Propaganda Records

Propaganda Records company and Propaganda label are an independent Finnish record company and a record label established in 1981. Since the beginning Helsinki-based Propaganda was specializing in the independent punk music and Hardcore. The label dominated the Finnish hardcore punk and underground scene in the beginning of 1980's until 1986. Releases were soon distributed in West Germany, Brazil and in United States. As soon began reissues in West Germany.

Propaganda history

The Finnish Propaganda Records was founded in the beginning of 1981 in Helsinki by Heikki Vilenius. The actual label logo Propaganda was created already in the summer 1979 for the Propaganda-fanzine issues. Soon after the first releases the founder had a continuing radio program at Finnish Yle with name Suomirock. The name has became as an important part of meaning of Finnish rock within the later decades.

Quite soon after 1st Propaganda compilation album Propaganda - Russia bombs Finland in 1982 they announced co-operation with rockabilly shop Jensen Studio and Rockphone with a show at Lepakkoluola, the former addict flophouse, with a pile of performing bands. Rockphone traded Propaganda issues well and imported actual punkrock till The Lords of the New Church from London via aeroplane. Later Propaganda arranged several hardcore shows in year by the same way. Puntala-rock 1983 was one of same kind of festivals around Finland. The event has returned latest since 2000 and has always performers around the world. In the late 1982 album issues Valtion vankina (As Prisoner of State) from Riistetyt and Ei raha oo mun valuuttaa (Money Is Not My Currency) from Appendix were just what was needed to offer a total shot of Finnish hardcore. A small flat record Totaalinen Kaaos (Total Chaos] by Kaaos was eneough for a while.

Propaganda (Fred Frith album)

Propaganda is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It comprises 21 pieces for dance written by Frith and commissioned by Matthew Maguire for the Creation Production Company. It was first performed at La Mama ETC in New York City in May 1987. The suite was recorded by Kramer at Noise New York in April 1987 and released on Side 4 of Frith's 1988 solo album, The Technology of Tears. It was omitted from the CD releases of the album.

The Propaganda suite was reworked and remastered in February 2015 by Myles Boisen, and was released by Fred Records in November 2015.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Fred Frith.

Sources: AllMusic,Discogs, SquidCo

Personnel

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Sound and artwork

Recorded at Noise New York, April 1987; Mastered at Headless Buddhna Mastering Labs, Oakland, California, February 2015.

Melotron

Melotron is a futurepop and synthpop band from Germany. In 1996 Andy Krueger, Edgar Slatnow and Kay Hildebrandt left their former band, The Vermin, to form Melotron. The band found success with their first single, "Dein Meister," in 1998.

Until 2007, Melotron was a band with German-only lyrics. However, in their album Propaganda, "Broken" is sung entirely in English.

Melotron has performed at a number of major electronic and industrial festivals, amongst these the Wave Gotik Treffen festival in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2012, and the M'era Luna Festival in 2001, 2003, and 2005.

In the American television show Saturday Night Live, the recurring sketch "Deep House Dish" uses Melotron's song "Der Kosmonaut" as an opening.

Albums

Singles