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Lowfish Reel Electronics Volume 14 - October 17, 2013

Intro is a mangled Coil sample...

1. "Xylitolic" (Grapht Fatal Flowers Remix) - Zyxt
2. "When all is said and done" - Ancient Methods
3. " Moddax" - Perc & Modern Heads
4. "Least Inkling" - Front 242
5. "Babaks House" - Cloudface
6. "Dust" - Alex Smoke
7. "Elephant Generators" - Solvent
8. "Sleep Games" - Pye Corner Audio
9. "Prisms" - Clockwork
10. "Daylight for 15 seconds" - Manasyt
11. "Blackpool Late Eighties" - Holden


Lowfish Reel Electronics Vol. 14

Before I did stuff under the name Lowfish I recorded as Pest(e). "Wrinkle" is from the 1995 cassette release "Test(e)" by Pest(e). I thought I was pretty clever with all the brackets…I did the art to this as well - I was just starting in graphic design then...

This track and a few other Pest(e) tracks were re-released on Suction Records (which we started in 1997, the year after this cassette was produced).

Wrinkle - by Pest(e) - 1995

ARTIST: Skanfrom
TITLE: Postcards
LABEL/CAT#: Suction Records / suction027
RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2014
FORMAT: Vinyl/CD/digital

Suction Records is proud to present "Postcards," a new full-length by Skanfrom - his first album since 2002… Skanfrom is Roger Semsroth from Berlin, best known for his  purist minimal techno project Sleeparchive.

Before Sleeparchive, there was Skanfrom… Skanfrom first appeared in the late-90s, releasing limited edition 7"s on his own A.D.S.R. label, part of a small movement of DIY labels influenced by the melodic, experimental electronica output of labels like Rephlex, Skam, and Warp. Skanfrom's music displayed a particular affinity for the lush, melodic electro of Bochum Welt, an early signing to Aphex Twin's Rephlex label; you could practically call Bochum Welt the blueprint for Skanfrom's sound. But there was something a little different about Skanfrom…

Unlike Bochum Welt, who claimed influence from big shiny '80s producers like Trevor Horn and Thomas Dolby, Skanfrom was also listening to a lot of raw synthwave music - the influence of early Depeche Mode (Speak and Spell), Kraftwerk (Radioactivity), and obscure bands like Vice Versa and Ceramic Hello, clearly set Skanfrom apart from his IDM contemporaries.

Skanfrom found a likeminded home in Suction Records, who were releasing records by Solvent and Lowfish with many of the same musical references. In 2002, Skanfrom released his debut album on Suction Records, "Hand Picked Fragments." A lot has changed since 2002, but in Skanfrom world, 2014 is very much the same. "Postcards" is full of the same pure and melodic electro(pop) that made Skanfrom so special to us from the start. As it was in the beginning, Skanfrom produced "Postcards" using little more than his beloved Roland SH-101; this classic vintage monosynth, with it's minimal layout and pure analogue tone, remains the ideal instrument for Skanfrom's enduring, synthetic sound.

"Perseids Over Greenwich" by Skanfrom

Jason 'Solvent' Amm has been active since the late 90s, creating numerous indefinable mutations of dance, rich with the pulsing warmth and chaos of analogue circuitry. Recent years have seen Amm serving as producer, co-writer and interviewer for the independent documentary epic I Dream Of Wires exploring the history, demise and resurgence of the ultimate electronic music machine, the Modular Synthesizer. All the while Solvent has pursued the industrial, acidic sounds that have always lain dormant in his work, and this mix for R$N offers an emotional gut punch, with slow, stately machine music giving way to chunks of bristling techno and bursts of quivering, tentatively euphoric melody. We caught up with Amm to discuss just how a producer who doesn't "put a lot of stock into recording mixes" goes about making a mixtape...
Full interview here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/solvent-the-ransom-note-mixtape/

Alessandro Cortini - Stella 
Lowfish - Knives 
Alain Kepler - Radio Wave Tracker 
Clouds - Blood Skating 
Varg - Norrlandsbrigad 69R 
Cylob - Durftal 
Strider.B. - [Bradley's Robot A1] 
Gescom - Viral Rival (Rmxd By Ae) 
[UNKNOWN ARTIST] - [Papers001-B1] 
Cloudface - On None 
Blacknecks - Don't Dream It Be It 


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Solvent - The Ransom Note Mixtape

Remix of Go! by Scottish post-electro-rockers Errors. Go! is taken from Public Service Broadcasting's second album 'The Race For Space' 

You can now order the limited edition 7” release below

http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/93044
http://www.resident-music.com/productdetails&product_id=34831
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/PublicServiceBroadcasting-Go!-TestCardRecordings-102977.html

To add further excitement to this surely-already-tantalisingly-heady brew, the vinyl itself is green (go, see - green for go).

The Race For Space
Physical album : http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/album-preorder

Digital album : http://found.ee/TheRaceForSpace-iT

Public Service Broadcasting - Go! [Errors Remix]

Go! is the second single to be taken from Public Service Broadcasting's critically-acclaimed new album. 

“Make no bones about it, this is a beautiful record… just wonderful” - Drowned in Sound 8/10

Download the remix package here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/go!-remixes-ep/id990637061

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/go-limited-edition-7-vinyl-release/ - 7" vinyl (the vinyl is green, as in green for go..)

The Race For Space is now available:

iTunes: found.ee/TheRaceForSpace-iT
Amazon: smarturl.it/TheRaceForSpaceAMZ
Official Store: store.publicservicebroadcasting.net



Buy on iTunes

Public Service Broadcasting - Go! [Radio Edit]

Taken from 'New Ways: Music From The Documentary I Dream Of Wires' by Solvent, out August 14, 2015.

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music-downloads/products/solvent-new-ways

Solvent - King Vincent (Wrangler Remix)

Digital Poodle "Work Terminal (Solvent revision)"
from "Revision! vol.1 - Work Terminal"
Suction Records / suction036
12"/digital - Nov 2015

Digital Poodle - Work Terminal (Solvent revision)

"Tunnel" -- from "EP 1"
BUY: rx-101.bandcamp.com/album/ep-1

Suction Records presents the first in a series of archival releases by RX-101 - previously unreleased material, originally recorded to cassette circa 1997-1999. Pure and authentic Aphex Twin-style techno/IDM/electronics.

“EP 1” (suction032)
12” vinyl EP - October 17, 2016

RX-101 - "Tunnel"

Demonstration Tape (1997-2007)

Basildon

SOLVENT WISH BASSABYSS MIX

Buy PSB's debut album "Inform - Educate - Entertain" here:
Digital: bit.ly/11cHjJP
Physical: http://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/public-service-broadcasting

Granted unique access to propaganda films from WWII-era Britain by the BFI and setting them to new music, Public Service Broadcasting unveil 'The War Room EP'. Expect breathtaking visuals, atmospheric synths, pounding drums, Krautrock guitars and poignant piano as J. Willgoose, Esq and his drumming companion Wrigglesworth teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future...

The lead track from the EP is named 'Spitfire' - an adaptation of the 1942 propaganda film 'The First of the Few', telling the story of the origins of the talismanic fighter. The track is a driving, Krautrock-influenced tune and the video stars Hollywood legends David Niven & Leslie Howard.

Howard was viewed by Josef Goebbels as the most dangerous British propagandist of the era and his own life was to end in tragedy when the passenger plane he was travelling on in 1943 was shot down by the Luftwaffe over the Bay of Biscay.

'The War Room EP' is dedicated to J. Willgoose, Esq.'s great-uncle, George Willgoose, who died at the Battle of Dunkirk in May 1940 aged 26. The final track of the EP, 'Waltz for George', is a sombre close to affairs, featuring the banjolele owned and played by George Willgoose which has remained in the family.

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net 

Spitfire - Public Service Broadcasting

self-titledmag.com/2017/12/13/ne235-solvent-mix-idm-braindance/

NE235: Solvent

In Full Color

Pictures and Indian Summer

He’s from New Jersey but lives on the moon. MoonPhase is the man, the man that’s all about melodic ambient electronica beats and today, the synthwave sound boy delivers i-D his sleep soundtrack. Drift off.

https://soundcloud.com/moonphase

Tracklisting:
01. Lusine ICL - Jetstream
02. Hammock - Mono no Aware (Electrohertz Rainy Edit)
03. Floex - Mecholup
04. Holy Other - Yr Love
05. Bonobo - Don't Wait
06. Emancipator - All Through The Night
07. MoonPhase - Flutter
08. Hidden Orchestra - Stammer
09. Shigeto - Huron River Drive
10. Tipper - Everything is Everywhere
11. Apparat - Goodbye
12. Lusine - Operation Costs (Disassembled Mix)

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Slumber Sessions: MoonPhase

http://solventcity.com

http://facebook.com/solvent

http://discogs.com/artist/Solvent

For over a decade, Jason Amm’s work as Solvent has neatly defied categorization. His music is too sweetly melodic for techno or acid, his compositions too fiendishly detailed for synth-pop. He was too steeped in the sounds of the ‘80s to participate in the incipient IDM scene; he was briefly lumped in with the short-lived electroclash movement, only to outlive it; he’s played “minimal wave” parties and goth clubs, indie-rock shows and techno all-nighters. But even as words fail in the face of Solvent’s music, its pleasures are anything but elusive.

Today, Zimbabwe-born Jason Amm lives in Toronto, ON, where he spends his time obsessively grappling with an outsized collection of vintage analog synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers. Solvent first materialized in 1997 with a string of singles and full-lengths (1998’s Solvent, 1999’s Solvently One Listens) on Amm’s own Suction Records, the Toronto-based label he founded with Lowfish’s Gregory DeRocher. The watershed release Solvent City (2001) on Berlin-based Morr Music introduced Amm’s sound to a wider audience, and Apples &amp; Synthesizers (2004) marked Solvent’s move to Ghostly International. Along with notable remixes of artists including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent tracks have appeared on high-profile DJ mixes and seminal compilations.

Solvent’s most recent record on Ghostly International, 2010?s Subject to Shift, marks a turn for the darker as Amm embraces his love of the abrasive sounds of acid and industrial. And while a sinister tone or two now dances among Solvent’s sparkling hooks and bright streaks of synthesizer, and while Amm’s music drifts even further from accepted genre-specific reference points, Solvent’s sound has only deepened. After more than ten years of composing love songs for robots, Amm sounds like nothing more than himself.



Basildon

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