• Cubic – Back To 808 CD
• First Aid 4 Souls (feat. Divas of the Dark) – Progenitrix CD
• Frontal Boundary – Failure 2CD

This packet comes at a discounted price and this until the end of the pre-order period.

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Entirely crafted on lovingly restored vintage synths and samplers from the eighties and nineties, “Progenitrix” radiates an authentic retro-futurist soul. It is an album that dances on a razor’s edge between past and future – a goth dress-up with metal frames peeking out from beneath, a female cyborg of sound, both delicate and unbreakable. The music seduces and unsettles in equal measure, offering whispered confessions in the dark carried by voices that are at once ethereal and fierce.

At once a sonic talisman and a feminist statement, “Progenitrix” is also the first part of a larger duology. Its forthcoming counterpart, built entirely on male voices, will complete the cycle and together the two works will form a meditation on unity and duality, inspired by ancient myths of love and wholeness. But for now, “Progenitrix” stands on its own as a rare and precious creation, a deeply emotional and sensual journey born from a global network of exceptional women destined to leave their mark on the contemporary landscape of darkwave, goth and electronic music.

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With the aptly titled 7-track EP “Laudator Temporis Acti”, FA4S expands his sonic spectrum by openly and intentionally praising the sound from the past. By revisiting his electro goth roots our multi-talented artist wrote here what he describes as a tribute to the work of geniuses who laid the foundations of synth darkwave and to his personal heroes that are BAUHAUS and TONES ON TAIL. But he did not simply reproduce the sound of the past. He also captured fresher influences from the current boiling post-punk cold wave scene, with bands like SEXTILE, PARADOX OBSCURE, and others.

For this new concept, István Gazdag teamed up with long time friends who all have the very right voice tone and range to fit these 80’s New Wave inspired nostalgic songs! Starting of course with Vain Sacrosanct, the lead vocalist of Belgium’s cold electro act CAUSENATION, with whom he already released an album a few years ago (“Stainless Steel Eyes”). Other featured artists include cult industrial metal Canadian-Hungarian female vocalist Linda Daemon (KR3LL, BLACK MAMBA…) and UK noir pop singer Mark Duffield.

Upbeat, retro, dark and gloomy, this new EP plunges us back into the good old sound of the prolific Cold Wave era, where nostalgic, tearful atmospheres wrap around catchy synth lines, minimal basslines and driving beat patterns.

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The 7 new songs are therefore per definition very upbeat floorpacking tracks hanging somewhere between techno body music and industrial dance, while the addition of darker tortured distorted or manipulated sampled vocals by Mortum and Vic Willow add a darker industrial touch to them all.

This is powerful “end of the world” dance music with a strong addictive hypnotic feel.

Play it at maximum volume!

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And this collection of work is definitely more than special in many ways. It first of all starts with the so far unreleased remix album “Your Social Skill Demised” that serves as perfect appetizer for what comes next: the 4 full length albums in fully re-edited & reconstructed (“rework”) versions and/or newly remastered audio packs with a bunch of previously unreleased bonus material to top it all! An uplifting refreshment audio treatment effort not only revealing how much technology still evolved the last decade but above all how Istvan’s mixing, production & mastering skills keep progressing and gaining in maturity with time.

Thanks to this 70-track release “This Present Darkness”, in its unity of content, in its arc, you can feel the conscious concept behind these 4 albums and how FIRST AID 4 SOULS enjoy challenging your senses with their overwhelming dystopian soundracks that please a quite eclectic avantgarde audience of electro / industrial music lovers who enjoy quite diverse bands in the likes of FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, COIL, LAIBACH or yet SKINNY PUPPY.

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Today FIRST AID 4 SOULS returns to the darker side of the project and unveils the new chapter of his collaboration with US-based singer Mortum (HUMAN VAULT) after the much appraised and existentially negative and dystopian album “Keep This World Empty” released in 2019.

“I Am The Night” is a depiction of the struggling self-dwelling in us all. A life folding experience painted using sophisticated and crafted synthetic sounds mixed in exquisite balance with symphonic instruments, bombastic percussion, hammering beats, harsh aggressive vocals and oppressive bass-lines. The characteristic dark elektro style of the band takes here an even more dynamic songwriting approach and delivers orchestral and almost operatic grandeur evoking bands in the likes of COIL, IN THE NURSERY, LAIBACH, WILL or yet SKINNY PUPPY.

Istvan Gazdag once again lets his passion for art intervene during the creative process. For each song, he selected one painting and let himself draw inspiration from these various artists to eventually write the multilayered soundtrack that would best fit the overall feel he was experiencing from the original painting by painters like Thomas Cole, H. R. Giger, Gustave Dore, Zdzisław Beksiński, Mónika Préger, Odd Nerdrum, Pierre Fritel, Jenő Barcsay, Mihály Zichy, Christine Cobden, Jacques-Louis David, Hermann Hendrich and Maja Sokolowska.

“I Am The Night” is both emotionally deep and philosophically deranged, and guarantees an overwhelming sonic experience challenging your senses. The path to destruction is set! An over-programmed data bank of fading memories. Your fake feelings, your empty frozen eyes and your decaying souls are real. The giant furnace will consume all of us!

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Today, the Hungarian pioneer takes us by surprise once again by inaugurating his “rework” concept. While many bands content themselves by remastering past albums, István Gazdag took the challenge of totally replaying and remixing this chef d’oeuvre of diversity. Strong from his acquired production skills and studio experience through the years, FIRST AID 4 SOULS fully restructured the instrumentations he wanted to redesign and uplifted the song arrangements by adding live drums and guitars to reach the ultimate dynamic of this poignant colorful sci-fi inspired album.

‘Beyond The Galaxy’ is an amazing mixture of catchy dark dance music and experimental industrial and everything that stands in between, reminding us of the band’s unique ability to mash all sorts of electronic and industrial influences to make his own fascinating style. From EBM to industrial metal!
The wide spectrum of genres even gets reinforced by the personal style of the various involved guest singers ranging from the evil dark growls of Aaron Russell from IMPURFEKT to the ethereal female vocals of Linda Daemon from KRELL, through the aggressive and powerful vox of Balázs Frank from V.E:N., the possessed darkwave tone of good old partner in crime Vic Willow, the tortured whispers of Árpád Ciprián Asbóth from IMPACT PULSE or yet the highly expressive romantic voice of Mark Duffield from ELTEL.

A ”rework” approach that offers the perfect opportunity to dive again into this great album from an all new dimension for all FA4S fans from the early days or simply discover it for the first time and fall under its eclectic spell…

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With “Stainless Steel Eyes”, he reveals another quite successful collaboration with Vain Sacrosanct, lead vocalist of Belgium’s cold electro act CAUSENATION. When both men met for the first time at a festival in Belgium where they both performed live, the click between both artists was instant and so natural that the release of an album together was nothing but a matter of time…

On this 12-track album, the duo celebrate without any limit their passion for vintage synths and the good old electro industrial sound from the 80’s in general, and you won’t be surprised hearing a mixture of eclectic influences going from Belgian cold EBM sounds to Canadian intricate industrial and a touch of coldwave to top it all… So if you are fan of legends in the likes of CABARET VOLTAIRE, FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, NEW ORDER, FAD GADGET or yet VOMITO NEGRO, this new album comes highly recommended.

Cold, minimal but also powerful and upbeat, these new FIRST AID 4 SOUL songs take an addictive retrowave dimension thanks to catchy sequences and hypnotic melodies and the very characteristic dark and captivating voice of Belgian singer Vain Sacrosanct who evokes good old bands like DATA-BANK-A, ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL or yet COVENANT.

“Stainless Steel Eyes” guarantees you highly emotional music moments deeply rooted in the 80’s electro melancholic wave style (reaching highlights on the superb “Who’s Gonna Walk The Line”) with an edgy upbeat club compatibility.

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To the guaranteed pleasure of DJ’s and fans, FIRST AID 4 SOULS bring us one more surprise this year by offering a “Dreambox” full of lush alternative versions of the album’s two favorite songs that are “Das Messer” and “Dreambox”, giving to each an all new setting and atmosphere ranging from retro electro new wave versions to bombastic orchestral remakes, through darker zombie mix and a hypnotic flower power rework.

While enjoying writing club mixes for these two stunning pieces of darkwave pop music, István Gazdag could not resist the temptation of plunging a few more album songs (“Burn”, “Freedom” and the haunted “Ordinary Demonism”) into that exploding cocktail of EBM beats, upbeat electro sequences and floating synth layers for a delightful addition to this 14-track EP (most over 120 BPM up to 170 BPM)! Cherry on the cake, FIRST AID 4 SOULS close the release with the exclusive and previously unreleased harsh and tortured collaboration with Nick Sonick of WET LIPS on the aptly titled “Bring Back Armageddon”…

Open the “Dreambox” and enjoy this addictive electronic art for hearts & brains without moderation.

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Very active in the avant-garde electronic / industrial scene since the late 80’s with numerous and quite diversified releases on various labels under his belt and some amazing remix work for legendary bands like COIL, SOFT CELL, TEST. DEPT., CABARET VOLTAIRE and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, István Gazdag decided to pay homage to the Hungarian alternative music community by doing a collaboration effort with several key-protagonists from the electro industrial scene in Hungary.

Released under the flag “FIRST AID 4 SOULS feat. LD50” (named after the famous cult sub-culture community site LD50.hu where all the fans and artists in the country were acting together as guardians of the underground flame against the mainstream), this surprising 12-track album is the result of fruitful studio collaborations together with other Hungarian artists like BLACK NAIL CABARET’s dark pop diva Emke, ULTRANOIRE’s charismatic singer Josef Stapel, provocative artist Vic Willow (and his poignant voice evoking David Bowie and Gary Numan) or yet the writer/futurist cyborg pope Damage of PLANETDAMAGE.

“Fire” is a true expression of eclectic creativity, an explosion of emotions, a club-compatible set-list of melodic synthpop, dark electro and upbeat Electronic Body Music molded together into a unique and catchy release plunging us in a bath of 80’s tainted moody electro wave with a dancefloor edge and noir melancholic vocals. This is an experimental collaboration between many artists, but also a quite coherent album as such, for an ultimate avant-garde electro pop experience.

This album shows us how a collaborative spark bursts into a “Fire”, the flames of which can show a way out from darkness… Addictive electronic art for hearts & brains.

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