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Micoland's debut solo album My Cold Land is now available from the dirtyload record shop at www.gonzo.me.uk.

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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 atmospheric bass music of various kinds. Heavy Dubstep, Digital Dub, Techno & Bashment Riddims.

He has been part of the GONZO krew for many years [GONZO WEBSITE], a Leeds collective that is as famous for its free parties and warehouse raves as it is for its collaborations with infamous electronica night Room 237 and pirate radio shows. Micoland is signed to Dirtyload records (the label arm of Gonzo), and released an album with Gonzo godfather GWYLO, called 'Reinfections', in 2006. The LP comprises of 10 mutual remixes and is the perfect fusion of Micoland's early dub and grime workouts with Gwylo's hardcore approach to speaker destruction! You can buy this record from the Gonzo site [see above].

See discography on the left for info on other Micoland releases, including his debut solo LP My Cold Land also out on Dirtyload, and several releases on Dead-Channel, a free netlabel also affiliated with the Gonzo family.

Check out my numerous free releases and if you're feelin it, please buy the albums and help keep micoland out of poverty! Cheers x

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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"

Bram Gieben - Skinny Mag - 12/08/07

www.skinnymag.co.uk

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"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."

Jay Lawrence - NoTitle Magazine

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