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Poison Point - Flowers & Surrender *Video Premiere*

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new music video from Poison Point, the trancey body music solo endeavor of Paris-based producer and live performer Timothée Gainet. Introduced by Third Coming in 2016 and subsequently released on A+W and Young And Cold, his sonic evolution went from the motorik post-punk style of his early recordings to a more dancefloor-oriented dark electronic sound, infused with a captivating touch of military pop Je ne sais quoi.

In his new full length album "Wandering Echoes”, he showcases his diverse sonic palette, creating a unique fusion of infectious body music, entrancing synth-pop hooks and icy-cold melodies setting in flames the hearts of the romantics and nostalgics.

Out March 29th digitally + vinyl on Avant! Records. Pre-order here now.

-MH

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Friday 02.23.24
Posted by Melanie Havens
 

Markus Midnight - Northern Heat *Video Premiere*

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Markus Midnight. "Northern Heat" comes off the Canadian artist's new album, Night Work, out August 1st on vinyl format. Midnight has been crafting his unique brand of synth pop for the past 13 years and Night Work explores local and global themes, using oblique vocals which not so subtly hint about living in a region that is obsessed with oil and harvesting natural resources - at any cost. The artwork portrays a Mad Max apocalyptic nightmare that Markus has envisioned since childhood, in a place where the pump jack and oil derrick are glamorized ahead of everything else.

Today we bring you the album's lead track, "Northern Heat" which is an infectious piece that touches on the seemingly obliviousness of residents to and unfolding catastrophe, all with an otherwise upbeat energy.

Night Work is out August 1st on vinyl + digital. Get yours at: https://markusmidnight.bandcamp.com/album/night-work

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Tuesday 08.01.23
Posted by Jeremy Schwartz
 

PREMIERE: SDH - Denial (Official Video) [AVANT! Records]

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new music video by SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms). miere a new music video by SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms). After 3 years of successful work, the duo formed by Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz deliver their sophomore album ‘Fake Is Real’ on AVANT! Records after their self titled debut in 2018 and subsequent EPs ‘Against Strong Thinking’ and ‘Maybe a Body’, which have been full of reinterpretations and remixes from artists such as Pablo Bozzi and Phase Fatale.

Produced by Kris Baha, who has provided forcefulness to the rhythmic base and prominence to the voices, this stellar release transcends the categories of dark wave, allowing the duo to blend diverse electronica and leftfield sounds such as big beat, Eurodance, synth-pop, hard trance and body music in a very personal and emotional way. Today we present the official music video for ‘Denial’, a tribute to Pasolini and to absolute denial with an anarchist categorical message.

Out June 30th digitally + vinyl. Pre-order ‘Fake Is Real’ now on Bandcamp.

-MH

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Friday 04.07.23
Posted by Melanie Havens
 

PREMIERE: DOEXL - BEAST (Official Video)

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere the new music video by DOEXL. "BEAST" is a dark sonic exploration with fierce vocals, punishing beats and a menacing atmosphere that comes off her upcoming EP, to be released in 2023. The sound visual concept draws problematics of intense vulnerabilities manifesting into dangerous power. A request to the Divine through resilience and subconsciousness, exploring feminine polarities, extremes, the Good, and the Evil. A tribute to the mythological myths, Lilith, the Androgyne, the sacred and the sacrificed.

Pick up the release here now.

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Wednesday 12.21.22
Posted by Melanie Havens
 

PREMIERE: Abraxas - Fuck Green New Deal (Official video) [SOIL]

The Brvtalist s pleased to premiere a new music video from Abraxas. The dark electronics project channels activism through music - its main goal is to shake bodies and minds by spreading messages of individual and social self-criticism from the point of view of duality, extremes and contradictions, inherent to the human being and capitalist society. Abraxas presents the powerful double LP on Soil Records 'Dancing as an act of rebellion' fusing EBM, punk electronics, industrial and beyond, with remixes by Geistform, SMforma, Ober Dada, HBK1, SOJ or Melting Dogmas. Video directed by Ruth Dupiereux.

Out November 5th on Bandcamp. Pick up your copy here now.

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Friday 10.07.22
Posted by Melanie Havens
 

PREMIERE: BOLT RUIN - Nehng (Official Video)

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere the new music video from BOLT RUIN. The Belgian producer delivers a top-notch EP on CDMX’s Infinite Machine, blending field recordings, twisted samples and rave signifiers with an eerie tonality. Born out of his nocturnal production sessions and time spent absorbing the silence of his studio garden, the black metal-tinged 'Ehkta' is a boundless sonic trip. A restless exploration of salvage-punk aesthetics where doom-laden black metal melodies, amen breaks and an experimental approach to sound design sit in an irregular and uneven musical apocalypse. For fans of Blanck Mass or Caterina Barbieri - this is a must-listen material from a fresh producer establishing himself with a singular musical voice.

Today we present the rave-ready track ‘Nehng’, where a frenzy of trance arpeggios and frantic drum programming builds and intensifies over its 5-minute duration. Inspired by Yves Klein’s ‘Leap Into a Void’, ‘Nehng’ definitely evokes that bodily rush of freefalling into the unknown. ‘Nehng’’s driving rhythm is switched out for the brooding ‘Tzarhk’ - an ode to the soundtracks of B-movies composed on a vintage Roland SH-2 (a prominent character of the Stranger Things soundtrack). BOLT RUIN runs thick, syrupy synth slabs and punishing drum patterns through a rain-soaked limiter the producer found lying on the street by chance.

Out September 30th on Bandcamp. Pre-order here now.

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Tuesday 09.27.22
Posted by Melanie Havens
 

Brazilian London based artist presents their debut single with a music video shot between São Paulo and Bogotá

Lisbon, August 2022 -  Multi-instrumentalist and music producer KAPP releases, on September 22nd, their debut single, “Burning Lips”. Brazilian living in London for almost two decades, they present Electronic Body Music with a splash of Electro and Industrial elements to the audience, the result of his years as bassist in indie rock bands and electronic music as a DJ, with “devotion” as a central theme. The music video, produced between Brazil and Colombia, illustrates this feeling.

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“The song is about devotion. Devotion to doing what the body you live in is demanding you to conquer, not because you want to, but because it is essential to your survival. However, when exposed for devotion in an unsafe space, you take the risk of being corrupted by your own blocks and traumas. Once you understand that there is nothing to lose by laying down the rules to define your identity, you must allow devotion and explore every corner of your existence”, says KAPP.

The track starts with a mysterious mood, strong beat and a groovy bassline, then moves on to rhythmic synth grooves, dark textures and syncopated percussion, culminating in a passionate explosion by KAPP's vocals.

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In co-production between Brazil and Colombia, the video for “Burning Lips” is directed by Thiago Yoshinaga, a Brazilian based in Bogotá. Between scenes of Kapp recorded at the Jerome club, in São Paulo, and dancers in a studio in the Colombian capital, the work brings devotion and expression as central themes.

“There is an immense difference between enjoying doing something and feeling the need to do something. The urgency of putting something out, even unintentionally, is revealed in surrender and devotion. The video for 'Burning Lips' shows three characters expressing themselves, not because they take pleasure in positioning themselves that way, but because these forms of expression are programmed into their DNA. So it's a matter of survival. Three ways to get out the message the voice inside wants to speak out loud. Three people who are serving their vocation because they have no choice,” defines Kapp.

Listen & buy the single on Beatport and watch the music video on YouTube.

Friday 09.23.22
Posted by Guest User
 

COBRA CANE - Fisherman (Scuderia) *Official Video*

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere the new video from COBRA CANE. "Fisherman" comes off the the project's new LP, Bad Bad Good, out now on Scuderia/Dead See. Following up on the group's latest video, "Cathlic Killa", this video plunges us back into Cobra Cane's venomous world with this killer video by Tommy Excellent.

Pick up the release now on vinyl + digital on Bandcamp.

Track Title: Fisherman

Artist: Cobra Cane

Album Title: Bad Bad Good

Label: Scuderia/Dead Seed Productions

Catalog Number: SR27/DSP041LP

Release Date: 28/6/22

Format: Vinyl, digital

Composer: C. Landi, L. Lamanna

Lyrics: O. Kohlenberg

Mastering: L. Lamanna

Artwork: Scarful

Logo: Blssnd

Video: Tommy Excellent

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scuderia_re...

Label Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/scuderiarecords

Label Bandcamp: https://scuderia.bandcamp.com

Wednesday 09.07.22
Posted by Jeremy Schwartz
 

PREMIERE: Bitumen - Moving Now Now Now (Official Video)

Nostalgia of the rich textures of floating synth sounds of the middle 80's glories. A new kind of nostalgia immersed in a volatile swinging mood. Hypnotic originality in danceable nuances. Sophisticated in its seductive powers. Deep in its intricate details, as in a subtle groovy beat drumming or in a Cure-esque semi-gothic guitar manoeuvres. If listened au passant, you could swear we're living in another era. Therefore, dive yourself into an intricate time capsule, only possible when you touch a dream as a feather the wind carries on.

“Moving Now Now Now”, the third video and single from Bitumen’s savage sophomore album, ‘Cleareye Shining’, showcases the band's epoch of expressionist impulse. Monochrome silhouettes are met with chess stylistically doused in Hollywood Regency. Bitumen’s Kate Binning embodies slick femme fatale with a choregraphed performance emphasising Binning’s affinity for stage and camera. Produced by Jenny Branagan and Andrea Blake and edited by Bitumen’s very own Bryce Maher. “Moving Now Now Now”, connects the dots between Anger’s scandalous expose ‘Hollywood Babylon’, Bob Fosse, Klaus Naomi, and the golden age of glamour noir in the MTV Music Video.

Out on digital, CD and vinyl formats. Pick up your copy here now.

-MH

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Tuesday 08.30.22
Posted by Melanie Havens
 

Running Up That Hill (Might Be Twins Rave Edit)

The Summer edit we all needed. Free download now at HYPEEDIT.

Also check out Might Be Twins latest podcast for PLUS Agency and stay tuned for an announcement of their (rescheduled) Berlin debut.

For all other Might Be Twins inquiries: booking@thebrvtalist.com

Tuesday 07.26.22
Posted by Jeremy Schwartz
 
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