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SPECTRAL EMPIRE - INNERFEARENCE / THE MINOTAUR OUT NOW

Spectral Empire this week unveil INNERFEARENCE / THE MINOTAUR which was previously only available on a very limited 12". Innerfearence was later tweaked into a cosmic 100bpm groove thang by Chateau Flight. Get the original here along with THE MINOTAUR which you can use to scare small children and / or your girlfriend with. Embrace the darkness.

http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1547864-02.htm

Spectral Empire will be DJing at the THISISNOTANEXIT showcase at Land Of Kings on Friday April 23rd. We'll be taking over Bardens Boudoir and featuring Detachments live and myself DJing too.

Spectral Empire will also from Friday May 28th be residents at the THISISNOTANEXIT club night at THE DROP in Stoke Newington N16 alongside myself. Underneath The Three Kings. We'll be taking over once a month from 10pm - 4am to twist your minds and take you to the dark realm.

POP MUSIC: NAGAIUTB

The charts. Not as good as they used to be? I thought it was me just getting a bit older. But then Twitch from Optimo sent me this. The Top 10 from a week in 1979.

1. BLONDIE - SUNDAY GIRL

2. ANITA WARD - RING MY BELL

3. MCFADDEN & WHITEBREAD - AIN'T NO STOPPING US NOW

4. ROXY MUSIC - DANCE AWAY

5. TUBEWAY ARMY - ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC

6. M - POP MUZIK

7. THE CLASH - I FOUGHT THE LAW

8. AMII STEWART - KNOCK ON WOOD

9. QUANTUM JUMP - THE LONE RANGER

And then have a look at this weeks UK TOP 10.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles/

Case closed.

TENSE

//TENSE - Turn It Off from tommy boy on Vimeo.

SCULPTURE

Sculpture Reel 1 from Sculpture on Vimeo.

LAND OF KINGS

LAND OF KINGS is back for 2010 with another festival of musical madness in the epicentre of cool that is Dalston town. THISISNOTANEXIT will be providing a label showcase with the mighty Detachments playing live and Spectral Empire and myself DJing dark delights deep into the early hours. This is the beginning of THISISNOTANEXIT events in 2010. As Optimo ends Thisisnotanexit begins...

Here's the links that you need.

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=367484343519&ref=mf

Official site:

www.landofkings.co.uk

Ticketweb:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=375376

Naum Gabo - Pictur OUT NOW

NAUM GABO PICTUR is available now exclusively on download from the Juno Download store. Previously a vinyl only release (of which only a few remain) the massive remixes from Joakim and Tim Goldsworthy are now available as MP3's or WAVS dependent on what your flavour is.

You can have a listen to the Joakim Remix via Soundcloud here:

http://soundcloud.com/simonacarr/naum-gabo-pictur-joakim-remix

Buy some mp3's or WAV's:

http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1539969-02.htm

Last few 12s in the label webstore:

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/naum-gabo-pictur

Coming soon: Very limited edition Naum Gabo CD featuring the full Tim Goldsworthy 24 minute remix.....

Club Silencio & Beats In Space

Club Silencio last week featured on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space show turning in a performance that certainly showed people how it's done. Quality house and disco yeah.

Go download here - free music of the highest quality:

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/510

If you dig the Club Silencio ethos go buy their 12" which came out on Thisisnotanexit:

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/club-silencio-club-silencio-ep-12

And if you dig their Beats In Space set Pink Stallone's VLAD is of course on Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 1 which you should already own anyway, right?

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/thisisnotanexit-manifesto-one-2xcd

THISISNOTANEXIT MANIFESTO ONE: Clash Magazine Review

THISISNOTANEXIT MANIFESTO ONE DJ Mag 5/5 Review

DETACHMENTS LIVE AT THE LEGION: TONIGHT

Detachments will tonight be headlining The Legion in Shoreditch.

It will be their last London gig until April 14th so get along.

Should be a full house and they are on at 10.30pm.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285558387613&index=1

THISISNOTANEXIT MANIFESTO ONE itunes USA front page

TONY WILSON: A Tribute

For those of you that read the blog regularly and understand the Thisisnotanexit vision then you'll know Factory, Tony Wilson and New Order are massive inspirations for why the label started and what we do.

It was therefore a massive honour last year to be approached by 24 Hour Service Station and ask for The Dark Esquire and Detachments to get involved with the New Order Ceremony Tribute project that they were putting together.

Detachments went away and recorded cover versions of THE PERFECT KISS and MR DISCO and The Dark Esquire recorded a version of TEMPTATION. Exciting stuff. Now those tracks are seeing the light of day via the "Ceremony A Tribute To New Order" release which is out this week. You can buy it digitally or on a lovely 2 x cd edition. 32 tracks of goodness plus you get an audio introduction by Peter Hook.

Here's a very low quality mp3 version of The Dark Esquire's contribution TEMPTATION as a taster.

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=RmNETmZTZ2drUmxjR0E9PQ

Go buy! Plus proceeds go to the Salford Foundation Trust which means you get not only music for your money but a warm feeling knowing you're helping young people in the creative arts.

iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ceremony-a-new-order-tribute/id355451688

eMusic
http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-Ceremony-A-New-Orde%20%20r-Tribute-MP3-Download/11820700.html

Amazon mp3
http://www.amazon.com/Ceremony-A-New-Order-Tribute/dp/B0038X9SX6

THISISNOTANEXIT MANIFESTO ONE

Finally the moment is upon us. After what feels like forever the first Thisisnotanexit Records label compilation today finally hits record stores across the world. Here at Thisisnotanexit HQ we feel a huge sense of pride that Thisisnotanexit has somehow made it to this point - the point where we feel like we have the right to collect some of our favourite tracks on a 2 x cd set and put it out there. Hopefully you'll all enjoy it - especially as it features a whole load of new exclusive music you can't get anywhere else apart from on this compilation.

Chapter One (Unmixed):

1. Detachments – Messages

2. Brain Machine – Pulsations

3. Professor Genius – A Jean Giraud 5

4. Panda City Band – Wet Journey

5. Naum Gabo – Like Crystalline

6. Spectral Empire – Lift Shaft

7. Pink Stallone – Vlad

8. Night Plane – Let The Right One In

9. Hatchback – Jetlag

10. Moscow – Boson

11. Young Monday – Zaire

12. Weird Tapes – The Walking Dead

13. The Dark Esquire – What You Need

14. Parallels – Ultralight

15. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them – Rabbit Seal Monkey

Chapter Two (Mixed by

Simon A. Carr):

1. Spectral Empire – Innerfearence (Chateau Flight Remix)

2. Hatchback – White Diamond (Prins Thomas Miks Del 1 & 2)

3. Brain Machine – Heaven 8

4. Detachments – Fear No Fear

5. Naum Gabo – Pictur (Joakim Remix)

6. Club Silencio – Turpe Traxx (Sankt Goran Remix)

7. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them – Moon Song (Serge Santiago Totally Different Mix)

8. Detachments – Circles (King Of Town Remix)

9. Parallels – Midnight Voices

10. Professor Genius – A Jean Giraud 1 (Brennan Green Version)

11. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them – Moon Song (The Gospel According To Mung 2012 Live At The Hacienda Version)

Get it from these record stores:

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/384079-01.htm

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/61798

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/VariousArtists-ThisisnotanexitManifesto1-Thisisnotanexit-67959.html

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/thisisnotanexit-manifesto-one-2xcd

If you are on Facebook you can also become a fan of the label here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/THISISNOTANEXIT-RECORDS/333485883514?ref=nf

Stay tuned as we'll be releasing Thisisnotanexit Manifesto #2 in Autumn 2010. This is just the beginning.

Section 25: Larry Cassidy RIP

I learned with great sadness that Larry Cassidy from one of my favourite ever bands Section 25 unfortunately passed away on Saturday. For some reason they never received the same press attention as some of the other Factory bands - which is a crying shame as they hold some incredible music within their catalogue.

Here's one of my favourite Section 25 tracks from their amazing debut album Always Now: 'Dirty Disco'.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/RmNBZHlnYTIwZ252Wmc9PQ

For those uninitiated in the world of Section 25 go and buy some of the reissued LTM cd's. They'll change your life.

“Powerfull, mesmerising and expressive. Perhaps the most maverick and enigmatic of the bands that were part of the now legendary Factory Records roster. Section 25 were formed in Poulton-le Fylde, Lancashire in 1977 by brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy. Their classic Northern Sound defines punk and electro in one. Having worked with Ian Curtis, Martin Hannet and Bernard Sumner on four Factory Albums they now continue to record for LTM. They pre-dated ambient, chillout and massive beats by a decade. Their explorations of hypnotic basslines, thrusting motorik drums and rusty colliding slabs of melody and feedback produce a truly unique and zen like sound”.

http://www.section25.com/merchandise/

RIP Larry.

THE SITUATION IS STILL REAL

For those of you with kids. Or are just messy eaters. Get this bib that shows how much you love The Dark Esquire's SITUATION single.

Zak B loves the SITUATION so much he remixed it into a bass wobbling dancefloor anthem. Not sure if he's got a bib but he's sure got some skills.

***EXCLUSIVE*** The Dark Esquire - Situation (Zak B. Remix)

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=RmNDYnV5Z2dubHp2Wmc9PQ

It reminds me of New Orders CONFUSION and I think Arthur Baker in New York in 1986 would have played this to Bernard and said "Bernie - the situation is real".

Last few 12" copies are available from here:

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/

Danceteria 1-2-3!!

And for those that are LONDON based Detachments will be headlining The Legion this coming Thursday with support from Gyratory System and Hounds Of Hate. Here's the Facebook invite...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=365080235129&ref=mf

This will be the last London gig before their H.A.L. tour in April so be sure to pop down.

A fire is coming

Off please. Thanks.

PARALLELS

This week the mighty Parallels release some of their synthetic italo disco hyper space machine music into the world.

Firstly, their debut single Ultralight has been retwisted and refocused and reversioned and remixed by three of Thisisnotanexit's finest: Detachments, The Dark Esquire and Club Silencio. Detachments take the track into a strange alien worldly warehouse rave soundtracked by a battle between Adonis and Martyn - techno vs. dubstep - No Way Back vs. Megadrive Generation - who will win. Totally dark and totally twisted. The Dark Esquire digs out his copy of The Human Leagues DARE and gives Martin Rushent a call.

"You know that track Don't You Want Me?"

PAUSE

"Well I've beaten it"

It's a future space disco 80s duet classic. Seriously. It makes me want to get my Soft Cell and Heaven 17 records out and shout "This ain't no fascist groove thing" out of the window.

Club Silencio gets on the fax to MK and goes all deep house vs. MK 1990 on Holly Dodson vocals. Deepness. As debuted on the last Diesel Show I did.

£2.99? Surely worth every penny.

http://www.junodownload.com/products/1512477-02.htm

If you are completely ruthless you can listen to Parallels debut album for free on Soundcloud right here:

http://soundcloud.com/parallels

And if you want to actually buy something of physical importance then you can copies of the Ultralight 12" are still available from the Thisisnotanexit webstore featuring 3x Parallels tracks including an early version of Ultralight that isn't on the album.

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/parallels-ultralight-12

Detachments: Are you a fan?

Are you a fan of Detachments? You should be. You can pledge your allegiance via the below link which will take you to the bands fan page.

And then once you're a fan you should also ask all your friends to become fans. And get them to tell their friends to become fans. And then you will simply have to ask how deep is the rabbit hole?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Detachments/34847912156?ref=nf

In honour of all things Detachments they are playing at The Queen Of Hoxton on Thursday February 18th. We have a special cheap list so if you would like to attend for a cheap price then email us or leave a comment with your name.

You can also have a listen to their cover of New Order's The Perfect Kiss which they recorded for the Tony Wilson tribute album right here:

http://soundcloud.com/sonshine/the-perfect-kiss-detachments-ceremony-a-new-order-tribute

Lack of proper blogging recently which I apologise for. Coming up soon (I promise) will be posts on These New Puritans, Sudeten Creche, Minimal Wave and Moscow. Stay tuned.