Hanne Hukkelberg, Beastie Boys, Prefuse et al, Fugazi, DJ Shadow, Daedelus, Can, Pixies, Calexico, RJD2, AC/DC, Rick Rubin, Sergio Mendes, Super8 cameras.
Sounds Like
Hip Hop Connection:
"Beautifully plucked guitars, interesting drum patterns and a lightness of touch that comes as a total refreshment after listening to the Nelly single three times in a row with no brain response whatsoever. You could make a case for this being instrumental hip-hop a la RJD2 but it sways more towards the folktronica of Four Tet."
The Wire:
" ...despite the cartoon icescape on the cover, the album is packed with duvet-snug melodies. This is abstract electro pop sculpted as a space for reminiscing, the beats and layers a comfortable bed of memories.
An album for headphone escapism, 'Dirty Work' glides on soft, smooth hi hats and finger snaps. Like Boards of Canada, the melodies have an abstract, dislocated sadness that slowly seduce you with their meandering grace. Luxurious and tranquil synth pads are packed with emotional detail, even when they do nothing more than sketch out brief circular contours. What's lost in dynamics is made up for in textures drenched in nostalgic overtones.
Prefuse 73 is an obvious reference point for the cut up vocals on Load Line, but this is miles away from the start-stop tendencies of Scott Herren's work. Vocals here are not brutally rewired, just teased and caressed.
Towards the end of the album there's a brief, poignant monologue of an old timer remembering his generation's brand of dance music. It raises the question of Load Line's own relation to dance music, to which it owes all its devices, yet feels as far away from a dance floor as a science station at the North Pole. One imagines Ed Carter holed up in a cosy shack, reminiscing about old chillout albums with his synths and samples in a MIDI'd up conversation. But what these slow, elegaic melodies really mean to him always remains tantalisingly unstated."
Based in Sheffield, UK, Winter North Atlantic came out of a combined fascination with the history of commercial shipping and drums, combined with a dodgy Moog and Juno 60 with a broken memory button.
dug out loads more but for some reason i cant upload any of it. computer always has a hissy fit and shuts down. boo! contact festy coming on strong too - most of the acts confirmed just looking for a couple more to tie it all together so may tap you up! also want to tap you up for info about some of the venues you have been playing/have played. maybe see you soon. hope gigs have been going well. jeff x x x x
For this Forest of Sound we’re getting together with our good friends at Misplaced Music to celebrate the release of Gareth S. Brown’s new album, The Gallows on Misplaced Music (order here).
Bracken makes simply stunning music - walls of ambient sound, dark dub bass and atmospheres, destroyed and re-claimed found sound, beats that range from over-powering to perfectly understated.
Gareth S. Brown creates gorgeous work of layered beauty with nods towards Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Michael Nyman as well as latter day travellers such as Max Richter, Yann Tiersen and Aphex Twin.
Sketches for Albinos makes a sound that manages to be both truly heartfelt and organic, but also encompassing the majestic glacial soundscapes that would make the likes of Tim Hecker or Fennesz proud.
The Declining Winter are a new musical project, led by Richard Adams, the co-founder of Domino Records group Hood, and is influenced by the music of Low, The Durutti Column, Songs of Green Pheasant and more. They have recently toured with ambient legends, Stars of the Lid. Live they’re a wonderful, beautiful, pastoral experience.
Friday: 1/8/2008 @ The Packhorse, Leeds. Doors 7.30pm. £5 on the door. Join the last fm fun here.
just a quick one to say there's a couple of new tunes on the black crow morning page, and the 'songs of the crow' EP will be available from August 4th, via my page...
Our debut album Earplay is out on aug 11th on big chill recordings. Its already getting some big ups in Ibiza. We have some tasty remixes on their way to whet your appetite.
One of these remixes of our track Riverbed Road is by Future Loop Foundation produced artists Santa Cruz Musique. Its a 9 and a half minute epic, check it on www. myspace. com/santacruzmusique.
Efterklang are astounding on record - a fusion of electronics, sea song, rock and ambience that envelops you slowly and beautifully. Live, they take this core of beauty and project it with such force in to the audience that it takes on a whole new life - every emotion amplified, every note laden with passion. If you caught them last time, you know you can't miss it again. If you didn't... well, you know what you have to do...
Bracken , led by Chris Adams (co-founder of Hood), make simply stunning music - walls of ambient sound, dark dub bass and atmospheres, destroyed and re-claimed found sound, all topped with vocals & lyrics from a man who knows his own heart.
James Yates’s solo show is something to behold - organic electronics, perfect drums, spot on percussion and mad-as-a-hatter inventiveness.
The Bon Bon Club are Sushi Quatro (bass, vox), Thirsty Moore (drums,vox) and Chapatti Smith (perc, vox), although Sushi and Thirsty are better known under different names for their day job as the rhythm section of Sheffield glam-popsters The Long Blondes.
Koen Holtkamp is no stranger to producing beautiful music. Expect layers of warm organic noise and found sound combine to make pieces that are both gorgeously minimalistic and endlessly deep. He's making the trip over from New York to celebrate the launch of his new album on Type records, and you'd be a fool to miss him!
Gorgeously organic music that washes over you and through you - the best of all ambient music understands the importance of holding back, of understatement, of beauty - Pausal achieve this, and more. Stunning stuff for a night of pure sonic bliss.
Forest of Sound's favourite one man laptop genius, randomNumber, comes back to regale us with his excellent and deeply inventive brand of electronica. There's a reason that he's so energetic in his performance - his music is brilliant. Simple. As.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’ll be £5 on the door, and doors are at 8pm.
Winter North Atlantic David Lynch's The Straight Story, LIVE rescore by Animat. With express permission from David Lynch himself, Animat embark upon the second leg of their UK rescore tour. Catch them whilst you can. Their previous UK tour of their rescore to French cult animation Belleville Rendezvous sold out completely. Straght Story Tour Dates Sheffield - Showroom cinema 12th June Edinburgh - Cameo Cinema 13th June Liverpool - Picturehouse @FACT 18th June Bath - Little Theatre Cinema 20th June Brighton - Komedia 22nd June Cambridge - Arts Picturehouse 25th June
New album out soon on the Big Chill Recordings..more to follow
Hi Winter north atlantic Cheers fot linking up. Likin the tunes, nice and chilled. Check out a new dubstep mix on my site. Hope to hear from you. Take it easy Andrew (Tactus)
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
definitely mate - an absolute pleasure. i'm loving the new stuff by the way - really into that cd. get some up on the player intit! have to catch up properly some time soon - i shall darken the doors of yourself and mr hatton in the none too distant... i apologise in advance for any dribble residue i may leave on your moog...
Season's Greetings ! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! My very best wishes with two new titles on line on my site, "Voici comment" and "Sonnet". I hope you'll enjoy them !
"Candlepower" is the fourth release from Champion Kickboxer on Thee SPC and sees the Sheffield four-piece building substantially on the textures of their well-received 2006 album "Perforations" with five new, thoughtful and evocative songs.
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