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Steve Roach: Future Flows

Order the CD for $13.98 at Projekt.com
Order the CD for $15 at steveroach.com
Download for $9.99 at iTunes
Download for $10 at Bandcamp

Listen to a full track at Bandcamp

"He's completely defined the genre of 'drone zone' electronic music." -John Diliberto, Echoes Radio

The evolving, inexplicable nature of Steve Roach's musical soundworld is fully realized on his new textural electronic/ambient release, Future Flows. Within the eight tracks on this seventy-minute album, a renewing, contemplative mood emerges by way of the shifting interconnected sonic forms that emerge from a constant source somewhere in the near future.

Steve Roach's first performance in 3 years.
On May 5th, Steve Roach journeys from the Timeroom, to perform live in San Rafael, CA, at Music From The Hearts of Space's 30th anniversary concert!

Photo: Steve Roach during soundcheck at SoundQuest in 2010, Tucson, Arizona. Photo by: Cometmoth Sight & Sound / Adam Fleishman

Even if you're not able to make it to Ambicon'13, you can still check out
STEVE ROACH LIVE IN THE DRONE ZONE on SomaFM!
Steve will visit the SomaFM studio in San Francisco to present an extended live concert transmission on Tuesday May 7th @ 1 PM PST on Drone Zone on SomaFM

There will be two rebroadcasts:
Sunday May 12th 7 PM PST
and Monday May 13th 7 AM PST

F R E E D O W N L O A D C O M P I L A T I O N F R O M P R O J E K T

FREE DOWNLOAD COMPILATION with the four Projekt bands
performing at Convergence XiX in Austin in a few weeks.
With Unto Ashes, Mirabilis, Soriah & Adrian H and The Wounds.

Stream or download at Bandcamp:

http://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/xix

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* Black Tape For A Blue Girl's "Marmalade Cat (Milly Mix)" video will break 1000 views with your help. Watch it on youTube.

* Black Tape For A Blue Girl guitarist Valerie Gentile has a kickstarter for her Love is Luxury solo project! Watch the cute video and show your support: http://kck.st/Z43Cx9

* Sam Rosenthal is on a Mid-West Reading tour this weekend. A write-up on his novel RYE is in today's print-edition of Time Out Chicago.

* Did you know that Projekt has a Facebook Page?

Projekt Webstore Top-10 of 2012

#1 WEEP: Alate
Purchase CD at Projekt $13.98| Download at iTunes $9.99
Merging Doc Hammer's husky croon, post-punk guitars and catchy 80's bass-lines/synths, WEEP creates a dark yet satisfyingly upbeat pop album painted by WEEP's passion and unflinching take on contemporary music.

#2 Autumn's Grey Solace: Divinian
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98 | Download at iTunes $9.99 | Bandcamp $10
Their seventh album, a must-have for fans of darkwave, shoegaze, ethereal wave, and dreampop. Erin's voice is layered and striking. Free Autumn's Grey Solace "best of" with orders at Projekt

#3 Voltaire: The Devil's Bris Deluxe Signed
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98 | Download at iTunes $9.99
It's the 13th Anniversary edition of The Devil's Bris ~ The Devil?s Bar Mitzvah! New deluxe digipak edition contains the 8-page lyric book, a sticker, and a signed art card (please note that Voltaire's signature is on the art card, not on the cover). Voltaire's 1998 debut with "When You're Evil."

#4 Various Artists & Jill Tracy: 2012 Holiday Twin Pack
Purchase 3-CDs Projekt $19.98 | Download at iTunes $9.99
The Ornamental 2-CD compilation along with Jill Tracy's Silver Smoke, Star of Night (In the Shadow of Christmas).

#5 Unto Ashes: Burials Foretold
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98 | Download at iTunes $9.99
Among the vanguard of apocalyptic folk and neo-Medieval music, Unto Ashes create a breathtaking listening experience that is at once mystical, melancholic and quite simply magnificent.

#6 Emilie Autumn: Fight Like a Girl
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98
Beautiful, bizarre, and brazen sonic seductress Emilie Autumn wants you to fight alongside her on this much overdue and eagerly expected follow-up album to her groundbreaking debut, Opheliac.

#7 Falling You: Adore (featuring Love Spirals Downwards, This Ascension, and Claire Voyant)
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98
Adore finds Falling You exploring a more optimistic, rock-oriented motif. Though the ethereal / ambient base is still there, the music ranges from ambient, to jangly shoegaze, to melodic space-rock, to dream-pop and finally back to ambient.

#8 Autumn's Grey Solace: Ablaze ~ SALE $5
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98 | Download at iTunes $9.99
2008 release. "Whereas other bands pile on the doom and gloom to an almost suffocating degree, Autumn's Grey Solace lets the music breathe. They possess a shimmering beauty that shines through the shadows. A fragile beauty, perhaps, but a beauty nonetheless." - Liar Society

#9 Arcana: As Bright as a Thousand Suns
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98
Their 7th full-length album. As Bright as a Thousand Suns is a sincere and sapience filled opus from a mature collective, ten diverse songs of thoughts and emotions on one album of pure splendour. ?

#10 Love Spirals Downwards: Idylls - Remastered Reissue ~ SALE $5
Purchase CD Projekt $13.98 | Download at iTunes $9.99
Their 1992 debut. A classic shoegazer dream-pop discs gets a lovely re-releases with bonus tracks, remastered and compiled by Ryan Lum himself!

High tide Monday Morning, the Gowanus Canal overflowing it's banks, 1/2 a block from my apartment.
All is fine for us. No damage to Projekt or our apartments
There was very little rain and only some 45 or 50 mph gusts at my apartment. During the 'worst' of it, my neighbors (and I) were down the block looking at the Gowanus Canal overflowing its banks. Watch my video of the Gowanus at Sandy High Tide: http://youtu.be/iJkgDuIMUmw Like a swish of fresh seawater, mixed with sewage and 100 year old toxic waste. Yuck, get me a cup!
Check my facebook page for pictures: http://www.facebook.com/SamProjekt

Shea, Sarah and I are wishing the best to all of you who had it a lot worse than we did here in Brooklyn. Of course, if you're not affected and you wanna order, we won't complain! Orders will start rolling out again before the end of the week!

And about that picture of the shark swimming down a New Jersey street? It's fake!

SAM ROSENTHAL: TANZMUSIK
Limited Vinyl edition, with signed cover.

Listen to tracks at Bandcamp and purchase the vinyl for $25 + shipping.
Or purchase just the download for $9.

Back in 1985, after three cassette-only releases of my solo electronic music, I releasedTANZMUSIK. It was my first and only solo vinyl release (this was before THE ROPEcame out from Black Tape For A Blue Girl). As far as I can recall, I made 250 copies. I glued pieces of card stock to the front and the back of a blank LP jacket. In fact, I'm pretty sure I remember using spray mount (on my parents front porch) to affix them all.

Well, fast forward about 25 years, and I was contacted by Alessandro Adriani at Italy's Mannequin Records. He was telling me TANZMUSIK is a classic release in the Minimal Synth genre. And he wanted to reissue TANZMUSIK on vinyl.

Well wow, that sounded exciting!

I decided to remaster the album for this release. After getting the digitized tracks back from my mastering guy in Canada, I discovered it wasn't the 2-track mix, but the 4-track multi-track recording. Wow! I thought the multis were long gone, but here they were, in pristine digital form! I remixed the album in my studio, staying true to the original. Though, sonically, the new mixes sound even more incredible than back in 1984!

The vinyl edition on Mannequin is 500 units. 100 were recreated to look like the original, with the card affixed to an LP jacket. I just got an email from Alessandro that he only has 50 copies left from the entire edition!

We have a box in the mail to Projekt with my copies. 15 of which are the limited edition version. Order fast and you can get one of those, and I'm signing them.<

We are selling TANZMUSIK via Bandcamp. This allows you to get an immediate digital download in whatever format you chose. The vinyl will be shipped from our office in Brooklyn as soon as they arrive, like always.

Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Archive 01
Free 4-song download EP @ Bandcamp

An idea popped into my head last weekend. I was playing a song in my iTunes and when it ended, the Blacktape track "Caught by a stranger" started. But it wasn't the album version. It was different. I opened iTunes and realized it was a demo Laurie sent me. Wow, I forgot this even existed! And it was very cool. I have lots of Black Tape For A Blue Girl out-takes, live recordings, and demos you've never heard. You really should hear them. Archive 01 is the first installment of this idea. Putting these up is not about making money, but about sharing the music with you. Get your free 4-song download EP at Bandcamp, with tracks spanning Blacktape's career.

Please share the link on your Facebook and Twitter. Tell your friends.

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Projekt has two 2012 Holiday CDs.
Purchase them in our special
2-pack for just $19.98.

That's 3 CDs for $19.98. Clicky here.

Wow! Great review from Echoes Radio blog:

I just got in my first Christmas album of the season and the tree-topper has been set high with Ornamental, a collection from the Projekt label. Best known for their dark ambient and Goth recordings, as well as great electronic releases from Steve Roach and Erik Wollo, this is their latest incursion on holiday music. They had previously released a series called Excelsis, of which the first, A Dark Noel, remains among the most distinctive and haunting seasonal albums ever. With Ornamental, Projekt expands their seasonal pallet in a double CD that ranges from electronica to goth, space music to shoegaze, medieval to mystical.

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I?ve been begging for musicians to create a different kind of seasonal music besides the rote rendering of the same 25 or so holiday chestnuts over-roasted on an open fire. Projekt has been fulfilling that since 1995 with Excelsis. Ornamental takes them in a slightly less gothic and doom-laden mode and makes it a likely pick for the best seasonal CD of 2012, if your tastes in seasonal music heads towards the abyss.

Adrian H and the Wounds:
Debut
$7.98
Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud: Debut
$7.98
Loren Nerell
Slow Dream
$7.98

A fifteen minute interview
with Sam Rosenthal
Tom Schulte at Outsite Radio Hours posted a recent interview we did together at Archive.org. It is also up at podmatic.com. It's a great show! The interview starts at 1:03:54 (one hour, three minutes in) and runs for 15 minutes. A good hands-on discussion on running PROJEKT RECORDSl in the current era of new technology, illegal downloading, legal sales, kickstarter. All kinds of interesting stuff from inside a record label. Give it a listen if you want to hear me talk about this stuff. Also music from Blacktape, Voltaire, Soulwhirlingsomewhere and more.