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SenkWaves - A Senkrecht Compilation

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Individual track download/purchase:

mitramitra.bandcamp.com/album/by-your-hand
emptystory.bandcamp.com/track/v-r-s-a-hold
ujlatasmodfuzio.bandcamp.com
sexualpurity.bandcamp.com/track/adrenaline
pulsations.bandcamp.com/track/of-vultures-and-sickles
imiafan.bandcamp.com
utolsohullam.hu/track/oly-m-lyen-alszol-2
cawatana.bandcamp.com/album/splintered
ductape.bandcamp.com/track/neurotic-passion
saigonbluerain.bandcamp.com

Senkrecht Records proudly present their first compilation cassette, including outstanding and promising bands (both older and newer) from the European darkwave/postpunk/minimal synth community. The concept of the compilation was to release songs that were not published in physical format before. The French Saigon Blue Rain, the Slovakian-Hungarian ImiAFan and the Hungarian Cawatana appear with previously unreleased songs on the compilation, the Hungarian Új Látásmód Fúzió with a previously unreleased version of an older song, while the Austrian Mitra Mitra, the Danish Pulsations, the Turkish Ductape, the Ukrainian Sexual Purity and the Hungarian Empty Story and Utolsó Hullám are providing tracks that were only available online until now (and for the last three mentioned bands it's the first physical release ever).

The title of the compilation is the name of our party and concert organizer branch, SenkWaves. These bands and their music demonstrate the direction SenkWaves follow and represent. These songs will appear in SenkWaves parties, and hopefully we can meet these bands live as well.

Some words about the bands and the tracks

Mitra Mitra from Vienna, Austria is a minimal synth collaboration between singer Violet Candide (also known from her solo project Peppy Pep Pepper and the project Violetiger) and composer-producer Mark Crumby (also known as a member of Konstruktivists and Oppenheimer MKII and active as Codex Empire as well). The song appearing here, Stitches, was recorded during the session of the latest album Hands Remain, released in January 2022, but it was not included on the album, but on the preliminary online EP By Your Hands. Now it's released physically for the first time on this cassette.

Empty Story is a darkwave/postpunk band from Békéscsaba, Hungary, formed in autumn 2021 by Kocsis Mihály and Simon Tibor. Their song Vörös a Hold was one of their first songs they wrote together and it was the very first one they published (online) in October 2021 - a real catchy, modern darkwave/postpunk hit (or at least it has all the chances to become a hit).

Gáspár Kornél is behind many bands, projects and "aliases", but the most known, most popular (and oldest) of all is Új Látásmód Fúzió. One of the oldest (still active) representatives of the Hungarian (and international) minimal synth and coldwave movement. On this compilation you can hear one of his most popular songs, Legyőzzük az időt in a previously unreleased (nonlinear) version, created in 2010 - the original minimal synth hymn has been updated with some icy glittering synth sequences.

Sexual Purity from Ukraine is an electronic coldwave/darkwave/minimal wave duo of the vocalist Anastasia Romanova and the composer-producer Oleksii Donets. Their song Adrenaline was published on their online album Suffer | Hope, released in December 2021, recorded in an abandoned ghost town in Eastern Ukraine in August 2021, with a modified setup (new synths, live drums instead of drum machines, different vocal style).

Pulsations is a postpunk/darkwave band from Copenhagen, Denmark, led by Hadrian Esteves. Besides two great EPs (which were released on cassette and CD) the song Of Vultures and Sickles was released online at Crunch Pod in February 2021, now it's available physically on this cassette - a wonderful, hymnic postpunk track with tinkling, reverberated guitars, vigorous drums, catchy chorus.

Similarly to Gáspár Kornél, the Slovakian-Hungarian Imi Vegh is a long time contributor of the international minimal synth community. In his band ImiAFan he is helped by Miki Bernath with the sound design and Adriana Vegh sings in some specific songs, like here in the previously unreleased new track called Finish, which based on Charles Bukowski's poem and recorded in February 2022 - dark minimal wave with male and female vocals and touching melancholy.

The gothrock/postpunk band Utolsó Hullám from Budapest Hungary was formed in summer 2020 around Jakab Árpád (Motyó), who is a well-known member of the Hungarian dark/goth/industrial scene. The song Oly mélyen alszol was recorded in February 2022 and released on their latest online single recently, and it debuts on this cassette as their first physical release - oldschool gothrock feeling with emphatic bass and drum machine and fascinating guitar tunes.

Cawatana, originally from Békéscsaba, now from Budapest, Hungary has been an active member of the international dark underground music scene for more than 20 years, the current incarnation focusing on darkwave/minimal wave with analog synths and drum machines started to take form around 2018. Their song Splintered was written originally in 2012, but it was recorded only now, exclusively for this compilation. It's a tribute to the Hungarian industrial legend CMC - stripped down minimal wave, or even we could say minimal industrial, pounding drums, tight bass synth, rigid vocals, alienating noises, absolving guitar melodies.

Ductape from Istanbul, Turkey is postpunk/darkwave duo of Çağla Güleray (vocals, lyrics) and Furkan Güleray (music). They released two great albums on the label Swiss Dark Nights, but before that, as a debut, they published the online EP Little Monsters in 2020. Neurotic Passions was the opening song of this EP - a real postpunk banger with powerful guitars, drums and vocals, impressive chorus.

Originally from Paris, France, living and working now in Prague, Czech Republic, Saigon Blue Rain is darkwave/postpunk/ethereal wave group around Ophelia Lecomte (vocals) and Franck Pelliccioli (guitars and synths), with the occasional contribution of other musicians. The previously unreleased song Night of the Scarlet Moon was recorded during the session of the album Noire Psyché in 2016 - dreamy synth and guitar tunes mixed with ethereal vocals and forceful bass.

credits

released April 8, 2022

mitra mitra - Stitches
Written and produced by mitra mitra

Empty Story - Vörös a Hold
Written by Kocsis Mihály and Simon Tibor
Recorded, mixed and mastered in September/October 2021, Békéscsaba

Új Látásmód Fúzió - Legyőzzük az időt (NonLinear version)
Written and produced by Gáspár Kornél
This version was created in 2010

Sexual Purity - Adrenaline
Music by Oleksii Donets
Vocals and lyrics by Anastasia Romanova
Mixed and mastered by Oleksii Donets

Pulsations - Of Vultures and Sickles
Music, lyrics and vocals by Hadrian Esteves
Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark 2021
Mixed and mastered by Gonzalo "Lalo" Gzlez

ImiAFan - Finish
Lyrics by Charles Bukowski
Music, vocals, synths and programming by Imi Vegh
Vocals by Adriana Vegh
Mixed by Mikke Bernath in February 2022

Utolsó Hullám - Oly mélyen alszol
Music and lyrics by Jakab Árpád
Recorded, mixed and mastered in February 2022

Cawatana - Splintered
A tribute to CMC
Originally written in April 2012
Recorded, mixed and mastered in February 2022

Ductape - Neurotic Passion
Music and lyrics by Ductape
Mixed and mastered by The Blue House (New Zealand)

Saigon Blue Rain - Night of the Scarlet Moon
Composed, written, recorded, mixed and mastered by
Ophelia Lecomte and Franck Pelliccioli

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