Get ready, New York: the maiden launch of Flesh & Steel (a multi-date/multi-venue symposium of coldwave, darkwave, industrial, and EBM) is descending upon Gotham in early December.

With consecutive nights at Saint Vitus, Knockdown Center, the Meadows, and Good Room, FLESH & STEEL is poised to be the electronic/post-punk destination for the Eastern Seaboard—and beyond.

The first night finds electronic artists RIKI and ORTROTASCE headlining the Saint Vitus stage with support from the propulsive CES CADAVERES and UN HOMBRE SOLO, as well as a DJ set from David Castillo in CONFINES mode.

The next night, the widely acclaimed BOY HARSHER will conjure their dark trippiness all over Knockdown Center, alongside Belgian EBM legends A SPLIT-SECOND, propulsive dance engine SOFT CRASH, and Belgian post-punk/EBM pioneers PARADE GROUND, with DJ sets from Harriman and KONTRAVOID.

Flesh & Steel’s final night culminates with two presentations manifesting as the best living electronic mixtape you’ve heard in a while. An early program at The Meadows featuring bona fide Canadian goth-pop legends PSYCHE, LA’s SACRED SKIN, the robotic and romantic RARE DM, and strident post-punks LATHE OF HEAVEN. Later that evening, Good Room will host a night of DJ sets of mutant disco and techno from BOY HARSHER’s GUS MULLER, PHASE FATALE, Berlin-based genre-defier PABLO BOZZI, and an undercard of futurists including SHARLESE, MAYLAND, R. GAMBLE, and BECKA DIAMOND.

Flesh & Steel is the collective brainchild of Restless Presents, a cabal of LA-based promoters, St Vitus owner David Castillo, and NYC DJ/journalist/Andi Harriman of the popular NYC darkwave event/record label SYNTHICIDE.

Flesh & Steel celebrates humanity, machinery, and new ways of thinking about all things electronic and invigorating. Castillo, Harriman, and Restless Nites’ Brian Tarney have impeccable reputations for developing exciting events while simultaneously creating community. When so many music festivals seem completely moribund, being short on vision and long on favors owed and corporate logos on backdrops, Flesh & Steel aims to create and lift culture coming from the heart—not the wallet.

“The name ‘Flesh & Steel’ comes from the song by SPK from their 1985 album Machine Age Voodoo,” says Harriman, acknowledging the contribution of the respected British new-beat progenitors to the electronic music continuum. “The mid-’80s iteration of SPK with Machine Age Voodoo was a daring one—it mixed pop elements with industrial ones, blending their early anarchic noise and sampling with a song-based sensibility. So pulling the name from the sexy track, ‘Flesh And Steel,’ on that album seemed to fit well, as did the inspiration for the flyer imagery that reflects the band’s aesthetic at that time… brutal but intimate.”

“There is a bounty of that rare synergy of community and culture between Restless Presents, Saint Vitus, and SYNTHICIDE, whose visions align on opposite coasts,” notes Restless Presents’ Tarney.

Flesh & Steel promises to be one of the best events of the year! Don’t miss it!

Boy Harsher, A Split-Second, Psyche, and more give this community an international platform 
for three nights across three of Brooklyn’s finest venues SAINT VITUS, KNOCKDOWN CENTER, GOOD ROOM, and THE MEADOWS 
 
Tickets available at: fleshandsteel.com

FLESH & STEEL 

Dec. 1 – 3, Brooklyn, New YorkDec 1 pre-party event at Saint Vitus 

• RIKI
• Ortotasce
• Ces Cadavares
• Un Hombre Solo
• DJ sets from Confines (Saint Vitus owner David Castillo) and Mayland

Dec 2, Knockdown Center

• Boy Harsher
• A Split-Second
• Soft Crash
• Parade Ground
• Ms. Boan
• NGHTCRWLR
• ‘80s Baby
• DJ sets from Kontravoid and Andi Harriman

Dec 3, early event at The Meadows

• Psyche
• Sacred Skin
• Rare DM
• Lathe Of Heaven
• DJ sets from Disko Obscura and G•S•E•D

Dec. 3 late event at Good Room

Featuring DJ sets by

• Gus Muller (Boy Harsher)
  Phase Fatale
• Pablo Bozzi
• SHARLESE
• R Gamble
• Becka Diamond

Follow:

• Flesh and Steel
• Restless Nites 
• Saint Vitus 
• Synthicide 

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The homey bar, with its “living room flair,” is a cultural hub for the city, a gathering place for artists and home to misfits in Berlin.

“I ended up at Dream Baby Dream quite by chance, often the best way to find things. It’s a place with a genuine passion for music and a certain aesthetic that doesn’t contradict having an open mind for something different. This is not to be taken for granted these days, where people look for the quick road to “success” without giving much thought about what makes music important in the first place,” says Ason Teva, whose track Malmilian is featured on the record.

The album features a diverse array of performers garnering their support for the venue from all over the globe, including Zachery Allan Starkey/Bernard Sumner, Acid Couple, Phase Fatale, Front 313, Miles Brown, Soft Riot, Peter Kirn, and many more.

Front 313’s Alan Oldham weighed in on his contribution, and the importance of Dream Baby Dream to Berlin’s musical landscape: “Before the pandemic, you could play a techno set anywhere in Berlin. But what if you wanted to play a shoegaze/postpunk set? Or an old school, non-mixed industrial set? Not only is Dream Baby Dream a great space filled with all us expats and misfits, it is a needed venue for diversity of musical (and visual) expression, and it’s very important that it survives this current situation. I was glad to help, and would Again.”

Post-Punk.com joins forces with The Brvtalist, CDM, KEYI Magazine and Renee Ruin as media patrons for this project. Partnering labels include Sonic Groove, Instruments of Discipline, BITE, Liber Null, X-IMG, aufnahme + wiedergabe, Braid Records, Antibody, and PI Electronics.

Help preserve an important part of Berlin: the digital album is available for purchase and streaming here.

Here is the track list in full:

1. Funf Euro Bitte by Phase Fatale/Unhuman
2. Shadows by Fairground of Tears
3. Ornias by Halv Drøm
4. Blowout by Acid Couple
5. Force  by Zachery Allan Starkey feat. Bernard Sumner
6. Refactor (Instrumental) by Primary
7. CyborgEnabler by Peter Kirn
8. Total Control by Patrick DSP
9. World Condition by Sarin (MÆDON remix)
10.  Abhorred by Clarissa
11.  Isolate by FRONT 313
12.  Recon Mission by ADAM X (SARIN REMIX)
13. The Gateway by Miles Brown
14. A Spade Is Played Again by Soft Riot
15. Imagine If Your Hand Were A Drug by OPERANT
16. Everything Burns by Spit Mask
17. Exit To The Beat by CANDY
18. Blood Is Beauty by MÆDON
19. Dancing With Myself  by LIIneas (aka Eve Schwarz)
20.  L’Isle Tornoiant by RAUM
21. Fake Placebo by 3.14 feat. IN ATLAS
22. Malmilian by Ason Teva
23.  I Hope Your Dreams Come True by The Horrorist

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The new EP Nylon Speech is a genre-bending, complex, and confrontational collection of sounds calibrated for dark club dance collectivism that unified with hedonistic bass beats.

Unhuman, is the nom de guerre of Manos Simotas, an artist whose sonic palette is constantly diving headlong into new territory, evolving from his roots in post-punk to experimental and noise through electro-mutant-infused techno.

Now a global presence, utilizing Berlin as a home base, where he is the regular mainstay of major clubs locally, such as his own event, Liber Null Berlin,  Simotas now even holds a residency at Constant Value in Seoul, South Korea, and is a key figure in between the Asian and European underground electronic music scenes.

From Simotas’ lastest Nylon Speech listen to “Seuche”—a track featuring Berlin queer and Batcave scene mainstay Petra Flurr on vocals, altogether augmenting the past, present, and future of Unhuman music.

Tracklisting 12” / Digital:
Written and produced by Manos Simotas

• A1. Rapid Body Corruption
• A2. Abdominal Pain
• B1. Nylon Speech
• B2. Seuche ft. Petra Flurr

Order Here

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The current live line-up for the band,  in addition to Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy, includes original drummer percussionist David Gooday, who has not performed with the band since 1987,  and Simon Granger of the group Stark.

The concert will take place on December 13th, and will features back to back dj sets from Techno mainstay Marcel Dettmann, and Douglas McCarthy collaborator Terence Fixmer.

Tickets are available here

Ahead of the event, Fixmer is having a release party for his latest album Through The Cortex. The LP is the first full-length album on Ostgut Ton and his sixth solo LP overall.

Order the album here

The record is Out Friday, October 12, 2018, Fixmer will perform live at a special record release party in Berghain’s Säule on October 11th, including sets by Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy, Phase Fatale and Thomas P. Heckmann.

Watch an interview we did with Douglas McCarthy back in 2016, in support of the last Fixmer/McCarthy LP, where the Nitzer Ebb singer recounts a charming story about Fad Gadget and  the label Mute.

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Zurich’s Veil of Light pierce your heart with pulsing EBM and Post-Punk in their video for the anthemic dancefloor hit ‘Your Love’.

The song is off the duo’s  latest LP, Front Teeth, an album that saw a change in a musical direction that showcases more synthy EBM beats and colorful visuals, while excising their earlier shoegaze sounds.

Front Teeth has been one of the best releases of 2017, and is available on LP, CD and digital via Avant! Records

Order Here

Following a performance at WHITE CIRCLES 4th Anniversary party with Philipp Strobel of Aufnahme + Wiedergabe and Schwefelgelb—Veil of Light are set to perform at Avant! Records 10th Anniversary Party. Details Below:

Avant! Records 10 Years Anniversary

Bologna-based label Avant! Records is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary in a run that has seen over 50 releases.

This year the label shall be once again hosting a party at AtelierSi on Saturday December 2nd to celebrate this milestone with an impressing lineup that includes:

• Phase Fatale (US / DJ) The Berlin techno enfant prodige, debuted by Avant!in
  2014, just released his latest album on Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions and will bang your
  ears until the early morning.
• QUAL (UK / live) Lebanon Hanover’s bassist and vocalist William Maybelline’s solo project. Set aside the pop touch of his main band, Qual’ sound is pure raw EBM drawing influences from techno, dark-ambient, industrial.
• Veil Of Light (CH / live) The Zurich based band that just a few months ago released on
  Avant! their latest LP Front Teeth, a perfect balance of martial industrial and catchy synthwave.
• Holiday INN (IT / live) Roma-based duo showcasing synthetic schizoid  punk .

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Listen to Aria above—the first track on the B side of Tristi Di Rabbia—which is one of two contemporary remixes for the vinyl. In this case the track is reimagined through the mind of a rising star in the techno scene, Berlin’s Phase Fatale—who weaves rhythmic gloom into dancefloor-friendly vocal abstraction.

The artwork is for the release is curated by Silent Servant, utilizing a surreal interpretation of caged Orthodox icon taken at the National Museum of Art in Bucharest.

Tristi Di Rabbia is out July 17th.

See full tracklist below

DSORDNE – “TRISTI DI RABBIA” TRACKLIST

A1 TRISTI DI RABBIA

A2 LOVE IS MY EVERSION

A3 GUARDAMI

B1 ARIA (PHASE FATALE REMIX)

B2 RIMANI (UNHUMAN REMIX)

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“A new event concept which explores experimentations and diversity in electronic music.”

In the main room Surgeon will be performing live, along with Tommy Four Seven himself, Headless Horseman, who just had a fantastic new release on 47 [47009]:

Room 2 in particular will be of interest to Post-Punk fans, as Alessandro Adriani of Mannequin Records will be djing, as well as a different kind of set from Hayden Payne’s (Phase Fatale) other alter ego Sekunde, along with LGHTWGHT from the Fleisch collective.

Check out this mix from She Made Monster (who is also spinning in room 2) via The Brvtalist.

Located in the vaults of an old coin factory in central Berlin, a labyrinth of dark corridors, bare brick and concrete chambers will host three rooms, each equipped with a tailored Funktion-One system.

RM1> Surgeon (Live) | Demdike Stare (Live)
Tommy Four Seven | Headless Horseman | Killawatt

RM2> Alessandro Adriani | She Made Monster
Sekunde | LGHTWGHT

RM3> OAKE (DJ) | Lower Order Ethics
Video installation by Pfadfinderei

Alte Münze, Berlin – 28.04.17

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More info on the Anniversary Party Here

Also, today on aufnahme + wiedergabe—two noteworthy EP releases are out:

Schwefelgelb | Dahinter das Gesicht

Veil of Light | Ursprung Remix

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This edition December 1st is (as always) hosted by REKA, but also features the amazing Silent Servant—(who you can watch above performing with Phase Fatale at the 2016 Berlin Atonal). Also on the lineup is Violet Poison, and Fleisch’s LGHTWGHT.

Expect Dark Wave, New Wave, EBM, Industrial, Post Punk, Synth, Electro, Acid, Experimental and more!

RSVP HERE on FACEBOOK or on RESIDENT ADVISOR 

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Listen to Phase Fatale’s Under Marble, a pounding and percussive EBM/Techno bio-mechanical banger—heavy on the bassynth, highhat, kinetic drumbeats, and a synth chorus only appropriate for church on Sunday.

Track Listing

1. Headless Horseman -At The Gates
2. Phase Fatale – Under Marble
3. Stephanie Sykes – Sakura
4. Tommy Four Seven – Bactria 

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