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The Damage Is Done

by Hot Coins

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1.
(Chorus) I never get to go to anything Overlooked and underpaid On a string Geek emotions are emotions never felt By those who chose to win and never had a doubt I suppose you chose this way at birth Never questioning your conduct and it’s worth It’s dysfunctional to care but I do I need your help To work out who is who (Verse 1) Were the things you said Just the things you read If they said you’re dead Would you believe them If the news is true Then why are you Still here with me And not with someone else (Verse 2) Is the brains the answer Or to question truth When there’s no one there Is it really worth it Am I a nerd Or just a kind of king When there’s no one there What is the truth?
2.
The Only Way 04:48
(Verse 1) They told me it’s the easy way They told me it’s right way They told it’s the easy way They told me it’s the right way (Verse 2) They told do it your own way They told me do it my way They told me do it your own way They told me do it my way (Verse 3) You told me it’s the only way You told me do it my way You told me it’s the only way You told me do it my way Spoken Bridge/Chorus Today we’re gonna do it my way Just for once We’re gonna do it my way And lets see what happens When you do it my way Maybe things will be better That’s for us to find out isn’t it? My Way My Way My Way
3.
New Beat 04:37
(Verse 1) When does enough feel enough? When saying no is so tough I want to stay out all night But no one else thinks it’s right (Verse 2) I never want to go home I’m always out on my own It’s always just one more time Each time a piece of me dies (Chorus/Bridge) Don’t try to tell me it’s the right way Don’t try it’s the wrong way Don’t try to tell me it’s the easy way Is this a place in which I’ve got to stay?
4.
Leathered 05:09
5.
(Verse 1) I’m just a freestyle lover at the end of the day I’ll be your freestyle lover babe whatever you say I’m just a freestyle lover at the end of the day I’ll be your freestyle lover babe whatever you say (Verse 2) I’m a freestyle lover.. I’m a freestyle lover I’m a freestyle lover.. I’m just a freestyle lover I’ll be your sister and your brother I’m a freestyle lover I’ll talk to your daddy and your mother Cause I’m a freestyle lover Just a freestyle lover I’ll love you like no other (Verse 3/Bridge) Be the freestyle I’ll be your freestyle lover I’ll be your sister and your brother I’ll be your freestyle lover I’m just a freestyle lover at the end of the day I’ll be your freestyle lover babe whatever you say I’m just a freestyle lover at the end of the day I’ll be your freestyle lover babe whatever you say
6.
Confined 04:13
(Verse 1) I can’t find my way out So much noise no one can hear you shout Your love is like a prison for me Blinded by lights that I cannot see Easy to get in but there’s no way out Too much noise no one can hear me shout Why can’t just be myself and play it cool Better on my own just myself to rule (Possible bridge) Only one way out – you have to build an exit Only room for one – you have to find your exit No time for two in life – you’re flying solo now It’s better on your own – no other mind to keep
7.
Foxxy 05:46
(Chorus/refrain) Crash and burn every night Something just don’t feel right My friends think I am stupid They laugh at me all the time (Verse 1) I need a bigger brain I need a better outlook I need a fitter body I want a different life How did I used to feel? How did I cope with my Outlook and false perspective I crashed and burned every night (Chorus/refrain) Crash and burn every night Something just don’t feel right My friends think I am stupid I never get things right
8.
Blizzard 05:11
(Verse 1) You make me feel so sexy You make all the people love me You make music business easy The bathroom is my favourite place You stop me getting off my face A knowing smile for everyone A bloody nose is everyday For those who choose to live this way (Verse 2) But lately things don’t feel the same You don’t feel as good as last week You used to make me feel so sexy But now you’re just another night I think I need to get a new girl Get the excitement back again I miss those early days of flirting Oh how much fun we used to have (Verse 3) I thought that I didn’t care I wasn’t able to share Good friends are hard to find When you’re completely snowblind It wasn’t me…it wasn’t fair Lost in a blizzard out there Good friends are hard to find When you’re out of your mind
9.
Road Trip 08:51
10.
I Ching 02:53

about

INFO:
An estranged homage to late 70s NYC anti-culture, realized through the eyes of a Scottish born electronic musician living in modern day Berlin.

The man behind Hot Coins, Danny Berman, is best known by his Red Rack’em moniker. A purveyor of the finest club music from hip hop and soul through to house and techno. A DJ/producer who has progressively climbed electronic music’s precipitous ladder of approval. A vinyl obsessive. A party starter from NG to BK.
Quietly working on Hot Coins for the past four years, this very personal project is sonically inspired by Berman’s love of dance music’s fruitful 78-82 period that embraced the cross pollination of emerging post-punk, disco and electro scenes. Goths and futurists in England danced to Kraftwerk and DAF, New York punks and no-wavers danced to ESG and ‘Planet Rock’. Good times…

…and bad times. Lyrically,The Damage Is Done candidly delves into fear and paranoia motivated by the destructive excesses of modern clubbing. The dark side of the dancefloor, the inevitable comedown and the transcendence that can follow. ‘Foxxy’ encapsulates this, dispelling the myth that clubbing is exclusively reserved for celebration and revising it as a breaking down of pride, a lack of self-belief, a public surrender to humiliation. ‘Confined’ muses on trapped relationships; whether it be personal, professional or with something less animate. First single ‘Geek Emotions’ is a loser’s anthem for the eternal underdog. It means more when a geek wins than when a winner does - but geeks never win. No-one tells that story. However, it is about dancing after all though: ‘Leathered’ is a Warriors inspired homage to the “homo-erotic nature of Italo-disco” and ‘I Ching’ is naturally described as “David Mansuso having tantric sex with himself in a NYC loft” (“Ching “is also slang for cocaine in Scotland). Remarkably, the album ended up being mixed in rural Austria on the world famous ex-Townhouse studios SSL 4000 B series desk which was used to mix Public Image Limited’s ‘Metal Box’ album and ‘In The Air Tonight’ by Phil Collins. This is the desk that the famous ‘gated reverb’ drum sound that defined the 80’s was invented on, so it’s fitting that the album was mixed on it. As several of the tracks feature vocals from City Haze and Berman himself, plus guitar (from Crazy P maestro Chris Todd and Paul ‘Peej’ Murphy) and saxophone (from acclaimed folk saxophonist Pippa Marland), the future lies in the live performance of these tracks.

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released January 28, 2013

www.sonarkollektiv.com
www.redrackem.com

All songs produced by Daniel Berman.
Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering, Berlin.
Product management by Oliver Glage.
Photography and Styling by Chrystal Mafia.
Artwork by C100.


(P) & (C) 2013 Sonar Kollektiv. SK251CD/elektrish. LC01200. GEMA. Made in the EU. All rights reserved.

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