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The Foundling Wheel
Experimental / Punk / Other

melodic mountains of bitcrushed polyrhythms



Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom

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   The Foundling Wheel: General Info
Member Since12/18/2006
Band Websitewww.thefoundlingwheel.com
Band MembersTed Koterwas - Bass, Guitar, Drum Loops, Samples, Live Electronics, Vocals
Influencesxiu xiu ex-models deerhoof the mae shi q and not u unwound joy division
Sounds Like

"It's beepy, it's insane, it's shouty. It's angry but clever. It makes me want to drive a motorcycle the wrong way down the motorway. Naked."- Milo McLaughlin, I Hear A New World, The Skinny

"braiding chromatic sheets of singeing electro-bending between frayed laces of gleaming melody." - Billy Hamilton, The Skinny

"brilliant electronic madness" - Euan, TheSteinbergPrinciple

"Like a cracked toy from the 80’s being played to death with a hybrid of Ian Curtis & Mark E Smith fronting, TFW are as exciting as they are innovative!" -Subba-Cultcha

"Experimental mental music for robots to have sex to" - Gamma Ray, HOBO

"I felt like I was watching a car crash stretched out over a full half hour, in an entirely J G Ballard kind of way." -Nick Trepka

"like the screeching of a freshly castrated goat being farted through the arse of an angry dalek." -Boab, Peenko's Blog

Record Labelunsigned
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 23 2009 8:00P
Odd Wednesdays [Thursday Special] @ The Legion London
Jul 28 2009 8:00P
Feed Your Head @ Tommy Flynns London
Aug 18 2009 8:00P
Eclectiv @ Pivo Pivo Glasgow, Scotland

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Noises Like Ashes Single Launch at Confusion is Sex 10 July  (view more)

Love and Hate at the Bongo Club  (view more)

Noises Like Ashes review  (view more)

Live Review in Clash magazine!  (view more)

Mixed Minds and Missteps on I Hear A New World June 2009  (view more)

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   About The Foundling Wheel
The Foundling Wheel builds noise-saturated mountains of programmed polyrhythms and bitcrushed distortion. A solo act, his brutally overdriven guitars, loops, and samples twist and career between twitchy introspection and a "wail of screeching banshee sonics.” Pretty collides with ugly and melodies shatter into shimmering pieces.

The Foundling Wheel started in 2007 and has shared the stage with Pivot, So So Modern, Zombie Zombie, Drum Eyes, Felix Kubin, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and is part of the Bear Scotland collective with Meursault, DeadBoyRobotics, Withered Hand, and Enfant Bastard. His eponymous debut album was released in 2008. The single “Noises Like Ashes” was released in July 2009.

Releases:

Available through all major mp3 stores and through my website


Singles:

Noises Like Ashes

Noises Like Ashes




Albums:

The Foundling Wheel (s/t)

The Foundling Wheel


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 BEAR SCOTLAND PRESENTS... 


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 enfant bastard 

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 WITHERED HAND 


 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 


 DUPEC 


 CONFUSION IS SEX 


 Limbo, Edinburgh 


 PCL 


 Mills & Boon 


 Xiu Xiu 


 xbxrx 


 Wounded Knee 


 Chris 


 the gentle invasion 


 Trampoline 


 Wolf Eyes 


 Cyn 


 Axton Kincaid 


 Dirty Summer 


 MEEP 


 Knives! Gregor! Knives! 





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Milo McLaughlin





Jul 10 2009 11:30 AM

Ted, can't make it tonight which is a crying shame, especially as I was chuffed to get quoted on the flyer! Hope you have a good one Milo
Foundlings





Jun 30 2009 12:16 PM

A pleasure to share the stage with a fellow FOUNDLING! Great set, look forward to seeing you in London, will e-mail everyone we know. Hope to put gigs on for Edinburgh bands in the future. I recorded all 3 bands and Kim took photos and filmed a bit of your show. Will forward asap. had a great night, thank you all.
salud, Edinburgh Grooves! Good vibes to you and all the fantastic Edinburgh people, from all us little foundlings. We loved it all. XXXXXXX
DUPEC





Jun 27 2009 4:09 PM

You are doing the twilight sad show next week. That is amazing. I am in London but wish I could be in two places at once.

We're doing a free show at Cab Vol tomorrow if you're free. On at 8pm.

James
The Betamax





Jun 23 2009 6:21 PM

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BROWN BEAR





Jun 17 2009 5:22 PM

esperi





Jun 16 2009 11:39 AM

DOUBLE WHAMMY !!!!

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matt harding





Jun 13 2009 6:50 PM

out now on iTunes
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Nick





Jun 1 2009 2:41 PM

Grind Sight Open Eye and Nick Herd presents -
MACH NAUSEA 2009


Friday 10th July - 6PM doors
Saturday 11th July - 4PM doors
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Friday ticket - £7, Saturday ticket - £10, pay on the door.
Weekend tickets are £15, reserve by emailing your name(s) to machnausea@gmail.com



10th July, Friday -
A Band
Atomized
Defibrillators
Neil Davidson+Helheseten trio
Team Bric
Wounded Knee
Hockyfrilla
Cities Prepare for Attack!



11th July, Saturday-
Voltigeurs (Matthew Bower, Sam Davies)
Family Battle Snake
Jazzfinger
BBBlood
Culver
Nackt Insecten
Vultures + Eaten By Children (visual)
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
Diva Abrasiva
Euan Currie + Iain Campbell

Indiecater Records





May 19 2009 7:29 AM


The Very Most Summer


Everyone at indiecater records would like to wish you a happy summer and let you know that there is an indiepop song from the Very Most available to download FREE from our site!


Sick Kids Sunday





May 3 2009 12:01 AM

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Grind Sight Open Eye





Apr 27 2009 12:38 AM

Present by Grind Sight Open Eye



WHITE premiere UK tour releasing new album produced by Blixa Bargeld(Einstürzende Neubauten). Cosmic industrial avant-garde music.
Alex Chichile, New York based sound artist, use brain wave controlling modular synth, quatrophonic performance.
Four Acts from Beijing, New York, Edinburgh, London
Sandy Milroy 1/4 of the mighty tusk, effect pedals destruction.
Eaten By Children Improvised electronics, amplified surfaces and Super-8 flicker films

29th April, Wednesday. The Bowery, Edinburgh, Door 7:30, Finish by 10:30.
£6 / £5 Advanced List: Email your name to tickets@grindsightopeneye.co.uk for Advanced List.

Rest of White tour in London, Birmingham, Sheffield, please check:
http://www.grindsightopeneye.co.uk/tour/white-beijing-uk-tour-26th-29th-april/
Forward Play





Apr 15 2009 11:05 AM

Cheers for the comment!

Will have a listen to your stuff when I get home.


All the best,

Caroline (Forward Play)

Xx
Meyatra (looking for a label)





Mar 24 2009 9:48 AM

the Singular Sound of the Brain

www.MEYATRA.com
esperi





Mar 17 2009 11:16 PM

should be a nice wee gig , i hope you can make it :-) x

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MEEP





Mar 2 2009 6:34 PM

This is going to be awesome!! I will be there fo sho! thanks for the invite! have a great week and until then...
Trampoline





Feb 25 2009 8:33 PM

Nanobots





Feb 22 2009 9:36 PM

Hello how are you keeping,
just passing by to let you know we the oustanding robotic duo Nanobots are playing in Edinburgh next
Friday the 28th Feb at the ARK on Waterloo place.
Its a charity do with, the Gin Goblins,Norman Gold and the Silvers,
Plastic Adults and Nanobots starts at 8 til 1am. £5
Hope you can make
cheers Shonabot x


Feb 28th 2009 charity gig for Bunny Huggers
Nick





Feb 18 2009 4:56 PM

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Live @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh. Saturday 7th March, 7pm.

A night o' folky beardness and worldy improv! Eric Carbonara's free wielding Hindustani guitar meditations, with support from Glasgow's finest - Ben Reynolds and the Neil Davidson / Peter Nicholson duo. Fiver on the door. Far out!

http://www. myspace. com/ericcarbonara
http://www. myspace. com/benreynoldsmusic
http://www. myspace. com/neildavidsonmusician
http://www. myspace. com/peternicholson
Grind Sight Open Eye





Feb 18 2009 1:38 PM



@ The Canon's Gait, Edinburgh, Sunday - 22/01/09, 7pm

£5 door.

Alan Courtis was of course an integral part of the infamous Reynols, and has been involved in countless collaborations with names such as Pauline Oliveros, Kawabata Makoto, Campbell Kneale, Lasse Marhaug, Dylan Nyoukis, Culver. 

http://www. geocities. com/a_courtis/

Aaron Moore is best known as part of Volcano The Bear, described by The Wire as "producing some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage”, and revered for their peerless releases on labels such as Beta-Lactam Ring and Nurse With Wound's United Dairies. He's also one third of Amolvacy (along with Dave Nuss of No Neck Blues Band), and the Paris-based Textile Orchestra. 

http://www. myspace. com/aaronmooretheaccidental

Usurper (Ali Robertson - Giant Tank, Malcy Duff - Missing Twin), Edinburgh local stand-up bending forward minimal graphical noise art duo, will be joint together with Daniel Rutter.

http://www. myspace. com/usurperr

Foredell Research Unit (aka Freaser Burnett), is one of finest scholars dedicated to power drone phenomenon with most modest and sincere scientific mind. The night's presentation will also include Grant Smith. Psychological tranquillity exist through large-amplitude-vibrating fluid. 

http://www. myspace. com/fordellresearchunit
Sneaky Pete’s


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Feb 7 2009 9:33 PM

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matt harding





Jan 16 2009 10:55 PM

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Broken Friend Recording Company





Dec 21 2008 1:38 PM

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CONFUSION IS SEX





Dec 20 2008 6:46 PM

hobo
Day Of Days - EMP available on itunes & amazon





Dec 10 2008 8:30 PM

It's almost here. Woo Hoo!!!





Grind Sight Open Eye





Dec 10 2008 4:01 AM

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