Project: Padded Cell - album release 'Night Must Fall'
Publicist/s: Monique Rothstein
For: DC Recordings through Creative Vibes
Release Date: 2008
Richard Sen And Neil Beatnik’s Padded Cell has been the focus of growing speculation for some time now. After achieving individual notoriety as a Bronx Dog (Heavenly) and a Dirty Beatnik (Wall of Sound) respectively, their triptych of 12” releases for DC Recordings - 2005’s “Signal Failure” (DCR64), 2006’s “Are You Anywhere?” (DCR67), and 2007’s “Moon Menace” (DCR76) – has left nocturnal creatures everywhere drooling with desire for a full-length glimpse into the Padded Cell. Finally it is here!
Drawing inspiration from bands as diverse as Goblin, The Velvet Underground, Arthur Russell, Material, Bush Tetras, and Carl Craig, this duo’s analogue fetishism is here augmented by an impressive list of collaborators: Dennis Young (Liquid Liquid) plays percussion and marimba, Chloe Battant from London punk funk band Battant (Kill The Dj) delivers vocals; guitars and synths come from sonic necromancer Giallos Flame (Analogue Screams / DC Recordings), and Italian producers The Diaphanoids (Bearfunk) deliver strings, synths and vocals.
With careers as prolific club deejays and live performers that have spanned almost two decades, not to mention remixing the likes of The Glimmer Twins, Mekon, Sly Mongoose and Big Two Hundred, it follows that Padded Cell’s album debut should exist in both club and long player form.
“Early ‘80s punk-funk influences are as palpable here as the superbly chunky bass riffs. Both are worn low around the hips like loosely slung gun holsters...” - Paris Pompor, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald
Website: www.myspace.com/paddedcelldc