News on one of my favorite industrial acts from the Wax Trax/PIAS era…
From Side-Line:
‘Lung Function’, a new lifesign for record label Dependent and industrial pioneers Click Click
November 2007 saw the last physical release of the electronic record label Dependent (Rotersand, Mind.In.A.Box, Pride And Fall, Seabound, Dismantled, …). The label decided to stop releasing physical products “as a protest against the high rate of music piracy on the internet” as label owner Stefan Herwig put it. Now Dependent issues a lifesign in the form of a newly remastered, digital format only CD single compilation, “Lung function”, of the UK industrial pioneers Click Click. “Lung function” serves as a programmatic title for both band and record label.
The digital album includes the highly sought after 12" vinyl releases “Sweet Stuff”, “Skripglow”, “I Rage, I Melt” and “Whiteout” as well as 2 unreleased bonus tracks and a digital booklet with extensive commentary from Click Click themselves. “All tracks have been remastered digitally, and we are simply blown away by the results of the remastering process. This is a work of love and respect for the old Click Click material, a band that I have always been an admirer of. So it is an honor to be able to make this rare material available to electronic music fans around the world in this upgraded form”, says Dependent Owner Stefan Herwig.
The label is currently negotiating backcatalogue options with bands like Haujobb and Lassigue Bendthaus. Click Click, the project of brothers Derek And Adrian Smith, who released 3 groundbreaking electronic albums on Play It Again Sam does still hold a cult status with many older fans of industrial music . Their old releases are being traded achieving high prices among record collectors. The first ideas for selective Click Click live shows in mid 2009 are being evaluated between band and Dependent.
[url “http://www.click-click.eu/home.html”]Click Click Official Website
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