The moscow based band, which combines modern electronic with retro sounds and the dark aesthetics, is inspired by criminal cinema of the middle XX century.

The band adopts this into modern reality, while they prefer analogue sounds to digital ones. The debut “Blowback” shows stories about love, passion, despair and crime and brings oneself to think about the loneliness, that lives in all of us.

The album is, next to the new release “Places”, available in all well-known download stores (iTunes, AmazonMP3, emusic etc.), as well as a free download on a lot of download sites.

Tracklisting:

1. Important (05:10)
2. Stewardess (05:39)
3. Under Fire (04:36)
4. Malice (03:49)
5. Urban Girl (04:44)
6. Night (05:41)
7. Blowback (04:54)
8. City Lights (05:26)
9. Colors (Demo Song by Absent One) (03:39)
10. Under Fire (Remixed by Xaler & Cutoff:Sky) (04:12)
11. Under Fire (Deconstructed by Xaler & Neon Lights) (04:42)

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www.myspace.com/absentone

15 months after the release of “Formation Of Chaos” the duo Deied, constisting of Din-Tah Æon and n1n0 (amongst others aeon sable, Melanculia), return with their new work “Tales Of Sodenliah”. The album’s protagonist strolls, in the name of mankind, through the valleys of the imaginary Sodenliah – on the search for answers of this society’s questions.

Mankind for the first time achieves, to enter the interior of the human mind and what comes across the main character’s way even makes religious lore and darwin’s evolution theory look like discount goods of an inflationary store.

“If you continue this way, we ALL will die!” the quintessence of the gained awarenesses, which are described in the 10 tracks of the album. Altogether “Tales Of Sodenliah” becomes a genial Science Fiction Soundtrack, which, due to the subtle audio technique and it’s extraordinary instrumentation, rises far above a standardized play back and lyrical words and sometimes reminds of downfall scenarios of bands like Project Pitchfork or Wumpscut.

This audio-experience is linked with the artwork of the german underground-artist Ghostfog, who is responsible for a part of the new album, too. “Tales Of Sodenliah” will be released on September the 23rd 2011 as a download as much as in a limited digipack edition on afmusic (TS-Musix) and Ionium Records.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro + The Trip 5:16
2. A Shell Full Of Scars 4:42
3. In The Transition 5:42
4. Animanivor 3:25
5. Lightmare 4:21
6. The Spirit Of Sodenliah 4:10
7. Oui-Nein 3:07
8. Orbituary 4:18
9. Transmigration 4:41
10. Terra 7:11

www.deied.de

Ainm is a downtempo and electronica-oriented one-man project launched in 2005 by Moscow composer and musician Ilya Kovalev (now living in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom). Ainm (which simply means name in Irish) follows the style that could be roughly described as historical electro, a combination of computer music techniques with strong interest to historical musical forms and aesthetics.

At the same time, Ainm prefers to stay away from both thumping dance beats and naive New Age-esque attempts to perform medieval/ethnic music in a contemporary way. Although he likes to use certain authentic elements in his music, such as alternative tuning scales, timbres of early instruments, bits and pieces of medieval music theory, he deliberately avoids any stylisations and performs only original material.

New EP “Zero Spring” of the Russian-British project is focused on the idea of rest, stasis, end of journey, which in ritual and sacramental reality can turn into new beginning. The trademark mixture of electronic and acoustic elements now makes the grade with the bulk of sounds being of natural origin, treated and processed electronically to produce a peculiar, somewhat dark and spicy, sonic palette. The EP is available as free download (‘name your price’) as well as in all recent onlinestores.

Tracklisting:

1. Zero Spring 05:26
2. Garden Inclosed 02:46
3. Wax and Wine 05:18
4. Fields of Rabbah 03:11
5. The Promise 08:14
6. Clausula 01:33

www.myspace.com/ainm

Just a few weeks before the release of LPF12’s new album “A SENSE OF LOSS” on Ionium Records, german soundscaper Sascha Lemon releases a powerful full-length-appetizer.

Over 70 minutes “GUIDING PRINCIPLES” combines the best of Dark Ambient, Industrial and Drone. 5 tracks with exceptional length offer something new to discover with every new listen. As usual LPF12 is keen to experiment and takes care of every detail. Joy of sound is pre-programmed!

So, download and put on your headphones. Lift off.

“GUIDING PRINCIPLES” was released on August 05 2011 via Bandcamp.

www.lpf12.de

On 26th of August 2011 the new album “A Sense Of Loss” by german sound artist Sascha Lemon (LPF12) will be published as a download at Ionium Records. An exclusive pre-listening of the album is available at http://lpf12.bandcamp.com/album/a-sense-of-loss and if fans pre-order the download, they will get the complete download 1 week prior to the official release date.

One Year after “Individual Suffering” Sascha Lemon makes his way back into the headphones of Electronica-fans with his most personal album in the LPF12-history. And the waiting was worthwhile: The soundscapes of LPF12 are emotional, stirring and moving – more than ever before.

In ten chapters “A Sense Of Loss” tells a story of hope, loss and sadness, of anger, reconciliation and love. Personal experiences expressed with emotional music, that easily combines heart and mind. Smooth piano-sounds are joined with captivating Dark Ambient-sounds, forceful drum-patterns provide a background for ingenious synth-sequences. Collaborations with the Ionium Records label-colleague mind.area, with the greek project MikTek and the american singer Karra Russell masterly round this thrilling album off.

If you like thought-out Electronica, that touches heart and soul without being tear-jerking, then you definitely shouldn’t miss “A Sense Of Loss”.

Tracklisting:

1. The Unthinkable (with mind.area) 05:45
2. While Trying To Break Endless Circles 05:34
3. The Crucifixion Of Disbelief 06:12
4. A Moment Worth Bleeding For 06:02
5. In A Place Where Fear Resides 07:19
6. Staring At The Impeccable Victim 03:48
7. De-Genetic (with MikTek) 04:16
8. The Inevitable Sense Of Loss 06:50
9. Don’t Worry, It’s Too Late 05:52
10. Hold Tight (with Cellar Door) 06:31

Links:
www.lpf12.de
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lpf12/138730399495694

2011 isn’t just the year in which woman’s football is accepted finally – it’s also the year of dAVOS! Only a few months after the retrospective “Promo 2004-2010″ and about 2 years after the last release “Split” the synthpop-masters from Austria come back with brand new material – for the fan’s delight.

“Tender Loving Care” is the new maxi-single’s name, which even could be an EP, due to it’s filled up content and whose content, with all the remixing guests, makes oneself’s mouth water. Scene-ikon and producer Per-Anders Kurenbach also has worked here, as much as Chai of Jesus On Extasy and AndyK of Melotron. “We know and cherish Andy Krüger of Melotron for a while and as we played the song “Tender Loving Care” for him, when he visited vienna the last time, he urgently wanted to remix the song.” The result came out quite acceptable.

Next to that, the CD, which will be available as a download too, contains the first professional music video (http://youtu.be/dBIsYiY3tKc) in dAVOS’ band history. It was shot in two clubs in vienna. “The shooting was a lot of fun, not even because of the beautiful extras.” dAVOS revealed. “It all felt very real and easy. Leopold (the director) has made a very good job.” With the video, also the new line-up will be presented, in which Matt C. took over the job of Gerd Hall. Matt is very comfortable in that position: “When I was asked lovingly by Michael last year, if I want to join dAVOS, because they would need a good man, I already had some other offers of well-known bands. I am convinced, that this was the right choice.”

“Tender Loving Care” is more than just an appetizer for the upcoming album “I Could Sense A Tragedy”. This maxi-single underlines the deep love and solidarity of dAVOS to their fans. And for all of them, now there is the possibility to listen to the maxi on http://davos.bandcamp.com and to pre-order the download, including the video. One week before the official release date the pre-ordered download will be available.

Music for the senses – a life for music – dAVOS!

Current line-up:
Eric Nelson (Vocals)
Michael Ruin (Music)
Matt C. (Music)

Links:
www.davos-music.com
www.myspace.com/musicdavos
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Davos/169250636433877

After the last two albums “Zettel am Zeh” (2009) and “Dwarfs Like Giants” (2010) MeCha and Skip decided to relax and record a coverversion just for fun, which they’ve planned a long time ago and which would be a difficult one. Both were very enthusiastic, that suddenly there were 7 songs and the decision was made, to release an ep, to share the love for these Indie-evergreens with friends and fans.

The EP received the matching name “Gitarre kaputt” (Guitar broke), ’cause all songs are guitar pieces, which were pulled to the dark electronic side of the force, but also trying to keep their magic. Equal it is Indie-Rock, Rockabilly or Wave, oneself just had to love the songs and due to this reason, they decided to start the project and create the interpretations, which are good to be silent, but also bring people closer together, who hadn’t have the luck to grow up with these songs.

So this box of treasures contains something for everyone, nevermind if for the club or for dreaming at home, for young or old, there is no way to escape the songs’ gravity and from loving them, and if it only brings oneself to dust out the LP-box and bring the old original hits back on the turntable after a long time. Hopefully one or another is encouraged to research through the musical past and to discover, which musical masterpieces they’ve missed so far.

“Gitarre kaputt” will be published on 3rd of June as a digital EP and will be available in all well known download stores.

Tracklisting:

1. Vagabonds
2. Human Fly
3. The Passenger
4. All Shook Up
5. Rawhide
6. Blister In The Sun
7. Michelle

Links:
http://reizstrom-musik.de/
http://www.myspace.com/reizstrom
http://www.facebook.com/pages/REIZSTROM/137482022939268

mind area’s new ep ‘means to an end’ consequently keeps the way, which was chosen with the debut album ‘long distance side trip’ and the ep ‘stagnaton//death’ released shortly after that. Though the ep is a further evolution of the dark-ambient sound with distorted industrial sound, it also is a hint to the upcoming album.

More uncompromising the different stylistic devices of electronic music become a dangerous and at the same time fascinating soundrack. Not at last the vocals of friendly singers give the songs the life, which aims constant change.

mind area proves again, that the creativity of this genre is far away from reaching the end with this appetizer. The ep will be available as a free download on Ionium Records (DE), X-Line (RU) and Aphotic Audio (AUS), released on the 24th of May 2011.

Tracklisting:

1. no doubt – m.a rmx
2. deadlock
3. cut’n'paste
4. corruption (feat. EMPTY)
5. lowdown (feat. REIZSTROM) – rmy by REIZSTROM
6. slow (feat. LPF12) – rmx by LPF12

www.mindarea.de

Released out of an eternal dream, Ghostfrog, after a successful collaboration with Seetha Rao (Frightnights – Bad Night Stories, 2010), crawls through the the attenuated fields of industrial music on his own. The single “Hear Them Whisper” and the proper video underline the musical growth of the Industrial artist from Essen (Germany), for whom classic conventions and common success-concepts are foreign words, in an impressive way.

For one it will be dystopic noise, for the other a mysterious cry of lust out of a machine in the moment of its awakening. Industrial impressions of the daily grind are bound to an excessive consumption of cold music in this interpretition of an avantgardistic thinking artist. The 5-song single is completed with a really complex animation video, which catches the threatening atmosphere of the title song.

“Hear Them Whisper” will be released as download on 17th of May 2011 on afmusic and Ionium Records.

Tracklist:

1. Hear Them Whisper
2. The Night After
3. Hear Them Whisper II
4. December Nightingale
5. Hear Them Whisper III

www.ghostfog.de

Formed in the Spring of 2008, AlterRed has appeared on the same bill as KMFDM, London After Midnight, Rotersand, Straftanz, CombiChrist, Clan of Xymox, Assemblage 23, to name but a few, and has made a dramatic and impressive impact on a wide variety of audiences, from the EBM crowd to the Electro/Industrial crowd.

The flamboyant and theatrical live shows have earned AlterRed a reputation as a one of the most original and energetic new live acts playing in the UK at the moment. With his debut album, “Mind-forged Manacles” AlterRed has created a sound that lies somewhere between the hard-rock, spooky-kid sound of the mid 90s and the hard electro of the late 00s.

Essentially setting out to create dark and atmospheric songs then remix the whole lot with a harder electronic sound, the result is a new, dynamic and original sound that identifies him as a new face on the UK Alternative/Electro/Industrial scene.

AlterRed’s debut album “Mind-forged Manacles” will be released on the 2nd May 2011 on Red Electric in the UK and on Ionium Records in Europe.

Tracklisting:

1. Like April Fools
2. Losing Your Shine
3. Sex, Death or Money
4. Amphetamine Chic
5. Emily
6. The Patient
7. Fleshbind
8. The Drug Named God
9. Broken Glass
10. One of my Mornings
11. Nothing Less then Violence

Free Download “Like April Fools”: http://downloads.alterred.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/TrackDownload.html

Links:
http://www.AlterRed.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/dustheads
http://www.facebook.com/AlterRedMusic