Hey! Well, the obligatory Happy New Year and all that! Hope you had a
good 2005 and heres to an even better upcoming '06.
Looking back, 2005 was quite a great little year for the label, and the
stumbling amateur unit that we are, actually managed to pull together a
semblance of professionalism! We had some great releases from Like A
Stuntman, Bovaflux, Village Orchestra, Fuck-off Machete, and the Marcia
Blaine School For Girls curated compilation of ace scottish electronics,
some of which you will be hearing more of in the upcoming months..
We put on some great shows, with people like Isan, Hands On Heads, DJ
Scotch Egg, Leafcutter John, sanso xtro, Phil Collins 3, 65daysofstatic,
along with, of course our own mighty acts! The Like A Stuntman summer
tour was a great time, and was brilliant to see them back briefly in
December, as was the Tigrics tour with Si-cut.db, and Fisk Industries
out in Barcelona. Our London Electrics consortium with Seed, AI Records,
Expanding, Uncharted Audio and SRL resulted in the release of a great
wee compilation, and even saw our ugly mugs grace the pages of the
December issue of Plan B magazine, in an article highlighting the
strength of the current UK electronic scene. Nice article.
More magazine appearances for the Village Orchestra, with a nice full
page pic and interview in the December issue of Undercover, and an
interview in the German De:bug magazine. That's also over a year now
that we have been hosting our monthly Resonance FM slot, and we've
really been enjoying the opportunity to play out some wacked out music
on air, and just generally been having a ball of it!
Here's to 2006 and more good times!
Starting 2006 off with an explosive one, we have the new release by
randomNumber, titled "Golden Acre Sleeps", now available at our usual
collaborators - posteverything.com, Smallfish and Norman records - due
for general release on February 13th. First reviews are saying...
"It's good, really good....there's a lot more ambience in there and it's
still crunchy in that Funkstorung way." Norman Records
"Traces of early Autechre with a large doses of all things
shoegazetronic" Smallfish records.
You can grab yourself a free randomNumber remix alongside that of Fisk
Industries, Tigrics, and Bovaflux over at our website, where we have
just uploaded a new free digital download EP - a collection of Like A
Stuntman tracks reworked and mashed right up..
[hpw017] Like A Stuntman - Like A Remix
[1] Making Competition Out Of Everything ( Fisk Industries remix )
[2] They're Yellow And So Are Mine ( randomNumbers Frontside Cab mix )
[3] I Was Shocked And You Were Shocked ( Bovaflux remix )
[4] Making Competition Out Of Everything ( Tigrics mix )
To view it in its intended window size, click on the link from :
http://www.highpointlowlife.com/downloads.shtml or the direct link at:
http://www.highpointlowlife.com/webreleases/likeastuntman_hpw017/likeastuntman_hpw017.html
We have a few projects just ready to go in for pressing, which will be
due out in the next fews months, releases from Fisk Industries, Izu,
Mandelbrot Set, Marshall Watson, Like A Stuntman, Marcia Blaine School
For Girls and Tigrics to name but a few!
We'll also be unveiling details of that 7" series we've been hankering
on about, and also a DVD side-label that should be taking off this year.
We've been asked to hand in a few top tens of 2005 for different places,
and i have to admit i've given a different one each time, its just too
hard to whittle them down, so with that, heres what we have enjoyed this
year..
13& God - 13&God
Acid House Kings - Sing Along With the Acid House Kings
Afrirampo - Kore Ga Mayaku Da
Animal Collective - Feels
Autechre - Untilted
Bichi - Notwithstanding
Black Dice - Broken Ear Record
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Calika - Small Talk Kills Me
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine
Dangerdoom - The Mouse And The Mask
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
Death Sentence: Panda! - Puppy, Kitty Or Both
Dj Koze - Kosi Comes Around
Dj Scotch Egg - KFC Core
Ezekiel Honig and Morgan Packard - Early Morning Migration
Fenton - Pup
Hulk - Silver Threads Of A Ghost
Jackson And His Computer Band - Smash
Mark Clifford / Simon Kealoha - s/t
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Mokira - FFT Pop
Monolake - Polygon Cities
sanso xtro - sentimentalist
Sawako - Hum
Sunn O))) - Black One
Tape - Rideau
The American Analog Set - Set Free
The Boats - We Made It For You
The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
Windy And Carl - Dream House / Dedications to Flea
ok, thanks for everything!
more soon..
Highpoint Lowlifers..
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