Hello there pop pickers!

Yep, it's been absolutely AGES since we last gave an update, not that we've been resting on our laurels or anything. On the contrary, we've got releases upon releases piled up and we want you to listen to 'em, but we're perfectionists and want everything to be tip-top and spick and span before it gets unleashed upon you all. And, typically, all of the releases seem to be ready all at once, which is VERY CONVENIENT INDEED. Not that we're moaning like.

Anyway, enuff guff, onto Distraktion aktion. The first release upcoming getting us very excited at Distraction Towers is the speaker-kicking noisefest from Necro Deathmort. This Beat Is Necrotronic (DIST19) comes out on CD with limited edition packaging from WT Nelson at Thumbprint Press (those of you that have the Marzuraan Five Years Of Fuck All CD on At War With False Noise or seen the Bastard Noise packaging will know what to expect here), and what a bloody joy to look at it is. The artwork comes courtesy of the scarily-talented Dominic Hailstone, who produced the Mogwai Batcat and Isis Holy Tears videos and did the creature effects on that Aphex Twin Come to Daddy video.

All of which would threaten to overshadow the actual music on the CD itself, but thankfully that's awesome too. The boys Matthew Rozeik and AJ COOKSON have served up a tasty treat of jittering, skuttering brutal electronics, Earth-style drones (back when they had balls), creamy hiss, turntablist noise pedal effect antics, crushing guitars, elegant ballroom atmospherics, to full-on balls-out full decaying post-apocalyptic doom. Nice one! Honestly, this is fantastic, and we're chuffed to bits to be putting this out. This is the Entroducing of doom music, not that we're ones for hyperbole or owt. Watch out for the FREE download of this soon.

We are taking pre-orders on this one NOW, and it's limited to 500 copies only, so be quick or be dead, as Bruce Dickinson once aptly warbled.

After that, it's Tempelhof's one-sided individually-painted numbered 12" vinyl in a hand-printed sleeve (phew!) It's a two tracker - Leaving Home and Cage (DIST15 - out October, fingers crossed), and, indeed, each and every single vinyl has been individually painted over a period of a year by the fair hands of Polly Bound, and if you put the 250 vinyls together, it forms a 25x10 foot monochrome painting of rural countryside in North-East England. Of course, if you have house with a 27' high ceiling, this is the perfect opportunity to fill one of your walls with some cracking art.

Mind you, even if you only get the one copy, it's still a great-looking slab of wax, with two tracks of perfectly formed lush downtempo beauty. We love Tempelhof, us. Their music is at once mournful, sparse, introspective and dynamic, and these two tracks demonstrate what these guys do best: emotional, subtle passionate music without so much of the po-faced navel gazing. In fact, we love them so much we asked them to do us an album, and thus We Were Not There For The Beginning. We Won't Be There For The End.[/album artist] (DIST16) is getting a release at the end of the year, a few weeks after the single release (by the way, neither two tracks on the single are on the album, so don't think think you can wait for the CD, bucko.) Christ, this album is incredible. You can check out some of the tracks on their myspace, including the title track that so widescreen, dramatic and gorgeous, we could quite honestly listen to it for the rest of our lives without being bored.

And after that? Well, there's the finally~! finished~! Mushi Mushi [album artist=Mushi Mushi]Sequins Save Lives CD Album (DIST18) and the sublime d_rradio Parts CD/LP/MC (DIST17), that we might be able to squeeze in at the back end of the year, but it's honestly looking like the start of 2010 at this rate. We also have something very special planned for DIST20 (not saying nowt yet though) and something very special needs in the The Big Oaks Monster Turd CD album (DIST21). Probably next year at this rate an' all.

By the way, d_rradio have a bloody bloody amazing album out on our good friend Kentaro Togawa's symbolic interaction label called Leaves. Recently Norman Records' Album Of The Week, we have a limited amount of albums to sell via this here website, so you can pre-order now and get them when we get them in (about two weeks time, I reckon).

Anyway, we've rabbited on enough, and we have a pile of Surgeon to listen to. So, take it uneasy 'til next time chaps and chapesses.

distraction.x.