Description:	12" and CD mini album job on Mordant Music
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Mordant Music
	Price:	£11.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 26 November 2009.

I've been gagging to listen to the Vindicatrix Die Alten Bosen Lieder 12" and CD set on Mordant Music all week and now I finally get my opportunity. 'Something In The Night' is a slow, dark and brooding 4/4 track with lots of eerie sounds that have kind of a gothic horror vibe to them, the vocals have this bizarre sophisticated european thing happening that has me a bit puzzled and I'm waiting for the penny to drop. So I flip the 12" and the beat is coming through much higher in the mix and I'm getting like a nightmare house kind of vibe (this is of course a good thing).... Come on give me the bloody bassline!!!!..............................................Ah there she is, big and just a tad wobbly, the track starts to build with hi-hats and then the synths becoming well paranoid sounding. I think Vindicatrix has actually created the first utterly sinister bassline house record ever. We've not played the 8 track CD yet as they're all sealed in fancy little bags stamped with the Mordant Music logo. Inside this copy is a page torn from an old book, which I suspect is the case for the full limited edition. High quality from MM as usual.

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What their label says...

MM is o'er the moon in welcoming Vindicatrix properly to the fold by announcing the release of his long player 'Die Alten Bösen Lieder'...Vx recently manifested with 'Private Places' on MM026/MM030 in reMMix & original form courtesy of Shackleton &  Baron M...he is a veritable troubadour who utilizes both the reverbed suitcase & damp palimpsest to regale his fibrous tales...the tuba also squeezes in ohm the act...roughly translated as 'The Old Wicked Songs', the album spans a three-track 12" & eight-track cdr with unique wet-cobbled aplomb...Vx creates a tangible environment on his refracted pilgrimage thru pop's outer-lying environs...there's a 'letting go' to his work that enhances the well-heeled sonic gravel crunching on show...I recoMMend everything that seeps from the Nesst but this project in particular deserves a high frequency classical fanfare...Vx's treated brass & woodwind ebb from the IBM like nothing Elst...four to the spore...BM