EPR Weekly Roundup 2017 #6 W/C 6th February 2017

01 - Trakthor

Today Wild Beasts release two previously unheard tracks entitled Soft Future and Blood Knowledge. Soft Future is the band’s first ever instrumental track, and is available to download as a special end-of-year giveaway below.

Over the past couple of months Wild Beasts and Parisian animator Mattis Dovier have been working together to create an interactive GIF-novel (po.st/SFNovel) to accompany Soft Future and Blood Knowledge. The project forms part of The Jameson Works. You can watch the band creating the GIF novel and read an article about the project in Creative Review (po.st/GIFCreativeReview).

Soft Future

Wild Beasts - Soft Future

Way Out

Adam talks to author, actor and Python, Michael Palin about travel writing, Monty Python films and erm, death.
Thanks to Seamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support.

For links and pictures related to this episode visit adam-buxton.co.uk

EP.28 - MICHAEL PALIN

Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon - Around (Sonic Boom Open Aspect Remix Edit)

Memphis Industries are delighted to announce the signing of electronic duo WARM DIGITS aka Newcastle based Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis. Their first emission will be “End Times (Featuring Field Music)”. 

A new album, loosely themed around a present-day that teeters between celebration and devastation, is in the works for 2017 but in the meantime End Times serves as a dramatic and timely foretaste, a contender for first dance at the apocalypse disco.    

Field Music’s Peter Brewis has taken the contemporary atmosphere of looming catastrophe and filtered it through the song's incipient funk and disco flavours, and asks: Could this really be the End Times? In early 2017, this is now starting to feel less like speculation and more like reportage.

Warm Digits’ Andrew and Steve says of the collaboration with Field Music:

“When we first started looking for vocalists, long-time collaborators Field Music were a natural fit, having been DIY kindred spirits in the North East for as long as Warm Digits have existed”. 

WARM DIGITS are the Newcastle-upon-Tyne duo that, in the words of legendary DJ/producer Andrew Weatherall, create “Machine funk kraut-a-delia – it’s rather lovely!”.  Warm Digits' brew of live drums, guitar and electronics betray a love of Neu!, Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, My Bloody Valentine and Boards Of Canada. Motorik percussion, electronic basslines, Keith Levene-style guitar chops and squelchy analogue warmth are accompanied by live visuals in performances that have graced the Psych Fests of both London and Liverpool, seen them support the likes of Goblin, Modeselektor, ESG, St. Etienne, Moon Duo and many more, toured the UK with British Sea Power and blown the audience away at Supersonic and many other festivals. Their blistering live sets of "krautophonic blizzard-wave" have to be seen to be believed.

For their new recordings, the band have sharpened up all the elements of their sound for a set of crisp, propulsive and melodically rich songs, and for the first time on selected songs have collaborated with some of their favourite vocalists:  Peter Brewis of Field Music, Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne, Devon Sproule, and Mia La Metta of Beards. 

Warm Digits will be performing alongside Butthole Surfers, The Residents, Michael Rother and More at the Safe As Milk Festival April 21-23.

They will also be performing the soundtrack (originally commissioned by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley) to First World War documentary “Asunder” at the Barbican in London on 12 February, alongside Field Music.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warmdigits
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarmDigits
Website: http://warmdigits.co.uk
Packshot: http://smarturl.it/endtimesart
Press shot: http://smarturl.it/warmdigitsphotos

Wireless World

Warm Digits - End Times (feat. Field Music)

Mark Lanegan announces details of his new album 'Gargoyle.' Out on April 28th, 2017 via Heavenly Recordings.

Pre-order 'Gargoyle' on vinyl or CD: http://heavenlyemporium.com/buy/gargoyle-4/

Nocturne - Mark Lanegan Band

Transmission III

Furnace Moon

Taken from the album "Through The Wound The Light Comes In" released March 2017 by Cruel Nature Records

Recorded during January 2017 at The Sound Room, Gateshead (UK). Mixed and mastered by M.P. Wood

Art by Tom McCarthaigh

Through The Wound The Light Comes In

Dipper recorded by WSRS member Simon Elliott. Dippers are small, stout, short-tailed, short-winged, strong-legged birds. They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. Dippers’ calls are loud and high-pitched, being similar to calls made by other birds on fast rivers; the call frequencies lying within a narrow range of 4.0-6.5 kHz, well above the torrent noise frequency of <2 kHz. Dippers also communicate visually by their characteristic dipping or bobbing movements, as well as by blinking rapidly to expose their pale upper eyelids as a series of white flashes in courtship and threat displays.

White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus

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Furnace Moon

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