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Electronic, New Wave, Pop

Soft Cell – Forever The Same?

Soft Cell & Pet Shop Boys: “Purple Zone” (Extended Mix)
This 12″ Video Remix was edited by Myles Matisse.

Official video for “Purple Zone” see here.

“Purple Zone” is taken from Soft Cell’s forthcoming new album, *Happiness not included, out on May, 6th.

While the digital single is out since late March and already the most succesfull Soft Cell single since a very long time the physical
singles will be out as soon as May (CD) and November (12″).
Of course all with different mixes. The CD single even has an extra non-album track while the 12″ tracklist shows 2 exclusive Pet Shop Boys Remixes.

Pre-ordering now just in time for X-Mas is possible here.

Gothic, Post Punk

14 Years On : bauhaus still undead

“Drink The New Wine” was recorded last year during lockdown with the four members sharing audio files. The track employs the Surrealists’ ‘Exquisite Corpse’ device whereby each artist adds to the piece without seeing what the others have done. Bauhaus have used this technique in the past to great effect. The title refers to the very first Cadavre exquis’ drawing rendered by André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy which included words which when strung together made up the sentence, ‘Le cadavre exquis boiara le vin nouveau’ (‘The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.”) For the recording, the four musicians each had one minute and eight tracks at their disposal plus a shared sixty seconds plus four tracks for a composite at the end. All done without hearing what the others had laid down. The only common link being a prerecorded beat courtesy of Kevin. The final playback came as synchronistic revelation.

[Release Statement]

Written and Produced by Bauhaus

Art Direction and Video Design by
-Regan Catam
-Adrian Burke (Awen Studios Ojai)

© 2022 Bauhaus Music