After having paid homage to one of his mentors (John Carpenter) on his ‘Haelloween’ EP, Claus Larsen now goes one level further by creating the complete soundtrack for the “Dark Passages” movie directed by Cesar Cruz. The alchemy of their creative union shows how much both men have been inspiring each other and how they have made each other’s dreams come true: “I was really inspired by the script, so 1 song turned into 3 and then in a few weeks there was a full album. I just dropped everything I had going on at the time. This was what I had been waiting for since I had hair on my head…”; says Claus Larsen. “I have been a fan of AE for as long as I started Outworld Entertainment. I guess you can call it “Fate” or something. I first heard “Strap Me Down” on a compilation and I was instantly hooked! I have been listening to AE ever since. Working with Claus has been a dream come true. Claus has become a dedicated and talented friend/team member during this project. It was amazing to work with him. The man is a machine!” adds Cesar Cruz who recently won a new award for the video clip he made for LEAETHER STRIP’s previous album song “Love Me Or Die”… The 

“Dark Passages” CD features the complete versions of the songs to be used in the movie (including a bunch of vocal songs) and transports you into the film’s sombre and dense atmosphere. A first glimpse into this film that you will all hopefully soon discover at one of the festivals where it’s already lined-up or at its scheduled premieres… Reaching hypes on the oppressive “Everything Dies”, we hope that this poignant soundtrack is the first in a series of future collaborations between both artists, challenging and taking them into other sides of their strong respective personalities. 

Companion album to “Dark Passages”, comes the new and so aptly titled “Seasons Change – I Don’t” 14-track album presenting new songs recorded just after the soundtrack. From the big beat of “Black Magic Man” through the dramatic feel of the depressive “Dead Swan”, from the sexy and clubby groove of “Bondage is not a Crime” to the tearful intimacy of the dark elektro title song that are all hit moments for this new LEAETHER STRIP tour de force. Fans will also be thrilled by the extended versions of the soundtrack songs “Dark Passages” and “Everything Dies” which both have club hit potential, as well as of the new versions of the unavoidable “My Shadow is your home” and “Voluntary Confinement”. Last but not least, two special collaborations with MORTIIS and EHRON VONALLEN put the cherry on the cake. 

Seasons change… LEAETHER STRIP does NOT!

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Besides a couple of more intimate songs Larsen also added several tracks inspired of such classics like Beethoven’s “Moonlight sonata”, Chopin’s “Funeral march” or songs like the pearl “My Shadow is your home” or yet “My Funeral”. There is also the collaborations with Andi Sex Gang who offers the perfect vocal duet to “What have I done” or yet the acoustic version of “Songs for Pia” by I:SCINTILLA’s Jim Cookas… 

For those of you who have the chance to put their hand on the deluxe carton box limited 3CD edition of this album, you will also enjoy the “Mental Disturbance” bonus CD featuring some 17 bonus remixes by bands like PORTION CONTROL, E-CRAFT, Sebastian Komor, KANT KINO, PSY’AVIAH, AUTODAFEH, etc. 

And that’s not all! In this 3CD set you also get a beautiful lanyard to which all fans can attach the included LEAETHER STRIP plastic card and it’s through this card that you can gain access to some 19 bonus downloadable remixes by acts in the likes of PNE, AMGOD, STERIL, SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS, CERVELLO ELETTRONICO, FREAKANGEL, ACYLUM, DUNKELWERK, ESSENCE OF MIND, GAYTRON, NEIKKA RPM, RAZORFADE, etc.

Enjoy the official video for “My shadown is your home” taken from the “Mental Slavery” album.

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Besides a couple of more intimate songs Larsen also added several tracks inspired of such classics like Beethoven’s “Moonlight sonata”, Chopin’s “Funeral march” or songs like the pearl “My Shadow is your home” or yet “My Funeral”. There is also the collaborations with Andi Sex Gang who offers the perfect vocal duet to “What have I done” or yet the acoustic version of “Songs for Pia” by I:SCINTILLA’s Jim Cookas… 

For those of you who have the chance to put their hand on the deluxe carton box limited 3CD edition of this album, you will also enjoy the “Mental Disturbance” bonus CD featuring some 17 bonus remixes by bands like PORTION CONTROL, E-CRAFT, Sebastian Komor, KANT KINO, PSY’AVIAH, AUTODAFEH, etc.

This 2CD is also available as an extended bonus tracks download – see the player below.

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“Solitary Confinement” is without any doubt the album that has forever seated the Danish artist on the throne of classic dark EBM. An album froth with countless club hits in the likes of “Strap Me Down”, “Adrenalin Rush” and “Evil Speaks”… an album that established LEAETHER STRIP as THEEEE reference trademark for aggressive electronics with distorted vocals performed with a strong sense for melody and carrying choruses. 

Once again, the “Retention no. 3” box includes 2 complementary albums: first of which is the “Solitary Confinement” CD remastered by Claus Larsen himself, giving a stronger and wider sound to this chef d’oeuvre while staying very faithful to the original work. The original track-list has also been extended to 16 tracks with the addition of tracks from the “Material” EP.

Next comes the “Voluntary Confinement” CD which gathers some 10 selected tracks taken from disc one, totally re-written and re-recorded by LEAETHER STRIP in the 2009 upgraded Strip Farm studio, benefiting from today’s technologies and Claus Larsen’s acquired expertise through the decades. Add to this 2 brand new songs with “Voluntary Confinement” and “The AEnd”, as well as a very cool melodic “Taeknopop” version of the interstellar hit “Strap Me Down”. 

Both discs are NOT available separately and are only sold in this deluxe carton box.

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Add to this some special unreleased studio recordings of songs he has been playing live this year like “Kill a faetish”, “AEghty AEight (US mix)” or yet the killing new version of “Don’t Tame Your Soul”. We also get special live intro’s he wrote for his shows in Cologne and Gothenburg. You will also enjoy the very engaged “The bears aren’t sleeping tonight”, the intimate “Love me or die”, the synthetic layers of a tribute to Jean-Michel Jarre on the aptly titled “Fluidity” or yet the next club hit and future new “AE” classic “Compassion”. 

All in all not less than some 9 totally new & unreleased tracks! As if it were not enough, Claus Larsen also reveals a bunch of collaborations and remix work by bands like DIE KRUPPS, PROJECT PITCHFORK, AUTODAFEH, etc. The eye-catching artwork was designed by American artist Evi Numen. 

Also included in this special limited box: the FREE 17-track exclusive label compilation “Sounds from the matrix 009” revealing the talent of some of Claus Larsen’s label mates and above all featuring a unique hard trance mix by STUDIO-X of LEAETHER STRIP’s new “Compassion”.

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Her story inspired Danish solo-artist Claus Larsen to write “Ængelmaker”, the most poignant and darkest song he has ever written in 21 years. It is an inspiration that has led him to question the value of life in general. How can one forget his/her own abuse? How can one go through the hatred towards minorities? So many questions running through Larsen’s mind that ultimately unleashed the chains of his own demons, letting deep buried memories resurface and haunt him again. 

This is what this new LEÆTHER STRIP album is all about. A reflection on the world’s brutality, on a lifelong nightmare full of haunting ghosts, on pushed away social outcasts… LEÆTHER STRIP takes you with this 22-track double-CD on a hard journey through anger, pain and rejection. It is an uplifting voyage in his inner self through which Claus Larsen can only return stronger, relieved from past ghosts he could finally set free in the whole writing process. Dark EBM /Industrial remains Claus Larsen’s best therapy and the listener will definitely grasp his growing anger on this new album.

In addition to two cover versions of DEPECHE MODE classics, LEÆTHER STRIP also delivers a bombastic reprise of the German cult song “Lili Marlene”. On this limited edition you will also enjoy his duet with Miss UNTER NULL on the beautiful “Don’t You Want Me” (HUMAN LEAGUE) which perfectly opens the bonus “Yes I’m Limited IV” CD which gathers many more special sonic surprises and other rare collaborations… Ængel or dÆvil, one thing is certain: LEÆTHER STRIP rules.

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Her story inspired Danish solo-artist Claus Larsen to write “Ængelmaker”, the most poignant and darkest song he has ever written in 21 years. It is an inspiration that has led him to question the value of life in general. How can one forget his/her own abuse? How can one go through the hatred towards minorities? So many questions running through Larsen’s mind that ultimately unleashed the chains of his own demons, letting deep buried memories resurface and haunt him again. 

This is what this new LEÆTHER STRIP album is all about. A reflection on the world’s brutality, on a lifelong nightmare full of haunting ghosts, on pushed away social outcasts… LEÆTHER STRIP takes you with this 22-track double-CD on a hard journey through anger, pain and rejection. It is an uplifting voyage in his inner self through which Claus Larsen can only return stronger, relieved from past ghosts he could finally set free in the whole writing process. Dark EBM /Industrial remains Claus Larsen’s best therapy and the listener will definitely grasp his growing anger on this new album.

In addition to two cover versions of DEPECHE MODE classics, LEÆTHER STRIP also delivers a bombastic reprise of the German cult song “Lili Marlene”.

This 2CD is also available as an extended bonus tracks download – see the player below.

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1. 88
2. Aeddictive behaviour
3. The kings among the slaves
4. Haervaerk part 1
5. Strap me down 09 (extended version)
6. Haervaerk part 2
7. Adrenalin rush 09
8. Haervaerk part 3
9. Black gold 09
10. Haervaerk part 4
11. Body machine body 09 (bodies on sale version)
12. Haervaerk part 5
13. Genetic fuckup (evil version)
14. Bonus track: Klutae – long live EBM (extended version)
15. Bonus track: Klutae – desert storm (extended version)

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The “Retention nr2” box includes 2 complementary albums: first of which is the “Science for the satanic citizen” LP remastered by Claus Larsen himself, giving a stronger and wider sound to this chef d’oeuvre while staying very faithful to the original work. The original track-list has also been extended to 13 tracks with the addition of tracks from the “Object V” EP and other rarities of the period. Second comes the “Science for the satanic spawn” LP which gathers some 10 selected tracks taken from disc one, totally re-written and re-recorded by LEAETHER STRIP in the 2008 upgraded Strip Farm studio.

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Album after album, Danish EBM legend LEAETHER STRIP has constantly fueled the underground dancefloors and he will set the fire again in 2008 with monster power tracks like the instant hit “When Blood Runs Dark”, the solid “Jagtvej 69”, the punkish “Pissing On My Territory”, “The Cradle of Death” or yet “Going Nowhere”.

To mark these 20 years in dark blood, Claus Larsen seized the opportunity to write the conceptual “one-nine-eight-two” CD, a collection of forbidden art that Claus Larsen devoted to the good old years of moogs and 808s… An electronic tribute to the magic year 1982, when he bought his first synthesizer, his beloved Moog Prodigy that radically scrambled his life for the many decades to follow, and would transform a frustrated revolted teenager hiding his homosexuality into a happy and obsessed daydreamer with a noir soul carried away by his flood of creativity and composing frenzy.

This beautiful album of pure eighties synth lines and fat bass sounds is exclusively available as bonus album in the deluxe carton 3CD box edition of the “Civil Disobedience” album. An impressive 3CD package revealing where LEAETHER STRIP comes from and where it stands today anno 2008: amongst the leaders of underground dark industrial / electronic music. 

Happy Birthday LEAETHER STRIP !

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