Just married....

JUST MARRIED.......

1st dance: Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

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Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 1

Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 1 (TINAE 020) 2 x cd set coming soon.....

Chapter One: Unmixed

Detachments - Messages
Brain Machine - Pulsations
Professor Genius - A Jean Giraud 5 (Previously unreleased)
Panda City Band - Wet Journey (Previously unreleased)
Naum Gabo - Like Crystalline (Previously unreleased)
Spectral Empire - Lift Shaft (Previously unreleased)
Pink Stallone - Vlad (Previously unreleased)
Night Plane - Let The Right One In (Previously unreleased)
Hatchback - Jetlag
Moscow - Boson (Previously unreleased)
Young Monday - Zaire (Previously unreleased)
Weird Tapes - The Walking Dead (Previously unreleased)
The Dark Esquire - What You Need (Previously unreleased)
Parallels - Ultralight
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Rabbit Seal Monkey

Chapter Two: Mixed by Simon A. Carr

Spectral Empire - Innerfearence (Chateau Flight Remix)
Hatchback - White Diamond (Prins Thomas Miks Del 1 & 2)
Brain Machine - Heaven 8 Detachments - Fear No Fear
Naum Gabo - Pictur (Joakim Remix)
Club Silencio - Turpe Traxx (Sankt Goran Remix)
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (Serge Santiago Totally Different Mix)
Detachments - Circles (King Of Town Remix)
Professor Genius - A Jean Giraud 1 (Brennan Green Version)
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (The Gospel According To Mung 2012 Live At The Hacienda Version)

Jeff & Jane Hudson

I've been listening to Jeff & Jane today and the Flesh album after cleaning up my collection. The FLESH LP is full of future sounding synth experiments from 1981 that sound like the future. Seriously awesome for when it was made. Listen to this and then listen to La Roux and tell me which is better, eh eh eh...anyways as the sun disappears and the summer goes grey listen to this.


Here's Gavin Russom fave HELP ME from Flesh. Download and enjoy. Killer track.


Jeff & Jane - Help Me (From Flesh LP)


And if you like this head over to their official site where you can download all of FLESH for free. Wow. Good eh.

Thisisnotanexit feature in Clash Magazine

The Essential Purchase returns!

Apologies for the lack of the regular weekly purchase column but I've been so dam busy the past few weeks. It doesn't mean I've not bought a few bits and pieces though. So straight into what I recommend you check out from the past few weeks....

Essential Purchase week 21

BV Dub - To Live (Smallfish) 3" cd

Brock Van Wey has featured on the thisisnotanexit blog before for a previous release on Millions Of Moments of which I spoke about the depth of emotion BV Dub brings to his music. He himself calls his music "sadness, idealistic, daydreams, regret, thought, hope, life". Indeed his music is the type that won't have the hands in the air and the masses screaming for one more. This is music with heart and soul. The stuff you save for staring out of the window on a train journey, on the night bus home, over a coffee on your own as it rains outside...you know what I mean. Anyways this was released on 100 x 3" cds and sold out within about 5 seconds. Due to the gushing praise for the release (and by god it is an amazing 20 minute journey) Smallfish have pressed some more. Go get. It's like £5.99 and your music money should be for people like BV Dub and not to those careerists on the majors.

http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/search.php?search=bv%20dub

http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/release/?cat=ECHOSPACE-AIR1

http://www.myspace.com/bvdubtechnology

You can also download a whole load of BV Dub mixes from his website. All worth checking.There's 10 of them so that's about 10 hours of free music. Get to it.

http://www.bvdub.org/

And some kind soul has uploaded the 2 parts of 'To Live' to Youtube if you want to experience it before you buy.

Essential Purchase week 22

Optimo presents...In Order To Edit

Next week I'm going to Optimo for the first proper time (I'm not counting the time I DJed there as that's not really 'going to optimo'). Anyways I cannot wait to experience the full optimo effect in the subbie. As you all know I'm such an Optimo obsessive Twitch and Wilkes could fart over a drum loop and I'd probably buy it. Probably. Anyways this is the new selection from JD Twitch who got access to the full R&S catalogue and put together a special mix cd. It's bloody brilliant. Go and buy it and dance round your bedroom to this. It beats most techno being produced these days that's for sure.

Essential Purchase week 23

Black Meteroic Star - World Eater / Death Tunnel (DFA) 12" / Black Meteoric Star CD

Speaking of techno go and buy this. Just do it. It's by Gavin Russom one half of Black Leotard Front (remember Casual Friday?) and it's just absolutely immense. DFA have been really clever and put all the tracks together in shortened form on a cd and all the extended versions on 12"s so if like me you love this stuff you'll buy both the cd AND the 12" for the extended mixes. Massive trippy speaker blowing house music. Do it do it do it.

And check his mix of German band Palms too. Like wow.

The man builds his own synths for christsakes! None of this 'i'll get my ableton soft synth out' he's a bloody genius.

http://www.myspace.com/gavinrussom

Essential Purchase week 24

Black Meteoric Star - Dominatron / Anthem (DFA) 12"

Yep. And Mr. Black Meteoric Star will again be the purchase of the week. And the week after too when the final of the three 12"s gets released!

This weekend I am back in my home town of York. Upon my arrival my parents gave me a load of records they had managed to save from being thrown in the bin. I was unsure of what might be in there and the quality but I got VERY VERY lucky!!

Here's what I got:

The Stooges - The Stooges LP
U2 - Boy LP
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising LP
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation LP
U2 - 3D Dance Mixes Promo 12"
The Sisters Of Mercy - Body And Soul 12"
The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice 12"

All in exceptional condition. They'd been kept in a shed so the sleeves are a little worn but the records look hardly played. Awesome!

Finally here's a little treat for you. Here's the acoustic version of The Flowers That Fell that Sebastien recorded for the Diesel Radio Show I did a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy.

http://www.divshare.com/download/7656334-7db

On Monday 22nd June the remixes of Detachments The Flowers That Fell will be released on a very limited white label 12". Only 200 copies have been pressed. It features Capracara (fresh from his King Of Witches release on DFA), Parallels (fresh from their debut release on Thisisnotanexit Records! And remixing Sally Shapiro and Delphic at the moment), Thee Four Horsemen and The Max Moreau Quartet.

If you would like to buy a copy head to the shops on Monday - or we have 5 copies here at the label store for sale. Just drop us a note if you want one - they are £5.99 each. There are none left at the warehouse so once they're gone they're gone!

http://www.myspace.com/capracara

http://www.myspace.com/parallelsfm

http://www.myspace.com/maxmoreau

http://www.myspace.com/detachments

I'll be back over the weekend with a full 4 week catch up of the essential purchase. A bumper feast of records and cds you should have bought.

I'm off to spend 2 hours on a train with my laptop trying to finish a new mix. I hope the train has plug sockets otherwise I'm going to be VERY unhappy.

Parallels LIVE at Fashion Week Party Video