Timothy Clerkin

Timothy Clerkin - Unborn
Out 24th May 2019

Label linchpin @timothyclerkin returns to Ransom Note Records with the 'Unborn' EP, home to four brand spanking new rave bangers!

The first track to be unleashed is ‘Primary Function’, which sounds like a dubbed-out Boards of Canada on a particularly warped mushroom trip.

Timothy’s music has brought us many special moments over the past few summers and seems bound to do so again, with the new EP already getting played by the likes of Optimo, Lena Willikens and Andrew Weatherall.

After cutting his teeth as one half of Eskimo Twins, Clerkin launched his solo career in 2014 under the now-retired Heretic moniker. Having released on labels including Throne of Blood, Hard Fist and Tusk Wax, he’s since graduated to running his own Insult To Injury imprint from his new base in Amsterdam.

More Info / Pre-order: https://timothyclerkin.bandcamp.com/album/unborn

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Unborn

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Timothy Clerkin - Primary Function

Timothy Clerkin has long been a staple figure of the UK club scene. His new EP for Ransom Note Records, 'Unborn', establishes his vision as a forward-thinking force in UK acid house.

For his #PHANTASYMIX, Clerkin explores the sounds and producers currently inspiring his incredible live set and productions.

Read our brief interview with Timothy Clerkin here, then buckle up: http://phantasy-sound.lnk.to/blog

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#PHANTASYMIX Series

#PHANTASYMIX 18: Timothy Clerkin

Hot on the heels of his breakthrough ‘Serenade’ and ‘Knife Edge Heart’ 12”s, Ransom Note Records linchpin Timothy Clerkin returned earlier this year with the hotly tipped "Unborn Ep". Comprising four slices of leftfield, rave-infused behemoths, it further added to his growing catalogue of precision-tooled acid anthems. "Insult To Injury" is incredibly excited to announce a remix EP, featuring three variations on the original themes of Unborn EP, from an all-star cast of some of our favourite producers.
First up is style icon, multi-instrumentalist, DJ extraordinaire and mega-producer, Curses. He takes Akathisia on a dubbed out journey via chugging guitars, acidic synth stabs, swirling arpeggios and beyond. This one hits hard!

Preorder : https://insulttoinjuryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unborn-remixed-ep

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PREMIERE : Timothy Clerkin - Akathisia (Curses Remix)

Link to video:
https://www.facebook.com/timothyclerkinmusic/videos/301848457357429

Timothy Clerkin - Red Light Radio 4th June 2019

Hot on the heels of his breakthrough ‘Serenade’ and ‘Knife Edge Heart’ 12”s, Ransom Note Records linchpin Timothy Clerkin returned earlier this year with the hotly tipped Unborn EP. Comprising four slices of leftfield, rave-infused behemoths, it further added to his growing catalogue of precision-tooled acid anthems. We’re incredibly excited to announce a remix EP, featuring three variations on the original themes of Unborn EP, from an all-star cast of some of our favourite producers. 

First up is style icon, multi-instrumentalist, DJ extraordinaire and mega-producer, Curses. He takes Akathisia on a dubbed out journey via chugging guitars, acidic synth stabs, swirling arpeggios and beyond. This one hits hard! 

We at R$N Towers were so impressed with techno overlord Mike Davis’s recent Anti-Mimesis EP that we simply had to ask him for a remix. He whips down Some Kind Of Threat’s trousers and has his filthy Techno way with it. Not for the faint of heart, this rolling techno odyssey will leave you sweaty, panting and depleted. 

Finally, one of R$N’s core artists and globe-trotting, acid mega-star, we welcome back Madrid’s Bawrut, who turns Unborn into a bouncing, uplifting rave anthem, full of lovely, bubbling analogue synthesisers and a drop that will have you pogoing on the spot.

Unborn: Remixed

Timothy Clerkin - Unborn (Bawrut Remix)

Rinse FM France Monthly Live Radioshow - July 2019 Episode
w. Timothy Clerkin (@timothyclerkin)
1st hour : Remain
2nd hour: Timothy Clerkin

Listen to Tim's latest EP on Ransom Note Records here:
https://soundcloud.com/timothyclerkin/sets/timothy-clerkin-unborn-ep-1
Remixes by Curses and Bawrut here:
https://soundcloud.com/timothyclerkin/sets/timothy-clerkin-unborn-remixed

Due to the radio engineers more than deserved vacation times in August, expect the next show on the first wednesday of september at 8pm CET.
We'll start this new season with Javi Redondo.

Rinse France Podcast

Rinse FM Podcast - Remain with Timothy Clerkin - July 2019

Out on 4th October via Throne of Blood Records

Timothy Clerkin - Acia: on BBC 6 Music 6th September 2019

From the haze of that unknown place stumbles an amorphous form, babbling incoherent and languidly forcing themselves upright. The silhouette now ridged and fixed, begins running fiercely towards an unseen target. Bursting out of the unseen, rushing into the sterile, luminosity of street lights, the figure now rabid and ravenous. Moving fluidly through the bustle of populated streets, dodging, bounding over implements, pouncing on empty space. Through fields, through forest, upwards upon cliff faces, plunging into the midnight blue of icy pools, an outline relentlessly chasing a spectre lost in the dark.

Taking inspiration from tropical climates and vintage synthesisers, Ransom Note family Timothy Clerkin returns with his new release, "Kuiba" off his upcoming Acia EP. Released on the trailblazing NYC label, Throne of Blood records, Clerkin’s genre bending, anthemic, pounding cuts are sure to kill dance floors the world over.

Acia EP

PREMIERE: Timothy Clerkin - Kuiba [Throne Of Blood]

Time to welcome Timothy Clerkin on our podcast series !  Based in Amsterdam, the british DJ/Producer has been releasing records, playing live & DJ’ing all over the place since 2010.
After spending a number of years cutting his teeth as one half of DJ duo the "Eskimo Twins", he has been releasing music under various solo names for a number of years now.
Ransom Note affiliate, he released several eps for our friends from the other side of the channel and also launched recently his own label ‘Insult To Injury’. Expect much more to come  from this prolific gentleman !

LYO#146 / Timothy Clerkin

Time To Rise
All Masks Down
Time To Set Us Free
All Chains Broken For Now

FM Music Show #022 Timothy Clerkin - Rebellion
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Artwork by Daniel Rajcsanyi (soundcloud.com/djflorianboehm)

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FM Music Show #022 Timothy Clerkin - Rebellion

Feed Your Head - Timothy Clerkin Guest Mix 8/12/19

The lead track from Timothy's 2018 vinyl EP on Ransom Note Records, featuring the vocal talents of Natalie Reiss.

This version was recorded live in 2019 and is aimed more at the dance floor, as part of Clerkin's slamming live show.

Check out a full live set on Red Light Radio here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9A5UAGC_EE&t=1989s

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Timothy Clerkin - Knife Edge Heart (Live) [SNIPPET]

Bandcamp: https://homodrop.bandcamp.com/releases

Timothy Clerkin -​ ​Catatumbo Lightning

From naught to believer in 60 seconds, Timothy Clerkin returns to Insult To Injury (the label he runs with perennially on-point platform Ransom Note) with three rave verses torn from the ultimate late night good book. ‘Psalm’ takes us back to the oldest churches; big pads, lush chords, rushes galore, it’s a true dedication to the foundations but done with 2020 vision and production.

‘Slave Too’ follows with some serious up-a-gear oomph; full-on breaks, savage detuned stabs, it’s 1992 again, it’s 2am and everyone’s invited… Including the legend that is Jas Shaw who’s been an inspiration for Clerkin for many years (the Eskimo Twins were actually formed outside a Simian gig at The Cockpit in Leeds many years ago) Flipping the rave but maintaining the pressure, Jas rolls out a juggernaut damager with full emphasis on those pounding kicks and the endless mutations in and around the groove. Heads-down, prepare to blast.

Finally we wrap up the business in the warped and woozy spirit Timothy intended. ‘Exist Between The Spaces’ is disarming, strange, trippy and unconventional. It’s the finale every epic rave requires and the message in the title can’t be faulted either.

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Psalm EP

Timothy Clerkin - Exist Between The Spaces [ITI#010]

Link to video: https://www.facebook.com/timothyclerkin/videos/1507609759403342/

1. Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Illusion Of Time
2. Timothy Clerkin - Exist Between The Spaces
3. Boreal Massif - Low Forties
4. C.A.R. - Slow Burner
5. Holy Loaf - False Summit
6. Herman - Kenkiliba (Center of the Universe Remix)
7. Rico Casazza - Purplewave (No Moon Remix)
8. Earth Trax - I'm Not Afraid
9. Sherø - Berlin Moon
10. Timothy Clerkin - Psalm
11. Johannes Albert - Wing House - (Shan Remix)
12. Timothy Clerkin - Slave Too
13. Squarepusher - Terminal Slam

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Timothy Clerkin on Red Light Radio 10th Feb 2020

Smoke ebbed and flowed through the warehouse, engulfing all dancers in its path. Through the haze you could make out countless sweaty writhing bodies, eyes closed or heads down; each and every one lost in their own world. Their hips oscillating and swaying with every kick and stab that punctured the room. Their bodies were slave to the rhythms. 

Close family Timothy Clerkin pays tribute the foundations of rave music with a contemporary vision with his new EP Psalm. Set for release on his own Insult To Injury imprint, that he runs alongside us at R$N HQ, it features three originals torn from the late night good book. 'Slave Too' - which also gets a remix on the flip from Simian Mobile Disco's Jas Shaw - takes things up a gear following opener 'Psalm', bringing with it heavy breaks and detuned stabs that transport us back to the early 90s.

PREMIERE: Timothy Clerkin - Slave Too [Insult to Injury]

Music by the late, great Andrew Weatherall, selected and mixed by his friend Timothy Clerkin. More info via: https://crackm.ag/32GBUQZ

Andrew Weatherall – Mixed by Timothy Clerkin

buy there : https://insulttoinjury.lnk.to/PsalmEP

From nought to believer in 60 seconds, https://soundcloud.com/timothyclerkin returns to Insult To Injury (the label he runs with perennially on-point platform Ransom Note) with three rave verses torn from the ultimate late night good book. ‘Psalm’ takes us back to the oldest churches; big pads, lush chords, rushes galore, it’s a true dedication to the foundations but done with 2020 vision and production.

‘Slave Too’ follows with some serious up-a-gear oomph; full-on breaks, savage detuned stabs, it’s 1992 again, it’s 2am and everyone’s invited… Including the legend that is Jas Shaw who’s been an inspiration for Clerkin for many years (the Eskimo Twins were actually formed outside a Simian gig at The Cockpit in Leeds many years ago) Flipping the rave but maintaining the pressure, Jas rolls out a juggernaut damager with full emphasis on those pounding kicks and the endless mutations in and around the groove. Heads-down, prepare to blast.

Finally we wrap up the business in the warped and woozy spirit Timothy intended. ‘Exist Between The Spaces’ is disarming, strange, trippy and unconventional. It’s the finale every epic rave requires and the message in the title can’t be faulted either.

Timothy Clerkin - Psalm EP (incl. Jas Shaw Remix)

PREMIERE : Timothy Clerkin - Psalm

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/VZ6W93P4gG4

"In order to help alleviate the isolation and paranoia some people may be feeling at the moment, tonight I’ve decided to play an hour of borderline unlistenable, bleak and desolate music, mostly from the noisier end of the spectrum… erm, enjoy? x"

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Timothy Clerkin on Red Light Radio 14th March 2020

Timothy Clerkin has long been part of a bubbling, burgeoning acid house underground in the UK. In his previous partnership, Eskimo Twins, he became known as one of the best resident DJs in the UK, skilfully warming up for some of the biggest DJs in the world with charismatic house and tempo of the sort that never felt the need to burst the BPM barrier. Then, under the name Heretic, he specialised in perfectly measured druggy ‘chug’ that stood out from the pack.

More recently, Clerkin has been operating under his given name. And although his trademarks are still much the same - sharp dress sense, even sharper electronics - his music has increased in depth and dexterity. On 2018’s ‘Knife Edge Heart’ EP, Clerkin nailed a blend of shoegaze, pop, techno and yes, acid, that recalled a history of melancholy-tinged electronics from Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, to Tin Man, or perhaps our very own Daniel Avery. On his recently-released follow-up for Ransom Note Records, ‘Unborn’, Clerkin tightens his sound and vision to even tougher, tighter form. Tellingly, the likes of Andrew Weatherall and Lena Willikens have been providing set-defining moments with ‘Primary Function’.

Having recently made the move to Amsterdam, Clerkin is focused on developing his powerful live set, as well as running The Insult To Injury label, a carefully curated overspill from the desk of Ransom Note Records. 

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