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LMS 1725114
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RELEASE DATE: 5/10/2024
Celebrating 45 years of Blancmange, Everything Is Connected (Best Of) is the first collection to be curated by Neil Arthur, tastefully blending a mixture of hits and personal favorites. Originally from the UK's post punk DIY scene, Blancmange found success in 1982, LP Happy Families selling Gold in the UK, and its three singles becoming international hits. They went on to have seven Top 40 hits and 70 weeks in the UK album charts. Long-standing admirers include Moby, John Grant, and Honey Dijon, who states that "British synth pop was hugely influential in the burgeoning house music scene and Blancmange was a big part of that." Contains the Top 40 hits "Living On the Ceiling," "Waves," "Blind Vision," "Don't Tell Me," and Abba cover "The Day Before You Came," as well as recent favorites "What's The Time," "Reduced Voltage," and "Some Times These."
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LMS 1725115
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PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 5/10/2024
LP version. Green color vinyl. Celebrating 45 years of Blancmange, Everything Is Connected (Best Of) is the first collection to be curated by Neil Arthur, tastefully blending a mixture of hits and personal favorites. Originally from the UK's post punk DIY scene, Blancmange found success in 1982, LP Happy Families selling Gold in the UK, and its three singles becoming international hits. They went on to have seven Top 40 hits and 70 weeks in the UK album charts. Long-standing admirers include Moby, John Grant, and Honey Dijon, who states that "British synth pop was hugely influential in the burgeoning house music scene and Blancmange was a big part of that." Contains the Top 40 hits "Living On the Ceiling," "Waves," "Blind Vision," "Don't Tell Me," and Abba cover "The Day Before You Came," as well as recent favorites "What's The Time," "Reduced Voltage," and "Some Times These."
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LMS 5521738
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Private View is distinctly Blancmange while also expanding into new sonic terrain. There's a deft marriage of futuristic electronic sounds, Neil Arthur's unmistakable vocal hooks, and songs veer from buoyant and joyful to dark and brooding. Private View will be released on London Records almost exactly 40 years to the day since the label released Blancmange's debut album Happy Families (1982). This neat full circle of Blancmange re-signing to the same label that ignited things all those years ago is also reflected in the album itself, being the perfect crystallization of four decades of creativity. On Private View, Neil returns with key collaborator Benge (Wrangler, John Foxx, John Grant) and David Rhodes (Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Scott Walker) also returns as the guitarist, having previously performed with the band as early as 1982's Happy Families (as well as several other Blancmange albums). Private View is a record that manages to capture an artist who is potently in the moment when it comes to creating new work, while also being able to draw on 40 years' worth of knowledge, experience, and built-in intuition. "I'm really lucky to be able make the music completely on my own terms," Arthur says. "Being able to just continue being creative... that's when I'm happiest." As he said before: "within myself there are no limits." Blancmange is also reflected in the ongoing influence the music has on younger generations of artists and fans over the years. Contemporary electronic producers like Honey Dijon and Roman Flügel have paid tribute with remixes, Moby once called Blancmange "probably the most underrated electronic act of all time"; while John Grant continues to profess his love for Arthur's music, old and new, and has invited Blancmange to perform as part of Grace Jones's Meltdown festival.
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LP version. Private View is distinctly Blancmange while also expanding into new sonic terrain. There's a deft marriage of futuristic electronic sounds, Neil Arthur's unmistakable vocal hooks, and songs veer from buoyant and joyful to dark and brooding. Private View will be released on London Records almost exactly 40 years to the day since the label released Blancmange's debut album Happy Families (1982). This neat full circle of Blancmange re-signing to the same label that ignited things all those years ago is also reflected in the album itself, being the perfect crystallization of four decades of creativity. On Private View, Neil returns with key collaborator Benge (Wrangler, John Foxx, John Grant) and David Rhodes (Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Scott Walker) also returns as the guitarist, having previously performed with the band as early as 1982's Happy Families (as well as several other Blancmange albums). Private View is a record that manages to capture an artist who is potently in the moment when it comes to creating new work, while also being able to draw on 40 years' worth of knowledge, experience, and built-in intuition. "I'm really lucky to be able make the music completely on my own terms," Arthur says. "Being able to just continue being creative... that's when I'm happiest." As he said before: "within myself there are no limits." Blancmange is also reflected in the ongoing influence the music has on younger generations of artists and fans over the years. Contemporary electronic producers like Honey Dijon and Roman Flügel have paid tribute with remixes, Moby once called Blancmange "probably the most underrated electronic act of all time"; while John Grant continues to profess his love for Arthur's music, old and new, and has invited Blancmange to perform as part of Grace Jones's Meltdown festival.
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Honey Dijon was asked the remix her "favorite band" Blancmange and choose the magnificent disco oddity, 1983 hit "Blind Vision". The result is a stripped-back, bumping houser that sounds as much Green Velvet as it does Talking Heads. Urgent percussion and oscillating synths drive things forward, allowing a full Blancmange vocal to unfold aloft to great effect. Also features the original and sought after extended mix. The first in a new series of "London Records Remixed" releases on 12". Now at its new home as part of the Because Music Group the London Records catalogue is being revisited by pioneering, contemporary electronic producers.
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LMS 5521336
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"When I was asked to put my hands on the original tracks of Blancmange I was instantly excited. They were one of my favorite bands when I grew up as a teenager in the '80s. Listening to their music walking around with my Walkman back then was adventurous. Mainly because I was already in love with the aesthetics of synthesizers and drum machines. But also because it was unusual pop music with an extraordinary energy that made it in the charts. Remixing a favorite band is challenging but I've tried to keep the free spirits and playfulness in my mix that makes Blancmange still so special after all these years." --Roman Flügel Roman Flügel remixes the cult 1980s classic that is "Living On The Ceiling", and the result is a killer, off-kilter slice of club-focused machine funk that contains the same wonderfully bizarre cocktail of traits, that Blancmange always boasted in spades. Eerie and schizophrenic but also both bright and triumphant. Also features the original and sought after extended mix. The first in a new series of "London Records Remixed" releases on 12". Now at its new home as part of the Because Music Group the London Records catalogue is being revisited by pioneering, contemporary electronic producers.
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BLANC 019CD
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The second Blancmange instrumental album, 14 electronic tracks written and recorded by Neil Arthur. Slow-mo synths, dark swirls of sound, and a characteristic flair for melody can be found with every subtle change of mood and style. But there's also emotion under the surface, sometimes breaking through and catching the listener off-guard. It all adds up to an atmospheric and quietly moving follow-up to the original Nil By Mouth which was released back in 2015.
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LMS 5521275
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London Records present a limited-edition vinyl boxset of Blancmange's first three albums: Happy Families (1982), Mange Tout (1984), and Believe You Me (1985). Each release includes the original album (remastered), plus B-sides, extended versions, remixes, previously unreleased tracks and demos. Happy Families, released in 1982, feels like a fully-formed electronic pop classic. Highlights include "Living On The Ceiling" (a striking #7 hit in '82 thanks to its mix of electronics with tabla and sitar), the melancholia of "Waves", the call-and-response electro-funk of "Feel Me", the intense "I Can't Explain", and "God's Kitchen", which is an early example of Neil Arthur's gift with images and wordplay. Blancmange's second album, Mange Tout, reached #8 in the UK charts in 1984 and spawned more hits -- notably "Blind Vision" (#10), "Don't Tell Me" (#8), and their fantastic cover of ABBA's "The Day Before You Came" (much loved by ABBA who let them use footage from their original video for the Blancmange promo). It signals another change for the band's music, now increasingly built around deep, propulsive dance grooves. The third and final Blancmange album of the 1980s, Believe You Me, was released in 1985 and features bitter-sweet pop songs such as "Lose Your Love", "Don't You Love It All", and "What's Your Problem". Remastered audio; vinyl boxset with artwork slipcase holding all three albums; each album is a double 12" on black vinyl, and comes in gatefold sleeve with printed inner-sleeves; download card included.
"Listening to Blancmange obsessively. Probably the most under-rated electronic act of all time." --Moby
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LMS 5521270EP
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RSD 2019 release. "Living On the Ceiling" was a number 7 hit in 1982 with its striking mix of table and sitar. Still played to this day in underground clubs worldwide. Features previously unreleased remixes from Richard Norris who adds a darker, twisted element to the track. Also includes a rare extended mix of the remastered original. "Living On The Ceiling" is taken from Happy Families. Released in 1982, the album is a fully-formed electronic pop classic. Limited edition blue vinyl. "Listening to Blancmange obsessively. Probably the most under-rated electronic act of all time." --Moby
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BLANC 012CD
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Blancmange's Wanderlust is ten songs composed by Neil Arthur and arranged, co-produced and mixed with Benge (Wrangler/Creep Show) at the latter's Memetune Studios. This is the pair's third album together. Wanderlust is focused on similar themes but there's a new energy to the approach - wistfulness turning to anger; dislocation morphing into a powerful desire to be somewhere else, and always a sense of someone fighting for forward motion, dreams, family and the joys of life while seeing, as Arthur puts it, "the pretense of a normal world being erased." This spirit is also in the music, which is vital, percussive, and full of analog machine-noise and chunky bass lines.
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LP version. Blancmange's Wanderlust is ten songs composed by Neil Arthur and arranged, co-produced and mixed with Benge (Wrangler/Creep Show) at the latter's Memetune Studios. This is the pair's third album together. Wanderlust is focused on similar themes but there's a new energy to the approach - wistfulness turning to anger; dislocation morphing into a powerful desire to be somewhere else, and always a sense of someone fighting for forward motion, dreams, family and the joys of life while seeing, as Arthur puts it, "the pretense of a normal world being erased." This spirit is also in the music, which is vital, percussive, and full of analog machine-noise and chunky bass lines.
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LP version. Written and recorded by Neil Arthur and co-produced by Benge (Wrangler, John Foxx & The Maths, and Gazelle Twin co-producer). It's been a fantastically creative period for both of them; the duo released their debut album as a new electronic duo -- Fader's First Light (BLANC 009CD/LP), released in July 2017 -- followed immediately by the final sessions for Unfurnished Rooms. For the new Blancmange record, all the songs were written by Arthur while Benge added percussion and layers of analog synth, with the pair then mixing the record together in the latter's Memetune studios in Cornwall. "Don't Get Me Wrong" features John Grant on piano and backing vocals. "Listening to Blancmange obsessively. Probably the most underrated electronic act of all time." --Moby
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BLANC 010CD
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Written and recorded by Neil Arthur and co-produced by Benge (Wrangler, John Foxx & The Maths, and Gazelle Twin co-producer). It's been a fantastically creative period for both of them; the duo released their debut album as a new electronic duo -- Fader's First Light (BLANC 009CD/LP), released in July 2017 -- followed immediately by the final sessions for Unfurnished Rooms. For the new Blancmange record, all the songs were written by Arthur while Benge added percussion and layers of analog synth, with the pair then mixing the record together in the latter's Memetune studios in Cornwall. "Don't Get Me Wrong" features John Grant on piano and backing vocals. "Listening to Blancmange obsessively. Probably the most underrated electronic act of all time." --Moby
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MW 050EP
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"A 10" reissue of Blancmange's seminal debut EP Irene & Mavis. Formed in the UK by Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe, Blancmange recorded the six songs on Irene & Mavis in 1979 and released it as a 7" EP in 1980. Irene & Mavis, though not exactly representative of what Blancmange later went on to become, is a fascinating relic that captures the gestation period of the duo, fresh out of art school and keen to experiment. The D.I.Y. sound of the EP fits right in there with the early output of Soft Cell, the Human League, and Cabaret Voltaire; but what separates it from those like-minded releases of the time is that it's even more distinctly English. In fact it was Daniel Miller, supporter and Mute boss himself who first recognized this when he proclaimed them 'the maiden aunts of electronic music.' The Irene & Mavis EP is simultaneously pioneering, provincial, and surreal in its down-to-earth playfulness and lack of artifice. It stands out as an important record, capturing the mundane with modern electronics and remains as an artifact representative of the band before they went on to reach pop chart success. The Irene & Mavis EP has been newly remastered and will be released as a numbered limited edition 10" EP."
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