Short extracts from various full length releases, live recordings, mixes etc.

Extracts / Live / Mixes

http://www.auditoryfieldtheory.org/products/524915-phil-julian-ben-owen-between-landing

Collaborative electronics recordings from Phil Julian and Ben Owen which began after the pair met in London in 2009 while performing as part of Mark Wastell's improvised group THE SEEN.

The recordings began as a series of improvised pieces which then underwent considerable restructuring, layering and additional instrumentation resulting in three long-form, slowly evolving electronic compositions.

Phil Julian & Ben Owen // Between Landing (extract)

Excerpt from "Atlas".

5" transparent lathe cut disc and download, three tracks in total.

A - 01:33
AA - 01:45
D/L - 14:23

Recorded at EMS Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm during 2013.

Available 22nd July 2014.

http://philjulian.bandcamp.com/album/atlas

Atlas (Excerpt)

Excerpt from "Waveset / Counterbalance" C40 chrome cassette available 22/07/2014 via Beartown Records.

Various improvised recordings made in London, 2013/2014.(Serge modular synthesiser, Cracklebox, computer).

Order: beartownrecords.com/catalogue.html

Waveset (Excerpt)

The donation by Kevin Drumm to Phil Julian of a Hewlett Packard test tone generator (to avoid excess baggage charges) caught the curiosity of Dale Cornish. 

With Cornish and Julian renowned for their own releases, for a variety of labels including The Tapeworm, this chance bonding over former NASA technical equipment has led to their first collaboration. 

Their first duo performance will occur at Cafe Oto, marking five years of superb cassette imprint The Tapeworm at their event Bunch of Fives on September 16th.
 
"217" is from their first album 'Two Warhol's Worth' which will follow on The Tapeworm before the end of the year.

217 (Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - from the forthcoming album 'Two Warhol's Worth')

The donation by Kevin Drumm to Phil Julian of a Hewlett Packard test tone generator (to avoid excess baggage charges) caught the curiosity of Dale Cornish. With Cornish and Julian renowned for their own releases, for a variety of labels including The Tapeworm, this chance bonding over former NASA technical equipment has led to their first collaboration.

Composed and performed by Dale Cornish and Phil Julian

release info:
http://www.tapeworm.org.uk/ttw72.html

buy from the Touch shop:
http://touchshop.org/product_info.php?products_id=679

Personify A (Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - from 'Two Warhol's Worth')

Live four channel performance, 22nd July 2014 at Cafe OTO, London.  MC = John Chantler.

Cafe OTO (Quadraphonic Set) 22/07/14

Sequenced extracts from Phil Julian “Transcript”, which is now available from the Obsolete Units label:

<a href="http://obsoleteunits.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://obsoleteunits.com</a>/

$7 each (International orders should add $2 for the first item and $1 for each additional item).

All correspondence: paul at obsoleteunits dot com

Sound sources:
Blank cassette tapes (bulk erased, endless loop, vintage, new)
Cassette decks (mono &amp; stereo)
Personal stereo
Dictaphones

Recorded with:
Cassette recorder
Telephone induction coils
Close-range VLF detector
Piezo &amp; PVDF film tab contact microphones
Recorded throughout 2009/10
Final mix and edit 2011

Phil Julian "Transcript" (Extracts)

Maja Ratkje - Crepuscular Hour part 1

This is a 4-minute excerpt from the opening track, titled "I Support The Strike (Join A Union)", off the "Fustian Cutting" collaborative live release between Phil Julian and Kostis Kilymis.
Further info on the release, bellow.

[CS8] Phil Julian and Kostis Kilymis - Fustian Cutting

Phil Julian lives in London, and has been active in the experimental music underground since the late 90's under the alias Cheapmachines and lately under his own name. He is dedicated to analogue electronics as well as computer noise. Contact microphones, feedback and modular synthesizers are basic tools to what, after much work, could lead to the perfection of 2014's "Trace" LP or the excellent "Quiet Trade" tape. A wide spectrum from harsh noise to academic minimalism. An "anything can turn into a composition" logic. He is also a mastering engineer, he runs the Authorised Version label and he is a member of Signals group. The first thing of Phil's I listened to, was the cassette "Kept: 1994-96" which I had bought from Second Layer some years ago, meaning material recorded on four-track cassete tape during the years in its title: it provided all the reasons for the follow up. Harbinger Sound, Strange Rules, Anarchymoon, Entr'acte, and The Tapeworm are some of the labels responsible for putting his work out. Phil Julian has collaborated with The New Blockaders on some of their strongest releases, like last year's "Live At The Schimpfluch Carnival" LP featuring also Ace Farren Ford of Smegma and GX Jupitter Larsen of Τhe Haters. All these in the midst of dozens of performances in Europe and North America. One of them with Kostis Kilymis.

Kostis Kilymis hails from Thessaloniki and currently lives in London. He runs Organized Music From Thessaloniki label since mid 00's and lately co-runs Rekem Records. His work, a study on electronic composition, explores the relation between sound and space, with quietly reflective melodies, layers of rhythmic sound, noise escapism and field recordings. One can listen to all of that in last year's substantial solo release "Bethnal Greener", his career summing release, until now at least. After many releases on Entr'acte, Strange Rules, I Dischi Del Barone, Mazurka editions and others, Kostis is preparing for the next European tour, while in the past he has performed with Leif Elggren, Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Greg Pope and others. And with Phil Julian.

Sometime during the summer, and in particular just after the announcement of their then-forthcoming live set, I asked Kostis "Are you thinking of recording it?". His answer was, I think, "Let's find out". The "Fustian Cutting" cassette, contains the sonically engrossing live set of Phil and Kostis, held in Ryans Bar in Stoke Newington on the 6th of August, 2015. Within 22 minutes one can understand why it was such a good idea to eventually record it to begin with, but also to determine the magnitude of similarities between the musical perceptions of both artists. Needless to say how much we would love to hear a studio collaboration of the two.

Phil Julian - http://cmx.org.uk
Kostis Kilymis - www.kostiskilymis.com

Edition details: 
30 hand-numbered black cassette tapes (C21) with full colour labels and 4pp j-card covers on 150gsm paper

Phil Julian / Kostis Kilymis - I Support The Strike (Join A Union)[excerpt]

Laughing Out, a three track 7" pop single, released by The Tapeworm's Wormhole imprint, released August 12th in a limited edition of 123 copies

Pre-order and further info...
https://touchshop.org/product_info.php?cPath=103&products_id=785

Screenprint of a legendary double-act by Lukas Julius Keijser

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - Laughing Out (out August 12th)

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind' CD released by Hideous Replica, June 2016. 
http://hideousreplica.co.uk/hr12

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind'

The Two Ronnies, The Pet Shop Boys, Suicide and now Dale 'n' Phil. 6.2.16 marks the first live outing of much new material from these two excellent human beings - and it also marks possibly the only time we’ve seen proper heckling in OTO’s usually library quiet atmos. “It’s not Whitehouse definitely!” someone yells, but what is? We can't repeat Dale's real retort - you'll have to download the whole asymetric out-of-sync software driven half hour yourself for that. “Language is a nuisance” goes one of their ‘songs’, and they’re right, but if we’re going to use it then we for one want Dale Cornish in charge of the dictionary. 

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Dale Cornish / vocals

Phil Julian / electronics

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Monday 6th of Febuary 2017 by Shaun Crook. Mixed by James Dunn and mastered by Phil Julian.

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - 6.2.17

Buy on cassette or digital: http://shop.conditional.club/album/clastics

The doggedly prolific and eclectic Phil Julian opens up a brand new deck of cards on the sublimely crunchy and elastic 'Clastics'.

Austerely described as 'five sets of interrelated pattern based / sequencer derived recordings', Clastics lays down a gauntlet of straitjacket electronics, fizzing and crackling into and out of life. Mutated patterns evolve and decay without a care in the world.

Supremely excited to bring this to Conditional. One for the believers.

Music by Phil Julian.
Art by Renick Bell.

Clastics

Phil Julian - 'EA' (from 'Clastics', CON007)

Cube Cinema, Bristol 07/07/2012

Recorded in The Rymer Auditorium at the Music Research Centre, York University 17th August 2012
using two EMS VCS3 synthesisers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMS_VCS_3

Recorded directly to computer HD, edited for length & re-sequenced, no other instrumentation used.

Mastered by Jac Beloeil.
Thanks to Theo Burt and Oli Larkin.

Nine track chrome C40 cassette w/ download code. (.wav, .flac, .mp3 and other options available.)

Limited to 100 copies only.


Phil Julian "York 17/08/2012" (Excerpts)

Phil Julian is a UK based composer and improviser active since the late 1990s principally working with modular electronic devices and computers.

Audio works by Julian (and under the Cheapmachines alias) have been published on labels including Entr’acte, Banned Production, The Tapeworm, Harbinger Sound, Confront Recordings, Staalplaat (Open Circuit imprint), con-v, Beartown Records as well as numerous compilation appearances.

He also runs the Authorised Version label.

Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and performances with Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Jason Kahn, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis, Tom Mudd, Angharad Davies, John Macedo, Dominic Lash, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dale Cornish, Ryan Jordan, Maurizio Bianchi, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and playing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group The Seen.