Hugh Spiller - electronics, electric bass, guitars, occasional vocals, miscellaneous other instruments.
Influences
Accelera Deck, Autechre, Aphex Twin, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Boredoms, Colin Potter, Current 93, Derek Bailey, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, John Cage, Hototogisu, Man Or Astroman?, Matmos, Merzbow, Mogwai, Mouse On Mars, μ-Ziq, Neu!, Nurse With Wound, Orb, Pelt, Pole, Shirt Trax, Stars of the Lid, Sunroof!, Tortoise, Tom Waits
Id Lab contains the word 'id', as in subconscious mind, not 'I.D.' for identity. Silev is a spondee, pronounced like the first syllables of the words 'silent levitation'. Silab, therefore, is pronounced like the first syllables of the words 'silent labrador'.
About the Music:
Id Lab is my solo electronica project, involving a lot of found sounds, glitches and software manipulation. It's been going, very slowly, since 1999. MuTech7 is the oldest surviving Id Lab track, from that year, and was lovingly remastered from cassette for the 2005 album The Monster Path. It's named after a MIDI system exclusive command that muted channel 7. Silev is an attempt to to something different, mainly guitar-based, mainly live, and using no editing that couldn't be done with tape and a scalpel. Although the Drone has always been present in Id Lab, it's central to Silev; there's not much recorded, but I can promise you some radical and extremely heavy sounds in the coming months. I've been a member of The Cube Orchestra since it started in December 2004, and we've produced some wonderful sounds on occasion. The untitled piece currently on the music player is a recording (made by Marcus) of one of our rehearsals, and it's entirely improvised. I'm playing electric guitar in this instance. The Orchestra's recordings are released under a Creative Commons licence, so you may distribute, remix and sample them under certain conditions. Sculpture is an offshoot of the Cube Orchestra, a four-strong punk-funk-skronk-jazz improv outfit. I play bass.
Mustard Allegro is a new venture. Conceived as a surf band, it's developed in a more math-rock direction.
MOST RAD NEWS ----------------------------- The awesome GANG GANG DANCE have re- scheduled the Bristol show. This will be one of two only headlining shows in the UK this year. The Bristol show will be the official warm-up for their show at Brixton Academy (supporting ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !) Wednesday 19th of August 2009 Qu Junktions & Glaive Concerts presents: GANG GANG DANCE + The Color of The Sun ~ Fleece ~ 12 St. Thomas Street Bristol BS1 6JJ 0117 945 0996 - 8PM - 12.00
Tickets 10 pounds in advance On sale at Bristol Ticket Shop, Here Shop and See Tickets. ------i-n-f-o-------------------- This gang gang from Brooklyn, have emerged from a very fertile, indigenous music scene in their neighbourhood but have branched out way WAY further with their hook ups and hooks. It is a ghetto world music that declines fey introspection but invites in disparate saturated sounds and bang bang dance dynamics. Their multi-faceted music style was first brought to our attention following a series of releases on forward-thinking label, The Social Registry; and subsequently, they have found a suitable home on Warp Records.
The bands assemblage of wonky techno, outer rock, faux arabesque and other strange, spiralling, sinuous music forms that transcend categorisation. Utterly unique and iconoclastic.
“The eclectism is exhilarating” Uncut
“Excellent… a psychotropid mind meld” – Plan B
“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.” 8/10 – NME
hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
RNDM SLKTR RITES OF SPRING ALL DAY-R SATURDAY 21st of March / The Croft £5
the bands DETHSCALATOR GUM TAKES TOOTH THE COLOR OF THE SUN COWMAN
the DJs Antoni Maiovvi (Seed Records) - Italo Disco Future Space Love Party Machine Christopher - Flooded Treehouse Morpho - hard psych, kraut G - Russian Records Reliant - left electroniks, dark swing
ahh valentines day, how nice. here's a decent idea after dinner. come down to bristol county sports club and experience
dethscalator http://www. myspace. com/dethscalator ++plan b review++ "Despite being fronted by Hokaben's chief organisational driving force, the presence of stoned-squall rockers Dethscalator here is entirely justified on their own merits. With riffs the size of London itself, their only two self-confessed influences - Black Sabbath and Scatch Acid - are undeniable. Considering any band that claims zero musical hat tips are ordinarily balls-out liars, though, you may as well choose the best. Hollering singer Dan Chandler paces on a trajectory only he can visualise, a bear with a shaven, sore head. And in 'Bradford Cockfight' they wield a memorable mid-Atlantic scrap played out halfway between Birmingham and Texas." - Adam Anonymous, Plan B, Issue 40/Dec 2008
THE JELAS Straight outta Yate & Chipping Sodbury, The Jelas play experimental pop songs at breakneck speed for people with short attention spans. A strange and wonderful band.
IRON CREASE Debut show! Dr. Robbie Cooper of Geisha and Mr. Stevie Windows ex of Safetyword employ the ancient art of taking drum beats and adding guitar riffs to create ROCK MUSIC.
THE COLOR OF THE SUN Sample heavy guitar pop from this Bristol via California duo. More effects boxes than you can shake a stick at, and some damn good tunes to boot.
FREEZE PUPPY (acoustic performance) A rare chance to see this incredible songwriter and performer present his songs in an acoustic setting. Absolutely unmissable.
+OLO Radio DJ's & [aZa] RUMBOT on the decks.
FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER, 8PM TILL LATE MOTHER'S RUIN ALL FOR A CREDIT CRUNCH BUSTING £2 ON THE DOOR.
hi there we posted some new songs that we recorded recently at toybox. just thought we would let you know. we played this last saturday and it went pretty much without a hitch. thank fuck. thank you to the people that showed their support. you rule. we're gonna try and create another shit storm of noise and tunes down at the louie on the 2nd. please come down if you can. would be much appreciated. hope you enjoy the new ones. see you round xox a
RNDM SLKTR presents FUCK THE SABBATH Nov 22nd @ Mother's Ruin
w/ DJ Set from SJ ESAU and live The Color of the Sun
hey there P and Me are looking forward to this one. we haven't played out for a little while so it will be a sesh. Also there will be sweet DJ sets from SJ ESAU and Stevie Windows it will only cost £2 wooo yeah please come down. ox a
yep! RNDM SLKTR presents fuckery witchcraft halloween disco friday 31st of october starts at 9.30 pm cover £3
The band "il Goblini" - by no means an average cover band. these guys perform the mighty songs of Goblin (Dario Argento's Films). They will most likely have a few other classic horror film songs as well - it is halloween after all!
DJs - old red (heavy RB,dirt rock,punk) lunchtime decision (shiny pop, postcore, blissm) aZa[RUMBOT] (bomkat, brooklyn,3step)
sunday all dayrr at ruin with like oh my god 6 or 7 DJs
Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 1:00pm
i have other plans for friday the 19th so i moved RNDM SLKTR to sunday the 21st. starting nice and early (evil). sorry about the short notice on this event (i've been away and without interweb access) but this should be a pretty interesting day. in no particular order i have 5 confirmed guest DJs Nadoone - illegal seagull, splashback, black rainbow sound system true Max Webertron - Guy bronnt industries kapital cranking out the psychotronic party musik Phantom Paradise - regular guest Phil enlightens us with eastern euro funk and welsh grit Anna Phallatic - Suzi Atom Bomb Goblini - suprise suprise Stevie Windows - Safetyword's undisputed DJ champion of the infamous "obscure off" coz he just don't give a fuhhck [aZa]RUMBOT - me. beard or no beard. surfing no waves, flexing what some call riddim.
we're on first so come early. we're gonna try something a little different than our last couple shows. the spectre folk are from brooklyn and are all spooky goodness. here is what boomkat say - yeah!
Spectre Folk is the solo moniker of Magik Markers' Pete Nolan, and in a form true to the scene this latest album is a hand made cdr, and guess what - it's super limited! Coming in a thin black plastic cd case (something akin to the cases you get DS games in, but thinner) this is a psychologically intense trip from the very beginning as delicately strummed guitars are led into a darkened wood and abandoned to allow the noise to abuse them rampantly. The second piece takes things down a notch with a fourteen minute jam that reminds me more of outsider rock from the 60s and 70s than anything else, but it's the other three tracks that really nail it for me with bubbling analogue synthesizer joining the guitar to create quite moving soundscapes. Awesome.
so yeah it's a monday night. we appreciate that you may be fragile after either being at green man or because you wrecked all weekend in brist-arrr. still would love it if you can make it. xoxo a
hi there we are the mega-rad bookends of this coming weekend! come see. x a
ahh the end of "summer" is nigh. it's that time of year when it's so hot you gotta either go up into the mountains and swim in the lakes or head to the beach and surf in the ocean - oh wait, i forgot i don't live in California anymore. we had no summer because we all live on an island in the north atlantic. so if you ain't doing GREEN MAN then you should really come to this. For Realz. the Phantom Paradise nite moves into Mother's Ruin for some friday fuckery on the 15th of August. Under the new title of Death DJ's RIch and Phil will freak you right the fuck out with choice psych, rock and horror film selections from Istanbul to Brecon to Rio. Consider this an Eastern Block Party. you know what i'm sayin? no? then come get educated. YES! then get in the ruin and shake those hips. the other me - [aZa]RUMBOT will be hosting this party and occasionally interrupting the flow with his own selections. please do come
hey there we're busy again this friday down at the Ruin. would be cool if you can make it.
Friday 4th July from 9pm - late
Celebrating the unsigned artists! From local heroes to worldwide wonders. One of the most interesting and craziest nights RNDM will have the pleasure to host. Get Excited!!!
Address: Mother's Ruin - 7-9 St Nicholas Market, Bristol, BS1 1UE / (0117) 925 6969
Music genres covered in one night are from Tropicalia, Indie, Avant Garde to French Pop and more. From the Fifties to the Noughties. From the painfully new to the reassuringly classic. THE most eclectic night in town.
£2 after 11
Thursday 10th July around 8 we're playing live at Mother's Ruin with Brighton band Hot Damn and Black Chalk
(can't get enough of the place!!) if yr free come on over. x a
FRIDAY THE 20TH OF JUNE THE COLOR OF THE SUN DJ SET The Southbank Club Dean Lane
phil and i had such a rad time doing an OLO CAST a couple of weeks ago we've decided to take it to the streets (lane in this case). we're gonna be playing from 9 til 12. everyting under the sun that we can squeeze into 3 hours. come by on yr way out and say "hey!" x a
FRIDAY THE 27TH OF JUNE RNDM SLKTR >> ANYONE FOR TENNIS Mother's Ruin St Nicholas Street
Fancy Dress with guests Phantom Paradise (Start the Bus Residents) delivering anything from krautrock, French orch-pop, softcore soundtracks and synthed drone while i bookend the night with the guilty, obscure and irresistible.
hi how ya doin? we have three new tunes and a new version of 'pressure' up on our site,
hope you enjoy! thanks for your time!
................kabuki mono...................
Hugh! HUGH! I'm not sure what to believe in anymore, Id Lab, Lensmanship, Silev, Id Lev. Thanks for admitting us onto your premises, those lenses over your eyes are like the goggles previously only seen in Ghostbusters.
Thanks for saying loverly things about me in the blog. Looks like you've got fingers in many tasty pies Bristolwards. I must pop over that way sometime for some of the good stuff.
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