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Micoland-Mick's Mix MMIX by micoland

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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 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"

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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