AFTER a LONG xmas/ new year hiatus we’re back on a fortnightly tip at NTS.
AND for our ‘return’ show we’re in a real ying and yang wormhole
1st up and in the studio for a chat is Keith Haworth aka The Protagonist! who will be presenting a collaborative mix by himself and James Little (aka A Future Noir) which is, “An alchemic eclectronic symphony into the outer reaches of Krautrock, Shibuya Kei and weird Exotica!”. In other words, a glorious superfine collection of pop circling the cosmic divine.
Next up is Exotic Pylon Records hero The Lord who has produced a mix that (much like his own entirely unique compositions) is extremely eclectic, a little crazy and also extremely elegant. From doo-wop to lesbian pirates via sampladelic lushness to manic collapsing worlds oh whatever… there’s a reason we keep shouting about The Lord and those reasons are clear to here here.
I’ll interject with a couple of things and there we go, piece of cake innit.
up for the download over the weekend.
cheers
jonny
Psychological Strategy Board‘s (which is a collaboration between myself and the supersonic Time Attendant) next release will be a 4 track EP through our comrades Front & Follow on Monday 27th February.
The Synthetic Profile is the opening track off the EP which you can check out here:
The Synthetic Profile by Psychological Strategy Board (for LDWR) by frontandfollow
and Justin from the label has put together this wikkid video for the final piece, Channel Steamer:
This is the first volume in a mammoth project evolving over 2012 and here’s the press release which breaks down the concept behind this awesome sonic adventure:
Front & Follow is delighted to announce our second experimental audio project from Long Division with Remainders (LDWR),following on from the success of ’14 Versions of the same EP’. LDWR’s second project, titled ‘Collision/Detection’, sees invited artists submit audio clips into a central pot, which is then distributed around the group and others to do with as they see fit, resulting in a series of digital EPs released across the year.
The project will feature new and exclusive releases from a host of artists including Sone Institute, Hong Kong in the 60s, Isnaj Dui, The Doomed Bird of Providence, Kemper Norton, BLK Tag (BLK w/BEAR & Tag Cloud), The Lord and West Norwood Cassette Library.
Our first EP comes from the mighty Psychological Strategy Board, released on Monday 27th February.
Psychological Strategy Board is the work of radio broadcaster, event curator and now record label chief Jonny Mugwump (Exotic Pylon) and painter and musician Paul Snowdon (Time Attendant). This particular collision took place in their basement lair in the long hours of a grey London morn; this being typical of the pair’s working methods, with the fostering of an incubated intensity. The resultant EP asserts itself through meaty synth sounds, weaving the samples with tones of urgency and a brooding Lynchian menace throughout. This dug-in approach has also produced their recent excellent mix Industry, what Industry? for fellow ‘heightened curators’ Pontone and an extraordinary reimagining of the Doomed Bird of Providence’s Fedicia Exine for Front and Follow, entitled Cloud in the shape of Klaus Schulze (live).
To accompany each EP, artwork will be created by Paul Loudon, responsible for the stunning artwork on The Doomed Bird of Providence’s debut album Will Ever Pray.
Follow the project as it evolves over the year at www.ldwr.net and www.frontandfollow.com
Next LDWR releases:
Version 2: West Norwood Cassette Library – April 2012
Version 3: Hong Kong in the 60s – May 2012
Long Division with Remainders: Logarithm is a dancer…
YES – THIS is the big one.
Courtesy of The Vortex City Sessions and Exotic Pylon Records we present to you….
Leyland James Kirby, Raime and King Midas Sound LIVE at Bishopsgate Institute
Tickets HERE.
Raime
Raime utilise the space and pace of early dubstep but mutate it by channelling an idiosyncratic allegiance to early 80′s goth, industrial, synthwave and lost folk amongst other dark pathways. Their dread sound is a compellingly hopeless one- eerie, austere and yet strangely accessible, Raime make party music for Cenobites.
Leyland James Kirby
From the plunderphonic terrorism of the V/VM label through to his examinations of memory and temporal deterioration through melancholy-saturated noise and sampled sleight-of-hand as The Caretaker, Berlin-based émigré Leyland James Kirby is one of finest artists of the last decade. Playing a very rare UK date off the back an impending slew of genre-trashing releases, this is a singular opportunity to experience James’s uniquely beautiful dark sonic world.
King Midas Sound
Kevin Martin, Roger Robinson and Kiki Hitomi’s heartbroken and degraded lovers rock has morphed in to an extraordinary live experience- fragility, loss and insecurity bent through Kevin ‘The Bug’ Martin’s mixing desk in to a synaesthesic carpet-bombing of dissonance, noise-dub and fractured melody. King Midas Sound alchemises a zone between the heart and the feet – a contemplative vortex that is blissfully edgy.
ok that’s it – i’m out of here until 13th January – no email/ facebook/ twitter/ phone / psychic carrier pigeon
see y’all when we’re back
Happy New Year and thank you everybody for all your support – what a CRAZY year 
jonny mugwump
MY GOD – this is going to be one hell of a homecoming.
Band of Holy Joy originally formed in New Cross nearly 30 years ago and for the first time in many many years they are returning to their old stomping ground to perform live at the brilliant Montague Arms. Tickets here.
Holy Joy have had an incredible year with Butterfly being one of the most (deservedly) acclaimed albums of their history, and in the very strangest of circumstances it transpires that Exotic Pylon Records lives and operates out of the same address where the Band used to hang and er, drink tea (etc.) back in the day. Call it fate, coincidence or whatever but seriously, what are the odds?
This is what they have to say:
“The night is in honour of Betty and Stan who have ran the Montague since time began and beyond. It’s an amazing pub in itself and well worth a visit we feel its going to be a beautiful mad chaotic night. We are playing with Beata Positiva and Hillfield and Stone it’s an inspired line up and we’d love to see you there.”
This is the perfect way of welcoming in Christmas and it might be wise to not make any plans for the following morning – this is going to be LARGE!
Well, we knew we were sitting on a winner.
The lovely folks over at Beat Surrender have made Band of Holy Joy’s How To Kill A Butterfly their album of the year.
Band of Holy Joy are at their finest right now and yet it feels like there’s so much more to come…
Johny Brown, Inga Tillere, Chris Brierly, William Lewington, Andy Astle and James Stephen Finn – many many congratulations – you completely deserve it.
THIS FRIDAY – December 16th at The Vortex
An Evening with Blectum from Blechdom
Starring…
Maria and the Mirrors
SERIOUSLY i really can’t impart how fucking magnificent and crazy this three-piece band are – a garish overload of gaudy percussive noise – pop music ripped to shreds and reconfigured as a tidal wave of anxiety-soaked chaosenergy bilsstumble – this is 21st century art-rock – ferociously individual, completely unclassifiable and entirely entertaining.
Kevin Blechdom
Blevin Blectum
Blectum from Blechdom
What can we say?
The return and a super-rare London performance from two of the most radical, adventurous and downright beserk artists of the last 20 years…
Pioneers in the development of the laptop as a musical instrument in its own right and wielders of a manic and surral sense of humour, Exotic Pylon is absolutely thrilled to present Kevin Blechdom and Blevin Blectum both performing solo sets and, oh joy of joys, a duo performance. I really couldn’t tell you what to expect and that is one of the 8 million reasons that this will be a night to remember.
Some Bio:
Formed in 1998 by Kristin Erickson (Kevin Blechdom) and Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) and disbanded in 2001 they originally met at the Mills College in Oakland, California and initially performed locally, in the San Francisco Bay Area recording their first EP, titled Snauses and Mallards, in March 2000. Their first full length album “The Messy Jesse Fiesta” (that won second prize for Digital Music at Ars Electronica in 2001) was released later that same year. The duo broke up in May 2001, with both artists retaining their noms de plume and continuing work on solo projects but reformed as a duo in 2007.
Tickets £10 from here
or call
The Vortex on 02072544097
between 12 & 6 daily
I’m really excited to be DJing (well it’s more performing a semi-improvised set based around the theme of cliffs (!)) at the launch party for unmute tonight (at The Kenton), a new multi-media web platform…
Here’s the blurb from unmute themselves:
unmute is an audio and visual participatory network involving fortnightly themed musical podcasts accompanied by an artistic visual interpretation of a theme. Any theme, be it conscious or unconscious, literal or figural, magical or real. The representatives from audible and visual disciplines will work separately to find ways of expressing their inspirations and bring it together using unmute platform.
Every fortnight a new brief will given to a musician, music lover, shopkeeper, fishmonger, audiophile, sound artist or any other interested individual who will create a personal musical podcast while a visual artist, cinephile or photographer will be asked to create a visual interpretation of the same theme.
Every two weeks we, as spectators and commentators, will witness a mutual audiovisual marriage between the two disciplines.
COOL eh?
And here’s the programme for tonight:
Villagers in Trees, live: sound sculptures, audio design, live instrument manipulation. soundcloud.com/villagesintrees
Jonny Mugwump, DJ: themed set – Cliffs
audio experimentation, live events, radio, sound art, exotic pylon label. jonnymugwump.com
Pranza, DJ: themed set – Cliffs
music production, DJ practice, radio. radio.audiomastering.lt
Capracara, DJ: themed set – Bad Dreams
music production, electronic music, DJ practice. soundcloud.com/capracara
EXCELLENT and completely deserved – EP03 aka Jesuit Trifle Syndrome has made a special appearance at The Wire Magazine’s tumblr site devoted to excellence in sleeve art.
SO check it here and much respect to Mrs Mill and The Lord for their wild and beautiful imaginations…
Buy the Bag here.
BUT that’s not all. The Lord also has a website now with sound, word and video and as you would expect, it’s entirely idiosyncratic and wonderful. Go here.
The fourth release on Exotic Pylon Records hit the street, walking backwards with a surrealist sonic spanner this week…
We’ve been massive fans of Infinite Livez for years now, a truly original brilliant STAR constantly ripping hip hop in to the strangest of shapes and an absolutely stunning live performer without equal.
Warehouse Music is available on download only from all over the place (like Boomkat for instance) – read more about it here and check Comrade Kek-W’s brilliant review here.
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