THISISNOTANEXIT

Last Christmas....

2009-12-18T21:42:00.002Z

I don't particularly like Christmas songs. Call me grumpy if you like. I have though always had a soft spot for Wham's Last Christmas. God knows why. It has a centre of melancholy that isn't the stupid grinning banality of other pop Christmas songs though. I think I even own it on 7" [10p sticker on it from Oxfam upon further investigation]. Not sure the last time I played it but it's there if I ever fancy it.

Anyways when this landed in my inbox as a present from the wonderful Micron 63 [The Fall - Soft Cell - Fad Gadget - Nitzer Ebb influences - MY EARS AND HEART SAY YES - further reading: Death Is Colder Than Love 7" from earlier in 2009] I was quite overjoyed that they'd turned Last Christmas into a wonderful dark hearted piece of electronic synth-poppery complete with a synth line of their own choosing that is simply quite joyous. I dare you not to listen to it. And then put it straight back on again.

And how often can you say that these days?

Get it here. 100 downloads / 7 days / whichever comes first.

MICRON 63 - LAST CHRISTMAS

If the world was of my making rather than the strange creation it actually is this would be battling whatever abomination the X Factor has vomited forth this year. But instead it's Rage Against The Machine [which by the way please buy if you live in the UK - I don't care for Cheryl Cole and her "stop it - it's mean" whimpering - just do it and see if we can at least make a dent in the black hole of Butlins on ITV1 talent no-show]. Anyways for a minute there I lost myself.

Check Micron 63's myspace out and some of the demos from their forthcoming album.

They're onto something.

They may have sold something [S-O-U-L to the horned one] to get this music but it could be worth it.

www.myspace.com/micron63

Thisisnotanexit Manifesto 1

2009-12-18T07:35:00.003Z

Thisisnotanexit Manifesto One Promo CDs READY for despatch.

Detachments I-DJ Review

2009-12-16T14:36:00.001Z

2009-12-15T12:17:00.002Z

Thisisnotanexit 2009 Mix by Simon A. Carr (74 minutes / 22 tracks )

1. Spectral Empire - Black Shark (TINAE 014)
2. Club Silencio - Objectif Venus (Fratelli Edit) (TINAE 022)
3. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - The Unstoppable Kite (Hatchback Mix) (TINAE 024)
4. Spectral Empire - Innerfearence (Chateau Flight Remix) (TINAE 014)
5. Spectral Empire - KM-50 (Spectral Assault Mix) (TINAE 014)
6. Night Plane - Chinese Shadows (TINAE 021)
7. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (The Gospel According To Mung 2012 Live At The Hacienda Version) (TINAE 012)
8. Detachments - The Far (TINAE 016)
9. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Signals (Emperor Machine Dub Instrumental Mix) (TINAE 024)
10. Club Silencio - Felix (TINAE 022)
11. Naum Gabo - Pictur (The Loving Hand Remix Naum Gabo Edit 1) (TINAE 015)
12. Naum Gabo - Pictur (The Loving Hand Remix Naum Gabo Edit 2) (TINAE 015)
13. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (Serge Santiago Totally Different Mix) (TINAE 012)
14. Club Silencio - Turpe Traxx (Sankt Goran Remix) (TINAE 022)
15. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Rabbit Seal Monkey (Tronik Youth Remix) (TINAE 024)
16. Detachments - Circles (Martyn's Round & Round Mix) (TINAE 027)
17. Detachments - Circles (TINAE 023)
18. Detachments - Messages (TINAE 013)
19. Detachments - H.A.L. (TINAE 023)
20. Detachments - H.A.L. (Andrew Weatherall's Disco Dub) (TINAE 019)
21. Detachments - The Flowers That Fell (Parallels Remix) (TINAE 018)
22. Parallels - Ultralight (TINAE 017)

Download here:

http://www.divshare.com/download/9772332-9a1

The situation is real

2009-12-13T15:38:00.002Z

The spectacle is real.

The situation is real.

12" screen print test number 1.

Out January 25th in hand numbered screen printed sleeves. 300 only.

Pre-order now for £6.99 (+p&p) and we'll send you high quality mp3s of the tracks that feature on the 12" two weeks before the release hits the shops.

Just email us: simon.thisisnotanexit@gmail.com

2009-12-11T16:47:00.001Z

I always wondered what Salem looked like. Is this them? is that Heather?

Is this is a myth?

Or a riddle?

http://www.myspace.com/s4lem

In 2010 we may finally unleash the Detachments track featuring HEATHER from Salem on vocals called SANDS OF TIME. Maybe we'll put it on the Detachments album. Maybe we'll put it on a 7". Maybe we'll give it away.

It is nightmare / dream music - the sound of the black lodge and Agent Cooper wondering where his nice cup of Joe went and why Wyndham Earl is a shake shake shaking like Slim Harpo asked him to. The horror. The fear. The beauty.

2009-12-11T09:51:00.002Z

Black Meteoric Star this week announce that the Gavin Russom piloted spaceship will head off in search of The Crystal Ark in 2010. Following the dual piloted Delia & Gavin project that skirted the surface of (THE DAYS OF) MARS and ably assisted by Carl Craig and DFA on remix command. Alongside that we visited the Black Leotard Front (whilst somehow losing HEY COACH) and Black Meteoric Star have kept things pulsing through 2009. Along with Gavin Russom going on solo missions to try and rescue Palms and Peter Dundov.

Now we plunge ever onwards with Viva Ruiz helming the microphone and a sense of palpable excitement as the matter collates and The Crystal Ark will appear in February 2010.

More reading and a Gavin Russom mix available here:

http://madelikeatree.com/Pages/bms.html

Portishead - Chase The Tear

2009-12-10T10:35:00.004Z

Portishead - Chase The Tear from Mintonfilm on Vimeo.

Portishead channel the spirit of Can and Neu! into a krautrock influenced disco opus - fun fun fun on the autobahn motorik motorik motorik.

99 shiny 1p pieces and the future will be yours.

Or you can just repeat repeat repeat the video again

and

again

and

again

and

again

until your head falls off

Thisisnotanexit estimates this will happen around 4:12 when the guitar comes in.

Buy it here:

http://www.7digital.com/artists/portishead/chase-the-tear

Simon A. Carr Pure Groove DJ Set Part 2

2009-12-08T21:09:00.002Z

Here's some additional music I played on Friday:

Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop
Six Sed Red - Shake It Right
Dollskabeat - No Breaks No Sleep (Part I)
Can - Oh Yeah
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Ministry - All Day (Remix)
Gang Of Four - At Home He's Tourist
Colder - Wrong Baby
Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For The Man
David Bowie - Sound And Vision

Simon A. Carr Pure Groove DJ Set

2009-12-07T13:53:00.002Z

1. Roy Montgomery - London Is Swinging By It's Neck

2. Twin Peaks Theme

3. Spacemen 3 - Walkin' With Jesus

4. OMD - Almost

5. Tk & Tok - The Garden (4 track demo)

6. Palms - Boundary Waters (Gavin Russom Remix)

7. Fever Ray - Dry & Dusty

I then Djed with Thomas and got a bit tipsy. Here's some other stuff in no particular order that I remember playing:

Johnny Thunders & Patti Paladin - Crawfish

Talking Heads - Naive Melody

Naum Gabo - Pictur (The Loving Hand Remix Naum Gabo Edit #1)

Parallels - Ultralight

The Dark Esquire - Situation

Detachments - Circles (Martyn's Round & Round Mix)

Liquid Liquid - Optimo

Grauzone - Eisbaer

Micron 63 - Death Is Colder Than Love (Factory Floor Remix)

The Creepers - Baby's On Fire

Detachments - The Flowers That Fell (Parallels Remix) Video

2009-12-06T15:33:00.001Z

Detachments PIX interview

2009-12-04T17:46:00.002Z

Looking backwards to look forwards

2009-12-04T08:50:00.003Z

I've been looking backwards more than forwards recently with eyes on the early 80's minimal wave and synth experiments - Chris Carters headspace experiments and Chris & Cosey's frozen worlds of grey and ice particularly goosebumpy - as well as the UK BBC4 synthpop documentary making me dig out my Mute Documents Boxset and listening repeatedly to Fad Gadget demos on repeat. Maybe it's the UK suddenly becoming cold and grey. Maybe it's just modern music sounding so over produced it just fails to move me.

I'm not sure how everything fits together but some ((a small minority)) of dubstep sounds somehow linked to the early 80s for me. Especially some of Shackleton's recent output - that clanking industrial sound of Nick Cave banging a piece of metal - I'm not sure how much Berlin links into all this but it's historic impact on music and art in general can't be denied.

"I see the towers falling"

Blood On My Hands repeat to fade...

I've been reading JG Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition again recently. Frightened by the prophecy?

Crash Course In Science are one of those groups that had a very short life but seem to be just, for me, a perfect expression of what music should be.

RAW

POWERFUL

EMOTIONAL

I remember hearing Cardboard Lamb played by Optimo and was knocked soundways by it. It sounds like the future the way it was supposed to play out. Not what we've ended up with.

Here's a demo that was never officially released. It sounds like the basis for Losing My Edge. SRSLY >>>>>>>>

Crash Course In Science - Force The Habit (Demo)

Other CCIS sources.

http://www.myspace.com/ccis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgpoMt0m-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNH1urxXOw&feature=related

I'm DJing at Pure Groove in Farringdon London tonight. Come down and say hi. What will I be playing?

If you can draw a line through Silver Apples via David Bowie's LOW (Side 2) via Crash Course In Science turn left at Mute and head straight through Detroit techno (some at 33+8) turn right at DFA+Output and end up in Shackleton's basement in Berlin (whilst Spectral Empire sit in the corner tweaking a prophet) then this could be the story of your life.

Turn your head inside out.

Then Detachments will play live and channel the spirits of: Depeche Mode, The Cure, Talking Heads, New Order, WARP and some of the more interesting dubstep ( raw - glacial - rather than farty farty updated garage / breakbeat ) into something modern and relevant.

Channel M Detachments / Peter Hook Video

2009-12-01T15:15:00.001Z

Detachments Live at Pure Groove this Friday

2009-12-01T14:48:00.003Z

Free entry!

http://www.puregroove.co.uk/in-store.aspx

DJ sets from me and Thomas Aufgemischt.

Live set from Detachments (onstage 9pm).

Simon A. Carr BARFLY DJ SET

2009-12-01T14:36:00.004Z

Simon A. Carr The Barfly DJ Set

Parallels - Ultralight (The Dark Esquire Re-version)

The Dark Esquire - Situation

Detachments - Circles (Martyn's Round & Round Mix)

Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer

Crash Course In Science - Flying Turns (Naum Gabo's Flying Saucer Edit)

Micron 63 - Receiver

Factory Floor - Lying

Short and sweet set after a rather excellent Detachments live show.

Naum Gabo - Pictur 12" featured as a DJ Mag Killer this month!

2009-11-26T15:38:00.002Z

Naum Gabo Pictur 12" is a DJ Mag "Cutting Edge Release You Need In Your Life"

Shame they linked to DFA's myspace but you can't have everything.

Detachments Circles Launch Party

2009-11-26T13:29:00.003Z

Don't forget the Detachments Circles Launch Party is this Monday at the Camden Barfly.

Andrew Weatherall DJ set and then Detachments onstage at 2130.

We have a £4 cheap list for those that want to come along.

Just email us before noon on Monday 30th:

simon.thisisnotanexit@gmail.com

Detachments - Circles (Remixes Part Two)

2009-11-26T13:14:00.003Z

It's all go at Thisisnotanexit HQ at the moment with two releases out this week.

The second set of Detachments Circles Remixes hit the shops this week on 12" featuring Martyn's Round & Round Mix, the Mighty Mouse Remix and the King Of Town Remix.

A big set of remixes. The Martyn Round & Round Mix features on Fabric 50 out in January and has been supported by Kode9, Annie Mac, DBridge, Zomby and Martyn himself. The Mighty Mouse Remix has been highlighted by Aeroplane as one of their favourite tracks of the year with a poppy nu-disco rework and played on Radio 1. Finally the King of Town delivers an absolutely huge electro monster of a remix which has been played at Optimo nearly every week for the past 6 months and is a bit of an anthem there (apparently).

Anyways grab a 12" whilst you can - we were told earlier this week that nearly every copy has been snapped up by shops (there are 400 in existence) and will be sold out in a week or two.

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/60101

If you want to buy a copy direct just let us know - we'll send you the tracks on 320kps as well.

Everyone's a winner as we make a touch more money on selling directly to people as we don't have to pay distribution fees (in fact those copies we sell directly rather than at shops keeps us afloat as a label a touch longer).

Naum Gabo - Pictur 12" (300 only)

2009-11-26T12:19:00.003Z

Two years in the making this week sees the release of Naum Gabo's Pictur 12".

We ended up not featuring the original version of Pictur as the remixes we ended up with were simply too stunning. The a-side features Joakim taking the track on a 10 minute acid disco excursion with a quite massive breakdown. I've been playing this out for 18 months now and I get asked about it whenever I play it.

On the b-side features two Naum Gabo edits of the 24 minute The Loving Hand Remix (The Loving Hand is DFA's Tim Goldsworthy for those that don't know). Owing to The Loving Hand Remix being a 6 part 24 minute kosmische journey and quite literally being unplayable in a club (unless you want a toilet break whilst DJing) Naum Gabo took it upon themselves to pull out two of their favourite sections of the remix and edit them into dancefloor playable versions. So on the 12" you get these two exclusive edits.

The 12" sleeve also features a painting given to Naum Gabo by Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes. The sleeve is therefore in full colour with an expensive matt finish to make the visual element of the release truly stunning.

We are releasing 300 only of these hence the high price. About 100 exist in the UK as 200 have been shipped around the world. Don't miss out on what for us is a quite special release.

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/60100

The release will only be available on 12" vinyl until the 12" is sold out and then we will release this digitally.

If you order a copy of the 12" via us at Thisisnotanexit HQ though we'll send you the release as 320kps MP3's as well. Email us for details and we'll let you know how to do it.

The 24 minute The Loving Hand Remix will see the light of day in 2010 - it has been compared to E2-E4, LCD SS 45:33 and Can's Bel Air to the people who have heard it.

Detachments Limited Edition Tour CD

2009-11-23T16:20:00.002Z

Detachments are currently on a tour of the UK. We have put together a very limited tour cd to accompany the tour - we have around 20 here in the Thisisnotanexit office for sale for those who don't live in the UK or missed the shows.

The cd features 6 x tracks:

1. Messages

2. The Flowers That Fell (Live Acoustic)

3. Circles (Diesel U Music Session)

4. Fear No Fear (Diesel U Music Session)

5. The Far

6. Make It Easy On Yourself

If you want one simply send £7.50 via paypal to: simon.thisisnotanexit@gmail.com

First come first served. Once they're gone they're gone.

Little Boots - Earthquake (Detachments Remix)

2009-11-23T15:26:00.003Z

How different does Little Boots look when she first appeared all brunette and indie compared with the Kylie-esque image these days.

And how different is Detachments take on Little Boots Earthquake than the original. It sounds a bit like how LCD Soundsystem jamming with Ms Boots would do if you ask us. Quite a combination.

Little Boots - Earthquake (Detachments Remix)

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=ZW9BN3RYTmFOMUIzZUE9PQ

Up for 14 days and / or 100 downloads and then it's gone.

Parallels Live At The Echoplex In LA

2009-11-23T09:26:00.001Z

Mogwai - Burning

2009-11-11T09:40:00.005Z

Detachments Circles Video

2009-11-10T14:03:00.003Z

"Trapped in a frozen moment of time staring at myself in the mirror and weeping down my hoodie"

- Artrocker -