Mt. Sims

Location:
berlin, Berlin, De
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Experimental / Gothic / Post punk
Site(s):
Label:
http://www.hungryeyerecords.com
Type:
Indie
Matt Sims began startling audiences with his unusually provocative performances which were equal amounts political satire , surreal imagery and sensual debauch. With three dancers (à la The Fall), this performance group explored the contemporary connections between media, consumerism, sex, and entertainment. Gaining comparisons from artist Paul McCarthy's food work to James Brown's hip work, this show caused enough of a stir to get the attention of DJ Hell who quickly signed them to his International DJ Gigolo Records label alongside the likes of Tuxedo Moon, Terence Fixmer, CROSSOVER, Vitalic and Linda Lamb. The release of Mount Sims's first album Ultrasex on Emperor Norton records, now a cult classic electro-pop album, put Sims on the map internationally with the hit song "Hate Fuck."??In 2004, the follow up LP Wild Light was released. This album, with such songs as "No Yellow Lines" and "Urgent Not Urgent," introduced a darker side of Mount Sims. Collaborating with artists David J. of Bauhaus, Roger Manning Jr. (Beck), Echo Angelica Danon (So Does The Fire / E.V.R.) and visual artist Elad Lassery, Wild Light was a landscape of made from themes which touched on the darker side of human nature: Obsession, isolation, horror and madness were to become a noted themes in Sims's lyrical arsenal. Musically both noisy and melodic, Wild Light became the mark of a definite a departure form purely electronic music and from all which previous fans considered to be pleasant, to a very particular style of music influenced by post-punk and the LA underground. AT this time Matt was asked to do remixes for a various range of artists including the likes of Madonna ( in which it was noted that he used samples of Charles Manson's recorded material ) and a Duet with the Ross of Christian Death. After touring extensively throughout Europe as a three-piece band (as opposed to a performance art piece as was the case withUltrasex) Sims decided on breaking the band up and relocating to Berlin, Germany. It is here that Matt began working on a new incarnation of the band with Randy Twiggon bass, Andre Lange on drums, and Thomas Stern of Crime and The City Solution behind the sound and production. THis lead to the Hungry eye records release A Grave EP, and a third full length, Happily Ever After. That album was an even further departure from pure electronic dance music and presented a creepier and more aggressive content than any other Mount Sims album, featuring guest musicians Jessie Evans (Vanishing, Autonervous, Subtonix) Toby Damit (Swans, Iggy Pop) , Bryan Black (Motor), Jackson ( Jackson and his Computer band) and visual art collaboration with Rat Boy of CROSSOVER . . In the time period of recording new tracks, Matt spent 6 months in the studio w Olof & Karin Dreijer ( The Knife) collaborating on music and libretto for their upcoming Darwinian Opera entitled TOMORROW IN A YEAR, which is a partnership between The Knife and the Denmark based performance theater group Hotel Proforma. This contemporary opera will premiere in the Royal Opera house of Copenhagen on September 2nd and will also feature musical collaborations between Olof & Planning to Rock. The musical content for this opera falls somewhere in between beautifully disturbing and grimly hopeful
OUT SOON !!!MT. SIMS"Revaluation"12" maxi
EPMixed colour vinyl - Outfold coverLimited edition of +/- 300
hand-numbered copies(PUNCH 031)What happens when Adriano Canzian, Christopher Kah, Crossover,
Equitant and Magas choose one song each from Mt. Sims's "Happily ever
after.again" and have their way with it. Well prepare yourself.
turn all your lights off. turn your speakers up at full volume. and
remove any sharp objects from your immediate reach.unless of coarse
you like to dance on glass. "Revaluation" is coming
!RELEASE-DATE: 19 JUNE 2010PRE-ORDER NOW
!Price: 13,00 euro + postageTracklist:(Sound clips available on Punch website) SIDE A:1
- MT. SIMS "Fragile Breaks Fragile - Original Version"2 -
CHRISTOPHER KAH "Fragile Breaks Fragile - A Passage in Time Remix"3
- MAGAS "Fall Back - Violent ARP Remix"SIDE B:1 -
ADRIANO CANZIAN "Unwound - Black Chrysalis Remix"2 - CROSSOVER
"Unwound - Ghost Machine Mix"3 - EQUITANT "Unwound - Die
Geistermaschine Remix"sincerelyPUNCH
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OUT NOW!!! MT. SIMS "Happily ever after.again" CD (PUNCH 030) Like the sequel to a novel, Mt.Sims (Matt Sims) returns with his magnum opus entitled"Happily ever after.again" as the final response to his previously released album "Happily ever after". This new album begins where the last one left off, asking the questions "why am i here", and "how can i transcend myself". With songs like Grave and The Bitten bite back linking the past to the present, Sims's text dissect the human condition, giving it a hard look and pointing out the repercussions and could be repercussions of our behavior. As one sinks deeper in the head of Mt.Sims, it becomes clear that this album is a story dealing with faith and the worship of ideology. From the perspective a solider with many faces, Sims skips around from army to army, side to side, life to death, present to forgotten. From song to song, the one can hear a voice questioning his own identity and the way that he sees the world. Candy coated, a song of violent obsession, screams in ending "how could you love me to destroy me?" Disappearing act drives like a car on a never-ending highway. What the driver must deliver is his own soul. As Sims sings " I see my footprints on the floor but i can't see myself anymore", one can realize the voice crying out from the speaker, in an acousmatic tradition, is separated from its owner who at this point has vanished from site. As the Soldier changes faces, he is Orpheus, he is a Kamikaze pilot, he is the ghost of childhood, he is a gypsy and he is finally Matt Sims. This album is a journey where fiction and fact intertwine and leave cold impressions about human behavior and our need to believe in something. Lyrically this album shows that most of the time our ideologies need us. From floating psychedelic textures and screeching synths to strange yet beautiful melodies that writhe and twist around deadly disco beats, one can come closer to understanding the necessity of contradiction in modernity. One may find themselves by losing themselves in this soon to be cult classic.A mixture of Electronic and acoustic, this album delivers an environment to question all that you believe is true but don't believe a word we say.
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"Happily ever after.again" --review by JIM N01R
In the musical Cold-Wave/Post-Punk sphere of influence today too often tarnished, it is rare to find an album which really shakes you guts & bring fresh blood to the genre.
Matt Sims nevertheless managed with "Happily Ever After. Again", his fourth opus, to produce a record which should haunt you for a long time. Of a chrysalis, Mount Sims, previously solo entity, was transformed into butterfly,moving from L.A to Berlin.
Matt is a member of rare artists who succeeds to develop his sound on every album; Remember of Ultrasex(his first album) and its unstoppable original electro-pop hits like "Hate Fuck "; of Wild Light (second brilliant opus) in a more darker electro-cold-wave sound or his third album "Happily Ever After" and its universe orientated in the Batcave/Post-Punk area.
This new album begins where the last one left off, asking the questions "why am i here", and "how can i transcend myself".
Link of past towards the future, we thus find 3 titles of the previous opus : ‘The Bitten Bite Back’ re-position Death-Rock like Christian Death & Bauhaus to a sweaty dancefloor whilst "Grave," a rolling pitch of sinister snares and melancholy omens with its purring & intoxicating lines of bass, is nearly perfect for five exact minutes; when post-punk meats dark wave disco beats : "Love's Revenge" appears.
One track from the previous "Grave" EP "unwound" is also here : a true synthetic masterpiece , darker than black ,very addictive.
The sound decorum is planted, will be linked while hits of a pale beauty which will restore his letters of nobility in the great moments of the movement of the beginning of the 80's but with a modern sound, far from the " crappy gothic body buildings mainstream " of the moment.
Concerning the new compositions, Matt demonstrates one more time his excellence in the musical eclecticism ;
The icy pre-batcave's attacks of "Disappearing Act","In Exile" ,"New Authority Volunteers", "Candy Coated"or "Fall Back" kicks ass with profound & strong lyrics.
The post-modern-apocalyptic folk of "A Simple View" or The sublime,catchy and brilliantly dark "Fragile Breaks Fragile" will bewitch you for sure.
To note also the presence of stabbing guitars in the Siouxsie & the Banshees'style of "Hellbent" and the excellent haunted melancholic synthetic track "Shattering Of Crystal";The perfection is near.
You will have understood it : this new album is just strong,fresh & original !
Ultimate vestige of a musical current which sees itself here resuscitated with an eloquence, an originality and a freshness that we had not listened any more for ages.
Mt. Sims is the sacred guardian of the ice-cold and melancholic sound of the beginning of the 80's for the future decades. To discover urgently : This record should be paid off by the Social Security !
Price: 12,00 euro + postage ORDER NOW ! CLICK HERE Tracklist: (Sound clips available on our website) 1. The Bitten Bite Back 2. Grave 3. Love's Revenge 4. Unwound 5. Candy Coated 6. Disappearing Act 7. In Exile 8. Hellbent 9. New Authority Volunteers 10. Fall Back 11. The Shattering Of Crystal 12. A Simple View 13. Fragile Breaks Fragile 14. Shelter



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