hello folks, here is the news for august:
New Releases:
Next Week:
KS - Kristuit Salu - My Mines I Sampler 12" - selected tracks from "my mines i" cd (5 tracks) plus a bonus track
MN - Morris Nightingale - My Mines I Sampler 12" - selected tracks from "my mines i" cd (5 tracks) plus a bonus track
Sept 1st (cd):
011 - Machine Drum - Urban Biology - Second Machine Drum Album
012 - Machine Drum - Half the Battle - remix cd - with 3 new machine drum tracks plus remixes by proem, brothomstates, ilkae, proswell, lackluster, xela, tstewart, secede, vim, esem, tim koch and syndrone
note: these 2 cds come out in Japan on P-Vine Records on August 25th
Also on Sept 1st we will be reissuing Machine Drum - Now You Know CD, with new artwork and digitally remastered.
Live Shows:
We have one coming up in New York on Sept 1st, to celebrate the release of all of those Machine Drum cds and Kristuit Salu vinyls:
Sunday, September 1st - Triad Theater
158 west 72nd, corner of Broadway, [around the corner from the Beacon
Theatre]
9pm-2am 18+
$10, $8 with printout or flyer
Upstairs (All Live):
Brothomstates, Kristuit Salu, Heat Sensor, Chief Kamachi, Machine Drum
Downstairs:
Team Shadetek, Dj Rupture, Danny L, Dj Mutamassik
We will also be doing a tour in Japan in the beginning of November:
Machine Drum Live & Kristuit Salu Live + DJ Merck
November 1st, Tokyo, November 2nd, Nagoya, November 3rd, Osaka
Other News:
www.m3rck.net mailorder stock:
we have remade the md - appelsap shirts, we have also made some fashion concious merck truckers hats, we will have some machine drum shirts appearing within the next couple months as well.
future releases:
we recently put up a bunch of soundclips from our upcoming new releases in the upcoming section, we plan to drop at least four to five 12"s before christmas, plus some other suprises.
recent merck sitings:
the lackluster LL 12" got reviewed in a recent issue of URB, as well as the featured review of My Mines I in XLR8R a couple months back. We've also been running small ads within the cargo/crosstalk ad in the UK magazine The Wire.
merck pm - proem - 2=1 12":
we finally got this record straightened out and apparently it doesnt have skipping problems hardly anywhere, so it is now officially released and in circulation.
merck dj mixes:
under the artists section on our website we have a listing for the current merck djs, we are going to start putting up featured mixes(all merck stuff) made by the djs, check em out.
rumors:
cd series: piano tracks made by merck artists
vinyl series: melodic minimal techno/house by merck artists (dont worry, good stuff)
thanks for your time, email us any questions
-merck
m3rck@m3rck.net
www.m3rck.net