The Highpoint Lowlife December newsletter 2007
Wherein lots of details are shared about new releases, downloads, upcoming live shows and some more chat!
++ New Releases
thanks for the incredible support of both the Tigrics and Erstlaub releases!
In just over a month, we've sold most copies of both limited releases, enough to cover the costs on them (doesn't happen often!).
There are around 20 copies of each left, so even if you have downloaded the free 128kbps mp3s from lastfm but don't have a copy of the limited physical releases, resplendid in beautifully designed DVD size covers, you can purchase a copy from:
Erstlaub -
http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=25
Tigrics -
http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=24
a sampling of new reviews:
Erstlaub:
"Erstlaub's first full release for Highpoint Lowlife is an ambitious piece with vast evocative scope. Superbly assembled, this is certainly ranks amongst the label's most fascinating releases." Milk Factory
"it's an entrancing listen so far -- definitely worthy of consideration if you find yourself booked for a sensory deprivation tank, or just like to listen to slow, meditative drone music." Wired Blogs - Listening Post
Tigrics:
"Synki is an epic journey into stunning electronically enhanced sound forms and found sounds processed into dream-like sequences, some lasting just a few seconds, others extending over twenty minutes, all demonstrating incredible evocative nature." Milk Factory
"A veritable universe of field noises-stone scrapings, hydraulic creaks, geological clatter, swishes-abstracts itself into alien form throughout, with some of it often mutating into swelling loops. One might expect attention to lapse over such a lengthy duration but not in this case. Bereznyei keeps the level of invention high and hypnotic throughout, with the soundscape maintaining its rhythmic momentum despite the incredible variety of sounds that constantly reconfigure it." Textura.org
++ Web releases
We have an ace two track web EP for you this month from Monostation, who you may know from their own self-released 3" EPs and also their Smallfish records release. The EP is called Red Rust, and for anyone who knows their previous drone based material, you'll be surprised by who Detroit-sounding these are in comparison! Grab them from:
http://highpointlowlife.com/webrelease.php?id=26
++ Upcoming Shizzle..
First this weekend - you can catch myself DJing at the Murcof gig at Corsica Studios this coming sunday the 2nd December. I'm well stoked to be asked to play as i missed the recent Planetarium show Murcof played, and i heard it was ace!
XMas party! Next saturday, December 8th, we're back in the one and only Foundry to host our annual xmas shindig - Mandelbrot will be headling the night, composed this time of two members - main man Keung, and joined by Lina on violin. In support, we'll have Brassica (who you may know from his Achrid output on Benbecula) doing a live DJ mashup; Mat/Fisk Industries will be taking out his new laptop to provide some weird ambient interludes to the evening by way of his Zephyr Skate Team project, and providing the dj backdrop to all this will me myself and iMax from Slow Sound System. It's gonna be loud, brash and fun - if you're in London, do come along!
January - more heads up on what promise to be an audacious start to the new year -
"Magnetism, That Electricty.." is the name for a new compilation release we're currently putting together - a three EP collection album, featuring brand new material from Mandelbrot, Fisk Industries and the Marcia Blaine camp. We've launching the record at The Luminaire in London, on January 26th, where we'll have all acts in attendance and playing live - Mandelbrot, Fisk Industries, Marcia Blaine, and a very special technoid dancefloor set from The Village Orchestra! After the live acts, the Marcia lads will be taking to the turntables to show London why their Glasgow based club, Numbers, is so on fire at the moment! Tickets available from:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/22883
thanks!
thorsten
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