On 16 October 2015, a collective of London's most creative and celebrated young artists release their debut track, Death Drive. The single is a co-release from The Vinyl Factory, the foremost British label collaborating with artists and musicians, and HYMN, artist Eddie Peake's record label, founded with VF.
Death Drive is a peak-time electronic club track that features Eddie Peake, Prem Sahib and George Henry Longly (Anal House Meltdown) on both production and vocals, and co-produced by long time collaborator Tim Goalen; inspired by and invoking the heady dance floors of their Anal House Meltdown parties, the pounding excitement of long nights at Berghain, the legendary Berlin club, and intense but fleeting romantic trysts facilitated by clubs and parties. Resident Berghain DJ and producer Fiedel has created a remix that will also feature on the release.
The accompanying cover artwork by the trio features a group of the artists' lovers and friends, and the video, produced by AHMD, has been created from footage shot on the dancefloor of their parties.
Peake, Sahib and Longly are three of the most exciting artists working in the UK today, and this project will coincide with Frieze 2015, during which they will launch the release with a party at Corsica Studios as part of a collaborative club night with Chapter 10. October 8th also sees Peake reveal his new commission for The Curve in the Barbican, and Sahib will open a solo show at the ICA on 23 September.
AHMD say: 'We wanted to create a track that both embodies the spirit of our club night, Anal House Meltdown, and that we would love to play at it. We wanted it to have an epic and odyssey like feeling. As such we knew we wanted it to be over ten minutes long and to have several different phases, but to be unified by a constantly charged sense of sexual and romantic longing."
Editor's Notes:
Death Drive by Anal House Meltdown will be released on 12' vinyl and digital download by The Vinyl Factory / HYMN on 16 October 2015.
The launch party for Death Drive is on Saturday 17 October at Corsica Studios as part of Chapter 10 and also features DJ sets from Peake, Sahib, Longly and remixer Fiedel.
About The Vinyl Factory:
Established in 2001, The Vinyl Factory Group encompasses a record label, vinyl pressing plant, the record shop Phonica and music magazine FACT, in addition to all of its visual arts activities. These include new arts commissions, exhibitions and collaborations between musicians and contemporary artists.
The Vinyl Factory record label releases limited editions made in collaboration with musicians and artists, accompanied by events and performances. Releases to date include: The xx, Christian Marclay, Massive Attack, Eddie Peake, These New Puritans, Roisin Murphy, Dinos Chapman, Florence + the Machine, Maurizio Cattalan, Pet Shop Boys, Martin Creed, Bryan Ferry and Gesaffelstein.
The Vinyl Factory Space at Brewer Street Car Park is a dynamic cultural hub featuring arts commissions and audio-visual collaborations. This year site-specific exhibitions at the space have included Ryoji Ikeda's supersymmetry and Carsten Nicolai's unicolor. This November it will host Ragnar Kyartansson's The Visitors.
The Vinyl Factory also works in partnerships with leading art organisations. Key projects include Jeremy Deller English Magic for The British Council's British Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale of Art, The Fun Palace at the Serpentine Gallery's Summer Party, Christian Marclay's major 2015 show at White Cube Bermondsey and, in collaboration with the Barbican, American multi-media artist Doug Aitken's Station to Station project.
