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Lambrini Girls

God's Country / Body Of Mine

    Originally from Brighton, the two piece are Phoebe Lunny (Vocals/Guitar - she/they) and Lilly Macieira (Bass - she/they) plus drummer Banksy*. They’ve made a name for themselves through unforgettable live performances and support from the likes of Variety Magazine, BBC Radio 1, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, KEXP, Consequence, Evening Standard, CLASH, So Young, and recently covered Kerrang! Magazine alongside Sleater-Kinney, bagged a nomination for Rolling Stone UK’s Rising Stars Award, and even Iggy Pop is a fan.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1. God’s Country
    B1. Body Of Mine

    The Sisters Of Mercy

    Body And Soul / Walk Away (RSD24 EDITION)

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      The 40th anniversary of The Sisters Of Mercy's first two EPs from 1984, packaged together as one LP.

      Jovonn's Body N'Deep label kickstarts the year with the next in the series (Vol 4) of the sought after BND Projects. This release brings standout tracks from the like's of Jovonn (edited by Ben Rebel), Marc Cotterell, Matty Gillespie and good friend Jermias Santiago. As the lyrics on "Play 4 Today" state - 'house music will never die'! - and that's amply demonstrated as the four producers seduce us with a top tier selection of deep house erotica. Real deal shizzle for fans of that OG sound... 






      STAFF COMMENTS

      Matt says: Pure deepness from Jovonn's fully fledged label which shows that despite swinging in and out of fashion over the last three decades, real deep house still reins supreme for some.

      TRACK LISTING

      01 Marc Cotterell - Deepha (plastik Factory Vox Mix)
      02 Matt Gillespie - Movin
      03 Jovonn - Play 4 Today (ben Rebel Remix)
      04 Jeremias Santiago - Soul Festival

      The Body & Dis Fig

      Orchards Of A Futile Heaven

        The Body & Dis Fig are a natural pair. Each has pioneered instantly recognizable worlds of sound all their own that defy any traditional categorizations or boundaries. The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, continually challenge any conventional conception of metal, collaborating with myriad artists and from the folk-leanings of their work with BIG|BRAVE to their groundbreaking work with the Assembly of Light Choir to the intensity of their collaborations with OAA or Thou. Dis Fig, aka Felicia Chen, pushes electronic music into dark extremes, from warped DJ sets to avant production, from being a member of Tianzhuo Chen’s performance-art series TRANCE to being the vocalist with The Bug. The Body and Dis Fig find kinship in reimagining what it means to make “heavy music”. Their debut Orchards of a Futile Heaven is the perfect synthesis of two forces, twisting melodicism and intoxicating rhythms, layering a dense miasma of distortion with intense beats and a soaring voice clawing its way towards absolution.

        Orchards of a Futile Heaven’s walls of sputtering texture and tectonic booms are soaked in the reverence and melancholy of sacred spaces brought to life by palpable intensity by Chen’s voice. Crafted during a time of personal fragility, the album’s devastating force lies beyond any of the expected noise and abrasive textures typically associated with both The Body & Dis Fig. Suffused with a raw vulnerability and a longing for catharsis, Chen’s voice searches for escape in the midst of oppressive atmospheres as if determined to find relief from guilt. “Eternal Hours” patiently unfurls waves of surprising sounds, whispered undulations that are punctuated by sudden crashes, all beneath Chen’s haunting harmonies. “Dissent, Shame” evokes grief and shame with a minimalist drone dirge that gradually builds to an enchanting choral passage. King’s guitar on “Holy Lance” matches the uncanny drone of Chen’s accordion in an all-consuming blast, Chen’s voice transforming the moment from anguish to defiance and empowerment. The album’s arc finishes with “Coils of Kaa” acting as a kind of propulsive exorcism, breaking through a suffocating air before the funeral procession of “Back to the Water” lays the album to rest.

        While sampling has long been essential to each, The Body & Dis Fig deftly meld their differing approaches to sampling and creating extreme sounds until the boundaries are entirely blurred. The two found kinship in their desire to find new avenues to make heavy music that looked beyond tropes of metal and electronic music by merging the two. “I always wanted the heavier stuff but I also didn’t really like heavier guitar music,” says Buford. “None of it really felt quite heavy enough to me. A human can’t be as heavy as a machine.” Chen counters, “I love the balance. You could never connect to just a machine as well as you could a human. Which is why the combination is so potent for me. I don’t want to hide. I think nothing connects you more empathetically than another human's voice.”

        Orchards of a Futile Heaven affirms The Body & Dis Fig as skilled sound sculptors who have an exceptional ability to make deeply affecting music, bracing as it is touching, harrowing as it is awe-inspiring. Together, the two have harnessed their expansive artistry to make music that is profoundly emotional, and staggering in its beauty.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Eternal Hours
        2. To Walk A Higher Path
        3. Dissent, Shame
        4. Orchards Of A Futile Heaven
        5. Holy Lance
        6. Coils Of Kaa
        7. Back To The Water

        Stacy Kidd Featuring Peven Everett

        Body Jerkin'

        South Street are back with another essential reissue, This time with two heavyweights of the Chicago house scene.
        In 2015, Soulful house royalty Stacy Kidd joined forces with Peven Everett to release a limited run of this dance floor anthem “Body Jerkin”, and now that these now hard to find records are fetching over £100 it’s time that a remastered, reissue were made available in stores again, and South Street keep growing their label with more essential hits like this.

        This reissue features 3 essential versions of the hit "Body Jerkin'". The original mix sits on the A side, with a bass and drum groove being joined with strings, a nod to a classic disco hit and Peven’s vocals completing this soulful house groove, the classic spin that has been heard worldwide on dancefloors since it's original issue. The B side features one first time on vinyl mix, the Chicago Mix and then a never before released Disco Mix. The Chicago mix, a smooth and bubbly deep and funky groove and the Disco mix a raw and energetic rework to round off this trio of wicked house cuts. Cut Loud and Proud with a South Street company sleeve. Don't Miss!

        TRACK LISTING

        A1. Original Mix
        B1. Chicago Mix
        B2. Disco Mix

        Fish Narc

        Fruiting Body

          The era of fish narc has dawned cool fire and warm passion and bad af. Decades in the making, fruiting body [KLP295] is fish narc's third solo album in as many years. A high-security prism of emotional drive bys and jam beats that gel. Poptones from beyond the bedroom laptop underground. fish narc's hybridizing of post punk with modern sound packs a well-seasoned punch to the contemporary palette. Production on this album by keyblayde808 only makes it all the more epic. A collaboration with 8485 "heart filled with rage" has us all in a tizzy, a post-traumatic love anthem. fruiting body is thirteen songs good. The breaking news: fruiting body has been melded into a long playing (LP) phonograph record and cassette tape from K, available wherever you spike the jive.

          Get down on it. fish narc and GothBoiClique - - - WHAT WE KNOW If you have grazed the cheek of the GothBoiClique (GBC) you're aware it's the modern day Mouse Pack of fölk-hearted rappers with an emotional boiling point. fish narc joined the GBC snap fray as producer and guitar slashing action mag who has since collaborated production-wise with Lil Peep (Goth Angel Sinner EP), Mackned x Horse Head ("Too Hard"), Lil Tracy (“Drunk Punx”), Yung Bruh ("laced/neurotic”), Cold Hart (“Get Dressed”) - - - it's all too vital. Since 2019, fish narc has written and toured his own graphemic songs, influenced by rap, punk and underground sounds. He released the albums WiLDFiRE in 2020, Camouflage in 2022 and now fruiting body [KLP295].

          Digital Underground

          The "Body-Hat" Syndrome (30th Anniversary) (Black Friday 23 Edition)

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            The album's second single, an anti- racism cultural awareness politico called "Wussup Wit the Luv," features a solo from the Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton, as well as a verse and video appearance by Tupac Shakur (This was the last time Shakur appeared on any Digital Underground release). The album also contains "The Humpty Dance Awards," the group's humorous shout- out to the many artists who sampled "The Humpty Dance" before 1993. Since then the list has grown to over 50 artists. The Body- Hat Syndrome will be celebrating its 30th anniversary, originally released on October 5, 1993 and has only been released as a special Italian vinyl version making this the first time it will be released on vinyl globally.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. The Return Of The Crazy One
            2. Bran Nu Swetta
            3. Doo Woo You / Body-Hats (Part One)
            4. Holly Wanstaho
            5. Dope- A- Delic (Do- U- B- Leeve- In- D- Flo?)
            6. Intermission
            7. Wussup With The Luv
            8. Digital Lover
            9. Shake & Bake
            10. Carry The Way (Along Time)
            11. Body-Hats (Part Three)
            12. Body-Hats (Part Two)
            13. Do Ya Like It Dirty?
            14. Circus Entrance
            15. Bran Nu Sweat This Beat
            16. Jerkit Circus
            17. Wheee! 
            18. Circus Exit (The After-Nut)

            Boy Harsher

            Yr Body Is Nothing - 2023 Reissue

              Boy Harsher's entire catalogue as strictly limited indie editions on colored vinyl. Yr Body Is Nothing was originally released by DKA Records. All three LP pressings sold out in a matter of weeks. With a heavy emphasis on rhythm and atmosphere, the 10-songs presented here showcase a songwriting and production style that is sophisticated and unique, dark but powerfully uplifting. The sound is paradoxically massive yet minimal, providing the perfect space for Jae Matthews’ rich, deep, and emotive vocals to occupy as she, along with co-pilot Gus Muller, pulls the listener ever deeper with each passing song.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Intro
              2. A Realness
              3. Yr Body Is Nothing
              4. Last Days
              5. Suitor
              6. Morphine
              7. Save Me
              8. Deep Well
              9. Big Bad John
              10. Cry Fest

              Heads High keeps up the good early work with a third interesting offering, this time in the form of a meeting of the fiendish minds of Mike Misiu and Eddie Smilie, aka Wednesday Club. They offer up late-night club sounds with plenty of musical nouse and worldly nuance that comes as a result of late-night sample mining across the African musical landscape. Their tunes are crafted on nice analogue gear so have that lovely freed edge feel and from the space-house of 'Magic Body' to the swaggering dub of 'Magic Dub' via the cosmic expressiveness of cruising groover 'Love & Care'. This one gets dubbed out to close a fine dancefloor adventure.

              TRACK LISTING

              Magic Body
              Magic Dub
              Love & Care
              Dub & Care

              Non Stop Rhythm introduce yet another talented new producer who totally delivers the goods. "Work My Body" utilizing archetypal body mechanics and a catch pulse pattern. House music in its more primordial form. "Let's Dance" is a retro-futuristic acid-electro jam, using a classic, Sheffield bleep sound palette full of cowbells, whistles and speaker-busting bass. Finally a second mix of "Work My Body" injects electric currents, sampled rewinds and a vintage breakbeat into proceedings, giving the track an air of b-boy attitude and old school flavour. Ridiculously strong stuff here from Tino who has authentically reproduced some of the top vibes of the golden era. Big tip!

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Matt says: Mega triple header of house heat here. High grade body kinetics laced with acid and attitude as Tino explores the embryonic styles of the genre.

              TRACK LISTING

              Work My Body
              Lets Dance
              Work My Body (Workout Mix)

              Body Of Light

              Bitter Reflection

                The latest by Arizona desert brotherhood Alex and Andrew Jarson aka Body Of Light further hones their smoldering strain of tempestuous synth-pop into a transformative suite of anthems, reveries, and reckonings: Bitter Reflection. Written in the wake of 2019’s neo-EBM classic, Time To Kill, they sifted inspiration from hidden moments within their own arcana – childhood tapes, home movies, abandoned demos – asking themselves the question: “How can we make this grow?” Sampled snippets of voice, noise, synth, and field recordings flicker in the periphery of these 11 tracks, murmuring like nostalgias half-forgotten, or displaced memories. It’s music pulled between twin flames of truth and desire, romanticization and reality, catharsis and control, born of a bond sealed by years, dreams, and blood.

                Working with Telefon Tel Aviv co-founder Josh Eustis in Los Angeles, the brothers incorporated an expanded array of live instrumentation – piano, bass, saxophone, acoustic guitar – in addition to vintage Akai samplers, Moogs, and archaic hardware, giving the album an eclectic, unpredictable palette. Opener “Get It Right” showcases their impressive refinement: sleekly cold drum machinery builds to a swooning chorus of synths and piano, then suddenly slips into a dream sequence bridge of strummed guitar and echo-shrouded vocals, before surging back to the main melody. Throughout, the songs shift gears and moods in evocative ways, as if bending to fleeting thoughts or lengthening shadows. Simmering synth lament “Strike The Match” captures the Jarsons’ unique technique of co-crafted lyrics, accruing meaning as the world turns; though written long before, the track ended up being recorded the day Russia invaded Ukraine (“I fall asleep to the candlelight / things will be different but not tonight / it wouldn’t be like you to strike the match / over and over, I can’t understand”).

                A trio of intriguing instrumentals deepen the album’s scope, echoing the duo’s early experimental era as part of the influential Ascetic House collective. “Fortia,” “Hyena,” and “Deepcolorlights” drift in a prismatic gauze of whispered synths and oblique minutia, in the spirit of Boards of Canada at their most hushed and haunted. Elsewhere the record spins through a gallery of the band’s ongoing fascinations: Depeche Modeesque declarations of dread and excess (“This Conversation”), brooding dance floor epiphanies (“Out Of Season”), smooth Thomas Dolby city skyline melancholias (“Never Ever”), lovesick looking glass ballads laced with Art Of Noise orchestral stabs (“On This Day”). A new age demands new waves, and Body Of Light belongs at the forefront of a resurgent generation fusing modern methods with the sounds of futures past. Singer Alex Jarson sees their muse clearly, at the axis of anguished transition, temporal collapse, and, just possibly, the brink of hope: “Time is dysphoric. The dream breaks down. Everyone’s beginning to panic, but in the end something will come from it.”


                TRACK LISTING

                1. Get It Right
                2. Strike The Match
                3. This Conversation
                4. Fortia
                5. Bitter Reflection
                7. Out Of Season
                8. Never Ever
                9. On This Day
                10. Hyena
                11. Last Repose
                12. Deepcolorlights

                The Body

                I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant

                  I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant is an expanded edition of the fourth full-length album by The Body, first released to widespread acclaim, and terror, in 2014. Sharing their moribund vision with Bobby Krlic, aka The Haxan Cloak, the tried andtrue sound of The Body is shred to pieceson I Shall Die Here, mutilated by processand re-animated in a spectral state by the collaboration. This double album set is expanded with the previously unreleased Earth Triumphant, a full-length companion album that would become I Shall Die Here, showcasing The Body’s brutality in its most primal form. With both albums revisited by The Body and Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets and remastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, this is the definitive edition of a shocking classic of unbridled bleakness and innovation.

                  Formed by drummer Lee Buford and guitarist Chip King in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1999, The Body soon relocated to Providence, Rhode Island. The duo remained in Providence for a decade before moving west to their current home of Portland, Oregon. Their debut self-titled album (Moganano, 2003) and on the widely-acclaimed, classification curtailing of All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (At A Loss, 2011) readied the band for even more experimentations. The employment of the Assembly of Light Choir’s classical chorales on All the Waters, alongside more industrial music techniques such as vocal sampling and drum programming, prompted RVNG to inquire with King and Buford which darker corners of the electronic universe they were presumably interested in exploring.

                  The undertaking of I Shall Die Here was aided by Seth Manchester and Keith Souza, The Body’s long standing engineer and creative collaborator, and noted producer Bobby Krlic. Krlic’s own work as The Haxan Cloak struck a similarly despairing chord to The Body with the celebrated Excavation (Tri Angle, 2013), itself a minimalist evocation of the afterlife. I Shall Die Here shares similar nether space with the morbidly deviating darkness of Excavation, but remains sculpturally frozen in a sort of earthen purgatory. The Body’s musical approach, engraved by Buford’s colossal beats and King’s mad howl and bass-bladed guitar dirge, became something even more terrifying with Krlic’s post-mortem ambiences serving as both baseline and outer limit. I Shall Die Here sonically serrates the remains of metal’s already unidentifiable corpse and splays it amid tormented voices in shadow.

                  This expanded edition gives us a window into the creation of a classic with the inclusion of its in utero twin, Earth Triumphant. Recorded as a nearly finished album by Buford and King before The Haxan Cloak’s transformation,
                  it stands as a raw statement of intent, the original DNA for what would soon mutate into something wholly new. Fans of I Shall Die Here will find familiar sonic fragments in a more primitive state - like seeing an out-of-context photograph of a family member taken well before you knew them - but the album stands on its own in its minimalist brutality, a natural bridge to what The Body was soon to become.

                  The Body’s I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant will be released in digital and vinyl formats on June 30, 2023. On behalf of The Body, The Haxan Cloak, and RVNG Intl., a portion of the proceeds from this release will benefit Intransitive, an organization that works to advance the cause of Trans liberation in Arkansas through art, education, advocacy, organizing and culture in order to create effective systemic change and on-the-ground impact.


                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. To Carry The Seeds Of Death Within Me
                  2. Alone All The Way
                  3. The Night Knows No Dawn
                  4. Hail To Thee, Everlasting Pain
                  5. Our Souls Were Clean
                  6. Darkness Surrounds Us
                  7. Our New Genesis
                  8. No Sadness In The Many
                  9. A Testament To Willingness
                  10. A Cloud Broke Open
                  11. Wind On The Ocean, Wind On The Trees
                  12. Death At A Great Distance

                  Public Body

                  Big Mess

                    Formed in Brighton with a clear aim to write the perfect soundtrack to whatever you do whilst procrastinating at your day job, Public Body pick apart the mundanity of daily life and all its annoyances in irresistible fashion.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. Break From Life
                    2. Way, No Way
                    3. Driven By Data
                    4. Dysfunction
                    5. Crisp Wars
                    6. Overcooked
                    7. No Constraint
                    8. Cathode Ray Tubes
                    9. Mr Cats
                    10. Age Of Junk

                    St. David makes his debut on NYC label Body N'Deep, with a solid EP demonstrating why this producer is so in demand right now, with 4 tracks of luxurious deep house. This 12" release comes with remixes from label head honcho Jovonn on 'The Message' and a cosmic space funk remix courtesy of Nu-Cleo on 'Wet Dreams'. Tip!

                    STAFF COMMENTS

                    Matt says: Worth mentioning that Jovonn remix of "The Message" which combines an empowering vocal with clever and concentric grooves that few will be able to resist.
                    "Wet Dreams" is also a beauty - a classic piece of Prescription-esque, piano driven house music for the real underground heads. TIP!

                    TRACK LISTING

                    The Message
                    The Message (Jovonn Bnd Mix)
                    Wet Dreams
                    Wet Dreams (Nu Cleo Space Funk Remix)

                    LCD Soundsystem

                    New Body Rhumba

                    Stretch 'em out and shake off the cobwebs - LCD Soundsystem have returned, in recorded form, from a 5-year hibernation. 'new body rhumba' was written and recorded for the new Noah Baumbach film, White Noise, which is an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. It’s classic LCD, all tight and brash, with a coda headed for the second star from the right and straight on 'till morning.

                    Single-sided 12'' vinyl, mastered and cut at 45rpm by Bob 'Sparklebear' Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, pressed at MPO in France.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    A1. New Body Rhumba

                    Clark

                    Body Riddle - 2022 Remastered Edition

                      Now regarded as something of a classic in the Clark catalogue, it has been cited by producers including Arca, Rustie and Hudson Mohawke as being an influential record. Writing for The Quietus back in 2014, Ed Gillett commented: “It's no hyperbole to say that Clark's 2006 LP Body Riddle is one of electronic music's unheralded masterpieces, its layers of heat-warped melodies, flickering textures and muscular drumming (played by Clark himself) creating a beautiful and unstable mixture of violence and wistfulness. Its production is immaculate, almost inhumanly so, swaddling the listener in midrange before pummelling them viciously, shifting seamlessly between organic instruments and impossible, vertiginous sound design.”

                      Recorded during a period the producer was living in the Midlands city of Birmingham in the UK, shortly before leaving for Berlin, Clark recalls the genesis of the album: “I can remember that period as getting really into krautrock and spending the day drumming on pillows along to Can records for six hours a day, when I think of that record that’s what I think of.”

                      Striking up a friendship with local band (and Warp labelmates) Broadcast was also a key factor: “They lived about ten minutes from me and I borrowed James Cargill’s drum kit and some mics of his, and all of the drums on that album are his old drum kit. There were some jams that me and James had, there’s one at the end of ‘Roulette Thrift Run’ which is basically just him on guitar and me plundering away on some drums, and I just pitched it up. Broadcast weren’t really in my circle of friends at the time but going to their place was sort of like a holiday from my normal social life, and I just loved it. Both Trish and James were both so full of wisdom, but I wasn’t really in with their scene of people at all, I’d just go there on my own and listen to records and have cups of tea.”

                      Broadcast also feature on an improvised version of ‘Herr Barr’ that was only previously available as a download on the Clark website. It has been compiled alongside other sought after rarities and unreleased material that related to Body Riddle on the new 05-10 collection. Clark explains a bit more about the tracks on it:

                      “It is that thing of collecting things that would otherwise be lost to the internet and wanting to put a shell around it. It’s important to do because I really love some of that material. I suppose what I love is some of those processes, there’s a modular jam called ‘Boiler The Wick’ that I just had all my gear setup and was recording like five modular tracks a day. I still miss that time because my studio is very different today and I’m slightly sick of modular because everyone’s got modular and everyone’s doing it, but this was like ten years ago and I can’t really say it’s connected to Body Riddle exactly, but it feels like a companion piece of sorts. For example that ‘Boiler The Wick’ track has a very similar energy to ‘Re-Scar Kiln’ and it feels like it could be from the same world.

                      The Throttle Furniture EP was 2005, and some of those tracks could have gone on Body Riddle but they would have took it in a more clubby direction, so it felt good to put a fence around them and just use those for live shows. Around the time of the Body Riddle live shows I was playing those tracks out a lot in various forms. So tracks like ‘Urgent Jel Hack’ were written before Body Riddle was finished, that was me getting into Valve and Dillinja and loving that stuff as well.

                      The more beatless, reflective pieces that are included connect to my recent album on Deutsche Grammophon, and also other ambient pieces I’ve done for Warp, they’ve been peppered throughout my back catalogue. ‘Sparrow Arc Tall’ is like a cousin of ’Springtime Epigram’ or ‘Dew On The Mouth’, it’s that vibe of something captured on 4-track and rendered in a session. So they all feel connected to that family of pieces, and it’s nice giving people ten more tracks after however many years.”

                      In conclusion, looking back on Body Riddle with 16 years of hindsight, Clark reflects: “I feel really good about it, it’s interesting hearing it again. It seems to be an album that meant a lot to some people and be a significant record, but for me it is just another album of mine.

                      It is a bit of a blueprint for how things have gone with my music since then, because it’s just so dynamic and all over the place and messy, but intentional, and the mess feels deliberate and the accidents feel illuminating and exciting, and that’s a spirit that I think I always want to capture in music. You know when you hear music that is less than the sum of its parts, and it should work because everything’s tidy and in its place but something doesn’t work? I think I always aspire to make music that’s more than the sum of its parts, that shouldn’t really work but it does, and that’s such a magical quality. I don’t know whether the record has that or not, but the album is certainly the result of trying to be like that, all of these diverse styles sitting alongside each other but the overall album makes it coherent.

                      I’ve always tried to write albums rather than tracks for streaming services. I’m always going to be an album artist whether the form’s alive or only loved by a hundred people on the planet, for me it’s still the ultimate form of expression. An album’s a perfect length of time, it’s like a short story, you can do it in a sitting and it’s not too much. With an album you can just go for a walk and have it in your headphones, and Body Riddle is that classic ‘go for a walk and listen to an album in one go’ kind of record. It’s not trying to be a club record, it’s pure listening music.”

                      TRACK LISTING

                      A1. Herr Bar
                      A2. Frau Wav
                      A3. Springtime Epigram
                      B1. Herzog
                      B2. Ted
                      B3. Roulette Thrift Run
                      C1. Vengeance Drools
                      C2. Dew On The Mouth
                      C3. Matthew Unburdened
                      D1. Night Knuckles
                      D2. The Autumnal Crush

                      Clark

                      Body Double

                        Double CD featuring a remastered edition of Clark's 2006 album Body Riddle alongside the companion LP 05-10.

                        Mastered from the original tapes.

                        Includes previously unheard improvisation with Broadcast (Disc 2 track 8).

                        TRACK LISTING

                        Disc 1 - Body Riddle
                        01 Herr Bar
                        02 Frau Wav
                        03 Springtime Epigram
                        04 Herzog
                        05 Ted
                        06 Roulette Thrift Run
                        07 Vengeance Drools
                        08 Dew On The Mouth
                        09 Matthew Unburdened
                        10 Night Knuckles
                        11 The Autumnal Crush

                        Disc 2 - 05-10
                        01 Frau Wav (Brief Fling)
                        02 Re-Scar Kiln
                        03 Urgent Jell Hack
                        04 Dead Shark Eyes
                        05 Boiler The Wick
                        06 Dusk Raid
                        07 Roller The Wick
                        08 Herr Barr (Improv)
                        09 Observe Harvest
                        10 Sparrow Arc Tall
                        11 Dusk Swells
                        12 Autumn Linn

                        Wyatt E

                        āl Bēlūti Dār

                          : āl bēlūti dārû (“The Eternal City” in Akkadian language) features two 19 minutes tracks recorded in our Karl-EhmannStrasse home studio, mixed by doom godfather Billy Anderson (Sleep, Om, Melvins,...) and mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx. The composition of the album results of a challenging use of techniques and instruments never used by the band before: Saxophones, Saz, an unusual use of voices, effects and percussions. 2 drum kits have been tracked simultaneously during most of the album to create some sort of messy vibration coming from a huge crowd. A-side Mušḫuššu (Name of Marduk’s sacred animal) is a well-balanced track driven by a bass groove & featuring Y. Tönnes on the saxophone, ending up in a traditional acoustic outro. B-side Šarru Rabu (“The Great King”) is a military march and shows the band at its best in terms of slowly building up layers to a climax and starting all over again until the final sonic explosion.

                          Hailing from Liege in Belgium, David Body has been put on our radar with releases on the fine Endless Music, but this EP for Exploited’s cult collected Black Jukebox series is truly next level house music!

                          Timed perfectly for that sweet Summer release, "I Bird You" is a seriously charming affair, led by a colourful, sugary-sweet refrain that twinkles and sparkles in cute fashion. A warm deep house groove crafted through swirling Rhodes chords builds the vibe before the flowery melody explodes into life, pushing the track into an altogether more magical direction. Playing this at one of the first festivals of Summer 2022 could be a truly spiritual occassion! There's 'nuff tension from the last two years to warrent a full-on maximum love in; and tracks like this could be the perfect catalyst!

                          "Jack Me Baby" channels rubbery bass and a galloping house beat, with minor piano chords creating a dramatic feel as a classic vocal sample whoops away in delight. The enormous snare-roll propelled build-up thrusts the track into overdrive, with a delightful, balmy synth line woven in to provide a mystical counterbalance. Another hand-aloft rush of euphoria to sound track the party season. 

                          "The Talking Mouettes" is a supremely feel-good slab of Balearic-tinged peak time house, with choice piano chords cut up and cascading over a high-energy groove. Big squelchy melodic bass wiggles under the chords and shoulder-popping chime riff, with plenty of power and punch scattered throughout to keep the vibes rolling. Cleverly warped vox the icing on this sweet slice of sonic cake.  

                          "Endless Love" is an absolute monster to close the EP, a soaring, triumphant electro-disco beauty that overflows with euphoric melody and ecstatic, eyes-closed-and-rolling tingles. It just keeps building and building through layer upon layer of synth mastery to an explosive, epic climax.

                          Shir Khan's series has always been a big hitter here at Picc HQ but this is one of the biggest 12"s from the firm for some time. Get them orders in quick! 

                          STAFF COMMENTS

                          Martin says: It's been an eternity since Shir Khan's had us cantering around the shop. It's with huge delight that I can state, with authority, that David Body's launched us into the party season with this collection of open air festival house anthems.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          A1. David Body - I Bird You
                          A2. David Body - Jack Me Baby
                          B1. David Body - The Talking Mouettes
                          B2. David Body - Endless Love

                          The Zephyr Bones

                          Neon Body

                            The Zephyr Bones’ psychedelic rock expands in a precise and determined sophomore album. A warm and accessible record that speaks about love, self-affirmation, loss and hope.

                            RIYL: Tame Impala, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Spacemen 3, TOPS.

                            A quicksilver track that glides on a buoyant bassline and glistening melodic interplay, “No One” is the sound of joy. While it’s easy to pigeonhole it as a dreampop track, there’s undoubtedly hints of psych, funk and Kraut all nestled in there, The Zephyr Bones blurring the lines with ease in this intoxicating track that shows growth in their sonic heft without losing their feathery lightness.
                            Beats per Minute

                            "No One" opens up like a traditional indie dance track, with sparkling guitars and a vibrant synth lead reminiscent of a cut from The Strokes or Tame Impala. But it progresses in a fascinating way, bringing in a crunchy psychedelic guitar solo and a funky instrumental breakdown at the end. This track has a variety of sounds, but it's prog rock more than anything, as the dynamic instrumentation sticks out the most. Every layer here is not only an excellent piece to the larger puzzle while also being technically impressive on its own. Despite these nods to the more experienced rock nerd, what's the most fascinating is how accessible the tune really is. The wild drum beats, dense synth layers, and lightning-quick guitars demonstrate the true cerebral chemistry of the group. The sheer musical talent doesn't hurt either.
                            Earmilk

                            When The Zephyr Bones first burst into the scene they crushed everything that got in their way. Their music slapped us like a wave when it reaches shore. It took us by surprise and left us asking yearning for more. They coined their style “beach wave”. All this became a first album titled Secret Place, something like the sonic coordinates of a sunny place with a soundtrack of guitars with reverb and intoxicating melodies. You can’t tell whether you’ve been there or not, but you definitely want to go back.
                            In Neon Body they are the same people, but it hits differently. Their melodies and suggestive guitar riffs are on point. They are able to take you back to places. You will never finish these 10 tracks in the same place where you were when you first hit play. Speaking of The Zephyr Bones is speaking of pure freedom. And yet, in this second album we get to know them in a different way, more determined and with a renewed intensity. The landscape has also changed and now the tone reminds us of the twilight, and in some songs you can even feel the reflection of neon light on your skin.

                            But let’s not lose the point. What matters here are the songs, and in this album you can find pretty damn good ones. “No One”, the first single, is an excellent entry into the universe created in Neon Body. Addictive and irresistible, it will instantly get you dancing and singing along. “So High” is a dizzying and fast-paced first track. By the time “Verneda Lights” arrives, you have fully surrendered to Brian Silva (vocals, guitar and synthesizers), Jossip Tkalcic (guitar and vocals), Marc López (drums) and Carlos Ramos (bass). “Sparks” shines with its own light: it is a controlled fire until the final part of the song makes everything burn again. “Plastic Freedom” goes all-in with an infallible riff. “Velvet” is as elegant as its title suggests, and “Rocksteady” hits the bullseye again with a chorus that hits like a poisonous dart. “Neon Eyes’’ lifts you up with heavenly back up vocals and “Afterglow” keeps you with your feet on the ground – Why? Because begs you to dance. And then comes “Celeste V”, a song that speaks about loss that puts an end to the recording. 


                            TRACK LISTING

                            1. So High
                            2. Verneda Lights
                            3. No One
                            4. Afterglow
                            5. Sparks
                            6. Neon Eyes
                            7. Plastic Freedom
                            8. Rocksteady
                            9. Velvet
                            10. Celeste V

                            Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Body Meat, aka Christopher Taylor, presents his new EP, ‘Year of the Orc’. These songs are a celebration of himself and other outsiders breaking the mould.

                            “The EP title is about having acceptance in myself,” Taylor explains. “I’m an orc, I’ve never been very popular, I don’t have a specific aesthetic or genre or anything. I’m cool with laying low and creating and I surround myself with people who believe the same thing. It’s me and my orcs taking over!”

                            Written and recorded in his apartment in Philadelphia, ‘Year of the Orc’ will, for many, be an introduction to an artist who stretches, re-configures and defies genre in a way that plays with atypical rhythmic structure with a breathless fluidity.

                            Taylor cites everything from “getting back into Boyz II Men” to the dense, glottal production of Jlin as touchstones while writing, and that deft balance of thick percussive undergrowth with hyperpop smarts is immediately apparent.

                            “Sifting through the wreckage of genre touchstones, Body Meat uses the musical language of right now to point toward possible futures.” - Pitchfork

                            “No two pummelling blips of Christopher Taylor’s sound alike” - The FADER

                            TRACK LISTING

                            Twigs
                            This Is Something
                            4700
                            My Brother Orchestral
                            ULTIMA
                            Stand By
                            Ghost

                            Gondhawa

                            Kaampala

                              Stolen Body are super stoked to announce the addition of French Psych/World rockers Gondhawa to our ever evolving roster.

                              Gondhawa is a musical laboratory - a fusion between Fela Kuti’s groove and Hendrix’s electricness.

                              Formed in 2018 in Angers (France) by Idriss (vocals and guitar), Clément (drums) and Paul (bass), the band explores different styles with a boundless energy. Inspired by French sci-fi literature, they invented a language. Outcomes Gondhawii, a fusion of sounds from all over the world and others as yet unidentified. With this new language the whole mind immerses into a delicious trance where we cross odd rhythms, quarter-tone riffs, oriental groove and electric explosions as well as stringed instruments from other countries. (n'goni, sanxian, microtonal guitar)

                              Gondhawa release their first album, “Kâampäla”. Six powerful and eclectic tracks dipped in stoner, afrobeat and progressive rock. Six tracks linking convoluted rhythms and inventive riffs.

                              Through the micro-tonal groove of Raba Dishka, the Afrobeat Stoner power of Käampâla, or the softness of Djoliko, a beautiful ballad lulled by the melancholy of acoustic strings from around the world, Gondhawa delivers the soundtrack of an interstellar road movie. An electric tornado with an abundance of rhythms and textures.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1. Raba Dishka
                              2. Konesay
                              3. Kâampäla
                              4. Assid Bubu
                              5. Fortun Q'ki
                              6. Djoliko

                              King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

                              Live In Adelaide '19

                                Live at Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, Australia, July 12th 2019

                                Recorded by our sound crew:
                                Sam Joseph, Stacey Wilson

                                Drums: Michael Cavanagh
                                Guitar / Keys: Cook Craig
                                Harmonica / Vocals / Keys / Percussion: Ambrose Kenny-Smith
                                Vocals / Guitar / Keys: Stu Mackenzie
                                Drums: Eric Moore
                                Bass: Lucas Harwood
                                Guitar / Vocals: Joey Walker
                                Adam Halliwell: Flute on Hot Water and Head On/Pill

                                Mixed by Stu Mackenzie
                                Cover design by Jason Galea

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1. Evil Star 
                                2. Planet B 
                                3. Mars For The Rich 
                                4. Venusian 1 
                                5. Cyboogie 
                                6. Real?s Not Real 
                                7. Hot Water
                                8. Open Water 
                                9. Sleep Drifter 
                                10. Billabong Valley 
                                11. The Bird Song 
                                12. Inner Cell 
                                13. Loyalty 
                                14. Horology 
                                15. Plastic Boogie 
                                16. Organ Farmer 
                                17. Self-Immolate 
                                18. Head On/Pill 

                                King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

                                Live In Asheville 2019

                                  Live at New Belgium Brewing Company, Asheville, NC, USA, September 1st 2019

                                  Recorded by our sound crew: Sam Joseph, Stacey Wilson and Gaspard Demulemeester

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. Evil Star (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  2. Self-Immolate (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  3. Venusian 1 (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  4. Alter Me III (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  5. Altered Beast IV (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  6. People-Vultures (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  7. This Thing (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  8. Beginner?s Luck (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  9. Rattlesnake (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  10. Cyboogie (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  11. Loyalty (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  12. Horology (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  13. Boogieman Sam (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  14. Plastic Boogie (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  15. Mars For The Rich (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  16. Hell (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  17. The Lord Of Lightning (Live In Asheville '19)
                                  18. The Bitter Boogie (Live In Asheville '19)

                                  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

                                  Teenage Gizzard

                                    Tracks 1-8 recorded some time in 2010 in Angelsea, Victoria, Australia
                                    Tracks 9+10 recorded some time in 2011 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia

                                    Mixed by Stu Mackenzie
                                    Cover Design by Ahmad Oka

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    1. Hey There
                                    2. Ants And Bats
                                    3. Sleep
                                    4. Summer
                                    5. Eddie Cousin
                                    6. Fried
                                    7. Good To Me
                                    8. Tomb/Beach
                                    9. Trench Foot
                                    10. Life Is Cool

                                    The Body & BIG/BRAVE

                                    Leaving None But Small Birds

                                      The Body and BIG|BRAVE are both bands possessed with an unequalled ability to convey overwhelming weight with simplicity, repetition and detailed sonic atmospheres; artists who continue to alter the definition of what it means to be a heavy band.

                                      The Body are consistently prolific while increasingly ambitious as untethered producers and collaborators. BIG|BRAVE shape sound with dense waves of guitar and feedback, minimalist and hypnotic crashes and emotionally exacting vocal melodies. In collaboration, The Body and BIG|BRAVE shift the gravity of their compositions to woven layers of percussion and unspooling guitars that sprawl through stark frameworks of earthy folk.

                                      Their debut collaborative album, ‘Leaving None But Small Birds’ distils the two ensembles’ pioneering approach to heavy music into psalms for the forgotten, threnodies of lost love and odes to vengeance.

                                      Recorded, mixed and produced by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets (Liturgy, Battles, Mdou Moctar) and mastered by Heba Kadry (Björk, David Bowie).

                                      “Emotionally coherent but tricky to categorize. BIG|BRAVE are the sound of the raw unconscious, turned up loud.” - Pitchfork

                                      “The Body have become one of the most interesting and difficult to pin down groups in extreme music.” - Rolling Stone

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      Blackest Crow
                                      Oh Sinner
                                      Hard Times
                                      Once I Had A Sweetheart
                                      Black Is The Colour
                                      Polly Gosford
                                      Babes In The Woods

                                      Modern Studies

                                      Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide (Double EP) - Love Record Stores 2021 Edition

                                        Love Record Stores Edition available instore from 10am on Saturday September 4th, any remaining copies will be available on online from 9pm on the same day.
                                        Limited to one per person.

                                        ‘Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide’ EP is released on vinyl for this year’s Love Record Stores on 4th September 2021.
                                        Following the release of ‘The Weight Of The Sun’ LP, Modern Studies shift from light to dark over two new EPs brought together as six track 12-inch ‘Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide’, a record that further cements their reputation for innovative craftsmanship. ‘Life Flows In Endless Song’ showcases the band’s increasingly expansive sound, swelling with orchestrated drama behind the rich vocal pairing of Emily Scott and Rob St John, before their otherworldly dreaminess is pin-pricked at its height by Emily’s beautiful alto on ‘The Failing Light’. ‘The Body Is A Tide’ hails from ominous darker terrains, scratching further into their own psyche; it’s heady and baroque, ornate and super-detailed, an opus that climaxes with ‘High Hymn Summers’ and its slowly-rolling drone, created by processing all the songs from ‘The Weight of the Sun’ played at once. "The EP nods at the idea of our collective bodies weathering rough times, played out with massed strings, prepared guitars, slow bass grooves, hypnotic drums, wobbling saw, xaphoon and mellotron. We shook off our usual song structures in favour of something repetitive, slow and heavy; life flows in endless song." 

                                        Yo No Se

                                        Terraform

                                          Yo No Se return after a 5-year hiatus since their last album, Soma. Their new album Terraform continues on from the dystopian world created in Soma but this time taking the narrative to the stars. Terraform explores the ideas of making a fresh start on another planet but the same problems creep in…. Greed, corruption and hate. Exploring more of a grunge feel along with some hard psych the band recorded with Dom Mitchison (as well as Alex doing guitars and vocals at home), mixed with Ali Chant and mastered again with grunge godfather, Jack Endino. The band have toured across Europe in support of Soma in the last 5 years and gained a reputation for their loud and energetic shows. The album has 3 drummers under its belt and countless breakdowns on the road. With the pandemic kicking in just as the band started touring, they had plenty of time to finally record (and find another drummer). Terraform is a record 5 years in the making due to sheer bad luck. Hopefully, their luck will change as the band are already working on their follow up record.

                                          The first single Black Door approaches the subject of corruption amongst 'leaders'. The idea comes from Boris Johnson getting Brexit 'done' to forward his own career without thinking about the impact it will have on peoples lives. We’ve had enough and we're ready to tear down the establishment. The idea being that these problems we now face will follow us wherever we go unless we stamp them out, here, on earth. The artwork for the cover is by renowned sci-fi artist Bruce Pennington.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          1. Black Door
                                          2. Santa Muerte
                                          3. Pilot
                                          4. Misery
                                          5. Mosquito
                                          6. Slaughter
                                          7. Hairy Chin
                                          8. Feast Of Lies
                                          9. Hold Fire
                                          10. Nectar
                                          11. Terraform

                                          Luis Vasquez

                                          A Body Of Errors

                                            Venturing off course from his Post-Punk / Dark Wave project, The Soft Moon, Los Angeles born composer and multi-instrumentalist Luis Vasquez, embarks intonew territory with A Body Of Errors, a bold reimagining of the soundtrack genre.With this album, Vasquez felt the urgency to break away from The Soft Moon realm and deliver an even more intimate, self-reflecting body of work, while further unveiling inner demons & vulnerability. He continues to explore his notorious angst and visceral pain, but places them in the context of his own physical being, creating the deeply personal, yet relatable and compelling oddity that is A Body Of Errors, which Vasquez describes as a collection of themes to living in the human body.

                                            Opening track “Interno” with its crushing synthesizers, is a blast off into the abyss of self. Sinister gasps introduce “Poison Mouth” stomping you with relentless torment before spiraling into oblivion. Halfway, we reach the mechanized rhythms and throbbing cardiac pulse of “Surgery” expressing Vasquez’s phobia with the body itself. “No Longer Human” with its hallucinogenic flutter and distant cries, imagines a fantastic universe beyond, with a nod to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. The only lyrical appearance on A Body Of Errorsis “Used To Be” a gut-wrenching wall-of-sound ballad romanticizing the struggle between one's good side & bad side. Pulling you into armageddon, A Body OfErrors closes with “World On Fire” an epic post-apocalyptic battle-storm painted vividly through symphonic devastation.

                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            1 Interno
                                            2 Poison Mouth
                                            3 Under My Teeth
                                            4 Decomposition (Part 1)
                                            5 This Guilt
                                            6 The Wasp
                                            7 Surgery

                                            Side B
                                            8 In A Cage
                                            9 No Longer Human
                                            10 Decomposition (Part 2)
                                            11 Used To Be
                                            12 From The Drain
                                            13 Arms & Legs
                                            14 World On Fire

                                            The Body

                                            I've Seen All I Need To See

                                              Over the course of two decades The Body - Lee Buford and Chip King - have consistently challenged assumptions and defied categorization, redefining what it means to be a heavy band.

                                              On ‘I’ve Seen All I Need To See’, they test the boundaries of the studio to explore the extremes and microtonality of distortion to find its maximal impact.

                                              Their most incisively bleak album to date, a towering monolith of noise, Buford’s booming, resolute drums paired with King’s obliterated guitar and howl.

                                              Course, bristling distortion contorts every instrument, with samples of spoken word, cymbals, toms and King’s already noxious tone emerging from layers of feedback.

                                              Features guests Ben Eberle (Sandworm) and Chrissy Wolpert (Assembly of Light Choir).  Recorded with long time engineer Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets (Lightning Bolt, Battles, Daughters) and mastered by Matt Colton (Sumac, Brian Eno, Uniform, Sunn O)))).

                                              The Body have collaborated with many, including Full Of Hell, Thou, Uniform and Bummer.

                                              “The distortion has this ability to envelope you, and not push you away. It has this strange kind of beautiful timbre... once you give into the sheer power of it, and let it take you on a ride then it becomes this whole other kind of sonic experience.” - Matt Colton

                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              A Lament
                                              Tied Up And Locked In
                                              Eschatological Imperative
                                              A Pain Of Knowing
                                              The City Is Shelled
                                              They Are Coming
                                              The Handle/The Blade
                                              Path Of Failure

                                              Dope Body

                                              Crack A Light

                                                Dope Body are back with their first album since 2015 - and it’s got all the gnarly, bisected body rock of their great records from the far side of the teens.

                                                A decade plus from the audacity of their debut cassette, ‘20 Pound Brick’, and four years after calling it quits, ‘Crack a Light’ is about getting back to essentials.

                                                In 2016, Dope Body were fairly much burnt from seven years of nonstop playing and recording, feeling as if their four albums had tracked away from the early days’ intentions of spontaneous weirdness. The band had formed in the abstract, an art project designed to provoke by embodying values that didn’t necessarily reflect any deep roots in their collective mindset. They were good with this approach for a minute but by their final release of the initial run, ‘Kunk’, they were composing new pieces from leftover parts of the ‘Lifer’ sessions, as if trying to relocate the almost out-of-body state that they’d been conceived in.

                                                Turns out they just needed a bit of time off. Even (or perhaps especially) with a couple of the guys on the West Coast and the other two back east, the energy is again surging out of the Dope Boys, as witnessed by ‘Crack a Light’s explosive and exuberant opening track, ‘Curve’. The refrain “I think I feel alright” expresses relative optimism on the oft-scorched earth of Dope Body and it should - with ‘Crack a Light’ they’ve come all the way around to the stance of their experimental genesis, while continuing to evolve the identity that’s emerged since then - all of which bodes well for the future of rock music.

                                                Essentially a power-trio with singer, Dope Body have traditionally excelled at projecting monstrously-voiced street music, artfully welded to the massive space of rock anthems, hardcore and metallic, hard-rolling funk, driven by incisively pounding rhythm and attenuated with guitar loops and FX.

                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                Curve
                                                Clean & Clear
                                                Lethargic
                                                Jer Bang
                                                Daylight
                                                Lu Lu
                                                Lo & Behold
                                                The Sculptor
                                                Mutant Being
                                                More
                                                Hypocrite
                                                My Man
                                                Frank Says Relapse
                                                Known Unknown

                                                Slift

                                                Ummon

                                                  SLIFT return with their phenomenal space rock album, UMMON. Composed during endless tours across Europe in 2019, conceived as the soundtrack of an imaginary film; UMMON is a dreamlike odyssey staging the Titans, their exile to the outer reaches of space in search of their creators and the return of the Titan Hyperion to Earth.

                                                  Beyond music and lyrics, it's about "all these questions to which we'll never have answers", which dig their furrows in the humans heart.

                                                  « For sulfur guitar lovers, Prog from beyond the grave and blip blup blop of old synthesizers. Blitzkrieg fuzz and geyser Free. Bass escaping from the Minas Morgül's dungeons, and Nostromo’s drums travelling at the speed of light. Vicious solos and assassins bends. Acid krautrock and cosmic-comics jazz. There are distant echoes and reveries, celestial choirs illuminating space. And r r e e p p e e t t i i t t i i o o n n. Ancestral voices and ancient extraterrestrial rites. Abyssal doom and apocalyptic noise. There's chaos. And there's silence. »

                                                  The three guys come from Toulouse, south of France, and their first EP was released in June 2017 via Howlin Banana (fr) and Exag 'records (be). His name is Space Is The Key. Inspired by Alain Damasio's science fiction novels and the work of French illustrator Pierre Ferrero.

                                                  In September 2018, they released "La Planète Inexplorée", (Stolen Body Records) with the engineer/producer and guru of the French garage sound, Lo Spider. The album was mastered by producer Jim Diamond (The GO, Fleshtones, Sonics, White Stripes ..) king of the regretted Ghetto recorder in Detroit. 

                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  1. Ummon
                                                  2. It’s Coming…
                                                  3. Thousand Helmets Of Gold
                                                  4. Citadel On A Satellite
                                                  5. Hyperion
                                                  6. Altitude Lake
                                                  7. Sonar
                                                  8. Dark Was Space, Cold Were The Stars
                                                  9. Aurore Aux Confins
                                                  10. Son DÔng’s Cavern
                                                  11. Lions, Tigers And Bears

                                                  RG Lowe

                                                  Life Of The Body

                                                    After years of success in the world of neo-classical music with his band Balmorhea, RG Lowe took an artistic sharp turn leading to his soulful 2017 debut, Slow Time, which Stereogum called "impossibly smooth." Three years later, Lowe returns with Life of the Body, produced by David Boyle - known for his work with Glen Hansard, Patty Griffin, and Okkervil River. This wide-angle collection of songs invites us to reconnect with ourselves and our world through the senses by illuminating our intrinsic connection with the physical world, and the freedom found therein. Echoing the ardor of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and channeling Talk Talk's Mark Hollis, Lowe asks us each to "feel the wind blow on your face, camerado." At once intimate and epic, opening track "Sorrow" sets a tone of longing and malaise, from which Lowe expands and breaks out of, over the next 8 songs. As the album progresses, he explores myth, desire, love and the mystery of art, concluding with the ethereal, acoustic guitar-driven "Beauty Finds Forever," on which it's clear he's transformed. He's found the deepest nourishment; an enrichment of the soul found through a saturation of his physical senses, an antidote to our anguished age.

                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    01 Sorrow 6:06
                                                    02 He Done Her Wrong 4:46
                                                    03 Sendai, Unknown 4:26
                                                    04 My Body 4:38
                                                    05 Soap 2:01
                                                    06 Tulip Ave 4:28
                                                    07 Salpetriere 3:54
                                                    08 Life-World 5:18
                                                    09 Beauty Finds Forever 4:28

                                                    Various Artists

                                                    Body Beat: Soca-Dub And Electronic Calypso (1979-98)

                                                      17 obscure Soca B-side versions, dubs, instrumentals and edits as well as vocal tracks influenced by disco, boogie, house-music, soul and the more conscious lyrics of roots reggae. Owing as much to New York, Toronto and London as to the Caribbean cities of Port of Spain, Bridgetown and Kingstown this compilation traces the genre from its explosion in the late 1970s right up to the period just before contemporary soca became established around the end of the 1990s. Compiled by Soundway Records label founder Miles Cleret and DJ/collector Jeremy Spellacey, Body Beat, as with many compilations on the label, explores the fringes of this often maligned (by outsiders) genre. Boiled down to the bare bones of the matter though: soca is party music.

                                                      Soca was originally a re-invention of Calypso music; a genre that in the 1970s was fast becoming usurped around the Caribbean by Jamaican reggae and American soul, funk and later disco. The originator of soca (or sokah as he called it), the calypsonian Lord Shorty, began experimenting and modernising on the formulation of calypso in the early 1970s. His first album featured a strong emphasis on East African rhythms and a punchier recording style that emphasised the beat, and introduced arrangements that often owed as much to American funk and soul as to calypso.

                                                      Filled with up-tempo tracks from start to finish, the compilation’s lead single “I Want Your Love” by Peter Britto is a soca-house number which originally came out on NYC-based label Hometown Music in 1998. It features the recognisable soca synth beat, along with Caribbean steel drums and horns - but with the obvious influence of New York’s booming house scene, making it an ultimate crossover track for club dancefloors and carnivals alike.

                                                      So here you go - seventeen slabs of soca crossover, rapso, electronic calypso, and Caribbean ‘soca-soul’ for your enjoyment - and bound to fit well into modern, open-minded DJ sets alongside the resurgence of burger-highlife, digi-reggae, soukous and zouk.

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      Cito Jarvis - Fighting Soldier
                                                      Roger Bain - Stand Up & Rock Your Body (Instrumental)
                                                      *D* Ivan - Fire (Extended Dub Edit)
                                                      Bill Campbell - Body Beat
                                                      Brother Resistance - Move It (Version)
                                                      Adonijah - It’s Alright
                                                      Peter Britto - I
                                                      Want Your Love
                                                      Juno D - Hotter And Hotter (Dub Edit)
                                                      Colin Jackman - D’Jab
                                                      Jab Dance (Bad Lad Mix)
                                                      Levi John - S-O-C-A
                                                      Spiking - Liberation Train
                                                      Mohjah - Zion Gates (Dub)
                                                      Andre Tanker - Wild Indian Band
                                                      Touch - Touch Music (Edit)
                                                      D’ Rebel Band - Solid
                                                      The Millers - Last Days
                                                      Chocolate Affaire - Jump To Calypso

                                                      MNNQNS

                                                      Body Negative

                                                        The album is a rare record that manages to be both fiery and textural. It combines the charge and speed of a record that resembles a car veering dangerously close to a cliff edge yet also manages to instil a confidence in the ability of the driver. MNNQNS exude a sense of controlled danger and chaos and this permeates throughout their debut. This feverish and unpredictable approach is also represented by the band’s diverse musical tastes and inspirations. If you’ve ever wondered what a record would sound like that shares influences as eclectic as Deerhunter, Death Grips, the Beach Boys, Omni and the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix then wonder no more because MNNQNS debut is the answer.

                                                        Such a sense of determination and focus is apparent on the record throughout; whether it’s the post-punk assault of “Wire (Down to The)”, the harmony-soaked pop swing of “NotWhatYouThoughtYouKnew”, the deeply textural explorations of “Stagnant Pools” - which combines seamless melody with an urgency that resembles This Heat - or the kick-down-your-frontdoor charge of “Urinals”. This duality of harmony and discordance that exists on the record is something that D’Epinay feels when he reflects on the recording process. “Some tracks make me want to go out and dance whilst others remind me of being totally alone in the countryside. Listening to the record is like being pushed away from the city and then dragged back in.”

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        A-Side

                                                        1. Body Negative
                                                        2. NotWhatYouThoughtYouKnew
                                                        3. She’s Waiting For The Day
                                                        4. Double Visions
                                                        5. Different Sides Of Truth
                                                        6. Limits Of Town
                                                        7. Urinals
                                                        8. Desperation Moon

                                                        B-Side

                                                        9. Drinking From The Pond
                                                        10. Fall Down
                                                        11. Stagnant Pools
                                                        12. Wire (Down To The)
                                                        13. (Ghost Track,

                                                        Body Of Light

                                                        Time To Kill

                                                          Birthed from Arizona’s regaled Ascetic House collective, Body of Light is a dark synth-pop outfit comprised of young brothers Andrew and Alexander Jarson. What began as a vehicle for their exploration of noise and sound during their early teens has evolved into an established production over the last decade, as Body of Light continues to carve out their own style of complex, structured, and moving dancefloor electronics. Their music is not only individually personal, but drawn from experiences shared between the two brothers – and calls on elements of new wave, freestyle, goth, and techno to create timeless and singular tracks without fear of trend or passing fashion.

                                                          On their third album Time to Kill, Body of Light refines their brand of cold and driving synth pop with a bold pallet of sounds and a focus on uncharted technique and purpose. Like the pale digital stare of the modern devices surrounding our daily lives, the album weaves stories of love and obsession in an era of technical bondage and fleeting exhilaration. Written over a period of intense and profound change, Time to Kill stands as a startling reminder of how important our existence truly is. Haunting keys, swelling pads, and punching rhythms score their work as Alex Jarson presents an alluring and romantic dialogue with confident projection. The title single “Time to Kill” kicks off the album with a merciless signature beat, complimented by distorted sample patterns against an infectious, moving bass groove that invites you to “let the memories fade.” The follow up single “Don’t Pretend” invokes sparkling nostalgia and innocence over a dark and driving beat paired with vintage electronic movements. The haunting “Dangerous”, slows the pace with its pendulum-like rhythm and ominous intonation, falling between a hopeful synth pop ballad and shadowy dirge – a slow dance for the sunrise set.

                                                          Produced by Matia Simovich at Infinite Power Studios in Los Angeles and mastered by Josh Bonati, Time to Kill shines with new direction and new intention through lustrous production and innovative songwriting. 


                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          SIDE A
                                                          1. Time To Kill
                                                          2. Heart Of Shame
                                                          3. Don’t Pretend
                                                          4. Fever Freak
                                                          SIDE B
                                                          1. Fear
                                                          2. Dangerous
                                                          3. Violent Days
                                                          4. Stormy
                                                          5. Under The Dome

                                                          Throbbing Gristle

                                                          Journey Through A Body

                                                            ‘Journey Through A Body’: Recorded as a piece of art for and in the studios of Italian National Radio RAI in Rome March 1981. Remastered. On the recommendation of Robert Wyatt, RAI originally commissioned Cosey Fanni Tutti to create a sound work based on the theme of ‘A Journey Through The Body’. It became a Throbbing Gristle project which was later broadcast by RAI. This was the last studio recording by Throbbing Gristle. It was recorded in five days, a day per body section. No tracks were re-recorded or added to after their day. Each track was mixed immediately after recording. No tracks were pre-planned; all tracks were invented directly to tape.

                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            Medicine
                                                            Catholic Sex
                                                            Exotic Functions
                                                            Violencia (The Bullet)
                                                            Oltre La Morte, Birth And Death

                                                            Body/Head

                                                            The Switch

                                                              Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten) and guitarist Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange), release their second studio album, ‘The Switch’, on Matador Records.

                                                              Their debut album together as Body/Head, ‘Coming Apart’, from 2013, was more of a rock record - heavy, emotional, cathartic, spellwork in shades of black and grey. ‘The Switch’ is their second studio full length and it finds the duo working with a more subtle palette, refining their ideas and identity. Some of it was sketched out live (if you’ve not had the fortune of seeing them in that natural environment yet, see 2016’s improvisational document ‘No Waves’) but much of it happened purely in the moment.

                                                              On ‘The Switch’, their vision and focus feel truly unified. If ‘Coming Apart’ was dark magic, ‘The Switch’ works with light, though it never forgets that these approaches are two sides of the same coin and that binaries - black/white, near/far, emotion/analysis, body/head - are made to be broken open and that the truth of things is in the energy between.

                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                              Matt says: Stained with biker grease and fried on the engine heat, this basically drum-less excursion into exhaust fume biker blues hits like a spice-laced cigerette in Piccadilly Gardens. Y'ouch!

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              Last Time
                                                              You Don’t Need
                                                              In The Dark Room
                                                              Change My Brain
                                                              Reverse Hard

                                                              Aidan Moffat And RM Hubbert

                                                              Here Lies The Body

                                                                Fans of all good music to come out of Scotland will be familiar with the name Aidan Moffat. A stalwart of Glasgow, one half of Arab Strap & Scottish Album of the Year winner among many other accolades joins fellow SAY Award winner and Chemikal Underground label mate RM Hubbert for this new album, this time out on Mogwai's Rock Action Records. The album features guest appearances from fellow Glaswegian Siobhan Wilson, who sings and plays cello (and who released her own There Are No Saints album last year to great acclaim); Louisville, Kentucky’s Rachel Grimes on piano; and veteran jazz saxophonist John Burgess.

                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                Barry says: A new one from Moffat and Hubbert is never going to disappoint, but this one is thoroughly transcendent. Stunning folk flourishes, off-kilter syncopated rhythms and simmering,loungey woodwind. Stunner.

                                                                Local Action presents Earth Body, the long-awaited debut album by Deadboy. Deadboy is one of UK underground music’s most influential and respected artists. His early singles ‘U Cheated’ and ‘If U Want Me’ predicted an entire generation of post-dubstep dance music, bringing much-needed r&b, house and dancehall influences to a landscape dominated by grime and dubstep and helping to pave the way for a new age of UK club music. After developing his unique attitude to the club across longer EPs like Blaquewerk and Here, 2015 saw Deadboy usher in a new phase of his career with his deepest record to date, White Magick - which saw elements of new age, meditational and ambient music that had always existed in Deadboy’s music find their way to the surface of his sound.

                                                                After launching the ambient club night New Atlantis, he then re-located from London to Montreal, where he wrote Earth Body. Written and recorded entirely during Montreal’s winter, Earth Body is not only Deadboy’s first album, but the first time his own vocals have been front and centre of his music rather than simply sampled. Although this is clearly an album by someone who's done their time in the clubs - as evidenced by the clattering drums of ‘Caballero’, for instance - it’s ultimately a pop record, inspired by Deadboy’s long-standing love of Scott Walker, Sade, Drake and the Beach Boys and filled with bold choruses and multi-tracked harmonies. It’s a record that features stark, uncomfortable moments of cold isolation, but ultimately is hopeful and full of love.

                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                01. ‘Caballero’
                                                                02. ‘Water Body’
                                                                03. ‘Tide’
                                                                04. ‘Rain’
                                                                05. ‘Orion’
                                                                06. ‘Virtue Coast’
                                                                07. ‘Lo Heat’
                                                                08. ‘There Is A Light’
                                                                09. ‘Laurier’

                                                                Body/Head

                                                                No Waves

                                                                  Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and guitarist Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc), will release ‘No Waves’ via Matador Records.

                                                                  Recorded on March 24th, 2014 during Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN at the Bijou Theater, this high quality live recording captures Gordon and Nace at peak chemistry, clearing pathways of possibility using great waves of amplification and voice, during the tour supporting 2013’s critically lauded ‘Coming Apart’.

                                                                  Instead of presenting ‘tracks’ or ‘songs’ from the record, this album should be considered a ‘moment’, one pinnacle set that was beautifully caught in time. World-renowned artist and longtime friend of Gordon’s, Raymond Pettibon, has made an original piece of art for the cover of the album.

                                                                  “‘Coming Apart’ was arguably the heaviest record of 2013 and received with open arms and blown minds across the world. The fact that a record steeped so heavily in non-traditional structures and improvisation could touch so many people was not a surprise to anyone who had seen Body/Head in a live setting. ‘No Waves’ captures that raw improvisation and harnesses the power into a listening experience of pure, unmediated intensity.” - Ben Chasny (Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance)

                                                                  Al Lover

                                                                  Cave Ritual Redux

                                                                    For those who aren’t already familiar with the workings of Al Lover then allow Stolen Body Records to introduce you to this exceptional, experimental producer from San Francisco – who has been gaining much notoriety for his melding of contemporary past garage and psychedelic rock into harsh yet spacey abrasive beats. Influenced as much by The 13th Floor Elevators as DJ Shadow, Al Combines crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples and layers of textured effects to create an unexplored path for psychedelic music, offering an earthy and loose approach that sounds more like you’re listening to a DMT fueled psych band than a beat made on an MPC.

                                                                    Cave Ritual Redux exhibits Al Lover re-inventing his already unique style by adding a new dimension to his previous album Cave Ritual released at the end of last year. With this offering, Al Lover takes older ideas and reinvigorates them with new textures, layers, imagination and creates a new body of mind altering work.

                                                                    Abjects

                                                                    Gone

                                                                      Introducing your favourite new 3 piece: Abjects, a new London trio who have been winning over fans all over the world with an impressive set of edgy garage tunes, perky bass-lines washed over with lashings of jagged and disjointed guitar work. Hotly tipped by Manchester’s PINS - who released their debut EP ‘Fast Love’ (Haus of Pins) - Abjects have been a prominent garage punk band in the London live circuit since their emergence in 2013. Self-sufficient and capable, they’ve created their own scene, put on their own nights, designed their own merch – fully immersing themselves with the DIY ethos which allowed them to be picked out by the likes of Jon Spencer & the Blues Explosion, Mikal Cronin, Shannon and the Clams, The Coathangers or the larger than life Fat White Family. Their latest offering comes from their ‘Gone’ EP with lead single ‘Gone’.

                                                                      Recorded by rising starlet producer Syd Kemp - which is to be released on Stolen Body Records (Brown Brogues, Thee MVP’s & more) on May 11th 2015 both digitally and on limited edition 12” vinyl. Influences on the band come in the form of The Shangri-las, The Slits, Lydia Lunch, The Stooges and Sonic Youth. With such potent esteemed artists helping to sculpt their sound it is clear to see where Abjects gather their signature clout.

                                                                      Fruit Tones

                                                                      Some Strange Voodoo

                                                                        Stolen Body’s first 7” release comes from Manchester garage'n'surf rock band Fruit Tones. The 4 track EP shows off the bands ability to morf garage rock, tropical pop and surf beautifully while keeping a raw rock'n'roll feel to everything.

                                                                        They have featured on several compilations which have been incredibly recieved. They have also previously released a split tape with Death Cats on Scottish label Fuzzkill Records which is now sold out. Stolen Body is happy to release the EP on limited edition colour vinyl. Limited to 500 copies (Coloured - Yellow with black splatter)

                                                                        Dope Body

                                                                        Lifer

                                                                          Dope Body have built their name in the underground with intense live performances of their also intense studio recordings. On the back of their second album, 2012’s ‘Natural History’, they embarked on a rigorous nineteen months of almost nonstop touring, bringing their individual performance stomp to every bar, basement and backyard that asked for it.

                                                                          It’s easy to picture the members of Dope Body emerging from their distant and hidden cave of rock with a new wave of grimey, Sabbath-refracted mayhem in order to torch Earth once again but they’re actually a group of trained players and fine artists with vision.

                                                                          On ‘Lifer’, Dope Body redefine the aural yawp they have been venting for some time, honing wild windmills into surgical strikes, their gut-busting repulsion-sound continuing to expand without losing any of the feral energy that made a crazed reputation in the already-insane Baltimore music and arts underground.

                                                                          Zachary Utz’s metalloid guitar fingerprints are as uniquely rough and scabrous as ever but with a few new refinements added to his barrage. Andrew Laumann’s vocal bellow continues to incite a riot of excitement with each additional chorus. David Jacober’s power-and-precision drumming continues to grow in might and scope, driving the songs whether at peaks of volume or the depths of introspection. Plus, bassist John Jones, who joined following the recording of ‘Natural History’, contributes to the weird math of Dope Body’s nu-power trio with lines that perfectly expand the bounds for the band. When Dope Body converge to conceive of the next thing, the storm brews, songs are rocked out and written and we’re propelled into another sweaty go-round. This is a controlled demolition, planned but with room to take down additional structures.

                                                                          Simply put, there’s a distinct-but-subtle evolution from one Dope Body record to another and ‘Lifer’ is no different. ‘Repo Man’ progresses the band’s songwriting, creeping on you and crooning with an oscillating bass groove before whipping into a frenzy. ‘Hired Gun’ gives us the pyrotechnics we want with a forward-evolving, 2014-style dynamic range of loud / soft / loud and a big-ass sing-along chorus. Where most Dope Body songs show lead singer Laumann’s rhythmic ability, ‘Rare Air’ exhibits his talent for constructing melody.

                                                                          ‘Lifer’ juggles the rough spark of Dope Body’s sound, shuffling slow burners and their previously (and righteously) established propulsive attack, making for a new yet satisfyingly heavy trip into the heart of Dope Body.

                                                                          Coachwhips

                                                                          Get Ya Body Next To Mine

                                                                            Castle Face announces a loogie-shined re-release of Coachwhips’ Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine on CD and vinyl!

                                                                            Following last year’s reissue of Hands on the Controls, the label continues dusting off the vaults, unearthing another screeching, swaggering beast. The tracks have been re-tweaked to taste (a pinch of capsicum) and what a picture emerges—the scuzz and squall cracking ever so slightly and revealing a coffee-can full of earworms underneath. The zombie-shuffle come-on of the title track is worth the price of admission alone, but there’s adrenalized bludgeoners here as well: “1000 Years,” “UFO, Please Take Her Home” and “Yes, I’m Down” all capture the band at their sweat-soaked best.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. I Put It In, Way Down South
                                                                            2. 1000 Years
                                                                            3. Like Food, It Feeds
                                                                            4. Tonight's The Night
                                                                            5. Just One Time
                                                                            6. Manner In Which The Girl Was Treated
                                                                            7. UFO, Please Take Her Home
                                                                            8. Hey Stiffie
                                                                            9. Couldn't Find Love
                                                                            10. Nife Fight
                                                                            11. My Baby, I Killed Her
                                                                            12. Yes, I'm Down
                                                                            13. Other Man
                                                                            14. Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine

                                                                            The Moons

                                                                            Body Snatchers

                                                                              Taken from their new album 'Mindwaves', 'Body Snatchers' is big, brash and tuneful with thunderous drums and a kaleidoscopic driving beat at its core. An escapade into classic science fiction B-movie territory, the seductive track combines haunting and flamboyant electronics which compliments the rhythm section.

                                                                              Bringing plenty of vigour, the exuberant and infectious pop/rock n roll tune flaunts their versatile and rousing nature for writing vibrant songs. Limited stock! B-side Everybody's Happy Nowadays (Buzzcocks cover)

                                                                              After touring Australia in December 2013 with the Brian Jonestown Massacre The KVB's new six track EP is the culmination of a week long recording session at Anton Newcombe's studio in Berlin last autumn . During which they recruited the help of Joe Dilworth (Stereolab) to contribute live drums to the recordings , this was the first time the band have worked outside of their own studio set up at their home in South London. 'Out Of Body' is a further exploration of the bands interest in phenomenology, bodily immersion and consciousness. Introspective lyrics are suspended in dream like melodies, further expanding upon the duo's hypnotic aesthetic which they explore both sonically and visually on the record.

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              1) All Around You
                                                                              2) From Afar
                                                                              3) Heavy Eyes
                                                                              4) Cartesian Bodies
                                                                              5) Across The Sea
                                                                              6) Between Suns

                                                                              Body Parts mobilizes a singularly elegant experimental pop idiom to explore the contours of modern devotion and doctrines of self-improvement alongside the immoderate reverberations of remembrance. Fire Dream delivers a delightful mix of brightly ominous and sensitively textured, biomechanical dance tracks and more earthly, emotive ballads. Trying to resist the tidal pull of Fire Dream's peculiarly beautiful world would be like trying to beat fate. Weaving together influences as varied as the rationalist prescriptions of the self-made seeker-healer- Scientology mastermind L. Ron Hubbard, the sensual guitar-scapes of Prince, and the haunting vocals and surrealist melodrama of Kate Bush, Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono form the group’s core.

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              1. Desperation
                                                                              2. Past Is Coming
                                                                              3. Be A God
                                                                              4. Interlude A
                                                                              5. Unavoidable Things
                                                                              6. Helpless Child
                                                                              7. People
                                                                              8. Interlude B
                                                                              9. You Inside My Head
                                                                              10. Reprise, Prelude
                                                                              11. Wash Over Me

                                                                              Philip Perkins (b 1951) studied art and motion graphics with Robert Mullen and David Foster (Univ. of the Pacific and Univ. of Oregon) and was mentored by "Blue" Gene Tyranny in music composition and performance. He played in many rock, country and experimental music bands and was a member of The Residents performance ensemble 1979-84, as well as serving as their cinematographer and lighting designer. DRIVE TIME was composed and originally released in 1985 is a series of pieces composed as an alternative to early morning "drive time" AM radio, and targeted at the same audience: commuters.

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              1. Rainy 3rd Street (0:41)
                                                                              2. At Home And Away (3:34)
                                                                              3. Noise Organ (1:24)
                                                                              4. Xmas Party (0:39)
                                                                              5. Ella (1:27)
                                                                              6. Mechanical Piano Parade (3:04)
                                                                              7. On The Park (2:50)
                                                                              8. At The Machine (1:22)
                                                                              9. Eastchester Parade (1:40)
                                                                              10. The Onion (2:19)
                                                                              11. Radio Dream (London) (4:07)
                                                                              12. Street Conversation (0:38)
                                                                              13. Hardanger (2:16)
                                                                              14. Squeak Opening (1:41)
                                                                              15. Grieg Park (0:59)
                                                                              16. Shanty (3:44)
                                                                              17. Bearing (2:13)
                                                                              18. Guitar Hero (2:34)
                                                                              19. Hotel TV (LA) (1:28)
                                                                              20. Jig (2:27)
                                                                              21. Lions (0:50)
                                                                              22. Fire (3:46)

                                                                              Body/Head

                                                                              Coming Apart

                                                                                Body/Head are an electric guitar duo comprised of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange). They began working together in various loose formats a few years ago, but the Body/Head concept evolved more specifically in early 2012.

                                                                                Initially their approach was largely instrumental - lattices of interwoven feedback rainbows, with bits recalling everyone from Heldon to Keiji Haino. They often performed against a backdrop of slow-motion film projection, creating a dream narrative of undeniable power and visionary reach. Kim’s voice began creeping more into the mix, and the vocals are now an intrinsic part of their musical architecture. They have even started writing and playing ‘songs’, compositionally distinct from their purely aleatory origins, but still featuring lots of built-in improvisational space.

                                                                                Body/Head have recorded a single for Dennis Tyfuss’ Ultra Eczema Editions, a tour EP for Nace’s own Open Mouth Productions, and released a collaboration with Dead C’s Michael Morley through Feeding Tube Records.

                                                                                ‘Coming Apart’, their debut album, is released by Matador Records.

                                                                                “A call-and-response of healing, oceanic feedback.” - Jon Caramanica, New York Times

                                                                                “Some of the most courageous and emotive singing of Gordon’s career, and some of the most fantastically elastic music currently being produced, shifting form and formlessness without batting an eye.” - Matt Krefting

                                                                                Taking the boom of British bass culture and marrying it to the sweet slickness of classic American R&B, AlunaGeorge - aka Aluna Francis and producer George Reid - drop their eagerly awaited debut album ‘Body Music’.

                                                                                If you fell in love with the duo after 'You Know You Like It' on underground imprint Tri Angle, then you'll also love 'Body Music'. Citing the Neptunes and Timbaland as influences, AlunaGeorge producer Reid also packs the duo's sound with UKG (fresh from their 'White Noise' Disclosure smash), footwork and electro-pop touches, creating the perfect backing for Francis's sweet and saccharine Aaliyah-meets-Lily Allen style vox.

                                                                                Like Disclosure's 'Settle', 'Body Music' is packed with catchy choruses and big pop hooks, providing us with an antidote to the X-Factor balladeer blandness and electro-brostep-folk nonsene that's clogging up the charts at the moment. A joy!


                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                1. Outlines
                                                                                2. You Know You Like It
                                                                                3. Attracting Flies
                                                                                4. Your Drums, Your Love
                                                                                5. Kaleidoscope Love
                                                                                6. Bad Idea
                                                                                7. Diver
                                                                                8. Lost & Found
                                                                                9. Best Be Believing
                                                                                10. Superstar
                                                                                11. Just A Touch
                                                                                12. Body Music
                                                                                13. Friends To Lovers
                                                                                14. This Is How We Do It

                                                                                Reptar

                                                                                Body Faucet

                                                                                  Reptar are from Athens Georgia and are the latest signing to Lucky Number (Darwin Deez, Friends, Caged Animals, Sebastien Tellier, Gotye). They have a reputation for riotous, must-see live shows becoming the most talked about band of 2011’s SXSW with the NME declaring they were “the most synonymous name in Austin”.

                                                                                  Debut album Body Faucet, has been produced by Ben H Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club) and it builds on the infectious dance-driven melodies established by the band on Oblangle Fizz Y'all EP (INCLUDED AS BONUS CD). Body Faucet finds the bands sonic wanderlust extending from African Music to post-punk to psych-pop.

                                                                                  “their playful electro-pop channels MGMT’s debut-album psychedelic-yet-ready-for-the-masses sheen, and their rambunctious antics recall the Black Lip’s punk bravado.” SPIN

                                                                                  “ Bouncing synth-pop recalling the gleaming, anthemic vibrancy of early MGMT, the galactic qualities of Empire Of The Sun and the playful oddities of Animal Collective. FLY

                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  1. Sebastian
                                                                                  2. Please Don’t Kill Me
                                                                                  3. Isoprene Bath
                                                                                  4. Orifice Origami
                                                                                  5. Houseboat Babies
                                                                                  6. Natural Bridge
                                                                                  7. Ghost Bike
                                                                                  8. New House
                                                                                  9. Thank You Gliese 370b
                                                                                  10. Sweet Sipping Soda
                                                                                  11. Three Shining Suns
                                                                                  12. Water Runs

                                                                                  Bonus Disc
                                                                                  1. Blastoff
                                                                                  2. Rainbounce
                                                                                  3. Context Clues
                                                                                  4. Stuck In My Id
                                                                                  5. Phonetics

                                                                                  Men

                                                                                  Talk About Body

                                                                                  Men, the Brooklyn-based band & art/performance collective, consists of core members JD Samson (Le Tigre), Michael O'Neil (Ladybug Transistor) & Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR). This is their debut album release on IAMSOUND, via Columbia Records. The band focus on the raw energy of live performance & the radical potential of dance music. Musical styles merge between guitar-laden dance-floor funk & funky electronica, with a lyrical bite!

                                                                                  Various Artists

                                                                                  Body Language Vol 8 - Modeselektor

                                                                                  Somehow or other Modeselektor still find time to be among the best, most reliably party smashing DJs on the planet. Their contribution to Get Physical's "Body Language" mix series is a riotous, bass-heavy affair, one that takes in all kinds of interesting developments in cutting edge contemporary dance music. MDSLKTR draw a natural line from the fizzing aqua-crunk of Rustie's "Zig-Zag" to the R&B bump of Missy Elliott's Timbaland-produced "Lick Shots", from the skippy 90s techno of G-Man's "Quo Vadis" to the tough Berghain minimalism of Norman Nodge. Dubstep – a big influence on the Moderat project – plays a pivotal role in the mix: moody, synth-led masterpieces by Peverelist and Benga recall classic Detroit techno, while Untold's devastating "Anaconda" is sheer dancefloor energy. Scuba's "Klinik" isn't so much dubstep as broken, reductionist house music. The uncompromising, big-hearted "Body Language Vol.8" is one of the most refreshing and outrageously banging mixes you'll hear all year, a stellar addition to a series that has seen previous contributions from the likes of MANDY, DJ T, Matthew Dear and Junior Boys.

                                                                                  Tracklisting
                                                                                  CD
                                                                                  1. Outro
                                                                                  2. Rustie – Zig-Zag
                                                                                  3. Missy Elliott – Lick Shots (Instrumental)
                                                                                  4. Osborne – The Count
                                                                                  5. Boy 8 Bit – The Cricket Scores
                                                                                  6. Felix Da Housecat – Kickdrum
                                                                                  7. Alex Cortex – Huyendo Part 2
                                                                                  8. G-Man – Quo Vadis
                                                                                  9. Norman Nodge – NN 8.0
                                                                                  10. Benga - Emotions
                                                                                  11. Peverelist – Clunk Click Every Trip
                                                                                  12. Untold - Anaconda
                                                                                  13. MOVES!!! – All Skate
                                                                                  14. Busta Rhymes – Gimme Some More (Amended Version)
                                                                                  15. Joker & Rustie – Play Doe
                                                                                  16. Mark Pritchard & Om'mas Keith – Wind It Up
                                                                                  17. Djedjotronic – Dirty & Hard (Feat. Spoek) Vs. Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Sexperience
                                                                                  18. Horsepower Productions – Let's Dance (Club Mix)
                                                                                  19. Robert Hood - Unix
                                                                                  20. Major Lazer – Pon De Floor
                                                                                  21. Boys Noize – Nerve
                                                                                  22. Siriusmo – Nights Off
                                                                                  23. Modeselektor – The Black Block (Marcel Dettman Redifinition)
                                                                                  24. Scuba – Klinik
                                                                                  25. Animal Collective – My Girly
                                                                                  26. Modeselektor – Fill #1

                                                                                  LP
                                                                                  A1. Siriusmo – Nights Off
                                                                                  A2. Animal Collective – My Girls
                                                                                  B1. Missy Elliot – Lick Shots (Instrumental)
                                                                                  B2. Mark Pritchard & Om'mas Keith – Wind It Up
                                                                                  B3. Major Lazer – Pon De Floor Feat. VYBZ Kartel
                                                                                  C1. Moderat – A New Error
                                                                                  C2. Peverelist – Clunk Click Every Trip
                                                                                  D1. Felix Da Housecat – Kickdrum
                                                                                  D2. Modeselektor – The Black Block (Marcel Dettman Redifinition)

                                                                                  The Body Doubles

                                                                                  Atomica

                                                                                    They all grew up in Salford, Manchester, all went to the same school, and all dig Metallica, Iron Maiden and Motorhead. Beer drenched rifftastic metal action excellently described by themselves as: 'Riffs, beer, headbanging, big f***ing songs you can sing along to, more headbanging!' And like they say: 'If your friends don't own this record, your friends are losers!' How can you resist?

                                                                                    Death Threat / Over My Dead Body

                                                                                    Split

                                                                                      This CDEP features two great hardcore bands from their own respective sides of the US. Death Threat are a hardcore band from Connecticut who have toured with Agnostic Front, Hatebreed and others. Over My Dead Body are a straight edge hardcore band from San Diego California. A cover version and two new originals of totally in yer face hardcore.

                                                                                      Since By Man

                                                                                      We Sing The Body Electric

                                                                                        Since By Man have the intensity of Converge and Poison The Well plus the melodic sensibility of emocore. From Milwaukee USA, Sam Macon (vocals), Justin Kay (guitar), Kevin Herwig (guitar), Jon Kraft (drums) and Bryan Jerabek (bass) have created a storm of an album. Together this five-piece form a cohesive, powerful unit "We Sing The Body Electric" has a maturity unusual in a debut full-length with a genuine power and desperate passion.


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