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A PUBLIC INFORMATION CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP

'Another yule slides into view. 

Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. Loop. Repeat. Loop. 

Public Information presents a Christmas mix borne entirely of edits from personal favourites. This is 40 minutes of Spector sound, doo-wop stretch and strung out soul, blackened by one lonely Saturday night on the grog. Silence the earworms of Cliff Wizzard, Mariah Holder, Bing McGowan. Until next time. 

Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. Loop. Repeat. Loop. 

Thank you so very much for letting us spend this Christmas with you.'

∙ BELLS OF ST MARY
∙ IT'S MERRY CHRISTMAS MISERABLE
∙ JINGLE JANGLE PENGUINS
∙ PEAKS CHRISTMAS DAY
∙ LONG DRONE XMAS
∙ STAPLE MERRY
∙ SLEIGH SLUICE
∙ NAT KING, NAT KING, NAT KING IS DEAD
∙ DA DA DA DA DA DA
∙ DARLENE LOVE
∙ WEAVERS MERRY
∙ PHIL SILENCE

24 ◆ Public Information

Bass Clef
Bugbranded EP
PUBINF013

Release Date: 3rd March 2014
4 track EP (Ltd 500 copy pressing -no repress- in debossed house sleeve, individually hand numbered) / Download

Buy here: https://publicinformation.bandcamp.com/album/bugbranded-ep

And so we drive down rain-slicked analogue motorways head first into our second EP series release following an IVVVO dispatch in September 2013. This time out Ralph Cumbers AKA Some Truths AKA Bass Clef is behind the wheels.

The clue is in the title. Tom “BugBrand” Bugs, denizen of Bristol, electronic sound devices engineer, maker and creator. The four tracks here are dedicated to his craft and design: the thrill of the analogue-surprise, the crunch of the circuit, the twist of the patch cable, the white-hot burn of solder on board.  BUT it takes a real master to make sense of these machines, Public Information are so happy to have one in our midst.

Long-time wielder of the modular-flame, Ralph Cumbers has a distinguished CV for the likes of Punch Drunk and his own Magic+Dreams imprint. Here, across four extended sequences does he shine, taking the crystalline drive and coarse groove of the acclaimed Reeling Skullways LP into hotwired groove zones.

“Sometimes the only way out is to go further in” starts the trip. Take care dear listener; once you’re in track one, you may not want to escape from its grip, its cyclical riffs, its space dust licks, its buttered bass notes. Then, the sadness. The mournful minor key shuffle of “elsewhen” is sheer blue-note Blade Runner melancholy. Then, the euphoria. Instant gratification hits you on “faster than the speed of love” a click-pump-click-pump kick surrounded by jagged sawtones, straight to the chest. Through swirling, speed-addled melodies does Clef then lead us- Detroit nights under Hackney sodium lights. Then, to a breath. Bugbranded arrives at an all too premature end with “neon black and vulcane” a glistening collage of white noise splash, acidic whispers and head-nod-chug.

This is techno how it was dreamed in Belleville, re-imagined by a genius with a synth or three. In Clef we trust, for all our magic and dreams.

A1: sometimes the only way out is to go further in
A2: elsewhen
B1: faster than the speed of love
B2: neon black and vulcane

Bass Clef - Faster Than The Speed Of Love (Taken from Bugbranded EP released 3rd March 2014)

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Austin Cesear 
West Side 
PUBINF015 
Release Date: 29th September 2014 
6 Track Mini LP / Download 

And so we present a second record from our NY via San Francisco family, a blossoming talent, Austin Cesear. Primed and fresh from a 12” on Anthony Naples’ Proibito label and an Opal Tapes cassette, he surfaces again over a year on from his widely revered Cruise Forever LP – welcome to West Side. 

Heavily inspired by the dockside location of Oakland Port, CA. This is Austin Cesear beside black water in the darkest hours, white sodium light bouncing across the surf. Searching across the bay, industry stands proud in the early morning haze. Cargo, containers, machines. Cranes pierce the sky, gulls scream, motors grind - the rush and roar of a new working day in his ears. 

Back in the studio these sounds, these sights manifest. Track One – La Paloma, the liquid blue dawn, loops into the horizon. Whilst track two – Ain’t It So (Necessary) becomes a twitchy techno shuffle that soon breaks down into the disused mechanic sludge of Cloven Hoov. Easy Bend is then a lesson in the sublime. A machine rhythm in mourning, an aching drone, the soundtrack to ships rolling out of the Bay, toward new worlds. Then the growl of Samareda... a storm of insects hammering against a kick-thump that grows and grows before a shower of voices sweeten the mood to take us home in a blaze of light. Stunning tackle. Bee Free (Warlick Mix) is the endgame – a rugged swagger of moody bump n’ beat. The funkiest thing on here. 

And so we leave Oakland, we leave Austin Cesear... until next time. This young producer is steadily becoming a mature soul, an exceptional sound, a moment of calm in an ever breathless, over crowded market. 

A1 La Paloma 
A2 Ain't It So (Necessary) 
A3 Cloven Hoov 
B1 Easy Bend 
B2 Samareda 
B3 Bee Free (Warlick Mix)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hW3tDTj5M

Buy: https://publicinformation.bandcamp.com/album/west-side


Austin Cesear - La Paloma (Taken from West Side mini-album released 29th September 2014

Austin Cesear 
West Side 
PUBINF015 
Release Date: 29th September 2014 
6 Track Mini LP / Download 

A1 La Paloma 
A2 Ain't It So (Necessary) 
A3 Cloven Hoov 
B1 Easy Bend 
B2 Samareda 
B3 Bee Free (Warlick Mix)

Extracts taken from Austin Cesear's new mini-LP for Public Information. 

Order here: 
https://publicinformation.bandcamp.com/album/west-side


Austin Cesear - West Side (mini-LP sampler)

Everyone from Agoria to Laurent Garnier, all the way to Groove Armada and Gilles Peterson, everyone's dropping 'Marvinello' and we've got the premiere.

Sharp percussion, a thumping groove and just the right amount of sing-a-long sensibility have made this into a instant winner. Check it and get your bump on

Premiere: Michel Cleis & Klement Bonelli Feat. Martin Wilson 'Marvinello'

INCEPT  - CALIFFO - SIMILAR  RECORDS

Ferrer's remix has an abundance of low-end rumble. It's a dwarfing cut that pulsates and winds with menace with some electrifying synths and tribal percussion that will whip you into a frenzy after 120 seconds. This is big.

Premiere: Luciano Ft JAW '7direction(s)' (Dennis Ferrer Remix)

Our first release after a well earned break. Here we delve into the archives with the assistance of Ian Helliwell to uncover the sounds of early electronics pioneer Malcolm Pointon...

Artist: Malcolm Pointon 
Title: Electromuse
Label: Public Information
Cat: PUBINF016
Format: 1LP / Digital
Release Date: 28th October 2016
Pre - Order: publicinformation.bandcamp.com/album/electromuse-2

Tracklisting:
A1. Radiophonie
A2. Sonata Elletronica
A3. Then Wakes The Ice
A4. Boogie
A5. Symbiosis Intro
A6. Symbiosis
B1. Trojan Woman
B2. Study 1
B3. Palindrome
B4. Study 2
B5. Poreira

...the Symbiosis piece by Malcolm Pointon was very interesting and is the kind of use synthesizers should be put to. Synthesizers should explore new sounds rather than imitate conventional ones... Practical Electronics Magazine c.1975

Malcolm Pointon was born in 1940, Stoke on Trent. He spent his life and career in tape, synthesizer and keys; academia, sound, music and machine.  Here, for the first time, Public Information and Ian Helliwell present the rarely heard works of Malcolm Pointon. With permission given by Malcolm’s widow Barbara, Helliwell has compiled an LP of material taken from master tapes of home-recorded, never released electronic material.

Following a period at the BBC, Malcolm joined Homerton College, Cambridge, in 1969 and it was here where he would discover his electronic-muse. Inspired by Stockhausen and the surge of avant-garde tape music, Malcolm began to build compositions at home using a 4-waveband radio and multi-speed tape recorder. His first piece using these techniques is the skittering “Radiophonie” which opens this LP.

After mastering tape-music, Malcolm began reading, and eventually contributing to, Practical Electronics magazine (edited by our own F.C. Judd no-less). He and engineer cohort Doug Shaw entered an “electronic music construction challenge” in 1973 – and so a battery powered, stylus activated self-build synthesizer was presented to the dedicated circuit heads of Practical Electronics. The Minisonic was born.

Many of the pieces on here were produced using the Minisonic, including the staggeringly heavy centerpiece of this album “Symbiosis” - replete with Malcolm’s own introduction. Elsewhere, Pointon takes us down pummeling arpeggiated rhythms (“Sonata Elletronica), mind-melting-inside-beehive tape pieces (“Poreira”, “Boogie”), freaked-out concrète trips (“Trojan Woman” “Then Wakes the Ice”) and shimmering noise works like the beautiful, “Study 2”.

Malcolm Pointon would be cruelly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at the age of 51. He became unable to operate his studio and so his rare gift to electronic music was gone, until now. Public Information and curator Ian Helliwell are incredibly proud to share Malcolm’s music with you. We will be sending all profits of this release to the Alzheimer’s Society, helping to support people with dementia and their carers on their long journey, right here and now.

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering
 
2016 – 2017 will also witness a series of electronic music events raising money for the Alzheimer’s Society. Memory Dance. Look out on social media for more news forthcoming.

www.alzheimers.org.uk

Malcolm Pointon - Electromuse (LP Sampler)

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A survey of electronics... noise...psych...industrial...house... dub...wyrd-pop...library...techno.. art+design from the last seven decades... 

1950-Tomorrow. New-Archive. Light-Dark.

Established in 2011, London, England, with some help from our souls in Yorkshire, England...

This Is Public Information.

Contact: info@public-info.co.uk

Bass Clef - Faster Than The Speed Of Love (Taken from Bugbranded EP released 3rd March 2014)

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