Bricolage head @fragilex, returns for his first standalone release on the label since 2019's "The Butterfly Effect".

"The Great Brain Robbery" sees a continuation of his exploration of all things cerebrum based. Both in humans and machines.

The narrative that runs throughout is one of "What If?"

What if we could download our consciousness? What if we could upload them into machines? What if those were hacked into? What if they were modified?

The music itself is a series of complex and futuristic soundscapes welded onto sturdy broken beats and accelerated percussive transmissions. Electronic grey matter illuminated with flashing neurons and intricate, mutated circuitry, communicating with viral chain reactions. There's elements of ambient, IDM, techno and drum n bass scattered throughout this propulsive and dynamic journey.

Will the machines take over? Can we stop them?

Limited Edition cassette and download available @
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-brain-robbery-bc077

Music by Fragile X
Artwork by Fragile X
Mastering by DFHF

Grey and black sandwich C40 cassette in eco-natural recycled 'O' card casing.

Each cassette comes with 1 of 54 unique "The Great Brain Robbery" playing cards. Each card will be picked at random for every purchase. The two Joker cards from the pack will come with an extra surprise...

Digital download comes with a bonus high quality PDF comic version of "The Great Brain Robbery" narrative.

The Great Brain Robbery (bc077)

Tape / DL

Fragile X - Mecha (from "The Great Brain Robbery" EP)

New EP "The Great Brain Robbery" is coming out on Bricolage April 14th.

Limited edition cassette and digital

Pre order link below. Tape comes with a unique "Fragile X" playing card.
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-brain-robbery-bc077

Tape and Digital

Localmotion

Our third release of 2023 comes from Urgula. Following on from his much lauded "Frequency Wars" EP on the label back in 2020, the Glaswegian producer returns to Bricolage with his first full length release in the form of "Caustic Manifest(o)".

An album inspired in part by Italian futurism, the dark and hypnotic soundscapes on show here give privy to the idea of traversing through galaxies, planets and moons. With dynamic, pulsing and energetic movements, we launch from earth and are propelled upwards into orbit and beyond with a cluster of dystopian bleeps and alien-like atmospherics that teleport us into a hyper space soundtrack of serrated percussion, spiraling modular tones and extra terrestrial sound design.

This is club music for the worlds above us.

@urgula

Caustic Manifest(o) (bc078)

Caustic Manifest(o)

Urgula - Arrakis (from the "Caustic Manifest(o)" album)

We welcome Glaswegian producer @hellosulci to the label with the release of her debut, "Before The Echo".

The story of Sulci is an inspiring one. She was born with tinnitus and partially deaf meaning that she struggled to appreciate and experience music throughout her childhood in the early 2000's. Almost shutting music out of her life completely through frustration. As she reached her teens she began learning piano and guitar as a way of escapism and adapted a new concentration on how to immerse herself in sound. She also began recording acapella takes of her own voice on her iPhone and layering them together to make purely vocal soundscapes. Shortly thereafter she picked up Ableton software and started to make backing tracks and accompaniments for her multi range vocals.

This journey leads us to "Before The Echo".

It's an album rich in emotion and depth. Carefully pieced together to tell a story. It pulls together elements of ambient, electronica, garage, chamber pop, choral, sampledelia and funk. Quite the cocktail.

The result is a colourful and vibrant palette of sounds that immediately obtain a signature aesthetic for this fresh new producer. Stripped back and slowed down garage style beats intertwining with layered vocals alongside a mix of brooding soundscapes that are juxtaposed with some more uptempo numbers that come with an experimental pop edge.

There's a specific tone that makes intermittent appearances throughout at the start and close of a few tracks. They act as a reminder and recognition of her own struggles to reach a comfortable space in the world of audio.

We, for one, are glad that she has reached that destination. 

Available @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-echo-bc079

Before The Echo (bc079)

Before The Echo

Sulci - Yugen (from the "Before The Echo" album)

"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium."

A quartet of water based soundscapes, inspired by early mornings swimming in the sea and late nights listening to the waves.

DOSAGE
* This medicine is for aural administration only
* Administer with a high quality sound system
* Intake with water and light

This prescription was concocted lovingly at "The Light At The End Of The Tunnel" pharmaceutical studios.

soundcloud.com/fragilex

https://latelabel.bandcamp.com/album/late-17-lueur-aubade

Music : J. Gorecki
Artwork : J. Gorecki
Mastering : J. Gorecki

LATE 17 : Lueur Aubade

Fragile X - Saltwater Symphony

https://soundcloud.com/minimal_drone_grl

Three and a half years after her debut album, "Ancestral Origins" was released, we welcome the return of Canadian sound sculptor and field recording specialist, Minimal Drone GRL, to Bricolage.

Her new album, "Through A Green Lens", follows further along the storytelling path that was introduced on her debut. This latest audio collage digs deeper into her journey and encapsulates the various places that she has inhabited throughout her life. There's references to the suburbs, cities and the countryside.

Travelling is also a big part of Joanne's life and the sights and sounds of the places she has visited have inspired a stirring whirlwind of affection and memories that are laid out here, among the soundscapes on offer.

When you combine the elements of home life and travelling the result is "Through A Green Lens". Joanne's life through her eyes.

This stunning sophomore album effortlessly weaves together facets of ambient, dream pop, vaporwave and electronica.

The MDG signature sound has always been expansive in nature and encompassing in emotion. "Through A Green Lens" continues that approach but with an evolution on the production side. Every sound has its place along the voyage and every new chapter of her story unfolds like a conversation with an old friend around a campfire.

Warm, rich and brimming with life, this is the perfect album to take you away to another place for an hour. Wherever that place may be.

Available @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/through-a-green-lens-bc080

Mastering : https://soundcloud.com/richard-jones-215

Tape / Digital

Minimal Drone*GRL - A Distant Memory (from the "Through A Green Lens" album)

New track on the "Cymatics" compilation on LATE.

https://latelabel.bandcamp.com/album/late-18-cymatics

LATE 18 : Cymatics

Two Minutes Of Your Time

Great to be back on LATE with a new track, Mirrored.

Thanks to Fragile X for the awesome mastering job!

The compilation is released Friday November 10th :)

https://latelabel.bandcamp.com/album/late-18-cymatics

Mirrored

he gifted me a broken heart.

Crystal Perfect

Time to get a little spooky as we ease into Halloween!
Mangrove->Resonator->Sealegs
modulation from Just Friends, Ochd, Maths and Cold Mac

251030 - Disquiet

'Bricolage' is an underground electronic label based in Glasgow. We specialize in distinctive sonic adventures from both local and global producers. Our aim is to give productive and imaginative artists a platform of complete creative freedom from which to express themselves.

We are currently not accepting demos at the moment due to a full release schedule being lined up into 2025 and beyond.

CURRENT RELEASE : Wilks "A Soul To Borrow"
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/a-soul-to-borrow-bc096

PREVIOUS RELEASE : Multiplex "Colour Kinetica"
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/colour-kinetica-bc095

estd. 2015

Bricolage was founded and is managed by @fragilex