Consumer Manoeuvres LP + CD

Consumer Manoeuvres by Le Cliché is the latest release on Cold Beats Records (Barcelona). This follows the debut release by Le Cliché, ‘Consumer Behaviour’ on the Seattle (USA) based label Medical Records in 2014 and its follow up in 2016 entitled ‘The Product is You’ on the Sincronica label (Valencia).

Le Cliché is the electronic music project of Gerard Ryan, professor of marketing at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The music takes a critical view of the malaise of marketing and its effect on our postmodern consumer society. It deals with serious issues as diverse as consumer privacy, identity, fad diets, fast fashion and the hyper-reality of contemporary advertising. Yet it does so always with an optimistic sarcasm and playfulness.

This new collection of songs on Cold Beats Records, entitled Consumer Manoeuvres, started out as a remix project but very quickly turned into an all-together different record, a series of collaboration, covers and reimagining’s of the original music. Cold Beats Records presents some of the most influential electronic artists from the underground, minimal synth and coldwave scene from the last 35 years in an all-together darker record Le Cliché’s other records.

Collaborators include Mark Lane, Mick Milk, Kline Coma Xero and Spatial Relation (USA), ADN’ Ckrystall (France), Red Fetish, John Costello, This is the Bridge and Jonteknik (UK), KuBO (Ireland) Moss Garten (Sweden) JJ Ibañex of Kremlyn, and Wladyslaw Triejo (Spain) Delayscape (Denmark), Gay Cat Park and Effetto Joule (Italy).

These artists have appeared on many of the most influential darkwave, coldwave, italo and minimal synth music on a host of leading labels including Minimal Wave, Mannequin, Medical Records, Peripheral Minimal, Anna Logue, Domestica, Obscure Identities 1980, Vinyl on Demand, La Forme Lente and Kernkrach.

Cold Beats Records presents a limited edition of 330 copies, with 18 tracks across two formats, a transparent vinyl high quality LP plus cd, with a full cover inner sleeve which includes detailed biographical notes on all artists involved.

Vinyl

1. Moss Garten – Consumer Manoeuvres
2. Mark Lane – Aquaphobia
3. Mick Milk – HCI
4. Kline Coma Xero – Marketing Marketing
5. ADN Ckrystall – Production Line
6. Kremlyn – Operating System
7. Spatial Relation – Thank U 4 Holding
8. Delayscape – I Dreamt I Was Dead
9. KuBO – Fragments Of Ventolin

CD

10. Gay Cat Park – Woke Up This Morning Like I Always Do
11. Effetto Joule – Supermercato
12. John Costello – Production Line
13. This Is The Bridge – Fear Of Water
14. Red Fetish – Consumer Behaviour
15. Gay Cat Park – Thank You For Holding
16. Jonteknik – Production Line
17. Wladyslaw – Esperándote En Internet