"THE WORLD'S FRESHEST AND MOST INTERESTING LABEL!" - DAZED & CONFUSED (12/03 UK)
Gomma is a label based in Munich, but with artists working in Paris, Berlin, NYC, Zürich and other parts of the world. The main Gomma activists are Mathias Modica & Jonas Imbery (they produce as Munk and Leroy Hanghofer). Besides their own music, they also release records of a few friends (MOCKY, HEADMAN, KAMERAKINO, THE RAMMELLZEE and new acts HILTMEYER INC & WHOMEANWHO). Also they started the "Amore" posters mag this year. They organize parties (back in the 90ies they organized the first German appearances of people like DFA, Squarepusher, Les Rhythmes Digitales, The Rapture and The Psychonauts), produce soundtracks for fashion shows (Kostas Murkudis - but also labels like Givenchy, Pucci, Jeremy Scott used Gomma sound) and are djing worldwide at clubs like le Pulp/ Paris, Plastic People/ London, Cookies & Fun Club/ Berlin, Apt/ NYC and fashion parties (Colette/ Vogue/ Paris 2003, Ny Industrie / Milan 03...).
Gomma was born in 1999. Before the Gommabunch were djing, they were painters, made fanzines, organized partys and had some bands.
Sound: Gomma records should always be characterized by a producer's very personal touch and not be part of an obvious fashion. Since 1999 Gomma was one of the first new labels to rediscover the no wave/ punk-funk sound of '70s and early '80s NYC. Since then, Gomma has moved into new directions and you can hear Italodisco & Trance influences as well as futuristic pop and Fucked up R&B, Punkdiscochansons and other unique and forward thinking music.
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GOMMA 222EP
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Dimitri From Paris and DJ Rocca come back to Gomma Records with their fourth EP on the label, a new three-track EP. Dimitri has been doing consistently good music over the last 20 years, ever since he first appeared with his very Parisian album Sacrebleu in 1996. He quickly became a worldwide respected European first-league eclectic disco DJ. Some years ago he teamed up with Italian producer, DJ, and man of many talents, DJ Rocca. Rocca might be known to many for his work as Ajello and Crimea X. New school booty electronic disco. Glamorous as ever. Nasty as always.
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GOMMA 219EP
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Mathias "Munk" Modica lives in France and has worked with many Parisian artists including Chloé, the Ed Banger crew, and Black Strobe. Here, Modica teams up with Jennifer Cardini's Paris-based Correspondant label for a collaborative release with his Germany-based Gomma label. Munk's tracks here are influenced by psychedelic ideas and the 1990s Detroit electro-funk sound of labels like Red Planet. Analog instruments, funk loops made on a MPC, and weird, sick synthesizer melodies. Includes remixes by LA's finest psychedelic electronic producer, Secret Circuit (Beats In Space Records), and German star Lauer (Tuff City Kids with Gerd Janson).
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GOMMA 220LP
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Barotti is a musician and multimedia artist based in Berlin. After years of working on urban sound installations, performing arts, and experimental music, he now presents his debut album. A soundtrack for fantastic futuristic fairytales. Epic and symphonic -- with a deep electronic base. Armed with iconic analog gear of the 1970s and 1980s, a hand-picked group of high-level classical string- and horn-players, and the whole imaginary world of his absurd fantasies, Barotti opens up a new dimension in the vast field between contemporary classical and electronic music. Rising stands firmly with one foot in the same mud as Woodkid and Sohn, and the other foot dipping into the past 200 years of classical music -- a cocktail of Funkstörung and James Blake. The album was recorded in Casablanca and Berlin and co-written and co-produced with Swedish composer Anders Ehlin and German producer Valentin Sommer. In 2012 Barotti travelled to Morocco with a group of dancers, musicians, and visual artists, gathering in an antique house facing the Port of Casablanca. The whole foundation of Rising revolves around the epic sessions in that house, which were later shaped into complete studio productions in Berlin. With Barotti's background in jazz improvisation and the world of the performing arts, it was clear that this album would be a multifaceted collaborative production. Just as in a jazz improvisation, the different energies and skills of Barotti and his two friends have created something special. This is a new universe of sonic landscapes, created using only old pianos, rare synthesizers, and analog effects. The visuals for the cover artwork were drawn by Sandra Tebbe during the Moroccan recording sessions, using the ancient ceramic tiles on the walls of the house in Casablanca as her canvases.
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GOMMA 216EP
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Hessismore is a seven-person collective based in New York and Copenhagen and led by musical mastermind Mikkel Hess. Their music, featuring Balinese marimbas, African drums, and spooky voices, appears here in four remixes. Dimitri from Paris delivers an effective, sexy disco stomper -- a club bomb that retains the crazy voices, punk-funk feel, and the moody, new wave atmosphere of "Youarenotaprimate." Williamsburg's hidden underground star Lorna Dune reworks "Bearsong" in an edgy, distorted, beautiful way. Munich's Pollyester crafts a kind of naïve early-'80s power-disco out of "Youarenotaprimate," something one might hear at clubs like The Loft with DJ Harvey playing.
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LP version. Munk is the project of Gomma label-founder Mathias Modica ("Germany's most interesting electronic music label" --NME). Munk is best-known for his collaborations with Rebolledo from Pachanga Boys (Surf Smurf), James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem (Kick Out the Chairs), Asia Argento (Live Fast Die Old) and club-hits like "Down in L.A." and "La Musica." He co-produced the albums of Gomma bands WhoMadeWho and Moullinex. There is already a big buzz around Munk right now: The pre-single "Southern Moon" went to the top of the Beatport house charts. DJs such as Todd Terje, Shit Robot, Tensnake and Disclosure are playing it. Also "Happiness Juice" (and its superb video) is all over the blogs right now. Munk's latest remix of Lana Del Rey's "West Coast" went to No.1 on The Hype Machine after its release in June 2014 and is one of the most blogged remixes of this summer. The album Chanson 3000 is the fourth Munk album. It was recorded in Berlin, where Mathias and his new vocalists live. As usual, Mathias' music doesn't fit into any categories. It's a mixture of '90s electronica and house with new wave, '70s jazz-funk, indie-disco and his love for songwriters like Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, and Trevor Horn. Mathias is a classically-trained musician. His dad (a composer of contemporary classical music) taught him to play instruments since the age of five. That's why Modica's way of producing is so different: he mixes "real" instruments (he plays piano, synths, bass, saxophone, guitars, drums) and new digital techniques. He also has this special ability to write melancholic melodies and harmonic structures that are unusual to electronic music. That's probably why so many names have been invented to describe the Munk sound: outsider house, digital soul, deep disco -- but maybe you can put it the way a German writer did: Munk sounds like you put Metronomy, Disclosure and Nicolas Jaar in a mixer and added some great soul voices. The album was mixed and mastered by Rob Rox (Banks) and Mark Ralph (Daniel Avery, Franz Ferdinand).
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Thomass Jackson is a new entry in the Gomma crew. Thomass is part of the new vibrant Mexico City electronic scene. Similar to many dudes who do house music in a less formulated style, he comes from playing instruments: bass, guitar, drums -- in funk bands -- before getting into electronic production and DJing. After two releases on other labels (Electrique Music and La Dame Noir), he now lands on the Gomma planet. Be ready -- he is serious.
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GOMMA 200CD
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Munk is the project of Gomma label-founder Mathias Modica ("Germany's most interesting electronic music label" --NME). Munk is best-known for his collaborations with Rebolledo from Pachanga Boys (Surf Smurf), James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem (Kick Out the Chairs), Asia Argento (Live Fast Die Old) and club-hits like "Down in L.A." and "La Musica." He co-produced the albums of Gomma bands WhoMadeWho and Moullinex. There is already a big buzz around Munk right now: The pre-single "Southern Moon" went to the top of the Beatport house charts. DJs such as Todd Terje, Shit Robot, Tensnake and Disclosure are playing it. Also "Happiness Juice" (and its superb video) is all over the blogs right now. Munk's latest remix of Lana Del Rey's "West Coast" went to No.1 on The Hype Machine after its release in June 2014 and is one of the most blogged remixes of this summer. The new album Chanson 3000 is the fourth Munk album. It was recorded in Berlin, where Mathias and his new vocalists live. As usual, Mathias' music doesn't fit into any categories. It's a mixture of '90s electronica and house with new wave, '70s jazz-funk, indie-disco and his love for songwriters like Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, and Trevor Horn. Mathias is a classically-trained musician. His dad (a composer of contemporary classical music) taught him to play instruments since the age of five. That's why Modica's way of producing is so different: he mixes "real" instruments (he plays piano, synths, bass, saxophone, guitars, drums) and new digital techniques. He also has this special ability to write melancholic melodies and harmonic structures that are unusual to electronic music. That's probably why so many names have been invented to describe the Munk sound: outsider house, digital soul, deep disco -- but maybe you can put it the way a German writer did: Munk sounds like you put Metronomy, Disclosure and Nicolas Jaar in a mixer and added some great soul voices. The album was mixed and mastered by Rob Rox (Banks) and Mark Ralph (Daniel Avery, Franz Ferdinand).
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After years as a vocalist and keyboarder in James Murphy's superband LCD Soundsystem, finally Nancy Whang steps out with her own solo project: cover versions of big songs from the '70s, each of which is produced by a big name in today's electronic scene. The extended version of Dennis Parker's "Like an Eagle" elongates the groove and the disco flourishes into something really quite epic. Audiojack's production (remixed by Black Loops and Malik Yells) features spritely house drums and disco-fried synths. The second track sees Nancy team up with UK disco don Bonar Bradberry for "Working the Midnight Shift," originally by Donna Summer.
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After string of hot 12" singles since 2009 and remixes for Diskokaine, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Headman, Ilya Santana, Box Codax, and others, Gomma co-founder/German producer and DJ Jonas Imbery aka Telonius releases his debut album, Inter Face. One thing is for sure, the album is an intentionally body-shaking affair that incorporates a certain twisty edginess -- the product of 15 years of experience in various diverse musical projects. In 1999, Imbery founded the Gomma label with his partner Mathias "Munk" Modica, a musical juggernaut that has become a platform for an astounding group of artists such as Esperanza, Justin Robertson aka The Deadstock 33, WhoMadeWho, Moullinex, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Mercury, and Dimitri From Paris. From the start, Gomma has emphasized its independence of musical trends and fads, working with surprising influences and carving its own brand of club music. Under his Telonius moniker, Imbery creates a kind of house music that exists far outside of scene chic and boring retro clichés. His music is brimming with funk influences that were already a hallmark of his producing techniques in previous productions. There's a hint of disco in these arrangements -- here and there strings and horns surface for a brief sojourn, and always there are strong bass lines all over the place. The icing on the cake comes in the form of the vocal contributions by friends and colleagues from Munich, Berlin, New York and Amsterdam (such as Faberyayo of Dutch band Le Le, led by graphic artist Parra). Inter Face is a collection of 10 tracks and many surprising musical elements, ranging from house to disco to techno to funk and some new wave with a penchant for analog instruments and organic sounds. Telonius takes these elements and creates an atmospheric mix that is only about one thing: an infectious groove. This is not a club music thesis, nor is it functional, run-of-the-mill house that so dominates the current club scene. This is a collage of house tracks that never sound banal and have plenty of emotion in them.
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This is the debut album from The KDMS, who have lately been described as the "indie-disco answer to Adele." Then a German journalist wrote: "The KDMS could be for the new underground disco scene what Moloko were for the late '90s downbeat phenomena. A key band that connects current club music with great songwriting and the unique voice of a great soul diva." Three singles out in two years have seen a prominent fan base growing rapidly, creating a good buzz in the electronic music world. Tensnake, Jaymo and Hot Chip are fans. Hot Chip even got involved in the album: Felix Martin did a remix for "Tonight," and Alexis Taylor and Justus Köhncke are guests on the album and made a bonus track: a hypnotic alternative version of "Wonderman." The KDMS are London's electro soul diva Kathy Diamond and the super-talented young producer Max Skiba. On stage, they get support from three side musicians. Kathy and Max met a few years ago and immediately felt that there was a connection. Max had done a few things for labels like Under The Shade, Skylax and Record Makers. Kathy had worked with Maurice Fulton, Aeroplane and Toby Tobias. But since their first session it was clear that this cooperation could grow. There was a kind of magic in the air. When they make music together, a special energy emerges. They have soul. They are sophisticated. Sometimes melancholic. But then there is this dirty funk. The blogs love them. It seems that somehow they created the blueprint for a new, modern touch on electronic pop music. The indie disco-house movement is growing -- mainstream pop music is bored and is searching for new inspirations in the dance world. The KDMS emerges using state-of-the-art underground electronic styles, evolving them into a new, deep, dirty but glamorous pop sound. Slow, nasty, futuristic disco. A new genre-crossing style connecting different musical angles.
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GOMMA 160CD
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The Esperanza boys combine huge musical talent, fantasy and knowledge of music history with a great technical ability and skills. All three guys have been learning classical instruments but have also been experimenting with electronics. Esperanza's Carlo Dall'Amico, also known as CECILE, has already released on Gomma (his remix for Vampire Weekend stirred quite a buzz in the UK). On their debut album, the guys create their very own different sound. Atmospheres range from late-San Francisco psychedelic to tropical or Icelandic vibes, Düsseldorf electronics, mid-'90s Detroit techno mixed with a pure "Anima Latina" -- the universe of Italian melodics and harmonics. Or think about Brian Eno having a friendly jam session with Global Communication, Turzi and Air in an open-air amphitheater. The album features recording artist Banjo Or Freakout on vocals, and future remixes come from Luke Abbott, Broke One and Walls.
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GOMMA 157EP
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The long-awaited, first 12" by Berlin DJ Hugo Capablanca and Swedish man of many talents, Tobias Keeler. An epic flamenco-boogie 11-minute jam that makes girls shake their goodies faster then 45 singles turn around. Featuring vocals by flamenco duende Ana Menjiba. Hot stuff! Includes a remix by P.G.Parallax.
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Originally released in 2001, reissued on Gomma in 2006. Headman aka Robi Insinna is one of the originators of the new disco and punk-funk movement. Since he started his recording career on Gomma he has developed into one of the leaders of the new disco-rock scene. He has been asked to remix the singles of artists such as Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, Roxy Music and Annie. This album features guests such as Soulwax, Erol Alkan and The Rapture. The Headman sound seems to get slowly established in the world of music. But Robi Headman has been doing it for a long time. The It Rough album came out in 2001 -- when bands like The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, !!! and Radio 4 were not on the map yet. An exciting, organic, mostly instrumental disco album -- which includes a good dose of '70s rock influences as well as an elegant new wave vibe.
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GOMMA 079EP
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Includes (Daredevil's My Middle Name) Mustapha 3000 Remix, album version. Also Headman club version and Headman club dub.
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2004 release. Hiltmeyer Inc delivers some wicked electronic disco. Situated somewhere between Cosmic music, proto-techno and Italian porn movie soundtracks. Hiltmeyer is a 27-year-old guy who comes from a family of US soldiers who preferred to stay in Germany and marry into a genuine Munich bunch: Hiltmeyer's grandma (who raised him) had been working as a waitress at the famous Hofbräuhaus and the Oktoberfest for 20 years. Hiltmeyer is well known in the Munich club scene for being an excellent DJ. He was raised in a part of Munich where a lot of Munich's techno producers like Zombie Nation, Richard Bartz or the Disko B/Chicks on Speed people pass their time: Sendling.
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2004 release. Munk didn't wanted Aperitivo to be one of those straight-forward, dance CDs with one beat and one mood. Their intention was to make an album that includes various atmospheres and musical influences. Like a Bavarian - French - Italian - American - British mixtape. The sound ranges somewhere between club and listening, connecting live band and samplers, inspired by disco, house and hip hop culture. Infected by psychedelic rock, no wave and punkfunk. The first single "Kick Out The Chairs" was recorded with vocals by long time Gomma fan James Murphy of New York's DFA (producer for The Rapture, Radio 4, LCD Soundsystem). More features come from French DJ Chloe (from Paris' Pulp Club), London-based Midnight Mike, guitar player JAW (who lives in Munich but usually produces for DJ Shadow's label Quannum), Princess Superstar and Bobby Conn.
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GOMMA 110CD
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2008 album Cloudbuster from German psychedelic discoteers Munk on Gomma. Includes collaborations with Italian actress/directrice Asia Argento, Matty Safer from The Rapture and German cult-director Klaus Lemke. Superb futuristic disco & psychedelic soul!" --i - D magazine
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GOMMA 070CD
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2006 release. Gommagang 3 is the third compilation of Germany's Gomma label. Club hits, remixes & unreleased tracks from the last two years. Previously released on vinyl only. Including stuff by Headman, WhoMadeWho, Midnight Mike and Munk plus (vocal & remix) contributions by guest artists like The Rapture, Francisco, DJ Chloe, Midnight Mike and James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem). The CD is mixed by MUNK. Gomma has consequently been developing his own, fresh, personal style in the past years. Organic, fresh disco-inspired music -- with elements both from raw psychedelic rock to German minimal electronics. It's time to bring this special vibe and some of the greater current club hits on one CD. GG 3 represents the current state of the label. It's a lot more than "Brilliant punkfunk and modern disco."
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GOMMA 109EP
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2008 single from the album Cloudbuster, featuring Asia Argento. Remixes by Headman, The Juan Maclean and Maral Salmassi & Zero Cash.
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GOMMA 111EP
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2008 single from the album Cloudbuster, featuring Asia Argento. The first ever Ed Banger All Stars remix and it's, well, banging. The flipside features a deep space techno extravaganza by Danish disco-grungers WhoMadeWho, and it's a genre-hopping master piece. Starting with a minimal beat, developing into a 6/8 shuffle-techno and ending up as intense techno disco. The third remix is a baile funk remix by Rio de Janeiro's underground DJ number one: The Amazing Clay.
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GOMMA 063EP
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2006 release. This is the third Gomma 12" by Danish producer, DJ and (WhoMadeWho) drummer Tomas Barfod. Like always, Tomboy delivers some delicious, electronic, funky and modern sounding 4/4 tracks -- between Italo, cosmic synths and a heavy bassdrum. Advanced Plastic Disco? Maybe.
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GOMMA 120CD
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2009 release. Second album by Danish future disco pioneers Whomadewho. 13 songs influenced by early '70i prog rock as well as the complex side of disco music, with a very rough DIY pop approach and some well integrated electronic bits and drum sounds. "...the best DANCE ROCK band since LCD Soundsystem." --Mixmag
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GOMMA 123EP
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2009 single from WhoMadeWho's full-length, The Plot Remixes by Discodeine and Lützenkirchen.
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The legendary Gomma-disco album made by Munk (originally released in 2001) and it still sounds super fresh: raw discoboogie crossed with some punk-funk, pop and Italo disco. Leroy Hanghofer's got his own special producing technique: he says he's sick of hearing all these "wannabe Dionne Warwick or whatever jazzy soul voices." Instead, he likes the charming sleaziness of talented but "innocent" dilettantes. So he finds himself some nice girls with sexy voices at the club, brings them to the studio, serves them beer etc., then he sends them into the toilet (which is the vocal cabin of Asamstüiberlstudio), and with the help of his friends from Munk, puts together a cool little tune from time to time. A Leroy track always sounds a little bit "out of everything," and has this certain flavor of its own -- it mixes new wave and electro pop aesthetics with boogie-beats and R&B flavors, now that he's got so many tracks -- it would be a shame not to bring these little excursions out on an album. So here it is: German new wave boogie.
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This is the second album from Box Codax, the follow-up to 2006's Only An Orchard Away. "Last time round we didn't even mix our recordings," says Nick McCarthy, "I had absolutely nothing but my computer and a little synth I borrowed from Alex" (Kapranos, his bandmate in Franz Ferdinand). All the vocals were done on the sort of clip-on mic that TV presenters wear on their collars. "It was," McCarthy admits, "pretty extreme." Few who heard their first record would have expected this loose outfit that convenes in the ultra-rare and highly irregular gaps between Franz Ferdinand's activities to outgrow the limited ambitions of a side project, let alone to create such a glittering ball of sheer pop invention as their second album Hellabuster. The title track switches time signatures like a werewolf going through mood swings, there's the glamorous Moroder disco-beach romance "Seven Silvers," the eerie falsetto harmonies of "Radical Plains," the soundtrack to a chemically-enhanced kids' party that is "Choco Pudding," the crime mystery in a wrinkly raincoat "Pour Moi," the giddy games arcade hysteria of "I Won't Come Back," followed by "Charade," which is all pent-up desire in a self-catering holiday apartment. "Nothing More Than Anything" with its Spanish guitars and drunken waltzes collides with "Sandy Moffat," a punk song seemingly accompanied by the Church of Jonathan Richman School Choir, "Inanimate Inamorato" is a lament for a "timid inanimate friend," there is the cinematic solipsism of "My Room" and the android-on-half-empty-batteries reggae-disco of "No Trains," and finally "Dawning," the wistful sibling to "Seven Silvers." Large chunks of Hellabuster were produced in Nick and Manuela's former hometown Glasgow, where the many talents of Pabs Debussy aka Franz Ferdinand drummer Paul Thomson were in easy reach. Pabs provided beats and programming on four tracks. More recording was done at Joseph Mount of Metronomy's home studio and Jonas Imbery and Mathias Modica from Gomma Records had their hands in two more tracks. For the songs that required an extra dose of rock, none other than AC/DC's long-serving engineer Mike Fraser took control of the mixing desk.
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