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Farah: “Rock Show” (2021)

AFTER DARK 3 - Presented By Johnny Jewel 

Desire - Boy

*Edit: Just watched the premiere with IDIB, and while their videos are always my choice aesthetic, this one really upped the anty

Highly anticipated After Dark 3 from the Italo Disco masters at Italians Do It Better pre-orders have dropped.  Grab the phenominal third installment of essentially a showcase of the labels best to come.  Out on 3XLP Slime vinyl, featuring many long time labels favorites like Johnny Jewel, Chromatics, Desire, and Farah along with exciting new comers like MOTHERMARY, Glüme, and Orion.

After Dark 3 on 3XLP 180g Slime Vinyl pre-order now.

JOON - WATCH THE SKY

Johnny Jewel: The Witch

From Johnny Jewel's 10th solo album, Holly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out Friday, October 13th via Italians Do It Better.

Holly is the first solo work Johnny Jewel shares with the public since 2018's "Themes For Television", featuring music he wrote for David Lynch's Twin Peaks. In a recent interview, Johnny & Fien discuss working on the film together. Mixed in Amsterdam in April 2023, Holly premiered last week in official competition at the Venice Film Festival. The film received five star reviews from the global press as well as a standing ovation from the audience.

"Throughout the film, vague hues overlap seamlessly like clouds constantly morphing. As the audience, we project meanings to the shapes that emerge from the chaos in what appear to be patterns. It's abstract enough to be unrecognizable, yet it's somehow familiar. Inspired by the masters of mood like Goblin's blood curdling chimes for Dario Argento, Tangerine Dream's spiraling synthesis for William Friedkin, & John Carpenter's hyper-minimalist approach to scoring his own films with Alan Howarth, I explored a genre-based language to trigger the audience's subconscious. Metallic synthesizers, celeste bells, mellotron flutes & detuned music boxes haunt the recurring musical motif. Like an inevitable storm rolling in, the soundtrack is eerily elusive & at times, almost formless. At other times, the music is so crystal clear & so sharply in focus you could reach out & touch it." JOHNNY JEWEL

GLÜME: GODDESS

GLÜME: DANGEROUS BLUE

New GLÜME, featured on recently released After Dark 4 compilation. Almost two hours of Italo Disco, heading to vinyl soon...