First release of 2010 is ready to go!

We got a bunch of friends together to have a go at remixing the Erik XVI release from last year, and got some great results in spanning a variety of styles – Hot City’s turned in a bumping booty remix, Ali Renault’s late-night slo-mo disco house refit, Gravious’ evil dubstep reinterpretation, Spatial’s future garage , Brassica’s complete reworking, and Bill Ambrose’s tight electro edit – buy the digital here

12″ version should also be in yer local record stores, featuring the original of Unions Sista Dagar, plus Hot City, Brassica and Ali Renault remixes – check it out direct at Rub-a-dub

lots more coming up over the year!

And here we are! Our last release of the year, and yup, we’ve been keeping some of the best for last!

Ed/10-20’s second in the series of Landforms EPs, ‘Lake’, contains another four beautiful tracks of geologically inspired sound manipulations created shortly after the release of his debut album.

The four tracks contained herein follow a somewhat water-influenced fluid metaphor, full of smoothly rippling flexed rhythms, cascading melodies and whispering ghostly half-nuanced sounds within the overall sound structures.

The series will come to its conclusion in 2010 with the upcoming release of ‘Mountain’ and ‘Isthmus’, and you can rest assured Ed has been working on some more amazingness for the upcoming year!

‘Lake is the follow-up release to 10-20’s Island EP, packaging together another four thrilling productions that fuse together off-kilter hip hop with the eccentric, experimental beats of the IDM era. The result is like a collision between the cutting edge beats of Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, et al with the more adventurous programming techniques of Arovane or Autechre. The two middle tracks probably stand out the most, with ‘Endzone’ in particular striking that perfect poise between scorchingly good production and stuttering club banger.’ Boomkat

Whoa – Highpoint Lowlife’s first straight up hip hop album, and I’m well chuffed with it! Big beats and samples for that holiday party vibe, and we’re giving it away for free as it’s coming into the december holiday season, so please do pass on the download
link and info tooooooo!

heres the download link:
http://highpointlowlife.com/promo/hpll045_depakote.mp3.zip

Artist: Depakote
Title: It’s Not ‘94 Anymore

Southern california native and Low End Theory regular, DEPAKOTE, drops
his first album for London based Highpoint Lowlife records, ‘It Ain’t
94 Anymore’, a low down and bass-heavy head-nodding collection of
immaculate samples and boom bap beats, taking inspiration from the
high water mark in hip hop history.

The 14 tracks chop and dice samples from classic soul and funk, riding
atop some amazingly dirty beat constructions and rude synths, to
create a mixtape that flows effortlessly, fusing classic elements with
modern production techniques and a fresh attitude.

Depakote, real name Erik Lopez, has been at his craft for several
years, working solo, and also regularly joking around with his other
beat-making buddies, Kid Headphones and Rugged Man Pat, with comedy hip hop projects like The Welfare Recipients (“We’re called the Welfare Recipients cuz our rhymes and beats are broke and we suck.”)

With the holiday season upon us, we’ve decided to give the album away
for free during the month of Decemeber, so please feel free to pass on
the download link!

cheers!
thorsten

hey!

new five track EP from Calika now live on the site – available as 320s or FLAC.

First review just through from Boomkat too:

“”Last heard via that other great avenue for new electronica, Audiobulb, Brighton’s Calika returns on Highpoint Lowlife with five classy productions: ‘Slack Jaw’ chops craftily through splashy breakbeats and dark, chopped chord sequences – inevitably raising some of those old Four Tet comparisons, but rather than relying on sample dissection the tracks here are defined by intricate editing and tricky programming. ‘Crome Yellow’ is especially fluent and incisive, cutting up those drums in fine style while strange detuned melodies warp and bend around them. The EP closes strongly too, with the beautifully wrung out strings and dub-tinged guitar phrasings of ‘To Hold You’. Recommended.”

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I’ll be opening the proceedings for a belter of a party this saturday, celebrating one year of the exceptionally good Infrasonics label, with Untold, Spatial, Ike Release, and Wifey Djs…

Check it..

Facebook event page here