ILM, help me feel young!

other stuff you might like: zongamin, !!!, ladytron 'softcore jukebox' compilation, death in vegas, soft pink truth

Metal Urbain's not new, but it's new to me - grating French '77 punk w/ synths.

Bbbut he already said he didn't like that! Actually getting a nice haircut makes me feel more young than buying hip records. Although if you end up dancing to the records that'll work.

also:
Mew: 'Frengers' - glorious poppy rock

http://www.firewater.tv

The Medicine and Manitoba albums...uh, go direct to Chapterhouse instead.

Well, they're friends of mine, but I do indeed highly rate Firewater....biases notwithstanding.

If you're speaking of Shot Forth Self Living, I'd say yes. Sell a kidney, take a kid's lunch money, grab an old lady's purse, whatever. Get it.

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Verdicts if anyone cares:

Colder - Could only track down one sample, sounds amazing. From reviews seems like album will be up my alley, seeking out next record store strip.
Death in Vegas - Somewhat impressed in general, Gallagher is awful, sounds like Cracker. I could have sworn these guys were Daft Punk soundalikes before, faulty memory?
Zongamin - Too housey/noveltyish, reminds me of Console.
T. Raumschmiere - :wumpscut: w/o apocalyptic dead baby imagery. Why aren't they on Metropolis?
Soft Pink Truth - Good songwriting. Needs vox.
Holmes - Know through Primal Scream, never liked as much as I felt I should.
Ladytron - If they always sounded like "Oops, Oh My" from that comp they'd be my favoritest band ever. Less snark, more rock, ladies.
!!! - sounds like DFA + horns with Mick Jones singing to me. Am I missing something?
Manitoba/Medicine - Reviews sound hippyish, vaguely remember hating Medicine song on Crow soundtrack.
Mew - A bit shoegazerey, not my thing, really.
Mash-ups - love 'em, hard to find good ones outside of Soulwax/Freelance Hellraiser/Dsico
Firewater - This is ex-Cop Shoot Cop, no? Reminded me of Tear Garden on crack, still deciding if I like.
Metal Urbain have me most intrigued out of all of these, not really helping the feeling like a geezer, I guess :p I have a feeling finding their stuff will be an adventure, Amazon is charging firstborn for imports.

Ned: I felt the same way reading a lot of posts. It's really nice finding an enclave of good taste out there!

PS: If anybody here is feeling especial kinship with my tastes go check out Tarantella Serpentine (http://www.tarantellaserpentine.com) and Mechanical Cabaret (http://www.mechanicalcabaret.com) like, yesterday!

Get the Pluramon album NOW!!!! It took about a dozen years off my age ;-)

Now see, I was all excited about it based on your words and others really liked it too but when I heard it I thought it was pleasant...but no more? I was trying to get a sense of how it stood out from the other post-gaze revival records this year and I wasn't sure it had a particularly individual quality there.

m83 - "gone"
mu - "chair girl"

Answered your own question. Although Metro's been branching out with Bunnydrums and Ascii Disko. I think, though, that a band has to be at least 6 months on its way out to sign to Metropolis and T. Raumschmiere's record was pretty good. Why leave where he's at (big label) for a shitty American importer?

Search: their cover of 21 Seconds, I Am A Star and Hey Beat Takeshi!

I'm aware of Metro's success, but saying they compete with Mute? Especially given the new major label ownership budget shit? If he wanted to jump ship, he'd have labels five times more important than Metro licking his anus clean to put out his records.

I wouldn't want to be stuck on a niche label that's forcibly marginalized themselves and are currently signing anything they can get their hands on to evade that label. They were better when they were Zoth USA.

Firreal.

In my younger (read as: high school) days, I was really into the EBM thing. I was of age in time for Pendragon to really make its mark on me, with bands like Haujobb and Forma Tadre just blowing me away. Covenant's _Sequencer_ dropped a bomb on my conception of dance music. To that kid, Metropolis was the 300lb gorilla who walked in and slowly ate up all the interesting things going on in the genre. Instead, it offered a seemingly endless conveyer line of club beats and marginalized a lot of the interesting bands by offering them deals and giving them inadequate promotion.

I still appreciate the music I enjoyed when I was younger, but I've traded my gut reaction for a slightly more distanced one. My opinion of the label hasn't changed for that.

Which is why I react so strongly at people attributing positive comments to that label. In my head, they ruined the music that made me love music.

Xii, I feel similarly; I was just saying that they sounded like a generic Metro band (Hocico, newer Suicide Commando, whatever they're doing now.) Having grown up in Philly, I dislike them a good amount actually, as the entire scene around me was dominated by them.

Well then do you like any of the earlyish Depeche Mode albums?

or in another directions have you exhausted the early 90's Wax Trax output?

If you like Caberet Voltaire and that sort Soul Jazz has some reissues that might be of interest to you there is one called "In The Beginning There Was Rhythm" and also New York Noise. If you are really going to be looking you might want to try out some Throbbing Gristle or PTV.
Storm the Studio by Meat Beat Manifesto
a greatest hits by Front 242
might as well listen to some gang of four too

there is a ton of stuff!
Just keep responding and we'll sort you out.