RIVAL CONSOLES - 'IO'

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• ERATP016CD - CD

  4260185969080

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RIVAL CONSOLES is youthful purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan Lee West. With his highly anticipated debut album, West, the first born and long-standing artist on Erased Tapes, has crafted an electronic record to transcend the discerning and flirt a little with the club culture of summer 2009. I?II?III?'IO' ! West strives to humanise and at the same time emphasise entirely computerised sounds to defy categorisation in modern electronic music. Rival Consoles combines a clever and complex mix of hard-hitting beats with catchy acid melodies. Or as he describes it in his own words: 'Rival Consoles is a musical project where I take ideas which are cheap and processed, and combine them with rich, unpredictable patterns ? resulting in music which appears commercial yet typically against commercial music at the same time.' For fans of: Daft Punk, Justice, Digitalism, Squarepusher or AFX. Official Websites: myspace.com/rivalconsoles wwww.erasedtapes.com

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?Modern electronic music at its most interesting?
Worthy of the best underground clubs around!'
?THE MILK FACTORY
?Thrilling stuff, primed for the more discerning floors...' ?BLEEP ?This is an act which it?s totally cool for you to like!? ?ROCK SOUND

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BLUES CONTROL - 'LOCAL FLAVOR'

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• SB95CD - CD

  655030109522

• SB95 - LP

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A few years back, former Quiet Sun / Roxy Music / 801 behind-thescenes mastermind Gill Manzanera-no relation to guitarist Phil Manzanera (whose real name is Philip Targett-Adams)-offered up a beguiling reminiscence of those heady days to the Swiss fanzine Sombre Reptiles: "What we were trying to do, you see, was harness the future into the present. However, we were severely at odds with technology, a ring modulator on a Fender Rhodes and a bit of funny business through an analog synth being about as far as one could go then. The work with Quiet Sun was the foundation, then later Phil and Eno built upon that within Roxy and if only Ferry had acquiesced to Brian having a go at 'Bogus Man,' I think the results would have been stunning (as well as longer-lasting). But alas, so then for 801, the decision was to incorporate the progressive and avant garde through a chamber of fusion (so to speak), the results of which are undeniable. Mind you, this was all during the burgeoning punk era, so it took a bit of time for some to settle in with what was happening. But isn't that the future, really; someone has to be the first out the door to know if the rest of us will need a jumper or not. It was all quite brilliant in that way, absolutely so, I should think." Hmm, well, that all sounds? quite English. Oddly enough, that sliver of quinine-sotted nostalgia could be used as a swab of historical DNA pap to describe the fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space, Local Flavor is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track "Good Morning" is practically a sideways step into boogie rock (horn accompaniment provided by none other than Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile); with the proper seismic shift, it could almost be heard as an alternate reality take on "Re-make/Re-model." It's easily the band's longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette, and, man, them boots leave a bruise! The remaining three tracks morph and ebb harmoniously-in true Blues Control fashion-the timbre occasionally elegiac, yet more often riffing on a plane that has yet to be transcribed. Local Flavor is 801 plus an extra one (8101, if you will), providing an unimaginable future that will take your breath away. So make sure you've paid your oxygen bill, because there are no free rides in the 82nd Century. Features guest musicians Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile

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1. Good Morning
2. Rest on Water
3. Tangier
4. On Through the Night

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ALEXANDER TURNQUIST - 'AS THE TWILIGHT CRANE DREAMS IN COLOR'

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• VHF118 - CD

  783881011821

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As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color is the second full length from New York-based guitarist Alexander Turnquist,who defies expectations with a set of hypnotic epics that owe more to classic minimalism than current notions of solo guitar. Forgoing most of the extended techniques of his debut, Turnquist lays down a thick blanket of 12-string that sets up persistent, loop-like patterns in the music. Simple and lovely strings, piano, and percussion provide the melody, carrying most of the movement in the pieces. Turnquist uses extraordinary control and restraint-the orchestrations are as reductionist as possible, with no cringe-inducing "string drama" or unnecessary virtuosity. An almost-monomaniacal tremolo thrum of the guitar dominates the album, but there is a lengthy ambient breakdown that occurs mid-way through the 18-minute "The REM Cycle ? Dream Phase" that is a thing of elliptical and drifting beauty. As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color is a bold statement even in the context of the frequent micro-parsing of styles in the sub-underground-there's really not much else out there like it.

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