The Soft Moon - Total Decay EP out soon

At the tail end of 2010, San Franciscan Luis Vasquez put out his dark, fever-soaked self-titled debut LP as the Soft Moon. The follow-up to that release, the Total Decay EP, is out on October 31 (yes, Halloween, fittingly) on Captured Tracks. Check out the title track below.

The Soft Moon - Total Decay by Sound Injections

MNQ 018 The Present Moment - Loyal To A Fault LP/CD out Sept 2011

MNQ 018 The Present Moment - Loyal To A Fault LP/CD

A new effort entitled Loyal to A Fault will soon see the light on Mannequin. This new record is a collaborative effort between Scott Milton and Philipp Munch of The Rorschach Garden.

It explores a relatively similar dynamic pop territory, still opened to new musical tendencies and new sonorities without loosing cohesion. Consequently this last effort promises a completely mesmeric musical odyssey made of eerie drones, addictive electro moves, propulsive batcave bass lines and captivating plaintive-melodic sections which culminate into a sort of ecstatic consuming reverie. Scott Milton’s rich sense of composition gives to the arrangements a radical and unique feel, somewhere between the narcoleptic twist of The Sisters of Mercy, the regular addictive density of Front 242 and the touching goth- dramatic sense of Colin Newman or Asylum Party. The Present Moment means a real sense of adventure towards music and a fair degree of passion for singular, creative and fugitive shared moments, against any procrastination. Prepare yourself for this transgressive, post-romantic electro adventure.

This year, Scott Milton’s live band played with a handful of notorious figures of the synth-minimal cold wave circle such as Light Asylum, Salem, Gatekeeper, Iron Curtain, Legendary Pink Dots, Soft Metals just to name a few…

“There’s rarely any way to sing about love here without it feeling like the end of world.” (Altered Zones)

“Synthpop is pop made with synths, simple as that and The Present Moment are a more than an excellent example, showing that today there is talent in this genre.” (Peek A Boo Magazine)

“The Present Moment’s new album is a real outlier in the surge of new dark music coming out of North America” (I Die You Die)

In collaboration with Desire Records (France)

To order: orders@mannequinmailorder.com

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Analysis – Surface Tension 7'' 1981

Survival Records was the home of such great acts like Drinking Electricity, Richard Bone, Tik & Tok, just to name a few. Back in 1981, the third release was a 7'' from Analysis, in other words half of cult minimal wave duo Oppenheimer Analysis. Martin Lloyd is producing here 2 instrumental electronic dance tracks co-written by David Rome, the boss of the label.

Engineer – M.Kemp
Written-By – David Rome and Martin Lloyd
Recorded at Spaceward

Tracklist

A Surface Tension
B Connections

Survival Records SUR 003

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Vitor Hublot – La P'tite Gayole 7'' 1985

Here ripped the other 7'' single from 1985 from Vitor Hublot, one of the best minimal synth band from Belgium.

Composed By – Talbot Samba Sisters
Mixed By – Renaud Janson
Producer, Mixed By – Guy Clerbois
Recorded By – Gilbert Lederman

Tracklist

A - La P'tite Gayole
B - J'Ai Perdu Mon Oiseau

Psoria Discs PSO 003

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Vitor Hublot – Piron N'Veut Nin Dinser 7'' 1985

Vitor Hublot were a minimal synth band from Belgium, i recently found their first 3 releases (PSO 001, 002, 003) during a travel in Antwerp, so im really happy to share with you all.

'Aller Simple' (from the 12'') was included in BIPPP : French Synth-Wave 1979/85 compilation and recently in Belgian Wave & Pop Songs From The 1980's compilation.

Here ripped the 7'' single from 1985, both the songs are an adaptation of traditional French and Walloon songs.

Tracklist

A Piron N'Veut Nin Dinser
B Vive L'Amour

Psoria Discs PSO 002

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Apologies For Innocence - Across The Wire 7'' 1982

I found this 7'' in a recent travel in Antwerp, i really liked the front cover so i decided to buy. As i found through their Myspace page, Apologies For Innocence were an early 80's indie / new wave band coming out from the Liverpool scene (Formby). I found a lot of analogies with the Gang of Four sound since the first guitar riffs....i was more than surprised to hear a 'Goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye' on the B Side 'Days Alone'....so my suspects were more than confirmed.

Produced by A.F.I. and Mike - All songs by Lodge / Jackson
Artwork Lynne - Layout Mike

Tracklist

A Across The Wire
B Days Alone

AFI 1
distributed by Illusion Records

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Martial Canterel + Tobias Bernstrup - Strange Land 7'' 2011 MNQ 017

Mannequin is seriously proud to release on 45 rotations-per- minute seven inch single a nearly forgotten collaboration dredged and now seeing the light of day.

Played entirely live in one ago and using only vintage analogue synthesizers and sequencers, Martial Canterel and Tobias Bernstrup four-hands / two voices put our minds in another dimension, in an hypotetical night-time “outside”, where shadows and confusion are leading the way, creating simply a milestone for all the minimal electronics music lovers.


Martial Canterel is definitely one of the most talented artist in electronic underground music of our time, beeing the pioneer and instigator of what has now become a new movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States. With several albums on his back and deeply related to Wierd Records, Sean McBride is also the vintage controlled mind of Xeno & Oaklander.

http://www.myspace.com/martialcanterel

Tobias Bernstrup is a swedish contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live performances and electronic music, mixing electro pop, italo disco and some darker synth moments. Several of his songs from videos and performances have been released by museums, galleries art institutions on CD or vinyl.

http://www.bernstrup.com/


- Limited edition of 300 copies, 1 insert

- Original art-cover from Tobias Bernstrup.


Sounds: http://snd.sc/lgkxRR