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.
First up this week, we have an album release party for the new Mandelbrot album entitled ‘Effect / Delay’, an epic of overblown fuzzed out noise and melody! We also conclude the Landforms series of EPs by 10-20, finishing up with ‘Isthmus’, three more tracks of warped out rhythms and ethereal washedout melodies.
Album release will be at Cafe Oto, this thursday, the 29th April. Leafcutter John will be headlining, and Mandelbrot will be playing out a mixture of album material and more recent work too. More info on Oto’s site and you can get tix here
Mandelbrot is the sometime solo project by Keung Mandelbrot. After the release of 2006′s ‘All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated’, the original lineup of the band slowly dissolved as each pulled in their own direction. Amidst the changes, Keung found himself focussing more on exploring further the array of 9v devices his guitar was being channelled through, and the tracks on this album slowly came about during that summer. Each of the four movements recorded were captured in one take – 10 fingers, 6 strings, 18 pedals, and no overdubs, creating a massive pulsing noise that resonates between harmony and dischord, combining influences from David Pajo’s seminal ‘Papa M’ project, to the density of Sunn O))’s bowelshaking sound, yet processed and shaped into the syntax and language or something altogether more electronic sounding.
Album will be released digitally, plus in a limited physical run of 100 CDrs, packaged in slimline DVD-r cases.
Ed/10-20′s latest release, ‘Isthmus’ is the fourth and final installment of his Landforms EP series, seeing him take things in a more heavily beat-oriented direction, with lead track ‘Halogen’ funneling lowend pressure through a compressed and twisted buildup, all crackling rhythms and soaring counter melodies. ‘Athens’ takes that machinic crunk one stage further, submerging aquatic ripples amidst a pummeling repetition and difference, and closing with ‘Zizec’ for a woozy sidesteppin’ counter-balance, bringing home the series of EPs.
Boomkat say:
“‘Halogen’ at once recalls classic Aphex material and Arovane;s Tides album, while ‘Athens’ opts for faster paced, more elaborate and erratic programming, throwing a little bit of classic IDM-era grit into the production. Finally, ‘Zizec’ slows to a hip-hop tempo and swirls around like a lost early Boards Of Canada track. Excellent stuff.”
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Also still available, last month’s release by Rare Villains, we still have some physical copies of the CD left. I think the best review so far was “kindof an assault on precinct thirteen mixed with wu-tang clan thang. i’m digging the hardnosed but wheezy woozy rza style production, like having a headfulla dramamine and cigarsmoke. or weed. s’all jittering jeep beats, snare and high-hat and wonky korg melodies played out with trashy nighttime vibe and hazy post-something easing-off winding-down euphoria.” top!
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Should be an awesome party next week at Cafe Oto – release show for Mandelbrot’s new album, ‘Effect/Delay’ and he’s invited along some friends to play at the show too..
Album will be available in physical format, with giveaways of older Highpoint Lowlife and Mandelbrot releases. see you there!
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Rare Villains, the dutch duo of Joey Joe and James the Red Engine, create a blunted blend of late night instrumental jeep beats, informed as much by pulp comic books, cheeba and trash tv, as by the classic sounds of east coast hip hop.
With a chunky low-end undercarriage, the ten tracks on the album warp and bend synth melodies, weaving rhythms between start-stop boombap beats and vertigo-inducing drops, culminating in a 30 minute beat tape through the seedy backstreets of the european criminal underworld!
Alongside the normal digital distribution, the album is also available in a limited-run CDR physical package, hand stamped and numbered, bundled in clear 5″ DVD style cases, with artwork drawn by the villainous duo themselves.
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