All Change: The Lives and Times of The Mekano Set

I'm currently in the process of relocating instruments, equipment, studio and life to Liverpool. 

Why Milk Why?!

Brighton is a great place to hide. It's a great place to do nothing. But not a great place if you want to get stuff done.

 

So... what we're planning to do next is to try to make something a bit more special than another batch of bandcamp / iTunes / Spotify releases. Once the songs are mixed and mastered, we want to put out a high quality digipak CD package of songs that won't just be available online.

Something with a seriously lush inlay / sleeve / booklet / gate-fold digipak etc.

I've always said I don't want to do another 'album'. But after putting Behind The Sins together I feel that there's something that we can do with a full-length CD that can still be experimental and fun. I'm thinking of segments of 3 / 4 songs that work well together, then a pure location / drone track then another 3 songs...

As well as the noise-scapes we've put out and about via Viinyl.com, leaving USB Juju sticks on trains and park benches etc. we do have some new songs that are pretty much completed. I just need to finish the mixes - I mean, I just have to STOP mixing them.

Photography c/o Dark Waters Festival, Mel Butler Photography, David McKnight @ Davefish Photography.

The Mekano Set

London Gothic

We're getting ready to play London on Friday night. It's a full-on Alternative Gothic Post-Punk Electro Deathrock night which is a bit very exciting. Cavey Nik's Dead and Buried promises to be an eclectic and colourful night of noises where they play everything from Cardiacs to The Cramps, Joy Division to Generation X,  Sparks to The Smiths.

Digital Painting by SugarHighTyrant

Friday 25th January. 8 pm - 3 am - £6

Mother Live
333 Old Street
London
EC1V 9LE

http://www.clubdeadandburiedlondon.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/186505638157475/


Nearest tube stations = Old Street + Liverpool Street

http://www.clubdeadandburiedlondon.com/location-and-transport/




Meanwhile, help yourself to a slice of our own brand of dark, grimy swirly electro punk noise:

http://glasskeysshoegrimemix.viinyl.com/ 

A little more info on Dead and Buried

ENTRY £6

No dress code but BLACK is preferable!

UPDATE: Please try and arrive before 23.30 as after that time all monies taken on the door go straight to the venue and NOT Dead and Buried - please help us to continue to bring quality live bands and Djs to London at thsi great venue if you can [none of which is free!] Plus the earlier you get tehre the more frun you will have! ;^)

You may hear music from bands such as: Opera de Nuit, Christian Death, The Cure, Gorgonas, Gertrud Stein, Bauhaus, Euroshima, The Unkindness of Ravens, Sisters of Mercy, Ideal, CCCP, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Specimen, ALien Sex Fiend, The Cramps, Frustration, La Femme, The Adicts, Cinema Strange, Defectors, Fangs on Fur.. etc.

The Mekano Set

Behind The Sins: Situationist Soundscapes and the Politics of Sound

We've spent December working on something a little bit different. The end result is an hour long adventure in sounds and spaces: an audio collage of unreleased material, some brand new songs, interviews in unusual locations, found sounds and some curious home-grown sci-fi sound effects...

Through the gentle ambience of The NASA Tearooms, Imercia's strangest shopping malls and slow-motion x-ray shores, listen to us clarify and cloud our take on the politics of sound and gender, Humanitarian Anarchism, and Alternative / Goth / Post-Punk sensibilities... soundtracked by some Situationist Soundscapes, new songs and exclusive mixes:

 

http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-sins-o-s-t

http://behindthesinstrailer.viinyl.com/

http://www.mixcloud.com/mekanoset/behind-the-sins/

We like to experiment and we're never satisfied with conventional song structures. As a kid I had almost no interest in music at all, but I would sit in my room and tune the radio on an old Boombox, recording Short Wave radio signals from what seemed like other worlds. I liked the idea of writing things like radio plays and found the occasional experimental radio piece I stumbled across really intriguing.  

So this has turned into something I'm really excited about, and it also gave the band an opportunity to clarify our stance in terms of politics, gender and beyond (or Things Beyond). It also gave our occasional P.R. / P.A.  S.W. Tucker the opportunity to spread the wings of her Pop Journalist pretentions and voice some questions / concerns. There are tentative plans to do more along these lines. 

The finished piece is available for download along with all of the featured songs (19 tracks in total) as separate files. There will also be a limited edition CD with sleeve artwork designed by Lee. If you want to reserve yourself a copy send an email to mekanoset@gmail.com

What else? Well seeing as it's the season of giving, here is a special wintery soundscape mix of Tidehouse, re-titled Yuletide House: http://yuletidehousetidehouse.viinyl.com/ 

And some recent highlights up for grabs:

Hahaharem, our latest, most exotic ep to date. A mix of grimy bass and beats, swirly electric 12 string and fuzzed-up baritone guitars: http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/album/hahaharem 

A new song currently in the works: http://scarreddemo.viinyl.com/

Our dirty-groovy cover of Bonnie and Clyde by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot:  http://bonnieandclydeveryrough.viinyl.com/

A version of our Post-Punk anthem, Sweets http://donteatallofthesweets.viinyl.com/



Anyway, I'll be spending Christmoose Day watching Punk documentaries and catching up on emails. 

Season's great things to you!

The Mekano Set