(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Photos Tarjei Krogh / band)
Bérèche You follows up the first three Spring of 2024 singles with a full album on several streaming platforms, released by Crab Key Records last Friday, May 10th – and promise more to come the next months.

Isak Rypdal is back again with a brand new album to continue the Crab Key Studio music journey, and the first album called “Business Of Love” is exactly what it sounds like; a hymn to making music, electronic music, and the joy of making new exciting tracks.

On the new album Isak has collaborated with his good friend, the talented songwriter Cassiel Agrippa, who’s been involved in Electro Spectre and other previous work from Crab Key Studio for a long time, creating visual media such as artwork in addition to live photography for the bands.

Madil Hardis – the second collaborator

Madil Hardis is yet another talented contributor on the album.

Isak: “Madil is a trained singer and well-known on the international electronic music scene. She has done a lot of solo releases and collaborations worldwide; -particularly known from collaborations with such as Ashbury Heights and Mondträume.” Her last release is the beautiful album “Natural Darkness”.”

Isak Rypdal has a wide musical career since the early 90’s with bands likes Doctor No, Freeloader and Electro Spectre. Music from Doctor No and Freeloader has been chart topping in Norway and heavily rotated on international radio such as BBC Radio 1 in UK. Live shows includes playing at “We Love The 90’s” and more than a 100 live shows around the world. With Electro Spectre Isak has been so fortunate to be able to support bands such as OMD, Marsheaux, Zeromancer, Covenant, Melotron and Mesh, to mention a few.

Buy & listen to the album at Spotify /  TIDAL / Apple Music / Bandcamp /  YouTube, or play it here. Do also check out the video below.

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Sometimes – when I’m not cooking, biking, listening to music or attending concerts, I write stuff for Side-Line.com. Mostly about Norwegian bands, but it’s been some Swedish, English, American, Danish, German and others too… 😉

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Out via Amour Records is solo project by Marsheaux member Sophia Sarigiannidou. Now active as Aspra her debut single “Velvet/Anoint” now comes re-released as a limited edition 7 inch single (300 copies) on white vinyl. The set also holds a (folded) A2-sized colour poster, the whole comes inside an outer plastic bag.

“Velvet” is a rework of the shoegaze track by Big Pink and was released already last year. “Anoint”‘,” is originally by The Field Mice.

Both tracks were written and recorded during the lockdown at Sarigiannidou’s studio in Athens, Greece. This is the first ever new material by (one half of) Marsheaux, after their split. The Greek electro girl duo released their fifth (and last) studio album “Ath.Lon” in June 2016.

Aspra recently also collaborated with the veteran electronic composer Lena Platonos, resulting in the releases of “Markos” and “Kymata”.

In related news, Sarigiannidou also curated the release “Play for Tomorrow Vol. 1” holding a collection of rare and obscure post-punk and minimal synth pop tracks from the period 1977-1985.

Tracklist “Play for Tomorrow Vol. 1”

1. The Gadgets – U.F.O. Report N°1 (1980)
2. Michael Rother – Karussell (1977)
3. Amin Peck – Love Disgrace
4. Car Crash Set – Fall From Grace (1983)
5. Alan Burnham – Music To Save The World By (1981)
6. Blaine L. Reininger – Mystery and Confusion (1984)
7. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Of all the Things we’ve made (1981)
8. Ruth – Polaroid/Roman/Photo (1985)
9. Chrisma – Black Silk stocking (1977)
10. Buggles – On TV (1981)
11. Electronic Circus – Direct Lines (1981)
12. I Start Counting – Still Smilling (1985)
13. Chris & Cosey – October Love Song (1983)
14. Ultravox – Just for a Moment (1978)

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The Belgian technopop act Metroland has been active for over a decade now. The duo have now started working on a new concept for a new album. The theme that they started off with the previous EP (and limited vinyl) “4” this year will only be fully revealed when the upcoming album is released.

Unlike the other single, in this second wave of singles, called “3” and split up between “3​.​0” (available right here on Bandcamp) and “3​.​1” (available right here on Bandcamp) , the title track has an actual name: “Modularity”.

Good to know, during the studio sessions for this album’s singles, both members (Passenger A and Passenger S) have each separately recreated each single into a vision of their own and edited it for each digital release. On top of that in the remix section we have for you a version by none other than ASPRA, also known as Sophia from Marsheaux, turning the song into a dreamy synthpop tune. Also find on remix duties is the techno act Q’PNZ.

The two 4-track singles each hold exclusive edits and remixes by both members, ASTRA and Q’PNZ. Soundwise the new tracks combine the typical Metroland darker bass sounds with their trademark bleeps and analogue sequences.

Side-Line also covered Metroland’s ‘2​.​0’.

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Out now is “Dark Blue Ice”, a brand new single by the synthpop / darkwave duo Pegasus Asteroid. The single marks their come back after a two year hiatus and features two tracks, “Dark Blue Ice” and “Radio”, as well as their instrumental versions.

Pegasus Asteroid is a synthpop duo which was formed in January 2009 by frontwoman Anastasia Sokolova and Mikhail Sokolov (who is known as one of the founding members of the well known acts Stillife and Lesnikov-16). The band was also featured on our free download compilation “Face The Beat: Session 4” with the track “Mechanical Heart”.

We can recommend this material especially to fans of Marsheaux, Parralox, Foretaste and the like. Here’s the single on Bandcamp.

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Out now is “Store Debit”, the second album by the one-man project Cyber Monday, a UK synthpop project incorporating EDM elements in its sound. Signed to Pink Dolphin Records, you’ll find influences on his work including Erasure, Soft Cell, Human League, Depeche Mode and more modern artists such as FrankMusik, Client, Marsheaux or The Modern.

We sat down with Cyber Monday for an interview.

SL: What brought you to do electropop?

CM: Because I was bought up with my parents listening to Human League in the car, Soft Cell on the radio, etc the music genre became part of me. I started composing music on my synthesizer in my bedroom from the age of around 6 and I used to record it on a cassette player. I then started producing music on the Amiga in my bedroom around the age of 8, and it carried on from there.

SL: What is your background in music, any previous bands you were in?

CM: I was unsigned for 10 years before I was signed. It was a difficult battle to find the right label but eventually I found the right one. They fully support me in everything I do and enhance the interaction with fans which help immensely.

SL: Can you explain to our reader what Cyber Monday is?

CM: Cyber Monday is an event that was invented in the US but is also present in the UK which offer 1 day sales on technology. It makes people panic purchase and relies on impulse buying. It has proved very effective and is becoming a lot more popular.

SL: Who are your music influences?

CM: I have grown up with Soft Cell, Erasure, Human League, Depeche Mode and love the retro style, however there a lots of modern synthpop artists that I really equally love such as Parralox, FrankMusik, and Marsheaux. Which is great to know that the Synthpop world still exists although less mainstream.

SL: What is your studio setup?

CM: I still label myself as a bit of a bedroom producer as I now use just an iPad with Cubasis and many synth apps to get the right sound. I also like experimenting with my Teenage Engineering OP1 so my setup is very small indeed, yet portable that I can produce from a hotel room or on a flight if necessary.

SL: How did you end up with your current record label?

CM: Pink Dolphin Records I came across online and sent them a demo of my music, they were very happy to have me on board. They feature lots of genres but mainly from electronic genres. We keep in contact often and work really well together. They have helped me get my music out on USB, Vinyl, CD, Digital and we bounce ideas off each other and it just works very well. It’s like a special musical relationship ? and they feel the same way too.

SL: What have you released so far?

CM: My Debut Album was titled ‘Store Credit’ and I have just released a remix alternative album from the back of the debut album known as ‘Store Debit’ I have also just released a video from the ‘Phone Me’ track featured on both albums.

SL: What’s the story behind the album?

CM: Well I have always been fascinated by technology and online shopping and the phenomenon of retail marketed promotional events such as ‘Cyber Monday’ and ‘Black Friday’. Store Credit is a vocal album which includes various tracks such as Physical Attraction. The story behind Physical Attraction is will you buy that £1000 ring online just because you are physically attracted to someone. My story lines can go quite deep lol.

SL: What else have you been up to?

CM: Well I am working on a Covers album which I am very excited about. I think it will give me more promotion in getting my music out there. I am hoping to release it later this year. I have done a remix for a modern synthpop artist, also looking at instrumental tracks in the future to give my vocals a rest lol. I think it will be interesting for fans to see the contrast with instrumentals compared to my vocal music.

SL: Where can we buy your music from?

CM: I am on the usual: Spotify, Youtube Music, iTunes, and also Bandcamp. My official website is www.cybermondaymusic.co.uk and this is my Facebook page.

There is a new USB option to purchase my last 2 albums including bonus tracks on a cool USB stick. It features a total of 31 Tracks! And is available here.

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Out now is “Store Debit”, the second album by the one-man project Cyber Monday, a UK synthpop project incorporating EDM elements in its sound. Signed to Pink Dolphin Records, influences include Erasure, Soft Cell, Human League, Depeche Mode and more modern artists such as FrankMusik, Client, Marsheaux or The Modern.

The second album is a remixed and alternative version of the first album “Store Credit”. It is currently available on Bandcamp in USB and digital Formats. Note that the USB contains 31 tracks!

You can check out the new album right below.

The project’s debut album “Store Credit” saw a release on CD and cassette on Bandcamp (and all other digital platforms of course). The debut was also available as a limited vinyl but that sold out within a few days. You can still order other formats on Bandcamp.

More info can be found on the project’s official website.

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The biggest distributor for the industrial electro scene, Audioglobe, has announced its Top 10 in best selling industrial music labels. The numbers were already out there for the labels to look at it, but here they are also for the regular fans. Note that with 2018, Audioglobe also enters it’s 25th year of existance as the distributor set up shop on 6 December 1993. We will of course have a big extended interview and more with Sebastian Koch regarding this great achievement in a very tough market.

But now the numbers many of you have been waiting for!

The Top 3

First the Top 3. The number 1 label in sales is Trisol which has bands such as Clan of Xymox, Rome, Project Pitchfork, Sopor Aeternus, Nachtmahr, Rotersand, Asp, Mantus etc. under contract. The second label in the list is the Belgian based Alfa Matrix which nurtures the talent of Front 242, Underviewer, Daniel B Prothèse, Metroland, Alien Vampires, Ayria, Leatherstrip, Psy’Aviah, Kant Kino and so many other acts. Note that this label also has a very strong e-shop presence (direct sales are not included in this Top 10 list). The 3rd label is Out Of Line with Blutengel, Combichrist, Hocico, Solar Fake, Heimataerde, Unzucht, Solitary Experiments. Also this label has an own e-shop.

The rest of the Top 10

The 4th label is Fabrika/Dead Scarlet (She Past Away, Lebanon Hanover, Selofan, Kaelan Mikla, M!R!M, Doric…) followed by ArtOfFact (Legend, Frontline Assembly, Haujobb, Psyche, Noise Unit, Dead When I found her, Pankow…) and Metropolis (Birthday Massacre, Aesthetic Perfection, God Module, Lords of Acid, Skinny Puppy, Delerium…). The 7th place is occupied by Rustblade (Morricone, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Leaether Strip, Lydia Lunch, Legendary Pink Dots, Merzbow…). Also Dependent is still in the Top 10, namely on spot 8 with their label roster (Covenant, Mesh, Pride & Fall, Beborn Beton, Seabound, Encephalon, Frontline Assembly, Clicks..). Place 9 and 10 finally are for Manic Depression (Winter Severity Index, Ash Code, Schonwald, Box and the Twins, Sjoblom, Dear Deer…) and Undo (Marsheaux, Girl One and the Grease Guns, Mesh, Fotonovela, OMD, Nikonn, Mikro, Vienna, Liebe…).

And on spot 11 and 12…

2 labels didn’t make the Top 10, namely Hall Of Sermon (Lacrimosa, Snakeskin, Black Moon Secret, Eyes Shut Tight) and Infacted (NamNamBulu, Grendel, Torul, Reaper, Frozen Plasma, Ruined Conflict, Orange Sector, Syntec…). Both labels ended on place 11 and 12.

Here’s the complete list again. The bands next to the label are listed in order of sales results/total turnover per band in 2017 via Audioglobe.

01 TRISOL (Clan of Xymox, Rome, Project Pitchfork, Sopor Aeternus, Nachtmahr, Rotersand, Asp, Mantus…)
02 ALFA MATRIX (Front 242, Underviewer, Daniel B Prothèse, Metroland, Alien Vampires, Ayria, Leatherstrip…)
03 OUT OF LINE (Blutengel, Combichrist, Hocico, Solar Fake, Heimataerde, Unzucht, Solitary Experiments …)
04 FABRIKA/DEAD SCARLET (She Past Away, Lebanon Hanover, Selofan, Kaelan Mikla, M!R!M, Doric…)
05 ARTOFFACT (Legend, Frontline Assembly, Haujobb, Psyche, Noise Unit, Dead When I found her, Pankow…)
06 METROPOLIS (Birthday Massacre, Aesthetic Perfection, God Module, Lords of Acid, Skinny Puppy, Delerium…)
07 RUSTBLADE (Morricone, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Leaether Strip, Lydia Lunch, Legendary Pink Dots, Merzbow…)
08 DEPENDENT (Covenant, Mesh, Pride & Fall, Beborn Beton, Seabound, Encephalon, Frontline Assembly, Clicks..)
09 MANIC DEPRESSION (Winter Severity Index, Ash Code, Schonwald, Box and the Twins, Sjoblom, Dear Deer…)
10 UNDO (Marsheaux, Girl One and the Grease Guns, Mesh, Fotonovela, OMD, Nikonn, Mikro, Vienna, Liebe…)
11 HALL OF SERMON (Lacrimosa, Snakeskin, Black Moon Secret, Eyes Shut Tight)
12 INFACTED (NamNamBulu, Grendel, Torul, Reaper, Frozen Plasma, Ruined Conflict, Orange Sector, Syntec…)

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Out on December 21st is a Greek expanded edition of the recent Erasure album “World Be Gone” with 6 exclusive remixes approved by Andy Bell and Vince Clarke. The album comes in a different design to any other format and is limited to 500 copies only.

One of the remixing bands is the Belgian electro sensation Metroland together with other bands. Here are the tracks as selected for the bonus CD titled “Be Careful What You Wish For! Greek Remixed EP”:

1. Be Careful What You Wish For (Lacquer Remix)
2. Be Careful What You Wish For (Paint A Rumour Remix by Marsheaux)
3. Be Careful What You Wish For (Tareq Remix)
4. Be Careful What You Wish For (Eliot’s Circuit Mix)
5. Be Careful What You Wish For (Fotonovela Remix)
6. Be Careful What You Wish For (Metroland’s Mono-Poly Mix)

You can order your copy right here.

Side-Line also covered Metroland’s ‘Man in a Frame’.

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Out in December – and available in pre-order now – are 2 brand new vinyl reissues of albums by the Greek female electropop duo Marsheaux.

The first is “Lumineux Noir”, the third album (2009) from Marsheaux which sees a reissue as a 2LP on blue vinyl. This limited blue double vinyl (500 copies only) has 3 sides of music and 1 side etched with the cover art.

You can order the album right here.

The next one is the band’s second album, the 2006 released “Peek A Boo” which will be reissued as a 2LP on lilac vinyl. This second album was the band’s breakthrough album and is now released for the first time ever on vinyl, in a limited edition of only 500 copies. Again, you get 3 sides of music and 1 side featuring an etching.

You can order the album right here.

These are 2 tracks from the above mentioned albums: “Summer” from “Lumineux Noir”, and “Hanging On” from “Peek A Boo”.

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Out in a few weeks from now is the EP “Get the balance right” by Marsheaux (and already available for ordering right here). Marsheaux recorded “Get the Balance Right” exclusively for their Hansa Studios appearance last month (21 June 2017) in occasion of the official Depeche Mode warm-up party for Depeche Mode’s Berlin show in the legendary studios. The song was offered at the merchandise stall at their live performance in a special ‘Souvenir Tour’ project.

All copies of this box set were immediately sold out at the merchandise stall. The EP is being unleashed to a wider public – although still remaining very limited with only 400 copies being produced – and is ready for pre-ordering now.

The EP itself contains two versions of the Depeche Mode track plus the instrumental B-Side “The Great Outdoors!” and two previously unreleased versions of “Now this is Fun”: a Live-version recorded in Sweden and a new ‘The Eagle has landed’ version featuring the vocals of Marsheaux (while the original had James New of the Mirrors on vocals)

The limited edition of 400 copies comes in a matt digipak sleeve and will not get a reprint, after it’s sold out!

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For more on Depeche Mode, see Model1 releases Depeche Mode tribute album on Side-Line.

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Here’s something super sweet for the Marsheaux fans! Out by early August is the tape (yes, a cassette) called “The rejected demos” in a limited edition of strictly 300 copies.

The tape collects 7 tracks, recorded during the “Ath.Lon” recording sessions, but finally dropped or rejected from release, hence the title of the release “The rejected demos”. Each of the 7 tracks were previously unreleased and are only available on this limited edition tape!

You can order your copy right here.

The track list:

• A1 Just don’t (4:49 mins)
• A2 Satellites of Love (4:00 mins)
• A3 Lush (4:29 mins)
• B1 Behind (3:02 mins)
• B2 I don’t care (3:36 mins)
• B3 Life goes on (3:19 mins)
• B4 Slowdown (3:35 mins)

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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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Electropop act Snuttock has just released their latest music video for the “Spitting into the Wind” (Psy’Aviah Remix). For this video release, Fried Okra Entertainment has ‘reimagined’ the footage originally shot by L76 Media for the original “Spitting into the Wind” music video.

Says the band in a reaction: “With the awesome response this remix has received, the decision to make a new video for it was a no–brainer… this isn’t simply a re-work of previously seen footage, it contains stellar new animation as well as scenes not included in the original version!”

Check it out here:

Snuttock, in conjunction with Morphius Records, released “Rituals Redux” on September 15th, 2016 (available here). The album is the follow up to the band’s “Endless Rituals” released 3 years ago. The double CD album contains remixes by Marsheaux, Metroland, Leaether Strip, Psy’Aviah, SITD, Sebastian Komor, and many more…

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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 56th track on our free download compilation “Face The Beat: Session 4” (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Russian synthpop act Pegasus Asteroid.

Pegasus Asteroid is a synthpop duo from Rostov-on-Don, Russia and formed in January 2009. The duo behind this fine electro pop act is frontwoman Anastasia Sokolova and Mikhail Sokolov (who is known as one of the founding members of the well known Russian acts Stillife and Lesnikov-16). Signed to the fine young SkyQode label, this duo will definitely appeal to fans of Marsheaux, Parralox, Foretaste and the like.

The band is currently recording a full album. You can follow them right here on Facebook.

Listen to “Mechanical Heart” below and download it right here.

Check our “Face The Beat: Session 4” page on Bandcamp to discover the other 91 bands. All donations will go to charity.

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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 Greek act Marsheaux has launched a new single taken from the album “Ath.Lon” (available here on vinyl, 2CD and various other formats) together with a video which you can watch below.

Marsheaux are a Greek female electro-pop duo (Marianthi Melitsi and Sophie Sarigiannidou). Originally from Thessaloniki, they moved to Athens and formed the group. Marianthi moved to London in 2015 and the girls commuted between Greece and the
UK to record the “Ath.Lon” album which was released August 2016.

Marsheaux will play at the Electric Dreams Weekender next Sunday (4th). The event takes place at the Butlins Bognor Regis Resort and also features sets from OMD, Heaven 17, Blancmange, Marc Almond and more.

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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 fine label Artoffact returns with a rather delicious offer – and it has made the label’s CEO rabies mad as you can see above. If you use the discount code 2016move when following this link, you’ll get 35% off your vinyl purchases in the next 24 hours! Ain’t that a sweet deal.

You can choose from a nice list of releases from Haujobb, Controlled Bleeding, Die Krupps, Front Line Assembly, Wumpscut, Psyche, Advanced Art., Cat Rapes Dog, Cevin Key, Land of Giants, Marsheaux, Mlada Fronta, Mobile Clones, Nash The Slash, Noise Unit, Of Tanz Victims, Rational Youth, Terminal Sunglasses, The Glen & Joe Show and The Gruesomes.

In short, you have no reason to say no to this fine offer. So head to this secret Artoffact link and use the code 2016move and you’ll get your 35% reduction!

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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 Finnish/Canadian label ArtOfFact has a sale up with incredibly low prices including excellent releases from such great bands as Marsheaux, Cevin Key, … That sound almost too good to be true to you? Well, hang on, it’s true and you’d be foolish not to take advantage of this limited offer.

The massive sale is up to free up stock space. Therefor they have slashed their prices with 50% or more resulting in prices of 6 Euro, 12 Euro etc for high quality releases from Marsheaux, Cat Rapes Dog, Cevin Key, Download, Front Line Assembly, Land of Giants, Mlada Fronta, Mobile Clones, Nash The Slash, Noise Unit, Of Tanz Victims, Psyche, The Gruesomes and more!

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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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Snuttock, in conjunction with Morphius Records, is to release “Rituals Redux” on September 15th, 2016 (pre-orders available here). The album is the follow up to the band’s “Endless Rituals” released 3 years ago. The double CD album contains remixes by Marsheaux, Metroland, Leaether Strip, Psy’Aviah, SITD, Sebastian Komor, and many more…

You can already listen to “Advice” remixed by Leaether Strip and “Advice” in a Red This Ever remix version.

You can order “Rituals Redux” as a download via the band’s Bandcamp page or as a 2CD set (available here) containing all the music included on the digital download release, presented in a radio show format by WOCD DJ Don Rogers, plus station IDs from some of the artists. The set is packaged in a double amaray case with a full color 8 page booklet. There is also a limited edition version (available here) with an autographed poster.

Here’s a teaser for the release:

Snuttock, consisting of the duo Bryan Lee and Christopher Lee Simmonds (who is also a founding member of Thought Industry) was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 2003. Since then they have released 3 albums: “Straight Jacket Life” (2005), “Carved and Sutured” (2008) and “Endless Rituals” (2013) showing that the band takes it time to record a decent album (and to professionally work on their video output as you can see below).

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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Stop watching football for a few minutes or you’ll miss a special release. Available now for ordering but close to being sold out already, is a special and hugely collectable limited edition box set of 808 numbered copies (of which over 700 are already sold) with hand-finished artwork by Marianthi and Sophie.

The metallic screen printed edition boxed double CD includes 4 unreleased tracks (“Treasure”, “Happiness”, “Stay Wild” and “How Beautiful”), plus 14 silk screened metallic, thermographic printed cards. Each box is unique and thus different to the other 807.

You can order this special set right here – like we said, be fast, only 100 are left!

“Ath.Lon” is the 5th studio album from the Greek electro duo. It was mixed at Spacelab Studios in London and mastered by Nikonn and Dominique Brethes at FloW Mastering. The first single track “Safe Tonight” got the video clip treatment, you can watch it below.

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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The Greek electro duo Marsheaux is to release their fifth studio album, “Ath.Lon” and the pre-orders have started now. For those wondering where the title comes from, it is derived from the first syllables of the two cities which served as the background for their new material: Athens and London, also respectively the cities where Sophie Sarigiannidou and Marianthi Melitsi are now residing.

The 10 songs consist the first new original material by the band after their tribute to Depeche Mode’s “A Broken Frame” which has been a worldwide success. The material was produced by Marsheaux and Fotonovela, the electro duo from the Undo Records family, and Rodrigo Silva-Ramos from GeeksMusic. It was mixed at the Spacelab Studios in London and mastered by Nikonn and Dominique Brethes at FloW Mastering.

The new album will be released on vinyl (available for ordering right here), CD (available for ordering right here) and a special deluxe package holding the vinyl, the CD plus a free copy of the “Inhale” CD (this deluxe package is available for ordering right here).

A teaser for the “Safe Tonight” video, also the first single from the album, can be viewed below. The video itself was filmed in Valencia, Spain.

And here is the teaser for the new album:

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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 first single taken from the all new Marsheaux-album “Ath.lon”, their first regular album since “Inhale” (2013), will arrive in May. The “Safe Tonight” single comes with 4 versions of the track and comes packaged in cardboard sleeve (available now for ordering right here) just as the “Monument” EP (which is still available here).

“Safe Tonight” is a straight forward classic Marsheaux electro pop-song. The song is included in 4 different versions: the album version, an extended version plus 2 remixes by UNDO label mates Nikonn and Fotonovela.

Tracklist:

1. Safe Tonight – Album Version
2. Safe Tonight – Extended Mix
3. Safe Tonight – Nikonn Remix
4. Safe Tonight – Fotonovela Remix

Check the rest of the Marsheaux back catalog releases right here including 7inches, vinyl albums etc.. The new single can be viewed below.

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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(By Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange and Bernard Van Isacker) Out now is “Essentials”, the platinum collection of the very best from Electro Spectre’s entire catalogue. The Norwegian duo, Isak Rypdal and Alexander Bjørneboe, have included hits, remixes and additional album tracks, all reworked and remastered for the 2016 release. The work spans from 2009 to 2016, and contains 50 tracks on 3 CDs – panning from catchy and danceable to the more dark edged.

The ‘Essential’ collection contains a union between the past and present of electronic pop music, between modern music technology and vintage retro atmosphere of the 1980s, and is highly recommended by the Side-Line editorial staff since we consider Electro Spectre to be the absolute best electropop act of this moment!

You can order it now via iTunes among many other outlets. We managed to have a quick chat with the producer half of the duo, Isak Rypdal.

SL: What’s lined up for 2016?

Isak: The band will release two albums; ‘Essentials’ and ‘Essential Remixes’, plus the entire remastered back catalogue.

SL: Any live performances planned?

Isak:  After Side-Line Magazine dubbed our release of ‘Dangerous Game’ as the best electropop album in the world in 2012, we’ve toured numerous countries and have supported bands such as Melotron, Zeromancer, Mesh, and last year in Poland we played with Marsheaux in Warsaw. This summer we will join the Swedish legends Covenant, Mondträume and others at the Dark Sounds Festival in Poznan, Poland. Join us there June 25th!

Listen here and check Electro Spectre online:

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Sometimes – when I’m not cooking, biking, listening to music or attending concerts, I write stuff for Side-Line.com. Mostly about Norwegian bands, but it’s been some Swedish, English, American, Danish, German and others too… 😉

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In the past few days Alfa Matrix has been inundated by people worried about a message put on the Metroland Facebook page which read: “After 3 albums praised by many, several smashing singles and videos, supporting and remixing bands like OMD and Marsheaux, both Passengers decided to move on, each travelling into a different direction. Metroland is calling it quits. But before the final curtain, we want to please our numerous fans with an international farewell tour.”

Not many seemed to have realised that it was an April Fool’s Joke and as the band says “also a test to see who still reads us (on Facebook)”. As it happens, Facebook always works better when announcing bad news. Case proven again by the Metroland duo. It also means that no farewell tour is scheduled.

Instead of splitting up, Metroland had a meeting over the weekend in Ypres with their label to discuss the plans for a new conceptual album that they have been working on for some time and lots more. They posted a picture to prove it.

The band’s latest output is the CD/download album “Things Will Never Sound The Same Again” (CD is available here) together with 2 download singles for “Under The Roof”.

Side-Line also covered Metroland’s ‘Click Interview’.

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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 in a couple of weeks – and available here – is a double CD version of Marsheaux’ tribute of Depeche Mode’s “A Broken Frame” album. And while many of you will probably already have purchase the vinyl version of this great Depeche Mode tribute album, you might want to consider to also get ahold of this new 2CD version.

Here’s why. CD1 holds all the tracks from the vinyl album plus two exclusive covers of the B-Sides from Depeche Mode’s pre-“A Broken Frame” singles “See you” and “The Meaning of Love”: “Now this is Fun” (with lead-vocals by James New, leadsinger of The Mirrors) and “Oberkorn”. CD2 features all the tracks from the regular vinyl-album in different, extended versions. That’s 12 bonus-tracks in total.

For more on Depeche Mode, see Did you know this? Special extremely limited Depeche Mode T-shirt to… on Side-Line.

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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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Toronto-based Artoffact Records will re-issue Marsheaux’s “Inhale” record with an ultra-rare vinyl effect.

Formed in 2000, Marsheaux has surged in popularity in recent years, with releases on Les Disques Du Crépuscule, Out of Line, Artoffact Records, Anna Logue Records, and Undo Records. They have remixed OMD, their music has been used by The Human League and name-checked by BBC radio hosts Tom Robinson and Stuart Maconie, and recently VNV Nation tapped the duo as support on a tour in Germany.

The project’s fourth record, “Inhale”, sold out of an original vinyl run in 2014.This new reissue of “Inhale” includes a special effect that is quite rare, called shape-splatter. The effect looks a bit like the more familiar splatter effect, but instead of streaks eminating from the vinyl disc’s center, there are geometric shapes.

The effect was so costly and complicated to produce, that the plant which produces it (GZ in the Czech Republic) have stated that they will no longer be making it in the new year. Marsheaux’s record will be one of the last. Artoffact will be producing 199 copies of this wonderful and unique piece, and the planned shipping date is February 2016. You can order your copy straight from the source!

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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The Canadian online mail-orderStorming The Base has launched its Halloween sales on all Artefact releases (in a tongue-in-cheek way if you watch the above banner closely). As usual, there is plenty of goodness to be found in their offer at pretty low prices from plenty of artists (including a ton of CDs at not even 5 euro). There’s also plenty of vinyl available including material from Front Line Assembly, Psyche, Haujobb, Cevin Key & Ken Hiwatt, Apoptygma Berzerk and many many more. Go and have a look right here in the sales section.

We were informed that the label is also give a 10% discount on the releases from Artoffact.

Speaking of which, if you an EU citizen, Artoffact is now shipping vinyl from the EU too – which makes it cheaper for EU residents. Check what they have on offer right here in their new EU webstore.

They will be using a flat fee for shipping from their office in Helsinki, Finland. This means that there will be no extra taxes, fees, or customs charges (all taxes are included in the price), plus they’ll be using a flat-rate shipping of 17,50 Euro (free for Finnish residents), orders are dispatched the same week they arrive and FedEx shipping guarantees fast, trackable delivery.

Available for direct ordering are vinyl titles from Azar Swan, Cevin Key, Download, Front Line Assembly, Marsheaux, Mlada Fronta, Rational Youth, Psyche & Luminance, Saltillo, Seeming and Volt 9000. Available are also pre-orders for vinyl releases from Advanced Art. Darkhive, Cevin Key, Front Line Assembly, Land of Giants, Haujobb, Of Tanz Victims, Psyche and The Gruesomes. You can find all these vinyl releases right here.

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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All good things must come to an end! Since 1999 Oslo’s ElektroStat (formerly known also as Oslo Synthfestival) has been an active promotor and purveyor of great electronic music in the shape of small bands, big bands, small bands becoming big bands. This year’s ElektroStat will be the 17th running, taking place on November 06-07 2015, and unfortunately also the very last one. Yes, that’s right, ElektroStat has run its course and will be no more after this year’s edition.

But they will end in beauty as this year’s line up holds live performances from Dive, Leæther Strip, Tarmvred, Deutsche Bank, Schnodig, Distortion Six and Lurendrei.

Side-Line has been at the festival at several occasions in the past few years and it’s one of the few festivals where it was good fun being at with shows from Recoil, Kant Kino, Karin Park, Essence Of Mind, Marsheaux and many many more.

It’s highly recommended to already book your hotel if you plan to go as hotels tend to be rapidly booked around that period in Oslo. You can find a list of hotels available during this period right here. Make sure to choose a prolonged stay as Oslo has many exquisite corners to offer that will make your stay even more enjoyable.

Tickets for this year’s edition can be bought right here. You can check the festival’s official website for extra info too.

We’d like to take the opportunity to thank the team behind ElektroStat for the good collaboration over the past years and for the hospitality we enjoyed during our stays in Oslo. En stor kyss og vi vil se hverandre ganske snart !

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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