S-M Backwards, by Serena-Maneesh

S-M Backwards

by Serena-Maneesh

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1.	Drive Me Home The Lonely Nights (Noise Miami Mix) 03:11	buy track
2.	Hear Bleed Philharmonic (NJ Recreation Room Mix) 03:18	buy track
3.	Blues Like Beehive II (L.A. Observatory Mix) 05:37	buy track
4.	Oxygen, Please! (Grandsport Mix) 03:58	buy track
5.	Drive Me Home The Lonely Nights 03:16	buy track
6.	Blues Like Beehive 03:21	buy track
7.	Ballad Of Jeze Ballet 05:25	buy track
8.	Hear Bleed Philharmonic 02:52	buy track
9.	Oxygen, Please! (Original Vinyl Dark Side Mix) 08:14	buy track
10.	Sehnsucht/Drag Me Upstairs (NJ Recreation Room Mix) 05:47	buy track
11.	Death Parade, Slow (Previously Unreleased) 04:38	buy track
12.	Leipziger Love Life (Ancient Mix) 08:02	buy track
13.	Introspection 04:49	buy track
14.	Leipziger Love 03:05	buy track
15.	Degenerate 02:50	buy track
16.	Sehnsucht/Drag Me Upstairs 04:13	buy track
17.	Never (Edit) 05:18	buy track

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In 2008, Smalltown Supersound released this glimpse of Serena-Maneesh's early days. Tweaked and all beautifully pushed to the red.

Most of the material on this double album was released as two EPs prior to Serena-Maneesh's much lauded debut album; "Zurück" and "Fixxations" both on Honeymilk, covering the time 1999-2003. Due to the fact that the label didn't have international distribution, the material never got released outside of Norway. In addition to the original EP material, this double album also contains new re-wrappings/mixes, videos and much more over 80 minutes of Serena-Maneesh.

Serena-Maneesh leader Emil Nikolaisen and Smalltown Supersound founder Joakim Haugland have known each other for years, coming from two neighbouring small towns in the south of Norway: Moi and Flekkefjord. They have long wanted to collaborate on something, and the release of "S-M Backwards" was the perfect opportunity.

Some words from Emil Nikolaisen about the release:
“What started as a little collection of basement sessions from around town, previously just released as two single eps domestically or as import only, kinda really got out of control.. digging out the old reels with mixes and different versions, listening back to raw tracks is never a good idea- of course i wanted to hear it differently.. And then all these great re-mixing that was never published in any form before. Compiling it all, we really went overboard and it got ridiculous.. the liner notes coming out even more pretentious. Just like we like it. Embracing the S-M universe with pieces, fragments, failure and treasure hand in hand, all the scattered ideas from even pre- Serena moniker time, pointing to what later came to be the mad little rat scene that is today. Just as much as capturing the way up till now, it re-evokes all the crazy moments of this time. I just went back to the moorlands of "Spendless" yesterday, the "studio" we did most of the sessions. The room still got this eccentric, thought provoking, wonderful mid- range eq- triggering and equally beautiful mould stench- that I, for a longer period would inhabit. REFRESHING again! I put on a reel of demos for the full length that we did later and you know.. that feeling of being a kid again, walking in unknown, prohibited territory-- gives me glimpses of hope even for the next one!” (Emil Nikolaisen, May 2008)

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released September 22, 2008

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