The E.R.C - The Eccentronic Research Council ft Maxine Peake. 
Post 1612 Ghosts on Pre 1977 analogue Synthesisers.

The Debut E.R.C. Album '1612 UNDERTURE'  Featuring Narraration and Voices by Uk Actress Maxine Peake 
out on Bird/Finderskeepers Records now..on all formats.

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Billy Caldwell: A Selector’s Tale, Told Like It Ought to Be

“Well, you see, it was never about ‘career moves’ or ‘scene politics’—it was about chasing that moment. That feeling. The one where the bassline bends time and space, and for a few fleeting hours, the outside world doesn’t exist. That’s what got me. That’s what still gets me.”

Billy Caldwell, Manchester-born but now very much part of New York’s nocturnal fabric, has spent a lifetime in pursuit of those moments. His sound? A mongrel blend of Balearic warmth, NYC disco sleaze, and the raw, machine-soul of Detroit and UK techno—stitched together not with precision, but with instinct.

“It all started, as most of these things do, in the thick of it—late ‘80s Manchester, the Haçienda looming large over everything. But it was the afters, the places you’d stumble into at stupid o’clock, that really shaped things. Epping Walk was one of those places. A couple of knocked-through flats, a sound system that could shake the fillings from your teeth, and a rotating cast of reprobates, geniuses, and people who somehow managed to be both at once. New Order would be in one corner, Tony Wilson holding court in another, while someone like Sasha or Mike Pickering was test-driving the next evolution of dance music. It was beautiful chaos.”

That chaos became the foundation for a life spent soundtracking dance floors from Manchester to Manhattan. These days, Caldwell is a resident at Brooklyn’s Good Room and The Standard Hotel, regularly weaving his sonic narratives at Le Bain, The Boom Boom Room, and Sunset Beach. His radio show, Camino Del Sol on The Lot Radio, is a love letter to the Balearic spirit—freewheeling, eclectic, never predictable.

“Venues? I’ve played a few. Some grand, some gloriously grimy. From The Haçienda to Red Rocks, Radio City Music Hall, Sankeys, Festival No. 6—they all have their own stories, their own ghosts. And then, of course, there’s New Order. Opening for them on tour is a bit like coming full circle. One minute you’re sneaking into clubs to hear them, the next you’re stepping up to the decks before they take the stage. Surreal. But then, this whole thing has been surreal, hasn’t it?”

A defining force? A tastemaker? Maybe. But Billy Caldwell isn’t much for labels. He’s just a bloke with a record bag and a knack for reading a room. And maybe that’s the whole point.

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Cornershop are as The Times and most major papers have put it, 'the most treasured of British institutions,' yet they are amazingly one of the most neglected institutions England has ever known too. Not for them to be merely a pigeon hole in the staff room, they always cut it their own way, constantly changing with every release, burning Morrissey pictures outside EMI to deliver a message that all youth must do, a message that is as important then as it is getting again today, kicking aside their fellow asian crop of bands with a simple kick forward, and such forward thought gave rise to some of the best collaborations and relations ever made.

Whether that was with John Peel or Jon Savage, The Light Surgeons or sleeve art by Nick Edwards, Allen Ginsberg or Otis Clay, Larry Coryell or Noel Gallagher, in Preston Lancashire or London, or Paris or NYC, constructing their videos with the likes of Prashant Bhargava or Douglas Avery, studio production by the likes of The Automator or their own Tjinder Singh, working with charities from Mind to Christian Aid, making diversion to record their epic classic Clinton LP, when everyone warned against it, to then come back with the equally classic Handcream for A Generation, to further flip the record with recordings featuring Bubbley Kaur. The fact that they have stuck to their guns has led to the reduction in how popular they are yet to come, for there is still no one doing anything like them.

The name ‘Tjinder Singh' sounds like 'bells do ring’, and his voice is ‘unspun silk’ – not bad descriptions for a man whose name translates to Fire. The heat is on your ears, and their forthcoming album Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast shows no let up in the programme.

David Ingram, Writer and Presenter 105.6 Radio Scotland

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