DETACHMENTS: AUDIO VIDEO / THE FLOWERS THAT FELL AA SINGLE

Detachments : Audio Video / The Flowers That Fell AA Single

Available from 2nd May 2011

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Limited 100 only 7" featuring Audio Video 2011 / The Flowers That Fell 2011 available via Pledge. If we don't hit 100 orders it won't be made available on vinyl.

Limited 100 only Audio Video remix 12" featuring reinterpretations from Headman, Andy Blake, White Car and Stopmakingme. If we don't hit 100 orders it won't be made available on vinyl.

Detachments Audio Video (Stopmakingme Remix) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Detachments Audio Video (White Car Weirdo Edit) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Detachments - Audio Video (Headman Remix) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Detachments debut album on CD is in the shops now.

AMAZON

Limited edition vinyl LP (500 only) coming soon.

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DETACHMENTS LIVE AT CLUB THE MAMMOTH

Detachments continue their tearing apart of the synth pop nu-industrial 2011 rulebook with a headline show at The Queen Of Hoxton. I will be playing a number of 7" records before the band take the stage. Beware your ears as we take no prisoners.

Come and see why Andrew Weatherall, Trevor Jackson, Salem and Tim Goldsworthy all wanted to get involved with Detachments. I've already heard the 2nd album and its the future.

Detachments Audio Video Remix

Detachments Audio Video Remix Stems are available from Thisisnotanexit Records Soundcloud page. Make art - create - post your efforts on the Detachments Facebook fanpage or send to: simon.thisisnotanexit@gmail.com

Detachments Audio Video Remix Stems by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Special January offer - buy Brain Machine LP or They Came From The Stars LP and we will give you the album on CD for FREE too for no extra cost.

Coming soon - Detachments LP. Stay tuned for details.

Thisisnotanexit 2011

Here's an exclusive link to the new Headman Remix of Detachments Audio Video coming in 2011 on Thisisnotanexit Records.

Detachments - Audio Video (Headman Remix) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Other remixes to come including a dub mix from Headman as well as Stopmakingme, Andy Blake and Pink Stallone.

Happy new year from Thisisnotanexit

Thisisnotanexit goes digital

A short blog post as we descend into hibernation - the snow has come so its time to hide away and listen to the Detachments album on repeat (trust us it's made for when there are days with snow on the ground) and wait until the warmth reappears.

To get you through the nights here are FOUR rare / unreleased tracks you can get from the Thisisnotanexit store. Not available anywhere else. What price exclusivity?

Detachments - The Flowers That Fell (Niallist ColdMixx) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Naum Gabo - Pictur (Tim Goldsworthy Remix Parts I-VI) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Both of the above plus the T&A End Of The Pier Remix of Detachments Holiday Romance and the CFCF Remix of The Dark Esquire's Situation can be got from here and only here. Buy them from us and we might be able to buy little Timmy something nice for Christmas.

Seriouksly, ik need a new laptkop and thiks iks the state mky keyboard iks ikn at the mkkoment. Nikghtkmare.

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/

NOTHING BUT US

I'm DJing at the Nothing But Us night this weekend. Free entry and I'll be dusting off some of the following if the crowd follow my lead.....

DETACHMENTS

Detachments debut album is out now on Thisisnotanexit Records. Featuring 11 tracks as recorded earlier this year in the coldest February for decades Detachments debut album is wildly ambitious and takes the 80s synthpop blueprint and updates it for a modernist oos audience. Imagine Hurts if they'd listened to Cabaret Voltaire and OMD and Depeche Mode rather than Westlife and the best of bits from The X Factor.

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/detachments-detachments-cd

You can also get a limited 300 only 12" of the new single Holiday Romance featuring remixes from Cosmo and Andy Blake. Andy Blakes 17 minute take has been called "the remix of the year" by Slutty Fringe and "brilliant" by Simian Mobile Disco. Sounding like Throbbing Gristle meets Phuture its a sensational redux.

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/detachments-holiday-romance-12

For those of you in London town Detachments will be celebrating the release of the album with a special London show at CAMP in Shoreditch on Tuesday 5th October.

Doors from 7.30pm. Tickets are £6.00.

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=400117&referral_id=tw_uk_buyat

Final Detachments show in the UK for a while. They're heading off to France and Spain after this.

Detachments - Holiday Romance Video

Command V 1st ever live show!

Command V played their debut live show on August 25th in New York City.

Stay tuned for details of their debut single Lost On Me coming soon with remixes from Jacques Renault, Optimo, Mighty Mouse, Night Plane and Max Pask.

Detachments LIVE and Simon A. Carr DJ set at The Beat (The Alibi) Friday 27th August. Free entry.

Detachments Live at World Unknown August 13th 2010

Detachments Live at World Unknown August 13th 2010











Detachments live at The Alibi in Dalston Friday 27th August. Free entry.

Holiday Romance out 6th September.

Debut album out 20th September.

On tour from 21st September.

The Dark Esquire - LEXICONS

This week sees the release of The Dark Esquire's Lexicons.

Featuring the single version, plus an instrumental dub edit and remixes from Italians Do It Betters PREMIER RANG and Detachments its available only from Junodownload.

http://www.junodownload.com/products/lexicons/1612503-02/

We've still got a few copies of Situation available from the Thisisnotanexit store so if you have't got one go get as its the only way to get the 12" version of Situation and the CFCF and Crimea X Remixes.

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/product/the-dark-esquire-situation-12

The Dark Esquire website is coming soon....

Simon A. Carr Slutty Fringe Set 7.8.10

Simon A. Carr Slutty Fringe Set @ The Big Chill House 7th August 2010

Palms - Boundary Waters (Gavin Russom Remix)
Public Image Limited - Flowers Of Romance
Public Image Limited - Flowers Of Romance (Instrumental)
Michael Moorcock - Time Center
Detachments - The Flowers That Fell (The Niallist's Coldmixx)
Medio Mutante - Another Land
Six Sed Red - Shake It Right
Das Ding - Inter Cesters
Pink And Black - Sometimes I Feel
The Flying Lizards - Money
Modern Art - Still Life
Kristal - Love & Magic (Dub)
R3mote - Lonesome Frontier
The Shortwave Mystery - Without Cause
Dakar & Grinser - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Depeche Mode - Nodisco
The Bridge - Love Dance (Industrial Mix)
OMD - Messages (GW Ruff Edit)
New Order - The Beach

CLAN OF XYMOX

Tomorrow evening I'll be warming up for the Detachments live show at The Big Chill House with a bunch of post punk and minimal wave records. I packed this track last night when I was sorting through some records. I've been loving it all week after rediscovering it on the Creatures Of The Night Optimo podcast. Optimo have basically taken a scalpel to the A Day Remix - taken out the gothic overtones - and ramped up the screeching best bit. An example of what re-editing can achieve! This is most certainly in the bag for tomorrow night for when the dancefloor gets going.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1xjvsb

You can get it on this LP as you shouldn't DJ out with 160kps MP3's.

http://www.discogs.com/Betty-Botox-Betty-Botox-Presents-G4-Faggot/release/679063

Slutty Fringe and World Unknown

We'll start this off with saying sorry about Friday night and The Drop being closed down by the council a few hours before the THISISNOTANEXIT party. A total nightmare. Still, we'll have Night Plane back over soon for a live show and keep you abreast of Thisisnotanexit events.

Oooohhhhhhhhh here we go.

For those who needs their THISISNOTANEXIT live fix then there are two London based events over the next couple of weeks which are of note.

First up is the Slutty Fringe 4th Birthday Party at The Big Chill House on Saturday 7th August. It's almost a Thisisnotanexit party as Detachments will be playing live and myself and Matt Waites (aka Moscow) will be DJing alongside the Slutty Fringe people. Moscow remixed Detachments Fear No Fear and has been a friend of Thisisnotanexit from the start so should be a blast.

I'll be doing the early shift from 8.30pm spinning weird synth records, post punk and minimal wave. Proper DJs and proper beatmatching later on after Detachments.

Detachments - Fear No Fear (Moscow Remix) by ThisisnotanexitRecords

Facebook event page:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=146637722017377&ref=ts

Then on Friday 13th August Detachments head South to play at the quite awesome World Unknown party in Brixton. Hosted by Andy Blake and Joe Hart and playing the sort of music Thisisnotanexit wholeheartedly approves of. I'll let them tell you what the score is.

World Unknown is a monthly session with a soundtrack that takes in elements of Belgian new beat, EBM, electro, acid house, synth wave, techno and dark balearic, and hangs out somewhere in the territory inhabited by Ron Hardy's wild, kinetic take on house in its prototype form at Chicago's legendary Muzic Box circa '83-'86, alternative dance mecca Medusa's in Chicago during roughly the same period and later and the sound of Belgian clubs Boccaccio, Carrere and Ancienne Belgique in the mid to late 80s. Naturally Andy and Joe bring things bang up to date with their own unique take on things, digging deep into their expansive, labour-of-love record collections for those gems that nobody else is playing...yet.

Andy Blake has remixed Detachments new single Holiday Romance into an 18 minute 1 take acid house groove that was exclaimed by the Slutty Fringe guys to be the remix of the year. So watch out for that out soon. Somehow everything on this post links all together. Beautiful.

Facebook event page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114049108646385&index=1#!/event.php?eid=114049108646385&ref=mf

World Unknown mixes from here:

http://worldunknown.co.uk/mixes.html

And that folks is that.

Executive Slacks

Executive Slacks were a band from Philadelphia in the early 80s that I got turned onto by Trevor Jackson (after hearing him play The Bus) and James Murphy (after hearing him play 30 Years). I never tire of their album YOU CAN'T HUM WHEN YOU'RE DEAD after picking up a copy on ebay - as I purge my collection down to the records I love I know this is one I'll never sell. I may well play The Bus tonight at the THISISNOTANEXIT night at The Drop as its one of those records that is just ahead of its time and is exactly the sort of out there record that people are too scared to play these days. Check them out playing The Bus live. Seriously, how cool.

Here though is a track of the forementioned album called CINEMA which is the sort of thing I'd love to play to an openminded crowd at 3am to really freak them out or drive them to smash the windows and the walls. Smash it. Smash it in.

I saw you in the cinema

You had no arms and legs

I had to put you in the seat

Sick of falling down

http://www.sendspace.com/file/o8wzw5

See you at The Drop. Doors 11pm. We'll try and record some of tonight's action and share next week.

As you walk through the valley of the damned...

As you walk through the valley of the damned looking for respite from the constant bombardment of media messaging and our iphones connecting my brain to your brain and sending off fire signals at a rate of 72 per second we bring you news that this Friday 30th July we return to new cooler than thou disco basement THE DROP to bring you THISISNOTANEXIT and spread our musical vision like a virus. It will infect you given half the chance. Our message and music will improve your life though. We will be playing things that will open your mind.

The night starts at 11pm and will feature Simon A. Carr and Spectral Empire playing music ranging from minimal wave to post punk to italo-disco plus whatever else we dam well feel like. We'll also be joined by acid-disko revolutionary NIGHT PLANE who will be firing off a series of Night Plane musical missiles direct onto the dancefloor.

Plus its free entry. FREE ENTRY. We're not getting paid - we're just doing it for the love.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135080476514741

We're even going to hand out some Night Plane CDs to those who come and understand our crusade.

It will be ok.

Night Plane will bring you a gift.

In fact here is a gift right now.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8e7bf4489338139f8c9e7c56ba37815f09f3514fc61a7b81

Download the stems for Night Plane's debut single CHINESE SHADOWS and do with them what you will. We're giving it all away. We ask for nothing in return on this occasion. There are only a few of us left who believe.

The Dark Esquire has a new single out soon. You'll only get it on a black disc of vinyl loveliness if you follow this link and buy one for £10. That'll get you the 12", plus download tracks plus a big kiss from The Dark Esquire. He'll even write you a nice letter and say thanks. Hell I will too if we reach the target.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/lexicons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LitACUsusq0

Do the right thing. And help us spread the message.

Seriously, a world of labels releasing Mp3's. Who wants that?

Time is running out.

FACT 22 - MOTIVATION

According to an interview: "In 1986 I started recording electronic music under the name Fact TwentyTwo. Initially it was me and another guy - Dave Butler. Dave would sing and I would make music using a Roland 303/606 combo and some Casios and an Ensoniq Mirage sampler. We were in art school in Ohio at the time. We had lots of fun. Eventually, Fact TwentyTwo became my solo project."

Veronika played this on her EVR show last week and I had to hunt a copy of this out. A totally amazing 80s electronic pop track mixed with industrial overtones (and almost Aphex Twin electronics at the end) from an act called FACT 22. Don't know much else about Fact 22 - and it looks as though everything he released was on cassette at the end of the 80s. This will certainly be getting played at THISISNOTANEXIT next week. Dark, sleazy electronic music that's been getting alot of love this week.

Fact 22 - Motivation

http://www.sendspace.com/file/t2pgbd

MYSTIC ROCK - DOUBLE RAINBOW

My friend Mystic Rock who I've known for some time is in search of the thing. I'm not sure he even knows what the thing is. In fact when I asked him he gazed off into the distance blankly and emailed me this mix a few weeks later. This might be the thing. It might not. Whatever it is it certainly rocks like a 3 legged donkey on i-dose. Check out Mystic Rocks wonderful series on Mixcloud and read his wordpress as even though there's only one post it gives a wonderful insight into those few of us left that occasionally part with our jingle jangle gold coins in exchange for potatoes and black vinyly circular shaped records.

Mystic Rock also does his thing at various East London venues - the last one was a disco dancing extravaganza at the coolest new venue in the world THE DROP with Thisisnotanexit's own George Thompson from Spectral Empire delivering thing-ness. Watch out for more.

Mystic Rock - Double Rainbow mix

Yosemite bear - double rainbow ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI )
Brain Machine - Massive dying stars vibrating like giant speakers
Seahawks - Omega beach
Clara Mondshine - landing at full moon
Vangelis - Multi-track Suggestion
Ajello - 2000 light years from home
Sect - Man Of Wisdom
Lemon Interupt - Eclipse
Soul Clap - Dreams
Command V - Lost On Me (Jacques Renault Dub Remix)
Psychick warriors of gaia - rhythms (pull)
Siobhan Donaghy - don't give it up (carl craig dub)
Space teddy - i'm in trance with you (excpert)
Psychick warriors of gaia - rhythms (pull)
Psychick warriors of gaia - exit 23
Orbital - Steel Cube Idolatry (Dave Angel & Dave Dorrell Mutation)
Limelight - limelight (holy guitar mix)

Download here:

http://www.divshare.com/download/12062242-8b1

http://www.mixcloud.com/mysticRock/

http://mysticrock.wordpress.com/

MICHAEL MOORCOCK - TIME CENTRE

This is the sort of music we like to play at the THISISNOTANEXIT night at The Drop. A stone cold electronic classic from 1982. Bizarrely it's from the Hawkwind, Friends and Relations LP and this timeless piece of electronic magic somehow sits amongst a bunch of raaaaawk music. This track could easily sit with some of the early minimal / synth wave stuff from Europe and is a bit of an oddity (hence why we like it). I believe Baldelli and the like played this heavily back then in Italy and you can understand why - especially with the sloping bassline that emerges halfway through. It's short and sweet and has the thing as Horton Jupiter often looks for.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/sk6r3m

So, downloads so far from Harold Faltermeyer and Michael Moorcock. Are you saving these in a THISISNOTANEXIT: THE DROP playlist? You should. Next Friday we'll post something with a bit more dynamism.