In the past we weren't able to sell the latest 2 Crystalline Effect discs, Hypothermia and Identity, but now the label have stocked us up and is letting us sell them directly.

The Crystalline Effect - Identity - Album 2008

Tracklisting:
01 Blue Sea
02 How I Get Out
03 Ialundra
04 Researching Us
05 Life Has Failed You
06 When The World Ends
07 When You're Asleep
08 Five Ways To Run
09 One Time In Life
10 Radio Waves
11 Right
12 Reseaching Us (Lee Bulig remix)
13 When The World Ends (Endif remix)
14 Nothing Warms This Room (Tazman Module remix by Impact Pulse)
Available from thecrystallineeffect.com



The Crystalline Effect - Hypothermia - Remix EP 2007

Tracklisting:
1 Only You Can See You
2 Hypothermia
3 Nothing Warms This Room
4 Easy To Begin
5 When The World Ends (Blank remix)
6 Jagged Edges (Negative Format remix)
7 One Time In Life (Deepthroat remix by Schyzzo.com)
8 Nothing Warms This Room (cB remix)
9 Easy To Begin (Dance Puppet Grand Parade remix by Urceus Exit)
10 Nothing Warms This Room (Implant remix)
11. Do Not Open
12 Jagged Edges
13 Only You Can See You (remix)
14 Nothing Warms This Room (Neikka RPM remix)

Available from thecrystallineeffect.com

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Also had a rethink and have cut a few Euros off the price of the Shiv-r EP - Parasite.

Tracklisting:
[1] Parasite [5:37]
[2] Fractured Light [4:56]
[3] Control [4:31]
[4] Parasite (Virul3nt mix) [4:47]
[5] Control (Kong mix) [4:18]
Available from Shiv-r.com

Identity
Identity, the second full-length album from The Crystalline Effect, has a release date now: October 8th 2008.  You can order it already from here. 

Fiend Magazine

The latest issue of Fiend Magazine includes a feature interview with Pete from The Crystalline Effect, discussing among other things, the new album "Identity".

Compilation - Machines Against Hunger

2CD Compilation by Sigsaly Transmissions Media, featuring an exclusive mix - "The Crystalline Effect - Nothing Warms This Room (Machines Against Hunger mix)", as remixed by Pete.

EP Review - Hypothermia
Check out a new review of 2007 EP Hypothermia by Ik Echt zine.

Yep, I (Pete) am now living in The Netherlands, currently Amsterdam. So farewell to London - it's good to be out of that place.

Of course, TCE writing and touring will continue as usual, just as it has since living in London, and The Netherlands should be a better place from which to tour Europe.

Keep an eye out for the new TCE album, "Identity", due out any day now from Advoxya.
A new Plague Sequence track will be released soon by Sector 9 and keep up to date with Shiv-r too.

The second full-length album from The Crystalline Effect, entitled "Identity", will be released soon by Advoxya Records.

Audio samples now available on our profile!



Tracklisting:
01 Blue Sea
02 How I Get Out
03 Ialundra
04 Researching Us
05 Life Has Failed You
06 When The World Ends
07 When You're Asleep
08 Five Ways To Run
09 One Time In Life
10 Radio Waves
11 Right
12 Reseaching Us (Lee Bulig remix)
13 When The World Ends (Endif remix)
14 Nothing Warms This Room (Tazman Module remix by Impact Pulse)

Life is just returning to (sort of) normal after 3 gigs in Europe this weekend: 16th August in Estonia (with Hocico + Forgotten Sunrise), 17th in Latvia (with Hocico + Forgotten Sunrise + Novus UK) and 19th in Hungary (with Snog + Impact Pulse). 

All the gigs went great, especially the 2 with Hocico.  As a huge Hocico fan, I am very happy to say that the Mexican duo are incredibly nice, open, friendly and professional, without any rockstar bullshit.  Including these gigs, I've seen Hocico 4 times, and they are one of the best live bands out there! 

In Riga, Latvia, there were 350 people in a huge venue pressed against a crowd barrier, which was an experience I'll not soon forget.  The 220 people in Tallinn, Estonia made a great party, and it was good to re-catch up with friends from Budapest, Hungary, that we made during our last gig there in April. 

So to those that we met - it was great to meet you!  Hope to keep in touch and see you again.. 

In September 08, myself and my wife Wendy leave London and move to Holland.  Elenor is currently on tour as a member of Snog, with the next dates being Infest UK and EBMFest Canada.  For the first time since I can recall, I don't have any upcoming gigs, but hope to do some more touring with TCE and hopefully with Shiv-r next year.

-Pete

Okay - the CD is now available!  Shiv-r is the new dark, industrial project from Pete Crane (The Crystalline Effect/Plague Sequence) and Lee Bulig (Stark/Neon Womb).

Tracklisting:
[1] Parasite [5:37]
[2] Fractured Light [4:56]
[3] Control [4:31]
[4] Parasite (Virul3nt mix) [4:47]
[5] Control (Kong mix) [4:18]

Format: CDR (black thermal print, not inkjet - same format as used by labels like Alfa Matrix and DSBP for somecurrent releases)
Packaging: Card wallet
Mastering: Kolja Trelle/Soman @ Koltron Studios, Germany
When your order is received, you will be sent an e-mail with a link to 320k mp3s, so you can listen to your purchase before it arrives in the post. Keep in mind this isn't automated - you'll have to wait until your order is seen by a human being!
Samples: Myspace, VampireFreaks and Shiv-r.com.
Purchase: Here.

We are also in the process of sending this to distributers Infrarot (Germany) and Storming the Base (North America + the digital realm of iTunes, Amazon, etc), so you can always get it from them at a later date.

Thanks to Darklife Zine for bringing this review to our attention for our 2006 EP "Blurred Edges". 

-The Crystalline Effect - Blurred Edges EP (Self-released)
An ever increasingly popular line-up in the world of goth and electro-goth and goth-tinted electronica is the male at the instruments supporting and/or supported by striking female vocals. Out of Melbourne are Peter Crane (the man behind the synths and Elenor Rayner, the sweet'n'bitter muse of this project. Blurred Edges offers a whopping 35 minutes of playing time, in the form of 7 tracks covering a wide ground in terms of electronic sonorities, whose backbone is essentially made by those dance sounds made popular around the turn of the century (ehee.. now we can say that too!) by an army of bands who started pushing into their compositions the healthy wave of technological growth that blessed hard and software synths alike. With titles like When The World Ends, Another Rainy Day or Why Do I Hate Myself, the tracks get suitable darker layers of synths to help convey the mood. The electronic approach is in general quiet eclectic, incorporating a variety of elements and influences and brewing the classical "band's unique take on it" that we often hear of these days. My personal favourites lay at the two ends of the spectrum: the melancholy fueled, trip-hop-ish When The World Ends, which is possibly the best cut of this work, and the upbeat Gabriel (stark remix), one clearly tailored to the dancefloor crowd, a dancefloor hymn if you like, moving closer to industrial territory. After the demise of Polish Black Flames who had released their debut Glass back in 2005, The Crystalline Effect have found home with Hungarian-based Advoxya Records and are working with some well-known remix artists for a new EP scheduled to be released sometimes in April 2007. www.thecrystallineeffect.com
-Gianfri

Source

The EP is available on iTunes. 

Storming The Base is now carrying The Crystalline Effect - Hypothermia, as well as all of Advoxya Records' releases.

Check out the site for some awesome specials. If I may give a recommendation - they're currently selling Headscan's Pattern Recognition album for $10USD! This is my favourite album of the past 3+ years. And Headscan's singles are going for $3! So now you have a few extra items to throw in the cart with Hypothermia ^_^

Soon to come - German distribution news.... -Pete

Plague Sequence and Club PlusOne team up once again to present a great clubbing experience in London. 

On July 18th at the Lord Nelson on Holloway Rd in London, which should be familiar as the former home of club Dead & Buried, Plague Sequence will present a live set of beatmatched industrial psytrance with vocals, once again featuring the visuals and extra stage presence of VJ Straylight. 

Expect a variety in music from the DJs, spinning everything from Dark Soho to Combichrist to Depeche Mode.  Print out the flyer and come before 11pm for £3 entry, otherwise £5 all night. 

Plaguesequence.com has just been overhauled and includes some cool new features worthy of a second look, such as an embedded music player with 5 tracks.  The debut full-length album "Discarded Technology" is still available from Sector 9 Studios (ex-home to Negative Format, God Module, System Syn, Parralel Project and Heliosphere).  www.sector9studios.com