Kit Records began in 2013 as a fortnightly broadcast of homespun miscellany on London's NTS Radio, hosted by Richard Greenan. The show soon grew to encompass record releases and live events, drawing together an inspirational network of artists, musicians and writers. 
For this special show, Richard plays old favourites, together with new releases on the label, including some unheard tracks from his own solo LP, "Rehearsing Heat", which is out in the summer.
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Kit Records X Beshknow Radio - Mixed By Richard Greenan

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https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/collages-ii

Bristol-based illustrator and musician Adam Higton welcomes you back into the mossy realm of the Cosmic Neighbourhood. With each song acting as a response to a series of paper-and-scissors compositions, 'Collages II' documents the daily goings-on of an imagined world. 

Sonically, this record straddles new and old, taking modular electronics, flutes, bells and softly pattering drum machines, before colouring them all with the amber glow of some forgotten, psychedelic kids' TV programme. Higton's benign toots and echoing jingles bring to mind Daphne Oram's early delay experiments or the meandering playfulness of Tom Cameron. Radiophonic and time-worn, it still somehow sounds like the future. 

Video for 'Garden': youtu.be/ytyDB9YPLfY

Cosmic Neighbourhood - Elf House [KR21]

Recorded in 2016 for Pick Me Up festival, with the help of Object Agency. Contains elements of R. Karim, Devonanon and Eating Flowers.

Devon Loch Live at Somerset House

https://nxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meta-gesture-music

This extraordinary album contains the results of five years' worth of research into new musical instruments and interfaces. Titled Meta Gesture Music: Embodied Interaction, New Instruments And Sonic Immersion, the anthology features musicians who crossed paths during Meta Gesture Music, a research project which ran between 2012–17 at London’s Goldsmiths College in order to explore new tools and techniques for experimental music making, from live computer coding to using bike lights and solar panels as instruments. 

The compilation contains new tracks by Goldsmiths professor of media computing Atau Tanaka, both solo and in duet with composer/pianist Sarah Nicolls, as well as Tom Richards performing on his Mini-Oramics set up, Kaffe Matthews making music with sharks in the sea, xname amplifying electromagnetic fields, Laetitia Sonami performing on her patented Spring Spyre, plus Leafcutter John, Renick Bell & Steph Horak, Dane Law, and Ewa Justka.

Meta Gesture Music

Atau Tanaka & Sarah Nicolls - Suspensions [NX10]

Throw is the new single taken from new La Leif EP entitled The Violet EP -  
(Officially out on all streaming sites from 3rd of August 2018 )

Introduced to us by Ben Vince, La Leif is the moniker of 24 year old South London producer Francine Perry.

La Leif’s music is gritty, it sits somewhere between leftfiel techno and a dystopian film soundtrack. La Leif performs fully analogue, so every set is unique. As well as making music Francine co-founded and runs the London based collective for female and non-binary music producers called Omnii.

Francine is an accomplished solo performer having played gigs across he UK and in Scandinavia, Hong Kong, and the Faroe Islands. Her remix of Leiik was played on BBC Radio 6 and featured by COMPLEX and DJ Mag Italia.

  This new material takes inspiration from the urban soundworld as apposed to the natural soundworld of her debut EP ‘The Nest’. It involves field recordings taken in Berlin and London, meshing industrial sounds into a deep listening and club context.

Limited edition cassette only EP:

Buy from Big Cartel:https://blankeditions.bigcartel.com/product/la-leif-violet-ep-the-blank-tapes-25

Buy from Bandcamp: https://blankeditions.bandcamp.com/album/violet-ep

La Leif - Throw

https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-of-the-worried

For the first release on our new Kit Jr imprint, Moscow-based artist and games designer Yaffle conjures a world of oblique spells and commands, echoing the spiralling, sandbox excursions of Koji Kondo, Roméo Poirier and Aki Tsuyuko.

Yaffle - Distant [KJR01]

https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/mad-wee-light

Otherworld is Kay Logan, a multi-disciplinary artist, instrumentalist and sound engineer from Airdrie, now living in Glasgow. Her guitar and bass work in sweaty, thrashing outfits like Herbert Powell and Anxiety are an inverse corollary to the curious tapestries in which Otherworld takes shape. The preternatural stylistic sensibility Logan exhibits in all of her work isn’t limited to sound, either – she’s a prodigious visual artist with the kind of signature sartorial sensibility that could launch a thousand ships, or lookalikes. Logan’s Otherworld project is a musique concrete excursion likely to appeal to fans of Zoviet France or Coil.

Otherworld - Music For Processed Voice [KJR02]

This piece was performed as part of the Sterkfontein Composers Seminar Workshop and later at the Purpur Music Festival, where we had the privilege of working with the incredible Stockholm Saxophone Quartet.

'In Rebellion Of Time' - Galina Juritz performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

The premise is simple: I sit down with any and every South African composer and creator of music that will allow me to stick a recording device in their face, all while subjecting them each to the same questions week after week in an attempt to showcase (and catalogue) all the incredibly varied and wonderful musical voices South Africa has to offer.

This week, I am joined by Galina Juritz (The Night Light Collective/Mum Crush) and discuss nearly killing our audience with a motorcycle, unicorns in the bathtub and cosplaying as Salieri.

Featured music:
"Eine Kleine Dubstep" (Matthijs van Dijk, performed by the Signum Quartet)

"A Room Full of Pop" (Galina Juritz, performed by The Night Light Collective, Phax Trio, Brydon Bolton and Jay Latter)

"Madness: Songs of Hope & Despair" (Galina Juritz with Dizu Plaatjies, libretto by Sean Baumann, performed by Linda Nteleza, Palesa Portia Malieloa, Nolubabalo Babalwa Mdayi, Fikile Mthetwa, Monwabisi Lindi, Vuyisa Jack, Siphesihle Mdena, Lungile Halam and Ebenezer Sawuli Madoda.
Galina Juritz & Matthijs van Dijk (violins), Sarah Evans (viola), Luke Otto (cello), Graham H Strickland (upright bass), Gene Kierman (French horn) and Zeke Le Grange on saxophone, conducted by Chad Hendricks)

"Twenty More Will Come" (Galina Juritz, performed by Juliana Venter, Clement Benny & The Night Light Collective)

"Body" (Galina Juritz, performed by Galina Juritz (violin) and Joe Harmsworth (guitar)

"In Rebellion of Time" (Galina Juritz, performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet)

1. Galina Juritz

NX Records is a collaboration between Matthew Herbert's Accidental Records and the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.

In May 2013, the label launched with an introductory mixtape and live performances as part of the Puregold Festival launch at the Southbank Centre. NX Records has continued to release new, critically acclaimed music, host numerous events and run an annual pop up record shop.

The label's mission statement is to create a new model for the music industry, connecting exciting talent from the renowned creative hub of Goldsmiths – and the wider community of South East London – with the ever-experimental Accidental Records.

Our aim is to build connections between emerging artists, education, the industry and audiences. NX is a professional label that works alongside, not in opposition with, DIY artists.

NX Radio broadcasts live from the Goldsmiths Music department each Wednesday 14:00 - 18:00.

Atau Tanaka & Sarah Nicolls - Suspensions [NX10]

NX Records

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