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Fedge | 4 Jan 06:49
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GRIMES SIGNS TO 4AD!!!

Canadian up-and-comer Grimes has been earning a lot of attention in the indie music world as of late, and her
forthcoming Visions looks to be one of the most hyped-up releases of early 2012. Well, the whole thing just
got even more exciting now that the songwriter also known as Claire Boucher has signed with 4AD.

The album was originally slated to arrive on January 31 via Arbutus Records, but the date has now been pushed
back to February 21 in North America and March 12 around the world. Gorilla vs. Bear notes that it will still
be coming out in Canada via Arbutus. Everywhere else, however, it will be via 4AD.

As you may already know, 4AD is an iconic British indie label whose roster includes artists like Ariel
Pink's Haunted Graffiti, St. Vincent, Bon Iver, Deerhunter and more.

http://exclaim.ca/News/grimes_signs_to_4ad_for_international_release_of_visions

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Fedge | 22 Jun 14:56
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The Raccoons are unleashed!

THE RACCOONS is finally available in a special package limited to 50 copies!!!

All of the info is HERE!!!
http://www.timestereo.com/RACCOONS/RACCOONS.html

THE RACCOONS tells the story of three babies abandoned by their mother. Alone, frightened, and hungry in a
dark chimney for days only to be rescued at the last possible minute by two humans with an interest in field
recording, sound art and inter-species collaboration. This 77 minute disk features the sound of that
cold and dark stone fireplace, the hungry raccoons slowly resuscitated, the artificial heart beats that
reminded them of their lost mother, and their joyful response as they gradually return to life and begin
singing again. This limited edition disc (only 50 made) comes with a cd in a beautiful paper sleeve and what
is possibly the cutest album cover ever, a six inch hand-made sturdy wooden raccoon that comes ready to
hang on your nearest wall and is also completely child friend
 ly!!!

http://www.timestereo.com/RACCOONS/RACCOONS.html

More His Name Is Alive stuff here:
http://www.hisnameisalive.com/
http://www.silvermountainmedia.com/

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Richard Anvil Peat | 15 May 17:02
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Help in finding UK Gig venues for Modern English


Hello,
If you've had a look at the Modern English website (www.modernenglish.me) you will have seen the band have 4
gigs set up for next month in Colchester, Tunbridge Wells, Wimbledon and Paris. They would like to add more
dates and venues. If you can suggest any venues in the UK or Europe or forward this email onto anyone you know
in the UK /Europe who are interested in 4AD/indie/80's bands please email me at forum <at> modernenglish.me
They are aware they are not as well know in the UK and Europe than the US so a venue size of about 200 would be
best (no stadiums and no pubs please). 
Thanks,
Richard
Apologies to those of you in the US but plans are already being made for a US tour in September.
  		 	   		  

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Bill | 7 May 17:06
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projekt music

Is anyone else interested in or know anything about this record label? Any info would be much appreciated.

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Richard Anvil Peat | 4 May 17:28
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Modern English live

Hi guys,
Very interesting you guys talking about radio stations and mentioning Modern English. I current manage
the bands fan forum and help with their website (www.modernenglish.me). I'm sure you are all aware the
original line up (minus the drummer) reformed last year. One thing I am trying to do is collect together any
concert recordings. I know one of the Boston radio stations (WXRF or whatever can never remember which
letters) broadcast a gig in 1990 (one track ended up as a B side) but despite trying to contact the station
and even the engineer who recorded it no-one knows where the tapes are. Do any of you have any Modern English
concert recordings?
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lbigbilbo | 3 May 17:00
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Glad to be here.

Thank you Geo,

Thanks for the welcome wagon, but to answer your questions, I did not listen to Oedipus because he was on BCN
and everyone else on that station sucked. I used to listen to BCN when it first started in 1968 but the
station went straight downhill around the mid 70's they just replayed and rehashed the same old songs and
the same old groups for the next 15 or so years. For a long time I couldn't find anything on the local radio
scene until one day somewhere in the early 80's I was just going through the dial of my radio at work in
Cambridge trying to find anything worth listening to when I came across a station called WMBR formally
WTBS (MIT radio) what caught my attention was the lyrics to the song that was being played. I don't know who
the singer was but it appeared to be a girl group and 
 the lyric that caught my attention went something like this "You said you truly loved me but all you really
wanted to do was to feel me up". My head did a double-take and I started to listen to the show, it was called
"The Late Risers Club". BTW they just had their 25th anniversary recently. The trouble was the show was
only on from around 8 or 9 AM till about noon. This was where I first heard Bauhaus. I few months later I was
sitting on the sea-wall in Winthrop where I was living at the time and i picked up a station called WLYN
broadcasting from Lynn and they were playing music similar to what I had been listening to on MIT's station
it was early "New Wave" and "Post Punk". I remember the most popular song at the time was "Rock The Casbah" by
"The Clash". About 6 months or so latter t
 hey announce one night that they would be off the air for a while due to some upcoming changes. Two weeks
latter they resumed broadcasting calling the station WFNX, they had been purchased by "The Phoenix".
There slogan in the early days was "Rock The Boat Radio". I soon found that some of the DJ's were ex WMBR
jocks. It was during this time that I discovered many of the groups that would be my favorites for a long
time. Number one was "The Cure" followed closely by "Depeche Mode", "XTC", "New Order", "The Psychedelic
Furs" etc. Alas even "FNX" began to go down hill with the emergence of "Grunge". I really hated "Nirvana"
and especially "Pearl Jam". That music made my teeth itch. Today I only listen to MIT and BC's radio
stations WMBR and WZBC respectively.

The reason i never caught any of those groups you mentioned playing live in the Boston area were really
threefold. First I couldn't afford them, second I was working what seemed like 22 hours a day,(I had two
jobs at the time, 40 Hrs a week on my regular job and about 48 Hrs a week driving a cab)and the last reason was i
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lbigbilbo | 3 May 06:37
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a "new 4AD"

Hi everyone. Just a little about myself and what I am looking for here.
first about myself, I live in Boston Mass, USA but don't tell that to anyone or I'll deny it. The first 4AD
group I really liked was "Bauhaus" and one of their side projects "Tones On Tail" though I never liked "Love
and Rockets". I first heard "Cocteau Twins" somewhere around 84-85 (we colonists are a little slow on the
uptake) but they didn't get a lot of play in this hillbilly country. The First song I remember by them was
"Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" and I think there were a couple of others between 85 & 90. But at that point in my
life I did not buy recorded music mainly because I couldn't afford it. At that time I also discovered
another group I liked, "Dead Can Dance".  When I bought my first computer around 1998-2000 my kids turned me
on to P2P sites. While I was looking for songs to d
 ownload I remembered having liked "Cocteau Twins and "Dead Can Dance" back in the 80's but i couldn't
remember the titles of the songs liked so I just started downloading everything I could find by "C T" & "D C
D". I was pleasantly surprised that each and every song I downloaded by these two groups became my new
favorite song, till the next one came along. I was kicking myself for not having looked into these two
groups earlier. then I found out about 4AD and Ivo Watts-Russel and his pet project "This Mortal Coil". I
was very despondent to find out that he sold the Label and retired. All I could think was that the world
needed a new Ivo someone with his insights and his commitment to presenting good music to the world. Just
recently, I think I may have stumbled across a new Label that ha
 s got me really stoked it is Projekt Records. they have or have had some really good groups such as "Autumn's
Grey Solice" and Love Spirals Downward" and a few more i can't remember off the top of my head. (It kinda
sucks being old and retired now I barely remember what I had for breakfast. I tell all my friends and family
that if it wasn't for acid flash backs i wouldn't have any memory at all. 

Well that was longer than i planned and I probably bored half of you to death and the other half are saying "We
need stricter standards on who we let in here". If any one does have any questions for me or any suggestions,
like "Drop dead old man" please let me know.

Thanks Bill,

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I R O N F L A M E | 27 Feb 02:52
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[ironflame] ROBERT X. PATRIOT / EZH - Split-7" OUT NOW! => LISTEN!


After the ultra-limited luxurious hand-made collectors edition of the GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA EP  'Vom
Nachteil geboren zu sein“, IRONFLAME is now proud to present the second volume in their RE-DOKUMENT SERIES:

===   ROBERT X. PATRIOT / EZH
===   (DELUXE COLLECTORS EDITION PACK:
         7"Single in gold, silver or green vinyl, hand-numbered & strictly limited to 111 copies each.
         special 6mm-spine colour cardboard jacket with metallic printer's colors
         incl. Poster, 2 postcards, 2 buttons, 3 stickers & Insert)
         comes in crystal clear original japanese protective vinyl sleeve with re-sealable flap
===   IRONFLAME [IF//RE002/S]

[A]   ROBERT X. PATRIOT: a collaborator of The Electric Hellfire Club, Boyd Rice and Warcom, ROBERT X.
PATRIOT made quite a name for himself in the mid nineties by appearing on such cult samplers as 'How
Terrorists Kill', 'Men and Mice' and 'Psychick Wolves ov Midgard'. Not to mention his own infamous and
much sought-after 'Dogs Leg Rising' album, a rather tongue-in-cheek „tribute“ to the
World-Serpent-Family, as such titles as 'Freya Aswynn's Basement', 'Hitler in Khakis', 'Ou est Klaus
Nomi', or 'Vichy Toast Sunrise' clearly suggest.
  But the best kept secret about ROBERT X. PATRIOT probably is his long-burning passion for the synth pop of
the early 80s: think Ultravox, Duran Duran and all the heroes of the Electronic New Wave movement. A genre
he will be associated with forever after the release of this single… Then not only is 'Gold, Silver,
Green' clearly destined to become an all-time hit, it is also and without exaggeration or
self-indulgence a true HYMN which will soon find its place on every playlist of every party, every
webradio and every podcast of the ever-growing Minimal-Synth- / Electronic-New-Wave scene!

LISTEN to 'Gold Silver Green': http://sn.im/25h4xh

[A]   EZH: known in the Hamburger underground of the late eighties as the editor of bad taste / nonPC / music
fanzine “I.d.A.f.”, EZH has been active since the early nineties as a DJ for Electro, New Wave and
Post-Industrial and made quite a stir in 2000 with his 9:30mins long technoid monster 'Slumber' (only
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Richard Anvil Peat | 18 Feb 11:50
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Modern English UK & European Tour - Can You Help?


Hello, I have found your email address on the web and I wondered if you might be able to help. As a fan I have set
up the Modern English website http://site.modernenglish.me/ and fan forum
http://imeltwithyou.proboards.com/index.cgi and if you weren't aware the original line up have
reformed and last year did a short US tour. I have just been speaking to Steve Walker (keyboard player from
Modern English) and the band are eager to organise a UK and European tour for this year but as they are having
to organise it all themselves (no tour manager) any help in finding venues that would be interested in
holding a Modern English gig would be most welcome. I wondered if you had any '4AD fan' contacts' around the
UK and Europe you could forward this request onto? We are aware that Modern English i
 sn't as well known in Europe as they are in the US so venue size of about 200 would be best (no stadiums and no
pubs please). If any of your contacts have a venue or have the contact details of a local interested venue to
you in the UK or Europe then they can email me at richard.anvil <at> hotmail.co.uk .
Also if anyone is willing to help promote the tour once dates and venues have been arranged they can also also
drop me a line.
Thanks,
Richard 
 		 	   		  

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Fedge | 28 Oct 21:35
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Sybarite remixes

Bell Horses, as you all know, is the project of Sybarite's Christian Hawkins and the lovely Nettwerk
recording artist Jenny Owen Youngs. Here is some news you may be interested in...

Remixes have been commissioned of two This Loves Last Time songs from Bell Horses and the results are now
ready to share with fans. Northsea, the alias of Stefano Guzzetti, has contributed a beat-friendly
reinterpretation of album-opener Still Life while Inch-Time (aka Stefan Panczak) has delivered a
dreamscaped version of Small Hours. You can download and enjoy these remixes free of charge as a gift from
Bell Horses for a limited time. The original versions of these songs can be heard on the This Loves Last Time
album, available on CD, MP3 and FLAC.

http://www.fedge.net/bellhorses/

In addition to the above remix goodness, the man behind Bell Horses and Sybarite, Christian Hawkins, has
put together the first in a series of regular mix compilations. The first, the Autumn Mix, features an hour
of tunes assembled by Hawkins, including music from CFCF, Seefeel, Mount Kimbie and Brian Eno among many
others. You can stream or download the entire mix now.

http://soundcloud.com/christianwalzhawkins

Hawkins has, under the the Sybarite moniker, launched the official BandCamp page for all things Sybarite
related. Already the new site features some must-hear samplings, including Sybarite remixes of songs by
Inch-Time, The Antlers (as previously mentioned on this site) and Fat Cat recording artist Silje Nes.
Keep an eye on the site for more advanced peeks into the world of Sybarite.

http://sybarite.bandcamp.com/

We hope you enjoy it all and, as always, thank you for your interest and support! It's much appreciated!

To download or listen, read more at this address:
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sweetfoolthemouth | 30 Sep 17:21
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Blonde Redhead on French tv

Blonde Redhead on TV in France, Kazu's headgear, apparently designed by a designer that she likes a lot... 

http://ce-soir-ou-jamais.france3.fr/?page=videos-lives&id_article=2339

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