Sin: Kissing

1.And I Sigh
2.The Raven
3.The Game of Despise
4.Erasure
5.Geena
6.Kim Fowley’s gonna die
7.Doubts
8.The Crawl
9.Venus in Furs

„Kissing“ features 9 tracks including 2 cover versions (Placebo’s „The Crawl“ and the Velvet Underground classic „Venus in Furs“). The other songs were all written by SIn. Although the sound has obviously more percussion and ethnical elements than the „Insinuation“ album it still identifies as a typical Sin record: Mona Moore’s deep, sultry, breathy voice backed by looping vibrating 3D electronica wraps itself around this collection of great songs. The dreamy - occasionaly rough - yet sizzling athmospere make this eerie, anthemic, downtempo home-listening of the highest quality

format: CD (album)
cat.no.: use 9522566
distribution: Soulseduction, Vienna
mail: office@soulseduction.com

Sin: And I Sigh


1: And I Sigh (original version)
2: And I Sigh (Freedom Satellite remix)
2: And I Sigh (Kirlian remix)

Track 1 is Sin’s own version of "„And I Sigh". Loads of congas, timbales together with some latin piano parts, strings and a simple bassline back Mona Moore’s deep, sultry, breathy voice in this vibrating, addictive sorta-latin hum along thing. Vienna based Freedom Satellite (from Vienna Scientists fame) deliver a sunny excursion into their very own downtempo latino world. Tons of congas, shakers and and an acoustic guitar riff to kill for create that laidback chilly groove the Freedom Satellite guys are best known for. Nicely blending with Mona Moore’s swaying voice. Completly new interpretation of the theme, very open-airy, summer-style. New York producer and deejay Kirlian aka Abe Duque (Disko B. & Tension Rec) takes you to the darker jazzier sides of Queens. Very slow. Kicking with a dancehalll style bassdrum with lots of latin percussion. With jazz-licks that make you come right in your pants. And on top of it all the vocals like the icing of a cake take you onto a trippy journey into some dark urban night.

format: CDM
cat.no.: use 19988553

distribution: Soulseduction, Vienna
mail: office@soulseduction.com

SIN : the past

SIN was co-founded in 1989 by Mona Moore, Andy Orel and Richard Dorfmeister in Vienna, when they realized that they hung out together every second night and didn’t kow that each of them had quite some musical past. Mainly concentrating on recording in their tiny living-room-studio - with occasional live-sets - they released their first 12“ in 1990 „Where Shall I Turn?“. Sort of the first austrian home-production getting airplay and media attention it became kinda cult record also in Italy. In 1993 Dorfmeister left Vienna to get thing going in the dj-world whereas Moore and Orel were quite comfortable with their comparably oldschool band/songwriting approch.So Mona Moore and Andy Orel continued Sin as a duo. Being one of the lucky few to get a long term deal with Abuse Industries they could release whatever they wanted whenever they wanted to. So in the mid- to late nineties they put out several CDs and vinyls under their name featuring also stuff like the first remix work by Kruder & Dorfmeister, Pulsinger Tunakan and Abe Duque amongst others. A lot of touring followed. taking them from Vienna to Badgastein, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Wiesen etc.

Their 9 track debut album "Insinuation“ recorded entirely in their tiny living-room-studio was released may 98. With it´s weird mixture of moody,very, very slow vocal trip hop sorta stuff - reaching from dreamy dopey tracks to the world of trash-porn-movies moving on to more depressing suicidal corners ending in some sleazy b-grade latino ballroom - it was collecting great reviews in austrian, german, swiss, english, french, belgian, american magazines. Almost every track (!) of the album got airplay on alternative radiostations. This success made them do more live PAs having its highpoint so far opening for Nick Cave on his 2001 euro-tour at the Wiener Stadthalle.

In september 2001 their last album "Kissing“ was released. Almost each track was played on the radio. Especially the song "And I Sigh" got massive airplay. The remix by Vienna Scientists featured on the 12 inch released at the same time as the album was doing really great. Some of the tracks were licensed to different compilations around europe

The time since "Kissing" was basically filled with wondering, discussing and being depressed by the state the world is in, and hours and days, years andc centuries in their livingroom-studio making music trying to turn all that sadness and madness into songs. Who can seriously make music nowadays without being influenced by a world falling apart.

„So Sad“ was released in february 2003. It features 5 tracks including 2 remixes („The Game of Despise" remixed by Waldeck and „The Raven“ remixed by Audiodope). All the songs were written by Sin except „Der Rosmarienbaum“ that happens to be an old german folktune from the 14th century or something like that. It was just a small edition and sold out rather quickly.

Since than the usual mix of playing live and recording continued. Slowly they started to work on their new album "Absinth". And truely slowly the songs came one after the other.

One day good old Abe Duque from Hollis said yes when we asked him if he would do a remix of "So Sad". And the remix turned out great. It was released via Abuse Industries USA and is at the moment in it's third reprint..

And in April 2005 Sin finished their new album "Absinth", a double CD. One Cd containing 10 new Sin songs and one CD with Sin songs remixed/reworked by friends.


Being the moody cheerful guys they are Sin start their collection of new anthems for the depressed with a remake of the old classic "Love is Blue": Mona Moore’s deep, sultry voice backed by a munch of noise and sad strings tears you into a world of 21st century heartbreak, pain, frustration, loneliness, bad sex, glorious moments and sehnsucht. You are taken hostage on a delirious trip of 10 songs leaving you at the end bedazzled and entranced. The dreamy - occasionaly rough - yet sizzling atmosphere lifts you up and lets you fly for some while.Oh what the fuck listen yourself to the stuff and you will see that it’s eerie, anthemic, song-based, downtempo music of the highest quality without that post-therapy-irrelevance touch that sticks to most downtempo records nowadays.

And just when you thought it's over, wait there is the second CD. Absinth (re)mixed, is a collection of 8 Sin songs remixed by friends. Done by them just for the love of it. Among those are worldwide superleague players like Abe Duque or those lovable tugs from Freedom Satellite or people whose name you have never heard before like the tremendous mp/h from Germany or the sparkling moped2067 from Vienna, because they never have released any remix work before. But all these different talents melt together in a perfect blend that adds another angle to the world of Sin.

Good luck