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London Based Multi-disciplinary Artist And Producer Buffalo Tide Presents His Latest Project 'pure Luxury' A Twisted, Bass-heavy Slow Jam Of Hallucinogenic Cuts That Melt It's Listeners Minds.

In Recent Years Buffalo Tide Has Garnered Spectacular Project Work And Press, Producing Music For Kenzo, Hunter And For Recently Closed Iconic Paris Store, Colette. He Has Released Music On Cult London Label No Pain In Pop, Presented A Mix For Dazed Digital And Had A Feature In The Nme.

Buffalo Tide Has Also Presented His Visual Art In Various Group And Solo Shows, Most Recently His Sound-installation Know Your Beholder At Sutton House In October 2016.

Built Over The Course Of The Last Year, Pure Luxury Features Surreal Vocal Samples, Juddering Sub-bass Lines, Jarring String Arrangements, Synthesiser Sweeps That Haul You Out Of Your Body And More Grime Than You Might Come To Expect From An Artist Like This...

* Subtext presents new work by the Istanbul based artist and musician Cevdet Erek in extracts from his soundtrack to the Turkish crime thriller Frenzy, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.* These two compositions shed light on Erek's diverse sonic background, both as a member of the seminal band Nekropsi and as a celebrated conceptual artist presenting sound and installation works internationally such as his Room of Rhythms, which has been shown at Documenta, as well as the Istanbul and Sydney biennials.


* The first track presents a tense and driving percussive wall of sound that mirrors Frenzy's dramatic storyline set against a backdrop of political violence in Istanbul. Accompanying this is a textural recording exploring aspects of warped time and shifting geometry that references the films disturbing subtext of social paranoia.

* Frenzy will be released on vinyl and digital formats on the 13th of May 2016.

On Friday 2nd October 2015, Coppe' releases her 16th full album titled '20rpm' as a stunning super-deluxe, double transparent-red vinyl + DVD collection, alongside a CD+DVD and standard digital editions. Featuring all new collaborations with another star line-up with guest stars: Plaid, Chris., Kettel, Atom TM, Chris Mosdell, Terry D, and many more.

Launched in 1995, Mango + Sweetrice Records celebrates twenty years of Electronic music's most colourful, diverse and prolific collaborations, thanks to the charm, charisma and passion of one woman: Japanese singer, musician, producer & multi-media artist, Coppe'.

The one-time Japanese child-star, MTV VJ and FM Radio DJ decided to turn her back on her native commercial profile to begin recording her own material and forge long-lasting, collaborative relationships with some of the leading names in the emerging 90s IDM / Electronica scene.

Over 15 albums later, plus countless collaborations with the likes of Plaid, Atom TM, DJ Vadim, TheOrb, Kettel, Nobukazu Takemura, DJ Swamp, Kit Clayton, Christ., Barbara Morgenstern, Shipmate, Chris Model, DF Tram, Modified Toy Orchestra, Back Ted 'N' Ted, Nico No U-Turn, Addictive TV, Minotaur Shock, Terminal 11 and so many others, Mango + Sweetrice Records now celebrates its twentieth anniversary in style for 2015.

Black printed sleeve repress! Limited to 100 copies.

Debut EP from much talked about Crewsden

'Bottle Rain Smoke' premiered on The Creators Project/Vice (video below)

Much of Crewdson's singular sound can be attributed to his musical (instrument) inventions. Via these vehicles, Crewdson crafts skewed sonics that boggle the mind.' XLR8R

'Toys' is the follow up to producer/instrument builder Crewdson's debut album 'Gravity' on Slowfoot Records in 2011 and is a stunning album which is at once archaic and futuristic, folk and tech, accessible and experimental, danceable and introspective, naïve and sophisticated, heart-felt and humorous.

'Gravity' drew huge acclaim from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Clash, XLR8R, Time Out, BBC, Future Sequence and The Fader to name but a few.

The album is a highly skilled and inventive production that draws on a myriad of post-rave styles - garage, dubstep, techno, broken beats - and comparisons can be made to the electronic explorations of the likes of Flying Lotus, Polar Bear, Fourtet, plus contemporaries Mount Kimbie, Micachu and Jon Hopkins' work with King Creosote.

The weird and wonderful hardware electronic musical instruments invented include the The Odd Box, The Concertronica, The Eggiophone and The Sonic Bonnet and the album owes much to these instruments, which have increasingly become central to his production methods and sound, as well as the album's title and imagery. They also provide a clue as to his music's direction. Where the music on 'Gravity' blended jazz inflected harmony and concrete soul with his trademark skewed electronics and tumbling beats, 'Toys' is more informed by the harmonic, lyrical and sonic ideas found in folk music and his instruments perfectly reflect this meeting of folk and technology, the archaic and the futuristic.

In between his debut and this album Crewdson found time to release records as one half of electronic soul duo Eckoclick, be Matthew Herbert's right hand man both on and off stage as well as running his Accidental Records, write music for prominent designer Paul Smith, collaborate with London's National Centre for Circus Arts on a bespoke performance, work with fashion designer Jodie Cartman to create a range of playable musical headpieces, go on tour as tech support to Thom Yorke AND contribute sounds to the rescoring of the first ever British sci fi movie 'A Message From Mars' as a part of The New Radiophonic Workshop in collaboration with the BBC and the BFI.

CLASH: Fragmented post-dubstep with jazz leanings, the producer's work was imbued with a wonderfully engrossing sense of space'

Vivid's unashamedly retro-tinted breakbeat assault continues apace with five more high grade suggest. It is the newly emergent, in form Daffy who follows up a nice EP on Time Is Now earlier in the year with throwback mash up. There are rigid metal chords panning about the mix next to bleeping fax machines and bustling breaks on the opener and from there he doesn't let up. 'Dents' is a bass heavy garage workout with razor sharp hits and 'No Caller ID' drops deeper into warped garage basslines. 'Palm Tree' is pure jungle goodness, and last of all 'Don't Think' is maybe the best of the lot.

Debut Solo Album From John Carpenter Musical Collaborator On Very Limited Vinyl.

Daniel Davies Has Announced The Impending Release Of Events Score, An Eight-song Collection Of Otherworldly Instrumentals That Expands On The Musician's Distinct Talent For Wringing Modernistic Soundscapes From Vintage Synths. Perhaps Best Known For His Role As A Collaborator And Co-writer On Horror Auteur John Carpenter's Recent Lost Themes And Anthology Albums (as Well As A Pillar Of His Live Band's Subsequent Tours), Events Score Marks Davies' First Proper Solo Album. To Accompany The Announcement, Davies Has Shared 'shadows Alive,' A Melancholy Theme Built On A Glassy Synth Melody Arpeggio, Bolstered By A Creeping, Expansive Low End.

The Album Began As A Brainstorming Session For A Movie. 'i Was Talking With A Friend About Writing A Sci-fi Film, But I'm Not A Screenwriter So I Wrote An Album,' States Davies. 'i Could Imagine Huge Spaceships Cracking The Sky, Giant Sand-snakes Barreling Through The Desert, Or Someone Drifting Across The Bottom Of The Ocean With Just Barely Enough Light To See The Creatures Beneath. It's The Score To All That...'.

'Travelling Bright is a quietly exceptional album, dreamy and intimate, but borne up on rich elaborate arrangements... David writes Deeply introspective songs and renders them in rich orchestrated widescreen...Dreamlike soliloquies, steeped in mythology and the natural landscape, and presented with an airy spaciousness that carves out avenues for the mind to wander' - UNCUT MAGAZINE

'Travelling Bright' is the very pretty new album from David Ian Roberts, released on Welsh label Cambrian Records. The album feels like a real artistic statement, a double LP, full of ambition from the Cardiff based songwriter. David's lyrical imagery find parallels between our emotional landscapes and the natural world.

More sonic electro infused speaker decimation from Deadly Avenger in a brand-new follow-up to 2018's I Am Godzilla You Are Japan.

Includes 3D artwork and glasses, Insert, and download card. Artwork by Luke Insect

Written, performed, mixed and mastered by Richard Pike (PVT).
Standard cassette tape with full colour double sided J-card, imprinted shell, and the choice of 1 of 3 shell colours, rave orange, freight train grey, magnetic tape brown.

Snowed in at an abandoned guesthouse located in the Swiss Alps, long-time friends and musical collaborators, James Varghese and Ramon Ziegler unintentionally became ambient electronic duo Diskret and release the spoils of their reclusive recording getaway on Fri 22 March 2019.

Equipped with synthesizers, drum machines and other wired gadgets, Varghese and Ziegler wandered into the peaks around their native Zurich, unaware of what could emerge from a long weekend of unhurried creativity. The descent of the unexpectedly heavy snowfall broadsided plans to intersperse music making with fresh air and rural hikes, instead being forced to evoke their alpine isolation and the vivid beauty of the whiteout through delicately layered electronica.

After the process they describe now as 'incomprehensible', the EP is the only reliable document of a shared dream, created as if in a trance. Four days of recording synthesizers, arranging chords, eating raclette, stacking sounds, automating filters, fondue, creating beats and occasionally sleeping, comes to this. An EP they had no concrete intention of making.

Ahead of the Meakusma Festival 2019 Don't DJ and NWAQ did an artist residency developing new music together from scratch. Their resulting performance at the festival was a mesmerising descent into the artistic perspectives of two singular artists active in off-kilter club music.Some of the eight tracks on this record were recorded live at the festival while others were recorded during the residency. All
dwell in distorted and eccentric bliss and play around with rhythmic arrhythmic and post-rhythmic tension.

After lurking on the internet as an outlet for Dreamlogicc's solo and collaborative work, cheeky Peak Time Dance Music launches its physical imprint with a half dozen tracks of drum-driven madness. Drawing raw rhythms and rugged sound design from gqom, integrating elements of electro, grime, and techno, these flexible beats absolutely stomp. While the core sound remains, the moody grooves from his Kimochi Sound releases and bassy halftime from Main Drain Studios take the back seat here: it's a 12" for the club.

The EC Band is a collaboration between American Brussels-based painter, former grindcore singer and musician Luke Calzonetti and Belgian visual artist, performer and percussionist Stijn Wybouw. Their first EC Band outing sees them conjure up four transcendent tracks driven by improvisation. The instruments used and the way the EC Band naturally and fluidly edit their musical output, make for flickers of musical mirages, infusing everything with a sense of space and abstraction. On the edge of what is recognisable emotion and perspective, Calzonetti and Wybouw are soft-spoken yet confrontational.

Following their second album 'Demiurge' released in May 2011, 'Medium' arrives as the first non-studio based production by Emptyset, recorded on location in the remote Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. The collection of tracks explores the duo's preoccupations with the elemental properties of sound and bare rhythmic structures and overlays it onto the textural possibilities of space and material. The project marks their first act of adapting their analogue-based studio system into an architectural intervention, pushing extreme bass and feedback into the irregular spaces of the unfinished building. The rural mansion, which remains an incomplete remnant of the Gothic revival and a place studied by both architectural researchers and psychic investigators, provides a rich source of texture as the sparse palette of sine waves and noise is adorned with the intricate details of the space. 'Medium' emerges as an act of translation remodelling the house through sonic impulses into a state of audio, a fluid transformative gesture and a process mirroring the sonar impulses of the bats residing within Woodchester's rooftop sanctuary. The project, supported by the Woodchester Mansion Trust, was provided technical support by the renowned Bristol based sound engineer Mat Sampson who managed the array of vintage microphones and preamps distributed within the building along with the central monophonic sound system. The completed release is presented as a CD and a limited vinyl 12' which includes a special poster of analogue processed imagery by Clayton Welham and Sam Williams, who developed the recent Emptyset video for Function and who will once again be producing a short piece for 'Medium' using video feedback applied to footage captured within Woodchester.

* Emptyset present a live recording of their performance project Signal, which explores the effects of atmospheric propagation and transmitted sound.
* Developed between Bristol and Berlin over the course of 2014, the performance took place in Berlin on February 1st 2015. The project worked with long distance high frequency radio transmission in order to bounce audio composed of sine wave structures across the atmosphere, in a process that ornamented and shaped the signal in accordance with physical fluctuations in the ionosphere, atmospheric noise and solar radiation patterns.* The signal path for the performance transmitted the audio across a real-time 2000km circuit, routed from Berlin to Nauen 40k west of the city, where it was transmitted from the oldest operational transmission station in the world, received by the 1950's French radio base Émetteur d'Issoudun and from there retransmitted and received at the performance space in Berlin. The multiple atmospheric bounces imprinted into the audio introduced complex transformations of sound.

The Paris based producer and DJ NxxxxxS’s delivers a new 13 track album offering a fresh and summery vibe. Shaped by his wavy trademark sound, which mixes techniques from genres such as, vaporwave, phonk, trap, hiphop, R&B and future beats

Accomplished musician / producer Bryan Richie, bassist for American rock band The Sword, has announced a new solo project under the pseudonym Galactic Protector. Overflowing with bright, synthesizer melodies and blissful, melancholic IDM, the 15 track effort plays out like electronic dream pop songs, hovering between ambient introspection and more active synth pop and post-rock elements.

Tranquil, nostalgic and melodic, 'Evening' pushes sound beyond the realms of IDM and ambient, conjuring a more kinetic, experiential expression of sound. Using an arsenal of analogue and digital synths, Richie's music as Galactic Protector blends new wave and cinematic influences with sophisticated downtempo beat patterns. The tracks initially took shape at Richie's home studio as well as in the Portland studio of producer Tucker Martine (Neko Case, Modest Mouse) during recording sessions for The Sword's 2018 release 'Used Future'.

With 'Piscolabis', Golden Bug delivers a new UFO sound oscillating between electronica, robotic vibrations and psychedelic dub. Piscolabis embraces all the styles important to Antoine Harispuru and emerges as an astonishing opening onto new worlds. And he invited an impressive number of guests to his 4th studio album:

The French from The Liminañas or Tim Glass, the Japanese Vega Voga, the Australians from Funboys, Spanish singer Pajaro Sunrise, it is because this project was born out of the turmoil caused by opposition.

'Colibri' is a psychedelic labyrinth, a sentimental and hypnotic ascent that radiates on the dancefloor. 'Variation Sur 3 Bancs' featuring The Liminañas, immerses us in the world of acid western and psychedelic pop and makes you want to hitchhike on the road. On 'Tokoyo No Kuni', Golden Bug invites Japanese singer Vega Voga to create a musical epic worthy of an imaginary soundtrack by Toshiya Fujita. With its slow rhythm and spellbinding melodies, 'La Boite Noire' explores Berlin electronica immersed in chloroform. 'La Goutte D’Eau' takes off, dark and throbbing. The fluid rhythm is left behind by hypnotic patterns that push the listener into their sofa, which will not come out until the very end of the interlude.

'Fata Morgana' excites with its dirty rhythm, hypnotic arpeggiator and cosmic sound effects. 'Nid de Guêpes' interstellar flute wraps around slowed dub effects, like a 7" in speed 12", and evokes emotion by repeating its heady loop, an obsessive and mutant vision of music. 'Bring The Light' with the support of Spanish singer Pajaro Sunrise is an ideal springboard to touch the stars and explores the clear face of Golden Bug by merging choppy oriental guitars, solar vocals and dub rhythm. Without interruption, 'Kotodama' continues the journey on an unknown planet, on which Vega Voga comes to pose her suave voice on dark electronic arrangements, transforming itself into indescribable and harmoniously eccentric binary code. To end this journey, 'Le Chant Des Sirènes', carried by the voice of Frenchman Tim Glass, plays along the lines of scintillating and nebulous pop.

Vocal textures with robotic vibrations, complex and indescribable psychedelic music are Ariane's thread of this new sensory and universal album. Music to listen to, see and feel.

* Continuing Subtext's exploratory electronics and devastating sonics is the expansive Ego De Espinhos, the debut full-length from twenty-two year old Porto, Portugal-based artist Gonçalo Penas.

* Described by Penas as a series of 'self-exorcisms,' Ego De Espinhos is the cathartic outcome of a highly introspective process. Shaped by opposing forces and instincts, the LP touches on themes that are at once intimate, yet omnipresent. Splendor confronts destruction; id confronts super-ego.

* Created solely with digital instruments designed and built by the artist, Ego De Espinhos is the result of Penas' improvisations. Tracks such as 'Introdução, Umbigo' and 'Tecto Falso' were recorded in one take, and evidence a stark, dramatic emotional palette.

* The release begins as Penas chooses to reject rigidities, customs and conventions of experimental electronic music. Of his process, Penas says: 'Personally, I feel that creation should come from a completely free act of will. It is a place where there should be no rules, no expectations, no rights and no wrongs.'

* In Ego De Espinhos, Penas turns away from his own technical background, and towards a journey of forward experimentation. This follows his education in Music Production and Technologies at Porto's School of Music and Performing Arts. For the first time, he finds the freedom to articulate himself sincerely, unearthing beauty and acceptance amidst wreckage and devastation.

Das dritte Album des Brightoner Duos Grasscut (Andrew Philips und Marcus O'Dair) erscheint auf Lo Recordings, nennt sich "Everyone Was A Bird" und überzeugt mit einer Mischung aus Electronica, Post-Rock und songbasierter Live-Instrumentierung (Strings, Piano, Gitarre, Drums) als die wohl organischte und eindringlichste Arbeit des Duos bislang.