Manufactured Desire Records

07/06/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdN7McUE5C8&t=19s

01/04/2022

Sold out at the label but I have copies.
https://lecliche.bandcamp.com/album/vicarious-life

23/02/2022

last copies of the fabulous "Le Cliche" LP "Vicarious Life" at £10 a pop now: +£4 UK PP | + £8 EU PP | +£15 Rest/World PP
paypal: [email protected]

last copies of the fabulous "Le Cliche" LP "Vicarious Life" at £10 a pop now: +£4 UK PP | + £8 EU PP | +£15 Rest/World PP

paypal: [email protected]
THANKS!

"Connoisseurs of the post-punkier end of synth scene history will love this" Concrete Islands

"Make no mistake, this is benchmark for the genre." Juno

PY113 LE CLICHÉ “Vicarious Life” LP (Pressing of 500 | vinyl only | mid Feb. 2022)

Next up on Polytechnic Youth is the eagerly anticipated new full length from the mighty Le Cliché, the minimal synth project of Limerick born, Spanish based Gerard Ryan.

12 tracks of fabulous classic analogue, mono synth sounds showcasing Ryan’s obsession with minimal, lo-fi electro pop- as do his sleeve notes, which credit vocal samples by cult synth forerunners Boris Dzaneck, The Petticoats and Tara Cross, a collaboration with Ricard Anderson of ‘This is the Bridge’ and liner notes (an essay on vicarious consumption) edited by Danny Bosten of Das Ding.

Kicking off with the album’s title track- which, as a 45 last year attained plays on 6Music, reviews in “Electronic Sound” and “Record Collector” and sold out in a tick (as does all the LC back catalogue). Elsewhere on the record, tips of the hat to early Cabs, Fad Gadget, Transparent Illusion, Neural Circus et al, yet firmly sounding as fresh and current as any new electronica doing the rounds just now, lovely stuff and a superbly free flowing consistent set of tracks. Hugely recommended to anyone into any of the above and destined to sell out super quick….

Vicarious Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZER2Uj3hm0M

Thin White Sheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7kvA83mjo

07/02/2022

Out tomorrow Tuesday February 8th 2022:

SLOVENSKA TELEVIZA presents "Sunday Afternoons in Pripyat"

"Sunday Afternoons in Pripyat" is the new single from Slovenska Televiza, released on Manufactured Desire Records. It is an ultra-limited edition of only 22 lathe-cut vinyl copies that, in addition to the main track, includes the instrumental "Micromegas" on side B.

What if a group of young people had escaped the evacuation of Pripyat after the Chernobyl accident? Behind this idea, one can only find a bittersweet story in which, above the probable dramatic outcome, friendship and enthusiasm for life can be glimpsed. Everything is open in the end, it's better that way.

Each cover has been made by hand in paper and binding cloth, designed by Wladyslaw Trejo in collaboration with the prestigious Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk. The cover image was rescued from the exclusion zone along with other photographs, postcards and family footage urgently abandoned by the disaster and exposed to weather and radiation for decades. Lost memories that Maxim Dondyuk tries to reconstruct in his "Untitled Project from Chernobyl".

https://manufactureddesire.bandcamp.com/music

04/02/2022

Second track from the new Le Cliché LP, out on Polytechnic Youth on February 14th.

Thin White Sheets

You can order directly from Dom at the label as follows;
Price is £11.99 plus £4 UK post | +£8 EU post | +£15 rest of World post and paypal is best to: [email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7kvA83mjo

27/01/2022

Finally a new Le Cliché album coming up in February on the outstanding Polytechnic Youth record label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZER2Uj3hm0M
Hi all, after a long quiet spell 'Le Cliché' returns from 1981 with a new album, out in mid February on vinyl LP from the glorious Polytechnic Youth http://www.polytechnicyouth.com record label. The album will be available directly from the label. More details will follow.

This is the title track, entitled Vicarious Life.

As always the album title is based on what's going on for me at the moment. At work, we're looking at how people live their lives through others. Things like consuming unboxing videos and watching mukbangs (people stuffing their faces with food). Very entertaining and often curiously weird stuff. I hope a few of you like it.

This is the video for the track Vicarious Life from the forthcoming 7 vinyl single on Polytechnic Youth Records.Vocal sample with kind permission, from BORIS...