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Bovaflux

http://www.bovaflux.co.uk

Software programmer Eddie Symons works all day coding elaborate and complex realties for video games, lost in his own headphone world, to a soundtrack of indie-rock and broken electronica. Going home in the evening, he finds solace in creating a different kind of submersive environment ...

Releases

[hpll013] - Where There Was Nothing
[hpw005] - Sleepytime

Dalglish

http://www.amhain.net/

Berlin based Chris Douglas, aka O.S.T. aka Rook Vallard is your artists artist - a no holds barred non-compromising and confrontational take on electronic music. Abrasive, dense musique concrete set adrift atop a sea of mechanical polyrythmic digital textures.

Releases

[hpll002] - OtJohr

DoF

http://www.iamdof.com/

Brian Hulick meshs together his varied tastes in music, combining crunchy awkward electronics with the soothing acoustic sounds of guitar and piano. DoF creates his own unique sound and environment within which to work ..

Releases

[hpll003] - If More Than Twenty People Laugh, It Wasn't Funny
[hpw001] - Words For A Musical

Erstlaub

http://www.erstlaub.co.uk/

brooding dark drones and dense atmospheric digitalis!

Releases

[hpll025] - On Becoming An Island
[hpw025] - Dark Archipelagos
[hpw029] - Trying To Reach You

Fisk Industries

http://www.fisk-industries.co.uk

Fisk Industries is Londoner Mat Ranson. He concocts a heady blend of warp-driven basslines, chunky breaks and contrasts it all with field recordings and analogue synths.

Releases

[hpll005] - The Isle Of Wight EP
[hpll017] - 77 And Rising
[hpw002] - Time Is But A Memory
[hpw011] - Todo Por La Patria
[hpw015] - Live @ Versus Electronics 2005
[hpw031] - Magnetic Fisk Remixes

Fuck-off Machete

http://fuck-offmachete.co.uk/

Fuck-off Machete were a Glasgow based three piece noise-pop band comprising of Paul Mellon (guitar), Callan Dickson (drums) and Natasha Noramly (vocals and bass); An exhilirating experience, live or recorded, a raw power house of bubble-gum riffage, subatomic bass and breathy vocals!

Releases

[hpll016] - If Gold Was Silver, and Silver Was Gold

Funckarma

http://www.funckarma.com

Made up of the two Dutch brothers, Don and Roel Funcken, Funckarmas’ first EP appeared in 1999 on the Djak-Up Bitch (DUB) label. Since then they have unleashed a fury of releases on labels from Neo Ouija, n5MD, U-Cover, to Hymen, not including their work under other guises such as Cane, Quench, and their hip hop project with a trio of US MC’s under the name Shadow Huntaz on Skam records.

Releases

[hpll027] - Dubstoned EP1

Izu

Izu weds shiny melodics with filthy beats to create ill-informed, shortly-lived yet crunchily passionate marriages of noise.

Releases

[hpll018] - Going Salamander
[hpw019] - Polish Trouble

Like A Stuntman

http://www.like-a-stuntman.de

Frankfurt based Like A Stuntman are forging an original path through the world of experimental indie-pop - combining computer processing with traditional band structures, the band are poised somewhere beyond Pavement, Urusei Yatsura, and The Postal Service.

Releases

[hpll011] - Reduce
[hpll012] - Fresh Air Is Not The Worst Thing In Town
[hpll020] - Stan Places
[hpw017] - Like A Remix

Mandelbrot

http://mandelbrotset.co.uk/

Solo project of Keung of Mandelbrot Set, focussing on the more experimental side of guitar processing.

Releases

Mandelbrot Set

http://mandelbrotset.co.uk/

Mandelbrot Set are a Loud band. They like their drones and their converse-gazing, they like to use sample pedals and to change instruments during sets, but mainly they like to be Loud, and they like to do it differently.

Releases

[hpll021] - All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated

Marshall Watson

http://www.marshallwatson.net/

The sound of machines in love; Overflowing with beautiful melodies and bass heavy distorted drums, Marshall Watsons delicate constructions of complementary and contrasting layers of sound conjure images of summer romance, mischief and adventure.

Releases

[hpll009] - The Time Was Later Than He Expected
[hpll019] - Math And Other Word Problems
[hpw003] - I Could Tell You Everything
[hpw006] - Live In Seattle
[hpw010] - 100 Smooth Trombones
[hpw018] - Live at The Old Blue Last, London, 7th March 2006

n.Ln

http://www.nlnmusic.com/

San Francisco based Nyles Lannon like to keep himself busy with many musical projects; from his role as guita rist and keyboard player for indie-rockers Film School, his solo acoustic project n.Lannon, and his electroni c personality - n.Ln. In this guise, Nyles uses electronics and computer manipulations to create gorgeous evocative melodies and atmospherics combined with constantly evolving crunched and experimental beats

Releases

[hpll004] - Astronomy For Children

Pausal

http://pausal.net/

Two friends producing immersive beautiful ambient droneworks with warped film projections.

Releases

[hpw024] - Pausal

randomNumber

http://www.discontents.co.uk/

Leed's longstanding hyperactive beat mechanic, binding alchemical sound manipulations with a keen sense of melody

Releases

[hpll015] - Golden Acre Sleeps
[hpw016] - The Soul Goes A' Duller

Rashamon

http://www.passive-aggressive.co.uk/

Lee Humes, of Brighton's Spirit Of Gravity collective, has been working hard, playing shows, releasing cdr projects and amassing a healthy following, with his hip hop inspired, indie rock leaning, electronic explosive beats and bass.

Releases

[hpll008] - Windo Loca
[hpw008] - Mates To Some Pilgrim Remixes

Recon

London based Chris Coode has released a substantial body of work under the name of Motion, from a split EP with Matmos on Fat Cat records, and one self released album which led to him being discovered and signed by Taylor Deupree's 12k label, where he has since released two albums 'Dust' and 'Every Action'. With Chris' Recon project, he retains his subtle and immediate control of the music, his trademark balance of controlled noise and texture, but allows through a whole other dirtier and nasty detail to the sound, akin to a broken techno feel of machines in mid-crisis.

Releases

[hpll007] - White Label
[hpw007] - White Label Deconstruction

Si-cut.db

http://home.earthlink.net/~efrans/benford/

Static infused, and processed dub basslines combine with german minimalist tech sounds and driving rhythms when Si-cut.db is at the controls. Douglas Benford, the man behind the Si-cut.db persona has over the past ten or so years released a vast catalog of solo work and collaborations on labels ranging from Spa.rk, Bip_Hop, BackGround, Expanding, and working with people like Benge, Scanner, and Stephan Mathieu, all while also co-running the London based monthly Sprawl club and label, alongside partner in crime, BitTonic.

Releases

[hpll006] - Find Some Shade

Stray Ghost

http://www.myspace.com/strayghost

Stray Ghost creates a mythic sound hybrid between shoegaze and ambient noise - deeply mesmerizing and deliciously immersive!

Releases

[hpw027] - Stray Ghost

The Marcia Blaine School For Girls

http://marciablaine.cjb.net/

Glasgow's mysterious trio, throwing up smoke screens whenever anyone finds out too much, leaving a wake of rich and varied releases in their trail, from minimal drones through distorted hip-hop and detroit influenced techno.

Releases

[hpll010] - Some Paths Lead Back Again
[hpll024] - Halfway Into The Woods
[hpw013] - Some Paths Lead Back Again (companion EP)
[hpw023] - Halfway Into The Woods (Remix EP)

The Village Orchestra

http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com/

The Village Orchestra is the solo project of Ruaridh Law, best known as one third of Glasgow electronic dunces, the Marcia Blaine School For Girls. Ruaridh describes The Village Orchestra as being 'like an allotment or garden shed', a place where he can relax and escape from the work and volume of his many other projects, which include Accrual (a collaboration with Alasdair Satchel) and Rose And Sandy (with Production Unit from Marcia Blaine, focussing more on the cross-section of sound and visuals).

Releases

[hpll014] - Et In Arcadia Ego
[hpw004] - Et In Arcadia Ego (preview)

The Zephyr Skate Team

http://www.thezephyrskateteam.co.uk/

The Zephyr Skate Team - A new musical side project from Mat Ranson/Fisk Industries, working in a more abstract and drone related field.

Releases

Tigrics

http://www.tigrics.hu/

Robert Bereznyei is a prolific and highly consistent electronic musician hailing from Budapest, Hungary. Highly regarded as one of the best eastern european producers of experimental music, his music has taken him all over europe, playing at festivals and clubs alongside the likes of Kid606, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Leafcutter John, Ceephax Acid Crew, Frog Pocket, Shitmat and many more.