DJ Mag - "Twisted electro-pop bounce" 

iDJ - "Sounds like it was made by James Brown in a factory entirely inhabited by Japanese gremlins and hobbits.....Super. Mario" 4/5 

Piccadilly Records - Single of the week - "Karoshi Bros "Love The World" 45, our record of the week and a favourite of everyone from Erol Alkan and Jerry Bouthier to Marc Riley and John Kennedy. It's cute, it's catchy, it's ace!" 

Subba Cultha.com - Single of the Month - "Oh yes, those electro sounds, that shifting groove, like Afrika Bambaata at a (nu) rave being sucked under the DJ console desk by Aphex Twin - genius!" 

Artrocker - "This is CSS meeting Human League at a warehouse party" 

Musicweek - "Super catchy, slightly twisted dance-pop that leaves a lasting impression on the listener. Repeat listen appeal" 5/5 

Fatboy Slim - "Loving the karoshi bros on we are woodville Magik j 'love the dub' is the killer, though the original has good pop appeal" 

The Loose Cannons - "real surprise this one... lovin the prodn and vocal on original and johnson mix. def support on kiss show.. freshhhhhnessnicely" 

John Kennedy (X-Posure / XFM - London) - "I do love this track. The original is great” 

Jerry Bouthier (Kitsune / Boombox / M8) - “Love The World is infectious to say the least – think Seelenlufts Manilla produced by Richard X (those fat Numan/League synths)and you’re getting close” 9/10 

Pete Tong (Radio 1) - "something for the party season..." 

Nemone (Radio 6) - "yes i like!" 

Jamie Wirth (BangGang) - "this is awesome!!! cant wait to play it on friday. will be caning this for sure. so good to have something that is dancefloor and fun without it been french noise or fidget for once..dope!!" 

Jonny Melton (Nag Nag Nag - London) - "this is my top tune of the moment-fantastic" 

Jonty Skruff - "we LOVE Love the world: a killer track: works fantastically on the dancefloor every time!!!!!!!-)))) the Karoshi Bros rock" 

Colin Peters (Manumission / Ibiza Rocks / Prohibition Paris - Ibiza, England, France, Italy, Spain) - "Excellent track Ill go for the original as my favourite mix but the mixes are superb as well. I want to make music like this" 

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"Machine funk kraut-a-delia - it's rather lovely!" Andrew Weatherall

You’d be hard pressed to disagree with the seminal DJ and producer listening to ‘Keep Warm… with the Warm Digits’ (Distraction Records), an album that comes as though arriving from a distant time, where music still only saw limitless horizons and endless sonic possibilities. Warm Digits’ duo Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis’ bewitching debut LP is undoubtedly steeped in the lineage of the 1970s experimentalism of the likes of Neu!’s hypnotic repetition and the open-minded philosophies of Brian Eno, but it’s testament to the pair’s own broad visions that in 2012 these touch stones have been sculpted into a sound that retains a refreshing sense of modern vitality.

Hodson and Jefferis are a trans-Pennines collaborative project – something referenced by the title of the track ‘Trans-Pennine Express’ - with both having history as mainstays of Newcastle and the North East of England’s intimate but ever evolving music community. Though Andrew has since moved to the more traditional cultural powerhouse of Manchester, he retains close links with the region, recently collaborating with old friends, Sunderland’s Field Music, to help them record the unique ‘One Copy’ in the North West’s Lauriston Gallery. It’s an album whose sole copy is owned by the creators as a statement against the free streaming and sharing culture becoming dominant in music and Field Music’s David Brewis returned the favour to his old pal appearing here on bass. Hodson also runs Seed Studios in Trafford and has worked as a producer with the likes of Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and modern folk duo Cath and Phil Tyler among others.

Jefferis for his part comes from a more glitch-electronica background, something that remains evident within the vortex of Warm Digits enveloping sound; previous releases from him have come under the name Cathode for the likes of Expanding Records, Static Caravan and Distraction Records. Combined the pair have taken their previous wanderings to a new level; forming whilst both still living in Newcastle, they developed from a techno-influenced laptop duo into a more panoramic, texturally aware couple after trying their hand at live score work for Canadian film maker Norman McLaren. Rehearsals for this saw the opening developments of what is now a thrilling semi-improvised brew of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics, dual-laptop electro, swathes of no-wave guitar and frantic free jazz drumming. It says much for their openness and mastery of such dexterity that their debut LP easily manages to contain these myriad influences, working them into a cohesive whole.

With previous remix work for Unkle and Maximo Park, existing fans including BBC Radio 6music’s Marc Riley and a newly blossoming live show that’s seen the pair support Goblin and Modeselektor to name just two - their 21st century krautrock hybrid is more than capable of crossing over to the dance floor.  Warm Digits look set to take the centre stage themselves in 2012, with ‘Keep Warm With … The Warm Digits’ set to make them hot property in the months to come.


The stems (these are the raw parts of the tracks, like the drum stem, the vocal stem, the guitar stem etc that are put together in a final mix to produce the finished track) appear under the track names alone. The way each tracks stem is constructed is simple. Rather than uploading each individual stem in turn, for each song we have placed the stems together in a line to produce one long track, a compilation of the all songs stems, approximately 30 mins long. Each track starts with the vocal stem, and then is followed by the rest of the stems, guitars etc. Each individual stem is separated from the next by a short loud burst of a square wave. So once you have downloaded all the compiled stem into your sequencer (Ableton, Pro Tools etc), you can chop each individual stem before the square wave and line up the square waves so the stems all start together at the correct point.
 
'Quicken The Heart' was recorded by Maximo Park in LA over 5 weeks in September and October for 2008 with producer Nick Launay, known for working with PiL, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs amongst many others. The album was released worldwide on Warp Records on May 11th 2009. If you're not too familiar with the record, full mixed versions of each of the 12 tracks are available here to listen to. Look for the track names followed by the word 'sine', indicating that a sine wave sound has been placed periodically through the tracks to stop them being passed around for free. Don't worry - you'll get the gist of the tracks despite this. 
Lukas and The Park.


This page is only for you to send me emails and links for tracks for inclusion on my radio show / dj sets.

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