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New album 'Bolted', released 20 October 2023 on Ninja Tune: forestswords.lnk.to/boltedSo

Archived from the Ninja Tune x Sasquatchfabrix clothing collection launch party.
Streamed live in winter 2021 via Dommune in Tokyo. 
Produced in Liverpool, visuals by Venya K. 
YouTube visuals: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xu_UQqnXzg

Buy vinyl/t-shirts/FS merch: https://forestswords.ochre.store/
Official site: http://forestswords.co.uk
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New Forest Swords music coming via Ninja Tune in 2022

Forest Swords DJ set @ Ninja Tune x Sasquatchfabrix livestream

Track recorded live februari 3rd 2014 at ll150.
from the album 'SPOEL' released on Sicsic Tapes!

Gamut

If you download these mixes to listen to later, please pop back here and click the remixers you're into some love for their work before the 26th of May. The remixer with the most heart then wins a Keith McMillen controller and some Plaid swag, http://tinyurl.com/myannzy The original version of Tether can be heard and played with via Jono Brandel's web app, http://tether.plaid.co.uk and is included on our album, Reachy Prints, http://warp.net/records/plaid/new-album-reachy-prints

Tether [Beyond The Infinite Unleashed Remix]

Tether [besh We(rde) Remix]

Tether [Astrophel Ossian Remix]

Tether [encym Remix]

Tether [apfrod Remix]

Burial

acid2

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

Fan mix of rarities, remixes, live, classics, fakes, source samples, edits and dialogue.
As featured at http://www.djfood.org/djfood/music-top-10s-for-2009

Download and tracklist at http://skywavesystems.net/abocmix

A Boards of Canada mix

We've put this mix together for Red Bull Music with much help from musical friends. Some of the tracks are taken from up and coming releases which we've been granted permission to use and others have very recently been released. We've included links to the artists and labels who's material is included. We hope you enjoy this selection and follow and support their work in the future.

Track list

After Tomorrow (AMX remix) - Arovane & Hior Chronik 
https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/music
Viele - Eigenheimer 
https://eigenheimer.bandcamp.com/
NAB - David Morley
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/david-morley-the-origin-of-storms/606870-01/
⊶⊚⊖⬚⊟⊑∷༜⊚༜∷⊒⊞⬚⊖⊚⊷ - qebrus
https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/
Looming - Rival Consoles
https://erasedtapes.bandcamp.com/
Riverslock - Errorbeauty
https://earthlings-compilation.bandcamp.com/
Plank - Syntax
https://kaer-uiks.bandcamp.com/releases
Down Deep - T///error
https://touched.bandcamp.com/
Ethyle - Syl Kougaï
https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/
You can hate me I’ll still love you (LIVE) - Defunkt Dialekt
https://earthlings-compilation.bandcamp.com/
Alpha Wheel - Lone
https://lone.bandcamp.com/music
Pigeon Whisperer - Aevin
https://aevin.bandcamp.com/
Gesnov - Quadrable
https://touched.bandcamp.com/
010 - EBAM
https://soundcloud.com/e-b-a-m/
XXXXL - Acidulant
https://bugklinikrecords.bandcamp.com/
Manhunter - Konx-om-Pax
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/72743-konx-om-pax-caramel

Cord Mix

Merseyside musician-producer @ForestSwords creates a complimentary mix for his cinematic second album Compassion, bookended with an unreleased ANOHNI remix and a 45-minute rework of Björk.

Read more: http://bit.ly/2oMpTVC

1. ANOHNI – Four Degrees (Forest Swords remix)
2. Ivor Cutler – For Practice
3. Okzharp & Manthe Ribane – B U
4. Africa Hitech – Cyclic Sun
5. Phil Cohran & Legacy – Theme
6. Tricky – Overcome
7. The Tesco Bombers – Break The Ice At Parties
8. Ms Jade – She’s A Gangsta
9. Colin Stetson – Spindrift
10. Adrian Younge – The Concept of Love (instrumental)
11. Unknown – Unknown
12. Visible Cloaks – Circle
13. Forest Swords – The Highest Flood
14. Dawn of Midi – Ymir
15. Jean Ferris – Sound Patterns
16. Kayhan Kalhor – I Will Not Stand Alone
17. Benedikt Frey – Can’t Joke With Dxy
18. Zurkas Tepla – Way To The Bank Robbery (forthcoming Dense Truth)
19. Anna Homler/Steve Moshier – Ee Che
20. Forest Swords – Shrine Out
21. Björk – Stonemilker (Forest Swords 45min remix)

Dazed Mix

Dazed Mix: Forest Swords

Poetry, speech, melody and electronics combine on this limited tape from new sub-label ‘Purely Physical Teeny Tapes’.

A change of pace for PP, ‘Figures’ is also a divergence for the two artists involved. Emerging from Melbourne, 'Figures' is a rare artefact for devotees of both poetry and electronic music. The release marks a protean coming together by two figures with curiosity for each other's practice, forming a union between sound and speech to explore themes of bodies, time, language and power.

Lucy Van, who works as a post-doctoral researcher in English and Theatre studies, offers her poems in spoken form and also transcribed in full for the poster in the release.

Laila Sakini, a DJ who has recently emerged as a songwriter-producer, shapes music around each poem intuitively, adding context with restraint, in an experimental, yet pop-conscious process.

Initially developed as a one track hobby project for a noise and spoken word poetry night (which was cancelled), 'Figures' continued to evolve into a more complete body of work, with Laila leaking the demos on her NTS guest slots, leading to this eventual, finalisation of an EP.

The release is presented on a pro-dubbed all clear tape, packaged with an A2 double sided fold-out newsprint poster, all housed within a PVC heat sealed pouch.

Out June 2nd, 2017.

Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Edition of 100.

Laila and Lucy:

Lucy writes about poetry and photography. She is a post-doctoral researcher in the English and Theatre Studies program at the University of Melbourne, and an editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Lucy also writes lyric and prose poems, and has spoken at venues including The Slow Canoe, Station Gallery, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Laila's role as a DJ and emerging producer/songwriter has seen her traverse between her home town of Melbourne and London. She has performed across clubs and festivals in  Melbourne and in various venues throughout London, Paris and Belgium along with art spaces including The National Gallery of Victoria, Carriageworks and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image. She presents semi-regularly on NTS Radio, has appeared on Boiler Room and has opened for the likes of Dopplereffekt and Optimo. Laila has recently begun producing, writing and performing live solo and collaborative works.

Laila Sakini & Lucy Van - False Ceiling

One of two remixes of Pierre Bastien and Eddie Ladoire's Phantom Dance #0 for the garden. Thanks to Gilb'r. Released on @versatile-records December 2017.

Pierre Bastien Et Eddie Ladoire - Phantom Dance #0 (Oceanic Garden Version)

Boards Of Canada - SOCIETAS X TAPE

Making electronic music since 1988
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Plaid (pronounced \ˈplad\) are the London based electronic music duo Andy Turner & Ed Handley. They are two of the founding members of The Black Dog, releasing their first EP in 1989 and signing to Warp Records in 1991. They have used many other pseudonyms including; Atypic, Repeats and Balil, but have focusing on Plaid since 1995. They have released 11 studio albums as Plaid, from 1991's 'Mbuki Mvuki', to 2022's 'Feorm Falorx'. 

Various sources claim they took their name “Plaid” from the Welsh word for “Party”.

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