Tracklist 01. Cheerful Hypocrisy 02. The Clockwork Man [Angelspit_RMX] 03. The Clockwork Man [Iszoloscope_RMX] 04. The Clockwork Man [Ross Healy Automata_RMX] 05. The Clockwork Man [Decedent_RMX] 06. The Clockwork Man [Architect_RMX] 07. Cheerful Hypocrisy [Cray Samsung_RMX] 08. Cheerful Hypocrisy [The Gnome's Patriotic Disco_RMX] 09. Cheerful Hypocrisy [Zyxt_RMX]
Press Release SNOG™, a leading global entertainment brand, in association with Metropolis Records and Schmerck Industries, present “Cheerful Hypocrisy’ a timely and very constructive message of mindfulness and well-being. Utilising the sciences of happiness and social optimisation, ‘Cheerful Hypocrisy’ moves with an energetic swing and makes an enthusiastic contribution to psychosomatic productivity and trans-humanist rationality. Lyrically and musically refined to maximise behavioural economic growth and social capital, ‘Cheerful Hypocrisy’ lauds calculated hedonism and rewards market-responsible libertarianism through vaudevillian verve and electro-pop precision. The savvy consumer will also benefit from a stable of thoroughbred reworks and remixes, research guided for aerobic and strategic performance enhancement. Among the renowned corporate partners are Angelspit, Architect and Iszoloscope, with deft statements that range from the dance-floor decimation of Ross Healy’s ‘Automata Remix’, to the minimal tech of The Gnome’s ‘Patriotic Disco Remix’ and the bold existentialism of Cray’s ‘Samsung Remix’. Socially aware and performance focussed, you deserve ‘Cheerful Hypocrisy’.
Tracklist 01. Cheerful Hypocricy 02. The Clockwork man 03. The Vampires Of Real Estate 04. Rich Kuntz 05. Compliance™ 06. The Toxic Womb Of Convenience 07. The Stomp Song 08. Oh, You’re An Atheist? 09. The Middle-Class Worms 10. Heroically Deluded 11. The Slow Apocalypse 12. The Theme From Compliance™
Press Release Welcome to the 21st Century post-Weimar electro-Kabarett. From the bowels of The Impossible Sausage Machine™ your hosts, SNOG, bring you the latest in mass content delivery, reflexive ideological hygiene, inappropriate social observation, techno-Ludditism, recombinant satire, ersatz gallows humour, gratuitous gender reassignment and audio-sedation. Cheerful to the end, SNOG cast their collective gaze toward innovations in apocalyptic banality, enthusiastic drone obedience and mediocre weekend totalitarianism. All done with a twinkle in their eyes and a swivel in their hips. This is a subterranean critique you can dance to, whether it be a sturdy shuffle (‘The Middle-Class Worms’), a Tourette’s Polka (‘Rich Kuntz’) or the mandatory mechanical lockstep (‘The Clockwork Man’). Sympathetic, synthetic and cynical, our trusty troubadours spread their disloyal seed far and wide - wholly innocent targets like superannuated senior citizens, venture capitalists, technophiles and the mercantile class are spared no vitriol nor offered any comfort. Wherever humanity may rear its malformed cranium, SNOG stand ready with a glittering feather (to tickle its nostrils), and a pink latex boot (to kick its head in). Industrious skeptics with hearts full of anachronistic, discerning hot love. Gorging on the ragtag goulash of human frailties, SNOG vomits the world out in song. Ensure your medication/inoculation is at hand, a necessary prophylactic against proselytizing, puffery and polemics. Now take your seat, the show is about to begin. And you, my friend, are the show.
Snog & Black Lung - A Curious and Exotic Journey Into Sound and Philosophy (M-Tronic)
Tracklist 01. Mind and Purpose (featuring Veruschka) 02. The Toxic Womb of Convenience * 03. The Sickness (featuring Hecq) 04. Poison (Thrussell/Arkley-Smith/Fischer/Pokorski) 05. Sedition Is Lust (featuring Pankow) 06. License (Thrussell/Arkley-Smith) 07. Production Possibility Frontier * 08. Cosmic Caveman 09. Boundless Informant (Thrussell) * 10. General Breedlove (Thrussell) * 11. The Five Eyes (Thrussell) * 12. Value Added (Thrussell) * 13. Illuminatus Magus (featuring Spiderface) 14. The Omniscient * 15. The Lament of the Lost Sheep 16. One Speck of Dust
Snog = tracks 1-6, 8 and 15-16 Black Lung = tracks 7 and 9-14 * previously unreleased
Press Release A Compendium Of Collaborations, Seldom Heard And Previously Unreleased Works by Snog and Black Lung. This exclusive release celebrates the return in Europe of Snog and Black Lung for shows at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig on 23rd and 25th of may 2015. Available only at the festival and on our website.
"In a 1972 lecture called “Four Criteria of Electronic Music”, noted German avant-garde composer (and in fact my great-uncle) Karlheinz Stockhausen, declared music to be a powerful tool able to affect the “atomic layers of ourselves”. Karlheinz believed that the listener was effected and altered on imperceptible levels, and indeed ‘absorbed’ all music at the cellular level on exposure. If this is indeed the case, then we are what we ‘eat’ musically - great audio-phonic ‘sponges’ shaped and activated by sound and soundscape. By rational extension the sentient being should be conscious and discerning of their sonic diet and landscape. Naturally the broadest and most exploratory palette should likewise be encouraged, to extend and (if possible) actualise latent human potentials. I’m often aware (and deeply thankful) for the great role sound and music have played in my life’s journey. Shaped by sound, I offer this gift - a compendium of audio explorations - through the valleys and hills of life, from one road to another. A map manifested in ideas, subtle philosophies and ancient yearnings." D. Thrussell 2015
Snog - The New Cocksucker Blues (Metropolis Records)
Tracklist 01. The New Cocksucker Blues 02. The New Cocksucker Blues (hardcore breakbeat 92 - Monster Zoku Onsomb remix) 03. The New Cocksucker Blues (Black Lung vitemizer remix) 04. Army of Ghosts 05. Metabolic-Noir
Tracklist 01. The Plug-In Drug 02. Everything Is Under Control 03. Adolph's Library 04. Bleak Is My Favourite Chic 05. Otto Rahn 06. The Corporate Homoerotic Cyclists 07. The New Cocksucker Blues 08. Soul Invictus 09. 21st Century Lullaby 10. Apocalypse Fatigue
Press Release “Babes in Consumerland” is the new Snog album. It is also the best album the band has ever recorded. Coming a full 21 years after their debut left-field dancefloor hit “Corporate Slave”, “Babes in Consumerland” sees the band in transition as never before. Though not mentioned explicitly lyrically, band mastermind Dee Thrussell’s long journey to recently arrive as a transgender woman informs every wry musical gesture and plaintive lyric. Still possessed of a striking social conscience and the blackest of humours, “Everything Is Under Control” exclaims a reverie around social conditioning over a hefty shuffle. “Bleak Is My Favourite Chic” chronicles a troubled internal landscape over pogo beat, fuzz-punk bass and squealing analogue synths. Timely and provocative, “Apocalypse Fatigue” pleads for an end, as an EMS VCS3 chirps and a Fairlight CMI choir purrs. Joined by dear friends and collaborators Atom TM, Felix Kubin, Ash Wednesday, John Justin Stewart (Grace Jones) and The City Of Prague Philharmonic Choir, this is electronic music as you’ve never heard it before - blindingly articulate, fearless and yet strangely accessible. 2013’s incarnation of the legendary Snog is now an all female act, a powerhouse trio delivering slyly subversive electro pop. You have been warned.
Tracklist 01. Shop (I.M.F Remix) 02. Born to Be Mild (Soma Remix) 03. Cliche (Snog Vs. Q-Kontrol) 04. Naive Giant (F.E.M.A Remix) 05. Born to Be Mild (Groin Thunder Remix) 06. The Universe (Negative Format Remix) 07. Born to Be Mild (Alex Hidell Mk II) 08. Cliche (MK Artichoke File 1) 09. Hooray!! (Black Lung And The Death Jungle 2000) 10. Hey, Christian God (Sacred Mushroom II Mix) 11. Make the Little Flowers Grow (The Gold Eating Ants) 12. The Ballad (Atom Heart and the Systematic Errors) 13. The Human Germ (Black Lung Meets the Brutal Gardener) 14. The Human Germ (Xingu Hill Battles the Predominant Pestilence) 15. The Future (xx 0022) 16. Real Estate Man (Ubin Remix) 17. Corporate Slave (V.1)
Press Release SNOG has always been a strange animal. Some kind of Electro-Frankenstein, a hybrid of progressive electronic music and archaic tradition work-songs and melancholic ballads. This release strips away Thrussell's old-world songwriting to reveal the high-octane, pulsating electro-beast that often hides deep in the SNOG sound. There are club anthems here (Shop - I.M.F Remix), jagged avant work-outs (Black Lung's remix of The Human Germ) and edgy dance-floor grunt (Ubin's remix of Real Estate Man). These remixes were cooked with paranoia, anger, love and dark, dark humour. You WILL like them.
Snog - The Dissolving Satellite of Egoism Overturned (Hymen Records)
Tracklist 01. Rotten Meat 02. King of Hate 03. Lee Harvey Oswald 04. Thou Shalt not Kill 05. Child 06. Karma Song 07. Planet of Shit 08. City 09. The Ballad of Timothy McVeigh 10. Real Estate Man 11. Whateverman 12. No More Shit 13. The Ballad 14. One Grain of Sand 15. The Bells and the Whistles 16. The Last Days of Rome 17. Al-Qaeda is Your Best Friend 18. The Fascist Lockdown 19. Stomp Song 20. Hooray!!
Press Release this cd, also dubbed 'the nude acoustic verandah sessions', is a long overdue collection of tunes that the group, led by the equally charismatic and enigmatic australian david thrussell, has recorded by fireside, babbling brook or cold bunker wall. celebrated on the dancefloor or in the private booth, snog now reveal the organic heart that beats deep beneath their world weary exterior. remastered with love and care from the original tapes, assembled after hours spent exploring in the vaults, here is a snog you might never have thought existed - ragged yet sincere, angry yet tender and heartfelt. apocalyptic hillbillies who somehow got lost in an industrial rave - snog have now come home - and it’s a revelation. these rare archival recordings document the touching, warm and rather unknown aspects of a group most often noted for their dark, anarchic electronic music. not that it’s love for acoustic tunes had not yet been revealed: it had started as early as 1997 with a lee hazlewood cover version and surfaced big time on the 2003 album 'beyond the valley of the proles' which featured acoustic instrumentation all over. ever since it has been an integral part of all releases, with acoustic tunes and remixes appearing as bonus tracks, b-sides or compilation tracks. now for the first time they are all conveniently repackaged on one album and of course enriched with unreleased material to equally please the snogheads and the alt.country crowd that might otherwise prefer the wonderful and obscure dolly parton, waylon jennings, porter wagoner or anita carter releases on thrussell’s omni label. snog shows through this crossover release that it has always been about musicianship and finely crafted songwriting rather than knob-twiddling, and the wit in...
Snog - Last of the Great Romantics (Hymen Records)
Tracklist 01. We’re All in This Together 02. The End of the World 03. Wargasm 04. Sleepwalk 05. Big Black Hole 06. This World (Done Me Wrong) 07. Cosmic Caveman 08. A Man 09. The Fires 10. The Prisoner Song 11. Sing Your Troubles Away
Press Release Recorded over 2008/2009 in Melbourne, Berlin and Prague, Snog’s “Last Of The Great Romantics” is truly a landmark album. Like Radiohead’s “Ok Computer” and Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” (to both of which it has already been compared) “Last Of The Great Romantics” sees a beloved band at their conceptual and creative peak. From the blazing space-rock-ballad of opening track “We’re All In This Together” to the languid moog-boogie of “The End Of The World” to the disco-metal pyrotechnics of “Wargasm” Snog forge their own path and their own sound, bold, uncompromising and just a little bent. Recorded entirely in analogue facilities using a vast collection of vintage studio equipment with special guests including John Justin Stewart (Grace Jones), Neil Boyack (Angler), The City Of Prague Philharmonic Choir and produced by The Calculators (The Faint, Schneider TM) “Last Of The Great Romantics” is a lush, sincere masterpiece.
Snog - Thirteen Remakes for the Rapture (Advoxya Records)
Tracklist 01. Crash Crash (Manmademan Remix) 02. Planet of Shit (Manmademan Remix) 03. King of Hate (Black Lung Remix) 04. Crash Crash (Tim Wright Remix) 05. Planet of Shit (Black Lung Remix) 06. King of Hate (End Remix) 07. Turn on Your Brain Baby (Oleg Kostrow Remix) 08. The Last Days of Rome (Sir Real Remix) 09. Citizens (Shaolin Wooden Men Remix) 10. Hooray!! (Haujobb Remix) 11. Planet of Shit (Hecq Remix) 12. City (Hesius Dome vs. Hecq Remix) 13. Fill My Hole (Byron Scullin featuring Marcel Borrack "He's the Real Deal" Remix)
Press Release Advoxya Records proudly presents this official release from the australian veteran of the industrial movement - SNOG (aka David Thrussell) - in last 2 years from the publishing The Last Days Of Rome and several digital singles. Full spectrum of outstanding music, from danceable electro, EBM to slow acoustic tracks, been remixed by well-known names in scene such as Black Lung, Haujobb, Hecq, Ambassador 21 and many others. Being the old fan of this band from it..s first releases on legendary label Machinery Records (RIP), then on Hymen, Metropolis, Psy-Harmonics and so on, we were happy to issue this brilliant sonic sculpture, which is been one-piece monolith masterpiece, built on the different genres of industrial. Disc is published in the limited plastic box.
