Noisy and cavernous post-punk, drawing on the likes of Rudimentary Peni, Amebix, Rikk Agnew's guitar work in Christian Death, and Killing Joke. It's dark and distorted, gothy but aggressive, and the opening salvo in a slew of music we hope to be hearing from these folks.

Coco Gallo and Stéphane Argillet are the French duo Peine Perdue, a project dedicated to minimal synth music, where the French touch and cold patterns have a fertile common ground: a mesmerizing atmosphere in which delicate sounds and very minimal , old school obsessive rhythms are totally embraced by...

The Second of these last PY 45s sees a lovely 5 track 7 EP from Irish minimal synth musician ph Pete Hamilton , with 5 tracks from his finally acclaimed rich body of work in electronic music. From Dublin, Ireland, in 1982, ph emerged from the demise of the peridots lower case p that previously had arisen...

POEME ELECTRONIQUE oh didnt we all dream of finding their only original 80's vinyl release, The Echoes Fade / VOICE 7 single (Carrere Records, 1982) some day? Well, most of us didnt and probably wont, and finding the members was equally hard, but thanks to J. Langes investigative nature (hey, youre great!),...

Montréal synth pop Police des moeurs are one of the finest and rawest bands in the minimal synth/wave and cold wave scene. 'Dédales', their third full lenght, is keeping the pure energy of their previous efforts while leaving greater room for atmospheric and textural considerations. The album will lead...

Pure Ground is a minimal industrial/wave duo formed in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2012. Making use of a great assortment of analog and digital hardware, Pure Ground creates hard electronics teaming with rhythmic white noise and unsettling melody as the backdrop over which the group explores lyrical...

"Here is the debut release by Italian duo R A D K O their music is a blending of post/cold wave and shoegaze elements both the songs and the production have a typical nostalgic feeling but are rather modern at the same time instead of being overtly dark the sound and overall mood is much more melancholy...

The classic French cold wave tune revised with Italian artist Mushy on vocals and extended for the dancefloor. B-side comes with two more tracks of the Französich-Italienische-Freundschaft. Limited edition of 600 copies on white vinyl. Comes with download code, 2014 release. Polaroïd/Roman/Photo/Remix...

SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the new project of two key figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona. Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø label and also in the post-punk band Wind Atlas, unveil a new act more oriented towards pop music. SDH is change,...

Selofan is the greek term for Cellophane, a thin, transparent sheet, protecting items, keeping them fresh and allowing them to breathe while in storage. The music of the duo from Athens (Greece) is transparent, fresh and takes your breath away. It is strictly analogue, though alongside the synthesizers,...

Medical Records presents it s 60th release with the much needed reissue of Australia s Severed Heads and their 1985 release - Stretcher. The Severed Heads story continues with the expanded and Stretched 2LP reissue. After personnel changes in 1985 (Garry Bradbury and Paul Deering left the band), Sev...

Robert is working hard on pressing ahead with SLEEP MUSEUM (and his side project AFTER THE SNOW) and has recorded many new tracks since the release of the Dream of Waking album. Anna has picked out the three ones she liked the most to put together this great 7 EP. All tracks are new material written...