Xeno and Oaklander + Led Er Est

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WIERD RECORDS DOUBLE BILL
www.wierdrecords.com
There's a new sound in New York City. OK, not a new sound, exactly - but try to dig back to its roots and you come up with little. Skeletal discographies. Blurred Polaroids. Cryptic biographies in foreign languages. Lost histories and loose ends.
Wierd Records thrive in this territory. Pieter Schoolwerth, the DJ and conceptual artist who started Wierd as a New York club night in 2003, has a buzz-phrase for the music he loves, which he uses liberally and often - 'Very Rare'.
'Very Rare' applies to a specific dancefloor sound - a generational movement that spread over Europe and across the world during the early 80s, but produced few huge bands or big stars. There are many names for it: synth-wave, minimal wave, Germany's Neu Deutsch Welle or France's vague froid - literally, 'cold wave'. All, though, refer to a broadly similar style: romantic, often electronic-tinged DIY post-punk inspired by Bowie's Berlin period and Factory Records, Cabaret Voltaire and The Normal - DIY in spirit but powered by an inexorable, robotic pulse Louis Pattison, The Quietus

XENO AND OAKLANDER (Brooklyn, NY)
...is a minimal synth duo from Brooklyn, comprising Sean McBride and French / Norwegian Miss Liz Wendelbo. They began writing music in 2004 and record their songs live in their studio on analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively. Their first full-length 'Sentinelle' is out now on New York's pioneering Weird Records and captures perfectly the imprint and clubnight's 'Very Rare' sound - recalling Europe's early 80s coldwave movement, replete with Sean's stilted Anglophilic vocal delivery versus Liz's native tongue swoon.
www.myspace.com/xenoandoaklander

LED ER EST (Brooklyn, NY)
Drawing from the dire textures of first-wave industrial music, the craftsmanship and ambience of postpunk and coldwave, and the primal kineticism of old school house and techno, the project was initially more of an outlet for song fragments and delirious baubles. As their sound took a more structured turn towards the end of 2007, Owen Stokes was recruited. Led er est strives towards that which is otherworldy and alien(ating), but also immediate and infectious, as witnessed by the 'Dust on Common' LP, also on Weird.
www.myspace.com/lederest