Recently made the jump from manchester to london and regrouping for new live actions.
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RELEASES........................................................
BAD BLOOD (HREMIG)............................................................
Manchester based electroacoustic drone artist Straight (aka Stephen McLaughlin) finally gets round to releasing some material after a year spent building up his live repuation at Sprawl, hippocamp and soundnetwork events as well as putting together a memorable day of music for futuresonic in 06. The material was put together during an intensive recording and processing marathon over the Halloween period and is infused with a sense of drama, distance and, as it builds, boils over into an atmosphere of creeping fear and amplifier worship. Keep an eye out for more ambitious live operations and the launch of a CDR label in 07. www.myspace.com/stephenmclaughlin .
Available at www.hremig.com
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Oh and do check out Noodlearm below, thats what i get up to when i'm in a good mood and i want to abuse a dancefloor
I ..............................................................................................................I also provide live visuals for Manchester fuckhead institutions Tramp and Micron, as well as freelance design work so get in touch with me through this profile as i aint sorted a proper website yet.
everything above is my own work................................................................
This is our last gig of the year (we're out of money and have had to retreat to native homelands for home cooking and arguments) so its gonna be a gooden.
Hello there. We watched 'Yes man' last night and now say yes to EVERYTHING. You should try it. Here's a good one to start with. Will you come to our free gig this Saturday in Islington? ...yes?.... Brilliant, we will see you there.
Ooo here's some detes....
The Zenith Bar
About 9ish
Packington St
Islington
(nearest tube is Angel)
Did we mention its FREE entry and also has cheap drinks. What more could you ask for on a Saturday night.
Morning glory.
How are you on this not so great day? (its raining here)
Just wanted to let you know we are playing the Fly (London) this Friday and your lovely self and your mates/dates/family? are invited.
You'll wanna get yourself on the guestlist for a discount price tho...
JANEK SCHAEFER Janek Schaefer is a London based sound artist, musician, and composer. He is known for his innovative work with sound & installation art. He plays in duos with Philip Jeck (Songs for Europe CD), Robert Hampson (Comae CD), Stephan Mathieu (Hidden Name CD) and Charlemagne Palestine. Janek runs his own label [audiOh!Recordings] and web site: http://www.audioh.com
ILLUMINATI Music which serves up a dish of evocative noodles set in an electronic musical sauce. Illuminati has, so far, released 4 albums and various EP's as well as collaborative pieces and compilation appearances for other record labels. http://www.myspace.com/daveclarksonilluminati
JONATHAN FISHER Jonathan Fisher creates drones and soundscapes that will sound beautiful with the church acoustics at Burst Couch 27. He lives in Manchester and was a founder member of the Hippocamp netlabel, which celebrates it's 8th birthday in 2009.
COTTRELL, KOPECEK & HUNTER Improvisational trio featuring guitar/ effects, sax and electronics/ live sampling. Release and more information at http://www.concretemoniker.co.uk
+ NOISY TOYS Roadshow Come along to investigate the science of music through specialist electronic musical equipment. Workshop - open attendance between 2pm till 4pm. http://www.noisytoys.org
findlay_hunter_rennie emerge from Manchester's unsung experimental underground, with a debut album brimming full of razor sharp ideas, glistening soundscapes, soaring melodies and decomposed structures. All improvised, all live, always unpredictable. Cello meets guitar meets trombone meets laptop meets a lot of effects pedals.
Download includes 6-track album, pdf liner notes and exclusive cover artwork by Becca Smith.
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MOONDAY - SEP 22nd - UPPER SPACE*
a night of focused lights and sweet noise
featuring:
a modular 3D multi-projection installation
in and around which the acts will be performing
designed and operated by
CYCLOPTIC (visuals)
psychedelic collage a/v set from
DUNK LE CHUNK (red deer club)
warm melodic muti-instrument electronica from
LA77 (chips/timbreland) and consorts
double drumming synth-dub from the
M16 (mind on fire) duo
heavenly ambient brainwashing from
JONATHAN FISHER (hippocamp)
8pm until 1am - £3/4 -B.Y.O.B.
*Marlsboro House, 52 Newton St, N.Quarter, Manchester M1 1ED
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Nice one. Should hopefully be getting a decent set together for gigging myself. Got offered one in chorlton Irish a couple of weeks ago but we were back in the old country so that was a no-go. Just starting to get some tunes together now in the last month or two and I keep getting distracted making nasty backgroundds for my profile.
SPECTRE FOLK (Pete Nolan of Magik Markers) + more TBC
It's extremely appropriate that Magik Markers' drummer Pete Nolan is currently in the country to play with Jandek in London (which is how this gig came about, coincidentally). Because his solo Folk Spectre record on the Woodist label demonstrates a penetrating knowledge of what makes that great Texan loner so amazing. Lo-Fi in the early 90s Shrimper label sense (yes!), the record contains a clutch of fragile, skeletal songs that inspire a depth of relaxation self-help tape manufacturers could only dream of. Of course, we're not talking 'swimming with dolphins' here. It's the constant hum - of tape hiss, mellow feedback, room boom, whatever - that sits beneath these beautiful songs that gives them their dreamlike quality. The name has been switched around to Spectre Folk but the vibrations are the same. The Folk Spectre record is something truly special and we anticipate this show to be one of the most enthralling of our 2008 calendar.
Here's what Pete's Magik Markers partner Elisa Ambrogio had to say about it all:
"Here drum-dilweed extraordinaire Pete Nolan takes on new dimensions of low-fidelity radness through the Woodsist imprint. The infamous label in charge of releasing other super-jammers such as Axolotl, Loosers and Blues Control, Woodsist put this mother out in the o 7. So many good songs, I don’t know where to start; it’s like Gene Clark in a manhole with Von LMO in Bushwick. This is another artist criminally unappreciated for his solo work, most probably due to his surly manner. Just ‘cause the man don’t hold doors for people doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to build castle bridges of strangeness into the void. LISTEN."
ya dirty brut ye :D piano bits are well nice too, all live or loops? we're currently changing our style, i'll fire ye data 4 a remix. we're flat out workin at our live stuff, so it'll be a while.
yes boy! gone tell me u know how to downgrade from vista to xp. i've tried loads of disc's but every time xp canny find my hard drive. :( nightmare. any ideas?
CC INFO MARCH 2008 SEQUENCE Vs NAIVE MELODY / EASTER WEEKEND MEGARAVE! 22.03. 08 at Paradise Factory, Manchester SPECIAL GUESTS //// Rolando / Scion / Sleeparchive / Alexander Robotnick / Legowelt / Smith N Hack / Lory D / and more!! CLICK FLYER TO BUY TICKETS
BAD BLOOD (HREMIG)............................................................
Manchester based electroacoustic drone artist Straight (aka Stephen McLaughlin) finally gets round to releasing some material after a year spent building up his live repuation at Sprawl, hippocamp and soundnetwork events as well as putting together a memorable day of music for futuresonic in 06. The material was put together during an intensive recording and processing marathon over the Halloween period and is infused with a sense of drama, distance and, as it builds, boils over into an atmosphere of creeping fear and amplifier worship. Keep an eye out for more ambitious live operations and the launch of a CDR label in 07. www.myspace.com/stephenmclaughlin .
Available at www.hremig.com
>
Oh and do check out Noodlearm below, thats what i get up to when i'm in a good mood and i want to abuse a dancefloor
I ..............................................................................................................I also provide live visuals for Manchester fuckhead institutions Tramp and Micron, as well as freelance design work so get in touch with me through this profile as i aint sorted a proper website yet.
everything above is my own work................................................................
