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SOCIAL 068LP
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"Released as an extremely limited edition 12-inch, Remix features the reworking of three tracks from Sian Alice Group's debut 59.59 by Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance and Spring Heeled Jack."
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SOCIAL 074LP
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Gatefold 2LP version on 140 gram vinyl.
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SOCIAL 074CD
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"Sian Alice Group -- a collective of UK musicians Sian Ahern, Rupert Clervaux and Ben Crook, amongst other collaborators -- are back with their sophomore album, Troubled, Shaken Etc. The band hones in on a genre-busting combination of organic improvisation, process-driven experimentation and the focused strength earned from a year of extensive travelling and touring the world together. You get your minimalist trances, electronic experimentation, techno thump, jazz motifs and Eastern music tropes in a joyous and complete listening experience. It's a snapshot (or, more closely, a yearbook) from an eventful 2008 that is more raw, emotional and loud than anything they've released thus far."
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SOCIAL 069LP
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"The Social Registry is proud to break your bones with I.U.D. -- Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance's (vocals, percussion) new project. Teaming with Sadie Laska of Growing and Extreme Violence (the duo is known here as Mr. Egglesby and Lil' Pickle -- they have different names for each release), The Proper Sex is a downright brutal industrial clusterfuck that's sure to fog the glasses of experimental music nerds and provide the catalyst for many a record store argument. Put The Boredoms, Einstürzende Neubauten, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tribe 8, Front 242 and some black metal tropes in a blender and then serve chilled at a party hosted by hyper-feminist vampires and you're getting close to the sound on this one. Recorded at Vacation Island Studios by Matt Boyton AKA Professor Funkenstein, The Proper Sex is creepy, relentless and (most of all) extremely fascinating. It's a varied listen that reflects its influences and cover art -- which mimics Sparks -- to a stunning effect. Like Gang Gang Dance, these rhythms are already cemented in a listener's head. It's just that this journey might be a descent into the inferno rather than up to the heavens." Includes poster of a naked horse-woman.
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SOCIAL 046CD
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"Mike Bones is New Jersey-born songwriter Mike Strallow, who lives and works in New York City. Of his pseudonym, Strallow offers: 'Bones is a nickname a friend gave to me when I was a kid. Making records as Mike Bones removes my voice from the song, at least in my own mind and leaves a song's meaning and intention ambiguous. I don't have to show my cards.' Although Bones has been writing songs for years, worked as a guitar player for The Mighty Flashlight, Damon McMahon, and Lizzie Trulie, and is a member of cult favorites Soldiers of Fortune (a band featuring members of Oneida, Home, and Oakley Hall), The Sky Behind The Sea marks his debut solo recording."
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SOCIAL 028EP
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"Telepathe is a fluid band that ebbs and flows through genres of music all the while creating their own brand of dancey mysteriousness. Led by Busy Ganges and Melissa Lavaudais the group takes their eerie textural music and interweaves this with a rhythmic pattern that pulls you into their sound tapestry. The Sinister Militia 12" brings the listener into their creation. Tyler of !!! remixed Sinister Militia and accentuates all of the elements that make Telepathe the unique band they are. The eeriness and the beats are present in a more raucous splashy display."
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SOCIAL 033CD
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"In advance of Gang Gang Dance's upcoming studio full-length, The Social Registry are proud to present the band's first-ever DVD release, Retina Riddim. This film was made by Gang Gang Dance member, and visual artist, Brian DeGraw. Retina Riddim is by no means a tour film, documentary, live video, or anything as remotely stringent. Included on the DVD is a fan film, GGDbyOP, shot and edited on the road by Oliver Payne, a friend of the band's. As an added bonus Retina Riddim also contains an audio CD cut together by DeGraw specifically for this release, and a fold-out poster designed by Mr. DeGraw. Retina Riddim is both a document of Gang Gang Dance's progress over the past few years, and a look forward to the direction they are moving in."
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SOCIAL 013CD
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"The third installment from NYC's noise-mavens Electroputas is upon us and it is a heavy affair. Hand woven to thick analog tape over six months at the Junkyard Studio compound with Sean Maffucci of Icewater Scandal behind the board, this record opens up the stride of this criminally under exposed outfit. The sprawling results at times brings to mind such notable luminaries as Can, Chrome, Lightning Bolt or the more musical ramblings of Ciccone Youth. With this record the trio has managed to take their unrelenting live sound into a wholly new direction."
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SOCIAL 009EP
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"The Social Registry 12" series continues with this silk and flame infected barnstormer from Artanker Convoy. This four track EP is sure to get feet moving and hips gyrating with their catchy and irresistible flow (people who have tried resisting have ended up in traction or worse). But this EP is not only for the floor-cutting set. It is layered with a multitude of different influences and experience (soul jazz, krautrock, bossanova, bubblegum pop to name a few) that set this group apart from the typical club ravers, they compose pieces that allow them to really stretch out and continue to evolve the more they play them. You can sit back and just enjoy this, but your body might have different ideas. Organic Grooves remixes one of the pieces shooting AT into an even higher orbit."
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SOCIAL 004CD
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"Gathering moss is not for Icewater Scandal; they are constantly percolating with ideas. They take what they have accomplished before redefining it and then heading for new horizons. Their first album travels over new territory from their debut EP released under the AM Radio moniker. Though still filtered through their concept of taking 60's experimental music a la the Dream Syndicate et al, and merging that with the elan of 80's indie rock; No Handle is at times more muscular and other times more cerebral, without losing any flair. Part of this can be attributed to their producer Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Recorded and mixed at SY's studio, Echo Canyon, there has been great care in getting the sound just right. Recorded, mixed and mastered all on analog equipment was a decision that allowed no ones and zeros to come between what was played and how the band wanted it heard."
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SOCIAL 005EP
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"From The Social Registry's new 12" EP series (strictly limited to 600 copies and packaged in identical metallic blue jackets): Andrea Hansen, though a member of the angular, surging rock group Icewater Scandal, has so much she wants to do that it cannot be contained within just one group. From her fertile mind and nimble fingers comes Painting Soldiers. Most of her work was recorded in a small one room apartment, on a lonely block above a gun shop, with just her guitar and a four-track recorder (and the occasional helping hand from various friends.) Andrea has been able to unleash her talent and imagination that is clear and unadorned with post production by Lee Ranaldo. From the gentle rollicking of 'Heaven And Mars' to the stormy psychedelic 'Mighty Fumble' this EP stands by itself. This debut 12" is sure to transport the listener into an existence that transcends the common and everyday."
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