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Yer moonthly update from highpoint lowlife! Most energy this month has been in preparation for our London gig this weekend: Highpoint Lowlife presents TOWARDS THE SINGULARITY sunday 31st august, 7pm Cafe Oto, Dalston, London A very special show at Dalston's new art/venue space, Cafe Oto, with four acts playing throughout the evening: live: THE VILLAGE ORCHESTRA utilizing a specially prepared Max/MSP patch and joined by fellow Marcian Bryan/Beaker doing visuals with Jitter, perform a unique audio/visual psychogeography themed performance based around the neighbourhood of Dalston. MANDELBROT SET moving from slow-motion tranquillity, swelling into a barely restrained chaotic noise opus. ERSTLAUB Debut London show for scotland’s master of dark miserabilism. Working extensively with micromodular synthesis, creating immersive brooding drones and dense atmospheric soundscapes. FIGHTING KITES instrumental three piece from London, utilizing various combinations of two guitars, two basses, two loop pedals, a drum kit and anything else at hand to make noise. pre-show DJing and between band performances from Chris Dooks' Bovine Life Support System. More details at: http://www.last.fm/event/696206 should be ace! ++ [HPLL028] STRAY GHOST - LOSTHILDE Last month's new release, Stray Ghost - Losthilde, has been receiving some lovely praise from a couple of sources: "It is essential, though, that you get your jaws around the latest offering from the London stable. A simply colossal offering from Stray Ghost, in the shape of 'Losthilde'." Angry Ape "With the four epic tracks of Losthilde, Stray Ghost, aka Ant Saggers, has crafted an engrossing and emotion-rich essay on (a) loss." Mapsadaisical "one of the most successful hybrids of quiet reflection and fierce noise that I’ve heard for a while, but never gets stuck in that quiet-build-loud-end cliché." Music Musings and Miscellany Theres still about 50 CD copies left, and also high quality mp3s downloads: http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=28 [HPLL029] ERSTLAUB - I AM THE LINE DRAWN IN THE SAND BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD Dave Fyans' second full length album for Highpoint Lowlife - *might* well be ready for this sunday's gig - we're currently hard at work finishing off the art and assembly for it, but will definitely be on the site by next week. Its epic!! and finally a wee free web release for you all too: [HPW031] KIRBY DITKO - SNOT EP Kirby Ditko is the project of 23 year old California native, Steven Kirby, taking his name from an amalgamation of the original and best Marvel Comics artists - Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. He started making his beats originally for use in soundtracking the skateboard videos he and his friends were making, but after encouragement from friends, he started sending out some demo versions of his own brand of bass heavy electronic hip hop. One of those demos reached us here at HPLL and plans are in the works for a full release. The SNOT EP is made up of two of his most recent tracks to give you a taster of whats to come. Grab it from: http://highpointlowlife.com/webrelease.php?id=32 ++ thanks, and if yer london, hope to see you on sunday! thor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org