short, but great news. On 1st October the waiting has come to an an end. After two years in the making, the new DEL REY record will finally be released. It`s called “IMMEMORIAL” and will be relased on CD, limited LP and digital. We are coming up next week with information about preordering  this record and other fine stuff…stay tuned!

The limited LP will have 300 copies housed in superthick 450gr gatefold covers. All on 180gr vinyl. 200 copies on black, 100 copies on white vinyl. Download code attached of course for your iPod pleasure.

Get in touch!
Timo-

you can stream the whole new record by MY EDUCATION entitled “Sunrise” here. If you like what you hear, please order and support the bands and us.

By the way: due to a fault by the pressing plant, there are no limited, white vinyl for “Vilayer” by KERRETTA. Sorry folks. But it would have taken another month to get them here, and this was not worth the wait I assumed.

Talk soon,
Timo-

so, no news posted for a while. Shame on me! Anyway, please welcome another new band: MY EDUCATION. They are an instrumental outfit from Austin, Texas. Their new record “Sunrise” will be released on CD/ Digital on 28th June. The CD will be housed in 450 gr thick gatefold sleeves. The LP is done by Strange Attractors House from the US and we will have copies of this available soon as well. My Education is recommended if you like GYBE, Brian Eno or Popul Vuh. Well, not really the summer soundtrack you think. I think so! You can stream the full record soon and judge yourself.

The KERRETTA release is not far away. Unfortunately I have to tell you that there wont be any white vinyl due to a misunderstanding with the pressing plant. There is no time left for pressing it again, so I guess we have to deal with this. Anyway, if you are interested  in purchasing this awesome record from this new Zealand trio, write us or use the online shop. Stream the whole record HERE!

Best,
Timo-

There is too much to say here about our experience. We’ll be blogging about it later, I’m sure. Suffice it to say, that I’m incredibly grateful for my time spent with FMTM and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. From the responses we heard in talking to people about our music, I’m convinced that the music worked; it did it’s job. It reached people on a different level than most music… and that’s exactly why I committed myself to the band in the first place. I’m most sincerely grateful for every single person who enjoyed FMTM’s music and came to see us play. I loved every minute of it – even the minutes that I hated. FMTM was a very frustrating band, mired in frustrating business relationships, frustrating personal relationships, and frustrating contradictions between what we wanted to be and what we were; where we wanted to go and where we were headed. Given these obstacles, FMTM fell prey to a sort of “band entropy” wherein everything that we tried to control slipped even further out of our control. Eventually, the net losses outweighed the net gains and no one was happy. That’s when you know your band needs to break up, regardless of whether it breaks your heart or not.

It must be stated publicly that I regret any problems caused by our attempt at booking an EU tour in May, 2010. Our long-standing “partnership” with our booking agent went south as he pressured us to work exclusively with him and, once we had, he then proceeded to pawn us off to his incompetent sub-agents. The result was a lot of wasted energy and disappointment for no good reason whatsoever. It wasn’t the first time it had happened either — we had struggled through yanked dates for years, routinely unable to coordinate opportunities with the help and resources necessary to make them happen. The lesson learned here is perhaps to always work with independent booking agents and PR firms who have a genuine interest in seeing your band succeed – and not with corporate hacks whose interest in you only goes as far as the short-term commission your band can earn them, or who do the bare minimum that their retainer requires of them. Conversely, I must also say that Jerkov Booking in France worked very hard for us and confirmed a great set of dates, but since the rest of our EU dates never materialized, we had to cancel that as well…and we regret putting Jerkov in that terrible position. Divorce is hard on the whole family.

There are many people who believed in FMTM and who went above and beyond the call to help us succeed, and who never dangled any false carrots in front of us. Their talents and friendship do not go unappreciated. I will miss working with Kensuke Saito at Catune Records in Tokyo, Japan, Timo Siems at Golden Antenna Records in Braunschweig, DE, Lars Lewerenz at Audiolith Records in Hamburg, DE, Tom Dorsey at Nice Promo in Portland, OR, Jonathan Burkett who not only assisted us with graphic design but also drove us on a US tour, Eric Kuhn of Silian Rail who has filled in on several instruments for us, Matthias Werner at High-Low Agency, Florian Detlefsen at Trapdoor Tourz, all the engineers who helped capture our music; Tim Green, Matt Bayles, Ben Adrian, Tom DiMuzio, and Ed Brooks, among others, Eric Milhouse and everyone at the Glass House in Pasadena, Ramona Downey at Bottom of The Hill, and too many other artists, bands, and community organizers to name here. Members of FMTM will write in more detail about the characters in our history in our journals/blogs.

We don’t know at this point what will become of our albums, although it’s clear that they’ll remain available digitally for a long time to come. Whether Dim Mak will ever repress our out-of-print albums (the first two) is anyone’s guess. FMTM still administrates its own publishing and we will continue to make our music available for that purpose. I imagine the merch store, which is operated by the members of FMTM, will stay open yet for a while and I encourage listeners to use it. Thank you for listening. “Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

Sincerely, Matthew W. Solberg, guitarist/co-founder of From Monument To Masses. Sunday, March 28, 2010

Their instrumental rock has a unique note of propulsive, monolithic walls of sound and dreamy, melodic, but at the same time triumphant passages that stuck immediately in your ear. Kerretta don`t write eclectic, bombastic compositions, but detailed, progressive songs.

You can already download one teaser track that shows the bands potential: http://www.goldenantenna.com/Kerretta-Death_In_The_Future.mp3

Kerretta got nominated in their home-country for the “Taite Music Prize” 2010 which is the counterpart of the “Mercury Awards For Songwriting” in the UK.

RIYL: Russian Circles, Isis, Mogwai

www.myspace.com/kerretta
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the DATURAH – Reverie 2xLP and the Airpeople – The Golden City LP (colored lim. vinyl) sold out now!

Expect to hear some crazy news in terms of releases soon! Iam not lying, we have TONS of stuff coming up this year. Either it´s going to be the best year ever or we go totally bankrupt!  Let`s cross our fingers.

Rock out!
Timo-

Go to our store www.goldenantenna.com/shop and place your order.

Thanks,
Timo-

sorry for the lack on updates. Due to the death of one of my best friends (and drummer for Maserati) Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, I was not capable of doing any work for the label. Some things are way more important than records. All of this is still really intangible for me.

Thanks to all the people who wrote an email or said sorry in any way. It really means a lot and helps going through this.

The future of the band Maserati is still unknown, but the band will work harder than ever so that the new record will be released sometime in 2010. The drums were already recorded before Jerry`s death. This will seriously be the best record the world has ever seen!

You can check out a live version of one of those new jams here: http://vimeo.com/6934212

Thank you for reading!
Timo-

I will be out from today until 19th November for the funeral of Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs. My friend and drummer for Maserati died in a tragic accident last Sunday.
He will be missed more than words can express.

Love,
Timo-

thanks to everybody who ordered the “Ira – Visions Of A Landscape” CD/ 2xLP so far. We have about 5-6 copies left of the limited colored 2xLP. Act fast!
Oh, the IRA record got “Album of the week” at laut.de! Check it out here.

You would also need to act fast as I`ll be on vacation from 31st October until 10th November. You can of course order and I`ll get back to you, but no orders can be send out during this time, sorry! I hope you understand.

Thanks,
Timo-