I been a bit quiet on here of late.
Heres my spammy august newsletter, however to keep it from being too self
promotional, I would highly reccomend a show in London tomorrow eve at
Public Life (free as well!!) with OMMM and DJ SHABUSHABU.
I saw DJ SHABUSHABU about two weeks ago up in GLasgow, and damn, the kid
is amazing - hard to categorize, idm, breaks, dub, hip hop, i dunno - he's
like an MC, but sampling and looping his own voice over shit, just
basically rocked the place. CHeck it.
OK, on wit da spam::
[Highpoint Lowlife August Newsletter]
LIVE
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Thanks to everyone who came down for the London Placard festival
last month, and who helped make it such a great day! The guardian
wrote a nice article about it accessible at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1264743,00.html
and there is an upcoming On Location article in The Wire's September
issue.
Next live performances will be an informal low-key label showcase
at the Foundry in London on the 15th of September, featuring Fisk
Industries, Recon and a special guest to be announced.
Our superstar N.LN will be over at the end of September also,
playing in his indie-rock shoegaze band, Film School, doing a
number of London shows including a support slot for 4AD's
Television On The Radio, and promoting his nLannon record,
just released on Badman records. For more details, check Nyles'
site at:
http://www.nlnmusic.com/
RELEASES
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Freebies!!
Two new digital singles available from the Highpoint Lowlife
website's download section at:
http://highpointlowlife.com/downloads.shtml
First up is a two track teaser from an upcoming album by The
Village Orchestra (one third of The Marcia Blaine School For Girls).
One of the tracks, "Love Theme From 'Two Man Rumble'" was composed
for use in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, for the mighty Perhilion
Theatre Company's production of 'Two Man Rumble (details at
http://www.artsworks.net/festival/show.php?t=showPress&id=237&PHPSESSID=2caefe55e43d52d7bf5c02f39d806dbe)
The second single is by another stellar artist, Bovaflux, who we
are working with for an album, penned for release early in 2005 -
two tracks of sublime and crunchy electronica. enjoy!
BITS: AND BOBS
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Our latest release, Marshall Watons' "The Time Was Later Than
Expected" has been getting some great airplay and nice reviews:
"Highpoint Lowlife would appear to be on something of a roll at
the moment and with this, the ninth release, they come up trumps
again in the field of electronica yet again. Fresh, melodic,
intricately woven textures of sound along with subtle beats and
glitches. At times recalling the gentle beauty of early Ulrich
Schnauss, but crossed with deep chord laden style of Jan Jelinek.
It has a free flowing style that is satisfying indeed. recommended."
Smallfish Records, London
"Floating through the soft plasma of outer space I look around to
see suspended pocket watches oscillate between acceleration and
deceleration. Everything falls quietly back into the static state
that I first found it in. Marshall Watsons The Time Was Later Than
He Expected is over. I feel warm but detached at the same time.
Watsons release has a very dual nature thats often hard to achieve
in electronic music. While some in experimental electronic music
successfully complete emotional melodies and tones, others put on
technical displays of percussive landscape. Watson manages to get
the two to coexist in harmony on most of the tracks during this
Highpoint Lowlife label release."
Modsquare.com
"Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this album from start to end, and
certainly was not disappointed with what I expected to be a great
and well produced album. Its artists like Marshall Watson that keep
the expression of electronic music alive and with this classic,
beautifully creative album I can say the future looks bright.
Admittedly, this is not going to be immediately appealing to everyone,
but the potential for Marshall to have success on a larger scale is
certainly there, as is the remarkable talent. .the time was later
than he expected. gets a well deserved 9/10." Petrol Music
Work continues on a number of other projects -
The Rashamon (sorry, we know its taking a while!!) single and
digital remix project are still underway, as is the Marcia
Blaine School For Girls curated compilation of scottish electronica.
Stay tuned!
8bitrecs.com - There is a new front end to the site, and you can
browse artists for info, but the actual downloads aren't working
yet (lots of content there, so its taking a while), but that should
be online this week...
Ok, thanks!!
Highpoint Lowlife
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