Helax, the Swedish dark ambient / electro act signed to Warsaw Recordings, played their first ever live set at an outdoor location in Palamos, Spain earlier this week, playing songs from their recent two EPs.You can have a listen to the rather poppy live set right below.

Helax is a side project of Swedish-born (Uppsala) but now Berlin-based Jon Alexander Ericson, and was part of the dream-pop duo The Ghost Of Helags and electronic act Brynäs. He has also released four albums as a solo artist (including on Kalinkaland Records, the label owned by Chandeen’s Harald Löwy) and three with the group The Northern Territories and an album with Stjarna.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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Out now is the brand new album by the shoegaze/darkwave act Chandeen. The band’s new album “Mercury Retrograde” is the band’s tenth studio album to date and is released digitally and physically (CD and an 180g vinyl edition).

Out now as well is the their new musicvideo “You’re In A Trance”, featuring French singer-songwriter Kitty.

Chandeen is a musical project from Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1990 by Harald Löwy and Oliver Henkel and popular in the darkwave scene in the first half of the 1990s. From the middle of the 1990s, the band’s style changed to a more pop-oriented sound with influences from rock and trip hop.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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The shoegaze/darkwave act Chandeen is back with an all new video for the track “Vanish”. The track is taken from the band’s new album “Mercury Retrograde” out February 28, 2020. It will be the band’s tenth studio album and it will be released digitally and physically (CD and an 180g vinyl edition).

Here’s the video:

Singer Julia Beyer tells a bit more about the video: “So so proud of this, as we again produced the video on our own, with the filming and concept done by me. And it was so great to work with Luisa again who is so beautiful it hurts and did such an amazing job! And especially the invaluable helping hand (or in this case: choking hand) and laughter with/by Jens made the stressful shoot much more enjoyable.”

Chandeen, then and now

Chandeen was formed in Frankfurt am Main, in 1990, Harald Löwy and Oliver Henkel right at the moment when the darkwave scene knew its primal burst. From the middle of the 1990s, the band’s style changed to a more pop-oriented sound with influences from rock and trip hop. In 1991 Aline Akbari joined, and additional singer Antje Schulz joined in 1992.

After two cassette releases, the band signed to the cult label Hyperium Records, run by Oliver Rösch. Aline Akbari left the group shortly before the signing and was replaced by Catrin Mallon. Under this lineup they recorded their first two full-lengths, “Shaded by the Leaves” and “Jutland”. Both albums became instant classics.

Catrin Mallon and Oliver Henkel left the group in 1994 and went on to collaborate on the project Edera, which produced only one album (1996’s “Ambiguous”) before dissolving. Chandeen continued with the new singer Stephanie Härich for the 1995 EP “Light Within Time”. Härich had previously worked with Harald Löwy on the project Incept Date, singing background vocals on their “Archipelago” album in 1994.

After several releases on Hyperium, the group separated from that label and began releasing on Synthetic Symphony, a sublabel of SPV GmbH. Despite major exposion for the band in 1998 with the single “Skywalking”, it didn’t get them the mainstream succes they hoped for.

Harald Löwy created his own independent label, Kalinkaland, in 2001, which became the primary vehicle for the release of Chandeen’s music. Several further releases followed before the group broke up. In 2007 Löwy reactivated the project, releasing a new album, “Teenage Poetry”, in 2008. Julia Beyer joined for this release. Furthermore there was an additional steady band member with Mike Brown, who died in 2012. 2011 saw the release of their album “Blood Red Skies”, followed by “Forever And Ever” in 2014.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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The Frankfurt am Main based project Chandeen presents 5 new tracks on their Bandcamp page. You can listen to the tracks below.

Chandeen was founded in 1990 by Harald Löwy and Oliver Henkel, who had been working on musical experiments together from the winter of 1989. In 1991 Aline Akbari joined, and additional singer Antje Schulz joined in 1992. After two cassette releases, they came to the attention of Hyperium Records head Oliver Rösch, who signed them. Aline Akbari left the group shortly before the signing and was replaced by Catrin Mallon. Under this lineup they recorded their first two full-lengths, Shaded by the Leaves and Jutland.

From the middle of the 1990s, the band’s style changed to a more pop-oriented sound with influences from rock and trip hop.

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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