Maps – A.M.A. (2013)

A.M.A. is the first single from the new Maps album Vicissitude.

Pre-order Vicissitude now and receive a digital copy of ‘I Heard Them Say’ immediately and receive 9 bonus MP3s & audio parts upon release to create your own Maps remixes.

Signed pre-order edition - bit.ly/112Ki5M

Standard CD - smarturl.it/vicissitudecd
Vinyl - smarturl.it/vicissitudelp
iTunes - smarturl.it/vicissitudeitunes

The new Maps album, ‘Vicissitude’, is out on 8 July (9 July US)

www.thisismaps.com




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Junip – Your Life, Your Call (2013)

“Your Life, Your Call”, from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.







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She’s over you
Boy you know it’s true
But you can’t stay here
You had it coming for years

Pull yourself together
And draw the line
Pull yourself together
Can’t stand to see you crying

It’s your life, your call
Stand up or enjoy your fall

It’s over now
You’ve been taking your time
But you can’t stay here
Boy dry up your tears

No point in looking back
Over your shoulder
Leave your worries behind
For a while
You’ll forget everything
As you get older

Cyclopean – Fingers (2013)

Cyclopean is a collaboration from Burnt Friedman, Jono Podmore and Can founding members Jaki Liebezeit, and Irmin Schmidt.

The four track EP will be available on 12″ Vinyl & Download on 11 Feb 2013.

Available to order from these stores:

Amazon download: http://bit.ly/CyclopDL
Mute Can store: http://alturl.com/fayqj
Boomkat download: http://alturl.com/r3tay
Boomkat 12″: http://alturl.com/brczs
MuteBank: http://alturl.com/xy8ma

After the release of The Lost Tapes, Can’s legacy has never felt more apparent than now, and Cyclopean brings together two giants from this legendary band, Jaki Liebezeit and Irmin Schmidt alongside long time collaborators Jono Podmore (Kumo / Metamono) and musician and producer Burnt Friedman.

The title provides a metaphor for the music: Cyclopean forms are beautiful, massive and intriguing structures that interlock, intersect and connect seemingly contradictory components. Heavy, yet light, powerful, subtle, intriguing and playful. There’s also a flavour of the ancient in this music – an artefact from a sophisticated pre-culture perhaps. Extraordinary instrumentation – rubber band guitar, theremin, prepared piano – is unified through the monumental and unique drum patterns, as the characters of the four players are at once individually unmistakably and irrevocably intertwined.

The four members of Cyclopean have worked together previously: Friedman and Liebezeit’s Secret Rhythms IV was released in 2011 on Friedman´s label Nonplace and is the most recent of their releases together which began in 2002; Podmore and Schmidt’s collaborations have included two albums released as Schmidt & Kumo as well as more recent work on The Lost Tapes and Podmore has also worked with Liebezeit in the past.

Cyclopean is the first time that Friedman, Liebezeit, Podmore and Schmidt have worked together.





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Polly Scattergood – Wanderlust (2013)

Following the unfortunately named but captivating “Disco Damaged Kid,” posted to YouTube in November, “Wanderlust” is the first proper single from Polly Scattergood’s sophomore album, Arrows, out in June via Mute. The song starts with something like the sound of a UFO landing, then launches into a full-on electro ballad, a fittingly tough-sounding techno-vehicle to carry Polly Scattergood’s wispy phantom of a voice. The instrumentation is more conventionally pop than her 2009 debut, and it suits her well. The “Wanderlust” single will feature two exciting remixes, by Charli XCX and How to Dress Well. [Source]










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Depeche Mode – Heaven (2013)

UPDATE! Here are the promo only Freemasons mixes:









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Exclusive Kernfusion Remix:



*** BREAKING NEWS: Watch the brand new music video on REALVJ.COM here!! ***

“I want people to feel good about listening to this record, to get some kind of peace. It’s just got something magical about it.” – Martin L. Gore

















Heaven [official web site] is Depeche Mode’s 50th UK single, and the first taken from their thirteenth studio album Delta Machine. Listen to the single on the official Depeche Mode Vimeo channel via the radio station KROQ here. Listen to a podcast of a KROQ radio show with Dave Gahan as guest here.

The tracklisting for the “Heaven” CD single is as follows:

“Heaven” CD SINGLE:
1 – Heaven
2 – All That’s Mine (b side bonus track)

“Heaven” CD MAXI:
1 – Heaven
2 – Heaven (Owlle Remix)
3 – Heaven (steps to heaven rmx)
4 – Heaven (Blawan Remix)
5 – Heaven (Mathew Dear vs Audion Remix)

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Press clips:

Fun fact:

Note the Mute logo on the Columbia Records/Sony Music release.

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Lyrics:

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Martin Gore – Compulsion (1989)

Compulsion is a cover version of a Joe Crow (from The Nightingales) song. Counterfeit e.p. is the first solo recording by Martin L. Gore, the primary songwriter for the band Depeche Mode. Released in 1989, Counterfeit is a six-song E.P. of cover songs, hence the name, implying that the songs were not written by Gore. Counterfeit was recorded during a band hiatus after recording and touring for the album Music for the Masses; bandmate Alan Wilder also recorded and released Hydrology under the pseudonym Recoil during this period. Even though the release is strictly an EP, Mute issued it an album catalogue number (STUMM67) upon release. In France and Germany a promo single for “In a Manner of Speaking” was released.







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[Inspired by Bryan Black]