MVTANT:
“This is low culture, this is forever. The weak are god fearing and sinning is living.”
Listening to MVTANT, one imagines a heathen in some future dystopian back alley hunched over a half-broken machine, forcing tape filth industrial music out of it's circuits: motorik lines pulse out of analog synthesizers, dreamy primitive digital workstations wash over the top, vhs samples of chains and screams are evoked from 12-bit machines, and then captured to ree-to-reel and dumped to mono cassettes. In addition to classic post-punk, industrial and ebm artists, MVTANT is heavily influenced by horror and science fiction films, anime, literature, and graphic novels. The sound is both familiar and new, cacophonous and melodic, uncomfortable and pleasurable, like violent colors that a dirty vcr head spews in scanlines across a tube tv, painful to stare at, but astonishingly vivid and captivating.
IN 2019 MVTANTS first two EP's, Gore and Mirroshade, were released by Austin Texas cassette tape label Somatic. MVTANT has now teamed up with Dream Recordings of San Diego California to reissue a remixed and remastered edition of Gore + Mirrorshade on vinyl, in addition to curating a collection of remixes which will be released digitally alongside the reissue.
LUNACY:
LUNACY, a dystopian shadow figure located in Rural Pennsylvania - which, is a character set in the empty corroded future that focuses on themes of loneliness, emptiness & mental illness. A character that often fits the description of late 80’s & early 90’s post-apocalyptic films.
The project rose to the surface in 2016 releasing a set of 4 track demo recordings and consistently released material every 6 months until the release of the debut album “Age Of Truth” on Third Coming Records in Winter 2019. All releases have always been based around art and design of a specific release and have always been released in limited colorways, always selling out quickly. The project often described as lo-fi, noise and ambient explores different elements of shoegaze, minimal synth & post punk while developing a sound unique and identifiable to the project.
Over a short span of time Lunacy has joined the likes of Chrome, A Place To Bury Strangers, King Dude, Health, Youth Code, Automelodi, Bambara, Twin Tribes, Sextile, Skeleton Hands, SRSQ, & Tempers while also having a small run in Europe with Some Ember & Offermose in 2018. Lunacy has a full US tour booked with MVTANT from September through November of 2021 in anticipation for the Sophomore release of “Echo In The Memory” - out in early 2022 on Oliver Ackermann’s(A Place To Bury Strangers / Death By Audio) newly found label, Dedstrange.
“Echo In The Memory” marks a new chapter for LUNACY in a step of sonic annihilation focusing on trying to rebuild a world that no longer exists. Previous works have been recorded on a 4- track tascam portastudio using various analog single unit drum machines, guitar, bass and synths. On this upcoming release the recording process has changed quite a bit, being recorded on an Otari Broadcast MX50/50 - a 4 track 1/4 inch tape machine brought back to life by Sean Hur. All backing tracks, drum samples & loops were produced on an all black mpc1000 except, “Fragmented Pulse” which used the classic dr-55 with an 8/12 bitcrusher fuzz pedal handmade by Kyle Reiff. Both analog & digital synths were used along with guitar & bass with various effects pedals. Recorded over a two year period from 2019 - 2021, mixed by Connor Clasen & Mastered by Oliver Ackermann.
As continued in Lunacy’s tradition Echo In The Memory will be pressed on two variants of Limited colored vinyl, featuring original cover art from Dusty Ray and Logo work from Jesse Draxler. Echo In The Memory is set for release on Dedstrange in early 2022.
Local Support from Pseudocorp Cassette Label head Weaponator, and special appearance from DJ Bleak House aka Britt Brown (Robedoor, Not Not Fun/100% Silk founder) in between acts!!!
21+ Masked and Vaxxed only please.