the battles on
i know im gonna win it
but if you want
i guess i could go easy

just because were friends
doesnt mean that you can
not take this fight like a man

if you want my love
youre gonna have to try a lot harder
harder
cos if thats all youve got
youd better find another guy whos not so tough

anybody dy dy
can talk the talk they make up
but if you want it
youre better off just walking
ive seen if before
and all the boys and girls think theyd like to be on top
so baby could you be my boss

if you want my love
youre gonna have to try a lot harder
harder
cos if thats all youve got
youd better find another guy whos not so tough

and i wonder
what it means to be the best
i confess im quite alone
playing games here on my own
i pray that one day
therell be someone here with me
who is willing to compete
in vs mode

well
you should get practising
or ill beat you all night long
all night
til the morning light

if you want my love
youre gonna have to try a lot harder
harder
cos if thats all youve got
youd better find another guy whos not so tough

if you want my love
cos if thats all youve got

if you want my love
cos if thats all youve got

Eliza McCarthy & Laurie Tompkins
Years Went By
CD (E257)

Release date: April 2022
Edition of 200 copies

Eliza McCarthy: piano, keys, voice
Laurie Tompkins: music, production, voice

Begun on residency at the red studio, Aldeburgh, in January 2019.
Piano recorded by Shaun Crook at an empty Cafe Oto in April 2020.
Mastered by Yves De Mey (1–6)and Giuseppe Ielasi (7).

It started as something smooth for piano, let the notes work, 
less shouting. I sacked off that vow, took it up again, did desperate 
things to keep it all alive, and here’s the proof. 

Years Went By is a thick, unruly soup of keys and computer. 
The ornate line I wrote for Eliza is often traced and echoed by — 
or tangled up with — a second electronic voice that speaks in 
synthetic instruments and deformed recordings.

Eliza’s piano and keys need the oddest of FX to pace through 
the bog, and we both sing like torches when needed. 

Listening now, I think it’s a dreamy album, it levitates through 
a thousand grubby jumps. Like a memoir, I hope it feels like 
distance travelled, the way we stew and scrub a life. 

This is Eliza and I’s first music together. We met when I released 
her 2018 collaboration with Mica Levi on Slip.

— Laurie Tompkins


elizamccarthy.com
laurietomk.info

Years Went By

Eliza McCarthy & Laurie Tompkins (E257; 2022)

if i send u the stems can u do a breakcore remix :')

sunstarer

Big up @holysimilaun for inviting me! Such an honour <3 

Tracklist:

PRICE - Choose feat. Cecile Believe
Francis M. Gri	Stille - Part 1
swaya - Womb II feat. HAWA
Samuel Savenberg - Unsung
Rogergoon & Camille Keller - Am I Right?
Giant Claw - Loner Bug
Fausto Mercier - unfast
Blank Wall Season - A Moment Of Clarity (with Heinrich Schwarzer)
XDCVR_ - UN_L_01_HRCN_fr
woulg - The Lurch
Zoltan Fecso - Lapse
Mt. Fuyu - Ikaris
Oval - Touha
A Perfect Circle - The Hollow [constantly consuming mix]
Yosuke Tokunaga - Lengt hs
SCENTED - CL01_10
Holy Similaun - Mole Det Flios On‿Ocallat Faquilina
SY_N - T2
Lefka - Justice Never Done
Space Afrika - Meet Me At Sachas
Abdullah Miniawy x HVAD - Dirty Lanes Take ( Dirty Canes Lake )
FAUZIA - one day
Patricia Taxxon - Her Rooftop
Abul Mogard - Teatro Romano di Tuscolo
PRICE - Trust Fall

Guest Mix for Holy Similaun - TREVISO @ Paranoise Radio 09/06/2023

from 'Transcorporal Portal', forthcoming on Somewhere Press
@slowfoam

Transcorporeal Portal

Video

Slowfoam - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm

Recording of TSVI's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

TSVI at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Hamster Wheel

tibslc - rainy

heartfelt, intelligent electronics by @jakemuir

₀₂₇ 𝗷𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗶𝗿

Ware w/ Waller & Klahrk - Aaja Channel 2 - 03 05 24

🎌 www.nts.live/shows/hypnagogia

NAKAYAMA MUNETOSHI - MASSES FAR BEYOND
SUSUMU YOKOTA - HAGOROMO
NOBUYOSHI INO - WINDOW
RIDGE RACER TYPE 4 SOUNDTRACK - GARAGE TALK
SUIKINKUTSU
RHUCLE - LITTLE HUT

Pic of vinyl used here https://twitter.com/jq_music/status/935555299167166465

Hypnagogia Japan Special (NTS 20/11/17)

JQ

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