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"Atmospheric synths swell victoriously"

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Like many electronic artists, Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles spent his early years experimenting with IDM, glitch and dance, but one consistent element in his musical journey has been his desire to create a more organic, humanised sound. Through these experimentations he has found a process of producing electronic music that feels close to this urge. Restricting himself to a small selection of analogue equipment, West engages his hands directly with instruments and is very selective about what he then records into the computer. He reduces musical parts even further, leaving enough space around the sound for it to breath.

‘Odyssey’ is a reflection of West’s quest to create atmosphere and space from minimal arrangements. ‘I don’t like music to sound overly laboured, so I restrict how much is going on. I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of reduction.’ The new 5-track EP was mastered by Naweed and is out on Erased Tapes.

'‘Odyssey’ and ‘Voyager’ are both incredibly stripped down and have a great sense of space throughout them. It's all about using the right ingredients at the right points in time. A lot of these ingredients are short recordings, such as ice cracking, mechanical clicks, clicks from synth errors, sounds of debris, guitar plucks etc., which interact with the simple arrangements and create little hints of rhythm. I also love the technique of swelling in music, but I realised that hardly anyone has done that in electronic music. So when I first got the synth to swell in and out with the opening chords of ‘Philip’, it was a great moment. Because it creates a human mood in a matter of seconds, which is very difficult to do with electronic sounds. That track is very important to me, and I think it will influence how I make music in the future.’ – Ryan Lee West

TRACK LISTING: A1. Odyssey A2. Philip. B1. Voyager B2. Rebecca B3. Soul (feat. Peter Broderick)

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Odyssey

Voyager

Rival Consoles – Voyager

A Sid LeRock cover version of "Add it up" taken from a great original from the band Violent Femmes. Released on my first album "Written in Lipstick"

Released on Mute Records/Ladomat/EMI
year: 2005

Written In Lipstick

Add it Up

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"Add it Up" (Sid Le Rock Cover Version)

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Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (Gigamesh Remix)

Tunes to Jam to while hanging home on a Friday night.

Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry

Portugal. The Man - People Say (acoustic)

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Crime Pays

The first track to be lifted from the Art Reeks 12", a collaboration between Art is Hard & Reeks of Effort.

An audible ballad of impending doom from the lips, hips and fingers of the ever prolific Joey Fourr." Born Slippery" brings an industrial crunch to the compilation and is the first of eight astonishingly unique tracks. Other artists involved are Radstewart, Poledo and Pinact, all of which will feature individual artwork by Dale Crosby Close.

Pre-order is available now at https://artreeks.bandcamp.com/. Released 03/03/2014.

Joey Fourr - Born Slippery

Long Distance

Cool bass riff bruh, this song is pretty groovy babe bodacious.

Laced In The Water

Get Closer

In Case You Missed It: 15 Years Of Dualtone

Shakey Graves - Tomorrow

Sample Awnser - Good Boy

Thinking back to the whacks that we used to take
Rolling joints to a point with a roach and shake
Sipping on Summer Ale in September sun
Jump in the back seat where we had some fun
Cruise out on the boat to the house of stilts
Kiss me underneath till the pasion wilts
Never will I find another crazy lady putting up wooden houses in Haiti
Closing up your eyes cause you drink too much
Open up your thighs cause you like my touch
I want to grow old on Brazilian beaches
Getting tan in the sand with your two ripe peaches

Back and forth through custom lines
Searching for my Argentine
Now I need another home to rest my complex corazon

Six-packs and a flask from a Scottish lake
Been a mess since the best chest game to date
Hit the map for a tap and a little loving
The bone I wrap for buns in ovens
Living by the ocean, going through the motions
Drinking with my head in a noose
Never known a better potion to let my liver soak in
No I bet I'm telling the truth
Holding all the good stories
Coke and all it's glories
Slipped up, Tripped up.... Tooth
Bust on the pavement, make another payment, running like Johns Wilks Booth, oof!

Back and forth through custom lines
Searching for my Argentine
Now I need another home to rest my complex corazon

Truer words never spoken, "Quick to be broken"
Change is a notion you should learn like lotion
On the hand that you're hoping to
Land the next open, girl that you're scoping
Pillows you be groping
Forever will I be insistent, that distance, is the crux of my existence
And whoever would be to wish this away this instant I'd give assistance
Never would I need to wish this away like wish lists and family business
Clever would I be to diss this and kiss the first fish thats close to British

Corazon

The debut album from Cayucas! Out April 30 via Secretly Canadian. 

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High School Lover

Cayucas - High School Lover

DIY label based in south west England releasing great music on weird things.

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Joey Fourr - Born Slippery

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