KIASMOS / RIVAL CONSOLES - '65 / MILO'

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• ERATP013LP - 12"

  4260185963187

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?lafur Arnalds new minimal techno side project KIASMOS shares split 12" debut with label colleague Ryan Lee West aka RIVAL CONSOLES. Icelandic neo-classical prodigy ?lafur Arnalds teams up with Bloodgroup mastermind Janus Rasmussen for a new project ? KIASMOS. In order to shorten the waiting period on Arnalds' forthcoming new album, Erased Tapes Records release their first tracks '65' and 'Walled' on March 30, 2009. As huge fans of label colleague Ryan Lee West alias RIVAL CONSOLES, Arnalds and Rasmussen share this debut split 12"/Download release '65/Milo' with West, who contributes three more acidy, electro-laden tracks - 'Milo', 'Func' and 'ARP'. After Arnalds had worked several times as a sound engineer for Rasmussen's main project Bloodgroup, the two musicians discovered their common love for minimal, experimental techno music. At first they only met on weekends for a few drinks, and used the time to create experimental sounds with beats and various samples. The project developed and it became more serious ? the result is KIASMOS. Rasmussen, who has more experience with electronic music, usually crafts the beginning of the songs. As both have touring commitments, Rasmussen sends the first beats via email. With Arnalds' good ear for pure and timeless melodies, he is then responsible for the overall song structure and the fine-tuning. 'I am really enthusiastic about this project. Finally, I can make music that the people can dance to', explains Arnalds in an interview with the German electronic music magazine Beat. RIVAL CONSOLES is 21-year old IDM-smith Ryan Lee West from Leicester in the Midlands of England. After having supported his city neighbours and label comrades Kyte on an extensive European tour in November 2008, West locked himself away all winter to finish his first full-length album. The three 12" tracks on '65/Milo' are a teaser for his forthcoming album 'IO', set to see the light of day in mid 2009. Ryan repeatedly performed at the Tate Britain Museum in London where he drew over 2000 visitors into his unpredictable, yet detailed sound drawings. With unusual influences from impressionists such as Claude Debussy and modern electronic artists such as Autechre, Ryan Lee West created a unique signature sound for Rival Consoles. A clever and complex mix of hard electronic beats with warm and catchy melodies. This quality can already be found on his 10" debut 'The Decadent EP' and the recent 7" follow-up 'Helvetica', where West played classical against dance music instead of X-Box vs. Playstation?

Tracks

Kiasmos
A1. 65
A2. Walled

Rival
Consoles
B1. Milo
B2. Func
B3. ARP

Press

'Modern electronic music at its most interesting.' ? The Milk Factory
for fans of: Daft Punk, Justice, Digitalism, Squarepusher or AFX.

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WEVIE STONDER - 'SMALL PEOPLE / SHUT THE GATE'

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• CACK001 - 7"

  5024545550276

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Actually out 1st April (seriously): Wevie Stonder began in 1979, when at the age of six, Alan Boorman & Richard Sothcott began their musical quest by recording a group of chickens down an old army telephone into a tape recorder, & playing it back while hitting a 4 string guitar & a biscuit tin. Wevie Stonder now join Forte for their fourth album release 'The Bucket' and a ltd 7" on their own "Cack" imprint. Small People is a twisted fairy tale that skids into a catchy little ditty before running you smack into a drum and bass breakdown. Featuring sampled vocals from Rusty Goffe _ a.k.a Britain's Number 1 Dwarf (played head oompa loompa in Charlie & Chocolate factory and a Jawa in Star Wars). Shut the Gate is an ode to the current crop of below par 80's revivalists, complete with rhyming village idiot on the mic. Not to be missed!

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Press

Limited, amazing, bonkers...IN STORE at Rough Trade East on release date (April 1st)

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WEVIE STONDER - 'THE BUCKET'

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• CACK002CD - CD

  5050693227364

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As is the single, the album is also out on April 1st...Absurdist electronic provocateurs Wevie Stonder pride themselves on their well-honed "Cack" aesthetic. So, with gleeful wrongness, they launch their fourth album, The Bucket. Pitching their unique take on consumer economics from the car boot of their own label Cack records, they've cranked up a brimming pail of their irresistibly wonky sonic surrealism from the wells of the collective unconscious. While their stint on Skam records and a side project on Mouse on Mars's Sonig label have seen them filed alongside whimsical leftfield electronica, Wevie take things deeper and weirder, plundering the anarchic traditions of inspired lunacy from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to Zappa. The Bucket teems with ideas, garish chunks of musical kitsch and bizarre takes on musical clich?s, strapped together with elastic and string and backed by toy pianos, broken trombones and rubber bands. Into these chaotic soundscapes Wevie Stonder unleash their demented talent for surreal comic invention. Bizarre characters, ludicrous situations, and streams of free-association collide, only to bounce off on a tangent just before you've had a chance to work them out. However you describe it, if you listen closely you can hear Wevie moving in new directions, creating a sound and style that is entirely their own.

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Press

: 'This is exactly the kind of underground, leftfield business that keeps me

alive in times of pop shite overload' - Rob Da Bank BBC Radio 1.

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