Artist: gladius the fertile

Interview: Erik David Hidde (Housewarming Records) Erik David Hidde is the man behind Housewarming Records , a worldwide digital label and home of several bands featured on these pages, namely, 17-year old London producer Jamie Isaac , downtempo IDM project IVVVO from Portugal, Austin’s Gladius The Fertile , Berlin’s Freakish Atlantic and a little closer to home, Brighton’s Birkwin Jersey. As this interview goes out, Housewarming is digital, free and and able to be checked out in more detail at the Housewarming Records website . [...]

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If you’re following these Music Fan’s Mic podcasts, you’re going to have to get used to the act of celebrating milestones. The past ten shows have been challenging and we haven’t done brilliantly at keeping it to a weekly basis, but we’ve most certainly grown a better music taste through this process, which is a huge positive.  The atmosphere of celebration is slightly underwhelmed by my sore throat - I try to tell jokes and the impact is lost through the rough croak that comes with each utterance. Within some advice on how to get through [...]

• Music Fan's Mic - MFM020 - Music Fan's Mic Podcast - 28-09-2011

Gladius the Fertile : Bird Chirp We’re told of bedroom acts that they work on low budgets, with little production at hand; few real instruments to speak of. In that case, Gladius the Fertile - a project of two maniacs who envisage no barriers to stunt the music they produce - sound nothing like a bedroom band. The drums pound menacingly like the impending rush of a tribe; the multiple layers of warm synth rushing over your head as if the studio is mere inches [...]