Robot Rock band Recorder is starting to wrap up the 2009 year and they are clearing out all of this years merchandise ... Stickers, Shirts & CDs. For $10 you get a 1 T-Shirt, 1 CD, and 1 Sticker.  All shirts are black with a blue-silver print of the logo pictured below. After these are gone they will no longer be printed. Quantities and sizes are limited so order quick!

www.thethoughtcriminals.com

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"Energetic electro... A searing blend of EBM, pop, electro, new wave and punk" Bent Magazine



An energy fuelled electro track, known as “All The Freaks”, taken from the forthcoming album "You're A Moral Liability,” serves as The Thought Criminals’ latest single release. In November 2008 they released the album “Die Young, Stay Pretty” which was met with a wealth of critical acclaim, and was described as a “blend [of] punk, new wave, electro, EBM and pop into a unique brand of dark alternative dance music…An impressive album that defies easy categorization and offers plenty for fans of various styles of subversive dance music” by Outburn Magazine.



The initial concept of South London based ‘The Thought Criminals’ was created by both co-founders, Rocky & Kirlian in 2004, based on their equally unique styles, attitudes and influences. The creation, a very catchy, dark & energetic EBM (Electronic Body Music) sound is fused with the influence of punk, rock & 80’s electronic. They cite artists such as ‘The Sex Pistols,’ ‘The Prodigy,’ ‘Gary Numan,’ ‘Marilyn Manson,’ and last but not least ‘Soft Cell’ as inspiration.



Rocky is the lead singer, a showman with a shock rock, glam and fetish style, who has inspired a host of ‘The Thought Criminals’ songs and their lyrical content, but leans towards his strength as a stage performer. Kirlian, the new romantic man, has orchestrated and driven their success to date with the ability to create such individual musical content, along with the assistance of backing vocals and aiding to their stage spectacle using his unusual laser harp! Introducing Shane, a recent keyboard playing addition to ‘The Thought Criminals’, who has brought his distinctive, stylish clean cut image with an underlying dark rock aspect in to the mix.



Over the years, The Thought Criminals have headlined prestigious London venues such as ‘The Underworld,’ ‘The Dublin Castle,’ ‘The Mass’ and ‘The 333 Dub,’ showcasing the rebellious attitude and tongue in cheek lyrics that has seen fans flood in from every angle of the musical spectrum from lovers of 80’s electro, to old school punks and from new romantics to out right rockers – anyone and everyone unable to resist a catchy big beat! Their broad appeal is likely to grab anyone bored of droll commercial pop wanting a new and unique cutting edge change.



“One of the more unique offerings to come along in quite some time.” Grave Concerns Magazine



“Bizarrely uplifting and cheerful in a twisted way with lyrics infused with sarcasm and a heavy dose of IN YOUR FACE rhymes and lines” Heathen Harvest



“Thoroughly refreshing” Ectomag

This week saw the release of the long awaited Kraftwerk catalog remasters. Below are quotes from Kraftwerk and some of the artists their work has influenced. CATALOGUE

“The sound needed remastering…it’s like a reconstruction, like when a painter takes his paintings from the archives and blows the dust off and puts them in a retrospective. It was quite time-consuming work, but I think once you see it you will immediately understand.’ – Ralf Hutter, Kraftwerk





AUTOBAHN

With its iconic Emil Schult sleeve, Kraftwerk release their international breakthrough album. The symphonic title track, an epic ode to the joys of motorway travel, wraps a mesmerizing motorik rhythm around a sampled collage of car horns, engine noise, whirring tires and radio crackle. In edited form, it becomes a revolutionary hit single around the world.

Elsewhere, in wordless industrial folk music, the band reveal both their light and dark sides – ‘Mitternacht’ is all creeping midnight shadows, while ‘Morgenspaziergang’ is fresh with morning dew and birdsong. Two versions of ‘Kometenmelodie’, one a starkly gothic prowl, the other a sunny electro boogie, provide further instrumental sound paintings. Pure and strong and bold, Kraftwerk compose cinema for the ears. The pop world falls in love with them.



The impact of this album is so strong that Spin magazine includes it in their list of The15 most influential albums not recorded by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis or the Rolling Stones. “



”Autobahn was a big step and a different approach to making an album, a whole concept…I felt really inspired by Kraftwerk’s music.” – Michael Rother (Neu and Harmonia)





RADIO-ACTIVITY

Kraftwerk embrace the atomic age with mixed emotions. Surfing on sine waves, scanning the stratosphere for stray radio signals, they plug themselves into a buzzing grid of energy and communication. From the stately eco-angst anthem ‘Radioactivity’ to the synthetic Gregorian chants of ‘Radio Stars’ and the melancholy machine processional of ‘Ohm Sweet Ohm’, a sombre but engrossing monumentalism dominates.

With heavily processed vocals in both German and English, Kraftwerk go global with depth and majesty. If factories and power stations are the new cathedrals, they write liturgies for a new industrial epoch.



At the time Trouser Press magazine notes that the album marks an important step in Kraftwerk’s artistic progress converting the band into “ultramodern sonic engineers.”



“Radio-Activity is the record I would listen to and still do when I want to feel alone. It’s the warmest and to my mind the saddest of all the Kraftwerk records, though this could be attributed to the song ‘Radioland’ which is the most aching thing I’ve ever heard on record. I can easily sit in my house and cry listening to that song…This entire LP is filled with great transitions (‘Geiger Counter’ into the title track into ‘Radioland,’ etc.). It marks a bridge between the sprawling earlier work and the more controlled Man Machine and Computer World. It’s also the first time I heard this type of gentle and terrifying electronicsound, the sound at the end of “Ohm Sweet Ohm’ and the quiet space of ‘Radioland,’ that makes this record break my heart.” – James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem)



TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS

Kraftwerk celebrate Europe's romantic past and shimmering future with a glistening panorama of elegance and decadence, travel and technology. The infinite vistas of ‘Europe Endless’ and ‘Endless Endless’ bookend the album, which includes the unsettling Kafka-esque fable ‘The Hall Of Mirrors’ and the hilarious ‘Showroom Dummies’ - Kraftwerk's elegantly ironic reply to critiques of their deadpan manner.

But it is the streamlined rhythmic locomotive of ‘Trans Europe Express’ which dominates with its doppler-effect melodic swerves and hypnotic, pneumatic, piston-pumping rhythm. Along with its sister track, ‘Metal On Metal’ which New York DJ Afrika Bambaataa would re-construct five years later for his own seminal ‘Planet Rock’, this milestone in avant-pop modernism later becomes a crucial influence on the early pioneers of hip-hop & sampling, electro and industrial music. Poetry in motion.



“With Trans-Europe Express, they set out to reinvent a different legend: that of Europa itself. In the process, they changed pop music forever.” – Rolling Stone



“The juxtaposition of the humanity and the technology creates the melancholy tension. Trans Europe Express was the apex where beauty and machinery chiming together.” – Andy McClusky (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)



THE MAN MACHINE

A bold new look, sound and concept for Kraftwerk. Over supple processed rhythms which predate the rise of European techno and trance, they address automation and alienation, space travel and engineering, the seductive allure of urban landscapes and the vacant glamour of celebrity. Clipped and funky, ‘The Robots’ adds another dimension to Kraftwerk's ultra-dry sense of humour. Behind its intoxicating melodic pulse, ‘The Model’ is a highly prophetic satire on the beauty industry, so ahead of its time that it only becomes a UK chart-topper by accident three years later. And ‘Neon Lights’ is Kraftwerk's most achingly romantic song to date, a sci-fi lullaby for cities at twilight. Pure magic.

“The album has ‘classic’ stamped all over it…in time it would acquire the same ageless quality as The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper or The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds…” – Pascal Bussy, Kraftwerk: Man Machine And Music

“I’ve been a Kraftwerk fan all my life and The Man Machine is my favorite album….The Man Machine was about as flawless record as I could imagine, everything from the artwork to the photography and the production…It sounded so perfect, this platonic ideal of what electronic music could accomplish, this combination of atmosphere, emotion, melody and rhythm. It was the first time I realized that rhythmic electronic music could be stirring, atmospheric and beautiful which is one of the things for years and years that I’ve aspired to do in the music I make.” – Moby



COMPUTER WORLD

Kraftwerk beam themselves into the future by writing about home computers, online dating and globalised electronic surveillance years before these phenomena truly come into being. A journey into the bright hopes and dark fears of the booming microchip revolution, ‘Computer World’ is a serenely beautiful and almost seamless collage of sensual melodies and liquid beatscapes. Tracks like ‘Numbers’ and ‘Pocket Calculator’, with their weightless bleeps and elastic beats, predict the silky rhythms of Chicago house and inspire a generation of Detroit techno artists. Kraftwerk's fanfare for the silicon age still sounds ageless, timeless and throbbing with invention.

“Computer World is really the cornerstone techno album. Full steam ahead techno! Everything was just so precise about the music. They made every sound count….I hold Computer World in such high esteem, like an icon, man. “ – Juan Atkins



TECHNO POP

Kraftwerk return from five years of silence to reclaim their throne as leaders of a machine-pop revolution that they themselves began over a decade before. Their ‘Techno Pop’ album, first released under the name Electric Café but now restored to its originally intended title, provides a 360-degree overview of a multi-lingual, multi-channel, musically diverse global village.

From the block-rocking beats of ‘Boing Boom Tschack’ to the electronic funk and computer animation of ‘Musique Non Stop’, Kraftwerk soar into the digital age. Their first excursion into digital recording finds both beauty and unease in a polyglot world of permanent media overload. Once again, Dusseldorf’s test pilots of the musical future effortlessly break new ground.



“The whole side one is brilliant…I used to sample this album all of the time for bits of percussion because they had sound I could only dream of...Its original title Techno Pop makes so much more sense to me as a concept. I could never understand why it was called Electric Café. It was the first time I heard the word techno in an electronic music concept and I reckon Detroit definitely took the term from that Kraftwerk track….I feel almost ashamed when I listen to the Orbital back catalog and hear how much Kraftwerk there is on there. I still hold them up there as my musical gods.” – Paul Hartnoll (Orbital)



THE MIX

Kraftwerk's first fully digital album confirmed their clubland credentials and reworked 11 of their best-loved tunes for a new generation. Painstakingly reconstructed and sequenced in the band's Kling Klang studio, new versions of tracks like ‘The Robots’, ‘Trans Europe Express’ and ‘Home Computer’ now feature more funky rhythms and cleaned-up, liquid-crystal sounds. A stark warning about pollution at Sellafield is added to the glistening overhaul of ‘Radioactivity’, sparking a war of words with British Nuclear Fuels. But most of all, The Mix is a career-spanning collection of legendary electro anthems and a classy acknowledgment of the two-way traffic between Kraftwerk and club culture.

“I really love The Mix. I think it is a great album. It’s Kraftwerk’s greatest hits done on their own terms, The Mix was Kraftwerk reinterpreting their songs in the style of other people who’d come after them. Detroit and Chicago and everybody who did their own take on Kraftwerk…My copy doesn’t play any more because it was played to destruction…Kraftwerk had an undeniable influence on Joy Division and New Order.” – Stephen Morris (New Order)



TOUR DE FRANCE

The centenary of the Tour de France marks the conceptual starting line for Kraftwerk's first album in over a decade. From the chunky cyber-funk of “Vitamin” to the restless metallic shimmers of “Aéro Dynamik,” this is emphatically the sound of 21st century techno visionaries.



“Displays more intellectual rigor, subtle discipline and attention to detail than many of their younger contemporaries can ever dream of attaining.” – The Wire



“A work of near-genius.” - Mojo



“[Tour De France] has got this fantastic weightless, gliding quality, a sense of almost natural warmth and humanity that comes through what is essentially a very cold electronic sound. It just propels you forward…” – Al Doyle (Hot Chip)

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(New York, NY – June 22, 2009) - As an internationally respected artist/producer/remixer/DJ, DAVID GUETTA’s track record has been impeccable for nearly two decades. Now, in mid-2009, his career is reaching new peaks: “When Love Takes Over” featuring the lead vocal of multi-platinum pop-R&B songstress Kelly Rowland, is taking off as a world-wide smash, posting its first national #1 charting in the U.K. this week; he is also the track producer of Black Eyed Peas’ rousing new #1 single, “I Gotta Feeling,” in whose video clip he makes a cameo appearance. And Guetta’s upcoming fourth studio album, ONE LOVE, scheduled for August 25th release on Astralwerks, is an ambitious, ingeniously crafted album that sets forth nothing less than a bold and beautiful manifesto for the global pop and dance audience.



“Making this record with so many talented artists was such an amazing experience and the end result is an album infused with all the best flavors of contemporary pop music that will appeal to such a broad audience both on and off the dancefloor,” noted Guetta.

DAVID GUETTA - Joan of arc (Crookers Rejected Mix) MP3 yousend itSignificantly, it was Guetta’s own defining and assured musical viewpoint as a DJ and producer that attracted the A-listers who make ONE LOVE one of 2009’s most diverse and star-studded album projects. Kelly Rowland, for example, moved to tears at first hearing the instrumental work-in-progress that became “When Love Takes Over” on the dance floor at Guetta’s famed F*** Me I’m Famous party in Cannes, greeted him in the DJ booth, and was later given the track to write to. will.i.am, similarly, had first approached Guetta to contribute to a club-inspired album planned by Black Eyed Peas (the just-released Energy Never Dies) – and their collaboration snowballed to include two tracks on ONE LOVE: the out-of-control “I Wanna Go Crazy,” and “On the Dancefloor,” joined by apl.de.ap, a fresh evocation of the hip-hop/house fusions of the late 1980s.



Throughout the agenda-setting ONE LOVE, Guetta serves up a body-rocking, all-embracing blend of hip-hop, soul and electro – an audacious fusion that's been sorely missed ever since rap and dance audiences became polarized at the turn of the 1990s. With a global following of nearly five million celebrants at over 200 DJ performances just last year attesting to his musical authority, it’s no wonder that Guetta has emerged as a catalyst and a curator of an exciting new musical hybrid, his magical producer’s touch bringing out the best in all his collaborators -- even as accomplished a hook-meister as Akon, who sings the album track “Sexy Bitch.”



A rare dance album spotlighting its vocalists as well as its beats -- each singer cast flawlessly in tracks tailored to their individual qualities -- every one of ONE LOVE’s vocal collaborations is marked by arresting hooks, inventive musical development, and compelling humanistic messages. Notable among the guests who leave true personal stamps on each song is Chris Willis, the longtime lead vocal collaborator with whom Guetta has shared no less than seven top 10 chartings around Europe, who lends his larger-than-life, testifying vocals to the funky house of “Gettin' Over” and “Sound of Letting Go.” Recent Grammy winner Estelle imbues the title track with a rich, luminous emotional grace; and Kelly Rowland turns in another vibrant and melodic lead vocal in “It's the Way You Love Me” worthy of the most stirring of Donna Summer’s dance anthems.



Breakout stars Kid Cudi (“Memory”) and Novel (“Missing You Anymore”) also share surprisingly personal stories in a dance format; and, rounding out an album full of high points, Wynter, fresh off a worldwide hit with Flo Rida (“Sugar”), stars in the outrageous “Toy Friend;” and Makeba delivers “If We Ever,” a unique electronic confessional ballad.



The set-up single for ONE LOVE is in launch mode all over the world, ensuring that the album will be front-of-mind globally at its late-summer release: “When Love Takes Over” is currently #1 on the Billboard Club Chart and is now crossing over to top 40 radio in major markets, destined to become a runaway summer smash. BBC’s Radio 1 A-listed the song in advance of its official release in the U.K. Prior to official weekly chart publication, “When Love Takes Over” shot immediately to No. 1 in British and French iTunes single-song downloads.



DAVID GUETTA’s name is synonymous with the world’s greatest house and dance music, and with the parties that bring that music to life. Since releasing his first pioneering single “Up 1 Way” in his native Paris, France in 1992, David Guetta has sold over 2 million albums worldwide and over 3.2 million singles. He has been France’s No. 1 club DJ for a decade, and was named the world’s No. 1 House DJ in 2008. Attesting to his global appeal, Guetta is also a bona-fide YouTube star, holding the record for “most watched” of any artist in the electronic music genre with over 32 million views of his 2007 classic “Love Is Gone”.



In Europe, Guetta has previously released three chart-topping albums (Just a Little More Love, 2002; Guetta Blaster, 2004; Pop Life, 2007). Guetta and his wife Cathy are also famed for staging the mega-sized dance parties, F*** Me I’m Famous, for tens of thousands of house, electro, and dance-loving fans from Ibiza to Miami, New York, London, Barcelona and Paris. They have released four best-selling compilation packages of the same name.



For more information on David Guetta, please visit:



www.davidguetta.com

www.myspace.com/davidguetta

www.youtube.com/davidguetta

www.facebook.com/davidguetta

www.twitter.com/davidguetta_en

MANCHESTER, TN (AP) — Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor said their performance Sunday at the Bonnaroo Music Festival was their last in the country.

The industrial rock group performed in the early morning hours Sunday at the Tennessee festival, shortly after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band wrapped up.

"It just dawned on me that this is our last show ever in the United States," Reznor said during his band's set. "Don't be sad. I'll keep going. But I think I'm going to lose my ... mind if I keep doing this, and I have to stop."

Nine Inch Nails just completed a U.S. tour with Jane's Addiction. Their summer tour continues in Europe and Asia. The tour, dubbed "Wave Goodbye," was conceived as a farewell tour to mark the 20th anniversary of their first album, "Pretty Hate Machine."

The eclectic mix of Toronto's music and fashion worlds have collided on Dragonette's remix of Fritz Helder & The Phantom's "Lagerfeld Lady". Dragonette, the London-by-way-of-Canada quartet, substituted the band's signature blend of pulsating synths with a lounge-inspired blend of piano, flutes and sax. It's as though Lily Allen, Prince, and the Rat Pack made a baby. The band's debut record, Greatest Hits, drops July 7th via Nelstar Music.
"Lagerfeld Lady" Dragonette Remix:
http://fritzhelder.com/lagerfeldladyremixes/1_Dragonette_mix.mp3