Clocking in at just over three minutes, the title track on Dust’s second release for Mannequin brings together so many different sounds and makes nods to so many influences that it’s a sociologist’s wet dream. The fact that it’s so short and that Dust make their point so articulately within a limited amount of time is reminiscent of post-punk (according to the blurb accompanying Feel It, the four-person act live together in a sprawling, infamous house cum artistic community in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighbourhood).
The debut album from “perhaps the most misunderstood band to record for Factory Records” is set for reappraisal by the Berlin-based label.
The Berlin-based label will present a three track record from the Italian group that includes an edit from Nation founder Traxx.
Our first mix of the new year is a conceptual one from Mannequin Records founder Alessandro Adriani.
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The Rome label shifts back to contemporary acts with records forthcoming from Deathday, Sixth June and Police De Mouers.
The 1980s New Wave scene of “The Italian Sheffield” is the focus on three forthcoming reissues from the label.
Mannequin Records will release The End Of Civilization, a compilation of contemporary synth and post punk curated by label artist Mushy.
Anyone with a firm grasp of the law of averages would understand that in a month where there was far too many good records, a fair proportion also came wrapped in excellent sleeve art.
Italian label Mannequin has announced the forthcoming reissue of Sam Rosenthal’s Tanzmusik LP, first released in 1985.
“There are bands that have been acting ruthlessly in the shadow for years, in a completely confidential manner, then one day chance (but does chance exist?) makes you find one of their recordings, listen to it, and at that moment you could kick yourself for not having discovered these soundscapes earlier and you try to find all of them.”
Vague aspects regarding the makeup of Tropic of Cancer have been present since the band emerged with The Dull Age, though who exactly did what remained as gauzily unclear as the murky soundscapes that characterised that highly prized 10” on Downwards. With that debut and the subsequent trickle of Tropic Of Cancer material, it’s been assumed that Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant was a driving creative force within the band alongside his partner Camella Lobo. Such assumptions are naturally born out of association given Mendez’s at times growling vocals (on “Be Brave” in particular) as well as his role within the Sandwell District enclave alongside Regis and a predilection for the industrial and post-punk forms of music that serve an intergral part of the Tropic of Cancer DNA.
Italian label Mannequin have announced plans to release Sighing Melodies Thru The Graves, a mini album from compatriot and Minimal Rome label boss Heinrich Dressel.