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  • Bis 'Data Panik Etcetera' - Cargo Records UK

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    Bis 'Data Panik Etcetera'

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    The influential and ever underrated Glasgow, Scotland trio return with "data Panik etcetera" - a release that brings us up to date with recordings from the year spent re-branded at data Panik, alongside other aborted attempts to record a 4th, and definitive, bis album.

    Hardcore fans have been desperate to get their hands on these recordings, and the band have carefully selected and remastered the pick of the bunch - which sit neatly together to create a cohesive whole.

    The band have still been playing storming sets live over the last few years, surprising punters at places such as Primavera in Barcelona and 2013's Indietracks Festival as headliner and new material has crept into the set-list.

    Consider this a friendly catch-up before bis begin again where they left off. Manda Rin, Sci-Fi Steven and John Disco, to give them their professional monikers, were big in the late 1990's for such highlights as being the first unsigned band on Top Of The Pops (allegedly), creating the theme tune to the massive Hanna-Barbera cartoon "The Powerpuff Girls", having their own Casio G-Shock watch released in Japan and moving from their punk-rock roots to have a huge underground European dance hit with "Eurodisco".

    Taking influences from Devo, XTC, Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill and The Plastics, bis have also inspired other for 20 years now - being a reference point for a host of artists such as CSS, Los Campesinos!, Joanna Gruesome and Chvrches.

    The band also featured in NME's list of Top 20 Cult Heroes and featured in their Top 50 Britpop anthems. Albums "The New Transistor Heroes" (Under-fi pop/punk songs with twitches into disco, hip-hop and synth-pop), "Social Dancing" (Glossy electro-pop that somehow failed to take the world by storm) and "Return To Central" (An expansive rebirth, taking in Eno, Moroder and Can like a bunch of hipsters - sales negligible) showcased the over-development of their creators, always keen to move onto the next project.

    With "data Panik etcetera" the inspirations had moved onto strict, skinny-tie, new-wave pop songs (Control The Radical, Minimum Wage, Retail of the Details), awkward XTC play Chic disco (Cubis (I Love You), Music Lovers, Too Much Not Enough) and disconcerting Goth-Techno (Sense Not Sense, Flesh Remover). Rulers and the States, meanwhile, has already featured heavily on a Scottish Television advert with it's nagging Sparksy riff.

    Released by Do Yourself In, "data Panik etcetera" comes in vinyl format (180g white vinyl), CD. A throwback to the band's roots in 7" singles and EP's - and selling their fanzines through the old-school independent record store network. "Minimum Wage" also features on a split 7" picture disc with Birmingham band Ghosts of Dead Airplanes. With work continuing on new bis material, who knows what the future holds. This could be the start of it all........again!

    Tracklisting:
    1. Control the Radical
    2. Minimum Wage
    3. Rulers and the States
    4. Cubis (I Love You)
    5. Sense Not Sense
    6. Mechanical Love
    7. Too Much Not Enough
    8. Retail of the Details
    9. Music Lovers
    10. The Young Mothers
    11. Flesh Remover
    12. (That Love Ain't) Justified

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  • bis 'Social Dancing (Deluxe)' - Cargo Records UK

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    1999's "Social Dancing" saw Manda Rin, Sci-Fi Steven and John Disco, having been ostrasized by the UK music press, return with a bigger, shinier and cohesive sound.

    Produced by Gang Of Four's Andy Gill and mixed by Pet Shop Boys engineer Bob Kraushaar, the blend of 1979 New-Wave riffs and 80's Electro-Pop synths shine on hit single "Eurodisco", the sped-up Gary Numan of "I'm A Slut" and album opener "Making People Normal".

    An expanded sonic palette saw a liberal use of samples, a diversion into trip-hop ("Detour") and even a real string section on "Theme From Tokyo". While "Social Dancing" didn't have the impact of debut album "The New Transitor Heroes", it's most fans favourite - a solid body of songs which has a confident band at the top of their game. Now here in deluxe form, including 2000's self-produced (and band favourite) "Music For A Stranger World" mini-album.

    Tracklisting:
    CD1:

    1. Making People Normal
    2. I'm A Slut
    3. Eurodisco
    4. Action And Drama
    5. Theme From Tokyo
    6. The Hit Girl
    7. Am I Loud Enough
    8. Shopaholic
    9. Young Alien Types
    10. Detour
    11. Sale Or Return
    12. It's All New
    13. Listen Up
    14. Eurodisco (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)
    15. Eurodisco (DJ Scissorkicks Remix)
    16. Eurodisco (Klute Polka Remix)
    17. Eurodisco (Bob Kraushaar/Pete Gleadall Vocal)
    18. Detour (The Husk Mix)

    CD2:
    1. Like Robots
    2. Cinema Says
    3. Stray Cat Blues
    4. Not Even Close
    5. Seventeen Hours
    6. Germ Free Adolescents
    7. Kiss And Tell 08. Why Don't We Go Home?
    9. Famous (Andy Gill Version)
    10. Dead Wrestlers
    11. Are You Ready?
    12. How Can We Be Strange?
    13. I Want It All
    14. Beats At The Office
    15. Punk Rock Points
    16. Why Are We Waiting (12''Version)
    17. Famous (Demo Version)
    18. Kid Cut (Demo Version)
    19. Eurodisco (Demo)

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  • bis 'Return To Central (Deluxe)' - Cargo Records UK

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    2001's "Return To Central" sees bis rip up their own rule book and start stretching their wings. From the shouty pop-punk-disco of 1997's "The New Transistor Heroes" to the shiny, slick pop of 1999's "Social Dancing", not even the most fanatical bis fan could have envisaged the leap to "Return To Central".

    Spending most of 2000 in a basement with banks of synthesizers, samplers and Brian Eno records, Manda Rin (now with whispered vocals), Sci-Fi Steven and John Disco created the cinematic "What You're Afraid Of", the sweeping My Bloody Valentine indebted "The End Starts Today", the Moog-heavy disco of "Protection" and the sad euphoria of great-lost-hit "Silver Spoon".

    The massive sonic departure divided the remaining fanbase and was the band's last album until 2014's "data Panik etcetera", but many consider "Return To Central" the band's masterpiece.

    Now in expanded form with un-released tracks of the era, remixes and the "Fact 2002" EP, including the famous cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart'.

    Tracklisting:
    CD1:

    1. What You're Afraid Of
    2. Silver Spoon
    3. Black Pepper
    4. The End Starts Today
    5. Protection
    6. Two Million
    7. Chicago
    8. Metal Box
    9. We're Complicated
    10. Robotic
    11. A Portrait From Space
    12. Don't Let The Rain Come Down
    13. Make It Through
    14. Sound Of Sleet
    15. Brainclouds
    16. Heartless Particles
    17. Return To Central

    CD2:
    1. Robotic (Just Last Week) (Syndrum Mix)
    2. Love Will Tear Us Apart
    3. Hurt
    4. Shack Up
    5. Looking From A Hilltop
    6. The European (7''Version)
    7. Mamelodi Sundown
    8. Situation
    9. Love 2 Love U
    10. The End Starts Today (Tommie Sunshines "Nail Me Down" Glasgow Summer Freestyle Mix)
    11. Telephone Operator
    12. Cubis (I Love You) (12''Version)
    13. Protection (Ectomorph Chromium Version)
    14. Robotic (Adult. Almost Instrumental Mix)

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  • bis 'The New Transistor Heroes (Deluxe)' - Cargo Records UK

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    "The New Transistor Heroes" is the youthful Manda Rin, Sci-Fi Steven and John Disco's energetic 1997 debut album, now fully expanded with b-sides and rarities of the era.

    It's an explosion of colourful influences ranging from quirky New-Wave to 80's Synth-Pop and Riot Grrrl with hints of Disco and Two-Tone, the sound of an excitable band without pretences.

    The album went massive in Japan, "Starbright Boy" and "Sweet Shop Avengerz" hit the UK charts while the digital Motown of "Tell It To The Kids" introduced bis to the kids of the US.

    The anti-body fascism disco anthem, "Monstarr", remains a fan favourite to this day while the synth-heavy "Skinny-Tie Sensurround" pointed to the next, 80's indebted, album "Social Dancing". It's a bold and innocent attempt at creating the definitive bis document, and it's catchy as sin to boot.

    Tracklisting:
    CD1:

    1. Tell It To The Kids
    2. Sweet Shop Avengerz
    3. Starbright Boy
    4. Popstar Kill
    5. Mr. Important
    6. Antiseptic Poetry
    7. Popyura
    8. Skinny Tie Sensurround
    9. Poster Parent
    10. Monstarr
    11. Everybody Thinks That They're Going To Get Theirs
    12. Rebel Soul
    13. Photo Shop
    14. X-Defect
    15. Lie Detector Test
    16. Dinosaur Germs

    CD2:
    01. Kill Yr Boyfriend (Grand Royal Version)
    02. Keroleen (Unreleased Version)
    03. Pop Song (featuring Pink Kross)
    04. Clockwork Punk
    05. Wee Love
    06. Team Theme
    07. Cliquesuck
    08. I'll Get You Back
    09. Rollerblade
    10. Ninja Hi-Skool
    11. Automatic Freestyle
    12. Statement Of Intent (Original Version)
    13. Girl Star (Remix)
    14. Cookie Cutter Kid
    15. (It's The) Ram Jam
    15. Sweet Shop Avengerz (Hi-Fi Mix)
    16. Tell It To The Kids (Hi-Fi Mix)
    17. Monstarr (Hi-Fi Mix)
    18. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side  
    19. We Are So Fragile
    20. Photo Shop (Stripped)
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  • bis 'The Anthology - 20 Years of Antiseptic Poetry' - Cargo Records UK

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    Lavishly packaged in a black gloss digibook, with silver foiled band logo front, complete with a 24 page fanzine style booklet including the complete song lyrics, rare and previously unseen photographs and artwork compiled and designed by the band.

    Celebrating 20 years since their formation, Glasgow trio bis release a double CD and download collection. The Anthology - 20 Years of Antiseptic Poetry'is the definitive 42 track retrospective, including: Eurodisco' the John Peel Session of 'Kandy Pop' and the new single Keep Your Darkness'. Since their formation in 1994, bis aka Sci-Fi Steven, John Disco and Manda Rin have continually mutated their initial influences of Synth-pop, Riot Grrrl and DIY Punk into weird and wonderful songs with a natural gift for melodic earworms and a disco heartbeat.

    The Anthology draws from the bands expansive back catalogue including early DIY releases, tracks from their 1997 album debut The New Transistor Heroes', 1999's Social Dancing', 2000's Music For A Stranger World'EP as well band's most misunderstood album 2001's Return To Central'. Despite calling it a day in 2003, the farewell only lasted until 2007 when the band played their biggest headline show to date to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their debut album. A show at the Primavera Festival (Barcelona, Spain) brought the band out of semi-retirement once more in 2010 and the band have been performing irregularly ever since.

    2014 dawned the band's 20th anniversary, bringing first the release of the data Panik etcetera'album for International Record Store Day, garnering some of the best critical acclaim of the band's career, re-ignited the original fans whilst introducing the band to a whole new generation. What follows is a lavishly produced compilation of hits, misses, rarities and exclusives - The Anthology - 20 Years of Antiseptic Poetry'.

    CD 1:
    1. Eurodisco
    2. Cubis (I Love You)
    3. Theme From Tokyo
    4. Kandy Pop (John Peel Session)*
    5. Keep Your Darkness*
    6. This Is Fake D.I.Y.
    7. Protection (Alternative Mix)*
    8. School Disco (Live)*
    9. Public School Boy
    10. Sound Of Sleet
    11. Tell It To The Kids
    12. Plastik People
    13. D.J.
    14. Kiss And Tell
    15. Rulers And The States
    16. DNA (by Manda Rin)
    17. Photo Shop
    18. Why Are We Waiting?
    19. Social Dancing*
    20. Robotic
    21. A Portrait From Space

    CD 2:
    1. Beats At The Office
    2. Monstarr
    3. Minimum Wage
    4. Icky-Poo Air Raid (John Peel Session)*
    5. Statement Of Intent (Remix)
    6. Starbright Boy
    7. Honesty Is Stupid (Demo)*
    8. Keroleen
    9. What You're Afraid Of
    10. How Can We Be Strange?
    11. Today Of All Days
    12. Action And Drama (Radio Version)
    13. Space Me (by Dirty Hospital)
    14. Young Alien Types (Demo)*
    15. Secret Vampires 16. Clockwork Punk
    17. Silver Spoon
    18. Brainclouds
    19. Eurodisco (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)
    20. Making People Normal
    21. Kill Yr Boyfriend (Live)*
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