Mental Discipline ‎– Butterfly

Mental Discipline ‎– Butterfly DDEP
(2014) skyQode

Yey! A new Mental Discipline EP. This is not Alex Mental's best best release, but it has some good songs. I recommend expanding this EP with the free download "Pain & Regrets". It's a really good track that would've made this EP much better in the first place. mind.in.a.box delivers a nice remix of the 2012 "Constellation" album track "Precious Paradise". Guess if it has vocooders? This EP is only €4 from skyQode's Bandcamp site. It's well worth it!

Mental Discipline - Fall 2 Pieces EP

Mental Discipline - Fall 2 Pieces
DDEP (2013) skyQode

My favourite Russian future pop band Mental Discipline surprises me a bit with this new remix EP. "Fall To Pieces" was easily the best song on their 2012 debute album "Constellation", much thanks to the excellent vocals delievered by Felix Marc. On this EP though, the song is sung by Alex Mental himself. And I enjoy this version too! The EP also features one new track (with female vocals this time. Finally!) and some great remixes by Assemblage 23 and SITD, among others.

Mental Discipline - Constellation

Mental Discipline - Constellation
(2012) skyQode

Wow! This must be THE futurepop album of 2012! Just like the Paralell Project CD "Fusion", this album is written by a single mastermind, in this case Alex Mental, but the vocals are sung by different artists. The 2011 EP "Falling Stars" had somewhat prepared me for a great follow up album, but not quite to this extent. Standout tracks are the Felix Marc sung "Fall To Pieces", "Disguise (Feat. Culture Kültur)" and "My Madhouse (Feat. Carved Souls)". The Paralell Project CD was very dynamic, holding different kind of songs and both male and female vocalists. This album, on the other hand, is only about club smashers. It's packed with potential futurepop hits! Note that the CD version holds an exclusive bonus track, not available on the download version. Get both versions on Bandcamp!

Mental Discipline - Fallen Stars DDEP

Mental Discipline - Fallen Stars
DDEP (2011) Synthematik

My first digital download! Of course it's not, but it's the first download only album I've payed for. No, that's not true either. I've bought a download only Pride And Fall EP back in 2005. But this is a different story. I've never even heared of this band before I saw a short article about them in the excellent Blackvector Magazine. Apparently this one man band had gathered two singers to write lyrics and melody for the instrumental version of  "Fallen Stars", and released both versions! As I'm a big fan of one of the singers, Felix Marc (Frozen Plasma, Diorama), I bought this EP as soon as it was released. The other singer is Peter Rainman (People Theatre). The EP is available in a free download version, without some of the remixes, from Synthematik. I bought the Flac version for only $3.99 from Bandcamp's Synthematik shop.