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Distraction Records: five-six with dimples, crushing punks like pimples.
Some of the eagle-eyed cherries among you may possibly have noticed that our website has took a turn for the worse. And, aye, it has - some knobhead hacked into it, thus removing every bit of content that we've ever done. And guess who didn't backup? Class! Never mind, it should be back up relatively soon.
For those placing orders, simply PayPal the appropriate amount of money to info AT distractionrecords DOT com, choosing from the list below:
Releases coming soon:
* Mushi Mushi 'Sequins Save Lives' CD album (£6.99, available for despatch)
* Tempelhof 'Leaving Home' / 'Cage' one-sided 12" hand-painted vinyl in custom sleeve (£6.99, 250 only, out May 3rd, available for despatch now)
Releases out now:
* Tempelhof 'We Were Not There For The Beginning. We Were Not There For The End.' CD Album (£6.99)
* Necro Deathmort 'This Beat Is Necrotronic' CD album (£6.99)
* The Retail Sectors 'March Of Incurable Workaholic' / 'Song About A Girl Who Killed Herself Yesterday' 8" hand-painted lathe cut clear vinyl (£6.99, 150 only, few dozen left!)
* d_rradio 'd_rradio remixed' CD Album (£4.99)
* Moira Stewart 'Sweetness, Yes!' CD Album (£4.99)
* d_rradio 'Out Of Love / You Hold My Breath' 7" (£2.99)
* d_rradio 'Dear John / Pick Me Up 7" (£2.99)
* d_rradio 'Born / Come To Light 7" (£2.99)
* Cathode 'Chronophobia / Economic Growth' 7" (£2.99)
* Summer Night Air '3' CD Album (£4.99)
* Lachrymose One / Sansava 'Sometimes A Sense Of Realism Creeps In / Untitled' split 7" (£2.99)
* Dressed In Wires 'The Big Black Cock Of Death E.P.' 12" picture disc (£4.99)
* Mushi Mushi 'Chicken EP' 7" (£2.99 - only £1.99 when bought with the Sequins Save Lives album)
* See My Sound 'Hidden Depths' 7" (£2.99)
SPECIAL OFFERS:
Buy two CDs, knock £1 off the price.
Buy THREE 7" records for £7.50.
Buy FIVE 7" records for £10.
European orders (non-UK): Please add £1 per CD, £1.50 per vinyl.
Worldwide orders: Please add £2 per CD, £3 per vinyl.
Phew, now that that's over with, let's get with the program. March 29th sees the first, and last!, album by juddering punk-funk juggernauts Mushi Mushi, Sequins Save Lives out on the racks of independent record stores shelves far and wide. It's also available in major stores and the famous online places but support the indies, eh? As we like to say, it's 13 morsels of prime whoomp, all lo-fi cranks and cronks, clocking in at just over half-an-hour of utter popnoise brilliance, and here's some reviews!
". . . fine indiepop songs performed with remarkable expertise and minimal crispness by a Tyneside quartet of young alt-disco fanatics." The Sound Projector
". . . an energetic analogue electro mix of b-lines and riffs propelled along on shit-hot n'lean door-ramming drums. Calling to mind acts like Red Snapper or a garage band version of 808 State, Mushi Mushi's music might recall the seeds of a mid-90s to mid-00s sound but its still enjoyable alive music" Foxy Digitalis
"It contains 13 tracks of rare quality which sound like they've been sculpted out of the aural equivalent of fuzzy felt; containing equal parts vim, verve and noise-pop know-how. Oozing lo-fi style and breathing confidence it'll literally have you standing on a chair and applauding." The Crack
". . . una perfetta mistura cranks and cronks!" Nerds Attack (Italy)
And so on, Huw Stephens and Tom Robinson from the good ol' Auntie Beeb have been 'caning it' (or whatever you whippersnappers say) as well. And guess what? Now you can get the ENTIRE ALBUM FOR FREE as VBR 320kps files! Of course, we're going to remind you that if you like what you hear, you may consider buying the CD proper, and if you do or you don't, well, pass it along to somebody that does. In fact, if you like the album, SHOUT ABOUT IT! Retweet it, post the link on blogs, spread the word - this album took years to complete, we're damn proud to be releasing it and we want it to be heard as by many people as possible. Of course, buying the CD is even better - it's the only way that we can keep the label going. But we want you to consume this little beggar because it's AWESOME and YOU SHOULD HEAR IT.
So then! Here is the link to Mushi Mushi's Sequins Save Lives -> http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=j7ugap7d02. Spread the word!
And onto our good chums from Mantova, Italy, Tempelhof! On May 3rd, we release two charmingly epic cuts of majestic loveliness that were actually recorded before the album came out: Leaving Home and Cage. It's released on a 12" slab of vinyl, individually numbered and painted making up one section of an image of rural North-East England (left) by contemporary artist Polly Bound (and comes with a custom-made sleeve to boot). Lovely.
Leaving Home is all melodic keys punctuating the starting whispers, and then the beats start to kick in and you know it's going to rock bells. Beats chop and change and glide into space, wallowing around yer head, swirling around, building to a classic postrock crescendo. Cage goes for the juggular, fluctuating from skittering drum fractures, to ghostly strings and Borroughs-esque cut-and-paste murmurs; equal parts fractured, soaring, shimmering, golden and booming, fans of The Album Leaf, M83, The American Dollar, Hammock etc. will lap this up.
And it's yours for only £6.99! There's only 250 of these, and we got rid of 50 of 'em before the promo even started, so be quick if you want one! If you want to check out the tracks, they are streaming on the release's last.fm page. Oh yeah, and the vinyl looks like this.
To supplement the release, they've got some live action in the UK coming up:
Waxa.
Speaking of tour dates, Necro Deathmort have been going from strength to strength recently: if you want to catch "the bastard son of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music" (Tunaday), you can do so on the following dates:
We also have releases upcoming by d_rradio and Warm Digits; more news on those soon.
Fo' shizzney,
distraction.x.
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