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Old wine: Two Petula EPs from 2002 and 2009, respectively. Two collections of sketches, ideas, songs, home recordings, live recordings, wavering four-track guitars and timid attempts at electronic beats.

New skins: The Petulacloud. Enjoy.

Note that you take every track home with you. But you're still welcome to come back.

Rain pouring onto a festival tent, essential instruments miles away, friends and strangers and spooks in the audience, water everywhere and a dutchman giving stage directions by wearing funny football hats. You had to be there.

And while we're at it: This is my favorite Fnessnej video ever.

And if you keep browsing the related videos, you'll find evidence that the downpour stopped eventually. I still do not believe it.

The only non-exclusive song on the EP, We'll Become P( )rentheses also offers a taste of the upcoming Elephant Dresses tape, due out on Froggi in two weeks. It's a clicky and clappy song about food and decay, about discipline and love and desperation, about old age and about punctuation. It's a song about everything. It's also online now!

Don't forget to check back tomorrow, when the whole thing, cover and soundmaps included, will be available for free.

The Minotaur Miniskirt revelation continues. Here's Funeral Safari.

Also, I Might Be Wrong are giving away a Petula-related remix on their tumblr site to celebrate spring, themselves, delirious bliss and the start of the German leg of their tour with Why?. Get! Play! Enjoy!

It's an appetizer, it's a single EP, it's a joint venture, a marketing scheme, a present. It's also a collection of outtakes, something new, something old, leftover songs, brandnew ideas. It's a new Petula EP, brought to you by the friendly folks at Rote Raupe, revealed piece by piece and day by day, available as a whole this Supergood Friday.

The first part is out today, a melancholy heartweight called "Let Us Not Be Terrible People", recorded during winter nights in my tiny studio closet. Three more parts are to come, each of them accompanied by its own beautiful soundmap by Janine Hofmann and Christina Serowski. Enjoy!

In 2009, a couple of days before leaving for a couple of shows, I realised that I probably would not finish the "Elephant Dresses" album before leaving Berlin, probably not even before 2010. And I had an idea. And I shared that idea with my friend Conrad of Froggi Records. And thus, a new Petula EP and a new label - Floppi Records - were conceived. In the following weeks, Petula and Floppi Records put out five versions of a floppy disk EP called "Brothers". Each week of touring featured a new one-and-a-half-minute song, following a pattern I made up as I went along. Then, the tour was over. A few floppy EPs have survived, you can get them at the Floppi/Froggi page.

Or you can get a new online version with re-recorded vocals and a new track to make up for the lack of the beautiful physical medium. I finished this version today and put it up on my bandcamp page. Which is where, in due time, you'll also find "Elephant Dresses" and other good things. More on this, release dates, touring and other plans later this week.