The underground sound is alive and well in the Philippines, thanks to artists such as Caliph8, Malek Lopez, Mark Zero and Fred Sandoval. Well-known in the local community, these four fuse elements of Rock, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop and Electronica into cohesive, hypnotic jams that were all recorded in two days. These recordings will then be sampled, deconstructed and released later this year as a full-length debut. New Perspectives was there to document the event:

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Stay tuned for the full-length features coming in February, only at New Perspectives!

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The world of *Embryonik* is full of analog synths, sci-fi themes, infectious grooves and pure electrodisco vibes! In this *4th EP* on *Binalog>>>Productions*, one of the most exciting greek electronic artists, delivers *3* original tracks and enjoys remixes by the likes of *Jordan F*, *Camille R*, *Thomas Barrandon*, *Binalog* and *Black Electronics*. The result is an *8-tracker* of unique variety, sound ranging from electro/italo-disco, dreamwave and 80s soundtracks, to techno, electrohouse and industrial-dub-electrofunk!

*Skyscraper* is now available also as a limited to *50* copies *180g clear vinyl* 4-tracker, featuring the *3* original tracks plus *Binalog* remix on “*Watergun*”!!! Purchase your copy here: *http://binalogproductions.weebly.com/shop.html*

*# 1 *at* Juno Electro Chart*,* Electro Single Of The Month* on the December issue (#504) of *DJ Magazine*, rated *9/10*!

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Artist: From the Mouth of the Sun Title: Woven Tide Formats: LP+Download / CD / Digital Release date: January 31 201 Label : Experimedia Catalog: EXPLP021 / EXPCD021

Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration between Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, and composer Aaron Martin. Out of the charred embers of dusk Woven Tide emerges with an incandescent glow. Each glimmer cast by the sustained notes of ebony keys, the taut strings of the cello, and the rampant buzz of guitar lights our way, gives us hope, brings us into the dawn of a new day. As From The Mouth of the Sun, the duo act as our torchbearers, scrawling messages along the walls of an elongated cave, toiling through the decayed remnants of fetid matter to create eight illuminating pieces. The listener, who has wiled away the hours, will find a door; Woven Tide will be the light out of the darkness.

Pieces from Woven Tide as well as solo work by Aaron Martin accompanies the new documentary film by Lost Hill Picture’s Ross McDonnell and Carter Gunn for Fastnet Films, Remember Me, My Ghost, which is currently touring the festival circuit. McDonnell and Carter are most recently known for their award winning documentary film Colony which documents the unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, and also features music by Aaron Martin. An upcoming short film by McDonnell and Carter featuring Color Loss from Woven Tide will be included on an upcoming Wholpin DVD magazine published by McSweeney’s.

Since 2005 Gothenburg, Sweden based musician Dag Rosenqvist’s work has graced imprints including imprints including Miasmah, Fang Bomb, Under The Spire, Lampse, Lidar, Slaapwel, Kning Disk, Dead Pilot Records, Lowpoint, and Rural Colors.

Since 2006 Topeka, Kansas based composer Aaron Martin’s work has graced imprints including Preservation, Mobeer, Experimedia, Type, Under The Spire, and Sonic Meditations.

The Crossing Pools of Rust Color Loss My Skin Drinks Light That Has Passed through Leaves Sitting in a Roofless Room Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral A Season in Waters Snow Burial (While Blue Skies Gather)

All music recorded and mixed in Gothenburg, SE and Topeka, KS by Dag Rosenqvist and Aaron Martin June – December 2010.

Cover artwork & layout by Chris Koelle. Mastered by Taylor Deupree.

Woven Tide will be released worldwide on January 31 2012 on CD, 12” Vinyl LP, and digitally.

Derek Piotr – AGORA Regathered a selection of remixes from AGORA released by bitsquare records 12.5.11 FILE UNDER: Glitch, Leftfield, Dark Ambient

After releasing his solo record AGORA earlier this year, on which AGF assisted in production, Derek Piotr releases a collection of remixes titled AGORA Regathered. Regathered features input from Scanner, Blevin Blectum, and Steinbrüchel among many others. After over half a year of curating material, the final collection of remixes was carefully cherry picked. Piotr sees these tracks as not simply remixes but “essential extensions of the original ideas”. The variety here is breathtaking, from Twenty Knives’ offerings (old school drum patterns triggering vocal freakouts), to the hushed, intimate work of Steinbrüchel and Thone Holo, all the way through Dendrite and Blectum’s exuberant programming of digital squashes and bombastic dancefloor surges of HeeG and Zach Thorpe.

TRACKLISTING: 1. Focus (jhom’s Repetez Remix) 2. Overtaker (HeeG Remix) 3. Remain (Scanner 90 Mix) 4. Remain (Steinbrüchel Remix) 5. From Whiteness (Protofuse Incision Edit) 6. Value System (Dendrite Remix) 7. Overtaker (Twenty Knives Remix) 8. Winter Consummation (Zach Thorpe Mix) 9. Invoce (Lemosh Remix) 10. From Whiteness (Blevin Blectum Remix) 11. Overtaker (Chaircrusher Rmx) 12. Behaviour State (Salakapakka Sound System Remix) 13. Flood Circuit (Thone Holo Remix) 14. Focus (Pitkänen’s Kohti)

*RAMMSTEIN’S RETROSPECTIVE ALBUM, MADE IN GERMANY 1995 – 2011 AVAILABLE TOMORROW, DEC. 13*

*GUITARIST PAUL LANDERS DISCUSSES FORTHCOMING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR*

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*Made in Germany cover* *High-resolution download:* http://speakeasypr.com/sp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/MadeinGermanycover.jpg * * LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 — As Rammstein celebrates the release of their first retrospective album, *Made in Germany 1995 – 2011* (the 16-track, re-mastered collection is available tomorrow, Dec. 13, via Universal Germany through a distribution deal with Vagrant Records), guitarist Paul Landers hints at what fans can expect from the stage savvy band’s forthcoming North American tour.

“It’s always a major challenge for us to build a new show,” explains Landers. “It starts with a tiny crew and ends up with 23 trucks. We do try to keep it minimal, but it always becomes more rather than less. It’s not our fault, we’re natural show-offs. ” Rammstein has become known the world over for their incendiary and decadent live performances. Fans by the tens of thousands regularly fill arenas and stadiums to take part in what is a wholly unique experience that blends the band’s bombastic music with a pyrotechnic-laden, rock music wonderland. The *Los Angeles Times* smartly described a Rammstein show as “… epic stagecraft on a Wagnerian scale, several notches up from most arena rock.”

A glimpse of Rammstein’s live performances and the full tour dates for the Made in Germany 2012 tour:

With *Made in Germany 1995 – 2011*’s track list (available below) opening up a number of live possibilities, Landers was coy about what songs would be included: “If I tell you, there won’t be any surprises… all I can say is, we tried to incorporate a good mix of all of our work. The band is really enjoying what we are doing and it’s kind of scary how well everything is going. We are looking forward to the American audience because…” Tour dates are listed below with all shows on-sale now.

*Made in Germany 1995 – 2011* is available in three different editions:

* Standard Edition: CD Digipak – Best of Album Amazon pre-order link: http://www.amazon.com/Made-Germany Rammstein/dp/B005SODYJ2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1320794840&sr=8-4

* Special Edition: 2-CD Digipak – Best of Album and Best of Remixes Amazon pre-order link: http://www.amazon.com/Made-Germany-Rammstein/dp/B005SODYGA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1320794840&sr=8-3

* Super Deluxe Edition: 2-CD (Best of Album and Best of Remixes) as well as 3 DVDs (including the full Rammstein video catalog, all previously available “Making of” and 8 unreleased “Making of” videos) packaged in a steel box complete with a 240-page booklet. Limited to 1200 copies in the US. Amazon pre-order link: http://www.amazon.com/Made-Germany-1995-2011-Super-Deluxe/dp/B005TG0AOQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1323455661&sr=8-3

*Made in Germany 1995-2011* also includes the new single “Mein Land.” A video for the song was released mid-November and finds Rammstein embracing and then modernizing the beach party film genre.

*Rammstein Made In Germany 1995-2011 North American Tour Dates*

April 20 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BankAtlantic Center 21 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum 23 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena 25 Baltimore, MD 1st Marina Arena 26 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center 28 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum 29 Worcester, MA DCU Center

May 1 Montreal, QC Bell Centre 3 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena 4 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena 6 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills 8 Minneapolis, MN Target Center 10 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre 13 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena 14 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome 17 Anaheim, CA Honda Center 18 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena 20 Denver, CO Denver Coliseum 22 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center 24 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center 25 Houston, TX Toyota Center

*Made In Germany 1995 – 2011 track list*

01 ENGEL 02 LINKS 2 3 4 03 KEINE LUST 04 MEIN TEIL 05 DU HAST 06 DU RIECHST SO GUT 07 ICH WILL 08 MEIN HERZ BRENNT 09 MUTTER 10 PUSSY 11 ROSENROT 12 HAIFISCH 13 AMERIKA 14 SONNE 15 OHNE DICH 16 MEIN LAND

*Made in Germany 1995-2011 Remixes track list (available only with the Special and Super Deluxe editions)*

01 DU RIECHST SO GUT – REMIX BY FAITH NO MORE 02 DU HAST – REMIX BY JACOB HELLNER 03 STRIPPED – REMIX BY JOHAN EDLUND (TIAMAT) 04 SONNE – REMIX BY CLAWFINGER 05 LINKS 2 3 4 – REMIX BY WESTBAM 06 MUTTER – REMIX BY SONO 07 FEUER FREI – REMIX BY JUNKIE XL 08 MEIN TEIL – REMIX BY PET SHOP BOYS 09 AMERIKA – REMIX BY OLSEN INVOLTINI 10 OHNE DICH – REMIX BY LAIBACH 11 KEINE LUST – REMIX BY BLACK STROBE 12 BENZIN – REMIX BY MESHUGGAH 13 ROSENROT – REMIX BY NORTHERN LITE 14 PUSSY – REMIX BY SCOOTER 15 RAMMLIED – REMIX BY DEVIN TOWNSEND 16 ICH TU DIR WEH – REMIX BY FUKKK OFFF 17 HAIFISCH – REMIX BY HURTS

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MERZBOW – LOP LOP – CD * *OUT NOW 12 EURO http://www.rustblade.com/2011/lop-lop/* *There is no need to argue: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. Akita began to bring about his own brand of noise music in 1979, * *and since then he’s been constantly changing the very foundation his sound is built on. His music is an interpretation of very complex ideologies imbued with a violently non-traditional, but ultimately transparent sense of beauty. On Lop Lop Merzbow takes a step in a new direction from his recent releases and focuses on manipulating sounds and harsh beats in a way meant to make a new mark on the face of his well known style. The synths and guitars scream and sing in a way which allows them to be heard through all the oppressive noise, often returning to ferocious power electronics sounds which clearly define the anger of this new release. The cd comes in special paper packaging with an original painting by Masami Akita. plus a sticker* ** *Tracking list :

- Canaanda – My voice at the pace of drifting clouds – EQ

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- Canaanda – My voice at the pace of drifting clouds – EQDisc 2: – Madoromi – Sujata & Asoka – 2 Guitars

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New Rhythmic noise EP by French project Edgeist out now on Enough records.

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