Label Description: Second album by Filmmaker’s minimal synth side project Psychick Wound.
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Hablamos Muertos – The Ship Is Sinking (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
Label Description:
Hablamos Muertos is the work of Lisbon based artist José Trujillo.
Jose has been producing solo work since 2017, working with personal experiences filtered through instrumental & psychedelic music
Themes, process, and influences in relation to ‘The Ship Is Sinking’
“The Ship Is Sinking is an album about fragility, transformation, and the echoes of lost spaces. Inspired by Lev Tolstoy’s “What Men Live By?”, the album is structured as a sonic shipwreck, where every piece reflects the disintegration and reconstruction of something that is slowly sinking.
The music is both simple and complex, chaotic and sublime, structured yet dispersed. I started by wanting to create something between Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Suzanne Ciani, embracing the contrast between noise and harmony, whispers and screams, ocean waves and deep silence.”
Technical Process & Gear Used
● Moog Mother 32 – A key element in shaping the textures.
● Minimoog (digital version) – Bringing a warm analog depth.
● Fugue Machine – Adding a sense of repetition and movement.
● Suzuki Precision Bass (1978) – Processed through expression pedals, creating fluid and unpredictable harmonics.
Each track on the album represents a stage in the descent:
Mikhail – A spectral opening where melody dissolves into emptiness.
Wreckage – The reconstruction through fragmented noise.
Deep Waters – A hypnotic descent into the abyss, where sound becomes liquid.
Ectoplasma – The lingering presence of what is lost, vibrating in a liminal space.
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released March 21, 2025
This is the second album I have worked on with Raúl Espinoza Garza, who handled recording and mastering. Our first collaboration was Rhetorical Figures (2019). Raúl is not just a great sound engineer—he is a friend with an incredible musical taste, someone with whom I can have deep and fascinating conversations about music and philosophy.
The album cover was designed by Anastasiia Parshina, a painter and art professor, andmy wife. She has collaborated with me on several projects, including the cover for Mechanik Mushrooms. Her work bridges visual art and sound, making her a key artistic collaborator.
José Trujillo, Lisbon, 2025
The Residents – Doctor Dark (Cryptic Corp)
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Over two years in the making, the brand-new studio album from The Residents featuring the story of Maggot and Mark – two young heavy metal fans – and the mysterious Doctor Anastasia Dark, a disgraced visionary who offers those who need it THE GIFT.
Veering from blissed out electronica to thrash metal as only The Residents can, and produced with the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music alongside several familiar guests and collaborators, ‘Doctor Dark’ is the latest masterpiece of storytelling from San Francisco’s weirdest beat combo. ‘The Buddha said that life is misery. For the terminally ill, dying in pain, life is misery compounded – but what comes next? Is there a heaven, a nirvana, a paradise with 72 virgins for every martyr? No one knows, but what is known is that nothing makes humans more uncomfortable than death – the ultimate unknown, the other side of zero, the everlasting void. But maybe death is nothing more than a warm feeling, after a lifetime of whatever misery we choose to embrace, suggesting that nothing is quite so satisfying as one more dip into a lovely river, endlessly flowing into forever. Maybe it is possible to die happily ever after…….’ – The Residents
Scanner & Nurse With Wound – Contrary Motion
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A collaboration between Steven Stapleton (Nurse with Wound) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), exploring the darkest regions of the airwaves and live electronics.
It’s an ominous trip into radio waves, processed voices, electronics, squeaky guitars and a mysterious labyrinth of echoing sonic disturbances.
Available in the Scanner CD edition, as well as the Nurse with Wound CD edition, containing identical audio, but alternative artwork. The vinyl edition will be a double LP, with 3 sides of music and one side with a special Babs Santini etching.
You can buy the Scanner oriented CD artwork here, and the NWW oriented CD artwork from NWW.
We will each have a limited bundle of the two CDs for those who want to have both editions.
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releases March 3, 2025
All titles written, performed and produced by Robin Rimbaud & Steven Stapleton
Premixing by Andrew Liles
Thanks to Steve Pittis
Cover Art by Santini
Photography & Graphics by Sarah Stapleton
Scattle – System (Self-Released)
Label Description: Music by Scattle
Art by KA
Lagowski/Chromium – Chromium Industries 1991-1992 (Mannequin Records)
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Mannequin Records is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Chromium Industries, a double LP (MNQ 162) capturing the innovative spirit of two pioneers of electronic music: Andrew Lagowski and Paul (Howie D) Howard. This long-anticipated album marks a return to the seminal sounds of the Chromium Industries label, which emerged as a crucial platform for boundary-pushing techno and electronic music in the 1990s.
Andrew Lagowski, a name synonymous with exploration in electronic music, has been at the forefront of sound innovation since the early 1980s. Known for his work under various aliases, including Lagowski, Legion, and S.E.T.I., his early output in experimental and industrial sounds paved the way for his later techno-focused ventures. Albums like Knowledge (S.E.T.I.) and Nadir (Lagowski) highlighted his pioneering approach to unconventional sound sources and production techniques. In the 1990s, his work with Chromium Industries brought him into the techno spotlight, with a series of influential 12” singles that helped shape the electronic music landscape. With over 60 albums and 10+ singles to his name, Lagowski’s versatility and dedication have garnered him a loyal following and lasting influence across genres.
Paul Howard, aka Howie D, brought his DIY ethos from the punk scene of the 1970s into electronic music. As a founding member of The Frames and co-founder of the Brain Boosters and Spacematic labels, Howard has consistently pushed boundaries. His early forays into hip-hop saw him release the genre-pioneering jazz-rap track Miller Light as Fission. The transition from punk and hip-hop to electronic music was a natural one, culminating in his creation of Chromium Industries after a fateful night hearing Lagowski’s Vermilion at a London party. The label brought some of the most unique techno releases to the scene, with tracks like Blue Anomaly causing near-riots on the dancefloor. Since then, Howard’s work has evolved to include multiple aliases, including The Legend That Is, Phase Collective, and Skulpture.
Chromium Industries 2xLP is more than an album; it’s a legacy preserved and reimagined. The double LP transports listeners to an era when electronic music was in full experimental bloom while showcasing the genre’s continual evolution.
Chromium Industries 2xLP will be available for purchase from January 2025 through Mannequin Records and select distributors. This is an essential release for collectors, DJs, and anyone who reveres the legacy of 1990s techno and the boundless potential of electronic music.
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released February 21, 2025
Mastering by Rude 66, Amsterdam 2024
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin 2024
Symbion Project – TRYPTYCH (Speed Of Dark Music)
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
~ Alan Watts
~ Alan Watts
TRYPTYCH is the 12th Symbion Project album from electronic musician, composer, and producer Kasson Crooker. The three long-form songs seamlessly blend into each other and feature layers of lush strings and woodwinds, haunting sound design, French horns, percolating synthesizers, Japanese koto, and field recordings.
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released January 1, 2025
Composed, orchestrated, mixed, produced, and mastered by Kasson Crooker
French horns played by Gus Sebring (Boston Symphony Orchestra
Japanese koto performed by Kasson Crooker
Copyright and published by Speed of Dark Music 2025 (BMI)
Released on FOIL Imprints
vcam – apendula (Point Source Electronic Arts)
Label Description: Exploratory and expressive, the album was born of exercises in the dynamic interplay of sounds and intervals, based on recorded performances without the preconception of programming. It is rich in detail, nuanced, subtle, and deeply layered with intertwined synths and rhythms.
Disinformation and S.E.T.I. – Disinformation + S.E.T.I. at ORF Kunstradio 22-04-1999 (Self-Released)
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Disinformation + S.E.T.I. – broadcast from the studios of ORF Kunstradio, Vienna, 22 April 1999.
Special thanks to Susanna Niedermayr, Peter Rehberg (RIP) and Mike Harding.
Artwork – photomontage copyright © Joe Banks 2025.
Cousin Silas & aka:man – Cousin Silas & aka:man (The Cousin Silas Emporium)
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This release sees the album by aka:man, Ambient: Light, get the rework/refit treatment from myself. And then, it’s nicely topped off with 6 of our previous collaborations
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released February 14, 2025
Artwork by Ross Ackerman
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