Gung-Ho! Newsletter 20/09/2011

Well Another Busy month or so since our last post. Release and Signings have been thick and fast!!

1st and foremost after over 6000 hits on the soundcloud page for EARTH's Why You Wanna EP we finally release it. Not going to bore you with the details of who is playing it and who loves it but quite frankly we couldnt care less. Its an amazing record and a pretty proud moment for us to work with such a talented artist. (Earth is also the voice of Icelandic Legends GusGus).

The EP which is Cat no 'Genghis062' is available from beatport by CLICKING HERE.

Remixes are from Luke Walker, Pete

Jordan and Juan Kidd.

Speaking of Juan Kidd, we are also pleased to announce the release of a one off number from him. A team up with him and Dom Long has seen the I Need You track released.

A straight up no nonsense Balearic houser it will keep the heads happy !

Once again, CLICK HERE IF YOU WANNA BUY IT AND NOT THEIVE IT!!!

We also have a bit of a treat too. The Rialto Burns have just finished the video to their next release. a Truly stunning record with a great direction by Dominic Foster and a stunning acting performance by Lotty Nears. I hope you like it as much as this office is buzzing about it !

Jundge for yourself and as always - comments are appreciated

The Japanese Popstars also have had a thunderous run of Gigs and one Highlight being the show at Electric Picnic in Ireland. Here is the closing of the show to 8000 people!

Until next time, stay in touch and follow us on facebook HERE !!

Gung-Ho! Newsletter August 2011

Hey ho, lets go!What a superb few weeks since the last letter and the Signing of Acrylics. Thanks to Laurene Laverne and all at BBC 6 Music who played the record a number of times. Its available Digitally everywhere so if you want to grab yourself 45 mins of sheer joy their album "Lives and Treasure' can be bought here !

In the Meantime if you are not aware of this band then check out the forthcoming single Nightwatch HERE

In other news The Japanese Popstars have had a stunning festival season, clocking up, Glastonbury, Rockness, Secret Garden, Kendall calling, Dour in Belgium, Sea of Love in Germany, and Bestival coming up amongst many others. Bestival will be great as The Cure headline. The lads are pretty chuffed as Robert Smith has guest vocals on the bands new Single, "Take Forever" which is previewed HERE.

On the underground label side we have reached our 60th release that comes in the form of Luke Walker's "Tough Love". Already the track has received support from BBC 6 Music on Erol Alkans 6mix and other players such as Brodinski, NT89 and Alex Metric Amongst Others anyways the track will be released mid August via all digital terminals. Cat No Genghis060. Naturally !

Superstringz Released the Evolver EP that is on beatport now. It has mixes once again by Greg Churchill and Angela Fisken backed with Saturn its a real corker!

CHECK OUT SUPERSTRINGZ NEW BAD ASS RECORD HERE!

Other releases Scheduled are from the mighty Greg Churchill, Stu Hirst, Pete Jordan and many more... Too much talent, too little time!

We will try and not leave it so long next time!! Until then speak soon and if you wanna keep dancing then here is our SOUNDCLOUD

New Signing to Gung-Ho! - Acrylics

WE ARE VERY HAPPY TODAY !!!!

Acrylics is the musical partnership of Molly Shea and Jason Klauber. Native to Philadelphia and downtown Manhattan, respectively, the pair began making music together while attending Ohio's Oberlin College, where they spent snowy nights in their basement droning Fender Jazzmasters in odd tunings and listening to vinyl records from New Zealand. After graduating Molly and Jason both moved to Brooklyn and founded Standing Nudes, a fiery quartet with a cult following who became one of the first singings to True Panther Sounds. When the band's drummer and bass player left to become MGMT's touring rhythm section, Molly and Jason decided to try something new. They named their new project Acrylics to evoke a planet of synthetic color. Combining the confessional and the fantastical, Acrylics set out to make cinematic songs that tell the truth too.
Acrylics started experimenting with various recording techniques and bizarre results began to emerge. Songs with folk roots grew disco branches, country skeletons wore new age skin. The band set up shop first at L'Hotel Bushwique (a Bushwick basement studio that Jason shared with Patrick Wimberly from Chairlift) and then at Vacation Island Recording in Williamsburg with producer Matt Boynton (Gang Gang Dance, MGMT). Additional tracking was done at Great City Productions in Chelsea with Britt Myers (Yeasayer, Chairlift). Throughout the sessions, friends from Brooklyn's musical community came in and out lending talent and love to Acrylics' labors.
Their first EP, entitled "All of the Fire", was released on Terrible Records (Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear's label) in late 2009, and the press immediately took notice. Pitchfork gave Acrylics "Rising" artist status and listed the band among the "best hopes" for 2010. Across the Atlantic, NME called Acrylics "Teen heartache given pop form." Buoyed by the praise from their EP, Acrylics returned to Brooklyn in late 2010 to finish working on the album. They called it "Lives and Treasure" because that's just about what it cost to finish the thing.
Many stories surface and vanish over the course of the album's ten tracks. The songs are concise but extremely potent, and each listen reveals something previously undiscovered. Opening the record with the insomniac lullaby, "Counting Sheep", is already a bold choice. A simple melody restlessly builds upon a baroque set of chords. Harmonies enter and disappear like ghosts. A Beverly Hills Cop synth-bass drops underneath, and then the whole thing explodes into an all-out club banger for just one chorus. There are more austere moments as well, like the acoustic "It's Cool Here" where we find two people learning to accept each other and find peace with their surrounding environment. The title track is all icy disco and speaks of the irresponsibility and excesses that can accompany a life of privilege. It all coalesces into a sparkling, meditative album of uncommon beauty.

Licensed to Gung-Ho! Recordings for UK & Eire via Hot Sand Records and Friendly Fire Recordings.

THE RIALTO BURNS ANNOUNCE MINI ALBUM EP

FOR THE ASKING EP MAY 2011

After last summer’s lo-fi debut ‘Radiate,’ The Rialto Burns release the ‘For The Asking’ EP on 28 March 2011 - an energetic 10 tracker full of cavernous, dark moments, electrical soaring highs, and some dirty edges. “Love, loss, hope and salvation – we’re trailing through ‘em all,” says Adam.

Seen it, done it and still haven’t learnt a lesson is the first insight, on “seedy but reflective” opener ‘For The Asking.’ Fuelled by stuttering drums and glinting guitar flecks, ‘Learning To Fight’ eulogises on the need to face facts and move on. “It seems quite melancholic, but there’s an underlying optimism,” says Adam. Opening with a growling industrial snarl and powered by a relentless guitar riff. Next is ‘Constellations’ - the first track ever written - aptly, it’s about following your dreams, sometimes at the cost of those around you. ‘New Year’s Day’ is a cover of the U2 track which, put simply by Al, “Was too good a song to be left on the shelf,” and the EP closer ‘Radiate’ touches on sidelined friendships and the hope of reunion.

The EP also includes live versions, remixes and videos. “We wanted to offer a snapshot of all aspects of our world,” says Pottsy. “It already feels like we’ve done a lot in a short time.”

When they signed to Gung Ho! in early 2010, The Rialto Burns had only been together a year, forming after a domino effect of chance meetings which spirals from the inner city indie hangouts of Liverpool, to a bedroom in North Wales to an online band ad site.

Powered by a shared love of The Smiths, New Order and Echo & The Bunnymen, they embarked upon a never-ending circuit of live shows, notching up sell-outs in their native Liverpool, slots with Hot Club De Paris and a gig at label-mate Eddy Temple Morris’ Proud Gallery ‘Remix’ parties.

Of the upcoming first album? “It’s nearly done,” says Pottsy. “It’s gonna include 4 tracks from this EP and 7 new ones, maybe a couple more. Musically, it’s a combination of all our influences. We’re really into bands like Antlers, Boards Of Canada, LCD Soundsystem and The Walkmen, so aside from the romance and tales of interaction, expect pops, bleeps, synths, visceral guitars and body moving bass.”

EP TRACKLIST

1. For The Asking

2. Learning to Fight

3. Constellations

4. New Years Day

5. Radiate

6. Back To Life (Live)

7. Radiate (Live)

8. For The Asking (Live)

9. Learning To Fight (Welfare For The Digital Remix)

10. For The Asking (Tom Maddicott’s Freakshow Remix)

THE JAPANESE POPSTARS - SONG FOR LISA

Today we drop the new radio edit of Song For Lisa to radio! It features the stunning vocal's of Lisa Hannigan. It is released on I Tunes that can be purchased by CLICKING HERE.

Here is the Video too SONG FOR LISA.

Hope you kids like ! x

'WHO IS MISK' EP OUT NOW!

MISK

“WHO IS MISK EP”

A. WHO IS MISK

AA. HELL YEAH

Buzz Chart No 14 - W/c 31/01/11

Cool Cuts No 20 - W/c 31/01/11

Available to download exclusively on Beatport CLICK HERE

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Misk aka Philip Byrne to his mother is one half of the Dj / Producer duo, Arveene & Misk who first came to Gung-Ho!’s prominence on the Seminal Underground Hells Bells EP in 2009. Alongside productions and remixes for the likes of Kelis, Mr Oizo and more recently The Japanese Popstars’ Song For Lisa’ which is picking up props left right and centre.

Misk has stepped out on his own for this one and introducing himself with the ‘WHO IS MISK’ Track – After playing it you will soon find out!! A heavy jacked up piece of electronic assault. Heavy as the hills but still has time and space for the funk.

If a track on this label could typify what traditional Gung-Ho! Is then it really is ‘HELL YEAH’. No nonsense following heavily on the electronic stabs. This EP is exactly why we do it. FUCK !!!

All we ask as ever is play loud.

BIG UP .

Early Reactions

Tom Findlay Groove Armada – Huge. Love it

Mash (galaxy) - i've been loving the Arvenne and Misk stuff and this is a great signing! Loving the bass sounds they use. I will be playing this on my Capital show and in the clubs. (played w/c 24/01/11)

Greg Churchill - Who is Misk is sensational stuff!

Mason - This is pretty disturbing. and really nice

Paul Deighton (MoS) - Wicked Track! !

Download a free mix done especially for Gung Ho! from M!SK

Feb Mix for Gung Ho! by Misk

Losers Album Nominated for XFM Awards!!

'Beautiful Losers' by the mighty Losers has got a nomination for best album in the XFM 2011 awards! The album definatly deserves a nomination and the award if we do say so! Please jump on the site and vote for Losers.. just click here to get taken to the page!

Brand New Welfare For the Digital Release!! OUT NOW

WELFARE FOR THE DIGITAL
“SPEED OF THE PUMA EP”
Released Jan 2011

1. Speed Of The Puma
2. Starscream
3. DnA

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Ben Francis & Martin Holden come up with the goods again on this fantastic new production. A follow on from their Rat Rate / Flight Of The Navigator output on Gung-Ho! Previously the Lads have well and truly stepped up the game again on this stunning new production which is tech house incarnate.
Speed Of The Puma and Starscream lead the Package with their epic synths whilst DnA Takes things a little tougher with an extremely heavy kick and glitchy stabs.

CLICK HERE TO BUY!!!

Ben from the band edited the two videos for the ep..

Speed Of The Puma




Starscream




Reactions

* Luke Walker - Speed of the Puma is excellent, deft work on the drums and fills, fantastic bass and great emotion. Nice work boys!
* The Japanese Popstars - Speed Of The Puma is great!!
* Tom Koenig (Producer in new DJ’s we trust BBC Radio 1) - Starscream is really good.
* Joachim Garraud - Good track
* Greg Churchill - Groovy little number. Very stereotypical Gung Ho.
* Armin Van Burrin – Cool
* Enzo (Plastic) - 2 wicked tracks
* Shane Kehoe (Gung-Ho!) - I'm feeling 'starscream'... Deep moving my ass on the dancefloor tech house just the way the HO! like it.... DnA has a groove to it for sure! SUPPORT
* Markus Schulz – Nice Stuff
* Circuit - Got a mean groove to it, will definately play this out
* Dodge - Welfare for the Digital rocks!! Deffo going to blast that one out!!
* Acid Jacks - i love DNA it grinds
* Pedro Del Mar - cool track, gonna try it out!
* Andrew (CD Pool) - Classic gung ho!
* Gustav (Rfm) - Full support!
* Lumir Very good tracks, i try play in clubs
* Mr Spring - DnA is nysh und wobbly...
* Master Forever – Cool track