Following some great feedback and reviews for the full length, Roof Light’s followup EP gets a widespread digital release this coming monday, 12th July – the 12″ is due really soon too, possibly next week also, but that’ll be down to when the pressing is finished and sent to stores.
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“Munday infuses his contemporary urban sound with hefty doses of classic Detroit techno and Chicago house and places these four tracks resolutely on the dance floor. The tone of this EP is much more radical than that of the album. This is obvious right from the title track, which opens, with its heavy rhythmic section and its overtly rave-like siren sequence, but somehow, Munday manages to retain a strong feeling of minimalism throughout which places this track firmly in the here and now. Later on, Prayin’ To T.E. is a much funkier dance floor filler as Munday borrows elements from house music and disco and shape them into a somewhat rather catchy piece of funky tech. The remaining two pieces are much more measured and subtle, but while Face Up (To Your Sensibilities) draws largely from house and techno, Cakes, Biscuits And How’s Yer Father is a much moodier composition which has quite a lot in common with some of the most atmospheric moments of the album.” The Milkfactory
Boomkat have a review up on their site already, and very nice it is too:
“In the space of three releases for Styrax, MoM and L2S Roof Light has marked himself out as a producer to keep a close eye on. For Highpoint Lowlife he drops debut album ‘Kirkwood Gaps’, a hugely varied advance on the shades of dubstep and garage we’ve heard previously. From BoC-esque pastoral hip-hop ‘Kite Tails And Redwings’ the album moves in a gradual upwards curve with the Blue Daisy-esque swing compressions of ‘Daytrips and Starlight’, the Spacek-style brukken beats of ‘Outline To Cross’ into the Burial-trippin’ ‘Taro’ and beyond. A sumptuous listen, Recommended!”
The 12″ follows shortly after, already seeing heavy rotation from the likes of MJ Cole and Hot City, a four track EP of dancefloor killers which covers the spectrum of current UK club memes, from the 2step rhythms of title track “What Makes You So Special”, the slo-mo house of “Face Up To Your Sensibilities”, through to the Todd Edwards influenced of “Prayin’ To T.E.”, and the moodier down-tempo sound of the closing “Cakes, Biscuits, and How’s Yer Father”.
The album drops next week, and 12″ is currently being pressed, due for release at the end of June.
Then… bit of a big announcement actually!
The 12″ will mark our last vinyl release, as I begin a gradual wind down of the label over the summer. Yup, closing the label up for good! Following the two Roof Light releases we have three artist albums due from Depakote, Erstalub and The Village Orchestra, then our last release will be an epic DVD-r compilation in the vein of Analog For Architecture featuring pretty much everyone who was ever released on or worked with the label.
Never fear though, this certainly won’t mark any break in output from the artists. (see here for instance!) I however, will be moving on to focus on writing and drawing a graphic novel entitled “74″, set in a near-future post-industrial northern UK city. The book takes a similar form to The Wire television show where the main character is that of the city itself, and where the chapters/seasons focus on the differing individuals and communities who make up the life and colour of the city, communities such as skateboarders who find much freedom in the abandoned concrete and industrial sttures of a once thriving city centre; A burgeoning club and music scene build around the abundance of unused venues and warehouses and lack of police intervention; anarchists and anti-capitalists looking to build a viable and alternative life to that of the mainstream; and of course, the criminal underground and those seeking to evade censorship and the law!
Rare Villains have just released a free remix EP of the track ‘Bonkar’ which was on their full length, featuring remixes from 10-20, Depakote, Craz-E and Sike – all of them are excellent reinterpretations turning the original on it’s head or adding an excellent dubstep bump of their own in the case of the Sike and Craz-e mixes – so good!
Now live! Production Unit’s ‘Ghost Tracks’ finds him exploring some serious depth charge laden bass, adroitly flexed around a tightly wound rhythmic structure. Elements of dancehall, dubstep, and shards of rave are combined with a stylist restraint crafting a five track floor-shaking listen.
‘Ghost Tracks’ illustrates the sonic textures and low-end boom that Production Unit brought to the now-defunct Marcia Blaine School For Girls, which alongside The Village Orchestra’s more techno and ambient stylings, created the unique sound that was MBSFG.
Here’s a teaser promo for the upcoming Village Orchestra album, entitled ‘Amid The Blaze Of Noon’, which will be released as a CD, and also a limited DVD with visuals by Bryan/Beaker
The album will take the form of long continuous piece spanning a psychogeographic vision of London, with a particular focus in and around the Dalston area, yet will be composed of different passages, some more beat oriented, others more abstract, blurring the boundaries between process and action, digital manipulation and field recording, melody and noise.
Ruaridh/TVO will be performing in Manchester this saturday, utilizing some of the software and processes from the album, as part of the Hive Collective’s ‘Memories Are Brighter Than Our Digital Debris’ showcase, part of the wider FutureEverything festival currently taking over the city. Full details here: http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/playeverything
Release date for the album will be somewhere around Aug/Sept.
