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Taken from <a href="http://ninjatune.net/artist/jono-mccleery">Jono McCleery's </a>single <a href="http://ninjatune.net/release/jono-mccleery/ballade">'Ballade'</a>, released 26 August 2013 on Ninja Tune.

Produced by: Royce Wood Junior
Artwork by: Jack Hardwicke

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Ballade

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Jono McCleery - 'Ballade' (Djrum Remix)

Ryan Lee West reinforces his unique style of minimal electronic arrangements with a new 6-track EP – 'Sonne' out on Erased Tapes.

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Continuing on from his Odyssey EP released in 2013, Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles creates atmosphere and space whilst exploring waves of sound and rhythm, and the power of colour. With Sonne Ryan creates music to structure itself around a pulse, rather than the pulse being the defining point. 

The title track begins with “a very subtle set of melodies that repeat almost without confidence, and then gradually give way to a huge collage of colour and power”, as Ryan describes it. Not relying on a conventional beat, it’s a prime example of how an analogue synthesiser can create the power and momentum of a rhythm section. From the distorted waves in 3 Chords, growing and shrinking, to the rhythmic waves of constant speeding up and then slowing down in Recovery, it’s the Moog Voyager, Prophet and tape delay that make up the core sound of the EP. Whilst tracks like Helios, Haunt and Think Tank see West play live drums and acoustic guitar.

“I’m often looking at art in exhibitions and I always think to myself ‘why the hell don’t I have this much colour in my work?’ The answer in part I think is down to synthesis. It is very difficult to create colour without it sounding plastic. Colour in music is both the note combinations and the actual timbre of the sounds. There are lots of instances of very colourful ambient sounds, which I took great care to create for each song, using various methods – from passing analogue synths through chains of effects to chopping up random sequences of recordings and forming tiny collages." – Ryan Lee West 

ABOUT THE ARTWORK:  

Resembling the colour and vibrancy in his music, the cover art was created by South London artist Supermundane, who was also responsible for the artwork of the Odyssey EP.

TRACK LISTING:  	

A1. Sonne  A2. 3 Chords  A3. Helios  B1. Haunt  B2. Think Tank  B3. Recovery 

PRESS FOR ODYSSEY EP:

'Glorious...unabashedly epic...’ – Dummy
'Atmospheric synths swell victoriously' – XLR8R
‘Rival Consoles, is the likes of Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds' glitchy, electronic cousin’  8/10 – The 405


ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Some might be surprised that London based electronic producer Ryan Lee West, the man behind Rival Consoles, shares a home with contemporary classical composers such as Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Peter Broderick. And yet they have a lot more in common than expected. Fascinated by sound from an early age, Ryan chose to dedicate his time to studying, experimenting with and producing sound graduating from De Montfort University in Leicester. One consistent element in his musical journey has been his desire to create a more organic, humanised sound. Ryan often drafts early ideas on piano, violin and guitar, although the end result is much more electronic-laden. As an accomplished sound designer he has repeatedly performed at the Tate, and recently created a bespoke audio-visual performance for Boiler Room at the V&A. Ryan is currently composing music for a soon to be announced BBC production.

LIVE:	
	
After supporting Luke Abbott on his recent UK tour and I Break Horses on their North American tour in spring, Ryan will debut his new live set with a special release show in London, followed by a string of West Coast U.S. dates culminating in Decibel Festival in late September – more details to be announced soon. 

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: www.facebook.com/rivalconsoles · www.erasedtapes.com

Sonne

Recovery

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Rival Consoles - Recovery

Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with one of the key cuts from his forthcoming album, 'Black Sands'. Drawing as much on the rhythms of two-step as the lush soundscapes for which he’s best known, 'Eyesdown' also features a remarkable vocal from Andreya Triana and enough fuzzed-out sub-bass for a binful of dubsteppers. Classic and contemporary, melancholy and exhilarating all at once, 'Eyesdown' sounds like the kind of record Massive Attack could be making if they were starting out now.

Remix duties are taken care of by Floating Points and Warrior One. Floating Points got his break at London’s renowned CDR Sessions a couple of years back. Since then his re-edits have been picked up and championed by the likes of Gilles P and Joy Orbison. Here, he stretches the original out into a broken ballad, the vocals increasingly disembodied, the keyboards playing robot soul. Warrior One, meanwhile, give it some of their trademark ravement vibrations. Whilst Appleblim & Komonazmu do a dubbed out warm minimal version.

It’s the orignal, though, that will keep drawing the listener back – strange, beatufiul, heartfelt and memorable, 'Eyesdown' is a key staging post in Green’s continuing, remarkable musical development.

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Black Sands Remixed

Bonobo - 'Eyesdown' (Floating Points Remix)

'Silhouettes (I, II & III)' is taken from the new album 'Elaenia', out now on Pluto in the UK & Rest of World, Luaka Bop in N & S America, Inertia in Australia / NZ and Beatink in Japan.

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Silhouettes (I, II & III)

Illum Sphere
Second Sight EP

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Taken from 'Second Sight' released 19th February on Ninja Tune.

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PREMIERE : Illum Sphere -  Ritual [Ninja Tune]

Taken from the Transmissions Overseas EP - Released 28/10
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Square Lines - Shingaya Square

Radiohead - Bloom (Jamie Xx Rework)

this track (edit/remix) is from 3 years back. Know a lot of you wanted to hear it :) never released it because of the sample 
'Mum - Flow Not So Fast Old Mountain radio' . 

originally played it in this '09 mary anne hobbs guest mix   http://soundcloud.com/sbtrkt/sbtrkt-mary-anne-hobbs-guest-mix


sbtrkt - atomic peace

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix)"

Jon Hopkins - Vessel (Four Tet remix)

Concept 11 - (lumia remix)

Bedtime Stories (Austin Peralta Reinterpretation)

My contribution "Friends and Lovers" for Percussion Lab's Cambio compilation available here: http://compilation.percussionlab.com/
Other artists include: Sepalcure, Machinedrum, Braille, Mux Mool, Daedelus & more.

01 1 - Shigeto - Friends and Lovers

Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
TEXT021

Also available on vinyl LP soon.

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Written by Kieran Hebden, Ben Page and Tom Page
Recorded and mixed by Sam Shepherd on 15th July 2012

From TEXT023
Roseland/Metropolis 12"

RocketNumberNine and Four Tet - Roseland

Hand stamped vinyl and sleeve - The 'In Brackets' EP on Mister Saturday Night is now available to purchase from all good record shops

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RocketNumberNine and Four Tet - Roseland

Four Tet

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