15th November 2024 sees experimental electronic outfit Mangene release their debut EP, 101 Atomic Terms And What They Mean on Basel based boutique label A Tree In A Field Records.

Men, machines, and the slow arc of their arrival in the same place/space at the same time, MANGENE is the sound that stops sound. While known for their musical work in such juggernauts as Oxbow, BUNUEL and 16-17, they have also worked with everybody from Barry Adamson to Peter Brötzmann, from Lydia Lunch to Mariane Faithful, from Marian Gold to Jaki Liebezeit and Melt-Banana.

Berlin’s MANGENE has taken a twisted international route through San Francisco, New York, and Switzerland on its way to being born. Give the baby a kiss. Psychic and stunning.  Pre-order on Bandcamp.

“I’ve hated this record for as long as I’ve loved it,” says vocalist/lyricist Eugene S. Robinson. “Hated it because it tapped right into the portions of my brain that I hide, not only from you, but also me, the singer. So, listening again? Disturbing and painfully true.”

A sympathy shared by Manuel Liebeskind, the tech genius behind the musical landscaping of MANGENE. 

“When you work on something as long, hard and deep as we have,”  Liebeskind says from his Berlin Studio: “Your ability to see it as anything other than a colossal act of a sort of suicide is inevitable.“

 Here’s a taster with Amber Of Heaven:

Influences reach back to the early singer grands of Jazz and Rock’n’Roll, from Billie Holiday to Screamin Jay Hawkins through contemporary classics from Ligeti to Stockhausen, to intense synth punk and electronic noise legends Suicide, Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. Add a pinch of Eighties synth pop and old school hip hop, think Fad Gadget meets Grandmaster Flash, and harvest a unique and timeless electronic analogue sound.

Mastered by wizard Alex Buess, 101 Atomic Terms And What They Mean will likely change your DNA. Which is precisely why the time should be taken to enjoy what has been laid out before you all here in all of its atomic age goodness.

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