Hello again! OK, so three months on from our 'final' post, things have been going pretty much as planned on the musical front with me having actually finished some new tracks and got round to sending some demos out. The vinyl release that I'm hankering after still eludes me but my release debut is looking ever more likely on the Broken20 digital imprint I mentioned previously. You'll have to wait a little while until you can spend your hard-earned on some Nanorhythm product (I'm currently pencilled in for Broken20 release #4) but today sees [...]
I was saddened earlier this year to hear about the imminent winding down of the excellent Highpoint Lowlife , a label which succeeded in straddling the boundaries between genres such as techno, drone, glitch and even hip-hop, thanks to some high quality control and high calibre personnel. Thankfully, out of those ashes, something new is rising. A number of those associated with that label have reconvened around a new flag: Broken20 . Curated by TVO/The Village Orchestra's Ruaridh Law, with assistance from fellow Scots Dave Fyans (Erstlaub) and Dave Donnelly (Production Unit), Broken 20 also aims to ignore [...]
As someone who a) is very keen on the work of Ruaridh Law and his solo work as The Village Orchestra (I hope you didn't sleep on his FACT mix late last year, it was probably the best one I've heard) and b) spends half his life shambling around Dalston these days, mainly at Oto, [...]
For today's post, I'm going to try and dispense with some of the usual hyperbole in order to try and keep things trim and concise for you guys as well as to help minimise the time I spend staring at the screen trying to think of suitably expressive ways of describing what your own ears will tell you anyway. There's also no real theme or connection between the tracks featured other than the fact that they're taken from releases which have tickled my fancy in recent weeks. Abstract elecronica seems to have [...]
Willful experimentalist & techno lord The Village Orchestra/TVO needs more words than time permits now. But the Outside The Circle Looking In giveaway launched today - a 14-track fiesta of rarities & unreleased material - demands some immediate recognition all the same... ...even if it has finally made me realise that the exquisite, somehow yearning vamp long loved as Shouting Gran (also now part of a longer piece on TVO's coming Amid the Blaze of Noon - out later [...]
Clumsy rhetorical question department: how many artists feature in both FACT's top 20 mixes of the year & disquiet's 10 ambient/electronica albums of 2009 ? Answer: just the one, of course - though it/he operates under multiple names... [...]
Here's a final reminder about our night down at Concrete Bar in London. We are showcasing Glasgow's Stuff records and playing live is The Village Orchestra and ill-ec-tro-nic's very own RAW in his Nanorhythm guise. TVO has an arsenal of electronic weapons in his machines ranging from cerebral armchair electronica through to dancefloor bombs whilst always exhibiting an air of playful experimentation. With a new album just released on Highpoint Lowlife and still riding the wave of the critical acclaim he received for his The Dark is Rising EP on Stuffrecords earlier in the [...]
Owing to the incredible summer weather, I haven't been overindulging in my typical diet of frosty electronic drones. It has all been lite reggae and salsa-flavoured hip-hop round here. Honest. Trust the Highpoint Lowlife bunch to tempt me back to the dark side. Ruaridh Law, (The Village Orchestra), has enlisted the help of fellow HPLL [...]
Chart courtesy of The Economist . 01. Intrusion, The Seduction of Silence [ echospace [detroit] ] ( buy ) Dub reggae has long been the lens through which Stephen Hitchell (Soultek, cv313, Echospace) has interpreted techno music, and with the Intrusion project those influences step to the forefront of his production style. His gorgeous debut album, The Seduction of Silence , invites listeners to sway and even dance to an inviting 80 minute meditation on dub sonorities and rhythms. Its [...]
Glasgow based Stuff Records have been responsible for some of the most out there, ground breaking releases to come out since Warp records first came onto the scene in the last Millennium. Warp records respect them so much that they have signed Rustie , the Glasgow wunderkind after his first two EPs for Stuff and being signed by the label is now seen by many as a stepping stone onto greater heights. So we were filled with much excitement when Stuff sent through their latest release for our starving ears to review. [...]
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