My head is still reeling from Autechre's performance here in London last night, absolutely incredible! Being in a concrete car park, i was worried what the sound would be like, but the speaker stack was enormous and you could hear every detail crystal clear from anywhere inside. Their set was full on from the start to the end, very dance floor friendly and effortlessly moving from techno to hip hop rhythms, with suprisingly dub styled breaks, and the sound pallete was very uniquely Autechre. I hope someone managed to get a good recording of that!
aiight, well, quite a fair wee bit of news here..
"Magnetism, That Electricity..", the release is well under way now, and over being mastered with Twerk currently. I guestimate about 6 weeks before we have the finished vinyl back in our hands. double 12" vinyl package on heavy weight 180g vinyl, with four EPs, one each from the performers at our label showcase in january - Mandelbrot Set, Fisk Industries, The Village Orchestra, and The Marcia Blaine School For Girls. There will be 300 copies pressed up, with hand numbered certificates, and will come in a deluxe PVC clear plastic outer, with black paper sleeves housing the vinyl. Should be ace! You can hear one of the Marcia Blaine tracks 'The Ratio' if you head on over to Mary Anne Hobbs BBC homepage, and check out her Future Downloads section, which is a podcast featuring a selection of six tracks she thinks will become big over the next few months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/futuredownloads.shtml
There will also be a run of 100 handnumberd cdrs in svelte slimline black DVD cases too, for people who don't have a turntable.
Straight up after that we have a MASSIVE release we're utterly stoked about.. FUNCKARMA!
A five track EP named the 'Stub Dane EP', which is completely evil! Easily a 9 on the Richter scale - heavy instrumental hip hop with floor shaking bass and super punchy intricate sound production. This is the Funcken brothers take on dubstep, but its no mere imitation nor copy, this is genetic mutation, mad scientists injecting one DNA strand into another beast and creating a monster. Check out their homepage at
http://www.funckarma.com/ to hear one of the tracks, "Woodface" in their flash player.
Up on our own website at
http://highpointlowlife.com you can find a few new mp3 releases for free download:
There are two live recordings from our label showcase in january from Mandelbrot Set and Fisk Industries.
Check the bass when it comes in on that first Fisk Industries track he plays!
http://highpointlowlife.com/webrelease.php?id=28
Following up on his recent "On Becoming An Island" release, we have an excellent new four track mp3 EP from Dave Erstlaub, entitled "Trying To Reach You". Its a amazing EP, mesmerizing and full of glacial deep texturing and hypnotic structures. You can find that for download at:
http://highpointlowlife.com/webrelease.php?id=29
Well, i'm off up to Glasgow this weekend for Numbers at the Sub Club, Redshape headlining and Village Orchestra and Production Unit in support. Should be a good one! The following weekend quite a few of us are heading to the Bloc festival too, so if you see anyone in Highpoint Lowlife t-shirts, come say hello!
cheers,
thor
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