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Dragonfly.
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In April, when I was in Chicago mastering 10 Neurotics, I did a video interview about various aspects of the process. The first segment is up. It claims to be about the Waves L1 Compression plug-in, but that was an excuse to ramble about recording and mixing. The interviewer is Patrick Ogl, who you might remember from my first "other band" Thanatos. Somebody suggests I'm a dufus in the comment area. Post your comments. Watch it on gearwire here. |
ProjektList#544 | March 24 2009 | From Projekt's Sam Rosenthal.
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Weep's Never Ever CD marks Doc Hammer's return to the world of music from the world of The Venture Bros. Though he's probably better known for his work on the sharply satiric Adult Swim cartoon, Hammer is no stranger to making music of the darkwave persuasion; Hammer was a founding member of goth darlings Requiem in White and Mors Syphilitica. But we're not trying to tell you to buy the CD, even though it is continuously the #1 item in our webstore. Nope. We're telling you about a free MP3! Downlod it today. Spread the word.
Free MP3 of Weep's version of Rihanna's "Shut Up And Drive" here!
Why Shut Up and Drive?
10 Reasons, direct from the heart of Weep:
1. Too many bands use their choice of cover songs as a proof of credibility. Like by covering some obscure Big Star song they are now made cool. That's not the Weep way! Weep is cool because we open the window! No... That's not a metaphor. We are literally cooled by the breeze. Get it? ... Never Mind.
2. Covering a song we really like would invariably lead us to a song that is inferior to the original. Why start off in second place?
3. When we first head the Rihanna version (in like Urban Outfitters, pumped through the PA like so much fart) we believed it to be a cover of Blue Monday... So, the song hidden in that ridiculous pop song is one of dignified pedigree. Don't judge a book by its cover. Unless it's a really wicked cool painting of a dragon. Then you can kinda tell what's inside.
4. Making a faux pop-hit is kinda fun. Getting that loud, over produced vocal sound, getting the bass and kick right in the pocket... That's a fun little challenge for a band that likes to hide its vocals behind thunderous drums. FUN! You think we are marketing masters, or in a band band to pay the rent? No...
5. Doc desperately wanted to tell the world that he has "a whole lot of boom in the back".
6. Fred loves the distortion pedal on his bass. It's about time we featured it.
7. Rihanna's version of the song has this inappropriate, fake hip-hop breakdown in the middle. We have freed the song of that mistake for you.
8. It's a song that gets really stuck in your head. By covering it we have freed it from being an insidious loop in our brain. And as a bonus, we get to show you what that loop sounded like. Because our brain doesn't have Rihanna's voice.
9. It's a good song. Admit it! Nobody is looking. You can say whatever you like. Weep won't judge. We love you. Okay, fine, hide behind irony. You can like it because it's a big goofy pop hit and you know better. Let it be a guilty pleasure.
10. Why not "Shut Up and Drive?" Do you really want Weep to poop on your favorite song?
ROME
To Die Among Strangers CD EP+Shirt PRE-ORDER $39.98
News from the orchards of ROME. With their works inspired by expressionist literature and the feeling of departure of the early 20th Century, ROME has made quite a name for itself in the European underground. Within only 3 years ROME have released their debut EP and three full-length albums. ROME’s music is steeped in melancholy, loss and despair and a sacred solitude that is defined by the detachment from all political and religious systems.
As a teaser to the upcoming album ROME now announces the release of the EP To Die Among Strangers, limited to 999 copies only!
This is a pre-order item. We will accept pre-orders on this set until April 1, 2009, but we STRONGLY encourage you to place your order as soon as possible as it may sell out before that date. When ordering, please specify in the comments section which size t-shirt you would like. The shirts are available in S, M, L, XL, XXL, and XXXL. We will charge your card when the sets arrive in mid-May.
Recent additions to the webstore
Blutengel Schwarzes Eis 2-CD $23.98 | The Berlin-based band BLUTENGEL has become synonymous with a unique and often-imitated stylistic symbiosis of Gothic, Pop and Electronic club music that has shaped an entire genre.
Combichrist Today We Are All Demons Limited Edition 2-CD $22.98 | This is Techno Body Music ripping through beats, bass and rhythm, creating an aggro genre that criss-crosses rock, metal, industrial and underground dance.
Dark Awake Meseonas $14.98 | A mystical avant-garde art with majestic/pompous feeling explores the macabre fantasies from the nocturnal macrocosm of imagination.
Dead Can Dance Aion Remastered $13.98 | A range of styles are explored, from the polyphonic choral heights of "The Arrival and the Reunion" to the smooth balladry of "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book" to the Middle Eastern sensuality of "Radharc." Into the Labyrinth Remastered $13.98 | Dead Can Dance mixes their medieval leanings with more exotic Eastern influences on "Saldek" and "Yulunga," while exploring Celtic balladry and theatrical songcraft. The Serpent's Egg Remastered $13.98 | Heralded by an astounding first track, "The Host of Seraphim" later used in movies but on its own it's so jaw-droppingly good that almost the only reaction is sheer awe.
Foundation Hope Our God is a Consuming Fire $19.98 | Transparent but melancholic atmosphere, where each track radiates with quiet and modest despair.
Ghosts of Breslau Sacred Place $14.98 | A collection of material from numerous compilations, split releases and never before published tracks.
Robin Guthrie 3:19 Original Soundtrack $14.98 | Features the trademark Guthrie ethereal soundscape with added piano, just a little bit of strings and a few sound effects that nicely communicate the film's mood.
Kirlian Camera Shadow Mission Held V Limited Edition $16.98 | The band mingles memorable melodies with powerful electronics and an irrepressible lust for sonic experimentation, all carried by the impressive vocal presence of Elena Alice Fossi.
Kuu Suomi or the Well of Impossible Wishes $14.98 | Electro-acoustic basis with voices and some violin line to some of them; you can say it's dark folk, ambient, electronic, it's just KUU !!
Laibach Anthems 2-CD $19.98 | The best of Laibach's anthemic songs (including previously unreleased material) while CD2 contains mixes and remixes (again including unavailable tracks)
Laibach WAT $10.98 | Challenges the listener to question political and governmental world agendas in that ubiquetous Laibach style
Mantus Requiem $18.98 | Metallic guitar riffs meet classical arrangements, full strings and piano. Monstrum Sepsis Artifacts $13.98 | Blended layers of synths over waves of pulsating and pounding percussion.
Pilori Until the Day Dawn $16.98 | A complex work, steeped in dense atmospheres, catchy melodies, ritualistic rhythms, and above all the beautiful female vocals which have always placed the band in a league of their own.
Whispers of Ghosts The Coldest Place $14.98 | A Gothic-ethereal - neoclassic new and fresh band, 8 tracks from the deepest place of the world, from the abyss of the blue ocean, melancholic and sad music.
Various Artists Sin-Tech $11.98 | A well balanced mix of Industrial dance floor sounds, Mid-tempo Electro pop, Dark Experimental and Ethereal Darkwave.
New Projekt additions to the $6.98 sale
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$6.98 | "The hypnotic, late 80's Alternative subgenre known as 'Shoegaze' has been brought into the 21st Century by Buffalo, NY's Tearwave. Their debut album is a mesmerizing musical astral journey." - Gothic Beauty |  | SoulWhirlingSomewhere: Eating The Sea
$6.98 | The 1993 debut, back in print for the first time in half a decade. For fans of David Sylvian, Pieter Nooten, Red House Painters. Beautiful angsty ethereal sounds with hauntingly pained male vocals. |  | Mirabilis: Pleiades
$6.98 | The 2004 neo-classical / heavenly voices debut from Mirabilis, a collaboration between Summer Bowman of The Machine in the Garden and Dru Allen of This Ascension. |
Steve Roach & Erik Wollo feature on Echoes
The nationally syndicated radio show Echoes featured Projekt's
Steve Roch & Eric Wollo release Stream of Thought.
Arctic ambiences meet desert dreams
Steve Roach and Erik Wollo are contemporaries from opposite sides of the world and opposite ends of the thermometer. But after three decades of mutual admiration, they got together to collaborate on an expansive CD that took both musicians out of their comfort zones and into new terrain. We connect these artists over transcontinental space to hear their Stream of Thought.
You can read the blog or hear the podcast, here.
New preview MP3 posted
Black tape for a blue girl - Love of the Father
and a new blog
New MP3 posted with blog about the lyrical process of creating "Love of the Father."
I reject god 'cause they say He will save me.
I can't touch him like the toys on my bed, use your magic to save me !
Then he smacks me 'cross the face; ears ringing, angels singing:
he loves you and I know he doesn't mean it.
Visit the blog at myspace or the blacktape home page, enter the studio, look around, get an insider's view of the creative process. As always, I would love to hear your comments and thoughts. I enjoy reading them... Sam
Hey! don't be a stranger.... ;)
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ProjektList#541 | Febuary 5 2009 | From Projekt's Sam Rosenthal.
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Attrition
Kill The Buddha! (The 25th Anniversary Tour)
Attrition, Kill The Buddha! is a strong collection of live recordings from this legendary English electronic act.
Hear MP3s and purchase for $13.98 here.
Attrition has managed to secure a solid niche audience for a quarter-century, all the while resisting categorization despite recognizable elements of early industrial, dark ambient and trance.
The result is a completely new spin on the band's immersive sonic landscapes, with an injection of immediate energy and spontaneity, fury and beauty, that feels almost monolithic in scope while managing to steer clear of the self-indulgent tendencies than can dog so many bands of the Gothic variety. For this tour, Bowes shares onstage vocal duties with operatic American singer Laurie Reade, and turns over most of the offbeat electronic instrumentation (his own forte in the studio) to several other keyboardists, including frequent Attrition collaborator Ned Kirby (of the band Stromkern). The result is a layered, haunting, hypnotic collection of genre-defying soundscapes that alternately seduce and frighten.
There's a damn good reason why this group is still around, and this CD is a cool way to find out.
Attrition has long been a fixture on the Rock circuit but from different angles and forbidden borders. With a history that forms from their beginnings in 1980, when such music began to find audiences they would have been hard-pressed to find in the ‘70s, to their present moments, where new music by the band is as potent and effective as their earlier catalogues. Attrition is extraordinary music for connoisseurs of challenge and this Live album reaffirms Attrition’s musical prowess.
Kill the Buddha! is essential to your Attrition library.
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The Projekt 2009 Label Sampler
This is our new promotional sampler, with tracks from Projekt's 11 most recent releases. Get one free with any order over $40. Purchase for $1.98. Full track listing & MP3s, here. |
Projekt releases on sale for $6.98:
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$6.98 | Erin Welton's ethereal vocals float sentiments of heartbreak, loneliness and devotion gently over Scott Ferrell's atmospheric guitars. Order, here. |  | SoulWhirlingSomewhere: Eating The Sea
$6.98 | The 1993 debut, back in print for the first time in half a decade. For fans of David Sylvian, Pieter Nooten, Red House Painters. Beautiful angsty ethereal sounds with hauntingly pained male vocals. Order, here. |  | This Ascension: Sever
$6.98 | "This Ascension blends shimmering synthesizer and guitar sounds with an uncommonly complex and powerful rhythm section, layered with dynamic, heavenly vocals." - Musicaldiscoveries.com. Order, here. |  | Mirabilis: Pleiades
$6.98 | The 2004 neo-classical / heavenly voices debut from Mirabilis, a collaboration between Summer Bowman of The Machine in the Garden and Dru Allen of This Ascension. Order, here.
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Free Katzenjammer Kabarett ringtones
Text KATZENJAMMER to 69937 (MYXER) to get Katzenjammer Kabarett's content directly from your phone. Text "KATZENJAMMER ROMANCE" to 69937 (MYXER) to get "Romance" or URL Text "KATZENJAMMER 13" to 69937 (MYXER) to get "Eve at the mansion" or URL.
More from Katzenjammer Kabarett at Myxer.
Listen to MP3s and order the CDs for $13.98:
Katzenjammer Kabarett Grand Guignol & Variétés (new for 2009)
Katzenjammer Kabarett Debut (2006 reissue)
Each album is lovingly packaged in a 6 panel digipak with 12 page booklet
Projekt Spotlight on Aural Apocalypse
On Wednesday, February 11th, Aural Apocalypse will focus on some of
the dark ambient, dark folk, and ethereal acts from Projekt Records.
Aural Apocalypse : A Soundtrack for the Final Days
a 2 hour journey into darkness featuring: Dark Ambient, Neo-Folk, Militant, Noise, Neo-Classical, Medieval music and more
Wednesdays 19:00 PST
Real Industrial Radio: realindustrialradio.com
myspace.com/auralapocalypse
Podcast: auralapocalypse.podomatic.com/
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PROJEKTLIST#530
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What were you for Halloween?
Send your photos (please convert them to jpgs, 72dpi, 3" tall) to reply@projekt.com with "Halloween Photos" as your subject -- we'll post our favorites on the next list.
Here is Sam and Sasha, in their home-made costumes:
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Abandoned Toys The Witch's Garden $11.98 | Full of lush chamber orchestra arrangements surrounded by creative sound design and ambiance: a stunningly beautiful, neo-classical dark ambient album.
Emilie Autumn Opheliac 2-CD US Version $16.98 | Sllightly different track listing from European edition. Opheliac draws upon Emilie Autumn's influences as a classical violinist and combines them with her passion for synth pop sounds.
Caul & Kirchenkampf Sleep Night Death $13.98 | A soundscape for late night reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching climatic tones and textures.
Die Form Hertz Frequenz + Bite of God CD single $10.98 | A driving beat builds the foundation for an energetic interplay between Fichots cold, electronically manipulated vocals and Eliane P.’s mesmerizing, fairy-like melodies.
Falling You Faith $11.98 | Faith continues in the dark ambient / heavenly voices / ethereal style of human and touch, while adding subtle industrial elements.
Forrest Fang side-project Sans Serif Tones for LaMonte $10.98 | A soundscape-oriented side project that was inspired by the harmonic drones of La Monte Young.
In the Nursery The Passion of Joan of Arc $19.98 | In The Nursery's new score reflects the films dramatic highs and lows from the emotional close-up photography of the trial through to the fevered final scenes surrounding Joan's death.
Medusa's Spell Last X Hours $14.98 |
Last X hours is a genuine acoustic ritual dark-folk conceptual album following the ten last tragic hours of a woman who stands accused for witchery.
ohGr Devils in My Details $19.98 |
Lush textures and soundscapes collide with crashing beats and twisted melodies to make up this industrial tour de force.
Phragments Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood $13.98 | Forceful brass and dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion, somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial clangor, and a strong and commanding vocal presence.
Raison D'etre The Luminous Experience $14.98 | The live set mainly contains live only material: a mixture of composed and improvised elements that has never been experienced on CD before.
The Synthetic Dream Foundation Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory $11.98 | From harsh, brooding, mechanical beats to dreamy, neo-classical mirages, and dark ambient masterworks which shift through and absorb cold, alien landscapes.
Various Artists My Dear Freaks 2 $19.98 | Presents the best selection of Spanish bands, within the genres of the darkest scene covering Dark Folk, Neo Folk, Medieval, and Post Industrial.
Various Artists V:28 Total Reconstruction $14.98 | Norwegian industrial death metal band V:28 set out on a musical journey through a world in turmoil, now remixed by other Cold Meatie bands!
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Thanks to everyone in America for giving me such a wonderful birthday present. My wish came true! Above is the Barack poster Sasha drew for me, which hung on the wall next to my TV as I watched the returns come in. The young kids interest in Obama makes me very hopeful. Maybe people will work for the GOOD of all, in the next decade.
As Sasha and I were walking to school this morning, another first grader came up to us and asked Sasha, "Who'd you vote for?" Sasha replied "Obama" and the kid gave him a "Ok, you're cool!" response....
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Projekt $150,000 Shopping Spree
Eh? That's a typo..... s'ppose to say Projekt $50 Shopping Spree! I guess I was thinking about Sarah Palin's outfits! ;-) Ok. How can you enter to win a $50 shopping spree at our webstore?? Visit the page for Voltaire's new album, To the Bottom of the Sea and email us the name of the fourth track. Email reply and snailmail address to reply@projekt.com with "Shopping Spree" as your subject. One lucky winner will be chosen at random to be called a "lucky ducky" on the next list, and also get $50 of great Projekt stuff for free !
Voltaire
To the Bottom of the Sea
Gypsy punk, dark cabaret, sea shanties and Steampunk collide on the new CD by the original Gothic renaissance man and his skeletal orchestra of gypsy pirates. Somewhere between concept record and full-blown musical, To The Bottom of the Sea tells the tale of a gypsy tinker and his tumultuous journey from his homeland in the mountains of Vorutania, to a watery grave at the ocean depths.
Order for $13.98, here.
The top-3 releases in the webstore:
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Weep: Never Ever
#1 in our webstore
The new band from "Doc" Hammer. A must for fans of Mors Syphilitica & Requeim in White.
Purchase for $7.98 here.
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Various Artists:
The Projekt 2008 sampler
#2 in our webstore
A selection of tracks from our 2008 releases. Exclusive to this release is “Rock of Ages (radio edit),” an edit of a track from the new Attrition album, with new vocalist Sin D'rella.
Purchase for $2.98 here.
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black tape for a blue girl:
A Retrospective
#3 in our webstore
Russian "best of" from the legends of the Neo-Classical / Heavenly Voices / Darkwave. Includes remixed, remastered and unreleased tracks.
Listen to MP3s & purchase for $11.98 here.
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Projekt Ringtones!
Available from MYXER, here.
Voltaire Worf's Revenge!
Fan mash up on youtube, here.
Steve Roach interview
Brand new indepth talk at Sonic Immersion, here.
An Engineer's Guide to Cats
Courting Condi
Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world's most powerful woman?, here.
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Tearwave: Different Shade of Beauty
With their dreampop music which includes shoegaze elements, the American outfit Tearwave immediately recalls memories of the music of My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins and especially Lush. This band from Buffalo in the US state of New York unmistakably belongs to that tradition with their own version of shoegaze guitar music with dreamy female vocals from Jennifer Manganiello and really great icy guitarwork with much reverb and delay played by Doug White. The songs on Different Shade of Beauty are more layered than on their debut and better manage to grab the attention as well. Sometimes the guitars even remind of the early works of Dead Can Dance. Highlights are ‘Shattered Fairytale’, ‘Holding On’, ‘The Message’, ‘Falling From Grace’, ‘Love Only Makes Me Weak’ and the great cover version of the The Church song ‘Under the Milky Way. Tearwave is without doubt the best example of a shoegaze band that perfectly translates the atmosphere from those years to our modern time. Tearwave does this by avoiding the genre cliché’s and instead develops an approach of their own. Different Shade of Beauty is an epic album filled with an authentic dreamy darkwave atmosphere and cold shoegaze emotion. (8 of 10)
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Old News Archive below:
Very old but still interesting news:
Voltaire's Vlog is a documentation of his performance at the Blacksun Fest / Projektfest. It is 5 segments long, and can be accessed at mySpace or by visiting youTube.
Voltaire writes: Greetings........ Certainly you all must have known that it was just a matter of time until I created a VLOG, yes? It was supposed to be about 5 minutes long... but I decided to shoot a behind the scenes feature of my band getting ready for The Blacksun festival in New Haven, CT... and let's just say it ended up being a whole lot longer than I thought. It's really low tech like any crappy vlog should be, I hope you enjoy it!
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Free Sampler with every $40 order
Did you know you get a free Projekt Sampler with every $40 (or higher) order placed through the projekt.com website? If you're not ordering today, you can get yourself the sampler for two bucks! Click here for a list of the songs on the CD.
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Father's Day interviews from the QRD Webzine
Sam from black tape + projekt | Martin Bowes of Attrition | Pat Ogl of Thanatos | Happy Father?s Day, everyone!
[July 21, 2006] Android Lust's Side-Line Magazine interview is now on-line here>
A new video for this Attrition classic directed by Russian film maker edward209 is now available at this website "A girl called harmony" was originally released in 1991 on the A Tricky Business album (now reissued with a bonus track to celebrate Attrition's 25th year). It is also going to be part of the best of collection Tearing arms from Deities. 1980 - 2005 released march 27th on the Two Gods label.
The Possible Worlds of Steve Roach
An interview with Steve Roach is up at Electronic Musician magazine's website.
Projekt accepts PayPal as a payment option. PayPal is available in addition to our popular Visa, Mastercard, & American Express choices (Projekt.com is a VeriSign Secure Site ). Proceed through the check-out process as usual, pick the PayPal option, it is easy and secure!
I know that the reason you are excited about Projekt is because my label sticks to a vision: great music with passion and depth. You can be sure that I will continue to release interesting and beautiful albums for you in the years to come.... sam
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