Amongst The Pigeons
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Genre: Electro / Electronica / Live Electronics
Location Brighton, South, Un
Profile Views: 52630
Last Login: 10/11/2011
Member Since 5/31/2005
Website www.amongstthepigeons.info
Record Label Marowak Records Ltd
Type of Label Indie
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PLEASE NOTE - I DO NOT USE OR CHECK MYSPACE ANYMORE - IF YOU WANT TO GET IN TOUCH GO TO MY WEBSITE AND EMAIL ME .... OR USE FACEBOOK/TWITTER. AMONGST THE PIGEONS.. ....BIOG ... .... CAT got your ear? Based in Brighton, Amongst the Pigeons is a place inhabited by soaring loops and the beating of electronic wings. Discovered in early 2005 via the talk-speak places where internet people huddle, ATP grew forth. Radio One’s Rob Da Bank was quick to champion tracks from seminal EP release, ‘wings wings: beat’, which also slunk their way onto XFM. Contrary to the posters that appeared on Brighton streets following this release, CAT was not lost - just hiding, honing, purrfecting...... European DJ slots and remixes for upwardly mobile Brighton musical outfits - Miss Pain, Largo, The Collector, Wobbly Squadron, provided whisker fuelled entertainment, all the while extensive beat-mongering was taking place in aid of ATP’s first full length LP. ‘Music to brush your teeth to’ was released in Aug 2009 and featured 16 tracks of blips, beats, samples and some rather special guests, such as Frank Turner & Beans on Toast. MTBYTT samplers were played out to satisfaction on XFM, 6 Music and BBC Radio One. Positive reviews followed and new fans were made. Not one to lay low ATP kicked out remixes for artists such as Polly Scattergood and began work on new tracks. These tracks became the July 2010 release ‘Repeat to fade EP’. The next step in the world of ATP is taking these tracks, arranging them into a live show and playing as many gigs, festivals and shows as possible. The first of these ATP:LIVE shows is scheduled for Autumn 2010 in Cat’s home town of Brighton. 2011 will see ATP:LIVE touring across UK, a new release, more remixes, more DJ Sets and generally more of Amongst The Pigeons everywhere! Flutter, flutter, miaow, miaow.. (Updated June 2010) ....Remixes, Live Sets & DJ Bookings:...... ATP is available for DJ sets, live shows and remixes. Example remixes are in the ATPRMX account in top friends. To contact ATP please email : amongst_the_pigeons AT hotmail DOT co DOT uk ....Reviews, Press Quotes:...... ..REPEAT TO FADE EP (2010).. .... ** Sound Advise (Isaac Ashe) **.. BRIGHTON beatmaker Amongst The Pigeon's Repeat To Fade EP is worth playing over again. .. A more sturdy, flowing collection than his eclectic LP Music To Brush Your Teeth To, the six-track release starts slow with ambient Mocha To Go and then progresses nicely throughout. .. A little of the comical quirkiness of previous Amongst The Pigeons has been lost, and any song about a waltz such as Michael Jackson's Last Waltz should surely be three beats-per-minute, harrumph. .. But nevertheless with tracks like the moody The Darker Side Of... and skankin' The Kids Of Today this excellent collection should be racing into your collection. .... ** Tasty Fanzine (James Borland) **.. Right from the off Amongst The Pigeons’ use off ‘found sounds’ is evident: Opening song ‘Mocha To Go’ uses audio recorded at Belfast Airport to create the backdrop for this dark and intense start to the EP. .. It’s the perfect opening for what is to come, almost an “are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…” type of track. It settles you in your seat ready for the fifteen minutes of lo-fi electronica that follows. That’s not to say that the EP lacks energy, it is in fact very powerful and energetic at times. However it doesn’t make you want to dance around the room - it’s the sort of thing you could stick on after a night out and relax to. .... The influences in the music are very obvious, weird break beats like Aphex Twin, deep house moments like Orbital and spoken word and synth pads like Art of Noise. But it doesn’t sound like any of those artists, it sounds very unique. .. Maybe it’s down to its simplicity, or maybe it’s because Amongst The Pigeons is like a culmination of all of those influences rather than just one or the other. Either way, ‘Repeat to fade’ is a brilliantly interesting EP. 9/10 .... ** Brighton Source (NC) **.. Post-party mash-up music is the snappy soundbite accompanying this strange release, although anyone hoping to come down gently to its tonal niceties is likely to spiral back into a giddy hallucinogenic whirl. .. Eerie spoken vocals vie with dark electronic beats and everyday soundscapes, from Belfast airport to a gaggle of pissed-up teens, creating an uneasy yet wholly compelling package from the deepest recesses of the artistic psyche. ‘Michael Jackson’s Last Waltz’, in particular, sums up what one would imagine a remotely administered overdose might indeed feel like – pretty damn bloody spooky we’d imagine. .... **Tuna The Day (Ade) **.. Love it! .... Like a dark Mr Scruff. ...... ..MUSIC TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH TO (2009).. .... "Short, Sweet & a Tad JAZZY" ....Rob Da Bank - Radio One.. .... "Amongst The Pigeons has made a rather lovely album, maintaining a distinctly unlo-fi feel to his dreamy electro-house. It really is the sound of a radiant summer." ....Dannii Leivers - The Fly.. .... "A Bizarre collection of electronica propped up with sampled poetry, ticket collectors and random you tube." ....NC - Brighton Source.. .... "From wonderfully warm house to spasmodic IDM via trippy stories and scathing satire, there appears to be nothing he's incapable of." ....David Jenkins - iDJ Magazine.. .... "BRIGHTON-based dance DJ Amongst The Pigeons has scrubbed up well on his first offering. On first listen you wonder where the LP is going, meandering about in a world of blips and subdued beats. But then the individual tracks get you - like the fantastic lofi Frank Turner collaboration Larkin or smile-raising weirdness such as Bird Flew - and you realise that Music To Brush Your Teeth To is like one long quirky interlude from start to finish.." ....Isaac Ashe - Sound Advice.. .... "Amongst The Pigeons new record is an interesting mash of beats and loops. The quirky, playful scrapbook-like nature of each track; following one path before breaking up into something else, can bring to mind the exaggerated experimentation of The Orb, or KLF, fading from tune to broken beat to distorted noise and back.."Music To Brush Your Teeth To" is an intelligent record, calling on many different influences and recorded out of the studio which probably adds to the quirky aspect and the fuzzy production, making it feel quite real and solid for an album of electronica. It is full of interesting ideas and worth your time though." ....Emma Gould - Room Thirteen.. .... "The album is based upon a cloudiness of soaring loops, glitches, voice samples and electro beats, having samples that would have any sci-fi junkie cock-in-hand. It is perfect post-party mash-up music." ....Shout4Music .. .... "An interesting array of noises, shapes and soundscapes that take you from one corner of the speaker to another! Brilliant." ....Katy Jay - WCRfm (101.8fm).. .... "Indie electronica meets classic detroit techno - quality result!" ....Rich from solitonresearch.coml.. .... "Pure dark ambient beat's that will make the hair's on the back of your neck stand and take notice. Definitely a future classic. 2009 will be ATP's year" ....Darran Mackin from the midweek mixtape show.. .... "The results of investigating this four track demo are positive.....there's something engaging about these ever so slightly blissful tracks that make Amongst The Pigeons well worth keeping an eye on" ....RockMidgets.com - Demo Review.. -
Members
Charlie Anthony Thompson aka CAT -
Influences
Orbital, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers, Mr Scruff, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares on Wax, Jimmy Edgar, Aphex Twin, David Holmes, Squarepusher, The Streets, and so on -
Sounds Like
blips, beats, samples, vocals ...
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