Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
Stay well, stay safe and think positively!
As a New Years Gift we present the re-launch of our German website :
www.parralox.de

Electronically yours, Amii + John.

Seasons Greetings for 2010

Thanks to all our fans for making this such a wonderful year.
We are looking forward to 2011, we have lots more music and video to offer you. Thanks for being part of the journey :)

xxx

Amii + John

Metropolis is Album Of The Year at Pansentient League!

What a lovely way to end the year! Our 3rd album Metropolis, has just been named Number One in the Top Ten Synthpop albums of the year.

Click here to see the article

Special thanks to Jer White.

Metropolism - New Parralox CD + EP

Parralox "Metropolism" CD and Digital released February 25th, 2011 Just a few days until Christmas and we have some very special news for you. On February 25th 2011 the brand new Parralox album "Metropolism" will be released! This new album will feature 5 brandnew and unreleased songs and several remixes of tracks from the "Metropolis" album. The songs were remixed by famous people like MARKUS REINHARDT (WOLFSHEIM), ROTERSAND, IRIS, EDGE OF DAWN, TYCHO BRAHE and DUBSTAR(!). This release is an explosion of electropop sounds! Do not miss it - because it is strictly limited to 500 copies! Pre-order your copy from now until Christmas 2010 (December 26th 11:59pm) and get named in the wonderful booklet of the CD click here to pre-order Metropolism At the same time Parralox will release a new EP called "I Sing The Body Electric" with several remixes of the titletrack and many other unreleased tracks and mixes click here to pre-order I Sing The Body Electric Both of these releases are available in TWO SPECIAL PACKAGES FOR YOU: 1. PACKAGE ONE (Double CD Pack) Parralox album "Metropolism" & CD EP "I Sing The Body Electric" click here to order 2. PACKAGE TWO (Double CD Pack + Large Poster) (Strictly Limited to 100 copies) Parralox album "Metropolism" & CD Ep "I Sing The Body Electric" & a rare "Metropolism" Poster only 24,99 Euro click here to order Enjoy the new Parralox releases and thanks for your wonderful support in 2010 - we hope you will stay and support us, and our fellow conzoom Records artists in 2011 Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! xxx Amii & John

Metropolis CD out now!

Screen grab of The Electricity Club review
(Nice to be on the same page as The Human League and Goldfrapp!)

Parralox
"Metropolis"
CD and Digital released November 26th, 2010

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Metropolis, the 3rd album from Parralox is now available on CD and iTunes. This is the standard version that contains 13 tracks, ranging from optimistic electronic synth-pop (Love Is Enough, Miss You) to those of a more darker feeling (Acrimony, New Light).

The Limited Edition sold out weeks ago, but a few copies are available from MusicNonStop UK.
To buy the Standard Edition CD of Metropolis - click here
To buy the Digital Edition on iTunes - click here

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We will be releasing a special Remix Album in February 2011 including remixed versions of tracks from Metropolis by some amazing groups in the Electronic scene, as well a duet between John and an uber-cool female vocalist.
It has the working title of Metropolis (Remixed) and will include brand new Parralox songs as well as a special cover version.

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There have already been a few articles about the Metropolis album, click the images below to see what people are saying


  

New articles/reviews will be posted on the Parralox blog and facebook page every few days, so check those regularly as we generally send out newsletters once a month.
Special thanks to Corinna Samow and Chi Ming Lai.

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Filming for the next single will commence next week in Melbourne, and will be shot on location at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and 90 Mile Beach.

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The Parralox Store: Europe - Australia

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::EXTRAS::

Download Page
This page contains numerous free downloads, all previously unavailable and unreleased.

www.parralox.com/download

Parralox - Metropolis (Limited Edition) is sold out!

The Limited Edition of Metropolis CD is now sold out, many weeks before its official release date!
This is due to higher than anticipated pre-sale orders.
(You may still be able to purchase copies on MusicNonStop and Amazon DE who bulk purchased some copies for their stores)

As a result we will now rush release the Standard Edition in late November.
The standard edition of Metropolis includes the track Don't Listen To Me, which we are making available as a free download.

To preorder the Standard Edition of Metropolis click here.

Parralox - Metropolis CD

01	Ancient Times	3:41
02	I Sing The Body Electric	3:28
03	Love Is Enough	3:23
04	Miss You	3:39
05	Promised Land	6:06
06	What About You	4:55
07	Supermagic	3:38
08	Miracles	3:38
09	Don't Listen To Me	3:41
10	Acrimony	6:44
11	Machines	4:20
12	Failure	6:09
13	New Light	5:41

Side-Line goes purple with Throbbing Gristle, Essence Of Mind, Psyche, Kant Kino, Parralox, Leaether Strip

Side-Line are fighting homophobia - and so is Parralox. Click below to see the article and photos of various bands/people who have helped the cause and raise awareness.
http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=45295_0_2_0_C

Parralox are winners of the Lovefix Remix competition!

Parralox have been chosen as the winner of the Christopher Anton - Lovefix Remix competition.Most of you will remember Christopher as lead singer of INFORMATION SOCIETY, an amazing electro band from the 80s.

Click here to listen to the remix on youtube

Click here to see the announcement on Nick Tutone's blog

Click here to see the article on Christopher Anton's page

Parralox - Metropolis ONLINE PREVIEW

Head over to the official website to hear a preview of the new album Metropolis!

CLICK HERE >> www.parralox.com

coming soon.... Parralox Megamix

Parralox interview on UCTV Australia (PART 2)

Part 2 of our UCTV / Sony IPT interview. Find out about the Parralox creative process + Amy talks about the new video.

Click here >>http://www.uctv.fm/site/search/Episode%206%20-%20Parralox,%20Ariel,%20Ingrid%20Oram%20%26%20Alex%20Anonymous

Special thanks to Kat + John Goellner! (If you listen closely you'll hear tracks from the new album Metropolis playing in the background!)



Parralox interview on UCTV Australia

UCTV in conjunction with Sony IPT have launched a series of interviews. Parralox appear in this latest series so check it out!

http://www.uctv.fm/# 

Special thanks to Kat + John Goellner!

Parralox - Metropolis. New album available for pre-order now

Our new album Metropolis is available for pre-order now. If you pre-order before September 26th your name will be included in this Limited Edition CD!
Available only from conzoom Records.

Click here to pre-order your copy of Parralox - Metropolis


Additional Information: Release date: 19.11.2010

Tracklisting (not final):
01. Ancient Times
02. I Sing The Body Electric
03. Love Is Enough
04. Miss You
05. Promised Land
06. What About You
07. Supermagic
08. Miracles
09. Acrimony
10. Machines
11. Failure
12. New Light
Bonustracks (only on limited cd edition):
13. Supermagic (Assemblage 23 Remix)
14. Love Is Enough (It's never enough Mesh Mix)
15. Ancient Times (featuring Ostrich)
16. Too Good To Be True (Extended)

Infest 2010 - The Drama Revealed!

What a wild week! Now that the party is over we can give you all the juicy details of our brief trip to England.

It's a story involving Synths , Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll.

Let's go!

Part 1 -Trouble Brewing (Wednesday)

We arrived into Bradford in the small hours of the morning both feeling a little under the weather due to the hideous long-haul flight, which wasn't really helped by the 4 hour stop-over in Kuala Lumpar.

So we find our rather posh hotel (The Great Victorian) located across the road from the Bradford Interchange, which at the time was absolutely fantastic. We must thank Mark from Infest for accomodating us in such a wonderful hotel.

We then spent the next three days doing drugs in our rooms. Yes, we are really living the rock'n'roll lifestyle!

But it's not what you think.

Amii has been having more difficulty breathing, and is coughing more frequently, while my throat infection is slowly getting worse.

The drugs we party on are not as fancy as you'd expect, rather a mixture of Vitamin C, Vitamin B, Multivitamins, Magnesium and a few other basic supplements to aid in our road to recovery.

Then we start to notice a rather heavy police presence outside the Hotel, and we remember the email that the promoter sent us a few days ago, mentioning the fact that there was some protest happening on the Saturday of our performance. We hadn't really thought too much about it.

Part 2 - Panic in the Streets of Bradford (Saturday)

So on the Saturday, Amii is looking quite ill, although I was feeling slightly better. We arrive at the venue and Amii is barely able to walk and looking quite grey. Now I am starting to worry.

In my alter-ago I am a Registered Nurse, so I know all signs are pointing to a respiratory infection for Amii, and I am in denial, thinking that a few vitamins would fix everything.

So we have a few hours to go before we are due to perform, and Amii is barely able to stand and having difficulty breathing. It's at this stage that we realise that her health is now the priority and not the performance. So we have a meeting with the promoter, and Amii is rushed immediately to Bradord Royal Hospital.

She is seen at the Emergency Department and X-rayed and commenced on Anti-biotics.

We have had to cancel our performance @ Infest for Saturday, and re-schedule for Sunday again. All this on the assumption that Amii will have recovered enough to be able to perform.So after a few hours at the Hospital we make our way back into Bradford Central to our Hotel. Not so easy...

Why not you ask?

The city is now full of protesters (EDL) and we are in the middle of a race riot about to break out. We see 17 (!!) Riot vans rushing into the city.

We are now starting to get worried about our own personal safety, and our drivers have no idea how to get us back to our hotel as the entire city centre has been locked down. The Police would not allow us to go to our own hotel, and we didn't want to try to be honest.

You could see people gathering everywhere, from different groups and organisations and some of them were just itching to fight.

There was a sense of imminent disaster and we all agreed that we needed to get out of the city as fast as possible.

The situation was now getting desperate, you really had to be there to feel the anxiety we were all feeling.

Unable to return to our hotel we went to the hotel our driver was staying at.

So, the Parralox entourage (Amii, John, Nic Toupee (Tour Manager) and Mike Cooper (Stage Manager)) finally arrive at a new hotel and spend the night eating Tesco's salad and Rolo desserts.Meanwhile Amii is nearly comatose in her room, slowly recouperating.

Not exactly the Hilton, but we've seen the Bradford Hilton so we realise that glamour isn't essential to Bradford.We leave Amii to recover, while the rest of us go back to Infest to meet the people and do interviews etc. We were upset that we missed out on seeing Northern Kind performing, but we still got the chance to hang around with them backstage and have a panel interview with them, along with Chi Ming (The Electricity Club) , Steve Gray, Rob Grillo (Is That The 12 Inch?) and Jer White (Afront / Pansentient League). We end the evening seeing Rotersand perform live, which was awesome.

We heard the juciest of gossip too, which will make all electro fans wet their pants - but alas...we are sworn to secrecy.

Part 3 -  A New Dawn (Sunday)

It's a new day and I wake to find Amii feeling slightly better. We cautiously wait until late morning to confirm with the promoter that Parralox will indeed be able to perform today at Infest.

We sadly leave behind our little rats nest of a Hotel and make our way back to Infest, ready to conquer the world (or at least a small portion of Bradford University to begin with).

We arrive at the venue to find a crowd slowly gathering, that's always a good sign. Our equipment is loaded in and we begin soundcheck. I plug in my laptop and hear a "snap" noise coming from inside and suddenly the screen goes blank.

The smell of fried electronics confirms to me what I already know - my laptop has died a sudden death (an hour before showtime!).

I happen to be the King Of Multiple Backups and so I have a choice of USB, CD, DVD and online archives from which to recover our show.

I transfer the backups to the FOH Engineers laptop and we are good to go.

Roll back the curtains and Parralox finally takes to the stage....(Stay tuned for photos.)

Special thanks to Mark Guy (INFEST) for simply being the most patient, kind and super-cool promoter we have met. Nic Toupee for making sure the event went smoothly for us, Mike Cooper for assistance backstage, Tails for his wonderful job as MC, and all the crew at Infest for their professionalism. Hello to all the other bands we met as well - Rotersand, Patenbrigade Wolff, X-RX & De/Vision.

Finally - Thank You to all the fans who came along. We may not know all of you, but we did see you singing along during the show.

xxx Amii + John

Parralox - Supermagic (Video)

Parralox - Links Galore!

Before we leave for England to play at Infest this coming Saturday, we thought we'd post a few recent links :

1) Parralox Top 10 Tracks at Pansentient League

2) Supermagic CD article at Sideline (USA)
3) Supermagic CD article at Brutal Resonance (Germany)

4) Supermagic CD article at Clubfeeling (Germany)

5) Supermagic CD article at Uselinks (Germany)
6) Supermagic CD article at Klangwelt Info (Germany)7) Supermagic CD article at Release Magazine (Sweden)
8) Supermagic CD article at Infrarot (Germany)
9) Supermagic CD article at Artist Area (Germany)
10) Supermagic CD article at Dark Entries (Belgium)
11) Supermagic Video article at Black Vector (Sweden)
12) Supermagic Video article at Popdirt

Thanks to Jer White (Pansentient League) and Ingo Moller (conzoom Records)

Parralox - Supermagic Promotional Video Launch in 2 days

The Official videoclip for Supermagic will be launched to the public on Friday the 20th of August.Members of the Parralox Mailing list can view the video right now!
xxx Amii + John

ps - Supermagic is still NUMBER ONE on the Music Non Stop Charts!
State Of Decay has also re-entered the Top 10 sales charts at MNS.

2 German Articles on Parralox - Supermagic CD

Two German articles about the forthcoming Parralox - Supermagic CD EP.

click here to read the article on Fahrplan-Schwarz

click here to read the article on Art-Noir

Parralox - Supermagic - Number One on MSN Sales Charts!!

The new Parralox song Supermagic is already Number One in the sales charts at MusicNonStop UK, on pre-sales alone! Thanks so much to all our loyal fans who continue to support us, and have pushed this up the sales charts, a full fortnight before the single is officially released.
xxx Amii + John.
Click here to see the chart placing at MusicNonStop UK

The Pansentient League - feature Parralox on their Spotify Playlist

Purveyor of all things electronic, The Pansentient League have created their own Spotify Playlist featuring....Parralox. 

"Parralox - I Am Remix - One of my favourite bands at the moment, Parralox blend chart-friendly dance music with synthpop to produce a sound all of their own. Here's a playlist of my favourite Parralox remixes."

Click here to visit The Pansentient League and see the Spotify Playlist.

NB - Spotify is only available to select European territories, though the Pansentient website will give you hours of fascinating reading.

Supermagic - the new Parralox Video

Filming for Supermagic, the new Parralox CD, commences tomorrow, Tuesday August 3rd, 2010!
It's being filmed at a glamorous Victorian Mansion in Kew, with additional scenes being filmed at Toff In Town.
Principal shooting starts Tuesday August 3rd, with the second stage being filmed on Monday August 9th at The Toff.
Stay tuned for Behind The Scenes photos.
Thanks to everyone involved in the video so far...

Cast
Futura (Amii Jackson)
Father Lacroix (Michael Butler)
Gator (Chris Williams)
Lulu (Sunshine Trott)
Cookie (Julie Pagel)
Bongo (Levi Cross)
Todd (Stevie Pearl)
Bobo (Emman D)
Crackers (Jack Mac)
and many more....

Crew
John von Ahlen (Director)
Rodney Dekker (Assistant Director)
Jason Carter (Production Assistant)
Hugo Harlot (Wardrobe)
JDT (Lighting)
Garth Nichol (Makeup)
Venus Envy (Makeup)

Click here to pre-order the new Supermagic Limited Edition CD

State Of Decay - Number 7 at Musicnonstop UK

Parralox's 2nd album "State Of Decay" has re-entered the charts at #7 on UK online store - Musicnonstop!

This is wonderful news in the leadup to our 3rd album Metropolis and new single Supermagic

Click here to visit musicnonstop >> http://www.musicnonstop.co.uk

Parralox - Supermagic - Listen to the EP on the Myspace Music Radio Show

The Myspace Music Radio Show has featured Parralox in their Artist Spotlight.

As part of this feature they have also included a preview of the new Supermagic EP, and you can listen three of the new tracks on their page.

Click here to get a preview of the Supermagic EP >> http://www.themyspacemusicradioshow.moonfruit.com/#/spotlight/4542343778
Special thanks to Gary Hunter

Supermagic - New Parralox release available for pre-order now!

Our new release Supermagic (Limited Edition CD EP) is available for pre-order now!
People (and robots) who pre-order the new CD will have their name included in the CD Booklet.
Click here to pre-order >> conzoom Records
Thanks!
xxx Amii+John

Tracklisting
01. Supermagic (Radio Version)
02. Supermagic (Original Extended) *
03. Supermagic (Assemblage 23 Edit) *
04. Supermagic (Extended Radio Version)
05. Supermagic (Breakdown Extended) *
06. Time (Full Length Dark Version) *
07. Homecoming (Extended) *
08. Failure (Reproduction) (Extended) *

* exclusive tracks

Side-Line reviews Parralox - Isn't It Strange (CD)

Side line have reviewed our latest single (Isn't It Strange). Even though it's a few months late, it's a very favourable review, and they seem to be looking forward to our new material.

Click here to read the article > http://www.side-line.com/reviews_comments.php?id=44800_0_17_0_C

Incidentally, our new single Supermagic will be released at the end of August!

Music Video Competition - Vote for Isn't It Strange

Parralox have entered "Isn't It Strange" into a Music Video Competition on the Make-A-Star website and we need your help to get us to the next round.
You need to register to vote (yes, painful we know) but once registered you can then vote again with no fuss.

Thanks, John

click here to vote for Parralox - Isn't It Strange >> http://makeastar.com/contestant.asp?rContestid=8141&rContestantid=82150&rMatchType=Preliminary&rMatchName=Match%202

Parralox climbs to #18 on German Radio Charts!

Parralox have climbed to #18 in the Volldamfradio German Radio Charts!
The song is Beautiful World which is from the State Of Decay album. It was never released as a single, even though we did contemplate it at one point.
Thanks to all our German fans who have requested the song and helped us climb the charts!
Click here to see the chart placing >>
www.volldampfradio.com/usercharts/charts.php

Parralox #35 on German Radio Charts!

Parralox have entered the German Radio Charts (Volldamfradio) at Number 35, with their song Beautiful World which is from their 2nd album State Of Decay.
Click here to see the chart placing >>
www.volldampfradio.com/usercharts/charts.php

8/10 Review of Parralox - Isn't It Strange on Brutal Resonance

Click here to read the review of our latest single "Isn't It Strange" on Brutal Resonance E-zine

http://www.brutalresonance.com/?public_pageid=showreview&id=review_4c0f421975898299493742

Thanks to Patrik Lindström

Parralox - Live in London & Interview - The Electricity Club

The Electricity Club have just posted a review of our live performance in London at EQ (May 2010). There is also an indepth interview with Parralox and Chi Ming Lai, taken a few days after the gig in London.

Click here to read the interview/review >> http://www.electricity-club.co.uk/html/int_parralox.html

Live Review by Steve Gray 
Interview by Chi Ming Lai
5th June 2010

Excellent review of Parralox - Isn't it Strange (CD) on the Fabtastic Blog!

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We really should be Googling our own name more often, as this wonderful review slipped us by. Thanks to Talion Law for submitting this one.

Please head over to Fabtastic! to read the entire article.

All good things..

Now that our mini tour of Europe is over, we would like to thank all our fans for their support. It's been an amazing experience getting to know you all in person and up close.
It was gratifying to be so well received in every country we played in. Stay tuned for more live photos as they are constantly being uploaded by us and our fans.
Yesterday we had interviews with The Electricity Club and Electroqueer - and they will go live in a few weeks. Be sure to check out both sites for updates.
We are having a break for a week or so, and then go back to Australia for some live shows in Sydney, before returning to the studio in Melbourne to complete our 3rd album.

We will then commence work on video clips for Creep and our next single Supermagic. We will be back in Europe in August/September when we perform at Infest (UK) and more shows in Europe (TBA).

Thank you,

Amii + John

ps - While we were in Sweden we discovered an amazing song called Miami by Monostrip. OMG you HAVE to check it out.

Parralox @ Electroqueer (London)

Wow - can we just say a BIG thanks to Raj Rudolph, Chi, DJ Adam, Dear Martin, Bim and everyone who came to see us play live at Electroqueer tonight in London. Not a full house, but certainly the most enthusiastic crowd we've ever played to. Totally.

Thanks for cheering at the end of each song - and then demanding THREE encores! We walked away feeling like superstars.

A big thanks to all our fans who travelled far and wide to attend. It was a pleasure to meet you all in person and chat. We know some of you drove for many hours just to see us perform, and we humbly appreciate it. Especially one guy who forged a sick certificate so he could get the day off work (we won't say your name - in case your boss is a Parralox fan too LOL) We could go on to list all the names of the people we'd like to thank, but you know who you are. We managed to speak to most of you tonight.

Stay tuned for a flood of photos...

We love you London.

xxx Amii + John

Article on Parralox - Isn't It Strange (CD) on Black Vector Webzine (Sweden)

 A review of Isn't It Strange on Swedish webzine - Black Vector - excellent :)

Click here to read the article on Black Vector

Article on Parralox - Isn't It Strange (CD) on Art Noir Webzine (Sweden)

Parralox is in the middle of our European tour, but we have a few days downtime before our final show.

So with time on our hands (and access to the internet!) we present you with another German review of Isn't It Strange.

Thanks to JHG Shark at Art Noir

Click here to see the article on the Art Noir Website

Click here to see Art Noir on Facebook

Parralox European Tour Update - May 16

It's been a few days since our last update, but it feels like a lifetime ago.
The Parralox shows in Berlin and Dresden were fantastic, and the crowd were so supportive! In Dresden last night we played 3 Encores, it was a really amazing experience.

For the last song (since we ran out of tracks, and hadn't planned on playing 3 (!) encores) we got the drummer from Versus on stage with us to do a completely unplugged version of Isn't It Strange. We also debuted a new track (Supermagic) and played that again in the encore.

Extra special thanks to Niels & Ange Piesker, Sarah Endres, Ingo Moller, Matzi, Splani, Nancy, Doreen, Empire in Dust, Ostrich, Versus, Endless Shame & Pleasant Fiction and the many others we forgot to mention. The after show party at Dresden with all the bands was nearly as much fun as the show itself. You guys all totally rock!

Today we arrived in Gothenburg and are now spending some time with Sebastian Hess (Wonderland Records). We are just doing some last minute rehearsals for our show tonight with Universal Poplap at Pustervik in Gothenburg. Can't wait to play with Universal Poplab..

Next live shows..
May 16 - Pustervik (Gothenburg, Sweden) - Universal Poplab & Parralox
May 20 - Bar Music Hall (London, UK) - Electroqueer with Bim, Dear Martin & Parralox
Aug 27 - Infest 2010 (Bradford, UK)

Thanks, John.

ps - live pics from all the shows will be posted shortly.
 

24 hours till Electro City Moods (Berlin)

It's less than 24 hours till Electro City Moods (Berlin) commences! We are onstage around midnight, so drink plenty of coffee and we'll see you there.

xxx John

::TOUR DATES ::

DATE	LOCATION	COUNTRY	EVENT	VENUE
MAY 14	BERLIN	GERMANY	ELECTRO CITY MOODS FESTIVAL	K17
MAY 15	DRESDEN	GERMANY	ELECTRO CITY MOODS FESTIVAL	TANTE JU
MAY 16	GOTHENBURG	SWEDEN	WONDERLAND	PUSTERVIKSBAREN
MAY 20	LONDON	ENGLAND	ELECTROQUEER	BAR MUSIC HALL
AUGUST 27	BRADFORD	ENGLAND	INFEST 2010	BRADFORD UNIVERSITY

  
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