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Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | JP | Original (Kesäkuuta Market)

Satoa

Yukan Na Kimie

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12" | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Diggers Factory)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Dauntless Kimi he' was originally released as part of the distribution project 'Sato Ato,' which took place in December last year. For this release, the chorus was added and re-mixed, resulting in a self-recorded song with a warm tone and a bright but fragile melody line.

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Black Strobe

Me & Madonna

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Rocket No. 3 Feat. Jan Delay

A Rocket In Dub

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Italic)

Not Enough / Not Enough (Tuxedo Remix)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall, Pop

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Stefan Schwander aka A Rocket IN DUB has been producing electronic music in Düsseldorf since the mid-1990s. He releases under a variety of pseudonyms such as Antonelli, Repeat Orchestra, Rhythm Maker, Harmonious Thelonious and While My Sequencer Gently Weeps. His music draws influences from techno, disco music (especially Giorgio Moroder), new wave, dub, abstract electronica and African music. In 2002, he released "Rocket No. 3", an old-school dub house classic with a distinctive vocoder voice. 20 years later, he has re-recorded the track together with JAN Delay on vocals. Both musicians share a great passion for dub music. Jan's great voice is just as distinctive as the vocoder 20 years ago and adds a touch of humanity to the original. The collaboration is released as a limited 7" single with artwork by Hendrik Krawen.

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Benny Sings

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Orland

Cut / Lovin' You

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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That's The Answer! / Yeah

Ulfuls

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Edizioni Della Notte)

Scerida

By Night

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Deewee)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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By Night it’s the debut EP of Scerida, a solo project of musician and singer-songwriter Daniela Resconi, and a perfect match for the sound that the new imprint intends to represent. By Night celebrates the dark hours as magical and mesmerizing, even when mysterious or dangerous.It evokes images and scenarios cinematically – a taxi passing by and fading into the distance, ice-cold Martinis during a party, whirlwinds of emotion, psychedelic sunrises and neon sunsets – through a stream of consciousness filled with noir-inflected pop, lo-fi vibes, slow hypnotic rhythms, suspended grooves and swelling atmospheres.

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Movulango

Mirror In Man EP

Titanic Limited Bordeaux Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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One of Deewee’s newest family members, 25-year-old Belgian musician and producer, Mozes Mosuse aka Movulango shares news of his debut EP “Mirror In Man” - out 18th November.

“We’ve always called him the psychedelic romantic of the studio,” say David & Stephen Dewaele, founders of Deewee / Soulwax.

“Mirror in Man” is proof that you shouldn’t put a time limit on creativity. An utterly forward-thinking five-track musical adventure taking in psychedelic folk jams, woozy electronica and looped-up beats, it is the culmination of a five-year process for Movulango. A journey that has seen Mozes transform from dancefloor-slaying producer (his previous credits include being one-half of Ego Troopers and Future Sound of Antwerp) to a kind of West Coast pop art Balearic troubadour.

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Falco

10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

Tarja

Land Of Sea And Sun

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Cesare Cremonini

Colibri

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Matteo Romano

Virale

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2022 | UK | Original (Sony)

Koffee

Gifted Signed CD Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Andrews Sisters

Very Best Of

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Armando Trovajoli

Sessomatto

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Woo-hoo! Two of the best Italian rare grooves ever are finally back on 7’’ for the first time since their original French release on the format! Both are from that most iconic film soundtrack of the Italian 70s (the LP is now a holy grail for collectors), Armando Trovajoli’s score to Dino Risi’s anthology sex comedy Sessomatto (1973) starring Laura Antonelli and Giancarlo Giannini. In the title track the influence of Manu Dibango’s afro-funk hit “Soul Makossa” is filtered through, and enriched by, an exquisitely Italian approach, with a sweet ’n’ groovy funk base (the terrific mid-song drum break has been a DJ favorite for decades) over which Edda Dell’Orso seductively laughs and repeats the words ‘sesso’ and ‘matto’ again and again. The wild and fun electronic samba “Kinky Peanuts” on side B is a wonderful example of ‘strange incredible music’, with infectiously quirky Moog themes and runs.

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Grant Miller

Greatest Hits & Remixes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

Tarja

World In My Eyes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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10" | 2021 | FR | Original (Le Pop Club)

Wendy Martinez

La Chevauchee Electrique

Release: 2021 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Stromae

L'enfer

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (London)

Bronski Beat

The Age Of Consent

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Arising Empire)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Bronski Beat ‘s 1984 cult debut album “The Age of Consent” - remastered edititons celebrating the band’s 35th anniversary – is back on Vinyl & CD

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Engst

Vier Gesichter EP

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2021 | UK | Original (Concord)

Nubya Garcia

Source We Move

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Source ⧺ WE Move finds Garcia reinventing her Mercury Prize-nominated album, Source, through new collaborations with several artists and producers, including; Dengue Dengue Dengue, Georgia Anne Muldrow, DJ Harrison and Moses Boyd. The reworked tracks retain the inspiring musicianship and blend of jazz and other influences found on the original, whilst also moving in a more beat-driven, electronic direction. The full track list is included below.

Garcia’s critically acclaimed debut album, Source, released in August 2020, is included in this year’s Mercury Music Prize shortlist. Garcia will perform at the awards ceremony, broadcast live on the BBC on 9th September.

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Ed Sheeran

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2021 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Khruangbin

Barn Breaks Volume 3

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Nettwerk)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Pop

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Barn Breaks vol Iii', presented by Owlvaro & Hugu, is the latest installment of oddball samples and loops from your favorite globe-trotting Texan trio, and is perfect for ant portablist scratch jam or 7" DJ set... The latest in the series, this "skipless" 7" contains scratch samples from "Mordechai" - band hits, isolated basslines & vocals, guitar notes, keyboard stabs and drum loops - as well as custom "ahhhh" & "fressshh" sounds. Do you know? Here we go!

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Jack In Water

You Don't Feel Like Home

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Blue Universe Deluxe Cd Edition

Systems In Blue

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Lastafroz)

Wannabe 25th Anniversary Limited Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2nd cd with 15 rare and spec.tracks

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Spice Girls

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Virgin)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Verve)

Cynthia Erivo

Ch.1 Vs. 1

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Aruite Kaero (Go Home On Foot)

April Set

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (Unchantable)

16,99 €* 33,99 € -50%

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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A-Team Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Ed Sheeran

LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (East West)

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Love Online)

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Har Mar Superstar

Roseville

Since I Left You 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Welcome to Roseville, the 7th studio album by Har Mar Superstar. Sean Tillmann’s latest collection of songs is career defining culmination of life and musical experiences that were heavily influenced by 70s AM gold artists including Todd Rundgren, Elton John, Carole King, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Genesis, Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf, Dory Previn, and ELO. The album came together in the late months of 2020 and is the first true collaborative effort of the whole touring band. It was distance recorded by all of the members in their home studios and the band’s home base, Mid City Studio, in Minneapolis. It has been described as an “existential homecoming” that chronicles Tillmann’s return to life as a Minnesotan over the last 5 years.

Most of the album was produced by bandmates Aaron Baum and Ryan Mach. John Fields (Jonas Brothers, Andrew WK, Har Mar’s 2004 album “The Handler”) returned to Team Har Mar producing “Solid Ghost” and “Hearts Have Misspoken”, and Ryan Olson (Poliça, Gayngs, Swamp Dogg) dropped in to produce “Patchwork Prisms”. Texas musical legends in the making Kam Franklin (The Suffers) and Jackie Venson (one of the greatest guitarists alive) popped by to elevate “Another Century” into a soul duet masterpiece. Denver Dalley (Desaparecidos) and T. Macey Taylor (Bright Eyes, Jenny Lewis, Amanda Shires) appear on “Where We Began” which they helped write on the road while supporting Afghan Whigs a few years back. The band is Nelson Devereaux, Jake Baldwin, Adam Hurlburt, Ethan Elseth, Aaron Baum, and Ryan Mach, and everyone had a hand in co-writing to help make this album a united, genre hopping masterpiece.

The whole album is a cohesive journey designed to be listened to front to back, but each track is strong enough to stand on its own.

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The Avalanches

2CD | 2021 | UK | Original (XL)

Darkside (Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The Avalanches are set to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Since I Left You’ with the release of a deluxe edition this June.

Released in Australia in 2000, and in the US and UK in 2001, ‘Since I Left You’ was hailed as a boundary-pushing release comprised of over 900 individual samples.

The forthcoming deluxe release – out June 4 – features a plethora of additional bonus tracks, including previously unreleased and fresh remixes by the late MF Doom, Black Dice, Leon Vynehall, Sinkane and Carl Craig to name a few. The CD version will also include some of The Avalanches’ remixes of Belle & Sebastian, Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand and more.

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Spiral

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Matador)

Pink Noise Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington return after announcing they were parting ways at a show in 2014 in the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Their debut album Psychic from 2013 was lauded as a modern classic almost immediately after release.

Since, Nicolas Jaar has been incredibly prolific releasing no less than four albums through his own Other People label including a soundtrack to cult classic Sergei Parajanov film The Color Of Pomegranates, created original soundtracks for 2015’s Dheepan and 2019’s Ema, co-produced tracks on FKA Twigs (Bleep album of the year 2020) Magdalene and worked on material under the A.A.L (Against All Logic) moniker with the likes of no wave legend Lydia Lunch.

Working with multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington on the DARKSIDE project, Nicolas Jaar’s production takes in heady psychedelic influences from prog and drone genres. Layering his entrancing vocals over the pulsating rhythm section on tracks such as ‘Lawmaker’ and ‘I’m The Echo’ that draw on the sun drenched psych of contemporary West Coast bands like Moon Duo and Wooden Shjips. Elsewhere we encounter the extended ‘Inside Is Out There’ with percussion heavily indebted to Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit and heavily treated vocals sat low in the mix. “From the beginning, DARKSIDE has been our jam band. Something we did on days off. When we reconvened, it was because we really couldn’t wait to jam together again”.

A harmonious return from the prolific duo, filtering an array of influences into their own expertly crafted sound.

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Laura Mvula

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Memphis Industries)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Laura Mvula’s new album ‘Pink Noise’ is set for release on July 2nd. ‘Pink Noise’ explores a side of Laura previously uncharted. As triumphant as ever, the album is a battle cry and stark reminder of the sheer talent of the critically acclaimed artist. This is Laura in a new found light - still reflecting her distinctive signature sound but showing the progression of an artist who has come into her own.

Contrasting confessional lyricism with compelling and infectious synth pop, ‘Pink Noise’ feels completely and uniquely Laura. Her artistic prowess knows no limits - take the neo-soul meets art pop of ‘Remedy’ for example, or the darker, pulsating ‘Conditional’ that injects bombastic funk into indietronica. She feels rejuvenated too, especially on electro pop stunners ‘Magical’ and ‘Before The Dawn’. This is Laura Mvula at her most ambitious to date, leaving no stone left unturned in this cosmic new realm.

As one of the most exciting musical talents to come out of the UK, Laura has previously won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Album, has been nominated for the Mercury Prize (not once but twice), BBC Sound Poll, the BRITs Critics Choice Award, two BRIT Awards in 2014 (British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act) and won an incredible two MOBO’s in 2013 (Best Female and Best R&B/Soul).

Having caught the attention of her musical hero Prince while performing for the first of two times on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, Laura has gone on to travel the world, selling out shows and captivating crowds at every destination. Crowned “Queen of the Prom” and given a five star review from the Evening Standard for her Proms 2014 Late Night performance at the Royal Albert Hall, Laura’s critically acclaimed career has led her to work with real-life inspirations Nile Rodgers and touring with David Byrne.

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Field Music

Flat White Moon

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Organi

Parlez-Vous Francais?

Bits Of Naaz Limited Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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A quick, spontaneIü voyage to the French Riviera ca. 1968, good times long before things went south, Organi's "Parlez-vous FrancIais?" is a woozy, tripping, soothing sojourn: DIY dream pop, hazy psychedelia, blurred-but-steady beats dripping down the golden boulevard, complete with mystical chants, a dash of half-remembered Franglais that goes down like some vintage eau-de-vie. There's a fine massage waiting behind those venetian blinds. Pay half an hour, you'll be relaxed and revived after 22 minutes. TreIÇs irreIüsistible when streamed, Organi's haunting, hard-boiled French lesson is even better with that classique vinyl crackle in the mix.Following the cinematic title skit with its bass loop appendix, Oakland-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Walti (and his songwriting partner Maryam) aka Organi invites singer Jessica Bailiff along for the majestic entreIüe, an interpretation of Philamore Lincoln's 1970 tune "The North Wind Blew South" (doesn't it always?), adding anticon. heavyweights Jel and Odd Nosdam on synths and bass for aIÇ la mode enhancements and additional bric-aIÇ- brac.Whereas the theme tune "Organi" comes with big drums, big organ, seductive overtones, pure hypnosis, "Whispers" is the soundtrack to some kind of psychedelic campfire tableau vivant: all brumeux, hazy, with spare guitar, Gauloises or Gitanes dangling, a glass of Bordeaux waiting on the dusty old amp, and featuring guest vocalists Yea-Ming Chen & Susy Borhan. It gets even more Parisienne after that: a French woman just knows how to look classic, even when all she's got is some attitude, a ramshackle tambourine, a craving for old Sukia weirdness and those budget-couture "4 Dolla Jeans"...Clearly in love with analog equipment, Organi turn The Vaselines' "Slushy" into a slow- moving, bottomless lullaby - "... you'll never miss what you never had" -, and the femme fatale minimalism of "Stay The Night" is too magneIütique and alluring: A fuckin' sexy chanson, treIÇs leIüger and yet such a hard-knockin' head-nod...

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Naaz

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Unguarded)

Sin Maldita

You're Trouble

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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“You’re trouble” is an avant-garde electronic pop album about questioning and locating a sense of self in a disorienting, breaking environment of dissolving certainity which grows increasingly chaotic, about dysmorphic dissatisfaction, becoming disillusioned and alienated. It seeks to juxtapose beauty, serenity and vigour with instability, ugliness, chaos and crisis, expressing itself fluidly without genre or otherwise boundaries. A kind of sinister, anxious but still forward-pushing and at times positive and hot-blooded empowering energy can be felt that wants to urge the listener not to give up but to try and take courage and take control of the troubles and fears in their life. The tone is sometimes reflective, sometimes confronting. The album navigates fairly abstract musical territory, cathartic abrasiveness, heavy and unrelenting sounds of post-club music and noise fused with stretches of pop music, never settling down or resting for long, constantly breaking up and re-assembling itself. Between chaos and form, it’s finding relief in imperfection and the in-between. As such the music is ambivalent and is equal parts some kind of crisis club music as well as introspective reflection.

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Anohni

7" | 2020 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Nous'klaer Audio)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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A viscous embrace, a pulsating pouring out, Anohni's voice is above all else a vessel for political armament. On 2016's Hopelessness, her voice bombarded with explicit illustration of Obama-era atrocities -- of war crimes, of apocalyptic climate change, of patriarchal violence. Now sharing a dual cover set - Bob Dylan's `It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' and Nina Simone's `Be My Husband' - she casts a subtler, but no less powerful incantation towards change. The original tracks dating to 1965, a year marked by the Selma marches, the Watts Rebellion, and the landmark Voting Rights Act, illuminate the eerily parallel struggles of this year. Anohni's rendition of `It's All Over Now_' reads as a hopeful, future goodbye to times dominated by oppression. With `Be My Husband," textually woven with marital submission and want for acceptance, she examines our reliance on the very systems that fail us. In borrowing these songs, Anohni adopts their history along with her contemporary interpretations, respecting the lineage of the people's movement while calling for its continuance today. "When Biden said `Americans don't want revolution, they want a return to decency,' he was wrong," she explained. "We all know deep down that the continuation of our civilizations for much longer will require seismic change." On `It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', Anohni explained: "I recorded It's All Over Now, Baby Blue with Kevin Barker one afternoon a few years ago. I listened to it recently and it reminded me of Now, a nausea of nostalgia for the suffering of the present, or even the future. I did a couple of songs by Bob Dylan at that time, encouraged by Hal Willner, the producer who we lost to Covid 19 in April. I hope that this period, and this repugnant presidency, will be over soon, and that these bigots and apocalyptic capitalists and evangelicals will crawl back into their rotten little holes. But how can this happen unless the American media and social media are forced to tell the truth? I am glad to see the mobilization of Black Lives Matter and the re-emergence of the Occupy movement. When Biden said "Americans don't want revolution, they want a return to decency," he was wrong. We all know deep down that the continuation of our civilizations for much longer will require seismic change." On `Be My Husband', Anohni said: "I saw Nina Simone perform at Carnegie Hall in 1991 while I was still in college. The concert was not properly publicized, and the theater was only half full. I think it may have been her first time back in NYC in many years. She was rumored to be volatile and unpredictable. That night she sang and played with such dignity, so incredibly, and she did 5 or 6 encores. For me, she was the greatest musician of the 20th Century. She didn't write many songs, but the ones she wrote were among the most profound of the era. Be My Husband was one such song. The lyrics spin a paradox of romantic assertion and submission. This live version of the song was recorded at an Antony and the Johnsons concert at the Knitting Factory in NYC in 1999."

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Meetsysteem

Cr:Go

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Nettwerk)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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One year after his lauded debut album Geen Signaal, Meetsysteem announces his follow up full length: Cr:GO. The Dutch oddball pop singer/songwriter turned band delivers 13 new songs to dance and dream to. An album about the anxious bubbles we live in, the contradictions of being a human being in complex times and warm dreams of an alternative universe. All in his typical, gentle style but packed with messages calling to reflect on our way of being.

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Stu Larsen

Marigold

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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10" | 2020 | EU | Original (Warner)

Wilhelmine

Komm Wie Du Bist EP

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Susta + Emperor Machine Mix

Harks & Mudd

12" | 2020 | UK | Original (Leng)

10" | 2019 | EU | Original (Milk Carton Kids)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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It would be fair to say that Leng co-founder Paul “Mudd” Murphy is a born collaborator. Since first donning the Mudd alias at the dawn of the century, Murphy has released numerous collaborative albums and singles with regular collaborators Ben Smith (as Smith & Mudd) and Kevin Pollard (Mudd & Pollard), as well as playing a key role in “super-groups” Paqua and Bison. “Susta”, which marks his first single on Leng since 2009, sees Murphy add some new names to his growing list of collaborators. It was made in cahoots with singer/songwriter David Harks, a regular Satin Jackets collaborator who also appeared on Jack Cutter’s superb “Serpent Strut” cut on Murphy’s Claremont 56 label.

“Susta” is a bubbly, evocative and ear-pleasing chunk of mid-tempo nu-disco pop featuring lead vocals from Jaanika Leino AKA JaneLy – a former X-Factor Finland contestant whose sultry and evocative voice simply soars above Murphy and Harks’ sparkling, life-affirming instrumentation. Rich in twinkling synth solos, rich Clavinet lines, chugging arpeggio lines and eyes-closed piano, “Susta” is a strong song that will squat inside your head and stay there for days. Our advice is to welcome it in – it’s as joyous and life-affirming a track as Leng has ever released. It’s accompanied by a predictably strong remix by British electronic music veteran Andrew Meecham (Bizarre Inc, Chicken Lips etc.), who dons the now familiar Emperor Machine alias to deliver a dub for the ages. Combining his own analogue and modular electronics with snippets of Leino’s vocal and some of the warmest instrumentation from Murphy and Harks’ original mix (think Clavinet and Rhodes for starters), Meecham offers up an epic slice of electronic dub disco that bubbles away for ten mesmerizing minutes. It’s a superb interpretation of a high quality cut.

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Milk Carton Kids

Only Ones

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Alien Snatch)

Moral Panic

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Alien Snatch)

TV Crime

Metal Town

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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La Vie En Rose - The Collection

Edith Piaf

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Kidderminster)

Alex Van Pelt

Tum Tum

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Morr Music)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Alex creates with Tum Tum the soundtrack of a dreamed teen movie and sings for the lonely hearts that beat behind their screens. The hero of this film ventures into the meanders of a digital jungle, a digital psychedelism where words come into resonance with sounds, structures deform, because behind the pop evidence of Tum Tum lies a desire deconstruction of pre-established forms. As much influenced by the break-up songs of the Everly Brothers as by Ryuichi Sakamoto's compositions, by Kitano's films, and by Ninja Kids, Tum Tum is a map of Alex Van Pelt's influences that finds its form in an intimate patchwork.

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Lali Puna

Being Water

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Tentacion)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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With "Being Water" Lali Puna refine their distinctive take on pop and electronics, pushing the boundaries towards classical songwriting. The four songs - equally affecting and catchy as self-reflected and aloof - are complemented by the airy tripiness of a remix by Dave DK (Kompakt, Pampa Records).

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Ryan Paris

Together Again

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2018 | UK | Original (XL)

Jungle

Happy Man / House in LA

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Nowadays)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Here is a pretaste for the upcoming Jungle album. Exclusively available at HHV.

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Clement Bazin

Everything Matters

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Crammed)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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With Everything Matters, his debut album, Clement Bazin realizes one of his sweet dreams: to rethink electronic music and integrate the instrument from which he can’t be dissociate anymore, the steeldrum. Through this achievement, he sets bridges between his favorite music genders: calypso, soca, hip-hop or UK post-dubstep from the 2000’s; a synthesis of Machel Montano, J. Dilla, D’Angelo and James Blake.

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Aquaserge

Deja-vous?

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Dean Martin

This Time I'm Swingin'!

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Dark Entries)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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Bezier

Primes

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Dark Entries is proud to release the latest offering from Bézier, a 3-track EP titled ‘Primes’. Bézier is the moniker of San Francisco based musician Robert Yang, who is also part of the Honey Soundsystem crew. A multi-instrumentalist, Robert planted his roots in San Francisco in 2005. Over the years in SF he has built an impressive analog synth-based studio, which also serves as the creative hub for his riveting live performances.

‘Primes’ represents the theme of primordial origins and creation with three tracks that explore disparate, sonic environments in each song. The title track flows and ebbs like currents in an oil slick. Out of something messy (like primordial ooze) arises organized chaos. “Stranger” is a moody dark electro/wave track for a sweaty night cruising on the west coast of Holland. Set against an underwater sound canvas the song features seductive guest vocals and lyrics by Nicole Ginelli. Doc Sleep of Jacktone Records provides additional production duties. The final track, “Imperial Tranz Am”, is an airy, ethereal slow burner clocking in at over 13 minutes. It originally appeared as the soundtrack to an experimental queer fantasy film of the same name by SF film maker Aron Kantor.

All songs have been mixed by Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated) at Room 5, San Francisco and EQed for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in a jacket featuring a Quadtone pastel earthtone of pixelated celluar ooze designed by Eloise Leigh. Each EP includes a postcard with an image still from the ‘Imperial Tranz-Am’ movie. “Do I hear what I see, is it real or just a feeling, a vibration of N-R-G.”

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Albrecht Schrader

Nichtsdestotrotzdem

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Monika Enterprises)

Barbara Morgenstern

Doppelstern

LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Sunday Service)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Yes, double stars do exist. They are a reality. They appear in the firmament – sometimes as an optical and sometimes as a physical phenomenon. Two celestial bodies, working in relation to each other, circling around each other, responding to each other.

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Halma

Dissolved Solids

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2011 | US | Original (Reprise)

Michael Bublé

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2011 | US | Reissue (Secretly Canadian)

Nightlands

All The Way / Buggin Out

Tax Man That's It Limited V7

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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"All The Way" is an ode to pain and reinvention, a joyful noise about hopelessness. Written, recorded and mixed in one day. Like Jeff Lynne floating down Billy Joel's River of Dreams on adrone raft. Its flipside, "Buggin Out," absolutely comes from an obsession with Bo Hansson's Lord of the Rings (1970), the epic Swedish instrumental masterpiece. The skeleton of the track was played live on Hartley's Hammond 144, originally clocking in at almost 16 minutes of synth/organ madness. After some Casio/Korg overdubbing, the piece was chopped to the stillepic, seizure-enducing 6 minutes we have before us.

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Loose Ends

7" | 2024 | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Pop

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Racing Gloves / S Composites

GKZ

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Theme Ltd)

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Rhythm & Blues)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Theme Ltd presents two new releases from resident artist GAIKA
, https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/gaika also featuring THE NARRATOR and Liu. The two tracks circle between various influences and bear a bright flash of versatility from the artist and his collaborators. ‘Racing Gloves’ is underscored by THE NARRATOR’s melodious, delicately discordant passages. It’s then supplemented by GAIKA’s visceral, close-to-home rap style and calculated production. This textural balance, the two voices in tandem, makes for a perfect synchronicity. Not sure which voice to listen to? Pick up the gloves and go for a drive.

’S Composites’ featuring Liu, guides the listener between the gentle throes of multilingualism. It’s a unique mix of ethereal melodies supported by a classic RnB beat, enriched by a soft, swelling droning that seems to mimic breathing. As the track inflates and deflates, we’re carried by Liu’s honeyed vocals to her countdown, and the track’s final minute-long ‘breath’.

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The Kinks

Village Green Live! EP

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Modern Romantics Productions / Spectre)

Systems In Blue

Anthology 2003-2023

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Aglaja Camphausen / Die Schmonzetten

Alone

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Meyer)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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X 10th Anniversary Half Speed Mastered Edition

Ed Sheeran

CD | 2014 | WW | Reissue (Atlantic)

LP | 2021 | Original (Demon)

Release: 2014 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Celebrating 10 years of global superstar Ed Sheeran’s second album “Multiply”, styled as “x”. The album was an international commercial success, peaking at number 1 in 15 countries, topping the UK Albums Chart and US Billboard Top 200, and the top 5 in seven other countries.The album achieved multi-platinum status worldwide, and was the best selling album in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK. The album achieved the status of the most streamed album in the world in 2014 on Spotify, and became the third biggest selling album in the UK in the 2010s. “Multiply” is a testament to Ed’s songwriting and artistry, demonstrating his ability to blend heartfelt lyrics with infectious melodies across a range of musical styles. Five singles were released from the album; Sing, Don’t, Thinking Out Loud, Bloodstream (a Rudimental collaboration) and Photograph. Thinking Out Loud and Photograph have both become timeless classics that resonate with all ages, and continue to soundtrack countless weddings, proms and other heartfelt moments between loved ones. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the album, we are releasing a CD, black 2LP vinyl and green EcoRecord vinyl and a CD zine with 9 bonus tracks, with inverted artwork. The bonus tracks have never been released on vinyl before, however Make It Rain was released on the Sons of Anarchy, Vol. 4 soundtrack, and the All Of The Stars was released on The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack, but have never been part of an Ed Sheeran release.

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Jimmy Castor

From The Roots

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Hobbes Music)

Sarah/Shaun

It's True What They Say?

10" | 2024 | Original (Babka)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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It’s True What They Say is the debut EP from Edinburgh-based, husband-and-wife duo Sarah/Shaun (pronounced simply Sarah Shaun), aka Sarah and Shaun McLachlan (pronounced “McLochlin”).

“Sarah and I both have a love for nostalgia,” explains Shaun. “We watched that amazing old 80’s Sci-Fi, (John) Carpenter movie, Starman, a few months back. Myself and my brother David used to watch it all the time. We must have been, roughly, 5-7 at the time. I remember loving the movie but the end, you know, with the beautiful, atmospheric, synth ending, I love that particular moment the most - best part of the movie, you know, when he goes home… It’s heartbreaking but stunning, all the same. It’s the music that moves you most… It did when I was 5 and it still does to this day. It must have had some form of a (much deeper) impact on me.”

The duo narrates stories across themes of love, hope, family, friends, dreams and sadness - the good that comes with the bad in everyday life, not just on a personal scale but within a community as well.

“Starbed is the first song I have ever written and just came out of the blue really, with Shaun playing a melody and me singing along,” says Sarah. “It’s simple and just about two people in love. Love songs are always the best songs, after all… Music has been a big part of my life from a young age. I was unwillingly dragged to piano and violin lessons, which I’m thankful for now! I’d say the first band I really became obsessed with growing up were the Beatles, and on the back of that a lot of 60s music and fashion. From then on, I had a love for music.”

“Shaun definitely opened my ears to a lot of sounds and got me thinking about soundtracks and all the noises that can be made,” she goes on. “We love just spending time experimenting in the house with instruments, pedals etc and Ali is a real magician to work with, too…”

The recordings took place over the summers of 2022 and 2023, with fellow Delta Mainline member Ali Chisholm (aka Jaguar Eyes) plus long-term friend and collaborator Gavin King. Further collaboration then came via the ‘net from the (international) likes of Chris Dixie Darley (Father John Misty), Darren Coghill (Neon Waltz) and Daniel Land (The Modern Painters), among others (see a full list of credits below).

Both Sarah and Shaun have a love for uber-soundtrack producers such as Hanz Zimmer, Max Richter, Cliff Martinez plus live acts such as Beach House, Spiritualized, M83, Suicide, Moby and OMD (to name a few). Shaun also credits the work of Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (from Survive) on the Stranger Things score… “Even a moment in a movie, whether it be just 30 seconds during a particular scene, it grips you,” he says. But there’s something much deeper at play as well. “Music is a healer,” he goes on, “and I write from my own perspective but more so for others. Once I've done my bit, it doesn't belong to me any longer. It belongs to whoever wants it or needs it.”

The result is a cinematic, synth-wavey, dream poppy and downright beguilingly beautiful body of work. And they’re just getting started…

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Haal

Return To Shilmarine

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Pop

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Christophe Van Huffel / Feelgood's Space Industry

Girls In Uniform

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Twisted Soul)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Split EP Christophe VAN Huffel/ Feelgood's Space Industry, Testimony OF THE French Glam Punk Band BAD Losers

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Dermot Kennedy

Sonder

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Little Magnets Versus The Bubble Of Babble

Transvision Vamp

LP | 2019 | Original (Demon)

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Long Branch)

Tides From Nebula

Eternal Movement

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2018 | Original (Bellevue Entertainment)

V.A.

Unforgettable Love Songs

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Richard Clayderman

His Greatest Melodies

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Target)

Another Juggle

Dance Sunshine, Dance

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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How To Let Go Special Edition

Sigrid

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Pin-Up Girls - Love To Love

V.A.

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

17,09 €* 17,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Avex Club)

Mc.At

Bomb A Head

17,09 €* 18,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Avex Club)

Every Little Thing

Fragile / Time Goes By

17,09 €* 18,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Dadaphonic)

Cranes

Fuse

17,09 €* 18,99 € -10%

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Olympics Of Love Marbled Vinyl Edition

Bombataz

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Cloudshaper)

17,24 €* 22,99 € -25%

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Objet Disque)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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With members of Schntzl, this is the jazzfunkglitchpop band everyone in Belgium is raving about

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Grand Veymont

Route Du Vertige

17,24 €* 22,99 € -25%

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dowd)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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« With their vintage organs, synths and drum machines, there are touches of Sereolab but Grand Vermont’s main mode is stranger and folkier, like Piper-era Floyd and David Allen dreaming up early Beach House. » Uncut « It’s electronic-ey, it’s French, it’s brillant » Soho Radio "Sweet minimalist post-punk" Konbini "[...] wonderful piece of childhood. Everything seems simple at first. Everything is luminous. Guts of darkness "[...] somewhere between the synthetic forests of Broadcast and the kraut pop trail of Stereolab." Gonzaï

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V.A.

Nevada City Album

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2020 | FR | Original (Le Cri Du Charbon)

Tachka

Volcan

Release: 2020 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Thirty Something)

Sunday's Best

The Californian

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Modern Way)

Roddy Woomble

Lo! Soul

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Lounge At The Edge Of Town

Lounge At The Edge Of Town Curacao Record Store Day 2021 Edition

LP | 2021 (The Complete Atomic)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Pure Noise)

Release: 2021

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Cold Moon

What's The Rush

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Wir Sind Schön Violet Vinyl Edition

Jens Friebe

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

17,49 €* 24,99 € -30%

Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited to 100 copies.

The millennium was one long bad prank / we looked at each other and knew right away: that's it." The world out there is going to the dogs. Well, not just since yesterday. And it won't be over tomorrow either. Shitty times, then. Of course, you could meet them with cynicism. Or with despair. But maybe not. Maybe we could also draw hope, precisely because it would be so much easier to lapse into doom and gloom and bitter laughter now. And maybe it's okay to need something to keep our spirits up in the midst of the apocalypse.

And that's how WIR SIND SCHÖN came to be, Jens Friebe's ninth album, which, like the previous albums, is also released on Staatsakt, punctually four years after the last one (2018's FUCK PENETRATION). It is a cheerful-melancholic, ironic-serious, nonchalant piece of music, which just has no desire for staleness and contemplation. The hymn-like, beautiful title track "Wir sind schön" (We are beautiful), which embraces kitsch with self-deprecating seriousness and is above all comforting, gets to the point: the better world out there, we can build it ourselves. Despite everything. "It's an anti-nihilist album," Friebe says. No Future is already not wrong, but not so funny anymore, if the Future really rather scorching earth in prospect. But it's not that the problematic is erased. It appears on the record in the most diverse forms: In the almost socially realistic depiction of a youth friendship destroyed by the multi-tiered education system with the beautiful title - shimmering between urban sociological treatise and fairy tale - "The Shrinking City", in the devastating protocol of failed self-care ("Das Nichtmehrkönnen") or the enigmatically gloomy fantasy "What Have We Done". But the listener never gets bogged down in these low points of mood, but is always pulled out and up into the euphoric, utopian. Or, as in the rousing protest song "Sing it to the Converted", into the militant. But what sounds at first like the sheer repetition of banal slogans, turns out in the next moment to be a reflection on the necessity of repeating banal slogans. Because, as the last few years have shown, even the seemingly self-evident must be reminded again and again. Or, as Friebe puts it, "Doesn't the priestess preach to the converted / How long would they be converted if they never heard her?"

Similarly immediately poignant and intricate at the same time is "Free": what is freedom? Neoliberal exploitation, a privilege of the better-off, as preached by certain federal finance ministers? Or naked skin in the sunlight, partying, wind in the treetops, rage unleashed? Yes, this is somehow also satire, but not only: Friebe does not leave it at simply denouncing a grievance like a tired cabaret artist. Between the shifted drums, minimalist instrumentation and velvety grooves and background vocals (as on other tracks by Elektrik Diva MALONDA and Pola Lia Schulten), the actual, truthful longing for a freedom that is not characterized by anti-social economic order and commercial exploitation also comes through.

Should we laugh or cry? Maybe just both, as on "Ende aller Feiern," a sixties-poppy, subtly queer love triangle, with probably one of the best lines ever to make it into a German-language break-up song: "Wir haben uns alles erzählt/Nur zuletzt wollt' ich nicht alles wissen/I think you noticed that/And bit me goodbye."

Standing still has never been Jens Friebe's thing, but this time it's musically a bit further from the indie rock habitus that still made up FUCK PENETRATION or NACKTE ANGST ZIEH DICH AN WIR GEHEN AUS (2014). Yes, a penchant for anthems, crooner-like and storyteller is always part of Jens Friebe, but this time Afrodiasporic musical styles play a bigger role. More soul, more grooves, a certain smoothness that suits the hope that flashes again and again between ironic distance and realistic description of the present on WIR SIND SCHÖN.

Although the real drums have been almost entirely replaced by the drum computer, Staatsakt colleague Chris Imler again has a style-defining role on this album with synths and additional percussion. On "Die Schrumpfende Stadt" (where Herman Herrmann can also be heard on bass) he programmed the beat. Mense Reents (Goldene Zitronen, Sophia Kennedy) mixed "Der Wahn" and "Ende aller Feiern". As with all albums since DAS MIT DEM AUTO IST EGAL (2007), Berend Intelmann was again responsible for the production.

WIR SIND SCHÖN is an antidote to our times, an embrace of all the ambivalences we have to endure every day and an adrenaline injection into the heart of apathy. The world is complicated, but that's okay. Because, "When our eyes get used to the dark / Look at us and you'll see: We are beautiful!"

Lyrics: Aida Baghernejad

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Tea Notes

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Ekster)

17,59 €* 21,99 € -20%

In Berholt Brecht's Baal 2017 Remastered Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Jatinder Singh Durhailay and David Edren released Tea Notes as a cassette back in April of 2018. London-based Jatinder Singh Durhailay is a painter and student of Indian Classical music. He has trained in both the sitar and the Hindi singing technique, Dhrupad. He also plays two traditional Sikh instruments; the bowed, stringed Dilruba and Taus. Poetic Pastel Press issued his solo debut, The Last Ballad Of Mardana, in 2017. David Edren`s expertise lies with machines and modular synthesis. His Kosmische and New Age-Inspired electronics have featured on numerous cassettes, and compilations, produced for imprints from the current Belgian underground, such as Jj Funhouse, Social Harmony, and Ultra Eczema. These recordings appearing, since the turn of the millennium, either under his own name, or the moniker DSR Lines. Jatinder and David’s collaboration, Tea Notes, is a celebration, a meditation, on both the beverage, and the communal time shared imbibing. The coming together to partake in its ritual. Each of the six tracks represents a different infusion. The opening piece is a tribute to semi-oxidised Oolong, from China`s Wuyi Mountains, with hammered dulcimer-like glissando. Gongs shimmering, gently crashing, as if signaling a change in the weather. A calm of thin, stretched synths and Ai angels introduces Tulsi from India. The Holy Basil of Hinduism, used in the worship of Vishnu, Krishna, and Rama. A traditional herb of Ayurveda and Siddha medicine. Automated arpeggiated sequences raising a vibrating wall of hallucinatory sound. Pairing swooning strings with a racing robot heart. Ceylon is a modern twist on the classical raga. Serving to tell the story of a tea smuggled into Sri Lanka in the 19th century. Plants stolen from South West China, where the brew had been enjoyed since the days of the Shang Dynasty (1766 to 1122 BC). The contraband founding fresh industry in its new home when the indigenous coffee crops failed. Muted organ and sleepy, treated sine wave microtones describe Kava, the Polynesian fireweed root, whose extract serves as both sedative and euphoriant.Shincha are the first young leaves of the season. Picked in Southern Japan and steamed to prevent oxidization, retain their flavour and green / gold colour. Their musical counterpart finds Edren establishing an ecclesiastical drone, while Durhailay`s strings chart an ancient romantic ache. Sonic stars shine. Singing out to the infinite, the universe, before dissolving into knots of Radiophonic Workshop noise.Melodies treated with subtle sustain and delay denote Pu-Ehr, from the Yunnan province. The only truly fermented black tea - made distinctive by the action of bacteria, moulds, and yeasts. Its musical themes hovering in the vapour trails, the atmospheres, they themselves create. Spiraling, soaring, reaching for the heavens, while pretty music box glitches - tiny chimes turned in on themselves. Catching, reflecting, like light at play on fresh running water. (words: Robert Harris)

Recorded january to march 2018 in Antwerpen and London. Mixed and edited by David Edren at ll150.
Mastered & cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin. Artwork by Victor Robyn.

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David Bowie

10" | 2018 | US | Original (Rhino / Parlophone)

17,84 €* 20,99 € -15%

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Record Makers)

Sebastien Tellier

Confection

17,84 €* 20,99 € -15%