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The Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, a 3-day festival in Asheville, NC announced its lineup today. Ummmm…WANT!
The line up based around contemporary electronic music and creative use of technology features some legendary artists along with some of today’s exciting new acts. Headliners include Nine Inch Nails, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights and a reformed Neutral Milk Hotel. Meanwhile, the best of the rest includes performances from Gary Numan, How To Destroy Angels, Chromatics, Tricky, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Zola Jesus, Animal Collective and more!
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Gary Numan’s recent collaboration with the techno duo MOTOR has just been release as an exclusive 3-track remix EP made available through Beat Port. The EP feature 3 versions of the track Pleasure In Heaven, including the Drumcell Remix and the Xhin Remix to go along with the original version.
If a few new remixes isn’t enough for you, then get ready for an official retrospective book titled Gary Numan: Now..And Then to be released by Artrocker on November 26th. The book covers the past, present and future of Gary’s music. The digital book contains exclusive interview videos and readers will also be given access to an exclusive download of a remix album called Dead Moon Falling which contains a full reworking of his recent Dead Son Rising album. Continue reading →
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Hailed as ‘The new Bowie’ in the 70′s, flamboyant Glam artist Jobriath was the first openly gay artists signed to major label. He was also one of the first celebrities to die of AIDS. For all of his potential and the media blitz behind him, Jobriath was a commercial failure.
Behind the push from manager Jerry Brandt, Jobriath was signed to Elektra Records for one of the largest contracts to date. The record was promoted with full page ads in Rolling Stone, Vogue and Penthouse. Jobriath was splashed all over New York City, with his image on 250 city buses and a Time Squre billboard. Admid the hype of his self-titled debut record, Brandt made claims of “Elvis, The Beatles and Jobriath”.
Despite the heavy promotion and positive critcal acclaim, the record failed to chart. Despite the success of artists like David Bowie, Lou Reed, Mark Bolan and Brian Eno, it seems the general population was not ready for the self-proclaimed ‘Rock’s truest fairy’. A 2nd record, Creatures of The Night, released in 1974 fared even worse. Jobriath retired from music in 1975, and died of AIDS in 1983.
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Gary Numan will be releasing a new DVD Machine Music: The Best Of Gary Numan on June 11, 2012. The release will be limited to 3000 copies. The DVD features never before seen promos and TV appearances spanning his career, including videos made for We Are Glass and I Die: You Die, up to recent promos for The Fall (from the 2011 Dead Son Rising album) and the Battles collaboration My Machines. Along with the DVD will be a tour – the Machine Music Tour which kicks off in the UK in late May until early June, hopefully with US dates to follow. The shows will feature a set of his singles covering a span of 33 years!
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In honor of the 54th birthday of one of the most notable pioneers of electronic music, we take a brief look at his birth. We don’t mean his actual birth as we’re sure he came into the world like the rest of us. We’ll take a look at his musical birth. Perhaps popular culture knows him best for “Cars” which appears on just about any “Best Of The 80s” compilation you can find, but there was a lot that happened before “Cars” was a huge success.. let’s explore…
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The critically acclaimed techno band, MOTOR, has switched gears on their new album Man Made Machine. Man Made Machine will be a vocal driven album featuring an impressive line up of guest vocalists. We have already heard the title track which featured a collaboration with Martin L. Gore of Depeche Mode. Also slated to appear on the album is Gary Numan and Douglas McCarthy from Nitzer Ebb.
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