MENTAL CAMERA Vinyls + CDs + T-shirt + Book

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2 Vinyls
2 CD
T-shirt
Book

Date of release: 29.01.2021

CDs:
CD#1 contains the full-length album „Mental Camera“
CD#2 contains the bonus mini album „Au Coeur de la Nuit“

Vinyls:
Black 180g 2x12" vinyl
High quality, super-audiophile discs - German pressing!
Sumptuous gatefold sleeve
Black inner sleeve with antistatic lining
Printed vinyl labels

T-shirt:
FRONT: DIE FORM lettering and “Mental Camera” album title
BACK: Slogan ’Time passes without pity... only memories and dreams remain’
PRINT: White
T-SHIRT: 100% organic ring-spun combed cotton, 155 gsm, Color “black”

Book:
72 pages 21x21 cm sewn harcover book
170g mat coated paper, ultra-fine screen
High quality offset

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The chameleon is back. And it is shimmering in the thousand colours of night: As always when avant-garde electro trailblazers DIE FORM open a new chapter in their intoxicating career, the eyes of this worlds’ lustful sound aesthetes rest firmly upon them. Even after 43 years side by side, the musical intercourse between Philippe Fichot and Éliane P. hasn’t lost a bit of its haunting presence, its nepenthean effect, its radical eroticism.

Latest sprout of this both fated and fruitful partnership is an oeuvre that’s rendering speechless as much as it is stimulating, that’s illuminating the deepest depths of our psyche while at the same time building a deeply spellbinding electronic shrine to the horrifying beauty of night itself. “Mental Camera”, as the both short and meaningful title goes, is consciously ambiguous in its etymology: A camera that records psychic states, but also “camera”, the Italian world for chamber. Both meanings conjoined lead to the very essence of their latest manifesto of gloomy electronics: A mental chamber, a voluptuously dark record about the passing of time, about dreams going down the drain. Those are songs about our imagination, about the colossal world within our heads, about the shadows, about memories and mother nature.

Born in endless nights, “Mental Camera” sounds like the soundtrack to a lost David Lynch movie: Enigmatic yet demanding, full of forbidden promises and abyssic thoughts. A naked dance on the edge of the soul, an electronic opus magnum formed by Surrealist masters, harking back to the classic “Poupée Mécanique” as well as the long-since legendary “Trilogy of Passion” which defined DIE FORM as a project of immortal genius back in the nineties. This partial return is also becoming apparent in the hauntingly explicit visual aspect of the albums - intimate Die Form followers will know what this means.

However, DIE FORM 2021 is also a piece of electrified zeitgeist, a primum mobile of ritualistic club music. Testimony to this is a song like the hypnotic force that is “Lilium Dolorosa”, easily one of the strongest, most poignant pieces of music Fichot ever wrote. But then again, all of “Mental Camera” is: Sensual and intuitive, at times animalistic, at times avantgardistic, always committed to night, lust and shadow. Since 1977.

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Tracklisting CD #1:
Au Coeur de la Nuit (Into The Night)
Continuum Dream
Les Roses Sanglantes
Lilium Dolorosa
Animal Memory
Automatique
Memory Of Future
Théâtre de la Cruauté
Materia Oscura
Les Corps Purs
Insomniac Activity
Paradis Perdus
Between Two Worlds
Black Nerves (We Never Die)

Tracklisting CD #2:
Au Coeur de la Nuit - Mix 2
Before Silence And Blindness
The Persistence Of Fear
Au Coeur de la Nuit - Male Vocals

Tracklisting LP #1 - Side 1:
Au Coeur de la Nuit (Into The Night)
Continuum Dream
Les Roses Sanglantes
Lilium Dolorosa
Animal Memory

Tracklisting LP #1 - Side 2:
Automatique
Memory Of Future
Théâtre de la Cruauté
Materia Oscura
Les Corps Purs

Tracklisting LP #2 - Side 1:
Insomniac Activity
Paradis Perdus
Between Two Worlds
Black Nerves (We Never Die)

Tracklisting LP #2 - Side 2:
Au Coeur de la Nuit - Mix 2
Before Silence And Blindness
The Persistence Of Fear
Au Coeur de la Nuit - Male Vocals