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SLOW SOUND SYSTEM LIE DOWN AND BE COUNTED ------- THE FOUNDRY : 17 APRIL 2005 : 3-8PM ------- 'Quality avant chillage' BBCi 'Unadulterated bliss .' RESONANCE FM ------- The slow sound system explores ambient listening, new electronica and pixel manipulation. This month we showcase new sounds from the Southern hemisphere. John Chantler's delicate electro-acoustic avant-guitar and laptop excursions reach us from Brisbane, via rural Japan and Tulse Hill. Fellow Oz expat Function aka Matt Nicholson lays down mesmerizing psych-pop, microsonics and deep, sleepy drones. Resident djs iMax and Albert back up with digitals and soundscaping, plus we have digital artworks and flash workouts from Janek Ropinsky. Full details follow. ------ ARTIST BIOS John Chantler (Fat Cat / Room40 / Piehead / Hello Square) (aus/uk) : non-place guitar, drums + laptop excursions John Chantler is an exciting talent. Resident of Brisbane, rural Japan and now South London, John has developed his sound from organic electronics to his current interests in exploratory electro-acoustics, messy guitars and a loose spin on rhythm. John's acclaimed first album, Monoke was released on Lawrence English's Room40 label in 2002. He's kept busy since then, with a limited edition album on Piehead, Locked in Hands, curating a series of 10" vinyl for Room40, an online release for Fat Cat (recorded with Japanese artists Saya, Takashi Ueno and Koji Shibuya) and the beyond-underground 'Swedish Folksong Project'. John's performed alongside Mum, Janek Schaefer, DJ Olive, Ami Yoshida and Taku Sugimoto. Just back from another Japanese trip, he also spins a mix of psych-pop, electronica and krautrock at Waiting for the Picture Bus, a bi-weekly session at Escape in Herne Hill. 'Melody on hammered strings . robust and driven' THE WIRE 'Monoke is the first in a series of essential recordings' THE MILK FACTORY 'Intelligent and subtle . maybe think Tortoise jamming with the Black Dog?' SMALLFISH 'Nice slice of post-millennial electronica' PITCHFORKMEDIA 'Utterly absorbing and resonant work' FIRST PAST THE POST ------ Function / Matt Nicholson (Fat Cat / Hello Square / Wonderground / Love & Mercy) (aus / uk) : mutant pop, microsonics + sleepy drone Function is Matt Nicholson and an ever-shifting set of collaborators in London, Melbourne and spaces in between. Function's sound is equally hard to pin down, taking in ecstatic pop, microscopic soundwork, slices of orchestral instrumentation and deep Eastern drones. Key reference points include The Books, Ekkehard Ehlers, Fennesz, Pluramon, Philip Jeck, Sufjan Stevens, Susumu Yokota, Rafael Toral or Town & Country. Another busy artist - expect an online release for FatCat very shortly - Matt has assembled 10 hours of soundtracks for the sacred art suites of Advaitayana Buddhist Master Adi Da . for us he will be performing new material solo, including manipulated improvisation of various acoustic sources and field recordings culled from all over the globe. Expect mesmerising, heartfelt, subtly orchestrated electro-acoustic collage. 'One of this year's most intriguing releases . an ambition to make something entirely new out of a very tired form' THE DEEP END, ABC 'The finest album to emerge from Australia this year. .this is magical music, hot shit, serious, suffocating and sparse, and aesthetically exquisite.' ADEQUACY.NET 'A stunning masterwork of intriguing musical delights' MONO.NET 'A subtle eclectic expansive epic' SCENE ------ RESIDENTS iMax, Albert (Grain Of Sound, 8Bitrecs, KabukiKore) (uk/fr) : decks + FX Janek Ropinsky (Hardman Bros, Pop-Up Recs) (d) : flashwerks, digital sublime ------ DETAILS Sunday 17 April, 3-8pm, free admission The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern St, London, ec2 : 0207 739 6900 : info@foundry.tv : www.foundry.tv info@slowsound.net www.slowsound.net ------ CHECK http://www.inventingzero.net http://www.functionensemble.com http://www.room40.org http://www.kabukikore.net http://www.8bitrecs.com http://www.hardmanbros.com http://www.jayropinsky.kliklak.net Ends slow sound system lie down and be counted info@slowsound.net www.slowsound.net ----- in league w/ [no.signal] | not clickable | sonomu | highpointlowlife | midrange | frequenzen ----- ----- new! live sets archive w/motion, recon, crucial felix/timeblind, sebastien roux, adam butler/vert and more http://www.slowsound.net 'small pieces', every friday on Resonance 101.4fm, midnight-1am GMT http://www.resonancefm.com 'there is no hidden meaning', out now on kabuki kore http://www.kabukikore.net ----- ----- london headphones festival 2004 http://www.state51.org/placard 'midrange sessions', forthcoming on coombe records http://www.coomberecords.com slow sound system vs. posset, 'entropy sessions' out now on kabuki kore http://www.kabukikore.net 'first steps' out now on grain of sound http://www.grainofsound.com imax photogallery : kill yr speed http://www.lomohomes.com/imax [no.signal] : promoters of genius http://no-signal.net highpointlowlife : bitmpapped indie goodness since 98 http://www.highpointlowlife.com sprawl club @ charterhouse http://www.sprawl.org.uk frequenzen, fortnightly on resonance 104.4fm http://www.frequenzen.co.uk sonomu : sound noise music http://www.sonomu.net kultureflash : headlines from london http://www.kultureflash.net ----- no? reply to this email with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line.