The darkness

Today on All Hallows' Even it is time as the festival begins to soundtrack the boundary between the alive and deceased with the first offering from Spectral Empire.

The offering they have provided comes in two parts. The first of which you will have to proffer gold coins and livestock to own. Coming on black plastic engraved with grooves from the high order of Samhain the Spectral Empire 12" (Catalogue Number TINAE 008) comes with two incantations to deep dark techno first offered by the legends of Detroit - the first of which is INNERFEARENCE and the second of which is THE MINOTAUR.

Offer your gifts in exhange for a copy via the digital link below. Buying directly from the shop grants you two things.

ONE: You will own the 12" a full ten days before the shops will have it

TWO: Us (the record label people and the Spectral Empire people) might actually brerakeven and thus enable us to put out more such magic.

http://www.thisisnotanexit.net/shop.htm

The second Spectral Empire gift is one which is free and will involve only such modern technology as an internet connection.

It is 67 minutes and 57 minutes of dark mysterious soundtracks to the future - taking in the sleek cyber skylines of a Blade Runner future all the way back to a pagan ritual from the 16th century past.

Download from here and enjoy the music:

http://www.thisisnotanexit.net/audio.htm

Happy Halloween!

The Genius Professor

Friend of Thisisnotanexit (we released the first part of his A Jean Giraud series earlier this year - with the second part coming in 2009) as well as Italians Do It Better and Discques Sinthomme Mr. PROFESSOR GENIUS has a new ep out this week that he has released himself called DOWN THERE.

It contains 4x stunning new additions to his growing arsenal of spaced out tropical disco (with a little hint of melancholy with those pads on Down There) and is available only via the world of mp3 (its such a shame the world is turning towards mp3s and artists and labels are slowly releasing music via the digital space and not via vinyl...). Anyways you could do alot worse than spend £3.79 on this little collection of beauties this week.

Go on.

http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1366174-02.htm

Juno

I've posted a chart of 10 records that are worth spending your hard earned on (specicially worth purchasing are the Moon Song Remixes 12" (obviously!) and the new BV Dub 12" on Meanwhile which is absolutely staggeringly beautiful.



In these credit crunch times I was in my local charity shop (donating some cds and clothes) when I had a flick through the racks and found this for a pound.

http://www.discogs.com/release/73950

Remixes from Underground Resistance, Mk and Derrick May! I also found a book by Greil Marcus book for £2.50. Bargains!

This week heralds the new release from They Came From The Stars I Saw Them on a limited edition promo 12". Moon Song is a live favourite from the latest album and the first 12" features remixes from King Of Town (hot from his remix of Desmond & The Tutu's Kiss You out now on Tigersushi) and DFA's hot new act Holy Ghost in both a vocal and instrumental form.

The second 12" will follow soon featuring remixes from Serge Santiago and Mungolian Jetset.

Only 500 have been pressed so don't sleep - available from the usual record shops. Here's some links to make the path to purchase slightly easier.

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/330856-01.htm

http://www.phonicarecords.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=32407

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/

It will also be released digitally shortly.

Trevor Jackson knows a thing about music. He not only ran one of the best record labels that ever existed Output Recordings - in fact I'm not sure Thisisnotanexit would exist were it not for Output (and Factory of course). Trevor Jackson has also produced some incredible music of his own in his Playgroup guise and also remixes under this name. He's currently mixing some of the tracks for the forthcoming album from Detachments but he found time last week to contribute some mp3's to the Bumrocks blog.

1. Toto Blanke - Arabab (from the Toto Blanke & Electric Circus LP).

2. Czeslaw Niemen - Laur Dorjazaly (no idea where this is from - Czeslaw was a Polish composer though and this is really wild and freaky).

3. Shriekback - Mkistah Linn He Dead (from a 1984 12" - really really nice electronic post punk track).

4. Mark Wyman - Space In Faders (No idea where this is from but its a freaky little psych numbers with almost reggae funkiness).

5. Richard H. Kirk - The Greedy Eye (A typically abrasive sounding Richard H. Kirk track from the Time High Fiction album released in 1983).

Do yourself a favour and check them out. TJ is a man with exceptional taste.

http://www.bumrocks.com/

SPECTRAL EMPIRE

THE MINOTAUR / INNERFEARENCE (TINAE 008)

Limited edition 12" 300 copies only.

Not available on mp3.

Released 31st October HALLOWEEN.

Join the Spectral Empire facebook group here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30726771449&ref=mf

Watch out for a special Spectral Empire mix available from the thisisnotanexit site on the day of release.

The Moon Song rollercoaster continues.....the King Of Town Remix features on a new mix on the rather marvellous Urlaubshits blog.

http://urlaubshits.blogspot.com/2008/10/end-of-era.html

Urlaubshits Vol. 3 (63.7 mb, 67:52 mins)

Tracklisting:
1) Naum Gabo - Spessivtseva (Dissident)
2) Simon Baker - Plastik (Todd Terje Türkatech Mix) (Playhouse)
3) They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (King Of Town With Moonbeams In His Crown Mix) (TINAE)
4) Blackbelt Andersen - November (Full Pupp)
5) Babytalk - Keep On Move (Six-Leg Friend and Original mixes) (Stickydisc Recordings)
6) Runaway - Brooklyn Club Jam (Brennan Green's Version) (DFA Records)
7) Allez Allez - Allez Allez (Aeroplane Remix) (Eskimo Recordings)
8) 40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (Permanent Vacation)
9) Woolfy - 1095/06/09 (Rong Music)
10) Low Motion Disco - Things Are Gonna Get Easier (Woolfy's Forgiveness Mix) (Eskimo Recordings)

Go download it yeah.

The Holy Ghost Remix was also played on Rob Da Banks Radio 1 show last Sunday - and this week Pete Tong might be giving the Serge Santiago Remix a spin. Wowsers.

I'm back from my holiday! 2 weeks in Mauritius which was as you would expect incredibly amazing. Beautiful weather, romantic little hotel, great people, nice food, amazing lobster. And lots of Mauritian rum!

It has been slightly weird listening to the Detachments album demos, new East London italo disco and various other unsigned bits and pieces whilst lying on the beach surrounded by the clear blue sea but there you go.

News in short.....

A new digital service has launched called TENTRACKS with our friends Optimo picking 10 tracks for October. And all for just £1. There are two Thisisnotanexit tracks in there so is worth it nón?!

http://www.tentracks.co.uk/channel/optimo/optimo-october-08

Out next Monday is the promo 12" for the new They Came From The Stars I Saw Them single MOON song featuring remixes from King Of Town and Holy Ghost! (DFA). Only 500 copies so best be quick!

Also, the Brain Machine album is out on 27th October so make sure you check that out when it lands. Limited edition 2 x 12"gatefold LP (500 copies only) and a digipack CD don't sleep on this one either!

Finally there will be the debut 12" from Spectral Empire landing soon. Watch out for this too as there is only 300 copies and it won't be available digitally.

Over and out for now.

Juno.

Not the film but the online record store.

I've just posted a little chart of ten records you should own.

You can look at it here:

http://www.juno.co.uk/charts/dj/502667-Simon_Carr/91541-Chart/

I'm also hugely disappointed as found out that last night there was a discussion about whether the record sleeve would survive in the future with Peter Saville plus a few other interesting music luminaries here in London. Typically I found out about it this morning.

Dammit.

A very nice little review of the new They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song single is in this months I-DJ Magazine.

"...On form..."

Thats what Thisisnotanexit is apparently. You heard it here first.

DETACHMENTS IN SESSION ON XFM 104.9

In case you missed it you can catch the tracks here.

http://www.myspace.com/detachmentsdepot

Enjoy.

Lack of blogging recently as I've been so dam busy. But we have been working very hard on promoing the new They Came From The Stars I Saw Them release MOON SONG and its various remixes. You can check a couple out here:

http://www.myspace.com/holyghostnyc

And here:

http://www.myspace.com/mungolianjetset

There's a nice review of Detachments Fear No Fear on Resident Advisor this week. Check it. And if you've got a Resident Advisor log on then add the DETACHMENTS as a favourite yeah.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=5455

http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj-page.aspx?id=4262

I also found out this week that The End closes its doors at the end of the year! Probably my favourite club in London having been to Trash as a young scamp when I first moved to London to more recently Carl Craig blazing his way through the main room. This is sad.

You run one of the coolest record labels in the world - the disco heads over at DJH go crazy whenever a new 12" comes out - and so what do you do after there was a few disappointed people with the last Godsy set of 12"s? You press 50 and charge £19.99 a record!!

Godsy - Nectar Of Rubies

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/326431-01.htm

Godsy - Trickling Core

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/326431-01.htm

This is madness!!!!!

If you live near Chelmsford then Detachments are playing at The Bar House tonight. If you're in the area go check it out. More details at Detachments myspace page.

This weekends soundtrack comes from:

Stereo Image - Stereo Image LP

Ape Into Jam - Recession (Demo)

Crystal Castles LP

Baris K - Show You Love

Naum Gabo - Black Labs

Diamond Vampires - Everything on their myspace page

The Dompteur Mooner edits of Conrad Schnitzler

Parallels - Everything on his myspace page

Swag - Musicbox (Pavel Plastikk Hypnofox)

High Places - From Stardust To Sentience

The new Gang Gang Dance album

The Isolators - Concentrate On Us

And no doubt some Kate Bush

I might go to ESP in Bethnal Green tomorrow as Nathan Gregory Wilkins is DJing. Or I may well stay in bed and watch Twin Peaks. Who knows.

Big up Mofoinbalaclava.

Detachments are playing at the Proud Galleries in Camden this Wednesday which should be a rather good evening out after 93 Feet East last week. Detachments also played an impromptu guerilla gig on Saturday night but I can't tell you anything about that as I couldn't make it along.

Instead here's a live clip of Detachments performing potential forthcoming single Flowers That Fell at 93 Feet East...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iOhqMEZCcc

You can also sign up to become a Detachments recruit on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23482337534

All the Detachments news first!

Lindstroms latest album entitled WHERE YOU GO I GO TOO is out this week on cd (my copy arrived this morning and is sounding suitably beautiful....). Head over to Fact Online for an interview with the man himself...

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=964&Itemid=27

http://www.myspace.com/feedelity

Todays soundtrack is also brought to you by Joy Division - Closer, Glass Candy - BEATBOX, Spectral Empire - Metalhawk, Daniel Wangs latest Beats In Space Mix and PIL - Metal Box.

"We're not a band we're a company"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BZ2UoBZzEI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQGCYlhlu7Y&feature=related

Spend 12 minutes of your time watching these. The best use of 12 minutes you'll make today.

"The world is dead"

Paul Mawhinney owns the worlds greatest music collection. He loves music. Its in his heart.

In a day of shitty compressed mp3s, itunes, disposability and music just being a commodity have a look at this beautiful short film about Paul Mawhinney and his collection. Its a genuinely moving piece of film.

http://www.vimeo.com/1546186

It makes me want to torch the itunes store....I pine for a day when people buy records again.

Unfortunately I can't see that day ever coming.

The mighty Detachments are destroying 93 Feet East on Monday evening. Free entry. Doors at 7.30pm. More info here:

http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/diary/index.cfm?View=Day&EventDate=2008-08-25

The band are currently working hard on their debut album with Trevor Jackson from Playgroup along with some other uber - producers whose names shall remain secret for now. The fruits of their labour will be revealed shortly. Stay tuned to the bands myspace page for further news...

http://www.myspace.com/detachments

They have also just started a facebook group so sign up there too:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71725275178&ref=mf

Onwards true believers!

If you have purchased Detachments Fear No Fear from any digital store this week and you have a 2 minute version rather than the full 5:43 version then please email us at:

simon.thisisnotanexit@gmail.com

If you can attach your proof of purchase we will organise a refund.

This is unfortunately a delivery error on the part of the digital server and both Thisisnotanexit Records and Detachments apologise for this error - unfortunately it is out of our hands but we will do our best to make sure this doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Tomorrow evening - that'll be Thursday then - Simon A. Carr - that'll be me then - will be Djing at Vibe Bar on Brick Lane in East London with the legends that are Spectral Empire (their debut single Innerfearence / The Minotaur is coming out on Thisisnotanexit in September and blimey its heads down smacked out 80s horror soundtrack prog disco of the highest order) from 1930 - 2330. We'll be digging deep and playing weird whacked out sounds and enjoying a beverage or few at the same time. If you're in town come on down and say hi. What the hell else would you rather do on a Thursday.

Oh and its free entry too. Now you're interested.

As Gordon Ramsay would say - "Vibe Bar, DJ Sets, Spectral Empire, Simon A. Carr, free entry - DONE"