Browse by Label: WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)

Artist:	MORTENSON, HEIDI
Title:	Wired Stuff
Label:	WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WIRED 001CD

This is Berlin-based Heidi Mortenson's debut release on her own label, Wired Records. After a Danish childhood spent listening to her dad fixing cars while her mom played organ, Mortenson discovered all things electronic and moved to Barcelona to start an intense, self-study of machines, quickly becoming an integrated part of the electronic underground scene. She began recording herself singing inside a washing machine and through a walkie-talkie -- even rebuilding a telephone receiver into a microphone. Through this sort of rule-bending experimentation, Mortenson became a one-woman band, playing concerts that continue to offer a mix of tomboytronica, electrosoul and dirtyrocking nu-techpop with songs driven on beats and a full-powered voice. Think harmonies, rhythm n' bass and crisp cut-up sound patches. Live on stage she makes use of instruments, machines, effect-units, computers and special built microphones. Add emotional overdrive, a mentalist flavor and lots of energy. Wired Stuff includes ten songs which were created in Barcelona and Berlin with reflections on urban life, emotional disturbance, mental spins, solitude, love and loss. Most of the songs are narrative and melodic with crunchy beats and impulsive figurines of sound that come together in a detailed production. The album is fresh and goes deep; the harmonic spectrum is fully exploited and there's a good energy in the dynamic playfulness of the sounds. Most importantly, Heidi's full-powered voice is the central ingredient.

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Wired Ones
Label:	WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WIRED 002CD

The Wired Ones is the first compilation from Wired Records featuring bands that are getting established in a wider music scene towards a bigger audience and more money: making things happen on the next level. The Wired Ones compilation features 16 new original and never-before-released songs from 14 different artists, plus 2 videos: one music video and one video clip. The CD starts off with a Kevin Blechdom tune and ends with a Blechdom Live version of "Bad Music." In between you'll find the charming "Tiger" song from Heidi Mortenson which many have been waiting to put on the iPod, Scream Club's "Vomit Cash" remixed, a short hello from rapping Angie Reed, queer politics from Rhythm King Ahf., a couple of new exciting names, e.g. Chez Debs and her colorful spandex dancers. Miss Le Bomb chases down a vampire, and Dynasty Handbag turns out a humorous music video which won second prize at the NY Film Festival last year. This CD is about creating a kind of mix tape with songs that people can relate to and dance to, focusing on a music community that is growing stronger by each month. The Wired Ones is booming with genius creativity touched by urban influences and a lost generation of travel monsters united over the internet. Content is as important as sound. Lyrics are as important as beats. This is a sampler of some of today's most charming and active artists in the European and North American electronic music scene. Other artists include: Reba Hasko, Scream Club, Ben Adorable, Angry Red Planet, Monotekktoni, Marzipan Marzipan, Caro Snatch and Sardine Animal.

Artist:	MORTENSON, HEIDI
Title:	Don't Lonely Me
Label:	WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WIRED 003CD

Don't Lonely Me is Berlin-based Heidi Mortenson's second album on Wired Records featuring 10 new songs and a Ben Adorable remix of "I Just Know." "What you search for in other people is to be found in oneself..." says Heidi in relation to her new album whose title is open to translation. In the year of making this album Heidi has been commuting back and forth between the Danish Music Academy and her home in Berlin resulting in a kind of double life and mobile studio working process. While at the same time she's been touring, producing other bands, releasing a compilation of 14 artists (The Wired Ones). To reflect her life's contradictions and variances, Don't Lonely Me unites extremes and balances opposites. The record spans from dance-y electronics to nerdy R&B over new sound experiments and seriousness vs. self-irony, all in a twisted pop production. "Tiger" floats on a bossanova rhythm box with sounds of a growling tiger, meows and even an elephant's toot. "Music" is an ode to sameness and a modest disbelief in human marriage, soundwise reflecting overproduced pop and with a digital taste of the '80s, featuring guest vocals by Monotekktoni. "Coincidence" is fairly dance-y and deals with spontaneous decisions. "Hard To Say" features a double bass and various trumpets, and "Girl Since I Met You" dares you to believe that you can overcome any previous love. Mortenson's alter ego The Nosnetboy plays drums on "Hurt Machine," and "Sphere" features contributions from Kevin Blechdom.

Artist:	MORTENSON, HEIDI
Title:	Diamonds & Underwear EP
Label:	WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	WIRED 005EP

This is a limited edition (500 copies) one-sided 12" with handmade engravings and a unique painting on each. The record features three songs in Heidi Mortenson's characteristic style. On "Up From Ocean" you will hear slide guitars and electronic waves that will sail you to an island of paradise. Mortenson does vocal bass and vinyl scratch on "Disco Club" and "Stronger Than This" is a melange of mental conversations by various voices. You're not schizophrenic you're just... distracted.

Artist:	MOSH MOSH
Title:	Das Polyphone Rauschen
Label:	WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WIRED 008CD

This is the debut full-length release by the Z�rich/Munich-based duo Isabel Rei� and Viola Thiele aka Lady Mosh and Posh Mosh aka Mosh Mosh. Following their EP on Echokammer, they now twist pop-feminism into another dimension with Das Polyphone Rauschen. Mosh Mosh deliver cracking sounds, heavy bass lines, and driving trash beats. Again and again, they let new wave affinities vanish inside electronic dub chambers. With Das Polyphone Rauschen (on which you can find three remixes) they establish new rules of play in the field of "concept albums" -- the queer/glam duo's programmed polyphony. Deeply inspired by their work with electro-acts such as Hitlmeyer Inc., Knarf Rell�m, Trinity, Miss Le Bomb, Heidi Mortenson, Lesbians On Ecstasy, and G. Rizo, Mosh Mosh make sure their tracks are always funky and kinky. Referencing Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks in "We Are No Freaks," praising the advantages of "Robotic Love" in the underground disco, or extraterrestrials in "The Mooon," Mosh Mosh proclaim their cross-field utopianism -- half hip-hop art-electro, half theatrical or spoken-word performance backed by an eclectic array of skronky electronics. "Lovely And Nice" reveals some deep-house elegance that swings and floats in the direction of dub, remixed here by Lesbians On Ecstasy, who mutated the number into an unrecognizable Baile/ghetto funk bass monster. There's a love song to a pony ("Pony's Perm") that boasts an extremely sexy, '60s groove, "Love Otter" with psychedelic electronic underwater sounds, and "Im Keller," built on nostalgic new wave embellishments that crumble away into a cheeky punk choir. Carrying a torch for Le Tigre, Missy Elliott, and even Johnny Cash, Mosh Mosh churn out bass-heavy, schizophrenic electronics embellished with sweet melodies and absurdist, girly vocal rants.

Artist:	MOSH MOSH
Title:	Das Polyphone Rauschen
Label:	WIRED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WIRED 008LP

LP version. This is the debut full-length release by the Z�rich/Munich-based duo Isabel Rei� and Viola Thiele aka Lady Mosh and Posh Mosh aka Mosh Mosh. Following their EP on Echokammer, they now twist pop-feminism into another dimension with Das Polyphone Rauschen. Mosh Mosh deliver cracking sounds, heavy bass lines, and driving trash beats. Again and again, they let new wave affinities vanish inside electronic dub chambers. With Das Polyphone Rauschen (on which you can find three remixes) they establish new rules of play in the field of "concept albums" -- the queer/glam duo's programmed polyphony. Deeply inspired by their work with electro-acts such as Hitlmeyer Inc., Knarf Rell�m, Trinity, Miss Le Bomb, Heidi Mortenson, Lesbians On Ecstasy, and G. Rizo, Mosh Mosh make sure their tracks are always funky and kinky. Referencing Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks in "We Are No Freaks," praising the advantages of "Robotic Love" in the underground disco, or extraterrestrials in "The Mooon," Mosh Mosh proclaim their cross-field utopianism -- half hip-hop art-electro, half theatrical or spoken-word performance backed by an eclectic array of skronky electronics. "Lovely And Nice" reveals some deep-house elegance that swings and floats in the direction of dub, remixed here by Lesbians On Ecstasy, who mutated the number into an unrecognizable Baile/ghetto funk bass monster. There's a love song to a pony ("Pony's Perm") that boasts an extremely sexy, '60s groove, "Love Otter" with psychedelic electronic underwater sounds, and "Im Keller," built on nostalgic new wave embellishments that crumble away into a cheeky punk choir. Carrying a torch for Le Tigre, Missy Elliott, and even Johnny Cash, Mosh Mosh churn out bass-heavy, schizophrenic electronics embellished with sweet melodies and absurdist, girly vocal rants.

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