Minimal Wave Records

OUT NOW on AVANT!

SCORPION VIOLENTE
Uberschleiss LP
AV!009

Scorpion Violente is gay beast from France obsessed with analogue trash electronics and bad sexual habits. After unleashing a first 7-inch split with their partners in crime The Dreams and the great 12-inch EP “Rome Violente” on Bruit-Direct you had the pleasure to meet on your path earlier this year, this two-headed monster gets its first full-length album out right now on Avant! Records. LP features 8 longs tracks of pure mental disease from the middle of nowhere. Musically speaking this is a sort of sick mix between Giorgio Moroder italo disco, the paranoid minimal wave performed by Suicide in 1977 and the early industrial-wave electronics by Cabaret Voltaire. Comes in full color sleeve plus insert with awesome artwork and nasty lyrics, and secret engraved message. A press of 500 for your obnoxious taste!

awesome, keep us posted

this is indeed great music, with a french touch! looking forward to the release.

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/scorpion-violente-keep-the-shades-lowered

http://www.darkentries.be/nl/cds/?cdid=2234

OUT TOMORROW

today check http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2010/10/18/negative-phase-lock/

OUT NOW!

Half of the pressing on its way to distros in the US (Permanent, All Day, Heaven Street, Red Scroll), Japan (Escalator, File-Under, NEds) and EU (Born Bad, TuT/RuR, Bimbo Tower, Blind Spot, Vulcanoid, Seja, Papy Wilou, RTB) and more…

New review on http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=6092

Full streaming at http://soundcloud.com/avant/sets/scorpion-violente-uberschleiss-lp

AVANT! now on Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avant-Records/174400625909020

review by YRG

Turns out I didn’t have to do all that brainstorming earlier, as Uberschleiss is exactly the type of synth record I’d expect Load Records to release, and a pretty solid follow-up to Daily Life’s Necessary and Pathetic on any lonely 3:00 am playlist. Unlike Daily Life’s harmonic and thoughtfully-constructed tunes, Scorpion Violente set a few simple loops on auto-play and try their best to intimidate the listener right out of the room. It usually works, too: their second-hand synths all carry with them a sour, frustrated energy, like they are plugged with the wrong batteries and in pain because of it. The rudimentary rhythms border on the industrial at times, and work well with Scorpion Violente’s lousy attitude and intentionally creepy vibe, probably because I truly believe that these two guys (each posed with a child on the back cover, ostensibly their individual offspring) are the degenerates they portray themselves as. Lyrics like “you smell like my sister” and “I’m waiting ’round the corner for my teenage doll” would fall flat in the hands of a college-age Youth Attack hardcore band, but thetwo men of Scorpion Violente seem incapable of making “art” any other way, like they probably don’t even understand why people would be offended by what they are saying and doing. Pair that with their corroded beats and buzzing synths and I can’t think of a better record by which to electrocute yourself.

Scorpion Violente LP reviewed at http://www.terminal-boredom.com/reviews28.html

new review at http://still-single.tumblr.com/post/2807014202/scorpion-violente-uberschleiss-lp-avant

All Day Records in Carrboro, NC USA? I live right down the street from there, will pick up this afternoon!

filco - 18 March 2011 12:12 PM

All Day Records in Carrboro, NC USA? I live right down the street from there, will pick up this afternoon!

that one! hope he still got copies!