Sometime collaborators:
Holly Bretton
Gwylo
NaffDogg (as Wobble and Dubb)
Influences
Atmospheric 90s electronica/idm like Skam & Warp, Autechre, Boards, good Dubstep like Vex'd, Kode9, Reso, Ital Tek, Burial, Starkey, Grime + Funky and derivatives, mad shit like Milanese, Snares etc. Digital Dub & Dancehall, Jammy's, Techno from Detroit to Brum, inventive Hip Hop and wonky style beats, the ghosts of Illbient and UKG. Anything that's keeping electric beats fresh and experimental. Bass. Urbex. Space. Time. Echoes.....
Sounds Like
More than the sum of its parts...
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Micoland tools:
(Cheers to all who've lent me shit ;))
Software: Ableton Live 8, Reason 4, Adobe Audition 3, NI Massive, Pluggo, Albino 2, Warldorf PPG Wave, QuadraSID, Izotope Ozone.
Hardware: 2 Laptops MIDI Sync'd, Akai APC-40, Old Carillon Audio PC, Roland Juno 6, Korg Kaos Pad 3, Korg Poly-800 (bent by Headcleaner), Korg MicroKorg, Korg Electribe ER-1, Circuit Bent Yamaha PSS 740, Casio CZ-101, Casio RZ-1, Akai MPD-16/24, Behringher Tube Composer, Casio VL-1, Stylophone, Roland PC-300, Uher 4200, Danelectro Reel Echo, Soundcraft Desk & Monitors.
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DISCOGRAPHY
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CD & MP3 RELEASES
Micoland Hidden Records 01-06 (Retrospective) July'09 Dead Channel Records
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Micoland All Loop Traffic July'08 Dead Channel Records
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Micoland My Cold Land LP May'08 Dirtyload Records
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COLLABORATIONS
Wobble N DubbThe Otherside EPJuly'09 Dead Channel Records
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Micoland & Holly BrettonTraverseDec'08 Dead Channel Records
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Gwylo & Micoland Hale BoppOct'08 Dead Channel Records
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Wobble N Dubb Knock Down Ginger Sept'08 Dead Channel Records
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Various / Micoland Dawn Raid Remixes EP June'08 Dead Channel Records
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Gwylo & Micoland "Reinfections" LP Nov'06 Dirtyload Records
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TRACKS FEATURE ON...
Various ArtistsDisk.Co.v4Nov'09 FHT Records
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Little NobodyCompulsion RemixesSept'09 IF? Records
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Little NobodyRobota RemixesJuly'09 Dead Channel / IF? Records
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Noisepsalm & AsymptoteSplit EP (Remixes)Mar'09 Dead Channel
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VariousPROSTRANSTVO 001 Jan'09 Experement.org
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Various / 16-bit Electronic Explorations (MIX)Jan'09 Electronic Explorations
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VariousThe Lego ProjectDec'08 Dead Channel
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KubexLS4EP (Remix)Oct'08 Dead Channel
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VariousZ-13.2 CompilationOct'08 IF? Records
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Various / Pangaea Electronic Explorations (MIX)Aug'08 Electronic Explorations
Micoland is not a real place except in the mind of Mico aka Mic Schofield, a record producer, DJ and visual artist from Leeds, UK. This is his space.
Micoland makes strange atmospheric bass music influenced by Dub, IDM, Dubstep, Hip Hop and Dancehall. He is signed to Dead-Channel.com and Dirtyload Records and is a resident at Leeds electronica/rave night Gonzo. He is part of many collaborative projects including Gwylo & Micoland, Wobble N Dubb, Spare Head 3, Magnoxopus and Micoland & Holly Bretton. He has performed alongside artists such as Milanese, Luke Vibert, King Cannibal and Ebola.
Many of his releases are free from www.dead-channel.com so check em out ;)
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Opening with the awesome bass pressure of the minimalist masterpiece ‘Deadstep’ and ending with the sublime underwater claustrophobia of ‘Unnamed Methane Sea’ this release is set to cement Micoland’s reputation as one of the people responsible for truly moving the dubstep blueprint into exiting new aural landscapes.
DEAD CHANNEL on Micoland's All Loop Traffic
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This original Gonzo resident is a pro of all things atmospheric and has recently taken his token dub styles and applied them to his unique style of offbeat techno and dancehall riddims.
GONZO on Micoland
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Press:
"...an excellent craftsman of a dub-come-glitch style of dance music. His work flits between raw and grimy, and atmospheric and clinical, always bringing to mind any number of artists from the Warp and Planet Mu rosters. Let’s just say that, if Autechre had dub leanings, this is what would happen."
Six of the best for the year to come
Michael Waters (Leeds Student Magazine) 05/10/08
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"At moments I'm reminded of Jeff Mills in his more chilled outings, perhaps messing around with Luke Vibert... Mostly, though, I'm just impressed by how original, moving and cool the whole caboodle turns out to be."
Andrez Bergen on "All Loop Traffic" (Impact, Vice)
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"Schofield expertly crafts interesting timbres and spits them from a marvelously clean mix the way a lovechild of Squarepusher and Scientist might.... tilting basslines, relentlessly intelligent beats."
NoTitle magazine on "My Cold Land" Nov'2008 Issue 23
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"Veering constantly from the Detroit-feeling simplicity of early Warp and Rephlex recordings to the sparse but epically heavy dubstep territory of Digital Mystikz works surprisingly well – the resultant brew is engaging and has real depth, patterns seeming to bleed into each other, reinfecting and spreading polyrhythms in a strange mirroring of the germ-themed artwork"
"I’ve just listened to Reinfections on my way to Norfolk. I feel i’ve been taken on a tour of a disused power station wearing wet clothes and then been left alone in a rotting waste disposal unit. It has now got quite foggy, i feel slightly uneasy. Great stuff!!!"
Dave "Sofaboy" Blackemore
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"Loving your music"
Phil Hartnol (Orbital)
30 Mar 2007 10:52
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"Not a chime or thud out of place, but as far from formulaic as you can get."
Disco Dave’s Demo Democracy – November 2006
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"imagine a lone bulb flickering on-and-off in an underground rave-hive bunker, rust water dripping onto chrome floor, paint peeling off the wall; no-one owns the deeds to this house. this is Gwylo & Micoland: ..like a city at night, these slabs of IDM stew with phantom noises from corners and crannies: gurning vinyl, glitchy beats, radio static and factory-pumped sirens."
out now: V.A. - Joachim Spieth presents Selected 4 incl. tracks from Little Fritter, Deepchild, Martin Eyerer, Pawas & Beume, Benn Lian, Deltano, Joachim Spieth, Sean Danke, Oliver Koletzki & Florian Meindl, Greg Delon, Side B, Tom Pooks, Miguel Puente, Danilo Schneider, Dirk SChoenhoefer, Datensi, Landesvatter, The Dolphins.... www.affin.com thanks and all best for 2010!
Happy Holidays! Just giving you heads up on our new release '1 of a Kind' out NOW on beatport. Dubstep & Breaks mixes! (preview on our player) Have a bass heavy 2010! respect Chimera x
As usual Sqot Haus is just frikking Sinister man,. I'd love to talk to you sometime about your mastering process and how you make everything so damn crisp!
Yo man I downloaded the Hidden Records LP and wow I really am loving this stuff. I really like how the album travels into different territories and genre's, it keeps it interesting and it shows the depth of your attention to detail. I will be playing this a lot on my headphones!
I'll be in touch soon mate! I have my first show tomorrow night as Vi11AiN which means its my first show as a solo artist ever. Lots of noise, lots of bass, and lots of dirty beats! The APC40 makes it so easy....
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
We can stay in contact on facebook now... Thanks for your support !
yeah sure thing dude nice one. gimmie a little time to sort some stuff out for ya :D really liked you and the doggs shit to mate shame the crowd werent so keen this time. gonna try and get up there a bit more often cause its much cheaper than i thought. werd