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Welcome to the world of SISTER JACK The Music Industry is going down and the World Business Economy is right behind it. We're going against the grain and are forming a record label. Why? Because it must go on, will go on and because good music still does not deserve to be reduced to a load of noughts and ones, to rot in one of the world's innumerable myspace-players. We hope you enjoy listening to our releases. Alex Copasetic and Dennis Rux fourth release Sister Jack veröffentlicht Schlag auf Schlag....: COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE - Find A Place To Be Safe  'Find A Place To Be Safe' CD release date 27.11.2009 Collapse Under The Empire schaffen es mit ihrem zweiten Album den eigenen Stil zu perfektionieren und dem Post Rock nicht mit Standard-Formeln zu begegnen. Find A Place To Be Safe ist ein Album voller Kraft und Intensität, ein apokalyptischer Soundtrack ohne Happy End. Collapse Under The Empire greifen auf dem Album die Orwell'sche Thematik auf, was in einigen Songs wie in Take A Shot On Me und in dem klaustrophobischen Album-Titeltrack hörbar ist. Hier werden düstere Endzeitszenarien musikalisch untermalt, was man auch bei genauerer Betrachtung des Artworks wieder finden kann. Find A Place To Be Safe kennt keine Grenzen. Keyboards durchfluten die Gehirnströmungen, Streicher beherrschen die Stille, Gitarrenwände durchstoßen die Schallmauer. Immer wieder blitzt in den leisen Momenten eine Tonfolge auf, die der Filmrolle im Kopfkino einen Stups versetzt. Alles geht, alles ist möglich und das Album bei jedem Durchlauf ein anderes. Collapse Under The Empire treiben den Hörer vom Ruhepol zu kaltem Schweiß, durch Angstausbrüche und in bunte Farbenwelten. Ein Flug, durch Kälte und Hitze, Nebel und Realität. Eine Seelenwanderung. Collapse Under The Empire created their own unique style and by doing what they confined to themselves from post-rock standards. Find A Place To Be Safe brims over with power and intensity. It's a soundtrack for the apocalypse without a happy end. Inspired by Orwell's thought of an authoritarian state Collapse Under The Empire composed songs, like Take A Shot On Me and the claustrophobic album title track, to create a fitting instrumental background for societies similar to Orwell's dark visions for the future. There are dark end time scenarios accentuated musically, which can also be seen in the artwork. Find A Place To Be Safe is an album without any restrictions. Keyboard sounds flood your auditory canals, strings rule over the silence, while guitar walls pierce through sound barriers. Your own imagination is be winged by reappearing flashes of sound that sometimes flow through what you expected to be silent. Everything goes, everything is possible and the album seems to change when you listen to it more than once. Collapse Under The Empire will cause the listener to react from total relaxation to cold sweated fear, and then embark on a journey through colourful worlds of sound. A journey through ice, fire, fog and reality to help you find your own soul. press statements about the band: Radio K (US) ....it socked us so hard we can't recognize its towering levels of awesome. Yes it's post-rock but it embodies the genre without pretention or artsy flourishes, only sheer brute strength and thundering intensity. They don't beat around the bush - both their band name and album title imply a bloody dystopia, an apocalyptic reckoning that will be as gorgeous as it is inevitable. Future Perfect Radio (US) ....creating the kind of lush instrumental landscapes you might expect would come from a German duo. While fans of post-rock will take strongly to Collapse Under the Empire, they say there's a little bit more to their music than that. noiZine (GR) Nice sound and one of the most acceptable post-rock albums of the year. After all these replicas and really boring releases of the last years in the genre of post-rock and other instrumental music branches , this album is an exception. I can say, even if they don’t have vocals, that this band can touch inside of you. I don’t know but I think that these guys and 'God is an Astronaut' are different, and they are years in front of the others in post-rock music style. Shakenstir (UK) Collapse Under The Empire have created one dark adventure with 'Find A Place To Be Safe', which is capable of grabbing you by the throat for the journey. While there is sonic diversity, there's also a consistent musical formula which can make this occasionally sound a tad repetitive. However, I remain hugely impressed by the band's ability to construct instrumental music that paints pictures of such emotional power, while remaining easily accessible. Strongly recommended. AutumnSound (US) With their debut album 'Systembreakdown' containing just the right blend of catchy riffs, up-beat drums and soothing breakdowns with the kind of electronic touches that would make Depeche Mode shed a tear, this is definitely the band of the hour. It’s great stuff for the night, setting the mood for quiet reflection and contemplation release date: November 27th, 2009 distributed by cargo records (D/A/CH) and sonic rendezvous (NL) www.collapseundertheempire.com http://www.myspace.com/collapseempire third release Nach unseren beiden erfolgreichen releases (Stun - And At Least You Dance und Trashmonkeys - Smile) präsentieren wir euch nun eine weitere, vielversprechende Band aus Deutschland. DOGS ON CATWALK - Tainted Glove  'Tainted Glove' CD release date 23.10.2009 Dogs On Catwalk spielen gerne mit Klischees, mit schwarz und weiss Kategorien. Glanz vs. Dreck, Gitarre vs. Elektronik, Verzweiflung vs. Erniedrigung, Punk vs. Pop. 'Ein Hund hat nun mal nichts auf dem Laufsteg verloren und genau das macht es so spannend - alles kann passieren!' Die Beats euphorischer Clubnächte treffen auf verstörende Texte, zerstörende Gitarren und hymnische Melodien für die guten Momente im Leben. Die analoge Produktion verleiht dem Album den von uns geliebten roughen und gleichzeitig sehr warmen Sound. Wir wünschen Euch also viel Hörvergnügen. release date: October 23rd, 2009 distributed by cargo records (D/A/CH) and sonic rendezvous (NL) www.dogsoncatwalk.com www.myspace.com/dogsoncatwalk second release |
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| We are proud to announce our second release: TRASHMONKEYS - Smile  Again we're going against the grain and release it on vinyl housed in a deluxe gate-fold sleeve!! 'Smile' Album release date: 03.04.2009 (XNO Records/ALIVE) 'Smile' Album vinyl release date 03.04.2009 (Sister Jack/Cargo) 2009 - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...es geht wieder los!!! Die erste Single des neuen Albums heißt Give That To Me. Das gnadenlose Gitarrenriff, der ungehobelt krachende Beat und der energetische Gesang des Stückes bringt die Tanzflächen eines jeden Clubs zum brennen! Durch diesen fetten Clubhammer angepeitscht geht es weiter zum zweiten Stück auf dem Album Leaving Home, dass zweifelsohne einer der rundesten Songs des Quintetts sein dürfte. Der Mitsingrefrain und ein treibender, schwereloser Groove prägen das Stück genauso, wie sein einmalig knuspriger Crunchsound. Weitere Highlights sind das leicht Kinks angelehnte Dreammaker Ave, das mit einem choralen Refrain a la Beach Boys aufwartet, und natürlich A Bad Day, überraschenderweise ein Skastück … das gab es noch nie bei den Trashmonkeys. Bei allem nicht zu vergessen: der abgrundtiefe Closer des Albums: I´m A Mess For Rock And Roll, der besonders ab drei Uhr morgens Gänsehaut macht und es einem in bester Bowie-Manier eiskalt den Rücken herunter laufen lässt. Erste Medienstimmen zum Album: Visions … Mit Album fünf präsentieren die Bremer-Punk-Berserker das bislang stärkste Werk ihrer elfjährigen Bandgeschichte. Melodie und Rhythmus Magazin … Kreativer Schub … Die Trashmonkeys klingen nun auch auf CD gnadenlos. OX Fanzine … als mir das Album der Bremer Trashmonkeys in den Schoß fiel, knallte es mich durch die Wand! Intro …Smile ist ein Album mit der Bühne im Hinterkopf und der Verschnaufpause als Feind. Unclesallys … Dass das Album trotz der schwierigen Umstände positiv und ansteckend aus den Boxen rollt, ist dabei besonders bemerkenswert. Westzeit Magazin … Smile mischt vielfältige Erfahrung zu einer Kreation der Zukunft. Ultimo Magazin … Die Trashmonkeys sind zum Durchstarten bereit. Lift Stuttgart … Smile … hat das Potenzial, die Tanzflächen der Republik zum Brennen zu bringen. Chilli Magazin … Die Trashmonkeys haben eine ganz eigene musikalische Sprache gefunden, mit der sie Rock, Punk und Ska auf Smile unterbringen … release date: April 3rd, 2009 distributed by cargo records (D/A/CH) and sonic rendezvous (NL) www.trashmonkeys.com www.myspace.com/trashmonkeys Stun released their debut album on Sister Jack at january 9th |
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With our first release we present one of Germany's most exciting Indie bands. Stun, too, go against the grain, aren't chasing after the latest trend but are doing their thing as they have since they formed. Together with D.R. they've produced their own, homogenous debut album: A compact unit from tracks 1 to 10, from cover to booklet, start to finish, front to back. The analogue production gives the album our beloved rough, yet warm sound. STUN With their ‚The Need To Walk’-EP, Stun caught the attention of several German nationwide music magazines as early as in 2006. While ‘Visions’ and ‘Intro’ referred to ‘Stun’ as an “awesome indie-band”, other papers claimed a more distint confession of the band to pop music. Again, others placed them within the noise-rock genre. Stun, however stayed true to themselves, playing more than 80 shows, some of them as support for such well-reputated indie acts as ‘Art Brut’, ‘The Thermals’, ‘Pale’ and ‘Favez’. And At Least You Dance Stun’s debut, entitled ‘And At Least You Dance’, recorded and produced by Dennis Rux (Trashmonkeys) has turned out to be a genuine Independent Rock album. Stun are the offspring of 90s Indie Rock, holding up the love for letting pop songs escalate and letting their vocals run through their guitar amps. Stun are quoting Jochen Distelmeyer (formerly ‘Blumfeld’) without making any musical confession to Blumfeld as well as reciting Bono, as if they’d given up the love of their life while there were U2 being played. ‘And At Least You Dance’ however, is in no way about an inflationary use of famous quotations… Stun are true songwriters, wrapping up their lyrics in several layers of a very original sound. In every single syllable and noise, you can hear a band that aims for musical honesty and credebility. When all words fail, Stun let loose the melodies from their guitars. “I encouraged Stun to record the album live and as a whole band. I like the interaction within the band and all the edges that come with it. Their sound is not corporate, their guitarplay and the way the vocals are done has got something very unique. Everything has been recorded completely analogue in my studio. This has always been the most beautiful way of producing a band.”, says producer Dennis Rux. It is quite obvious that Stun’s way may not be the way that the mainstream is flowing down. But still, ‘And At Least You Dance’ does have a certain kind of pop-appeal to it. In ‘The Need To Walk’ and ‘Into The New’, even the deadly feared chorus-singalong-lovers might want to make friends with the band. stun - and at least you dance distributed by cargo records (D/A/CH) and sonic rendezvous (NL) www.stun-music.com www.myspace.com/stunmusik |
