Mark Nicholas – Coming Clean

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Great Depeche Mode-esque vibe on this track with a killer chorus and great backing vocals! I was turned onto this by a fellow last.fm listener, thank you KingLeerUK!

Mark Nicholas bio from Last.fm:

 Electronic musician Mark Nicholas, formerly known as Cosmicity, turned in his synthpop badge to create a gritty and powerful new brand of vocal-driven, industrial-influenced Electronica.

Electronic musician Mark Nicholas, perhaps best known for his work under the name Cosmicity, began working under his real name in 2004. (You can download 7 of his best new songs for FREE here on last.fm and at dirtyelectronic.com.) Mark hails from Detroit (and is a University of Michigan School of Music grad), and though his roots are largely New Wave/Synthpop, his recent material has seen the additional influence of bands like NIN and The Prodigy. His first “solo” album – Duchess 33 – was released in 2007 on his newly-formed record label Dirty Electronic. He followed that album up with a remix album (of sorts) called Perversions in 2008.

Mark is expected to take a short hiatus (he’s having a baby with his wife Sara, better-known as DJ Ginger Snapp) and then return with the announced album “Music For Headphones” in 2009.

 Mark Nicholas – Coming Clean

Mamanet – Coma

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Mamanet hailing from the Ukrainian is doing some very interesting live instrumentation of Trip Hop.   Love the pizzicato plucking in the start of this track that then leads to full on atmosphere of the Trip Hop underground.

Bio from Last.fm :

A famous Ukrainian live electronics band, formed in Kramatorsk, UA in 2003. It’s a unique and new sound all played live.
There are four guys, four different personalities. When they are together, they become one solid unit.
They find it pretty boring to hold on to one single genre, so no wonder theirs music can go from trip-hop into disco and from drum’n’bass to lounge. Some guys call it live electronics.
“It’s a Ukrainian Red Snapper” – the magazine “SHO” says.
They believe in music and tend to see mystery in casual things, we deal with, everyday.

KI-MONO a new album by Mamanet was recorded and produced at Neo Generation Music by Dmitriy Pereskokov aka Sher, who became famous working with such Ukrainian artists as Oleg Skrypka, Green Grey etc. Sher was also a sound producer on a KI-MONO record.

Mamanet musical project is:
Jaroslav Tsygani,
Michael Lantuh,
Yuri Rozenko,
Eugen Mihailov.

Record label NGMusic.ru

www.mamanet.com.ua
www.myspace.com/mamanetband

Mamanet – Coma

Collide -The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

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Nice Latin flair meets gothic vibe on this cover of Fun Boy Three’s, “The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum” by Collide. Collide is “An electrogoth/industrial rock band founded in the early nineties, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The name comes from the collision of musical styles – ethereal vocals provided by kaRIN, industrial music provided by Statik.” (taken from Last.fm)

Collide -The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

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