The 6 tracks of BOXT EP are the first offering from Preston/Manchester based electronic duo Otherchannels. Hiphop ethics on sampling and structures are firmly in place here however BOXT aims to broaden the palette of conventional Hiphop and keep the heads nodding. Groove driven beats and melodic vocal samples contrast against saturated tape loops for a hazy lofi trip that lands the listener somewhere seemingly unfamiliar.

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Otherchannels
Live at SFTOC 2018
Tape/Digi
Released 26th February 2021

Composed especially for Sounds From The Other City, 2018, Otherchannels announce their first release in recent years. The Manchester based experimental live band comprised of Carl Brown (Them There Records) Tim Crompton (Decaying Spheres) and Richard T Holmes meet for a session of soaring analogue drones and bowed guitars forging a fully saturated audio transmission with a near-spiritual effect. On the A side, lulling acoustic guitar loops and smudged VHS samples nestle in the noise of CMYK Day Parts 1 and 2 as the band build new layers of fuzz and feedback into a slow motion piece of heavy ambient. The B side offers a more low end kind of liberation in the form of two live versions of studio tracks which repeat into forever ending the blissed-out northern raga on a climactic high.

‘A wall of noise and melody that ebbs and flows, flutters and surges to a cathartic and joyous climax.' - Joe Maclaren, Concréte Tapes

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