mercoledì 16 marzo 2011

//TENSE// - Escape 12'' EP MNQ 014























We are really excited to introduce you the cold factory sounds of the Houston duo //TENSE//, with a 12'' 5-tracks, surely one of our top-notch releases for 2011.

After an acclaimed tour opening for Nitzer Ebb in North America and a prolific production for Desire Records, //TENSE// is back in their creepy studio and the result is a constellation of brooding synth bass lines, pounding electronic drum pad sounds, movie samples and distorted vocals that sound pitch perfect underneath all of the madness.

To have an accurate idea of what we are talking about, imagine that Snake Plissken never escaped New York and he started an electro body music band with The Duke. Then, you are almost close to.

//TENSE// are definitely bringing back to life the earlier days of EBM, in a funky-industrial mixture that is so close to the shiny mid 80s period of Cabaret Voltaire or earlier Ministry, think early Wax Trax-era US industrial (Ministry, Skinny Puppy) crossed with the more minimal european wave sound (Absolute Body Control, A Split - Second).

An European 2011 Tour is soon to come (late August-September) in collaboration with Desire Records.

Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies.


Tracklist:

A1 - Disconnect Myself
A2 - Body Conscious
A3 - Pulse Beat
B1 - Pull The Strings
B2 - Unmanned Cars

//TENSE// - Disconnect Myself by Mannequin Label

mercoledì 2 marzo 2011

Chromagain - I Walk in the City FREE DOWNLOAD Track












Amazing feature on 20 Jazz Funk Greats + 'I Walk In The City' free download, a track that was never released before.


Read the full article here

mercoledì 23 febbraio 2011

Mushy - Losing Days /// FREE DOWNLOAD TRACK










































Check out the amazing feature on 20 Jazz Funk Greats and free download 'Losing Days'

Mushy’s Faded Heart is out on the 28th in Mannequin Records, packing ace bonus remixes from Newclear Waves, Soft Metals, Heinrich Dressel and Crossover.

mercoledì 16 febbraio 2011

Mannequin Mixtape for Official.FM FREE DOWNLOAD :-)



Tracklist:
01 Frank (just Frank) – Saint (MNQ 013)
02 Ancien Régime – The Phantom Chariot (MNQ 012)
03 Led Er Est – Orange (MNQ 012)
04 Intelligence Dept. – Intelligence Dept. (MNQ 011)
05 Chromagain – Killing Dome – Demo Version (MNQ 010)
06 Janitor Of Lunacy – Shadow Of A Desert Land (MNQ 008)
07 //TENSE// – Disconnect Myself (MNQ 014)
08 L.A.S.‘S Crime – I’ll Merry Go Round (MNQ 016)
09 Mushy – Burn Me (MNQ 004)
10 The Metronomes – Sex I (MNQ 015)

giovedì 10 febbraio 2011

Mushy - Faded Heart CD/LP MIX (Mannequin)























Mannequin is seriously proud to announce the release of the first full-lenght vinyl of Mushy, the stage name of Valentina F., 26 years old sound-experimentalist rising from the dusty ruins of Rome, making music all by her lonesome since the year 2003.

For the lo-fi atmospheres and the tales of lost loves, ʻFaded Heartʼ might be considered the italian answer to the magnificient Zola Jesus release ʻThe Spoilsʼ on Sacred Bones (NY). Home-recorded, ʻFaded Heartʼ was lately mixed and processed at Mannequin studio with a full analog setup.

Order your copy // orders@mannequinmailorder.com

CD Digipak VERSION // 4 bonus remixes, 400 copies

http://www.discogs.com/Mushy-Faded-Heart/release/2686220

LP VERSION // white vinyl, 300 copies

http://www.discogs.com/Mushy-Faded-Heart/release/2597369

Mushy - Faded Heart CD/LP MIX by Mannequin Label

domenica 6 febbraio 2011

INTELLIGENCE DEPT. - Sleeping City CD/LP mix























Top-notch Minimal Electro Wave from INTELLIGENCE DEPT., hailing from Ferrara, Italy.

Includes both their complete and impossible-to-get demo cassettes “Sleeping City” (1984) and “The Big Trouble” (1985), thus also including their well-known beautiful tracks “Sleeping City”, “Anger Inside”, “Too Late To Love” which were also featured on the 1984 LP compilation “A White Chance”, and “Loneliness” from Mannequin’s “Danza Meccanica – Italian Synth Wave 1982-1987” LP/CD compilation, as well as a cover version of “Sister Europe”, originally by The Psychedelic Furs.

Additionally, the CD includes four live tracks, “Sleeping City” and “Too Late To Love”, as well as the two previously totally unknown tracks “Nice Faces” and “Black Widow”, recorded live at the Arena Nuovo in Ferrara in 1985, so a total of 13 amazing tracks, beautifully presented in a six-panel digipak.

Co-operation Mannequin / Anna Logue Records.

Pre orders: orders@mannequinmailorder.com


INTELLIGENCE DEPT. - Sleeping City CD/LP mix by Mannequin Label