23-12-11
CHRIST BALLS IT'S BEEN A WHOLE YEAR SINCE CHRISTMAS 2010. SOD ALL HAS REALLY HAPPENED OVER AT MARIONETTE CENTRAL COMMAND IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS, BUT WE DID FIND THE TIME TO ASSEMBLE THIS FREE NUGGET FOR YOU AT LEAST.

CELEBRATE YULETIDE WITH OUR SPLENDID COLLECTION OF SEASONAL SOUND BITES, INCLUDING DIGI-GRIND BREAKCORE FROM NORTH AMERICA'S DIVTECH, YIDDISH ALT-POP FROM THE MARIONETTE JEWISH CONNECTION; HIM HE DEAD, SCREAMO AUTOTUNED CRUNK FROM LIPSTICK SUPPOSITORY, AND JUVENILE PRANK CALLS FROM VAGRANT 40-SOMETHINGS CELESTIAL KEITH AND FRIENDS. OTHER ELECTRONIC NUDIST HEAVY HITTERS MAKE AN APPEARANCE, INCLUDING STAZMA, INFEKKTED AND BEE-LOG.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

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04-02-11

BUGGERING HECK ITS FEBRUARY 2011 ALREADY. WE'RE LONG OVERDUE AN UPDATE SO TREAT YOUR EYES TO THIS PALBABLE CLOUD OF SEMIOTICS. FIRST THING'S FIRST, IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT THE FREE XMAS COMPILATION YET THEN YOU'RE MISSING OUT PROPER STYLE MATE, GO TO THE RELEASES SECTION AND DOWNLOAD IT ASAP, IT FEATURES BIG TUNES BY MEN SUCH AS TAPAGE, RUBY MY DEAR, DIVTECH, UNCLE BAD TOUCH + LOADS MORE. THERE ARE NO FEMALE ARTISTS ON THIS COMPILATION BECAUSE THEY NEVER SEND ME MUSIC AND DO NOT RECEIVE THE CORRECT ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE WIDER ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMMUNITY. THIS PROBLEM HAS ITS ROUTES AT THE VERY HEART OF MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY, BUT TO LAUNCH IN TO A LECTURE ON GENDER INEQUALITY & SOCIAL MOBILITY RIGHT NOW WOULD BE HIGHLY DAMAGING TO THE JOCULAR TONE OF THIS UPDATE AND WOULD THUS BE EMPHATICALLY ILL-ADVISED. STILL, THIS IS A PARTICULARLY GOOD COMP AND YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF LUCKY SO-AND-SOS TO BE GETTING IT FOR FREE.

THE LADYSCRAPER VS DIVTECH EP IS STILL KNOCKING ABOUT (WHICH SERVES AS PART 1 OF OUR POTENTIALLY ENDLESS SERIES OF VS COMPILATIONS) AND CAN ALSO BE ACQUIRED FROM THE RELEASES SECTION. IT'S BLOODY GOOD, FANS OF DIGI-GRIND BREAKCORE SHIT WILL BE PARTICULARLY KEEN ON ADDING IT TO THEIR MUSIC LIBRARY.

XMAS AND NEW YEAR WERE PARTICULARLY SPLENDED AT MARIONETTE HQ (MY BEDROOM), I HAD LOTS OF CURRY AND SEX AND HAD SOME GREAT IDEAS FOR NEW PROJECTS, MOST OF WHICH WILL NEVER MANIFEST BUT THE FEW THAT DO WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT FOR THE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND ZILLIONS OF MARIONETTE FANS OUT THERE! SPEAKING OF WHICH WE'VE JUST LAUNCHED A MARIONETTE SUB-LABEL; RASTON WARRIOR RECORDS. RASTON WARRIOR WILL FOCUS PRIMARILY ON HARDCORE DANCE MUSIC (YES I MEAN GABBER). ANYONE WITH A REMOTE INTEREST IN ANY OF THE HARDCORE STYLES WILL SURELY FIND SANCTUARY HERE, OUR FIRST FREE RASTON WARRIOR COMP IS ALREADY ON THE WEBSITE AND FEATURES TRACKS BY HARDCORE MONKS SUCH AS DJ MUTANTE, TAPAGE, MISS TWILIGHT, ERASERHEAD, SPITTING VITRIOL, GEKKO, PROTOTYPE, LYTTON AND HARDY-SMILE. ITS CALLED UNITING THE STYLES (CUS WE'VE TRIED TO INCLUDE DIFFERENT HARDCORE STYLES LOL) AND BROADLY SPEAKINGS COVERS UK GABBER, FRENCHCORE, CORE'N'BASS, INDUSTRIAL HARDCORE AND DUTCH HARDCORE > THAT'S A LOT OF 'CORES' FOR ONE SENTENCE BUT WE'LL LET THE COMP DO THE TALKING; IT ROCKS HARD. YOU CAN VIEW THE NEW RASTON WARRIOR MICRO-SITE AT: http://www.marionette-records.co.uk/rastonwarriorrecords.htm

18-10-10
OH BLIMEY, THE FESTIVE SEASON DRAWS EVER CLOSER AND TO GET YOU ALL IN THE MOOD WE’RE RATHER CHUFFED TO BE BRINGING YOU THIS BRIEF YET RATHER PROVOCATIVE SPLIT EP, FEATURING SOME BRITISH GUY CALLED LADYSCRAPER AND SOME AMERICAN GUY CALLED DIVTECH. WHAT’S ALL THIS YOU ASK?

WHAT IMPROBABLE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES COULD POSSIBLY BECKON SUCH AN UNHOLY UNION OF TRULY WICKED MUSICIANS? WHICH DISAGREEABLE MALCONTENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS RECTAL BIOPSY OF A MUSIC PROJECT? THE MARIONETTE VS CREW THAT’S WHO. SEND ALL COMPLAINTS TO ED MILLIBAND OR OFCOM OR SOME OTHER SHIT. THIS EP IS FAST AND FURIOUS, BUT NOT LIKE THE SHITTY MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME, OH NO, THIS IS GENUINE MALICE RIGHT HERE, ZIPPED UP AND PRIMED LIKE A .RAR KAMIKAZEE STRAIGHT OUT OF HELL.

GENUINE DISCLAIMER: MUSIC DOESN’T REALLY GET MUCH HEAVIER THAN THIS, THOSE OF YOU BURDENED WITH A NERVOUS DISPOSITION MAY WISH TO STAY CLEAR OF THIS PARTICULAR RELEASE. RECKON YOU’VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL? THEN SINK YOUR TEETH IN TO THIS BASTARD AND CLICK THE BIG IMAGE ON THE INTRO PAGE. LYtton

14-4-10
GREETINGS FOUL MINIONS, ARISE FROM YOUR SOLITARY CATACOMBS OF MONUMENTAL DESPAIR FOR A NEW DAY DAWNS, AND ON THIS DAY GOD CREATED SONIC INTIFADA. HIS INTENTIONS WERE UNCLEAR, HIS DESIGN SCHEMATICS LOST SOMEWHERE IN THE VALLEY OF [INSERT POINTLESS METAPHOR HERE], BUT NEVERTHELESS HIS 8TH DAY CREATION IS NOW AMONGST HIS PEOPLE. YES, ON THIS DAY I STAND BEFORE YOU WITH NEWS OF SALVATION; THE NEW MARIONETTE RECORDS CD COMPILATION HAS FINALLY TOUCHED DOWN LIKE A NESTINE INVASION FLEET HELL BENT ON UNIVERSAL DOMINATION.

THE CD IS NO SHORT OF MARVELLOUS, ITS POTENTIAL FOR CURING ALL WORLD ILLS REMAINS A TANGIBLE PROSPECT. KICKING THE SHIT AND TELLING IT LIKE IT IS ARE DJ DONNA SUMMER, TAPAGE, THE TEKNOIST, ERASERHEAD, TECHDIFF, SURGER, MICHAEL J ROCKS, DIVTECH AND MORE! SOME OF THESE ILL SLICES CAN BE PREVIEWED ON OUR MYSPACE PLAYER OVER AT WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MARIONETTERECORDS

YOU CAN VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT AND PURCHASE THIS ‘ORRID SLICE OF ASS KICKING AWESOMENESS FROM OUR ONLINE STORE OR AT ONE OF OUR GIGS. ALTERNATIVELY IT WILL NO DOUBT APPEAR ON FILE SHARING NETWORKS SOME TIME SOON IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO PART WITH THE PAPER RESIDUE OF CAPITAL’S MISCARRIAGE (MONEY).

xLYTTONx~!!!!11one

24-03-10
A FEW BIG UPDATES FOR YOU HERE, ALL OF WHICH SERVE TO BENEFIT HUMANKIND IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY.

FIRSTLY THE CD COMPILATION; SONIC INTIFADA. THE TRACKS AND ARTWORK HAVE BEEN FUSED TOGETHER AND THE PROJECT IS NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE PRESSING COMPANY, IT'S LITERALLY ONLY A MATTER OF DAYS UNTIL I HAVE ALL THE UNITS BACK AND SITTING IN MY LAP, WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW EXCITED WE ARE ABOUT THIS STILL. THIS MEANS THAT WITHIN A FEW WEEKS THIS HOLY ARTIFACT WILL BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, TOXIFYING THE AIRWAVES AND SPREADING DIGITAL RIGHTEOUSNESS ACROSS THE GLOBE.

SECONDLY WE'VE GOT THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH/RELAUNCH PARTY BOOKED UP AND CONFIRMED. IT'S TAKING PLACE ON FRIDAY THE 21ST OF MAY AT THE PHOENIX IN MANCHESTER, UK. IT'S STRAIGHT DOWN OXFORD ROAD, OPPOSITE THE BIG GYM/AQUATICS CENTER ON THE CROSS ROADS, YOU CAN'T MISS IT. OPENING TIMES ARE 9 - 2:30 AND ENTRY WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT A FIVER. THE LINEUP LOOKS SET TO BE:

CULPRATE, TECHDIFF, ERASERHEAD, HOONBOY, LYTTON AND TERRORHATE, WHICH I THINK YOU'LL AGREE IS MASSIVELY AWESOME. KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED HERE OR ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE FOR ANY MORE UPDATES AND A GOOGLE MAP FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE UNSURE AS TO ITS LOCATION STILL. THE FACEBOOK EVENT CAN BE FOUND HERE.

THIRDLY WE'VE UPLOADED THE MARIONETTE XMAS MIX ON OUR MARIONETTE SERVERS, THIS MEANS NO MORE FAFFING AROUND WITH RAPIDSHARE WAITING TIMES ETC. I KNOCKED UP THE MIX AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME, IT SERVES AS A BIG THANK YOU TO SOME OF THE BEST BREAKCORE AND HARDCORE FROM THE LAST 15 OR SO YEARS. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT AND ALLOW IT TO EMANCIPATE YOU FROM THE TALONS OF THE SPECTACLE :) THERE WILL ALSO BE SOME OTHER MIXES APPEARING VERY SOON.

ON THE TOPIC OF FREE DOWNLOADS, WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON MULTIPLE QUALITY RELEASES SCHEDULED FOR THIS YEAR AND THE NEXT, I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY TOO MUCH AT THIS POINT BUT IT WOULD NOT BE FOOLISH TO EXPECT A FULL RELEASE FROM AMBIENT KRAUTROCK CHAMPION TONG, NOR WOULD IT BE CARELESS TO BET YOUR SEXUAL ORGANS ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE GREATEST HARDCORE/GABBER/SPEEDCORE COMPILATION EVER MATERIALISING ON OUR SERVERS EITHER. AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO REVEAL TOO MUCH AT THIS STAGE UNTIL WE'VE GOT THE ARTISTS CONFIRMED, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, WE ARE TRULY PHILANTHROPISTS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION. YOUR WELL-BEING IS OUR PRIMARY CONCERN, YOUR HEALTH OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU NEED THEN CALL US UP, WE'LL BE OVER FASTER THAN YOU CAN SAY MORGAN TSVANGIRAI.

ALL THE BEST

LYTTON.

16-02-10
THE NEW WEBSITE IS LIVE. IT IS STILL DEVOID OF MUCH CONTENT BUT WILL BE UPDATED REGULARLY OVER THE COMING WEEKS. THE CD COMPILATION SONIC INTIFADA IS COMING ALONG NICELY [CHECK RELEASES FOR MORE INFORMATION].

WE'VE ALSO GOT BIG PLANS FOR GIGS THIS YEAR SO KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED AND CHECK BACK HERE REGULARLY FOR UPDATES. KEEP IT CEREBRAL.

LYTTON.






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