The latest machineKUNT compilation.

Hot on the heels of the Extreme Women In the Dark Future compilation, Industrial/EBM Record Label MachineKUNT are hard at work on sanity is slavery. Sanity Is Slavery is centred around combatting psychiatric abuse.

In the original announcement the haywire herself described the sentiment of the compilation:

“We are more than the mental disorders that you diagnosis us with. We are sick of being locked up for the way we choose to express ourselves. We are sick of Ritalin being force-fed to 10 year old children. We are sick of the constant abuse that goes on in psychiatric institutions. Now is our time to fight.” This is more than a battle cry with 10% of proceeds from the compilation going to MindFreedom International (mindfreedom.org) which is an organization for human rights in the mental health system.

Submissions on the new compilation are being whittled down to the final line up of tracks and artists as we speak and mark just one of many activities going on with this relatively young label. As well as distrubiting reissues of founder Rachel Haywire’s Experiment Haywire albums and ep’s the label has signed rising soulful electro-goth startlet Jaime Valentine also known as Cindergarden.

Ms Jaime Valentine AKA Cindergarden

Following the online release of her second album, Cindergarden – The Clandestine Experiment, Ms Jaime Valentine, the mastermind behind Cindergarden and touring keyboardist for synth act Systemsyn has been signed to fledgling industrial feminists MachineKUNT Records.

You may remember that we featured the debut release of this label a while back in a review of the compilation “ Extreme Women In The Dark Future”. This signing shows the label going from strength to strength.

The sophermore release from Ms Jaime Valentine carries all the spooky soft spoken hall marks of its predecessor, Underground Light Machine, but this album does have something of the clandestine about it.

Advertised solely through her myspace and originally available via a free download(soon recieving a hardcopy release through MachineKUNT) this album is as meticulously structured and crisp sounding as ULM. The news of her signing has her  listed as working on a new album which is to be released through MachineKUNT at some point this year.

Lady Parasyte

MachineKUNT have also signed Lady Parasyte and are currently selling her Sirens EP through the machineKUNT store.

Having collaborated with such artists as Die Warzau and techno legend DJ T-1000 (Alan D. Oldham) as well as self releasing her much anticipated “Sirens” EP, Lady Parasyte has built quite a name for herself.

Coming straight from the Chicago underground, her signing to MachineKUNT Records sees the lady recording her full length album “Abandoned Places” (to be released on machineKUNT in late 2009).

Lady parasyte’s sound has been described as “a revolution of militant electro and industrial topped with tormented female vocals that range from soothingly melodic to blisteringly metalesque” and frankly. Who are we to argue.