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I’m appearing at this really brilliant live/ radio event  organised by the awesome (and quite insane) DIYChurch at Apiary Studios  tonight exploring the nature of ambient music…

MONDAY the13th of February 2012
From 6-8pm (GMT) free/donations encouraged

DIY CHURCH RADIO
CEMENTIMENTAL – DER WARST – DAN HAYHURST – JONNY MUGWUMP
Live performance/collaborations with live radio broadcast:
APIARY STUDIOS
458 hackney road,
London E2 9EG

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The Idea: 3 musicians & 1 Dj are invited
& asked to perform their Idea of ambient music,
first each one on his own.
And than in duo combinations
so that everyone starts once
& after that in trio combinations
and after that in a quartet combination.
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with:

Tim Drage/Cementimental ( Animator, Noisician, Surrealist )
http://www.cementimental.com/

Der Warst (Mindbender)
http://www.der-warst.de/

Dan Hayhurst ( Sculptor, Father, Audible)
http://tapebox.co.uk/

Jonny Mugwump (exotic pylon)
http://jonnymugwump.com/blog

Listen Live at - http://radio23.org/111.m3u

NEWS, clips and info over at Exotic Pylon Records about our next release – a gorgeous limited edition cassette and download by Gentleforce.

Of which more… soon.

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…

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!