Spore City 

taken from our 4th Album Spore City Survey.

https://circuitbreakerband.bandcamp.com/album/spore-city-survey

'Spore City Survey' is Circuit Breaker's first album in over 4 years. In the interleaving period, each band member pursued solo projects, which effectively divided the constituent components of the band in half. Peter released a trio of EPs focussing on guitar and singing, whilst most notably Edward's Editions Mego released LP 'The Oystercatcher', (under the moniker ELS), reduced his synthesizer compositions down to their most minimal and foreboding modality.

The music contained within the new album simultaneously harks back to earlier releases of the group, with looser, more improvisational song-structures, whilst also hinting at possible new horizons. There is recalibrated instrumentation and a greater focus on instrumental compositions. When the voice does appear, the lyrics are far more opaque than their previous agitprop, but the atmosphere is broadly the same. Despite a new beginning, this is undoubtedly the same group once described by Julian Cope as 'Disturbing and cantankerous… a complete, almost hermetically-sealed worldview of considerable force.'

Spore City

Copley Medal - excerpt from "Pijor Dolor"

Buy here: http://blankeditions.bigcartel.com/product/apostille-virile-strain-transmission-the-blank-tapes-08 

The insidious nature of doubt, like a dormant disease, breaking your surface periodically, a pox un-summoned. Virile Strain Transmission was an attempt to erase the contagion of doubt from “apostille’s” psychic apparatus, by magnifying each one. It was also an attempt to pull apart the practises which had become ingrained: once you learn something it becomes a crutch, a means to support yourself in unknown terrain. I was interested in being in unknown terrain without a crutch, up shit creek paddle-less. Learning tricks of the trade builds up your resistance to change, but eventually doubt breaks the surface, makes you question what you’re doing. Doubts have no mercy. They’re always there, sometimes buried, sometimes a full-blown rash. Virile Strain Transmission was an attempt to learn by unlearning, to explore all the doubts I had, blow them out of proportion, examine them and be without mercy. 

L.A. River (from VIRILE STRAIN TRANSMISSION, Blank Editions Cassette)

Roland MS-1 stereo digital sampler connected into a feedback loop.

Sampler is emptied of all samples, feedback is manipulated using the unit's built in controls.  No other instrumentation used.

Multiple output recordings are made using various speaker and microphone placements, recording locations etc.

17 October 2013

A guest mix of banging beats and wandering electronica by one of Seagrave's label runners Blood Room. 

full info // http://wp.me/p5WMjC-5j
visit // www.seagraverecords.com
email // spoolsoutradio@gmail.com
tweet // @Tristan_Bath

Blood Room's Spool's Out Mix

Laughing Out, a three track 7" pop single, released by The Tapeworm's Wormhole imprint, released August 12th in a limited edition of 123 copies

Pre-order and further info...
https://touchshop.org/product_info.php?cPath=103&products_id=785

Screenprint of a legendary double-act by Lukas Julius Keijser

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - Laughing Out (out August 12th)

2 October 2016

Transistor
The Horde
12" (E212)

Release date: April 2017
http//www.entracte.co.uk/projects/transistor-e212/

1. Never Again
2. Swallowed the Brim
3. The Horde

Transistor formed in 2009 when Franck Vigroux was performing in NYC 
where Ben Miller led several projects. Vigroux was in a creative transition 
suggesting a stripped down electro-industrial sound with the latter as 
lead singer. Miller had sung in many bands before but never solely as a 
lead singer. The new challenge was intriguing. Shows were set up with 
Vigroux’s sub-bass and extreme frequencies blowing more than one PA 
system. They struck up an overseas collaboration releasing a self-titled 
EP. While sporadically performing in NYC and Europe, Transistor returned
to the studio for their full length LP Din of Eons released in 2013. All the 
while, French filmmaker Gregory Robin had been shooting a documentary
(Transistor; 2015) of the duo’s goings-on.

This year Vigroux and Miller present their newest work, The Horde.

Edition of 200 copies
Mastered by Jacques Beloeil

The Horde

Transistor (E212; 2017)

Track from forthcoming record 'Ink' on Stairwell Editions.
stairwelleditions@gmail.com

Wrist (I) And (II)(2017)

This self titled mini-album is the debut solo release from Circuit Breaker singer Peter Simpson. Running with the mantle that post-punk was actually prog in disguise, the record evokes that particular vein of popular music, in the 80s, where the prior generation of outward thinking rockers re-energised their approach by absorbing the new-wave. 

Fans of Peter Hammill’s K-Group albums, Bill Nelson’s Red Noise or even the Eno-inflected John Cale Island period, will no doubt recognise elements of each in these 6 mazy compositions. 

The songs are driven forward by knotty and frantic guitar work, twisting and turning whilst being bathed in brassy washes of FM synth. Scatterings of drum machine are prone to suddenly appear and there is a whole range of other electronic detritus woven into the surface, however the songs all orbit around Peter's vocals. A 'love them or hate them' element in his group Circuit Breaker, they are given full prominence here in a roll-of-the-dice which appears to be aiming for total sonic disclosure!

Spore City

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