Chateau Flight have just put together a new chart for Beatport of their favourite new tracks and they've included Detachments Fear No Fear. Nice.

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/chart/detail/12692/gilb-r_chateau_flight_solo_flight_charts

We also received the Chateau Flight Remix of Spectral Empire this week which is truly great. A slow burning 104bpm cosmic jam which will be out in 2009. Watch out.

Yura Yura Teikoku

'Brain Machine's Prismatic Mix'

1. Agitation Free - Khan El Khalili

2. Growing - Wrong Ride

3. Deuter - Aum

4. Brain Machine - Massive Dying Stars Vibrating Like Giant Speakers

5. Brain Machine - Pulsations

6. Tangerine Dream - Birth Of Liquid Plejades

7. Brain Machine - Heaven 8 (Unit 4 Mix)

8. Brain Machine - Capricorn Rising

9. Scott Walker - The Electrician

10. Brain Machine - Heaven 8

11. The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Joke

12. Brain Machine - Eternal Night

13. Popol Vuh - Dream Part 4

14. Brain Machine - Nexus Vox

http://www.divshare.com/download/5840540-45b

The Brain Machine album can be purchased on cd from the thisisnotanexit shop:

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

We also have a very limited number of Brain Machine LP's in stock. 25 to be precise. You can get one ahead of the shops by emailing simon.thisisnotanexit@gmail.com to clarify costs. There are only 500 pressed so they won't be around for long.

If you're on facebook you can become a FAN of Detachments by following the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Detachments/34847912156?sid=3de79ff0f4147cb0ac63fef195d6207b&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fq%3Ddetachments%26init%3Dq%26sid%3D3de79ff0f4147cb0ac63fef195d6207b&ref=s

They are currently in the studio working on their debut album with a variety of producers and contributors. It's shaping up to be spectacular judging from what I've heard so far.

Confused

This Is Not An Exit Records is proud to present the debut album by Brain Machine. A six-track broadcast from the electronic vanguard, Brain Machine is one of the most haunting, sensuous and distinctive releases you'll hear all year.

Brain Machine is Guido Zen and Juan T Trippe. They recorded this album in their spiritual home, the islands of The Federate States of Micronesia. According to Guido:'My father, a fine musician, worked as a pilot for Alitalia. Once, there was an accident, and his plane crash-landed in the South Pacific Ocean. He was rescued by islanders, and during the many months it took him to recuperate, he taught many of them how to write music. The Micronesians were suddenly able to write down the music they had been making for hundreds of years…Many of the rhythms and melodies that we use in Brain Machine come directly from the Micronesian tradition…"

Brain Machine's music is a picturesque, at times frightening journey into the unknown. It displays not just a restless forward momentum, but also perhaps a nostalgia for a future that never came to pass. There are definite echoes of dub, techno and the krautrock and synth experiments of 70s-80s Germany, but they're really only candles lighting the way through The Brain Machine's vast, disorienting universe.

Available on cd and download now.

A limited edition 500 copies only 2 x 12" gatefold edition will be out soon.

Available from the usual shops and outlets - a few friends are listed below....or email us straight back if you want to order directly from us here at Thisisnotanexit HQ.

PHONICA:

http://www.phonicarecords.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=32704

ROUGH TRADE:

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=307952

JUNO:

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/332522-02.htm

PICCADILLY:

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/

ITUNES:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=292834175&s=143444

HMV:

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/digitalProductDetails.do?ctx=-1;8;-1;-1&productId=7374438

PLAY:

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Album/4-/7783861/Brain-Machine/Product.html

Simon A. Carr DJ Chart (October 2008)

Weird Tapes - The Heavens (cd-r)

Spectral Empire - Innerfearence (Thisisnotanexit 12")

They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (Holy Ghost Remix) (Thisisnotanexit 12")

Rub N Tug - Mabakes (Combi 12")

Mungolian Jetset - Madreh Epics Part Two (cd-r)

Black Meteoric Star - World Eater (DFA)

The Dark Esquire - Lexicons (Bangkok Impact Disco Version) (Thisisnotanexit mp3)

Runaway - Just Got Paid (Wurst mp3)

Sleepwalk - A Selection By Optimo (Domino CD)

Clinic - Tomorrow (DFA Remix) (cd-r)

Orbital - Belfast (mp3)

Ghengis Tron - Board Up The House (Steve Moore Remix) (Temporary Residence LP)

Soft Cell - Insecure Me (Playgroup Remix) (cd-r)

Cluster & Eno feat. Holgar Czukay - Ho Renomo (Sky LP)

Cobra Cut - Night Prism (cd-r)

Parallels - Ultralight '08 (cd-r)

They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (The Gospel According To Mung 2012 Live At The Hacienda Version) (Thisisnotanexit mp3)Diamond Vampires - Models (cd-r)

Plastique Du Reve - Alone In Kyoto (Mental Groove 12")

Erik Wikstrom - Autonight (Feed 12")

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Warp LP)Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Rough Trade CD)

Radiohead - The Reckoner (James Holden Remix) (cd-r)

BV Dub - A Moments Peace (Meanwhile 12")

Kate Bush - The Dreaming (EMI LP)Nite Jewel - My CD (Self Released)

Professor Genius - Down There (Jorge Velez Digital ep)

They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song Remixes are now available online to download exclusively from Beatport. This is the only place you'll be able to get all the remixes over the next 4 weeks so get to it if you don't own a turntable!

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/home/detail/1/beatport

Here's the latest Smugglers Inn podcast featuring new music from The Revenge Taps Aff Ep, Wax Stag, new Arturo Capone on Bear Funk, amazing soul from Jazzanova feat Phonte from Little Brother, wonky French hip hop from Yann Kesz, cool new disco from Marius, wacked out slo house from Jopling, New Spectral Empire on thisisnotanexit, new Lusty Zanzibar on Bear Funk, hot as hell deep techno from See The Road, the amazing new Pepe Bradock, Disco Deviance 006, Hot Coins....

You can stream/download the show from http://www.redrackem.com or search Itunes for 'Smugglers Inn'

November 1st Smugglers Inn

1 – Mr Hone – Open Your Eyes
2 – Jazzanova – feat Phonte – Look What You're Doing To Me
3 – San Eyes - Nos Nuits
4 – Jopling – Must Come Down
5 – Dialect – Parano Star - Atom Remix
6 – Chanan Hanspal - It's Only Just A Garden
7 – Pepe Bradock – Hints Of Delusion
8 – Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets – The Revenge Rework
9 – Spectral Empire - Innerfearence
10 – Umod – Omega Supreme
11 – Arturo Capone – Spacewalk
12 – Yann Kesz – In The Beginning Was The Beat
13 – Rui Maia – Cantonese Man – Hot Coins Refix
14 – Russ McDonald – Looking From The Cooking Pot
15 – Manus and Koigil – Carpet Voila
16 – Murr – Addiction
17 - Pepe Bradock – Mandragore
18 – The Clash– Magnificent Disco – BC Edit
19 – Marius - Disco Drummer – Dicky Trisco Remix
20 - Kool and The Gang – Kinda Funky - The Revenge Re-edit
21 – Luther Davis Group - To Be Free
22 – Candy Staton- Do Your Duty – Pepe Bradock Remix
23 – Lusty Zanzibar – In Your Heart
24 - See The Road – Pondora

Enjoy. Danny's a good man and his radio show is worth checking out on a regular basis.

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.