Xylitol

Bio:

"Xylitol is a one-man sound laboratory from London. On his recent mini-album ‘Functionary’ he welds post-punk/NDW electronic sensibilities with echoes of public-service soundtracks and Brutalist dancefloors." (Frances Morgan, Plan B Magazine)

xylitol spent the late 80s / early 90s failing to make techno with the aid of an amiga, a casiotone and a tascam 4 track. the resulting inadvertantly abrasive tape-noise / electro found its way onto a few cassette compilations under a variety of colourful pseudonyms

xylitol djed at the monthly london club 'kosmische' throughout the late 90s and 00s.

xylitol was an early member of the pop group they came from the stars i saw them.

xylitol music has been described as "like a tighter, more disciplined DER PLAN, if they'd come from Sheffield and been asked to score the theme tunes to scientific programmes", (bti.rip) and as "the product of an immaculate record collection" (the wire), which may be the nicest things anyone's ever said about me.

partial disk ography:

February 2011: xylitol music played by other people 2x3"cd (xylitol works remixed by Belbury Poly, Pete UM, Woebot, Nocturnal Emissions, AJ Holmes, Ommm, Nochexxx and others)

May 2008: xylitol - Hardcore Butskellism + Selsdon Man (2 x 45rpm recycled-CD-records cut by Aleks Kolkowski - ltd edition of 2)

2007: xylitol - Error Bursts In Transmission 3"cd

2006: xylitol - functionary 3"cd

1991/2 (?): amoeba frank - infinite space (c15 computer cassette)

+ various compilation tracks, remixes, etc. look on discogs...

Xylitol has shared stages with Pram, Sculpture, The Man From Uranus, Silver Apples, Chevron, Cutting Pink With Knives, Romvelope, Ommm, Le Couteau Jaune, Pete UM, Germlin, The Oscillation, Litmus, Gay Against You, Si {Cut} DB, Robert Hampson, Please, Bass Clef, The Bohman Brothers, Knives Ov Resistance, Methodist Centre, Striplight and several others.

Xylitol contributed about 30 seconds of music to the soundtrack of the feature film 'Katalin Varga' directed by Peter Strickland, also featuring the sinisterly hypnotic music of Steven Stapleton and Geoff Cox.

Xylitol, interviewed Smash Hits style here, by Monsieur Woebot:

xylitol / woebot.tv interview:

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Member Since:

February 02, 2006

Members:

xylitol also djs under the unlikely pseudonym of jim backhaus and co-presents and produces the you are hear show, which was on resonance fm once upon a time (2001 - 2006) and is now broadcasting on www.totallyradio.com..) and podcasting (www.youarehear.co.uk..)

XYLITOL received this charitable review in THE WIRE, November 2007:

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Influences:

today i am very influenced by: WOJCIECH BRUSZEWSKI, HACKER FARM, XX CENTURY ZORRO, THF DRENCHING AND SONIC PLEASURE, NUNO CANAVARRO, N K V D , CLUSTER, HOWL IN THE TYPEWRITER, DER PLAN, DAF, ACADEMY 23, VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN, OMMM, MONOTON, FHEDOLTS, CCCP FEDELI ALLA LINEA, BOBBY ORLANDO, BOB COBBING, FELIX KUBIN, DJ BROKEN YOLK, VIDEOSEX.

Sounds Like:

A faded sitcom star wandering through the darkness of a deserted pier, haunted by the ghosts of his dead colleagues.

Record Label:

pierogiidisc