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Das zweite BLACKFIELD, das zweite Mal zwei Tage mit fast allem, was man nicht unbedingt geballt an einem Wochenende erwartet: Sei es Sonne, sei es Regen, kalte Brise, sengende Hitze und nicht zu vergessen ein Line-Up, das auch dieses Jahr überraschte. Besucher Torben aus Aachen konnte sich damit anfreunden: „Das Line-Up ist super.“ Doch das war nicht unbedingt der Grund, weshalb er beim BLACKFIELD-Festival war: „Ich wollte eigentlich zu Depeche Mode, hatte aber keine Karten mehr bekommen.“ BLACKFIELD als Alternative. Das funktionierte.

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Portion Control is a British electronic and industrial band formed in London in 1980. The band calls its music style electropunk or hard rhythmic electronics.

They are one of the most famous obscure electronic music acts in the world and have been honored and name checked by the likes of Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, NiN & Orbital.

Portion Control is now highly active and creating innovative, uncompromising electronic audio.

After their return in 2004 they have self-released a stream of critically acclaimed CDs and EPs as well as actively presenting their live transmissions at festivals such as Tinnitus Festival (UK), Reverse Forward Festival (Germany), Wave Gothic Treffen (Germany), BodyBeats Festival (Belgium) to name a few.

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Now Portion Control teams up with Sigsaly Transmissions to release this two-disc 6 page digipak release. CROP includes a compilation of material from 2004-2008 as well as an CD EP of reworked and new material.
With release on Sigsaly Transamissions CROP will be the first Portion Control product to be comprehensively promoted and distributed, hopefully exposing their influencial sound to new listeners.




Biography:
Portion Control are a British electronic and industrial band formed in London in 1980. The band calls its music style electropunk or hard rhythmic electronics. They are one of the most famous obscure electronic music acts in the world and have been honoured and name checked by the likes of Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, NiN & Orbital
Having made a stylish return to the electronic underground with the album Wellcome in 2004, industrial act Portion Control now delivers a timely retrospective box set for collectors. Here we find 5 CDs of which appears to be the vast majority of their vinyl back catalogue work - plus extras - for the first time available in digital format. The material includes the bands early albums and EPs spread over the first 4 discs, with a limited edition bonus CD including high quality MP3s of everything included on the initial 4 discs, plus a remix of the track Refugee Rebuild by Rhys Fulber and 135 past & present related images of the band.

Disc one focuses on the 1982 album I Staggered Mentally, accompanied by the EP Hit The Pulse, which was released the following year. This is the rough template from which many industrial bands were influenced, and to some extent copied – notably two of the genres most successful and original protaganists, Front Line Assembly and Skinny Puppy, alongside the hard rhythmic electronics of Depeche Mode.
I Staggered Mentally is as raw an electronic album as you could possibly find, focusing around Dean Piavani’s anguished vocals set to an urban-industrial backing track of creaking metal, maudlin drones, primitive beats and alienating analogue flickers.It also is considered the first album to feature the legendary roland bass line TB-303 On the Hit The Pulse EP, Portion Control’s sound becomes more refined and sophisticated, although still completely out on a ledge for its time. This is the band’s first movement towards critical acceptance – with tracks like Thrust Angle showing innovation through its primitive sampling and sequencing methods – the music shaped by much cleaner beats and bass lines, although the heavily rhythmic bruise of the excellent Abbodabbo retained their leanings towards intense musical masochism.

Disc Two, titled Code002, features Portion Control’s final albums of the eighties before their lengthy semester, Step Forward (1984) and Psycho-Bod Saves The World (1986). Personally, this is where I find Portion Control at the peak of their powers – an amalgamation of purist industrial music, now shaped into songs rather than atmospheres – with marching rhythms and melodic passages. On Step Forward, we find classic tracks such as Havoc Man, with its edgy sequenced bass line and New Order-style synth-stabs, Piavani is on top form here vocally. There is also a number of creaking instrumental atmospheric numbers here – Eno antidotes I call them. The song Tex Mex is another blinder – I’m leaning towards the more melodic tracks – but you can see how easy and perhaps tempting it would have been for Portion Control to drop their principles and enter the synthpop mainstream fray – Depeche Mode for one said “thanks very much” – took what they could then amalgamated it into their synthpop universe.
On Psycho-Bod Saves The World, you can see the clear influence Portion Control had on industrial purists Front Line Assembly – with its reams of multi-layered film samples and moody soundscapes. The album embraces live drumming and more fluid songwriting ethics, the basslines powering the songs forward, moving further away from the static, motoric robotisism of previous works. Fistful Of Creds, with its tribal rhythms and wailing siren synth sounds is a brooding standout.

Code003, meanwhile, features the 1986 EP Purge and the 1983 compilation album Simulate Sensual. Purge saw Portion Control refining their sound further, everything is tighter here – I believe this EP represented the band’s first real stab at entering the alternative commercial mainstream at least – with Piavani’s vocal toned down somewhat, and high pitched melodic motifs increasingly apparent on tracks such as Raise The Pulse and The Great Divide.

Finally, we come to the fourth disc in the collective, which features the EP Surface And Be Seen (1982) the singles Raise The Pulse (1982), Rough Justice and Go Talk (1984), and The Great Divide (1985). This harks back to the band’s most experimental and fragmented cuts; critically acclaimed, but leagues away from what your everyday synth pundit was clamouring for at the time – and sometimes hard to swallow.
Portion Control is highly active now, and some might think better than ever, however, not only is this box set a completists dream, but it also goes some way to help map out the history of the industrial genre and other associated styles of electronic music. For that alone it’s a key body of work – well packaged and put together, despite some of the material being admittedly difficult to assimilate
In 1987 Portion Control signed to London Records and promptly vanished. They reformed a few years later as Solar Enemy which existed from 1990 to 1993. Portion Control weren't seen again until 2002 when fansite 319 Online announced a resumption of activities by the band resulting not long after in a free downloadable software demo, code 11, featuring graphics, a rare remix of an old track – suck and blow, and samples of new material. Nothing else was released by them, however, until early 2004 with the release of the critically acclaimed double album Wellcome (the title inspired by the work of Sir Henry Wellcome).


Genre:
Industrial/EBM/Elektro

Bandmembers:
Dean Piavani –voice, electronics, visuals
John Whybrew–electronics, visuals




Tracklist: CD 01
01. Hardman
02. Global
03. Pure Menace
04. Blood Rushed to Head
05. Blind Eyes
06. Too Much Damage
07. Onion Jack II Segue
08. Chew You to Bits (Rebuild)
09. Sickman
10. Onion Jack IV Segue: Pearly King & Queen
Cosh Boy. Onion Freak.Drive.By.Sunbeam

Tracklist: CD 02
11. Brain Scraper Death Dive (Rebuild)
12. Defend (NTRSN Version)
13. Witness/Transmission Intro_01
14. Amnesia (Beta.01)

Release-Date:
June 26th, 2009

Year of foundation:
1980

Order:

http://www.indietective.de
Portion Control @ www:

www.portion-control.net/crop

Portion Control @ Myspace:

www.myspace.com/porcon

Label:

www.sigmedia.us

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Janosch Moldau, internationally acclaimed creator of electronic sounds is releasing the long awaited Remix Album of his 2nd Album „Motel Songs“. This Album features many different versions of the well known Singles "Clear" and "One with the sinner".

It also features 4 Remixes done by the fabulous Peter Rainman from People Theatre in France. Based in the Southern German city of Ulm, Janosch Moldau has gained an extremely good reputation as an artist continuing to combine catchy electro pop tunes and glamorous guitar sounds with his crooning voice. An ever-growing crowd of fans who have already cheered his debut „Redeemer“ in 2005 will definietly welcome this follow-up „Remix Release“ now.


Style:
Alternative / Electronica

Bandmember:
Janosch Moldau



Tracklist:
01. Clear. Another Radio Mix
02. One with the sinner. People Theatre's Amen Mix
03. Clear. ICOC Collapse Mix
04. Clear. People Theatre's Bright Mix
05. Sweetest heart. People Theatre's Presence Mix
06. One with the sinner. Almost Bare
07. On and On. People Theatre's Belong Mix
08. Clear. Radio Edit
09. One with the sinner. Radio Edit


Release-Date:
19.06.09 (CD Release)
03.07.09 ( Digital Release)

Year of foundation:
2004

"Clear . One with the sinner . Remixed"(JMR 009)
VÖ: 19.06.09 (CD Release)
VÖ: 03.07.09 ( Digital Release )

Order Janosch Moldau:

http://www.poponaut.de/janosch-moldau-clear-one-with-the-sinner-remixed-p-6497.html?osCsid=8b120a3bc86250e681a82bbeadf86c1a

Janosch Moldau @ www:

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Janosch Moldau @ myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/janoschmoldau

Other websites:
http://www.youtube.com/janoschmoldautv
http://www.facebook.com/pages/JANOSCH-MOLDAU/8807852535
http://www.lastfm.de/music/janosch+moldau

Es ist soweit! Mit "Clear . One with the sinner . Remixed" veröffentlicht janosch moldau auf dem bandeigenen Label den offiziellen Remix Nachfolger des Erfolgs- Longplayers "Motel Songs", welcher im Herbst 2008 erschienen ist.

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Electro-Industrial ... Done the French way!

K-BEREIT from France are no newcomers to the music world, especially not to the world of Industrial & Electronic Body Music (EBM).

In the late Eighties, Dominique Lallement started out with the band, Kriegbereit, but already in the Nineties, Dominique was on the move again. As founding member of the now legendary, Cobalt 60, and alongside Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242, they went on to release numerous records and even soundtracks for the popular video games, Command & Conquer: Red Alter & Wing Commander: Prophecy.

After years of silence, Dominique was finally ready to join forces with his life-long friend Fred Sebastian to form the hybrid, K-BEREIT.

A unique and powerful blend of the Kriegbereit and Cobalt 60 sounds. This new full-length seventeen track album contains guest appearances by members of Dolls of Pain, Punish Yourself, SA42 and Autodafeh.

Fasten seat-belts – turbulences ahead!




Style:
Electro / Industrial

Bandmembers:
Dominique Lallement: Programming & Vox
Fred Sebastien: Vox & Deprogramming



Tracklist:
01. NONE
02. 4LIF3
03. WHATEVER MAY COME
04. LIAR
05. VIRUS K
06. IF ONLY
07. WAR
08. USE YOUR STRAP ON!
09. MUTILATION
10. IN/VISIBLE
11. RACE AGAINST TIME
12. H5N1 -By Psychosomatic
13. GROUND ZERO -By Psychosomatic
14. MY KISS -By Under All
15. WHIP ME -By Under All
16. Like a Bullet From A Gun (BonusTrack)

Release-Date:
12.06.2009

Year of foundation:
2002

Order:

http://www.poponaut.de/kbereit-distort-neural-unit-p-6539.html

K-Bereit @ www:

www.k-bereit.com

K-Bereit @ Myspace:

www.myspace.com/kbereit

Label:

www.sigmedia.us

Als ich die Promotioninfos zum neuen Marilyn Manson-Album durchlas, musste ich erstmal meine Musikdatenbank checken, ob die Daten stimmten. Ich war mir sicher, dass da wieder einmal ein Praktikant beim Label am Werk war, der rasch ein paar Zeilen zusammengetextet hat und keine Ahnung davon hatte, was der Schützling so an Veröffentlichungen zu bieten hat...

Aber ich musste mit Erstaunen feststellen, dass es tatsächlich schon mehr als zwei Jahre her sind, seit Marilyn Manson die Scheibe "Eat Me, Drink Me" vorgelegt hat. Ich hätte schwören können, dass das höchstens ein Jahr oder ein paar wenige Monate mehr her ist. Aber so lange... Nun, es ist wie es ist und der US-Schock-Rocker serviert uns anno 2009 sein neues Werk "The High End Of Low".

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Aus dem synthiepop-verliebten Dresden kommt mit Caisaron ein erneutes ambitioniertes Projekt, welches sich anschickt, Clubs und Wohnzimmer zu erobern. Das Trio Angela Blackfield (Gesang,Vocalcoach und Komposition der Zweitstimmen), Frank (Gesang, Sound und Recording) und Daniel (Songwriting, Keyboards) präsentiert uns mit der EP "Tief in mir" das zweite Release, nachdem bereits das Debütalbum "Own Way" (2007) rege Aufmerksamkeit erheischen konnte.

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Der exzentrische Meister A. von Greifenkeil pausiert derzeit mit seinem Soloprojekt. Stattdessen hat er mit seinen "Sirenen" und Greepeace die Aktion "goth for earth" ins Leben gerufen, welche durch das Performance-Projekt GriffonVox promotet wird. Die schwarze szene soll Ausgangspunkt für eine grüne Revolution werden. Auf dem WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN fanden die ersten Aktionen statt. Auf NORTHERN-GOTHICS.DE erhaltet Ihr einen ersten Einblick in das, was hinter der Aktion steckt.

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