Alice in Videoland returns with a digital version of their new album, She’s A Machine, eight tracks of in-your-face pop rock energy, excitement, and adrenalin! The new material is raw, just like we like them pop tracks, and incredibly addicting. What more can we ask for? The title track, “She’s A Machine,” explodes into raging guitar before front-woman Toril takes over with a huge chorus that is as infectious as they come. The new single “Numb” is a truly emotional gem, and “MF” is simply brilliant pop art. Highly recommended to fans of The Birthday Massacre, Ayria, Angelspit, theStart, Horrorpops, The Laundrettes, She Wants Revenge, Cindy Lauper, and more!

Artoffact Records presents this release in a digital only summer version at only $5.99 for the full download.
Customers can also order from these fine digital music providers:

Amazon.com
itunes

Buy She’s A Machine DIGITAL DOWNLOAD here:

You can stream full clips of this release on our releases page!

1. She’s A Machine
2. MF
3. Numb
4. We Are Rebels
5. Who’s That Boy
6. Candy
7. Weird Desire
8. Tomorrow

I have known Wade Anderson, aka Prospero, for years now and seem to bump into the man everywhere. I’ve seen him freak out on a dance floor to Covenant’s “Call the Ship’s to Port” and I also know that he loves noise and tribal rhythms. I’ve seen him dancing to the hardest EBM tracks at Savage Garden as well as take in one of Displacer’s lovely IDM performances in Montreal. If there is someone who enjoys the variety the scene offers, it’s Wade.

That is what’s so great about his new album, Folie à Deux; Wade’s influences are everywhere and the name of the game is variety. I hear the hammering EBM beat on “The World That I See,” and I remember Wade on the dancefloor, at Savage Garden, jumping around to Grendel. I hear his smashing cover of Malhavoc’s classic track “Discipline” complete with vocals by Jennifer Parkin of Ayria and think could anything possibly be more Toronto? Malhavoc, Ayria, Prospero… makes an ex-pat Torontonian teary eyed!

The album opens with “The Elements” suite, four tracks of tribal, rhythmic, experimental music, and that, too, is 100% Wade. It’s also 100% great music, a perfect opening to an album from one of Toronto’s great musicians. Following this is “The Madness,” the second half of the album and a change in musical direction that shows the dance-floor side of Prospero. There’s the techno glitch of “Techno Zombies” and the fire-breathing collaboration with Battery Cage and Terrorfakt on “Let the Planet Burn” that will have you hitting repeat on your iPod. The album closes with another Toronto act: a collaboration with It-Clings that leaves you raging against political brutality.

There is something special about releasing an album by someone you’ve known for so long. It’s not the personal touch, though that sure is great. It’s not even the ability to talk frankly together, or have a beer together, or enjoy each other’s conversation from time to time. When you know someone, their art changes, and you gain something from the experience that would otherwise have been lost. There’s something awesome about that.

Buy Folie à Deux on CD here:

Buy Folie à Deux as a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD here. You will be emailed a download link within 24 hours.

Two Individual Totem re-issues (S.E.T.I. and Mind Sculptures Flesh) are now up on our releases page. You can stream all the tracks from each classic release as well as purchase both albums as digital downloads.

Buy S.E.T.I. at iTunes.
Buy Mind Sculptures Flesh at iTunes.

Catch Headscan live at the Kinetik Festival this Friday in Montreal! Tickets are close to selling out, so get yours fast! Come by our table at the Kinetik Festival where you can buy the new Kinetik Festival Volume 1 compilation, as well as CDs, vinyl, and merchandise, including Headscan stuff!! Free Kinetik Festival posters will be given out while supplies last!!

More info here.

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Incredible news! Individual Totem unveils a limited edition version of Aspects Of Theories & Reality!!

PLEASE EMAIL us for your shirt sizes — we will reserve you the shirt you ask for.

Artoffact Records and Individual Totem present a fan-only package to celebrate the digital re-release of Aspect of Theories and Reality. This limited edition set is exclusively available at the Artoffact store, and limited to only 60 copies worldwide. We expect copies to go quickly, so please order fast! All orders will ship at the end of May.

Aspect of Theories & Reality - LIMITED FAN SET -
(the 1st Individual Totem CD)

•The original Aspects release (now out of print)
•Signed by Individual Totem!!
•Limited edition Individual Totem pin
•High-quality 2-sided T-shirt > Mothfly: Machines and Humans Confused
•Your choice: small, medium, large, x-large sizes
•Shipping included in the price
•Limited to only 60 copies… once they’re gone, they’re gone!

You can also preview and buy Aspects Of Theories And Reality as a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD at the Artoffact Store. You will be emailed a download link within 24 hours. Go here.

Buy the Aspects of Theories & Reality limited edition (signed CD, exclusive button, double-sided t-shirt). Stocks are limited!

Excellent news! We have two new releases scheduled for the Spring, both from new additions to the Artoffact roster.

Prospero
Canadian mastermind and all-around nice-guy Wade Anderson AKA Prospero hits with his latest album Folie à Deux, a superb release that will feature contributions and collaborations with Ayria, Terrorfakt, and Battery Cage, plus a super cool cover of the Malhavoc classic “Discipline.” Of course, more news, tracklisting, sample mp3s, pre-order information, all that good stuff soon!

Visit Prospero online (he’s posted his remixes of Delerium, NIN, and Wumpscut there!).

Standeg
Already appearing on several compilations including two volumes of Dependent’s Septic series (IV and VII), and the much anticipated Kinetik Compilation, Standeg is Björn and Sven Jünemann, founding members of Haujobb. The two create cerebral compisitions that will leave you in awe, and their debut for Artoffact, Ultra High Tech Violet, is stunning. The album will feature 12 tracks, including an excellent re-working of Haujobb’s “Homes & Gardens,” a track which Björn and Sven helped write. The pair have been busy remixing tracks for their upcoming digital EP this Spring, tracks from which will be available soon.

Listen to Standeg on MySpace!

I will have information about our Individual Totem re-releases next week. Until then, enjoy the spring air!

Folks, we have added Synnack (featuring Clint Sand of Cut.Rate.Box and Mono Chrome!) to the second disc of the Kinetik Compilation. Tracklisting for disc 2 is below!

Disc 2

Phase 3 // Industrial-Noise-IDM
1. Feindflug - Einmarsch
2. This Morn’ Omina - Ma/I/Nomai (ccf)
3. Sonar - Up The Wall
4. Xotox - Ewig (Kinetik Mix)
5. Mono No Aware - ta’amulâ
6. Empusae - MasterSlave
7. Terrorfakt - The Fine Art Of Killing Yourself (The Operative Mix)
8. Iszoloscope - In The Other Mind Of Us (Kinetik Cut)
9. Wraith (Mediums & Spiritualists Mix - Live in Leipzig)
10. Tonikom - Unsettling
11. Synnack - Systema Adroit (Kinetik Version) **NEW**
12. Sorehead - Untitled Night
13. PerfectionPlastic - K-Haus

Phase 4 // Techno-Hardcore

14. Lenny Dee - Breakya Head
15. Satronica feat. Betty Haze - Rise Up

Artoffact Bonus

16. Standeg - Homes And Gardens
17. Kobold – Torn

More information, tickets, artist bios, and more available at the Festival Kinetik website here: http://www.festival-kinetik.net
Or visit http://www.artoffact.com/releases.php to stream full tracks from this release.

Amazon.ca is also offering a bonus discount on the Kinetik Compilation! Go here and place your order!
 

Disc 1

Phase 1 // Electro
1. Ascii Disko - Voices (Edit)
2. The Horrorist - Now Destructor
3. DJ Mini - Chronicles

Phase 2 // Industrial-Harsh EBM
4. Funker Vogt - Snow Was Falling
5. Rabia Sorda - Breaking Through
6. Kiew - Graograman (Death Surrounds)
7. Noisuf-X – Tinnitus
8. Headscan - Tomorrow Square
9. Memmaker - Death Comes (Remixed by Autodafe)
10. Distorted Memory - Seven Voices Of Hate
11. Cenotype - Save Me (There Will be No Saving mix by ESA)

Artoffact Bonus
12. Run Level Zero – Deny Me
13. Blank - Sick And Dead
14. Massiv in Mensch feat. Mind.In.A.Box - Supermassive Gravity
15. Individual Totem - In Memorial (Gridlock Remix)
16. Colony 5 - Knives (Schallfaktor Remix)

Disc 2

Phase 3 // Industrial-Noise-IDM
1. Feindflug - Einmarsch
2. This Morn’ Omina - Ma/I/Nomai (ccf)
3. Sonar - Up The Wall
4. Xotox - Ewig (Kinetik Mix)
5. Mono No Aware - ta’amulâ
6. Empusae - MasterSlave
7. Terrorfakt - The Fine Art Of Killing Yourself (The Operative Mix)
8. Iszoloscope - In The Other Mind Of Us (Kinetik Cut)
9. Displacer - Wraith (Mediums & Spiritualists Mix - Live in Leipzig)
10. Tonikom - Unsettling
11. Sorehead - Untitled Night
12. PerfectionPlastic - K-Haus

Phase 4 // Techno-Hardcore
13. Lenny Dee - Breakya Head
14. Satronica feat. Betty Haze - Rise Up

Artoffact Bonus
15. Standeg - Homes And Gardens
16. Kobold – Torn

2 CDs for the price of 1!!
Buy the Kinetik Festival double-CD compilation here:

Artoffact Records, in collaboration with Storming the Base and Kinetik Productions present: KINETIK FESTIVAL VOLUME 1, a double-CD compilation showcasing the artists, producers, and DJs performing at the first Kinetik Festival in Montreal, Canada on may 15th, 16th, and 17th, 2008.

Complementing the festival’s four-stage concept, the Kinetik Festival compilation is divided into four sections:

Phase 1 // Electro

Devoted to electro sounds, Phase 1 gives us DJ Mini’s infectious beats, an exclusive cut from electro-clasher Ascii.Disko, and the always in-your-face The Horrorist.

Phase 2 // Industrial-Harsh EBM

The second Phase is devoted to industrial and harsh EBM, including contributions from well-known artists such as Funker Vogt, Kiew, and Rabia Sorda as well as exclusive tracks from Headscan, Memmaker, Distorted Memory, and Cenotype.

Phase 3 // Industrial-Noise-IDM

More experimental and demanding, the third Phase is an exposé of avant-garde and conceptual music, starting from ground-breaking artists such as Feindflug, This Morn’ Omina, and Sonar, and including newer artists who are bending the rules and making waves in the scene. We have contributions from Terrorfakt, Empusae, Mono No Aware, Tonikom, and more. There are also exclusive tracks from Xotox, Iszloscope, and Displacer, making this the perfect collector’s item!

Phase 4 // Techno-Hardcore

Rounding out this collection is Phase 4, a nod to the influence of techno and hardcore on the electronic music world with contributions from Lenny Dee and Satronica. Both tracks are essential and speak not only to the vision of the Kinetik Festival’s organizers, but to the variety of music available on this collection.

Artoffact Bonus

Both CDs also feature exclusive bonus tracks from artists on the Artoffact Records label. You will hear new material from Run Level Zero, Colony 5, Blank, and Individual Totem, as well as previews of upcoming releases from Massiv in Mensch (featuring Mind.In.A.Box), ex-Haujobb member Standeg, and Canadian-American artist Kobold.

The Kinetik festival wants to be a reflection of electronic music and its evolution during the last 25 years. Artoffact Records gives you a piece of that magic to take home. Released April 29th, 2008.

More information, tickets, artist bios, and more available at the Festival Kinetik website here.

Both COLONY 5 and BLANK are now shipping! Use the Paypal buttons below to order the new Colony 5 CD Buried Again, and go over to our Releases page to order the Blank CD and Digital Download.

Next up will be the superduper double CD compilation celebrating and showcasing the amazing artists performing at this year’s Kinetik Festival in Montreal, Canada. More information about the festival is here.

Stay tuned soon for more details regarding this amazing collector’s item compilation!

As well, we are happy to announce that Artoffact will be re-releasing the entire Individual Totem back catalogue as special download-only editions this Spring. More details about those soon! Enjoy the warmer weather…

Buy Buried Again CD here:

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Blank is back! God, we cannot stop listening to Impact Zone! They have really outdone themselves on this release! Kudos to Blank!

1. Nuclear
2. Persistence
3. Lead Me
4. Hellbound
5. Beneath
6. Sick And Dead
7. Surviving
8. Counterfeit
9. Unspoken
10. Puressence

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You are now in the Impact Zone. Move.

The Italian EBM duo Blank is back, and this new stuff is killer. So killer, in fact, that we are giving away Sick And Dead, one of the many adrenaline pumping songs you will find on Impact Zone, their second album. This album is one of those giant shots in the air, and the near four-year wait between this and their last album has been definitely made worthwhile. The immense intensity of Impact Zone speaks for itself. Tracks like Persistence with its crazy synthy hook, Counterfeit with its tight melodies and infectious rhythm, or Puressence with new and exciting vocal styles — every song is priceless.

What has Blank been doing since 2004? Perfecting their craft. For sure. A few shows were played, sure they remixed Unter Null, DavaNtage, XP8, Neikka RPM, and others. They appeared on several compilations worldwide and garnered excellent reviews, a large fan-base, and solid club-play. Mostly, perfecting their craft. It’s not good enough that you bust your body on the dancefloor or sweat till you’ve soaked your shirt through. It’s just not good enough.

MORE BODY, MORE SWEAT. It is after all the Impact Zone.

This outrageously good album is available on Artoffact Records on March 4th, 2008.

Download “Sick And Dead” for free right here.

Cabaret is back with a great new digital-only EP. You can hear tracks on our releases page and order below.

1. Rain On My Skin (Original Single Mix)
2. Rain On My Skin (The Art Of Rain Is A Fact Mix)
3. Rain On My Skin (Dancing In The Rain Mix)
4. Rain On My Skin (UneXpected Dance Mix)
5. My Dark Digital Lullaby

Buy Rain On My Skin Digital Download here:

Since 2005’s release of Cabaret’s brilliant Homophobia album, the band has been touring Poland and playing both acoustic and electronic shows, supporting the likes of Alphaville, meeting fans and making friends. 2008 marks the return of Cabaret as they enter the studio to record what will no doubt be a brilliant second album. We cannot wait!

Rain On My Skin marks the culmination of the Homophobia era for Cabaret, a sending off if you will. The digital-only EP features four mixes of Rain On My Skin, including the band’s own tribute to their loveable label on The Art Of Rain Is A Fact mix. The single ends with My Digital Dark Lullaby, a thick and dense electronic track reminiscent of Tangerine Dream.

Rain On My Skin is released February 12th, 2008, worldwide on Artoffact Records. You can hear more clips and talk to the band on their Myspace here: Cabaret Myspace.

New Colony 5 album now pre-ordering on Artoffact Records! Check out full-length streamable tracks on our releases page!

1. Ghost
2. Knives
3. Imaginary Girl
4. Absolute Religion
5. End Of Desperation
6. Fanatic
7. Heart Attack
8. Closure
9. Too Young
10. Commitment
11. Get Off My Back
12. Therell Be A Time
13. Pills

Buy Buried Again CD here:

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Since 2002, Colony 5 has been somewhat of a star on the synthpop and electro-dance scenes in Europe and America, consistently releasing excellent singles and building their reputation for accessible lyrics about love, the world, and our place in it. After releasing the highly acclaimed Fixed album on Storming the Base in 2005, Colony 5 return to North America on Artoffact Records with their brilliant, punchy, and enjoyable tour de force on Buried Again.

While Knives, the single released by Artoffact in December, clearly showed a harder and stompier side to a band once hailed as futurepop, Colony 5 show that they are no one-trick pony. The album is really varied, highly original, and perfectly memorable. We open with a fast march on “Ghost” which instantly breaks open into a hard dancebeat and eerie synthline. The effect is less futurepop and more a unique blend of several prominent styles which have captured the industrial-goth scenes in the new millenium. Piano walks in, and we hear a touch of gothic, a bit of Deine Lakaien and Project Pitchfork. EBM beats pick us up, throw us around, and remind us that Hocico is here, too, especially on tracks like “Heart Attack” and “Knives”. But tracks like “Absolute Religion” or “Too Young” show the softer more melodic and emotional side of Colony 5. The variety is refreshing.

Buried Again is released on Artoffact Records and available March 11th, 2008. Pre-orders will be mailed in late February. The digital download version will be available one week early on March 4th!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Listen to Incision, track 5! It’s got that Numb vocal-backfeed thing. This is a GREAT album. MP3s are up on the Releases page.

1. Black Cinder
2. Deny Me
3. Hitting Ground
4. Stroke
5. Incision
6. With One Voice
7. Shine
8. Hand To Mouth
9. Hey Mister
10. Lies Told
11. Plaything
12. The End of the Whorl

Buy Arctic Noise CD here (ships out immediately!):

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Four years after their superb Walk The Psycho[Path] release, Run Level Zero returns with Arctic Noise, their first release for Artoffact Records, and the release guaranteed to cement their status as one of Europe’s best industrial artists. This CD features hit after hit, introspective and angst-filled industrial influenced by some of the genre’s pioneers and swirled into a gyre that is new and exciting, fun and essential. The album opens with the raging and Frontline Assembly-esque “Black Cinder,” a track sure to convince those who think industrial is dead. Other notables include “Hitting Ground,” “Incision,” and “Hey Mister,” all of which encapsulate the essence of classics like Numb or Skinny Puppy, but surely what we have here goes further and stands on its own.

Since their debut Run Level Zero has been an active band on the electronic music scene, appearing on a number of compilations and remixing artists such as Pzychobitch, Punto Omega, Clan of Xymox, and Psyche. The band has toured Europe twice (supporting VNV Nation in 2001 and Assemblage 23 in 2005) and recently toured the United States in 2006.

This is one of the best industrial releases to come out in years. It took Run Level Zero as long to write and record Arctic Noise as it took them to release their first four CDs–and the result is clearly worth the wait. And, with comparisons to Canada’s own trio of industrial pioneers, it’s kinda cool to find them on a Canadian label! Arctic Noise is released on Artoffact Records and comes out January 15th, 2008, but if you order your copy today, we will ship it today! Get it early!

New Colony 5 single Knives is out today! Get the digital download or CD below! Check out Colony 5’s newly designed MySpace page here!

1. Knives
2. Knives (Schallfaktor Remix)
3. Avalanches
4. Knives (Club Mix)
5. Knives (Syrian Remix)

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Following their latest release, Fixed, Colony 5 return with a teaser of what is to come in 2008 with Knives. Featuring three remixes (courtesy of Schallfaktor, Syrian and Herzschlag), together with the exclusive bonus track “Avalanches,” Knives is a clear progression from Colony 5’s work on their last release. Knives moves into more challenging territory with distorted vocals, driving basslines, and catchy synths.

Schallfaktor gives the track an EBM edge, mixing driving dancebeats with Colony 5’s unmistakable vocals. The club mix strips the song to a bare driving beat mixed with perfect production, making this the perfect club track to dance away the winter blahs. Syrian creates a trance epic from the track, adding their signature style but without losing Colony 5’s spark.

Knives is a preview of Colony 5’s upcoming release Buried Again, available in 2008 on Artoffact Records. Knives is released December 11th, 2007 on CD and as a digital download.

I cannot believe it’s here!!!! Mothfly, all eleven amazing tracks, and 10 years after their last album, and wicked wicked wicked! Individual Totem at their best! What a wicked release.

And… for some of you who asked, the WWW EP does exist in physical promo-only format, but we have bundled some of the first copies of Mothfly with these. Some lucky IT maniacs will have a 2CD version. But act fast, it’s limited!

Disc 1 - Mothfly

1. WWW
2. Redeemer
3. The Ugly Game
4. Surrender
5. Panic
6. In Memorial
7. Reflexion
8. Elobeat
9. Mothfly
10. Totalausfall
11. Breakdown

Disc 2 - WWW - limited, only a few copies

1. WWW
2. WWW (Club)
3. WWW (Overflow)
4. WWW (Turf Olymp Remix)
5. In Memorial
6. In Memorial (Gridlock Remix)
7. Reflexion
8. Reflexion (Flesh Field Remix)
9. Gandij
10. Mumia Vera
11. The Actor

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From the opening synths and distortions of the opening track, Individual Totem’s new album Mothfly announces itself as crucial, difficult, cerebral, and… industrial. What do you do with a new single whose dance beat comes in at the 2-minute mark? If you’re a label, you run away. If you really like industrial music, on the other hand, you recognize Mothfly for what it is: an industrial album which contorts and convinces, pulls you apart but creates an organic whole. The synths are simply great, the atmosphere is dark and elusive, the band asks more questions than they answer. Mothfly is often downtempo but equally it rages. It rages in dark places, alone, with vocals unable to scream, though screaming. It’s a wonderful statement of psycho-analytic repression. The father lost in the son, or murdered, who can tell? From the opening and infectious WWW to the interesting and introspective In Memorial, to the Skinny Puppy-influenced The Ugly Game, Mothfly is quintessential industrial music.

Comprising two electronic music pioneers, Bernd Madl and Mathias Knopp, Individual Totem began making music in the early 90s and released their home-made album, Aspects Of Theories And Reality in 1994. Following this, the band was signed to Off Beat in Europe and Pendragon in the United States and released two now-classic CDs: S.E.T.I. in 1996 and Mind Sculptures Flesh in 1997. Following a long hiatus and a comeback that never materialized, Individual Totem eventually released the WWW EP digitally on Artoffact Records in late 2007.

We are happy to bring the first Individual Totem studio album in 10 years to industrial purists and electronic music fans across the globe. We are able to make available a limited number of WWW EPs with the first orders of Mothfly. These are highly limited, so if you want one, order fast!

It’s been three years since Run Level Zero’s smashing and intoxicating Walk The Psycho[Path] cemented the band’s stance as one of the best modern EBM bands. The new Run Level Zero, Arctic Noise, will be out in January 2008, and we have an awesome teaser EP available NOW featuring new tracks and remixes. Containing four tracks, the Shattered Silence EP shows the progress the band has made as producers and song-writers with new tracks like the infectious “Hitting Ground” or the solemn “Stroke”. There’s also a remix of fan-favourite “Headless” and a version of “Hand To Mouth” to round the EP out, and make these tracks available for the first time in North America!

1. Hitting Ground
2. Headless (Led Manville Club Mix)
3. Hand to Mouth (Project Grudge Remix)
4. Stroke

Go to our releases page to hear full songs!
Click here to buy a digital version directly from us! You will receive an email with download instructions.

The story so far:
AOF040 - Das Weeth Experience - The Accentric Sounds Of… CD
AOF043 - Beautiful Leopard - How Long Will It Take? - CD
AOF045 - Urceus Exit - Photographic - DD
AOF046 - Alice In Videoland - Maiden Voyage Plus - CD
AOF047 - Blank - Hellbound - DD

The home stretch:
AOF044 - Missouri - Run With The People, Hunt With The Hares - CD - OUT DECEMBER 4TH!
AOF048 - Individual Totem - Mothfly - CD - OUT DECEMBER 11TH!
AOF049 - Individual Totem - WWW - OUT NOVEMBER 20TH!
AOF052 - Run Level Zero - Shattered Silence - OUT NOW!

The 2008 line-up:
AOF050 - Run Level Zero - Arctic Noise - CD
AOF051 - Blank - Impact Zone - CD

The year started kinda rocky and ended a bit rocky but also had to get some awesome EBM in there. The new Individual Totem is currently blowing my mind, and the new Run Level Zero is such an incredible blend of Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, and Numb, that it’s amazing these guys aren’t from Canada. The Missouri is great, simply and amazingly great. It’s a dance record and a rock record and a blues record, it’s my honour to release it. More news soon, it’s always that way…

Rumour mill?

The best and most experimental industrial-electronica of the nineties came from the hands and brains of a select group of artists, including of course Haujobb, Numb, Gridlock, Wumpscut. But few artists had the huge effect from just two releases that Individual Totem did in 1995 and 1997. 10 years later, and after a rumour mill that never seemed to stop, Individual Totem will release their WWW EP digitally and their new full CD Mothfly on Artoffact.

The WWW EP is a one-hour long industrial fan’s dream. The lead-off track–the “we’re back” opus of the year–arrives in four remixed versions: the album cut, the Club version, Overflow, and the Turf Olymp Remix. Add to this two sensational remixes by industrial gods Flesh Field and IDM masters Gridlock, and you have a the making for a real classic.

What’s more, WWW features three new non-album tracks: Gandij, Mumia Vera, and The Actor! Available as a digital download from November 20th!

The addicted reader just got hold of the fourth MISSOURI-Album and should therefore stop reading right now and start listening to the record instead - without being preoccupied. And this for various good reasons:

First
The author will - very likely - twist his or her tongue while trying to come up with a label for the music on Run With The People And Hunt With The Hare. Consequently, she or he would be well advised to receive her or his own impressions, not influenced by somebody elses’ associations.

Second
There is not much to say about that album. And the album itself doesn`t want to say anything. Just to make the reader start dancing. To shut up and move. To let loose in a stylish way. There is no hidden message, nothing between the lines. The first four words of the opener “Bloodflow” show the way: “It`s All About Style”. So close your eyes and do some serious booty shaking!

On Run With The People And Hunt With The Hare MISSOURI finally freed themselves. Call it whatever you like - electro-soul, deep-down-and-dirty R&B or casio-funk&blues - but there is nothing you could compare it with. And definitely not many have as much style and grace.

“What goes up must come down” Red sings in “Up And Down” to a beat that is pushing softly and a funky guitar lick. The coolness in the songs comes from the coolness within. The loser at the bar starts lingering to the dancefloor, the drink still in his hands, without looking back. It`s Michael Caine as Marvin Gaye. It`s discomusic for existentialists. It pushes forward and goes deep inside. What the writer wanted to say is: the new MISSOURI-Album is the hottest shit.

Third
Record release promotion texts should be read with care. The mature listener needs nobody to take him by the hand.

Check out this great interview from yours truly, 10 years later and still burning shit up. Thanks to Connexion Bizarre!

In other news, we’re happy to announce three new signings to our lovely label roster. After about one year of flipping on Missouri’s album Run with The People And Hunt With The Hare, we’ve secured the license to release this incredible piece of work in America. Good thing, too, I mean they’re called Missouri after all. But regardless, Missouri’s brand of electronic-funk-rock will be released in November on Artoffact.

Deux: Following several great releases on both sides of the Atlantic, Swedish industrial group Run Level Zero has found a home on Artoffact. This Fall, we’ll bring you their excellent digital-only EP Shattered Silence, and, shortly after, their new album Arctic Noise. The new material is insanely good, so keep your ears open!

Third: Individual Totem. The best and most experimental industrial-electronica of the nineties came from the hands and brains of a select group of artists, including of course Haujobb, Numb, Gridlock, Wumpscut. But few artists had the huge effect from just two releases that Individual Totem did in 1995 and 1997. 10 years later, and after a rumour mill that never seemed to stop, Individual Totem will release their WWW EP digitally and their new full CD Mothfly on Artoffact.

Tons of info to get up folks, so keep watching the site. We have some artist profiles updated and songfiles will be up next.

You can already pre-order the Missouri CD here:

Beautiful Leopard has eight fun and fried wallpapers up ready to grace the screen of your favourite Windows installation. Some of these really make me wonder about the Swiss sensibility. Where is it going? Evil cats? Voodoo dolls and Switzerland… doesn’t really ring a bell. Anyhow, there they are, download, install, and enjoy!

Download 8 different Beautiful Leopard wallpapers here!

You can buy the Beautiful Leopard CD via our Paypal account:

We are BUSY cats here! I have never been so busy!! So: if you’re not getting replies to emails, you know why: we’re actually eating CLOUDBERRIES.

New for this Fall, if all goes well: Blank, Cabaret, Individual Totem, Run Level Zero, Missouri. Beautiful Leopard arrived last week and it looks amazing.

The era of Beautiful Leopard has arrived! We’re HYPED to release this great debut album from one of Switzerland’s true talents. Go to our releases page to hear the tracks!

Beautiful Leopard lands somewhere in the realm of traditional post rock and slow country, a place which reminds us of Mercury Rev, Guided By Voices, even at times of Johnny Cash singing for Do Make Say Think. There’s a bit of Pavement in there, a bit of Stars, too. Psychedelic organ contrasts with a lonely, melancholic voice, only to be patiently put to bed with a crying guitar. Guest appearances of cello, trombone and accordion contribute to a fully rounded album that never disappoints.

Dust-dry desert country and good times!

Cabaret has announced several more dates for this Fall in Poland and Germany:

07.09.07 19:30 Łódź (Alphaville) Manufaktura Venue
13.09.07 22:00 Warszawa Saturator Music Club
20.09.07 21:00 Warszawa Klub 55 Music Club
18.10.07 21:00 Gdynia t. b. a.
25.10.07 21:00 Poczdam t.b.a.
26.10.07 21:00 Berlin (West) Polish Institute Berlin
20.11.07 21:00 Gdańsk Negatyw Music Club

A new YouTube page has also sprung up featuring three Cabaret videos, two new versions of Rain On My skin, and the video for Electric Chair Song.

Go here: http://www.youtube.com/cabaretband

The new Alice in Videoland album Maiden Voyage Plus is out today!! Maiden Voyage Plus features five (!!) bonus tracks, including remixes and b-sides from now out-of-print singles. The release features all new cover art, as well as several of Alice In Videoland’s greatest hits including the incomparable “Got To Go,” the excellent lead-off track “Lay Me Down,” and the unbelievably lustful “Going Down.”

Listen to four tracks from Maiden Voyage Plus @ Myspace

Buy the CD at Storming the Base or the Artoffact Store!

Buy the digital download at
iTunes or Emusic!

Review from SMOTHER.net : This re-issue of the irresistible ’03 debut of Alice in Videoland features five additional bonus tracks of remixes and b-sides of out-of-print singles. Powerful dance-pop and synth-punk that is fully urbanized and ready for blowing up a dance club near you. Alice in Videoland is exclusive, sleek, and totally hip. Sexy electro sleaze that makes Gwen Stefani blush.

Great review of Steril’s Realism from the kind folks at Gothic Beauty!

For the EBM submissions this issue, this one really took the cake. With vocal work reminiscent of Mike Patton backed by music resembling VNV nation, we are left with an eclectic but instantly appealing combination. This album is furious and browbeating with generous guitar contributions rounding out the thick EBM synth background. The track “Radioactive Man,” sitting almost dead center in the middle of this album, is easily the most accessible track on the release and perfect for your speaker-cabinet-popping evenings at your local club. This album is certainly worth checking out. - Poseidon / Gothic Beauty / July 2007

Go Steril!

Four new blank tracks are now available on iTunes, Emusic, Napster and at several other destinations. Download at the Starbucks music store if you’re into that sort of thing. We are currently mastering the new full-length album Impact Zone and will have a release date shortly.

Buy on iTunes now!