Out now is a brand new video from the electro pop act Snuttock: “Why”. The video was shot by Ernie Mosteller of Fried Okra Entertainment, and edited by Mia Regalado (who after singing on the band’s albums, starring in, shooting, and editing a number of their videos, has basically become the 3rd member of the band). You’ll also recognise actress / model Alisa Baksheeva in the video.

You can view the video below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnDPfzrlNC0

“Why” is featured on Snuttock’s first album “Straight Jacket Life” which was released in 2005 already. Here’s what Bryan Lee says about it: “It’s all a bit unorthodox as the song is actually off of our first album, 2005’s ‘Straight Jacked Life’. I developed the concept years ago, but knew it would be an expensive project. Figured I’d let it ferment a few years to see if it kept my interest. Well, it did and we filmed it in the summer of 2016 in an old theater in downtown Baltimore.”

Snuttock’s most recent studio album is the August 2016 released “Rituals Redux” album which you can check out below.

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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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SERL9016iYE

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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Snuttock hits back with a fresh new video for the great track “Attention” featured on their recent album “Rituals Redux”. The video has the track featured in an excellent remix by Leaether Strip. The track is a great rework and of course was included in the tracks we recently added in our Spotify playlist. Shot and Directed by Ernie Mosteller it features appearances by Claus Larsen (Leaether Strip) and actress Alisa Baksheeva.

You can watch the video below + an interview with the band below that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zix8lU-EJZI

SL: How did Claus Larsen end up doing the remix?

Snuttock : When we set out to put together the remix album, I spent a lot of time on YouTube searching for remixes I liked in the EBM, Synthpop, Industrial genres, and Leaether Strip was the remixer on a lot of them. I sent a text to Ilker Yücel (Editor Regenmag) asking if he knew Claus. He replied that Claus is a great guy and I shouldn’t hesitate to contact him…he was right! When it came to choosing a song / style to remix I couldn’t make up my mind, as Claus has a lot of great Synthpop covers as well as EBM remixes. Ultimately I asked if he would do an old school EBM remix of Attention and a Synthpop remix of Advice. Glad I asked, he did an AWESOME job on both!

SL: Claus is a legend in the EBM scene, do you remember when you got in touch with his work the first time?

Snuttock : I’m a bit late to the game on this one, I’d say the 2000 – 2004 time frame. For me anyway, that was the time period where I began to learn a lot about the international music scene (thanks to the internet). Nothing like EBM was on the US airwaves that I knew of, and if you heard it in a club, good luck finding out the name of the track or artist.

SL/ Ernie Mosteller did a great job on this video, how did you get in touch with this artist?

Snuttock : Early last summer I had a music video shoot all lined up, deposits paid on the theatre rental and costume rentals, Juggler, Mime, Contortionist and more all lined up…then I could no longer get in touch with our usual director. I reached out to Mia Regalado, who has sung on our albums, appeared in our videos, and asked if she knew any directors that might be interested in shooting the video. Having worked in the film industry for years she had numerous contacts, and the first person she thought of ended up being the perfect fit…Ernie! He’s an accomplished director with his own production company ( http://friedokra.tv ) and is a BLAST to work with, we were lucky to lure him in! I ended up twisting his arm into filming the current Attention video a few months later.

SL: What’s in the pipeline for the band in the next weeks and months?

Snuttock : For the immediate future, Ernie is currently reworking a ton of our Spitting Into the Wind footage for a new music video of the Psy’Aviah “Spitting” remix…and there’s the Vaudeville style music video I alluded to above that will be released next spring / summer. Of course, we’re also working on new music…

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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This is the first article outside Holland and Flanders (Belgium) that talks about the Belgian electropop act Bazart. People who follow our Spotify playlist will know why we added them a few days ago: they offer great electropop music. And for the others, the reason why the name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because they chose to sing in Dutch only, which works wonderfully we must say.

So here’s an introduction to the non-Dutch speaking world of what will probably become the most successful dutch sung electropop act of all times. In the past years only Arbeid Adelt succeeded to pull this off back in the eighties (although they never had the mass appeal like Bazart has), while several later dutch sung electropop projects from Flancers failed, including for instance the excellent – but completely forgotten – Kolk, a female fronted trip pop project featuring Luc Gulinck, Gerry Vergult, Maud Verlynde.

Bazart was founded by singer Mathieu Terryn and singer/guitarist Simon Nuytten. They debuted with their self released EP “Meer Dan Ooit” in 2012 before being signed to PIAS, through which they released the eponymously titled EP “Bazart” in 2015. That EP was followed by the download singles “Tunnels” and “Goud” in 2015 (“Goud” being the band’s biggest hit so far) and “Chaos” earlier this year (this time on the Pias powered Debonair label). Note that “Chaos” is a re-recorded shorter version of the one which was released on the band’s debut EP a few years earlier. You can download all these releases (except for the debut EP) right here.

Today the band consists of Mathieu Terryn (singer), Simon Nuytten (singer, guitar), Oliver Symons (singer, synths, guitars), Daan Schepers (bass) and Robbe Vekeman (percussion).

Check the videos below to see what you are missing out on:

And this is the band’s one-hour long show live at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on 13 May 2016.

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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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOyl3QMw2M

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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