AVANT! RECORDS - LABEL & MAILORDER

2010-02-22T10:47:00.000-08:00

Hello folks,

welcome to Avant! Records page.

Here you find our available releases, plus the records in distribution.
All records are new, prices do not include shipping.

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OUT NOW:
Funk Police - Hot We Are Funk We Play LP

One more masterpiece outta France. The typical no-wave fury of La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale De l'Est gets over some smoky dark funk grooves. Like Pop Group, Gang Of Four or PiL, Funk Police steals black rhythms from an hypothetical rainforest and hurl them into their concrete jungle. Throbbing bass, sharp upbeat guitars and schizoid vocals over the haunting tribal drums. Ten damp tracks on black vinyl with stunning artwork!

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King Dude - Tonight's Special Death LP

A rising star in the US dark-folk scenario. Trad-apocalyptic ballads mixing Death In June and Sol Invictus with Dylan, Guthrie and Choen. A few months after the 12” release of My Beloved Ghost, we give life to the LP press of the King’s first full-length. Ten tracks to accompany us through the chill months that will follow. Show up on clear grey vinyl and will feature two bonus tracks, along with insert with lyrics of course.

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Father Murphy / How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood? - split 7''
Father Murphy is weird rock with releases on Aagoo in the US and Boring Machines in Europe. HMWWAWCIAWCCW? is a new trio creating a dark mixture of pagan folk blended with noises, distorted vocals and ghostly choruses from the background.
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Dream Affair - Endless Days LP/CD
NY cold wave group's debut album perfects the conflict and balance between bleak indifference and struggling emotions. Romanticism in the vocals and guitars are vetted against the industrial chill of the rhythm section. The result is a testament of self-awareness, absurdity, and isolation.
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Lust For Youth - Solar Flare LP/CD

After one 7-inch split with Blessure Grave and an bunch of tapes, this swedish two-piece gets its first full-length out. 12 tracks like a never-ending flow, blending industrial murky noise, dark-wave atmospheres and lo-fi synth pop catchy melodies, all drenched in reverberation and beaten by distant vocal chants.

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Contrepoison - ... Until Next Morning 12''EP

The brand new project by Pierre-Marc Tremblay. After a few tapes, this 4-track EP shows the darkest and most anguished side of the human feeling, where drum machines sound like heartbeats and synthesizers are as liquid as tears. Deep, somber vocals filled with sorrow and anger cap it all. A killer debut!
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Scorpion Violente - Uberschleiss LP

A gay beast from France obsessed with trash electronics and bad sexual habits. Eight longs tracks of a sort of sick mix between Giorgio Moroder italo disco and the paranoid minimal wave by Suicide and Cabaret Voltaire.

Cult Of Youth - Filthy Plumage In An Open Sea! 12’’ mLP

The third vinyl release from Brooklyn's dark folk act contains a brighter and more focused side of Cult Of Youth that once again challenges the established boundaries of neofolk and post-industrial music.
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The Feeling Of Love - Waiting For The Cheerleaders To Get Drunk 7''

The Feeling Of Love is an actual trio now, synth came to stay and you can hear how it makes these two new songs sound more groovy than ever.
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Krysmopompas - Gesa 7''

After their great double album on S-S, two darker and slower tracks without drums, only an analogue Casio beat to create a real cold-war feeling.
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UPCOMING:
AV!016 LFY / WAR - The Glass House Etiquette split 7''
AV!004 Movie Star Junkies - Junkyears 12'' mLP (Repress)

MAILORDER:

King Dude - Love LP (Dais) 15€

Dark pagan-fueled folk wrapped tight with outsider Americana, steeped in themes of love, death and redemption. An atmosphere filled with hope and salvation, drawing sound influence akin to Death In June & Sol Invictus but sewing together a hybrid of true folk tradition alongside Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Comes in thick die-cut cardstock sleeves revealing beautiful inner sleeve printed artwork beneath.

Horrid Red - Celestial Joy LP (Holidays) 12€
Horrid Red was born as an offshot project by Edmund Xavier and Bunker Wolf of Teenage Panzerkorps exploring the arcane aspects of post-punk and new wave. As from the title, Celestial Joy is a step away from the depressive synth punk of their first releases. Instead, there is some sort of light cleaved through this album, though only a weak light can filter to the depth of the dark environment we are moving in.

Frank Alpine - s/t LP (Wierd) 15€

A frenzy of claustrophobic, danceable dread that skirts the line between outer-directed nihilistic aggression & fragrant introversion. Nocturnal synthesizers, isolated, frenetic, & monotonous, plot a destination either to somewhere new & uncertain, or perhaps to nowhere at all.

Xeno & Oaklander- Sets & Lights LP (Wierd) 15€
With this album, Xeno & Oaklander have split their attentions between two broad tempo brackets, the Techno/Electro, the sumptuous, layered synthetic sensuality, and the adrenal-triggers, or the spiky, uptempo moves they're better known for, the swooning, hollow cheek-boned control and the 100mph autobahn burn. Recommended!

Kinder Aus Asbest – Inside LP (Dödsdans) 13€

Brand new label from Sweden releasing swedish artists performing old school minimal synth, nostalgic but with a glimpse of the future. And so is Kinder Aus Asbest. Elegant limited hand-numbered edition. Only a few copies available so act now!

Native Cats - Process Praise LP (Ride The Snake) 14€

Following on from last year’s first album, Process Praise is the Native Cats at the hardest and heaviest they’ve ever been. The sound has expanded, but it’s still as lean and concise as ever, solid like a sensibly-packed suitcase. The tinny Casiotone beats of their debut have given way to deep drum machine menace; synths swoop and buzz at unexpected moments; bass riffs get meaner and more direct; words are sharpened and arranged for maximum damage.

Nothing People – Smells Like Metal LP (HBSP-2X) 15€

Blunted lof-fi Indie teetering between eerily seance like and distant/basement in a peculiar manner. With armfuls of analog reverbs, tape delays, busted rhythm machines, pedals, guitars and drums their music swerves between scuzzy and spaced-out, lethargic and prodding, all with an authentic swagger and clammy, cracked ceramic glaze finish. Coloured vinyl, gatefold jacket., includes download code!

Ensemble Economique - Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight LP (Dekorder) 13€
Muted drum machines, plastic-coated FM synthesizers and the kind of pedal reverbs you only find in Guitar Center for ten bucks are repurposed without even a hint of the kind of hypnagogic fetishism popularized by James Ferraro et al. Rather Pyle’s sounds become even more eerie for their strange familiarity, and like the suburban setting of Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ you have the sense of something ominous hiding behind the preset brass stabs and marching band rhythms.

Le Pécheur - Medieval Dreams LP (Azbin) 13€
Le Pécheur's debut album. Nine brand new tracks of psychedelic garage rock, dreaming about love, death, satan and jesus. Fans of Yussuf Jerusalem and French garage-folk better take a look at this now. Only few copies!

Maria Minerva - Sacred & Profane Love EP 12" (100% Silk) 15€
The latest Maria’s effort hypnotizes and catapults the free audience in an atmosphere that is seen as bedroom's disco. Dreamy and amplified atmospheres from her voice that plays on delay. She’s more digital than analog, such unusual compared to recent trends. Her latest work is all about a mixed Oriental Wave Drum together with her lyrical singing. A great comeback!

Belgrado – st LP (Discos Enfermos) 13€

The debut record of this new but active band from Barcelona. A perfect mixture of 80's post-punk sound like Joy Division or Killing Joke but giving to it more rawness and personal touch with a big influence of UK anarchopunk like Crass. Female vocals in the front give to them a special touch and never stop listening them during the 10 songs that made this record.

Tyvek - Fast Metabolism LP (M'Lady'S) 13€
At long last, the vinyl debut of this flawless compilation of Tyvek's early singles. An avalanche of hits! Deluxe tip-on sleeve, with lyrics for the first time! The best record ever! Few copies!

His Electro Blue Voice - Dead Sons 12" (Brave Mysteries) 10€

Recorded between 2009 and 2011, Dead Sons weighs in at just under 25 minutes, probably the longest outing this band has given up so far. This record is both far more dynamic and simultaneously more aggressive than anything they have ever done before.

Robedoor – Too Down To Die LP (Not Not Fun) 14€
A return to more psychedelic dronescapes, but not without change: the production levels are crisper and cleaner. A thick drifting morass of psychedelia of the modern kind. The perfect album for a Saturday night Apocalypse, and one of Robedoor's finest moments. Only one copy left, act now!

Mattress - Eldorado 12" (Malt Duck) 12€
An incredibly minimal, raw, and sometimes frantic record, yet it somehow creates a sense that hope can prevail even in the dire post-apocalyptic vision formed by its beats. This is definitely synth done raw – which is often times synth at its finest. Vocal styling is what makes this record unique though. The croony vocals, reminiscent of a gin guzzling lounge singer, reveal his true Vegas roots. Fav by Alex Zhang Hungtai from Dirty Beaches! Red vinyl!!

Yussuf Jerusalem - Blast From The Past LP (XVIII) 13€

Nine more tracks of beautifully sad pop songs about chivalry, death, and heartbreak that manage to successfully integrate Norwegian black metal, Rocky Erickson, french pop, medieval folk and spaghetti western guitars. LAST COPY!

Bizarre Uproar - Viha & Kiima DigiCD (Freak Animal) 10€
One of the leading figures among Finnish noise. Their 2011 album is culmination of the current style. 4 long tracks of amplifier torment captured in rehearsal bunker. Fierce and crude results with very natural flow of physical and concrete sound. A good dose of most violent elements of power electronics drenched to loud rusty harsh noise. Comes in beautiful DVD box!

Nuit Noire - The Gigantic Hideout CD (COTN) 10€

The return of Feeral Faerical tyranny from this skinny French dude with a truly whimsical sense of humor and knack for crafting catchy songs with downright awesome riffs. One more nighttime great opus!

Date At Midnight - No Love DigiCD (Manic Depression) 10€

Debut full-length by the italian band. Death-rock, gothic punk, dark-wave, everything here is that gloomy. Think of Madre Del Vizio meeting The Chameleons... a must-have for all you bats!

Mudboy - Impossible Duets LP (Hundebiss) 10€

Last temptation of Raphael Lyon's Mudboy. The doctor of experimental organomics explore new approaches to his personal hallucinations. The works on this album are only the hapless product of stumbling fingers, hammered out by so many orangutans fighting over garbage.

Art Abscons - October 31st EP 7'' (Vade Retro) 7€

Halloween EP about the Samhain feast. Four new tracks different from previous efforts, more into a sort of goth-pop mood, somehow closer to Christian Death or Death SS. A one-time stylistic digression to celebrate an heathen tradition. A press of 100 only!

Gianni Giublena Rosacroce - La Piramide di Sangue Cs (Yerevan) 5€

This is the new solo project by Stefano Isaia, the singer and frontman from our beloved Movie Star Junkies. Sounds close to the Middle-Eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Armed with clarinet, cans, drums and percussions, piano and acoustic guitars, 13 tracks like one texture of thin arabesques, influenced by Muhal Richard Abrams, Maurice McIntyre and Moondog foremost.

Journey To Ixtlan - Journey To Ixtlan DigiCD (Aurora Borealis) 10€

An anonymous badass rock band of desert dwellers who converge infrequently to render their physical surroundings in psychotropic sound. Their heavy sound owes as much to Doom Metal as it does to Psychedelia, as guitar, bass, drums, keys and vocal chants intertwine like shamanic smoke. To listen to Journey To Ixtlan is to participate in a ritual out of time. Ace!

Cusack - Holy Wood 7" (Bitten By The Rest) 5€

Brand new single from our punk friends. If you liked their first 7-inch and their split with Laser Geyser you know what to expect: equal parts late '90s emo and hardcore energy for this explosion of frantic post-pop!

Sissy Spacek - Sepsis CD (Second Layer) 10€

A beautiful set of electro-acoustic works that have been freed from any of the patterns that can develop through group improvisation. These tracks are at once disorientating and alien, yet constantly engaging.

//Tense// - Consume 10'' (Desire) 12€

Originally out on Disaro as a CDr, Consume EP presents a new angle to the hard hitting EBM tracks the band has already released. It mixes hard beats EBM style with more ethereal and atmospheric ambience of the shoegaze bands of the early 90s. Lmtd edition of 300 copies on black & purple vinyl with a download coupon! LAST COPY

His Electro Blue Voice - Wolf/Worm 12'' (Holidays) 10€

New 12'' single with two long songs: Wolf is a driving, monolithic creature, Worm is a noisier affair. Comes in thick cardboard sleeve. Back in stock!

Two Bit Dezperados - s/t LP (Jeetkune) 10€

Female-fronted, Portuguese-sung, Os Mutantes-fueled, tropicalia-inspired, exotic and erotic psychedelic garage from Sardinia & Brazil. Sit back, relax, get high on weed. Last copy!

The Goodnight Loving - Arcobaleno 12'' (Wild Honey) 10€

One-sided 12” vinyl with really cool artwork silk-screened on the B side. Five new songs more chilly than previous ones. Great EP!

Druid Perfume – Don't Eat Em, They're Poison 7'' (X!) 4€

More manic weirdness! "Don't Eat 'Em They're Poison" is a swampy stuttering scuzz journey backed with the B-side "Honk Your Horn" which kicks up the tempo and weirdo swagger even more. Last copy!

The Lasters - Allergic To Your Face 7'' (Bat Shit) 4€

The Lasters are only getting nastier. More dynamic than the previous outing, but still stripped down enough to provide that immediate satisfaction we all crave. Like that ugly girl that's really great in bed.

La Banda's - s/t LP (Pasta Base) 10€

Psych-out lo-fi weird free folk jams from Santiago, Cile. A messy ritual! Only one left!

Hipbone Slim And The Kneetremblers - Hold On 7'' (Kizmiaz) 4€

Brand new 4-track EP from these rockabilly masters on Voodoo Rhythm.

COMING THIS WAY:

Die Selektion - Cladis 7'' (EDGR)

More soon...

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Andrea,
AVANT! Records