Slave Indvstries

Well, gang, the official word just started to spread this week, so I can finally post about it... From the people that brought you the industrial stage at last year's Movement Festival:

INDUSTRIAL MOVEMENT FESTIVAL II
May 26-27, 2007
St. Andrew's Hall
Detroit, Michigan

Including:
MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO
Daniel Ash [dj set]
Final Cut
DJ? Acucrack
FGFC820 [feat. Rexx Arcana]
The Newlydeads
Rabbit Junk
Cyanotic
Phallus Uber Alles
Mindflux Funeral
Crud
Manufraqture
Vicious Alliance
Scraper and File
Groundlift

and many more...

The above bands are just the ones that have been listed so far on the Dark Course Productions myspace page [and us, we just confirmed! :)]... there are a lot more to be announced over the coming weeks. A website has been set up over at www.industrialmovementfestival.com and will eventually reveal the full roster and schedule for this two-day extravaganza. It's going to be a blast!

Greetings from currently-arctic Detroit, where the wind is cutting down meat-based humans while the machines bask in a world-sized heat sink.

A fun bit of news on this day: Information Society, the 80s synthpop act responsible for "what's on your mind? (pure energy)," among many others, has posted an exclusive iSv track on their recently-overhauled website, www.informationsociety.us, in the "insoc beat mutation syndicate" section. "nfo soc" is not a remix, but rather an original iSv composition.

The joint effort came about when the band added our Slave Indvstries collective on MySpace, and we mentioned that an unreleased iSv track existed that had been built entirely out of .wav files and samples posted on the old InSoc website. Deeming the song "supercool" upon hearing it, they have now made it available for your listening pleasure!

MySpace links:
http://www.myspace.com/isv
http://www.myspace.com/subnotdub
http://www.myspace.com/information…

PUA show this Friday, March 30th! Brandie Doll's birthday bash at Mephisto's, Hamtramck, MI. We'll be playing around 10:30 or 11pm, with at least three songs from our upcoming album La Femme Terrible-- "nur ein bisschen," "fuck the radio," and "beefed up." Mike Bison will also be playing, among others!

PUA's cover of "heatwave" featured on the D-Trash Records tribute to Atari Teenage Riot, "The Virus Has Been Spread," which comes out on May Day 2007. Includes artists such as Rabbit Junk, Schizoid, Hansel, and many more. Mastered at Metarc, this pressed CD compilation will be available for sale via Digital Hardcore, Ant-Zen, Adnoiseam, Storming The Base, and Voidstar Productions. We'll also have some copies onhand at shows starting in May...

PUA will also have an exclusive track on another upcoming compilation this spring. Limited to 500 copies, the disc promises to be as delicious as it is mysterious...

We're starting up a PUA fan service to reward the busy people that have been kind enough to mention us to their friends, families, fellow artists-- a vital resource for us, a band for which Caroline distribution turned down licensing because "German stuff doesn't sell in the U.S." :P Goodies will include a newsletter, the PUA comic that was to accompany the Post-Op remix disc, and an exclusive single of "Heatwave" with studio, demo, and instrumental versions, as well as a live recording from the 2006 Digital Hardcore Festival in Toronto. For starters.

In the words of the mighty En Esch, "Phallus Uber Alles, rock on!!" ;)

Click on the image for preview clips of every track from the cd!!

The Appendage. "demotape" [SI025] is now available for free download from the band's MySpace page!

This is the original 4-song demo that convinced us to put out the "counteroffer ep" [SI020] on SI a little while back... we decided that the crunchy electronoise goodness of "in act veto" in particular shouldn't be sitting around collecting dust, so we worked with the band to make the 3" tracks available. Definitely shows a different side of the band, while the bleepy ditty "corrosion" is more in line with the tracks on the debut.

The Appendage. "demotape" continues the series of free downloads/inexpensive 3" discs SI has been issuing this year, joining Amor Antiquita's "mastesto's medley" and iSv's "hs+1 sk-1." Next up in the series: new SI signee Banjax0red's debut of crazed breakcore, "warez copy of photoshop included on this cd."

Coming soon: the new Slave Indvstries compilation, "Pro-tech, Anti-Corp!"

[PS- http://www.slaveindvstries.net resumed normal operation earlier this week]

http://www.slaveindvstries.net is going through some growing pains while we switch it over our new host [it was the last site to move over for obvious reasons].

In the meantime, please visit http://www.slaveindustries.net !!

Apologies for the inconvenience, but the new site is going to be awesome. :)

A mastering date has been set for the next compilation from Slave Indvstries, and the disc will be available for purchase this spring!

The long-awaited second* comp issued by the Slave Indvstries collective, this multi-artist CD will include exclusive and unreleased tracks from such acts as Exclipsect, Phallus Uber Alles, Amor Antiquita, iSv, Exdeath, and many, many more... approaching 20 tracks of sublime audio goodness collected from coast to coast.

In almost every single case, these tracks represent some of the best work I've heard from the bands involved. Everyone has been working hard [some toiled over several years on their tracks!] and delivered amazing material all around. There will also be some new faces among the regulars... more about these recent SI inductees as the release date approaches.

Upon the release of this CD, the first Slave Indvstries compilation [2000's "SI Label Sampler v1.0b"] will be deleted from our order catalog, and will be posted for free on the SI site in mp3 format. At that time, we will re-launch www.slaveindvstries.net and [drum roll, please]... an all-new database-driven store!


Six years is a long time to wait for a new showcase of SI talent. In a short amount of time, it will have all been worth it.


*Not counting the mysterious, cancelled "Vaporware" collection and the free, promo-only "Slave Indvstries: remixes 1997-2002" cd-r.

As promised... click the rockin' image below to grab all 6 tracks from the new Amor Antiquita EP for free!

"Following closely on the heels of increasingly successful releases on labels such as 8bitpeoples, Illmatik Vibes, and Experimedia, Amor Antiquita now brings his love of electronic music and all things antiquated to Slave Indvstries via our 9.38kHz imprint. AA draws from the cold synthesis of Berlin, the warm grooves of his home in Detroit, and the zany game melodies of Tokyo to forge a style all his own, showcased in the form of a career-spanning 6-song EP. Some of these tracks are only months old-- others have been lurking in the Maestro's archives, waiting to be released. Finding no other home, these odds and ends discover common ground here as "Maestro's Medley," which has graciously been provided for free download at the artist's request.

Released on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2006."

First in a series of releases slated for/pushed back to 2006, Slave Indvstries and 9.38kHz [finally] present: iSv - "HS+1 SK-1"



A collection of demos and rarities recorded on a Casio SK-1 between high school and college, this represents some of my earliest "work". With the exception of the last track, everything was written approximately ten years ago... one decade! Hilarious, immature, and frighteningly lo-fi, the disc ranges from catchy autobahn indie synth-blips to unlistenable electronic hairball-regurgitation recreations, often switching between the two modes without any warning whatsoever. Features a younger me wanking around on guitar, microphone, and didgeridoo-- which was, years later, revealed to be a piece of blue pvc pipe painted with hippie iconography and intended for purchase by unwitting high school noobs for, well, let's say it was over $50 and be done with it.

Did I forget to mention that the release is FREE for download? Clicking on the song titles will earn you the mp3s; clicking on the deformed Final-Fantasy-on-Gameboy icon of a lumpy iSv gets the 8-color-gif CD front & back artwork. If the imagemap does not work for you in LJ, try visiting the 9.38kHz site right here. With a little luck, this might just be the most bizarre CD you listen to this year.