Cathode is Steve Jefferis, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
“Special Measures”, Cathode’s debut album, was released by Expanding Records in 2004 following early releases on Static Caravan and 555 Records. The album was acclaimed for its winning combination of precision-glitch
electronics and a warm melodic sensibility, gaining the judgement of “first class” from John Peel and neatly summed up by Metro as “a moody, melodic soundscape of carefully controlled clicks, beats and bleeps, producing a crescendo of beautifully blended electronic rhythms ... a sound as emotive as it is creative”.
Second album “Sparkle Plenty” finds Cathode coupling the precision and warmth of the debut with a richer sonic palette – for
instance, the skittering improv percussion of “Dream Feeder”, the strings, flutes and piano of “Without Memory Or Desire”, or the battered acoustic guitar and ticking clocks of “Nightly Builds”. Centrepiece of the album is “Structure
Hunger”, a juddering serialist-krautrock wonder, which has its origins in a collaborative project with film-maker Adam Finlay at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema to provide new soundtracks to a batch of vintage colour-saturated summertime
movies.
Steve's other band is Warm Digits, a krautrock/guitar-noise/electronics/free-improvisation collaboration with the Matinee Orchestra’s Andrew Hodson.
Members of Five Style, Heroic Doses, The Sea And The Cake and Euphone play an explosive and energetic blast of techicolour, Drum, Bass, and Guitar wig out Rock with nods to 60s and 70s New Orleans and early 90s post punk. Features ex Sub Pop guitar ace Billy Dolan and Euphone Drum God Ryan Rapsys. Not to be missed!
Ruffled feathers, heavy riffage and even the occasional blast of trumpet from masked members of This Aint Vegas, Razmataz Lorry Excitement and The Week That Was.
Hoy! Here is a chance to get an exclusive peak at my remix of Fujiya & Miyagi's 'Dishwasher' which is the b-side to their next single released in April.
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