The Death Set - Can You Seen Straight
(Digital Single) Counter Records COUNTDNL043, 2011-06-13

The Death Set return with the latest single from their album Michel Poiccard, Can You Seen Straight , a perfect slice of pop infused punk with a distinctly classic punk feel to it. Nadastrom lead out the remixes. Signed to Switch's Dubsided label and at the forefront of the Moombahton movement, Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom take the 80s aesthetic in a different direction, reimagining the original as epic Moombahton electro-pop. In demand NYC remixers Designer Drugs take They Come To Get Us and make it sound like a girl group getting off with the Prodigy. Nadus & Steel take the same tune and turn it into crisp trouble-funk New Jersey based Club. The band themselves round out the package with both an extended club version (surely one of the band's longest tracks ever, weighing in at over 5 minutes!) and the original lo-fi punk version.

The Death Set - We Are Going Anywhere Man
(Download) Counter Records COUNTDNL039, 2011-04-04

The Death Set return with yet another burst of their unique style of art punk from their sophomore album, produced by the one and only XXXchange, a fellow Baltimore resident relocated to Brooklyn. As Johnny Siera puts it, the tune is "just about persevering. A lot of what the year was about". The latter is a reference to the sad death of fellow bandmate and Death Set founder Beau Velasco, who is memorialised on second tune I Miss You Beau Velasco. "This song is sad," Johnny explains, "as the first verse and chorus were written when Beau was going into rehab and we were all confident he was going to be OK. The second verse was written after he passed." The package is rounded out by a cover of the Cure's classic Grinding Halt, one minute thirty three seconds of Krazy Krayon madness chosen after hearing the record again on the brink of consciousness in a girl's apartment. "I decided to cover it while throwing up." Welcome once again to the world of the motherfucking Death Set - holding nothing back…

The Death Set - Michel Poiccard
(CD/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD036/COUNTDNL036, 2011-02-28

The Death Set's new album, Michel Poiccard, comes prefigured by tragedy. For their first record Worldwide, the core of the group had been the two Aussie ex-pats who moved together to Baltimore in the early noughties - Beau Velasco and Johnny Siera. Just as the pair were about to embark on writing a new album together, Velasco, who had struggled with drug addiction on and off throughout his life, died of an overdose. The band were shattered, so much so that Johnny still finds it almost impossible to talk about. It wouldn't have been surprising if the group had decided to call it a day. Instead, Johnny Siera, with long time band members Daniel Walker and Jahphet Landis decided to make the record a celebration of Velasco's life. Relocating to Brooklyn and enlisting long time friend and Baltimore associate XXXchange (Spank Rock, Kele, The Kills) to man the desk, they created Michel Poiccard, an album which loses none of the charm of their previous “punk spazz" work but adds considerable depth, both in terms of the punch and bottom end that XXXchange brings to the table, and in terms of a sense of desperate loss or longing, which permeates everything on the record and reaches a considerable pinnacle on “I Miss You Beau Velasco" and the closer “Is It The End Again?"...

The Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap
(Download) Counter Records COUNTDNL035, 2011-01-10

The Death Set return with the first single from their new album, Michel Poiccard. The record is prefigured by tragedy, founder member and co-writer Beau Velasco having died early in the recording and writing process. You wouldn't necessarily know it to hear the first single, though. Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap is a blast of pure energy, producer XXXchange (Spank Rock, Kele Okereke) playing the Rick Rubin role to the Death Set's early Beasties screaming rap-yelp, expanding the beats and hardening the guitar lines until the whole thing snaps. Brutal, funny and undeniably exciting, it is, Johnny Siera explains, about "the handshake that all our friends do here in Brooklyn. Fun lil handshake. You'll get the idea when you see the instructional video we're making." Exclusive track Been Too Long sounds like the soundtrack to Pretty In Pink being vandalised by teen speed freaks, while the O.G Version of viral sensation Yo David Chase! You P.O.V. Shot Me In The Head ditches the slinky Diplo-funk of the original for a more traditional punk workout. Short, sharp and motherfucking loud, the Death Set are back.

Various - STRIKE! - A Counter Records Sampler
(CD/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD030/COUNDNL030, 2009-10-05

Back in 2006 the good people of Ninja Tune decided they wanted to start a rock label. But not any old, boring, run-of-the-mill rock label. Not a rock label pumping out the latest British indie four piece bands, or carefully crafted facsimiles of classic rawk. Not a label peopled by ironic Hoxtonites playing pisstakes of AC/DC. Not a rock label licensing in already-successful US acts and re-packaging them for the UK market. A rock label that took the same irreverent, iconoclastic, vaguely psychedelic attitude towards that type of music as the parent label had taken to various aspects of dance music. The results of this project are just now beginning to reach fruition and what better way to celebrate (and introduce listeners to a rapidly expanding roster) than with a "Pay-No-More-Than-£2.99" sampler showcasing some of the finest moments from the misfits, freaks and visionaries shaping the label's sound?

The Death Set - Rad Warehouses To Bad Neighborhoods (Reissue + Extras)
(CD & Bandana/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD017/COUNTDNL017, 2009-03-24

The Death Set - Cold Teeth (and mixes)
(promo CD/7"/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD017P/COUNT017/COUNTDNL017, 2008-10/11
(12") Bang Gang Records

The Death Set - Around The World
(promo CD/7"/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD016P/COUNT016/COUNTDNL016, 2008-05-12

Tracklisting promo CD :
01. Around The World
02. Impossible (Positive Outlook Etan Remix)
03. Paranoid
04. Boys Than Girls
05. Around The World (original version)

Tracklisting EP :
A1. Around The World
A2. Around The World (original version)
B1. Paranoid
B2. Boys Than Girls

Tracklisting MP3 Download :
01. Around The World
02. Impossible (Positive Outlook Etan Remix)
03. Paranoid
04. Boys Than Girls
05. Distressed (Bonde De Role Remix)
06. Around The World (original version)

Links :
thedeathset.com
myspace.com/thedeathset
myspace.com/thedeathsetremixes
myspace.com/counterspace

The Death Set - Worldwide
(CD/LP/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD012/COUNT012/COUNTDNL012, 2008-03-17 (Download) / 2008-04-07 (CD/LP)

Tracklisting :
01. Solve It
02. Listen to his Collision
03. Negative Thinking
04. Intermission
05. Spaz
06. Cold Teeth
07. Around the World
08. Impossible
09. Superzero
10. Day in the Wife
11. Bla!
12. Moving Forward
13. MFDS
14. Had A Bird
15. Peak Oil
16. This Song
17. Heard It All Before
18. Selective Memories

Links :
thedeathset.com
myspace.com/thedeathset
myspace.com/thedeathsetremixes
myspace.com/counterspace

The Death Set - Negative Thinking EP
(7"/MP3 Download) Counter Records COUNT011, 2008-02-11

Tracklisting :
A1. Negative Thinking
A2. Heard It All Before
B1. Intermission | Download MP3
B2. MFDS

Tracklisting "Clubbed" promo CD COUNTO11CLB :
01. Negative Thinking
02. Intermission
03. Around The World
04. Intermission (Etan Remix)
05. Distressed (Bonde Do Role Remix)

Links :
thedeathset.com
myspace.com/thedeathset
myspace.com/thedeathsetremixes
myspace.com/counterspace