Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element

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sunnyvale noise sub-element create a place where chicago guitar noise and berlin techno come together, where kraftwerk are remixed by shellac, and where neu! apply their rhythmic aesthetic to autechre’s electronic textures.

in the past year, sunnyvale have performed a collaborative set with can legend damo suzuki, been hailed by radio 1’s huw stephens as one of the best new bands around, and have now released their debut album, box three, spool five.

formed in 2000, they were initially conceived as a live sonic experiment. early live shows were entirely improvised slabs of sound using the likes of glue, crisps, clockwork toys and kitchen utensils alongside programmed rhythms, samples, and guitars. these early dissections developed into today’s elaborate weave of sonic textures that can shift from confrontational dissonance to the kind of experimentation that can make you dance, all within the space of a single song.

sunnyvale have played with the following artists: damo suzuki, clinic, a silver mt. zion, luke vibert, scout niblett, oxes, hella, electrelane, pram, knifehandchop, max tundra, the telescopes and vibracathedral orchestra.

see a video from our recent jaunt to glasgow to perform at the centre for contemporary arts:
a long way to Glasgow from Alice Peapods on Vimeo.

‘scuzzy, unrelenting six- and four-string structured noise that you could remove the enamel from shellac's teeth with, interspersed with warped industrial beats. excuse me, i think i just came.’ – drowned in sound

‘sonically shattering, going places that the likes of aphex twin and unkle would not dare tread… sheer music genius’ - gigwise

‘imagine a david kronenberg movie set in a lift shaft. this is its soundtrack. you have been warned.’ – sandman

‘alien soundtracks for your ipod as you surf the sands of mars, wander the darkened streets of amityville, or wake up the morning after the end of the world.’ - is this music?

sunnyvale recordings

more than 20 per cent: album, available now on cd from the sunnyvale website

1. girl thief (live)
2. i love you every time you smile (karhide broken disco remix)
3. too far gone
4. how sunnyvale were tricked by the evenings
5. godzilla vs. kathleen hanna (live)
6. i love you every time you smile (jimmy evil bastard dub)
7. this far and no further (boywithatoy mix)
8. i love you every time you struggle heroically against imperialist oppression (remix by space heroes of the people)
9. i love you even when you smile
10. call this number if you hear noises (live)
11. this far and no further (rematch:remix)
12. a word about panic attacks (live)
13. all our flawed efforts
14. i love you every time you smile (nordic mix)

box three, spool five: album, available now on cd from field records

1. godzilla vs. kathleen hanna
2. how spiderman was tricked by his wife
3. i love you every time you smile
4. call this number if you hear noises
5. sputnik was the start of all this peculiar weather
6. girl thief
7. another japanese big robot story
8. using the devil as an excuse for sex
9. techno self-harm
10. a word about panic attacks
11. talking to john about punk rock
12. sunnyvale is asleep

'i love you every time you smile': split single with princess, on limited-edition 7" vinyl.

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'techno self-harm': sunnyvale's five-track EP from 2005.

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'asking for trouble'. a double 7" box set, featuring tracks by sunnyvale, uter, a roman scandal and denim and diamonds. presented in a reel-to-reel tape box, with five inserts, a zine and one of 300 mystery objects collected by sunnyvale from around the world.

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Member Since:

June 07, 2005

Members:

Stuart Fowkes: bass, keyboard, electronics

Simon Minter: guitars, pieces of metal

Giles Borg: guitars

Influences:

hovercraft, ove-naxx, loop, this heat, shellac, prolapse, unwound, dalek, circle, tresor recordings, t.raumschmiere, fennesz, sonic youth, amon tobin, nought, steve reich, flying saucer attack, joy division, neu!, avrocar, killing joke 1980-2, white noise.

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'part rock, part techno, part what the fuck, this oxford/london trio utilise all manner of instruments to create their wonderfully contorted sound. their incessant mechanised beats, chaotic time signatures and industrial loops will leave you craving for more, if your head hasn't already exploded by track three. Get this.'

- rock sound

‘firm evidence of where contemporary experimental music can – and should – be at.’

- nightshift, oxford’s music magazine

'sunnyvale create music that could move mountains, as their electronic beats splattered over a wall of static, whilst maintaining a beat that anyone can move to are as unnerving as they are achingly beautiful...'i love you every time you smile' is sonically shattering, going places that the likes of aphex twin and unkle would not dare tread.'

- gigwise

‘scuzzy, unrelenting six- and four-string structured noise that you could remove the enamel from shellac's teeth with, interspersed with warped industrial beats. excuse me, I think I just came.’

- drownedinsound

‘monolithic slabs of noise… like a soundtrack to dr. who fighting the daleks in the midst of a rip in the time-space continuum.’

- gigwise

‘alien soundtracks for your ipod as you surf the sands of mars, wander the darkened streets of amityville, or wake up the morning after the end of the world.’

– is this music?

‘drones, samples, clicks and throbbing guitars… takes us back to the heady days of main and the lovely loop.’

– things magazine

‘there's an understated beauty to these shards of disciplined noise & future post-rock. i can hear everything from godflesh, mogwai & joy division/new order in this music & you lot will not be disappointed.’

– norman records

'in the past you could have easily have listed a host of the finest acts ever as comparisons to sunnyvale; autechre, faust, joy division, aphex twin, shellac, can and kraftwerk to name a few... hopefully the line of tribute will now switch to Sunnyvale being mentioned as life changing by budding teenage, bedroom based, prisoners of technology all across the modern world...'

- subsiren

'did once they call this kind of thing the place where post-rock meets electronica? i'm not really sure I care, because all that really matters is the moment, is the noise, is the chiming melodies and the beats crashing like waves on the pacific shore of my childhood dreams like kerouac's shefallying words. if this isn't on all your summer mix tapes then man, did you miss out.'

- tangents

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Record Label:

Field Records - www.field-records.co.uk