Review - Axesscode (french)

http://chroniques.axesscode.com/chroniques/article/neon-rain-of-the-dead

"... véritable tour de force, sans jamais perdre la cohérence du sujet... chacun des trois disques de ...Of The Dead dispose de sa propre ambiance, sa propre couleur, rendant le tout encore plus vertigineux."

Review - Noise Magazine (French)

Out Ov The Coffin - podcast

NR features into the last podcast of Out ov the Coffin

http://outovthecoffin.blogspot.fr/2012/08/podcast-august-10th-2012.html

Review on the Crucial Blast e-shop

The world of modern horror cinema and the extremes of the industrial underground have continuously crossed paths over the years, resulting in some amazing work like Coil's lost soundtrack for Hellraiser. On the ambitious new triple-disc set ...Of The Dead, the French industrial outfit Neon Rain takes inspiration from an even more iconic piece of extreme horror filmmaking, paying homage to George Romero's classic Living Dead trilogy as it threads traces of dialogue and incidental music from each film through a sprawling post-industrial soundscape. Neon Rain's driving force is Serge Usson, a former and current member of several French underground black metal bands (Acarus Sarcopt, Eostenem, Sael), but with this project Usson explores a more inorganic nightmare realm where fragments of hallucinatory speech and haunting film scores drift like threads of black rot through cold mechanical dronescapes and grinding industro-terror.
The first disc A Night begins with a weirdly nostalgic piano piece laced with the sounds of pipe organ and buried dialogue samples from the opening graveyard scene in Romero's original Night Of The Living Dead; this soft instrumental music is gradually overtaken by waves of rough static and low-end distortion, until it eventually transforms into a wall of distorted rumble and crackle, sort of resembling Werewolf Jerusalem for a couple of minutes until a crunchy pulsating synth-line drops in amid clanking anvil percussion and metallic roar, building into this pounding electro-dirge that has a sinister Goblin-like vibe. Much of this album centers around a heavily layered form of rhythmic industrial music that combines equal amounts of clanking, whirring mechanical rhythms with electronic synthesizer arrangements that remind me a lot of older horror movie soundtracks; it also reminds me of some of those old, obscure UK hypno-industro groups that released stuff on HeadDirt in the early 90s. The rest of the disc goes from fluttering synth noises and high keening test tones that take on the appearance of warning sirens, to blasts of black cosmic horror-electronics and vast, sprawling expanses of seething death industrial, to the minimal and menacing "The Cellar Is The Safest Place " that echoes John Carpenter's early 80s film score works. Then there's "A Shot In The Head, A Heavy Blow To The Skull", where some extremely heavy distorted guitar sounds come in, huge grinding squalls of metallic blown-out melodic crush, almost like waves of Nadja-style blissed-out ultra-sludge crashing over the hallucinatory samples and mechanical rattling.
Disc number two picks up with Dawn Of The Dead as its muse, and interlaces samples of dialogue and music from that movie into the grim industrial ambience that spreads across the whole disc. This is described as the "ambient" disc in the set, and that's pretty accurate; the music on A Dawn drifts through dreamy drug-fogs of electronics effects and air raid sirens and malfunctioning mainframes, often taking big chunks of Goblin's score and re-working it into a vastly more fucked-sounding form. By the third track I was already dizzy, disoriented by the swirling Italo keys and analogue bloops and random noise. This also has some of the set's heaviest sounds, like the buzzing distorted guitar-drones that ooze like black streams of Sunn O)))-baked tar on "They Know We'Re Here" and suddenly transforms this into a crushing drone-metal dirge.
My favorite though is the third and final disc titled A Day. This features the most rhythmic material of the set, tracks like "They Rise" and "More & More Every Day" sounding like a strange sort of electronic pop, with hooky synth melodies laid out over pounding industrial rhythms and booming tribal drums, super catchy but still possessing that dark apocalyptic vibe of the previous discs. The catchier music will also suddenly transform into a lumbering bit of splatter soundtrack work, and most of the tracks end up sounding a LOT like contempo giallo-programmers like Gatekeeper and Umberto. Not all of this is like that though. There's still moments of bleak wasteland drone-burn and passages of rumbling death ambience found among the pulsating electronic pieces. It's all about the sinister 70s/80s electronic soundtrack sound overall, and fans of the recent wave of bands mining retro-horror OST grooves would probably love this.This killer horror-industrial epic comes in a six-panel gatefold jacket, and was released in a limited edition of 2,000 copies.
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Summer Tape Summer Hate (7th mix)

This is summer, and a lot of CDs cover my desk. So I share with you what I listen to while the sun is burning every organic life outside. Take a deep breath and a cold drink... Enjoy.

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The Tracklist : 

Laibach - Warme Lederhaut

Crystal Castles - Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde (Live At Tate Modern / 14 April 2012) ©Abbey Road Live Here Now 2012

Second Planet - Never Never Land

Second Planet - Work Processing © SkullLine 2012

Brigade Rosse - Allein Mit Dir

Brigade Rosse - Nachts am Fenster © Plastic Frog Records 2012

Maska Genetik - Ernste Stunde

Maska Genetik - Strada © Galakthorrö 2011

High Damage - Brain Tone

High Damage - High Damage © Jarring Effects 2012

Black Mayonnaise - Narcotic Fog

Black Mayonnaise - Ttssattsr © Emperor Jones 2004

Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester - Vulgalina Fever (Edit)

Various Artists - Thanateros - Visions Of Love And Death © :Ikonen: Media 2011

Agent Side Grinder - Life In Advance (Jacques C Remix)

Various Artists - DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume II © DEATH # DISCO 2012

Exlovers - You're So Quiet

ExLovers - Moth © Young And Lost Club 2012

Fever Ray - Concrete Walls

Fever Ray - Fever Ray © Mute 2009

Big Blood - ECHOHEAD

Big Blood - Already Gone I © Don't Trust The Ruin 2009

Lykke Li - Get some

Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes © LL Recordings 2011

Traum'er Leben - Lili Marleen

Various Artists - Enemies - A Collection Of Wartime Lyrical Tunes © Der Angriff 2009

Of The Wand & The Moon - Tear It Apart

Of The Wand & The Moon - The Lone Descent © Heiðrunar Myrkrunar 2011

Warpaint - Majesty

Warpaint - The Fool © Rough Trade 2010

Silent Signals - Berlin Is Lost

Various Artists - DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume II © DEATH # DISCO 2012

Contagious Orgasm + Flutwacht - Inspection 09

Contagious Orgasm + Flutwacht - Inspection Of 1 Hour © SSSM 2009

Thorofon - In Blood And Heels

Thorofon - Targets © Ant-Zen 2012

Slogun - We Attack

Slogun - We Human Animal © Circle Of Shit 2011

Hanatarash - Young Hate

Hanatarash - Hanatarash 3 © RRRecords 1989

Incapacitants - We need more products Sub-advised

Incapacitants & TADM - Stocks & Bonds © Self Abuse Records 1999

Yelle - S'éteint le soleil

Yelle - Safari Disco Club © V2 Records 2011

¡Viva España!

Lux Atenea Webzine

"...Of The Dead", un álbum de culto inspirado en una trilogía cinematográfica de culto. ¡¡¡Disfrútenlo!!!

Obsküre review

Rue Morgue's review

Spread like a virus

http://www.vitalweekly.net/833.html

NEON RAIN - OF THE DEAD (3CD by Steelwork Machine)
Neon Rain started in 1998 with the release of a tape full of recordings made between 1992 and 1997. The last album was released four years ago and for now Neon Rain created an epic trilogy inspired by the first zombie movies of George A. Romero. This American movie maker combines intelligent social criticism and horror. He was one of the first moviemakers who made a big change in the horror genre. No gothic atmosphere anymore, like most moviemakers did before, with scenes from the 19th Century, but based in here and now. Neon Rain took three movies as the base for their music, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. The trilogy "Of the dead" was composed between 2005 - 2010. The CD's "A Night" and "A Dawn" were composed by Serge Usson and David Delwiche. "A Day" is composes by Serge Usson himself. Each CD has his own atmosphere. "A Night" has a nice mix between melancholic sounds, noise and is based on a song structure. "A Dawn" is more noise orientated with sampled voices, analog synthesizers and distorted guitar sounds melted together in abstract compositions. And at last "A Day" with industrial beats in different forms and intensity. I like this part of the trilogy most, because it combines all elements of the other CD's in one album. The artwork of the CD is well done, especially the inner sleeve has a beautiful design in a traditional way for this kind of music.Neon Rain takes time to create new work and I am looking forward to their next project, because this piece of music tastes for more. (JKH)

NEONRAIN - Live "Industrial Party 5" 19/05/2012

Photos by Benjamin Rocamora

A new great review

NEONRAIN – Of The Dead

von blizzard

• Verlag : Steelwork Maschine
• Bewertung : 10 von 10 Punkte
• 

Das “Of The Dead” stark werden würde, habe ich schon erwartet. Dennoch muss ich nun gestehen, dass das Gesamtergebnis noch überwältigender ausgefallen ist.
“Of The Dead” ist ein wahres Meisterwerk der verstörenden sowie atmosphärischen Tonkunst.
Respektvoll spreche ich jetzt schon von einem Klassiker und mein Dank für dieses grandiose Stück Musik geht an Steelwork Maschine. In diesem Sinne – Full House!

http://www.necroweb.de/neonrain-of-the-dead/

Fuck Yeah !

A german review of NEONRAIN - OF THE DEAD

Neon Rain – …Of The Dead

Fazit:

“…Of The Dead” benötigt ein riesiges Freizeitzeitfenster, ansonsten bleibt das Eintauchen in die phänomenalen Tiefen verwehrt, die dieses weitere Meisterwerk von Neon Rain auszeichnet, das nicht nur zu den Aushängeschildern des französischen Industrial/ Dark Ambient/ Electro gehört – meine absolute (Kauf-) Empfehlung!

OF THE DEAD

NEON RAIN
OF THE DEAD
SMR010 - 3CD

2000 copies

4 years after the We are Meat / The Vultures album, NEONRAIN is back with a 3 piece album called "...Of The Dead", dedicated to the first zombie trilogy of George A. Romero. Each CD deals with a specific movie and explores different sounds : Noise, Ambient/Drone and Electro-Industrial. David Delwiche (HYTC) is featuring on this album

SAMPLES :

- A NIGHT
- A DAWN
- A DAY

ORDER IT HERE

NEON RAIN
MORE OF THE DEAD
SKM017 - CD

100 copies

A bonus CD (available on Steelkraft Manufactory), « More Of The Dead » deals with the second trilogy in a lo-fi noise folk style.

SAMPLES :

Land....

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NEON RAIN
OF THE DEAD LIMITED EDITION
SMR010+SKM015 - 3CD+CD+TSHIRT+BOX

50 copies

A special reel metal canister celebrates this new release including
- « ...Of The Dead »
- « More Of The Dead »
- an exclusive t-shirt
- stickers.

ORDER IT HERE

Storm Of The End

Well... I must admit that it was a hard decision but I decided to end Storm Of Capricorn. Lack of time, lack of passion, lack of partners which are really involved in.
So I think it was the best choice. I'm going to focus on NEONRAIN my first project, and maybe, MAYBE, I'll do some new stuff in a folk style.
I want to thank all the people who supported SOC during the 10 last years.

Folk you very much!

You Don't Have To Say Please (6th mix)

Download It.

Hoorray a new mix ! And you don't even have to say please (well maybe a thank you).

The Tracklist :

Crystal Castles - Year Of Silence
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II ©Fiction Records, Lies Records, Last Gang Records 2010
Geneviève Pasquier - Handle With Care
Geneviève Pasquier - Handle With Care © UMB 2010
Fischerspooner - The Best Revenge (Autokratz Righteous Retribution Mix)
Fischerspooner - The Best Revenge © Kitsuné Music 2008
Gravy Train!!!! - Ghost Boobs
Gravy Train!!!! - Are You Wigglin ? © Kill Rock Stars 2005
Geile Tiere - Geile Tiere
Geile Tiere - Geile Tiere / Ausbildung 7" © GeeBeeDee 1982
Scorn - Nut
Scorn - Logghi Barogghi © Scorn Recordings 1996
Nobuhiko Morino - Total Chaos
Versus Original Soundtrack 2000
Stupeflip - Dark Warriors
Stupeflip - The Hypnoflip Invasion © Etic System 2011
Eugenics Council - Think Machine
Rosemary Malign - Think Machine promo CDR 2002
Martin Denny - Jungle Madness
Various Artists - Ultra-Lounge Vol. 1 - Mondo Exotica © Capitol Records 1996
Scott Walker - Psoriatic
Scott Walker - The Drift © 4AD 2006
SicNoise - ZombiZomba
SicNoise - The Double Experience © OPN Records 2010
ICK - Je Cours
ICK - La Parade Des Sans Illusions 7" © Enfant Terrible 2006
La Caution - Comme Un Sampler
La Caution - Peines De Maures/Arc-en-ciel Pour Daltoniens © Kerozen Music 2005
Nazi UFO Commander - Hello Columbus
Various Artists - The Appeal Of Discarded Orthodoxy A Tribute To David E. Williams © Old Europa Cafe 2007
Die Form - Autolyse
Die Form - Some Experiences With Shock © Terrace & Maky 1984
Excerpt from Der Todesking
The Thar Mapsal Program - Untitled
The Thar Mapsal Program - Plasmarium (demo)
Fergie - Get Your Hands Up (Feat. The Black Eyed Peas)
Fergie - The Dutchess © A&M Records 2006
Whitehouse - You Don't Have To Say Please
Whitehouse - Great White Death © Come Organisation 1985
Chrysalide - Noize Guerilla (Gangstanoize Remix By Sonic Area)
Various Artists - Kod.eX Electronic Compilation © Kod.eX 2009
Flint-Glass - Incantation
Various Artists - Kod.eX Electronic Compilation © Kod.eX 2009
Manes - Knife & Kleenex
Manes - [View] © Aural Music 2006
Messer Chups - Deprdeprdepressive
Various Artists Hyper Utesov presents © Лёгкие 2000
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Deee-Lite - World Clique © Elektra 1990
The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis
The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu / Disco 2000 / The Timelords - Shag Times © KLF Communications 1988

Split "Animal Kingdom" soon available

Soon to be released on russian noise label "Spirals Of Involution"

Earth Incubator
Neon Rain
Spirals Of Involution

Mix Entropy I by HYTC

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David from HYTC released this pleasant mix in 4 parts.
Part I : Funky Genocide
Part II : The Awakening of Bang Clang Tang
Part III : Motherfucking Lounge
Part IV : Despair und Chaos.

From Richard Cheese to Brigitte Fontaine to Chu Ishikawa to Virgin Prunes and many others mixed with excerpts of B-movies and HYTC exclusive material.

Enjoy.

New Westwind Album finally out !!!

The long awaited Westwind double-CD 'RAVAGE', five years after its latest release 'TOURMENTE', is finally available.

Apocalypse is now, and this is the soundtrack to the collapse of civilisation.

The regular edition is limited to 900 copies housed in a Digifile packaging, with artwork by Nicolas Crombez.

Check out the limited edition (2CD + 12" + T-shirt)

(on the pic, limited edition + ep "Eliminate Exterminate Eradicate)
Regular Edition
Limited Edition
Eliminate Exterminate Eradicate ep

ELECTRONIC AID TO HAITI

FRENCH:
A l'initiative d'une poignée de musiciens de la scéne electronique underground francaise une compilation digitale visant à récolter des fonds pour l'action de LA CROIX ROUGE en HAITI a réuni non moins d'une cinquantaine de groupes de la scéne electro-industrielle (dont certaines figures majeures comme Front 242 ou le chanteur de Nitzer Ebb, première partie de la tournée actuelle de Depeche Mode). Tous ont offert un titre inédit ou un remix pour soutenir ce projet caritatif..



ENGLISH:
Sigsaly Transmission Records present ELECTRONIC AID TO HAÏTI
(54 artists & 280 minutes of music with unreleased tracks & new remixes available in february)


We all share a planet that is repeatedly shattered by human tragedies. Each and every tremor at the far end of the world is an apocalypse for thousands of people who are not lucky enough to live in more temperate regions. Even the small funds this compilation might raise could help a number of Haitians. If some relief can be brought, however slightly to some and help them rebuild their lives, then this project will not have been in vain.


Army of shadows, you can take part in the support of Haiti in your own way. All the profits generated by the internet sales of this electro-industrial music anthology will be donated to the Red Cross (Croix Rouge) to aid victims of the disaster.


The objective of this anthology is to raise some funds for the Red Cross and support their dedication to the Haiti earthquake victims.Any Piracy, copying or unauthorized remote loading of this compilation on the P2P hosters would be a selfish and mindless. Neither the label nor the bands will get any profits from this project... So, please purchase the album and help those in need.



SPANISH:
El objetivo de esta recopilacion es de recojer dinero para La Cruz Roja que actua en HAÏTI, bajando esta collecion masiva de temas electro industriales y EBM podeis ayudar a los que màs lo necesitan.
El sello americano Sigsaly Transmissions records se ha propuesto distribuir en su pagina web los 54 temas que han sido ofrecido por las mejores bandas de la escena underground europea y grupos mucho màs conocidos.


ELECTRONIC AID TO HAÏTI contiene 54 temas ineditos, versiones live o remixes raros nunca editados de FRONT 242, FIXMER MCCARTHY, LEAETHER STRIP, PSYCHE, PUNISH YOURSELF, ISZOLOSCOPE, AB OVO, AUTODAFEH, DECODED FEEDBACK, HIV+, BAK XIII, BRAIN LEISURE, VOID KAMPF, SKOYZ, BUZZ, DARKMEN, K-BEREIT, DENOVO, PEOPLE THEATRE, AD:KEY, DIGITAL FACTOR, POPOI SDIOH, SHIZUKA, NEON RAIN, LAAG, KUB y muchos màs !!





-tracklist :


01 CHEERLEADER 69_ogoun
02 SHIZUKA_des singes
03 DENOVO_smashed down the wall
04 KUB_dark star
05 AB OVO_reminder
06 HIV+_sous le ciel (vocal pop 2010)
07 TEENAGE SIN TASTE_crash(ed)
08 BRAIN LEISURE_mr dean
09 SKOYZ_waste
10 FRONT 242_ quite unusual (live)
11 PSYCHE_unveiling the secret (back to the future by DIE-6 vs GEISTFORM)
12 MISSING IN ACTION_faith healer (People Theatre's charity mix)
13 FORETASTE_anachronic (blue eyes rmx by Substate)
14 AD:KEY_alte geister (vorwaerts mix)
15 FIXMER MCCARTHY_drive (live)
16 LEAETHER STRIP_closer to the pulse beat
17 VOID KAMPF_steel stahl (Vocal Choir Mix by Code Machine)
18 BAK XIII_we are alive
19 DOLLS OF PAIN_lobotomy (exit version)
20 DARKMEN_forgotten sunrise (rmx)
21 STAHL NEBEL & BLACK SELKET_tv war 2010
22 K-BEREIT_acid rain (Altern-Haiti-Ve)
23 AUTODAFEH_ no shelter (wobbler mix)
24 PSYCHOSOMATIK_better (extended version)
25 LA MAGRA_angels descending (Nephilim remix)
26 SOLVO PROPANE_shock wave
27 PUNISH YOURSELF_we shall be the new messiah (live) feat Ecstatic
28 VADI STARH FEAT. FFA _human error
29 NEON RAIN_sons of the earth
30 SIDE BODY_whispered cries
31 MAURI_son prenom est...(pt.II)
32 PHLLOX_break the code (Laura Palmer reloaded edit)
33 ELECTRIC PRESS KIT_this night (Night mix by -K-)
34 DARK SOUL_zoomb
35 OPERATION OF THE SUN_ radioactivity (Kraftwerk cover)
36 LAAG_red drops
37 BUZZ_vision d'une autre industrie
38 POPOI SDIOH_psychogame_SalenicoRemix
39 NORMOTONE_black horses of destruction feat. VX69
40 ISZOLOSCOPE_the unsettled (glimpses of hell)
41 ANAMORPHOSIS_sad garden
42 DATARAPER_give me a sign
43 T3RR0R 3RR0R_insomnia
44 DIGITAL FACTOR_electroshock 2010
45 MINERVE_falling (cinematic edition by DECAYDE)
46 BEAT IN ZEN vs NUDE_dreams
47 THE CHEMICAL SWEET KID_identity
48 UNDER ALL_out of mind
49 .CUT VS MALINOU_meet her at the maschinenfest
50 KLONAVENUS_ the loser V 2.0
51 THE KICK_blood
52 BIOMEKKANIK_melancholy friend
53 TRANCESISTOR_warum
54 DECODED FEEDBACK_where am I




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New track of Neon Rain

Neon Rain appears on the compilation "French Collaboration" released on Kaos Ex Machina, featuring : Big Cocky Man Sinweldi, Westwind, Storm of Capricorn, Barbarossa Umtrunk, Life's Decay, Jörvallr, Nebel, Le Dedale des Maudits, Sombre Espoir, HYTC, Autodafe, Front Sonore, Morakott TEror Kihrupagganoize, Kalte Container, Das Sm Reich, StielHandGranate, Effets Secondaires, General Drummer

http://www.kaos-ex-machina.pl