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Thursday, 24 May
Single of the Week
**Edition limited to 500 copies on 140g black wax** Camella Lobo's cultish Tropic Of Cancer make a very welcome return with an exquisite 12" on Rome, Italy's Mannequin imprint. Their flawless formula of starched drum machine, plangent jangle and wrist-slitting synth romance is resolutely unchanged and that's completely fine by us. Title track 'Permissions Of Love' is achingly gorgeous, Camella's opiated glossolalia following the sanguine contours of a dystopian, droning lead synth and a nightshift drum machine pattern made for bedsits and cruising light industrial zones at 4am. On B-side, 'Beneath The Light', a tinny w… Read more
Album of the Week
At long last available for public consumption - Johnny Jewel and co make their loooong overdue return with a gorgeous new album. It's now five years since 'Night Drive' triggered an avalanche of copy-cats and even a film - Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive' - and although we were all blessed with Johnny Jewel's sumptuous 'Symmetry, Themes for an Imaginary Film' earlier this year, the Chromatics proper have been noticeably absent save for 2010's fan-appeasing 'In The City' EP. So yeah, it's great to have 'em back. 'Kill For Love' was worth the wait, greeting us with 16 songs pushing Ruth Radelet and Adam Miller's vocals front and centre … Read more
**Includes digital download code redeemable from the label** Captured Tracks' most danceable act - next to Soft Metals, of course - follow-up the infectious 'Your Love Runs Still' single with their first new album for the Brooklyn-based label. That single's title track aside it's all entirely fresh material, brimming with hooks sharper than a Swedish sushi chef's favourite Yanagi Bocho and urged by some of the sexiest Italo basslines you'll hear on an Indie Pop record this side of the new Chromatics LP. They've also added the suitably international sounding trio of Martine Duverglas… Read more

Captured Tracks' most danceable act - next to Soft Metals, of course - follow-up the infectious 'Your Love Runs Still' single with their first new album for the Brooklyn-based label. That single's title track aside it's all entirely fresh material, brimming with hooks sharper than a Swedish sushi chef's favourite Yanagi Bocho and urged by some of the sexiest Italo basslines you'll hear on an Indie Pop record this side of the new Chromatics LP. They've also added the suitably international sounding trio of Martine Duverglas, Anna De Marco and Dani Imhoff to equation, making their individual brand of Pop a delectable affair.

*3CD digipack with an eight page booklet, featuring a continuous DJ mix by Shadow Dancer* "Boysnoize are turning seven this year, which presents a perfect opportunity to sum up their long label history and to celebrate another year of labeldom with the second volume of the ‘BNR’ compilation, including well chosen tracks by label boss Boys Noize himself. ‘BNR Vol 2’ features Jan Driver, D.I.M., Spank Rock, Siriusmo, Erol Alkan & Boys Noize, Chilly Gonzales, Shadow Dancer, Strip Steve, Djedjotronic, Housemeister, Handbraekes (Boys Noize & Mr. Oizeo) and many more. Plus remixes from Modeselekor, Brodinski, SebastiAn and Diplo, amongst others."

Tuesday, 22 May
**Darkly dramatic German folk/electronic fusion featuring production by Anton Maiovvi** "He who looks from the sun into another light won't see much, and yet it is different for the ones standing in the shade... They know all too well what the darkness holds. Melancholy is the hallway before the darkness. The light is vanishing but never out of reach and when you step out of the sun just close enough to the shadows you hear the music of The Cold Hand. A certain nonchalance in relation to less convenient truths. Over there in the sun you hear them shout that the wonders of love never truly sto… Read more

Monday, 21 May
Featured Download
You can always trust Exotic Pylon to deliver music that’s pretty much as strange and unclassifiable as we get on the tables here at Boomkat HQ, and Maria & The Mirrors might be their weirdest to date. Like Atari Teenage Riot having a demon, Hi-NRG lovechild with Chris & Cosey, ‘Gemini Enjoy My Life’ is a terrifying journey through brothel-laced electro punk, but with the kind of production you’d more likely find on a Downwards 12” from 1998. It’s propulsive, oily and frankly great – not for all, but then none of the best things are, right?'Produkte Der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft' is the milestone debut album from the complete early DAF lineup of Gabi Delgado-López, Robert Görl, Kurt Dahlke, Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmens. 33 years since it was first released, former band member, Kurt 'Pyrolator' Dahlke presents this reissue on Bureau B, replete with all 22 spiky post-punk-tures. It's easy to hear the roots of their later - and better known - work in its jabbing rhythms and often noisy dissonance, but this is also a far stranger beast than anything else they're known for and should be taken as the primordial soup from which the industrial men-maschines, Görl and Delgado-López were born.

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It’s tough to believe that ‘All Of Us, Together’ is Canadian lad Teen Daze’s first ‘proper’ album, but here it is, and a biggun it is too. Building on the sun-drenched Balearic shuffles of his ‘A Silent Planet’ EP, we’re treated to crisp sizzling beats and the kind of arpeggiated synthesizer lines we shouldn’t really like but just hit so hard. Probably the best reference would be The Field’s effervescent debut, but Teen Daze takes things to even more blissed out places, and adds a dream-like quality that’s been exciting us about DIY music in the last few years. Good stuff, whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
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One for "those collectors out there", MoS present an unmixed selection of cuts from Andrew Weatherall's 'Masterpiece' compilation influenced by his Love From Outer Space clubnights. The venerable Mr. Weatherall require no introduction if you're over the age of 25 and have even a passing interest in club music. For everyone else he's the guy who behind Primal Scream's definitive '90s LP 'Screamadelica' and one of the most respected wax collectors int he world. For his 'Masterpiece' he draws for no less than six of his own remixes out of 12 on offer. They include his chugging overhauls of Grinderman, The Horrors, Wo… Read more
**Darkly dramatic German folk/electronic fusion featuring production by Anton Maiovvi** "He who looks from the sun into another light won't see much, and yet it is different for the ones standing in the shade... They know all too well what the darkness holds. Melancholy is the hallway before the darkness. The light is vanishing but never out of reach and when you step out of the sun just close enough to the shadows you hear the music of The Cold Hand. A certain nonchalance in relation to less convenient truths. Over there in the sun you hear them shout that the wonders of love never tru… Read more

Sunday, 20 May
"For ‘Altered Creature’, Fostercare combines elements of techno, trance, rave and their many sub-genres. With heavy visual influences from the hyperrealist world of advertising, pornography, violence, virtual environments, post humanism and fetish societie, Fostercare has shaped a strange world behind his strain of electronic music. Driven by arpeggiated sequences, breakbeats and apocalyptic sentiments, Fostercare is music for the simulacrum - a peeling away of future underworlds, neon pulses, alternate screens, genetic maps and urban sprawl. Skating between many genres, his music is … Read more

Thursday, 17 May
"For ‘Altered Creature’, Fostercare combines elements of techno, trance, rave and their many sub-genres. With heavy visual influences from the hyperrealist world of advertising, pornography, violence, virtual environments, post humanism and fetish societie, Fostercare has shaped a strange world behind his strain of electronic music. Driven by arpeggiated sequences, breakbeats and apocalyptic sentiments, Fostercare is music for the simulacrum - a peeling away of future underworlds, neon pulses, alternate screens, genetic maps and urban sprawl. Skating between many genres, his music is connec… Read more

Wednesday, 16 May
Dublin-based duo debut with a sentimental, nostalgic serving of dream-pop for fans of Animal Collective, The Beach Boys, Washed Out and Fleet Foxes. Warm vocal harmonies are buoyed by gauzy layers of synth and urged by dance rhythms swaying between tropical breeziness and colder, steeled synth-pop and disco. Comparisons with Noah Lennox's output are unavoidable yet respectfully earned: they've obviously soaked up similar amounts of New Order and Phil Spector productions and wear those influences proudly.
Dublin-based duo debut with a sentimental, nostalgic serving of dream-pop for fans of Animal Collective, The Beach Boys, Washed Out and Fleet Foxes. Warm vocal harmonies are buoyed by gauzy layers of synth and urged by dance rhythms swaying between tropical breeziness and colder, steeled synth-pop and disco. Comparisons with Noah Lennox's output are unavoidable yet respectfully earned: they've obviously soaked up similar amounts of New Order and Phil Spector productions and wear those influences proudly.
Monday, 14 May
Wavey, machine-tooled House grooves from Chicago's Beau Wanzer and Melvin Oliphant (X2, Traxx, Saturn V). 'Let Me Go' features Naughty Wood doing a canny take on Jamie Principle over rippling, in-the-pocket cowbells and groping bassline. 'Rottenfunk' is built for the bleary-eyed wee hour jackers, nice and sleazy for your greazy needs.







































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