cue july cruelties

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Jul 072011
 

screens and shadowsAn honor: Dark Horizons Radio made us artist of the month for July, and more: they spun one of our earliest tracks, Grim on the annual Coffin Classics show today. Download the podcast— there’s some memories from Tones On Tail, Chameleons, Cyberaktif, Xymox. Thank you very much, Theresa & Edd.
Further on that topic, we just submitted an exclusive club mix of Ever and Anon for the 7th Dark Horizons Compilation CD. I’d bet on that track making the cut, along with a killer from Cellmod which carries a small/low performance contribution from yours truly.

Add Grave Concerns magazine to the growing list of insightful and incisive reviews written of Somewhere Between (Heaven & Sorrow). We’re also eagerly awaiting a paper copy of Dominion Magazine on import from across the pond that’s got us covered— issue #10.

Listen for an interview segment on an upcoming episode of the impossibly eclectic solipsisticNATION podcast (Subscribe/get schooled if you think you know electronic music. Respect.)

“Work” “continues” on a video (photo evidence directly above) for the Goodbye Berlin remix. No idea what the exact purpose of this project is, but as a proof-of-concept, archival footage is going a long way toward looking kind-of cool intercut with a small amount of The Band. This might be entertaining. And might be finished within a couple of weeks.

cat’s out, or maybe horses.

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Jun 282011
 

Woke to an unprecedented stream of hits on my alert for web posts about the band; Today is the day my brand new album showed up on all of the illegal torrent sites, mp3 0day forums, and http filedump hosts. There are a couple of different rips going around, both of which were done by people to whom I mailed a disc… (there’s a photo of it.) Maybe they were 2nd owners already. Whatever. Life is weird.

If you’re thinking about getting it for free, please also consider going to youshriek.com and paying for a disc, vinyl record or lossless download. Perhaps more importantly, spread the word, follow @youshriek on twitter, Facebook-Like fb.me/youshriek, and download Goodbye Berlin from youshriek.com in exchange for your email address so we can stay in touch. And offer legitimate free stuff once in a while.

Thank you for choosing to support the band. It means more than ever.

Birthday Rauschgift № 1

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Feb 212011
 

Oh, what the hell… my birthday is some time this week or month or year, so I’m going to give the gift of a bunch of albums for the rest of February so you can give me the gift of downloading You Shriek songs. This EP is our first CD release from 1994. Info page really has info. Love you all. Enjoy the music, junkies.

UPDATE: party favors are gone. no more downloads of this EP, but you can listen.

fallout art

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Feb 132011
 

Lara presented the 1st mockup of the Caesium Fallout EP 12″ sleeve. It’ll be brilliant.

sitting on a goldmine / landmine

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Feb 022011
 

Diamond Girl photo of a Banksy pieceFinal mastering for Somewhere Between (Heaven & Sorrow) was finished (to be candid) long ago, by the talented and personable Brian Hazard of Resonance Mastering. Our paths had crossed several times; I was already a fan of his work on some albums in my collection, so connecting was natural. And now, after the work, he remains a terrific resource to follow around the ‘net.

With mastering comes the final decision on how loud to make the music sound. We could push these mixes to match screaming radio hits, but so doing means mercilessly crushing down all of the short, exciting micro-spikes of sound. That’s a trend. Many think it a horrible, garish, fatiguing trend…

Fortunately the first pass Brian delivered was nothing like that. The result is loud enough that you won’t want to reach for a volume knob when one of these songs comes on, but you’ll still experience the contrast of a quiet shimmer between stabs. It’s a physical & emotional component that I had to preserve.

The brilliant part is: if you want even more of that sound (and you’re willing to put forth the effort to turn up the volume) you’ll be able to choose an entirely different final master of the album with even greater dynamic contrast. What you get is the kind of sound you can turn up in your headphones and disappear into the song. This will be the “diamond mine” version, because “audiophile” is just too insulting.

I’ve never seen this done before, but since there’s no additional manufacturing requirement in offering both versions for download you get a choice. And to take it a step further, the diamond version will be offered in a format that’s higher-quality than CDs support; specifically 96khz, 24 bit lossless files. I’m excited to see if this delights or confuses everyone. Questions? Please ask here, or on Twitter or Facebook.

Spinning Apace

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Dec 122010
 

This is a welcome routine: More podcasters and DJs to thank & greet for their recent, precious attention. Twitterfriend DJ Parallax has a crafty new show on Darkside Radio, also podcasts regularly. Possibly our first spins in-world from DJ BronxElf in Second Life’s Club Gothika & stream. Lovely comments from Jen of Inside My Head podcast and also from skilled beatmixer SiNNeR Angelo on OSA After Dark. Please tell them all we said, “Hi”.

This is not-routine: Absolutely smashing remix delivered by Cellmod just now. It will blow you away. Really. If the sound system at the club is powerful enough, I’m sure this mix is precisely tuned to hurl you across the dance floor, then chase you down & hold you until you weep in its arms. Regrouping after travel for this release.

Somewhere Between March & April (Album release)

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Oct 282010
 

Artwork for the album Somewhere Between (Heaven & Sorrow)Pre-sales for Somewhere Between (Heaven & Sorrow) will begin 7th March, 2011. Official release will be 4th April, 2011 The album is a collection of newly-finished & recorded songs whose demos and origins span more than a decade. The accompanying vinyl 12″ EP, Music From The Ceasium Fallout Series will contain exclusive extended & remastered sound from the trilogy episodes of the Spies on Zero Zero Island video podcast.

Apposite Eventualities

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Sep 102010
 

We’re overdue for another expression of gratitude for those superstar podcasters and mastermind radio hosts that selected You Shriek in the past couple of weeks. Thanks in no small part to you, the fanometer is registering spikes of a magnitude we’ve never before measured— Facebook likes, Twitter follows, Email List signups, LastFM spins, (and probably MySpace things)— all on the constant rise.

So whether you’ve already spun No Heroes, on your show, or queued it for general rotation, thank you. That’s to Dave and Brandi on InsideOutcast (above and beyond a mere spin & mention!) Martin on Thirteen13, Po on Death & Resurrection, Mikey on Strangeways, Colin on Ourobouros (when things get better. hope they’re looking up), Mirage on Darkside Radio. Sparkling good shows, each different, all worth your while.

And here’s one that doesn’t come up often: Our friend Dragonfly Lingo has announced a clever contest to give away a lovely handmade dragonfly logo notebook. This constitutes our enthusiastic submission to the drawing, as well as your opportunity to click over to hear some heavy, dark and twisted collages, conceived of vivisected rock and downtempo, furtive & familiar speech clips, and clarion ear stabs of synth-borne melody.

Next free track, “Lilith in Libra” is on-deck for VIPs (that is, everyone on the email list.)

netcasts we love

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Aug 072010
 

In case the stream in the sidebar isn’t enough @youshriek twitter for you (and, really, how could you have enough?) it would be worthwhile, and furthermore mutually beneficial for you to join in the conversation. I’d like that.

But the real point of this post is to thank (and thereby perhaps draw your attention to) the fantastic podcasts that have been playing our music lately. All of whom are the aforementioned conversation.

@cruelbrit2010′s show is called Fadeout, @aztalanturf is at Aztalan Turf, @DHRadio is Dark Horizons Radio, @CINCI_INVASION hosts The Invasion @solipsistic for solipsistic NATION, and @CRY0G3N on Sounds from the Sandbox.

Give them each a click.

Actual, smart, interesting music fans playing what they love. Let commercial radio continue to rot away in cultural and artistic irrelevance.

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