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Fried Chicken

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

ORDER 'Sonne' on 12"/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP059
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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

Planète - Visions

"Over the past year, the young Dutch duo have definitely paid homage to their name, diligently
delivering assignment after assignment and striving for nothing but the highest grades over a
rapidly evolving curriculum of styles. With growing support from house music heavyweights
around the world, the self-styled ‘carpenters of contemporary dance music’ provide style and
substance, unafraid to dig deep into their production tool kits as well as history books.

Rally Racquet Club EP is their second installment on Made To Play and is exactly what the
title makes it out to be: a refined, classy slice of racquet club swagger coated in sunny piano
chords and a monstrous bass lick. Raw Groove pounds its way across the dance floor like a
modern day soul train, contrasting gentle breaks with a heavy, driving kick. Ace remixes from
top players Oliver $ and Samim round off the package, which combines the swanky allure of
a members-only club with the down-to-earth vibe at a house party. This summer, Homework
invite you to both."

- Made To Play press release.

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Jimpster (Freerange): Blimey! That's a cheeky little number innit! Yep, definitely into the two original tracks here. Excellent stuff.
Riva Starr (Snatch!): Lovin' Olli remix!
Tiefschwarz (Souvenir): Very nice!
Heidi (Get Physical): Super bombs...
Brodinski (Turbo): BIG EP! Amazing vibes as usual. Super summer mood!
Round Table Knights (Made To Play): Brilliant EP! All the tracks are amazing! Rally Racquet Club is better than Roger Federer!
Zombie Disco Squad (Made To Play): Olli $ is on a roll!
Fritz Zander (Suol): That's very nice. Great EP!
Dairmount (Room With A View): Amazing! This makes me so happy as Homework are always traveling in my box with me.
Sinden (Grizzly): I'm really feeling Homework's stuff. Breezy summer music! Where's the Fred Perry?
Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team (Sound Pellegrino): Full support on the whole thing. hanks!
Tim Green: Raw Groove is the one for me, thanks!
Mercury (Gomma): It's a bomb!
J.Phlip (Dirtybird): Really pretty summer vibez <3
Shir Khan (Exploited): Big comeback from my homies. Have been hammering both - originals and the Oliver $ remix to death. The Rally Racquet Club EP is music for girls & boys. Fantastic idea from Olli to drop his Doing Ya Thang hypebeat again.
Till von Sein (Pets): Doooooope. Killed it in St. Petersburg yesterday. Anthem alert!
Jamie Anderson: I'm on this! All mixes dope.
Sacha Robotti (Klasse): Cool tracks, thanks! Good to hear Samim again!
Bas Amro (Freerange): Great EP! The two originals are my favorites, especially Raw Groove. Thanks!
ONNO (Upon You): Raw Groove is my favorite, but the original and Oliver $ remix are great too!

Rally Racquet Club

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01 Nathan Fake - Fortune Bru

Jackson And His Computer Band "Blow" ( Sébastien Bouchet Remix )

1/365 underrunning

Kilter/Acacia is out now on Monkeytown Records: MonkeytownRecords.lnk.to/kilter

Mastered by Matt Colton, artwork by www.harrycresswell.com

Kilter / Acacia

Acacia

Download/buy vinyl: https://footshooterbeats.bandcamp.com/album/strange-days-ep-famous-friends

Credits

Drums, Guitar, Keys/Synths, Samples: Barney Whittaker. 
Vocals on A2: Nat Mason.
Words during interlude: Tom Jousselin.
Vocals on B1: Hadiru Mahdi.
Vocals on B2: Tom Jousselin and Izzy Risk.
Extra Keys on B2: Jack Stephenson-Oliver.

Written, Produced and Mixed by Barney Whittaker.
Mastered by Cherif Hashizume at Cafe Music Studios, London. 
Vinyl Pressing by Curved Pressings, London. 
Artwork and layout design by Joe McCrae (joemccrae.com).

Famous Friends 2017.

Download/Buy Vinyl

A1. Bosphorus

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

Whole EP Stream/Buy

Resynthesis [Mesh004]

Luke Abbott - Modern Driveway
NOTOWN 2012


Luke Abbott - Modern Driveway

Track 5 from the new beat tape 'Soft Focus', available now from vanillabeats.bandcamp.com

Still Love U

Full album (11 tracks) drops february 5th. Pre-order from here: http://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-key-full-album

01 Boys (feat. David Douglas)	
02 Lonely People 
03 On The Way (feat. Piana) 
04 Spring And Life 
05 Vintage Clown / Shadow Hunters 
06 Thanks For Fun 
07 Onetasker 
08 Wise Noise On Time (feat. Lanny May) 
09 El Diablo (Live Version) 
10 The Composer 
11 Keep On Dreaming

Dreaming in Key

Thanks For Fun

Applescal - Thanks For Fun

Written, and produced by Boddika & Joy Orbison at 'The Zoo'.

Mixed by Al Green.

Boddika & Joy Orbison - &Fate

"Itchy" is taken from the forthcoming Siriusmo album "Enthusiast" (MONKEYTOWN033) Out June 14

Siriusmo "Itchy" taken from the forthcoming album "Enthusiast" (MONKEYTOWN033) Out June 14

I'm Edward. I live in Dublin. I like all the songs, especially if those songs have guitars.

Luke Abbott - Modern Driveway

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