This compilation is very important for the many Ukrainian artists on Worn Pop’s roster, who cannot play live, or for that matter, live normal lives due to ongoing bombings and more.

From the very beginning, Worn Pop has established itself as one of Kyiv’s premiere post-punk institutions, booking artists such as Boy Harsher, Lebanon Hanover, and The Soft Moon, while at the same time promoting new Ukrainian acts. The label joined the party scene by launching Black! Factory Festival together with Closer Club and since then has expanded to promoting regular club nights at Closer and other venues featuring dark and obscure dance music, inviting international artists such as La Mverte, Kris Baha, Curses, and more from related music genres. 

All the artists on this compilation have shaped the character of Worn Pop by playing at their events. Now they have collaborated on the very first release in a series that contains ten tracks exclusively produced by them and thoughtfully folded into a single narrative, which can be listened to from the beginning to the end as a cohesive album. The album is a dynamic melange of moods and atmospheres that flow and contrast with each other, from spacious and desolate post-industrial, shimmering darkwave, mesmerizing disco synth, and throbbing EBM, 

Among the International names featured, there are Ukrainian acts coming, such as Geuxx, Hungry Boys, Ship Her Son, and Aircraft. Their tracks here are written during the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine, which still goes on.

The album starts with the dark and ominous post-industrial of Guexx’s “Forever Human,” which gives way to the buoyant and languid synth funk of Tronik Youth’s ‘Terrain Vague.”

Next is Hungry Boys’ “Spiv,” a groovy bass-driven journey followed by a brilliant cinematic darkwave instrumental “Vysota” by Curses.

The album’s midpoint features the caustic and metallic industrial EBM of Sarin’s “Hexogen,” which leads into the marching electronic beats of “Das Ist Anders” by Ship Her Son.

La Mverte shifts the mood with the mesmerizing percussion, bass, and stretched-out vocal refrain of “Nothing is Ever Forgotten.”

Kris Baha contributes the rhythmic mechanical synth grind of “Kalt,” which segues perfectly into the warbly disco electronics of “Control.”

The compilation closes with the ethereal synth disco of Aircraft’s “Look Around,” which feels like a cyber-infused reverie evoking some of the florid dreamscapes of Portishead.

Listen to the compilation below:

РУХ 01 is out now. Order the album here via Bandcamp.

And listen to it here on Soundcloud and Spotify.

Worn Pop will be taking four artists from its roster on tour for showcases in support of the compilation.

See the dates below, plus artist bios.

Tour dates of the showcases:

• 05.08.2022 Berlin, Urban Spree
• 11.08.2022 Warsaw, Jasna 1
• 13.08.2022 Krakow, Elementarz dla Mieszkancow Miast
• 17.08.2022 Copenhagen, Stoberiet
• 18.08.2022 Kalabalik Pa Tyrolen, Alvesta, Sweden

GEUXX – a project by Pavlo Dmytriiev from Kyiv, Ukraine, representing dark-gaze on the edge of post-punk with psychedelic accents. Starting in 2015, releasing a droning-sound debut EP “YTY” filled with guitar noise and slow drum machine, followed with “II“ (the second one) next year, adding vocals and changing the direction to dark-rhythm shoegaze. GUEXX has performed at Kalabalik Pa Tyrolen and Kyiv’s Black! Factory in 2018 and joined Tallin Music Week’s lineup in 2019. In 2022, following a break, they contributed to Worn Pop’s compilation РУХ with the opening track called “Forever Human”, where they use a speech of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko – the member of Sixtiers (poets of opposition to soviet state order in 60’s Ukraine). Their new album will be out in Spring 2023.

Listen on Soundcloud

Watch “If” live at Tallin Music Week 2019

Aircraft – The project began as an experimental one-man band with a guitar and drum machine but eventually grew into something conscious, more electronic, and more than just a side project. The bulk of their work is rather eclectic, combining different elements from different eras, but the main focus is synth-pop, with notes of shoegaze and dream pop.

Listen on Spotify

HUNGRY BOYS  is a Kyiv-based duo founded by members of Ukrainian post-punk band Gil’otina, who headed their direction to more danceable and funky music featuring italo wave, new beat, and obscure disco with sharp beats, kinky basslines, and minimalistic vocals. They have stated their style as melancholic fun since their first single, “Glorydisco” came out and quickly followed that with their first EP Batumi Club in 2021, with La Mverte remix featured with the release. The same year they played at Kyiv’s Black! Factory festival, and are now preparing a new EP for the fall of 2022.

Listen on Spotify and on Soundcloud

SHIP HER SON is a Ukrainian EBM / industrial act formed in Lviv in 2020 by Anton Shiferson. This combines ironic German speech and a cold mixture of EBM, darkwave, electro-industrial, and techno heavily influenced by bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Laibach, Wumpscut, etc. Lyrical themes reference Ukrainian life, culture, traditions, and local meme-heroes.

The project started with two EPs in the summer of 2020, and in May 2021, the debut album ‘Essen’ was released, followed by his remix of Till Lindemann’s single ‘Ich hasse Kinder’ later this year. The most recent work is the ‘Alles wird gut’ EP came out in July 2022, a release that had been finalized during a period of the full-scale war beginning. This, for sure, was reflected both in the sound/mood in general and in the themes of individual tracks. There are no soul-warming quotes or recipes of traditional cuisine here – it is, rather, a complete story about the crisis state of man and his worldview, where there is still some room for irony and hope.

Watch the video for “KUNST”

Watch the video for “Gott”

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The EP’s, Criminal Remixed VOL. 1 and ‘Criminal Remixed VOL. 2,  are co-released with Berlin-based record label, aufnahme + wiedergabe, and feature 4 mixes by various Electronic music artists on each EP.

Today we are premiering the SARIN remix of “ILL”.

Hailing from Canada and now residing in Berlin, SARIN has created a lot of buzz for himself in the current wave of EBM influenced club music. His take on interpretation of The Soft Moon’s “Ill” once more shows why he is one of the top players in the game right now, with his trademark pulsing high attack bass synth driven beats.

SARIN toured with The Soft Moon earlier this year during the first European leg of touring in support of Criminal.

SARIN is also part of the duo KONKURS and HUMAN PERFORMANCE LAB who have as well gained a lot of interest in the Techno scene.

Both 12”s EP’s are limited to 1000 copies. A digital version will be released as an full length album and will be available on Bandcamp and via all digital platforms.

See track listing, and tour dates for The Soft Moon below:

Criminal Remixed VOL. 1 12″:

Track list:

• A1 Like a Father (Imperial Black Unit Remix)
• A2 ILL (Sarin Remix)
• B1 Criminal (SHXCXCHCXSH Remix)
• B2 Young (Lokier Remix)

Criminal Remixed VOL. 2 12″:

Track list:

• A1 Burn (Ansome Remix)/li>
• A2 Choke (Craow Remix)
• B1 It Kills (Rendered Remix)
• B2 The Pain (The Horrorist Remix)

Both EP’s are available in Europe via aufnhame + wiedergabe, and the rest of the world through Sacred Bones.

Digital pre-orders available through Bandcamp.

As part of the Criminal tour, The Soft Moon will be playing additional shows in Europe and Asia between September and November 2018, and a West Coast tour in December 2018 with Hide, including 2 sold out shows in Los Angeles with Nine Inch Nails and The Jesus & Mary Chain.
In January 2019 The Soft Moon will be back in America, this time on the East Coast for another tour with Hide and Lingua Ignota.

Live Dates:

2018:

• Oct 04 Bern, CH – ISC √
• Oct 05 Rocking Chair – Vevey, CH √
• Oct 06 Rote Fabrik – Zurich, CH ∑
• Oct 10 Barcelona, ES – Sala Apolo 2 †
• Oct 11 Madrid, ES – Sala Copernico †
• Oct 12 Lisbon, PT – RCA Club †
• Oct 13 Porto, PT – Hard Club †
• Oct 26 Palermo, IT – I Candelai
• Oct 27 Messina, IT – Retronouveau
• Nov 01 Istanbul, TU – Salon IKSV
• Nov 02 Hannover, DE – Glocksee ≈
• Nov 03 Dresden, DE – Scheune ≈
• Nov 04 Wroclaw, PL – Industrial Festival
• Nov 07 Haifa, IL – Solow Festival
• Nov 23 Berlin, DE – Synästhesie Festival
• Nov 24 Bremen, DE – Tower ^
• Nov 25 Essen, DE – Zeche Carl ^
• Nov 26 Dusseldorf, DE – Zakk ^
• Nov 27 Antwerp, BE -Trix ^
• Nov 28 London, UK – Scala ^
• Nov 29 Manchester,UK – The White Hotel ^
• Dec 05 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club ^
• Dec 07 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom ^ #
• Dec 08 Vancouver, BC Fortune ^ #
• Dec 09 Seattle, WA – Neumo’s ^ #
• Dec 11 Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium ^
• Dec 12 Tustin, CA – Marty’s on Newport ^
• Dec 13 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
• Dec 14 Los Angeles, CA – Palladium %
• Dec 15 Los Angeles, CA – Palladium %
• Dec 17 San Diego, CA – Belly Up ^
• Dec 18 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent ^2019:
• Jan 17 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw ^ §
• Jan 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s ^ §
• Jan 19 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel ^ §
• Jan 20 – Raleigh – Kings Barcade ^ §
• Jan 21 – Nashville, TS – Basement East ^ §
• Jan 22 – Louisville, KY – Zanzabar ^ §
• Jan 24 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall ^ §
• Jan 25 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups ^ §
• Jan 26 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop ^ §
• Jan 27 Detroit, MI – El Club ^ §
• Jan 28 Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground ^ §
• Jan 29 Montreal, QC  – The Fairmount ^ §
• Jan 30 Boston, MA – The Sinclair ^ §

^ w/ Hide
§ w/ Lingua Ignota
% w/ Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus & Mary Chain
∑ w/ S S S S
† w/ Whispering Sons
≈ w/ Imperial Black Unit

# w/ Vive la Void
√ w/ Veil Of Light

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The film, stars Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier, a priest whose sexuality inspires an obsessed nun to cause a witch hunt that ends with Grandier being burned to the stake.

Spoiler alert: He doesn’t repent.

Psychoterrorpriest by Acid Vatican is out on June 4th through aufnahme + wiedergabe and includes a remix by SΛRIN.

Pre Order Now via Big Cartel or Bandcamp

(A tape album is planned for release later via Clan Destine Records)

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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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Here is some background information of Leyla Records:

“Leyla is a brand new label based in Amsterdam and founded on a love of techno. Leyla is the natural evolution of what Surgeon and Regis achieved with their British Murder Boys project over ten years ago. Leyla is uncompromising but also accessible, light and dark.

In Arabic and Hebrew Leyla means darkness, but it’s also the name of countless princesses. She practiced occult rituals, worshipped the Sun and Saturn and stood for the authenticity of pre-humanist populations. She is the dark ages but she is also enlightenment. The dual roots of the name are represented in the label’s music and in its visual design, which takes its cue from the occult. The desire is to recapture the authentic feeling of techno from a specific era while retaining a modern touch. The old and the new. Now and then.

Leyla is about taking inspiration from a wide range of styles and places – industrial, folk, electro, Amsterdam, London, Berlin – and bringing it all together for a new generation.
We all have pivotal moments in our youth that anchor us throughout life. We return to these anchors at various times of need. Music is one of these anchors, the sounds that affected us most deeply in our formative years are the ones we return to time and again.

Leyla was founded by Chafik Chennouf, a man with over ten years experience in the electronic world as a DJ, producer, promoter and label owner. Chennouf first began collecting techno in the late 1990s, focusing on the sounds coming out of Birmingham. A few years later he helped bring some of the scene’s key artists, like Inigo Kennedy, to Holland for the first time, even doing early live broadcasts on international and local online platforms. Today Chennouf is going back to his roots to focus on the techno he loved and give it a platform to grow.

And so Leyla is born to represent new potentials for techno, with knowledge of its roots and an eye to the future.”

Find Leyla Records on Soundcloud and on Bandcamp

Tracklist:

1. Codex Empire – Hessdalen
2. Black Devil Disco Club & Cocknbullkid – In Doubt ( Mondkopf remix)
3. Stonith – Mort Vivant
4. Sarin – AIM 54C
5. Gesloten Cirkel – Chasing Away The Night
6. Fire At Work – Inhumani
7. The Hacker – Pure Energy
8. Thomas P. Heckmann – El Hazzared
9. Domenico Crisci – Alte Tanz
10. Qoso – Laphroaig
11. Electro Generator Group – To Believe ( Al Ferox remix)
12. The Hacker – Eurocold ( Terence Fixmer remix)
13. Syncom Data & Saara Soini – Rumpukone
14. Jerome Hill – Rump
15. Function – Semantics
16. Svreca – Overgang
17. Sawf – Rota
18. MRTVI – Rituel Sonore
19. Adam X – Rebellion In 2071
20. Opal – Delta Waves
21. Stave – Circle Pit
22. Tuomas Rantanen – Stigma
23. UVB – A Body Anthem
24. Gaja – A2
25. Regis – Weakness ( Somers Forge remix)
26. Traversable Wormhole – Sublight Velocities
27. The Horrorist – Now Destructor
28. Greg Gow & Gareth Whitehead – Vacant ( Silent Servant remix)
29. Ionic Vision – Die Macht ( Millimetric remix)
30. Impulse Controls – Devour
31. Stamba – Bark Number
32. Terence Fixmer & Douglas McCarthy – Destroy

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The opening track “Absorb in an Other” by Halv Dröm (Saxon Jorgensen, from the band Ascetic) builds and eases into a pulsating heartbeat until it explodes. Aleks Schatten (Berlin-based DJ, writer and producer) makes his debut with “Tribulations”—a distorted and acid-tinged track that is both intrusive and unforgiving in its attack. SΛRIN (who has an upcoming EP on aufnahme + wiedergabe and another on Veleno Viola with Blush Response as KONKURS) can do no wrong with his clean and simplistic, yet menacing track “Sentinel” with all the elements of the old school industrial sprit. However, the highlight of Self-Aware is Human Performance Lab (SΛRIN and Matthew Cangiano from Vierance) with “Acetone”. It’s an unexpected track based on the overall mood of the rest of the compilation that combines the distinctive SΛRIN bassline and snare with a—dare I say—softer, melody that recalls pre-rave early 90s techno.

Side two jolts into “Schianto Contro II Tempo” by Bakunin Commando (Violet Poison) which is pure, pacing EBM and not unlike the genre’s progenitors of which he is obviously inspired. S.G.H.L.’s “Meat Machine” is another exceptional track—perfect in its druggy, off-kilter yet danceable beat. “Hipnoz” by Nick Larkin is perhaps the most pure of techno in Self-Aware; the Moscow based producer does know just a bit about it, after all. The compilation closes with “Into Self” by Dolgener (part of The Cast Project), a track that recalls Dirk Ivens’ Klinik and Sonar eras with its distorted vocals and cataclysmal noise.

Self-Aware’s contribution to the current scene is in its diversity: it re-imagines the sounds and attitudes of dismal, apocalyptic music from decades ago yet has the prescience to understand the next wave of what’s to come in industrial techno. The compilation comes as one of 50 hand numbered and shrink wrapped limited edition cassettes with j-card or as a digital download here.

SELF-AWARE by VARIOUS ARTISTS

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