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The New Environment

3) Pillar:
"Another morning recording, this time in Wells-next-the-Sea harbour. There is a whole world of detail in this recording, the slack water, the distant sound of moored fishing boats, and lots of different birds including a tern which if you listen very carefully you can hear catching its breakfast."

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On the auspicious occasion of the release of his mystical seventh artist album, technological force-of-nature Leafcutter John teams up with fellow stalwarts of idiosyncratic electronica Border Community to gift unto the world the small-yet-perfectly-formed joyously utopian artefact Yes! Come Parade With Us. Weaving field recordings from the Norfolk coastline together with layers of lyrical modular synth, these seven bright-eyed folk anthems sing with positivity and a sense of place, and feel right at home amongst the British label’s unparalleled ever-pastoral and often organic electronic legacy.

During the summer of 2017 exiled Yorkshireman Leafcutter John returned to his one-time home of Norfolk (having graduated in Painting from Norwich’s School of Art and Design back in 1998) and set out on foot along the sixty mile section of Norfolk Coast Path which runs from Hunstanton to Overstrand, trusty audio recording device in his pocket. “And very soon the physical act of walking began to make me think about music,” he explains. “My footsteps dictated the tempo and imagined melodies accompanied me as I slowly moved along the increasingly wild and magical stretch of coastline. Stresses of the city were replaced by the fall and rise of the North Sea and endless salt flats. Sounds from the environment filtered in and I would stop often to record what I was hearing around me.”

Back home in London, the hours of amassed field recordings would form the backbone and inspiration for a whole album worth of outpourings from John’s six-years-in-the-making modular synth. From the evocative sound of sea birds on Pillar and Stepper Motor to the colourful conversation from a country pub in This Way Out, the apposite selection of samples which made the final edit provide the perfect jumping-off point for John’s synths to soar with abandon, at times uplifting, frenetic, haunting, hypnotic or meditative, but always atmospheric and with unstoppable propulsion.

“Above all else, I wanted the album to exude a sense of constant forward motion but at a very human scale,” says John. Thus drummer friends Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny) and Sebastian Rochford (long-time collaborator in the twice Mercury Prize-nominated band Polar Bear) were roped in to lend their suitably clattering human momentum, on Doing The Beeston Bump and Dunes respectively. Working in tempos to match his walking speed throughout - “whether trudging along a rainy shingle beach or running up wildflowering clifftop paths” - Yes! Come Parade With Us is perfect traveling music, and once unleashed upon the world is sure to provide the soundtrack to plenty more journeys to come.

Beginning his own musical journey back in 1999 on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu Records and with a widely-varied twenty year career in electronic music already under his belt, the release of his masterful seventh album sees Leafcutter John on career-defining form. An intensely personal project, John has also hand-drawn the labyrinthine album art and animated his own suitably exuberant rainbow-hued video to accompany the boundless enthusiasm of restorative title track Yes! Come Parade With Us. The resultant album gem is both assuredly successful in his stated aim of capturing “both the rugged beauty of the environment and the positivity I felt walking through it” and incredibly infectious, with a harmonious utopian outlook which cannot help but rub off on the listener.

Yes! Come Parade With Us

Leafcutter John - Pillar

Recorded live at the Bleep × store in Dalston 3rd February 2019.

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The Warp Records Bleep × takeover marked the last event at our pop-up shop in Dalston. Mira Calix, Plaid and Special Request all delivered sets that were energetic, playful and ultimately; incredibly fun. This mix from Plaid starts from the off at 100% and stays there till the end. From the first kickdrum to the final squelch, this is a constant roller bursting with heart palpitating energy.  60 minutes of pure vibrancy with a breakbeat or two thrown in for good measure - fitting for a final big blow out!

No frills or faff about this set, just banger after glorious banger from Warp kingpins.

@warp-records

Bleep × Warp Records - Plaid - 3rd February 2019

Demo 2019

Cooper's Orbit

Cooper's orbit

the chinese paddlefish was recently declared extinct, after not being seen since 2003. it was one of the largest living freshwater fish on the planet, and it was heavily fished in the 70s and onwards. this is my memoir to the giant fish, slowly fading away to never be heard from again

if you follow the buy link - it is the secret bonus track you will receive after buying the project (o:

BONUS TRACK

goodnight paddlefish

Grace In Discord

Void Fill Product

Look At the Sky, Look At That Gradient

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Monorail Test Circuit

Nathan fake - ARTE Concert Festival - 2018-04-21

Mesh Series 014: Non Square

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, and what they listen to.

Istanbul artist Korhan Oraydın known as Non Square delivers a set that guides us across a plain of broken, jarred and rugged percussive elements all the way from 60 to 130bpm. Featuring familiar label faces and new friends, Non Square joins the dots between electronica, techno, IDM and classical electro. This mix displays little restraint, and gets straight down to business. 

Words about artwork
"The artwork is designed by İdil, the person who knows me best in the world, my beloved. This artwork reminds me that our thoughts should not be shaped by other people's concerns and that it is necessary to produce freely without being imprisoned in other's minds."

Tracklist:
01. Thom Yorke - Pink Section (Original Mix) - XL Recordings
02. Nathan Fake - Firmament (Live Version) - Cambria Instruments
03.  Alva Noto - Uni Sub (Fatima Al Qadiri Remix) - NOTON
04.  Max Cooper - Origins (Throwing Snow Remix) - Human
05.  Shed - Box (Original Mix) - Tectonic
06.  Kamikaze Space Programme - EF5 (Original Mix) - Osiris Music UK
07.  Squarepusher - Illegal Dustbin (Original Mix) - Warp Records
08.  FJAAK - 3XL (Original Mix) - Seilscheibenpfeiler Schallplatten Berlin
09.  Alex Banks - Falling Down (Original Mix) - MESH
10. Kangding Ray - Bleu Oscillant (Original Mix) - Raster/Noton
11. Daniel Avery, HAAi - Time Marked Its Irregular Pulse In Her Eyes feat. HAAi (HAAi's Existential Song For Alpha Vocal Rework) - 
Phantasy Sound / PIAS
12. Apparat - Sayulita (Dj - KiCkS) (Unmixed) - K7 Records
13. Four Tet - Anna Painting (Original Mix) - Text Records
14. Autechre - eastre (Original Mix) - Warp Records

Hold On EP by Non Square, out December 4, 2020 on Mesh. 
Listen here: https://ffm.to/holdon_
Buy here: https://nonsquare.bandcamp.com/album/hold-on-ep

Artist Info:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonsquaremusic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonsquaremusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonSquareMusic

Mesh Info:
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Contacts:
Label: Anthony@thewildseeds.com

Grace In Discord

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