carving those songs actually made a difference. And it's hard to not be over energetic about this record. Based on the thoughts and reflections of fathership and the regular love life, these 7 songs combine the weird feelings of being both in and out of your own life. And through a broken mirror of Tom Tom Club drummachines, Robert Palmer guitars and CMG signature falsettos, how could it ever go wrong?
Worldy widely distributed and streamed by all the big companies!
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A Love 4-Ever
As his second ever release (following the fantastic Distractions single) CMG has chosen a laid back and exploding track from the Homecoming album. A Love 4-Ever is a cascading nu-love song connecting it's fat bass and lead organ, Eurythmix type solos and slapback guitar with smooth vocals, upbeat hi hats and state of the art digital arpeggios. We also took the chance to ask four of our favs to remix the track. Resulting in Lind's druggy and wobbly beats, ULTRA EL!'s feedback drum jam, Geotronic's bouncy robotics and Richard Brain's french connection vibes. Since the new CMG stuff is all digital, all new and all 2011 the stuff is available through the fine services of Itunes, Play, Spotify, Wimp. Or simply listen here!!
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The First Fires / Allmoge Sleepous
The output of Malmös finest Fableous Fires has a touch of the old. A vibe of the old perhaps. The tape starts of with birds singing i true stereo. Then the wobbly experience takes it's grip. Pounding quietly among the treetops. The psychedelic sounds of Fableous Fires are that of an inverted nature. Things are all wrong. Not natural at all. The B sides Allmoge Sleepus track, gets you thinking of that old Ralf Lundsten's Naturesymphonies. That will get you into the Zone for sure.
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The Interview
This is a true gem! We found this interview LP at the infamous Altar House one late night. And it knocked us out completely. Don't think many has ever heard Samantha's view on things. She talks about the life of modeling, the life of being a pop star. She talks about her parents (who were also her managers (?)). She discusses music and the world today (as of 1987). We just had to bootleg this. It's too good to be forgotten and unheard. Just listening the »journalists« making this interview is worth getting this tape!
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Entertainment
And how we waited. Entertainment, the debut album of Optic Nest has been in our minds for years. After making us stunned with his eclectic tapes on the infamous defunct KSP label and the 7" we put out, we could only in our dreams wish for something like this. A pounding, entertaining and electric ten tracks that somehow recalls geniouses / lunatics Hans Edler and Bruce Haack. It's a strange blend of decayed tapeloops, clear vocals, drum machines low in the mix, feedbacking delays and sequenced synthesizers. Optic Nest started working on this album in 2008 while passing the magix bridge into the EMS studio in Stockholm. Patching up those old Buchla and Serge synthesizers. After running the recorded tracks through his old stuff in his Bedroom studio and editing for two years the album was done. Clean and simple.
300 made, with mental full color cover and insert by Henrik Wallin, Mattias Gustafsson and Daniel Fagerström. And of course it comes with a side order of MP3s.
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Distractions
Distractions is the first song to leave the outboard of The Shelter studio, the place of musical exploration for one Carl Malmgren. Having put years and years in the songs that will eventually become a whole stunning album in 2011, Distractions is where it all begins. Distractions forms a kind of bermuda triangle of 70ies, 80ies and 90ies pop. Shuggie Otis psyched out soul connects to No Jacket Required-era Phil Collins and then to MJ's Dangerous album. With this in the mix, what could possibly go wrong. Blasting sexophones, drum machines and percussion run like a freight train on the autobahn. This topped with CMG's falsetto overdubs, synthesizer cheeze and hammering rhodes. It' an anthem for kids in wombs, hard working designers and the dancers of every rotten club you ever visited.
The B-side is favvo-fluffer Richard Brain's take on the track. Pitched down saxes turned inside out next to that old Wasp synth. Pure brilliance.
200 made, with fantastic folded letter-type cover by Olaf Hajek. Comes with Moptacostyle MP3 download for all.
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Silicon Suckers
Andy Bolus is one damn fine man. He's been creating brilliant and electric music for a near 20 years now. And always with a technical doomsday feel to it. After seeing him do THE liveperformance of 2010 at the closing of La Miroaterie in Paris, we're utterly excited to have him come give us some dirt.
This tape is a recording that complements, comments and completes »If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly«, the LP masterpiece on iDEAL Recordings. Andy teaming up with Brigitte Bordelle makes everything so clear. Together they ride his burnt and broken machines next to spastic splatter of vocals and dumpster electrics. The A-side is some kind of twisted ketamin metal that evolves like a malfunctioned Transformer. Side B is more of a cut up thing with Moog, taped Bowie (?) and Brigittes mental vocals. One can only wonder what that Khazakstan woman is saying.
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Protection
»How you steer your life, you can never never know what’s right. Who can run you life, you will never never know all right.«
How can we even start to tell you about this release? Too many days have passed since a new release from Stockholm's The Je Ne Sais Quoi saw the light of day. This one side only 12" bring them to life in the most interesting way. This is a band you can trust. No matter what. A murky bass drowns in a hi-NRG disco, with hints of that old Eno. Jilted synthesizers, moldular-bongos and flanged guitars clash against lead singer JZI's wonderful and desperate vocals. The song deals with the very protective nature of manind. Nothing wrong with that. The 12" mix extends over almost 11 minutes before drowning in filtersweeps and wobbly tapedelay. Classic! The remix by Richard Brain is something of a complement to the TJNSQ-song. Se it as a cover or a mix from another dimension. As if Cowley and Moroder ever made love IRL.
The disc contains link to MP3 dowload. 2010 style!
€10.00
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If We Were Young
Barsebäck is the new moniker of one Martin Linder, a free spirited character in the Stockholm underground. His musical past talk of everything from raw garage rock to straight up full blown noise. On this 30 minute recording, which is the first ever, he teamed up with Gustav Nygren (New Rose & Borås Energi) and Daniel Söderberg (Dwayne Sodahberk). It takes of as a bubbly drone hallllellllullllja-moment travels through a wierder Synth to Sonic Youthy guitarpassage and ends in the best cover version of Neil Youngs »Tonight's The Night« one has ever heard!! Hence the title. A must have for lovers of the old Young. Done deal!
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Aural Mandalas Volume One: Coiled On The Universal Ocean
Somewhere around Mercury and Pluto this recording takes shape. Integalaxian synthsequences like the germans did it somehow. Sounds truly updated and skilled. Tapehiss in the background and everything. Secret recording by a new secret artist. Truly kosmik stuff!! Co-production by Fagerström at The Bedroom.
Cover is something like PIL's Metal Box with spraypaint and metal stampers!! But for the CD format.
€5.00
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Död Metall
Altar of Flies dude goes solo!!! After spending years with moniker Altar Of Flies and alter-ego Worms, Mattias Gustafsson releases his first ever tape with his christian name. Mattias Gustafssons solo work is a smooth handgesture to John Carpenter soundtracks, pre-sequencer Tangerine Dream and the dirt of Rune Lindblad.Melted loops contrast deep-fried synths in small delicate movements. Totally undistorted and melodic!! Beautifuly crafted metal cover with spraypainted jeans-girdle.
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Golden Hiss
New Hit-duo from Sewer Election and Optic Nest dudes This duo by Dan Johansson Vit (Sewer Election) and Daniel Zoot Fagerström (Optic Nest) has a sound of their own. Based ONLY on white noise and hiss, the band has created a techno-like sound, without any hints of dance. Basic noise-hymns and fanfares of buzz that seem to twist and bend. And yes, it's Minimal and strange in a way.
€5.00
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Live At Ny Tid Ny Strid
Finally! A rare documentation of a rare Vic Sinex. Bad sound. All tape. Nothing to hide. Contains the multiclassic Tips Zum Selbstmord!! A must!
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Prata Normalt
The Talk Normal sound is very unique. Their music being the wikipedia of New York's no wave-scene and at the same time delivering the very FUTURE of music. They are what Teenage Jesus And The Jerks should have been, and what DNA was but noone truly understood. Blasting drumbeats with a hard jazz-feel backed up by walls of noisy guitars and looped feedback-noises. Extreme in a way, but still basic pop. Vocally they sing about short men and smiling kids in a way that could only be desribed as the bastad child of Diamanda Galas and D Boon. Still being the child of teenage Kim Gordon and Laurie Anderson. The CDR is a cut-up documentation from a series of live performances by the band from Brooklyn, Rochester, Boston and Washington DC. All recieved through basic non-dolby tape. 20 copies made. All with unique creepy collages by Daniel Fagge Fagerström.
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Night Touch
The second LP by this monumental swedish band! Under the innocuous name of Knife And Ape, four boys from the North: Rohbau (guitar, synths, etc.), Geo (synths, etc.), Marten (drums, etc.) and Scott (vocals, etc.), with bass-section assistance by the Kid Commando masterman Laagrrluv - create an often awesome pre-industrial vibe that explore a dark state of mind only hinted at by '60s psychedelia. Taking cues from Chrome, Suicide, Wolf Eyes, Jesus Lizard, The Residents and anyone who ever made home tapes in their bedroom, the band's dense, chaotic science-fiction epics are vivid vinyl nightmares - a thick blend of mechanical noises, filtered, twisted voices and fantastic, bizarre lyrics - that flesh out a frightening world both absorbing and repellent. Though conventional song structures are preserved to the point where tracks can be distinguished (indeed, the band's early efforts aren't all that far from semi-normal guitar rock), Knife And Ape's strength is their ability to create sounds of horrible beauty that transcend discrete musical units. Their sonic intensity is something to behold. Comes with thick sleeve and inlay poster and MP3 download.
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Plays The Buchla 200
The new release by Optic Nest is somewhat of historical nature. Recorded entirely on the old Buchla 200 system at Ems, the swedish Elektric Muzic Ztudio. Well quite. For you nerds it's partially controlled by Serge Sequencer, with a single Serge Oscillator and through the Serge Analog Delay. The recording as such is two 20 min tracks. The A side being a strictly and raw sequenced track, the B side being more of »exprimental« character. You chose your side!!The Buchla is a monster, Optic Nest has told us. But this tape is beautiful in it's whole composition. »Music for driving and drinking« as stated by the composer himself.
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Death Is King of The Dancefloor
As the sticker says: With members of The Skull Defekts and Cut City. A classic and one time recording made in 2003. And finally parts of that session is coming out. In a PIL kinda way they funk up their dark groove into eternity, covered in lovley sexy vocals. Rock de minimalism with a BIG and heavy sound. A must have for everyone!
Contains MP3 download.
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Tigers Run Wildly Blindly
Full freak and downright messy music with a twist of The Residents and Suicide, but in a more »pop« manor. First non-tape release by this new star freaky musicmaster. It's Harmonic!
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-Harry Bisthday Josefine
The follow-up to their succesfull Bloodfreaks Mixtape on KSP. Live mixed at Josefines Birthdayparty summer 2007. Two iPods, two delays, one Mischpult and two men. What could go wrong. Contains songs by Residents, The Je Ne Sais Quoi, Ariel Pink, Misfits and whatnot. Released exclusively as a gift for the Micro Show!
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Live Ass Bootleg
Live recording from Bologna with Italys masters of freejazz / metal / noise fusion. Their gig was something out of the ordinary. Delay saxamaphone on blend with turntables and crackle boxes, with grindcore drums. One track consists of their brilliant soundcheck, one of the gig and remixes by Optic Nest and Jean-Louis Huhta. Split release with stockholms brilliant DFK label.
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Pick A D
Through analouge and digital transmissions to his harddrive for a couple of years now, Martin Vogel has created the most blastin Teckno / Acid / Wierd stuff around. This man grew up in a swedish little town listening to 90ies breakbeat, Eno & Syd Barrett. What more can we say! Contains the now classic psychadelic skew B-side. Fancy DJ's beware!
Comes with MP3 download.
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Underströmmar
First ever release from the main man from Kassettbolaget Svart Pyramid (KSP). Music that speaks of old rotten seas and treasures buried in the low sand. Sounds like blubb-blubb at times. Underwater sounds at it's best.
Comes in a screenprinted paper bag with wooden deepwater chrystal attached!
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Affentanz
Vic Sinex has made music under as many monikers as songs he has written. This sums up his love for NDW and Industrial Techno (DAF / Liaisons Dangereuses). Had to threaten the man to get it to release. There are many MP3s with this man. Total classic release!
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Harl Chypst Agnoxiaktz
Ranging from Technologic Punk to Funky Rave (?). Contains more or less classics from EB's early era. Bad, low sound though. The releaseparty was a magic night at GO's old place. EB played his first live gig and was supported by a Pre-Miniman's solo gig.
