Burn On

Penelope Trappes announced the remix of songs from her second album Penelope Two as Penelope Redux. I have to admit that I only listened to a few songs of her last years album and what I heard didn't grabbed me at this time. Trappes is an Australian born experimental artist somewhere between ambient an gothic. The first release of this album is a remix by Scottish legends Mogwai and the result is nothing less like a session from Mogwai with This Mortal Coin. Great stuff.

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Like many other British independent labels Beggars Banquet were formed under the influence of the punk-rock movement. During the years they released a lot of records with quality and taste. Their first release was a classic punk single by the Lurkers. With the subsequent singles the hit the nerve of the time and bands like Tubeway Army and Gary Numan reached high positions in the charts. But Beggars Banquet had also open ears for gothic and new wave. Further along the line the released the records by The Go-Betweens and records by MES's The Fall at his best times. This could be an endless list if I would feature songs by Robert Forster or Grant MacLennan. Anyway, good to look back at the disclosures of this record label with a smile.