Favourites from the BBC Introducing Mixtape on 6Music

Jan 2016 Jams

Groundbreaking Post-Spectral track where all melody, harmony and colour is derived from a tiny fragment of recording of an electric metal saw on a construction site in London. Opening track on the album "Urban Art Music" which is available from all well-known download stores incl. - hmvdigital.com/releases/3752265

1. Metal Cutter by Neil March (created from recorded electric saw, from the album "Urban Art Music")

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'GEM' ★★★★ MOJO | 'TRIUMPH' ★★★★ UNCUT | 'VICTORIOUS' – GUARDIAN | 'A VICTORY' – BBC MUSIC
'CELESTIAL' 9/10 – DROWNED IN SOUND | 'OTHERWORLDLY' 7.3 – PITCHFORK | 'SUBLIME' – EXCLAIM
★★★★ SPIEGEL | 'EIN TRIUMPH' – DE:BUG | ★★★★ DE MORGEN | 'EEN PAREL' – FOCUS KNACK | 'PRACHTPLAAT' – GONZO 


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CONTENT: ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’. Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.

CONTEXT: On May 24th 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous & his beloved Sparklehorse, on what would be their final European tour. That night Adam invited friend and colleague Francesco Donadello to see the concert, and Francesco's guest this evening was composer Dustin O'Halloran (Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ O.S.T.). Through a strange twist of backstage conversations surrounding passport cache conundrums, and love of Italian gastronomy, a curious friendship began that now has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to savour.

As announced by Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound the self-titled debut album of A Winged Victory For The Sullen will be released worldwide on September 9, 2011 via Erased Tapes Records (except for North America where it will be out on Kranky).

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears

Music & Words -  Simon Maddison.
Guest Vocals - Natalie McCool.

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SILENT CITIES - Petrichor

MANK - Gwal-y-Filiast

The sponsorship partnership behind our Edinburgh Fringe 2014 performances of Biding Time (remix) is currently nominated for two Arts & Business Scotland awards in the Digital Innovation & International categories!

To celebrate we’re releasing From The Gutter from the Soundtrack To Biding Time (remix) as a single on Feb 1st.

The winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony which takes place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Wednesday 3rd February. Fingers crossed! 

A BAND CALLED QUINN - From The Gutter

Nonye - Bad Girl - Prod By Kang D Dreama Final

SPIRIT - SNIPPET

From the forthcoming album The Fall and Rise of...

Crayola Lectern - 04 Slow Down

'When The Angels Call Your Time' is the track that laid the foundation for Wily Bo Walker's very own dark, twisted fantasy that is his show, 'The Life and Death of… Rattlin Bone'. 

One of the major crowd-pleasing tracks in Wily Bo's 'live' set.

When The Angels Call Your Time (Radio Edit)

Childe Roland, Canadian concrete poet who resides in Llangollen, North Wales.

Jones the poem

A Streamer track opening the first release in 1999 - a concept compilation "KidNap International". An anthemic KidNap track. It was licensed by 2ManyDJs for their mashup album. Also available on the vinyl EP "Blissed" and Streamer CD album of the same name. Mail info@kidnaprecords.nl for your vinyl copy.

Streamer SC official  page soundcloud.com/streamer

Streamer feat. Private Thoughts in Public Places - Start Button

interpretation of the number pi in musical terms

Beth jones 2008 - pi

I find a lot of my likes on the BBC Introducing Mixtape and I collect as many of the tracks as possible into a Monthly package.

this is what I do with a laptop when I'm stuck on a boat, hope you enjoy it.

MANK - Gwal-y-Filiast

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