After remixing and giving their punk attitude to tons of records from well known electro acts of the likes of Miss Yetti, Pink Grease, Beroshima, Boy George, Atomizer, Bruder und Kronstädta Feat. Nina Hagen, Lola Angst, etc. The Scandals are about to release their first album really soon. Just before the release of their CD, Pale Music decided to produce a Scandals 12" for the SERIAL KILLER TRACKS series. The 12" contains three versions of "My life nightlife": the first version is the "Original track" and it is a dancey punk tune mid tempo with clean guitars and '80s bassline and synths. The second one is the "Weaver's dub" version: it slows down a little bit the original one expanding the vocal parts and removing the guitar but pumping the bass part. The third tune is the "Pitsui Rmx" and in this version the track changes it's skin a lot, really. From punk rock it turns into an orchestral dramatic soundtrack with picked strings and drums in evidence. There's also a part where a bass is added and the drums upbeat part give strength to the dark one played by the strings. The effect is really catchy and particular and this just proves that SERIAL KILLER TRACKS was a good idea!

"Hush" is the second release from Spain's Charlotte's Shadow that sizzles with old school goth rock and new romantic. Now signed on a new label called Art Records. A follow-up release from their previous successful first debut "Love & Hate/No Tears", which was released off France label Cynfeirdd. "Hush" provide the first single "Wherever You Are", you can also see the music video on their website. J. Catala vocal is brooding and dark and blends well with the music as well. All 11 tracks on disc are worth listening to, such as "Take Me Away", "Lonely Life", "Show Me", "How Can I Tell You", and the self-titled "Hush". The cd also contains two bonus tracks; "Cruces", which is sung by female singer, "Silvia Bascuriana, who did the lead and background; and "Pet Cemetary". Charlotte's Shadow lays the foundation of captivating the 80's sound what bands from the era was doing at that time; combining guitars with keyboard melodies. Children and fan of the 80's will find this welcome release appealing. The melodies and emotional lyrics will grab you instantly. After repeated listens, these songs will etch themselves into your memory banks. This band rocks!!!!

This' a double debut: both for the label and for the musician, this' a drony experience hence if "lysergic emanations" is what you're still looking for, well go on reading, please. The genealogic tree of drone-music could be divided in different categories and "Orange of" could be filed under the "melodic" one... like Kranky? yesss...the good feature is the same, above all if you have in mind the most electronic oriented releases of their catalogue but it’s more melodic and lass psychedelic, I’d say softer than many artists on Kranky. Who knows, probably this record is an electronic oriented one more than a "dronic" one but I think by what I’ve said you got more or less what kind of listening it is. I don't know that much about Ashis Mahapatra but he's been able to amaze me from the very first listening, his music is cerebral but not depressive at all and has a touch of "joyous eternity" which fits really well with summer's stillness. Too bad the layout is ok but as good as the cd, cause this berlinese? indian? american?...no I’ve not gone completely out of mind, this release has been composed and recorded between Brooklyn, Berlin and New Delhi. You think this particular in itself is irrelevant? No way, this music is borne out of a mind trip and really helps to trip away.

Already known for his releases as Portable, Alan Abrahams decided to form another project focused on a more dance floor oriented electronica. With Portable he is well known for his way of blending tribal rhythms and micro-house sounds. With Bodycode he didn’t wipe off his style completely because on different tracks of THE CONSERVATION OF ELECTRIC CHARGE you can hear tribal rhythms or salsa rhythms and instruments with ambient layers (like on on "Gene patch"). There’s also space for classic techno on "I, data" (one of the tracks I appreciate the most), i.d.m. treatments on the opening "Nanotechnology" and ambient techno on "Local traffic". Some tracks (few of them, fortunately), tend to loop too much and this produce an effect similar to "cool if I’m on acid". Nice for a dance floor use but not fully enjoyable at home even if the change of styles is a good thing.

Pale Music is always on the move thinking about new ways of presenting their music. For this reason on July a new series of 12" will face up. The series is called "Serial killer tracks" and the first release will be an E.P. of Neonman remixed tracks. Released recently, the Neonman "Gift of the gab" album already contained remixes as bonus tracks. Well, this GIFT OF THE BAG REMIXES is a sort of follow up to those tracks because you can find all of the ones of the CD ("Buy now, pay later - Shapemod Rmx", "Rich kids -Warren Suicide Rmx" and "Rich kids - The Scandals Rmx") with the add of a new one, a reworked version of "Bombs in the backdrop" by Punx Soundcheck. The Punx took the funk part of the track and they added a little bit of electronics with a beating synth bass creating another cool tune. At this point it’s normal to ask: why reissuing the bonus tracks from the first Neonman album? Well there are different reasons: the label was really pleased with the work that the remixers did, the E.P. is sounding really functional for the dancefloor and all this is could be also a good promotion for the album.