Browse by Label: CITY SLANG (GERMANY)

Artist:	SCHNEIDER TM
Title:	Frogtoise
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$3.00
Catalog #:	CITY 20198CD

Last copies, reduced price. "Schneider TM returns to mess with your minds with the release of 'Frogtoise', a limited edition single which features one of the stand out tracks from his album Zoomer. Inspired by a dream in which Schneider dreamt he had surgically spliced together a frog and a turtle, the single contains four radically different versions of the song. The lead Frogtoise Exploitation Edit blossoms vividly with a rich palette of sounds, a killer melody and a timbre that Schneider memorably described (flippantly, possibly) as 'post-Timbaland'. The Frogtoise Vredus Remix is a more electro-pop friendly version, drier and glossier and not a million miles away from a more avant-garde Pet Shop Boys! The Frogstears Schneider FM Remake sees Schneider TM take an acoustic approach to the song -- something that he is also able to do with any of the songs on Zoomer, and which he probably will -- while Fruktos sees Schneider's live companion KptMichigan tear the song apart in a glitch and crackle style." This CD version adds a video clip.

Artist:	NOTWIST, THE
Title:	Pilot
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	CITY 8382CD

"The Notwist have finished their long awaited fifth album Neon Golden, and it's big step further towards what they've been aiming towards for years: seamlessly unifying guitar driven music with modern electronica. Brimming with self confidence, they effortlessly move between both styles and ultimately make it something all their own. The Pilot single will be our first offering from the Neon Golden record. Pilot starts with an insistent 4/4 groove accentuated by Console's (Martin Gretschmann's) buzzes and stuttering electro beats and is underpinned by Micha Acher's unshakeable bass line."

Artist:	EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND
Title:	Homesick
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CITY 8721LP

"Experimental Pop Band hail from Bristol, England, and are one band whose name truly represents the music they make. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter-DJ -Davy Woodward, EPB started out as a studio project in 1995 and released a few funky, eclectic singles and their debut LP, Discgrotesque on the English label Swarf Finger. Although they come from Bristol, you'd never confuse them with the likes of Tricky, Portishead, or Massive Attack. EPB certainly use slippery, groovy beats like their fellow Bristolians, but the mood is miles away from Tricky's dark offerings or Portishead's detached cool. This is because underneath the beats and samples lies the warm, beating heart of a singer-songwriter who hung out in clubs DJ'ing instead of singing 'Kumbaya' around the campfire. That's right, songs that'll make you wiggle your hips and snap your fingers and they top it off with wry, sardonic lyrics that will make you listen more than twice." Limited stock, deleted item.

Artist:	SOPHIA
Title:	People Are Like Seasons
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	CITY 95176CD

"Sophia is Robin Proper-Sheppard, formerly of The God Machine, and a cast of musicians drawn from a pool of bands with whom Robin has worked throughout his career, otherwise known as 'The Sophia Collective'. The previous two albums were entirely financed, recorded and produced by Robin, who also oversaw the entire production, promotion and distribution of the albums on his own The Flower Shop Recordings label. This is the first time since the days of The God Machine that Robin has agreed to work with another label. The new album fleshes out the sound and extends the dynamic boundaries, whilst maintaining Robin's traditional but effective approach of keeping things minimal, whether they be lyrically or musically. The overriding impression of the album is that it rocks, but this is quite clearly not a rock record. In fact much of it is quiet, pained, acoustic and mines a rich vein of melancholy that seems to seep through all of Robin's music throughout the years."

Artist:	TIDWELL, CORTNEY
Title:	Watusii
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SLANG 9550016

"Cortney Tidwell has confirmed details of the first single to be taken from her forthcoming album Boys which is, according to Tidwell, 'about two kids in love, fighting, and they eventually kill themselves. It's a modern day Romeo and Juliet.' Undeniably one of the most electronic songs she's written, it calls upon diverse influences like New Order and Depeche Mode and packs a typically impressive melodic punch. The track will be available as a special single edit, and is accompanied by exclusive mixes and an A Cappella version. After the success of Ewan Pearson's remix of the title track to her debut album Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (a Pitchfork Track Of The Year 2007) duties are this time handled by Simon Baker and Daphni. Baker's remixes for Radioslave and Simian Mobile Disco have confirmed his status as one of the most exciting DJs and producers around, and he gives the track a technicolor tech-house workover perfect for summer twilight. Daphni -� aka Dan Snaith, aka Caribou -� has meanwhile turned in a fourteen minute monster, a trippy techno bastard that sneaks up gently, growing relentlessly until it leaves listeners dizzy and euphoric."

Artist:	KORT
Title:	Invariable Heartache
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SLANG 680023CD

"Not so much a replication, but more of a study in reclamation." -- Kurt Wagner
"Invariable Heartache is an album inspired by a shared love for Nashville and its musical traditions. Lambchop's Kurt Wagner - a long time champion of the city's history and charms - and Cortney Tidwell - whose family have, for decades, played a significant part in the city's (country) musical life - are both fervent admirers of the music that has emerged from the city. It was an early collaboration on Cortney's Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up album that led to the two of them performing together at Nashville club The Basement in the summer of 2008. Such was the crowd's overwhelming response that evening that the idea of a duets album was born, and though work didn't begin for well over a year the concept was never forgotten. It was discussion about Cortney's family history, however, that led them to the Chart Records catalogue, a label run by Cortney's grandfather Slim Williamson, A&Red later by her father Cliff Williamson, and for which her mother Connie Eaton also recorded. The result of their subsequent fascination with what they discovered on dusty forgotten vinyl is an album that pays tribute to art of the duet and the classic songwriting that lay behind many of the albums and singles released by the label, a tribute on a grander scale to the forgotten sounds of 'Music City USA'. Keeping it in the family, Invariable Heartache was produced by Kurt Wagner, recorded by Cortney's husband Todd Tidwell at Music Row's Starstruck Studios and by Roger Moutenot (who produced much of Lambchop's last album) at Hap Town, and mixed by Mark Nevers, whose association with Lambchop goes back to its earliest days and who has since become one of Nashville's go-to guys. With 11 songs taken from the Chart Records catalogue, and one more recorded by Cortney's mother for ABC Dunhill, this is a project that, from start to end, comes right from the heart."

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Artist:	LOVE INKS
Title:	E.S.P.
Label:	CITY SLANG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SLANG 50002CD